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Idle Thumbs please talk about Mad Men at the end of every podcast, the show has been on fire these past few episodes. Sally Draper is the best character on the show  Video games!
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Lone Goat posted:No, don't. Give iiiiiiin.
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May 2, 2014 16:31
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Phone posted:This week's Thumbs: I'm only half an hour into the episode but already it feels a lot better than their last few. Maybe because Spelunky was brought up again 
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Jul 3, 2014 14:59
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Funkmaster General posted:So I read the description of this week's bombcast and now I... kinda don't want to listen to it. Can someone confirm that its okay and not 100% SJW stuff (for lack of a better term)? I can't find a way to really say this without sounding like a bad person, but I'm really tired of that discussion right now and just want yo hear some people talking about video games. It's a great podcast. There's a sorta-interview with Samantha about her work and GaymerX, which I thought was great, then it descends into usual buffoonery from there. So if you really don't wanna hear what you might perceive as "SJW stuff" then skip the first 20 minutes but I'd advise listening to it anyway sine it's pretty good if a little dry.
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Jul 16, 2014 16:15
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As much as I've been on the fence on the quality of Thumbs as of late, holy poo poo was the first 40 minutes of the latest episode on point. It's everything I agree with vocalised way better than whatever I could attempt.
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Aug 28, 2014 01:08
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Even though there's been a focus on how a lot of these idiots harassing people like Anita and Zoe are in their teens, you just know there's a hell of a lot of men in their 20s and 30s that are doing it too. I mean, I can at least almost understand why some teen would do it; we all had lovely opinions at that age and hopefully either grew out of it or had someone explain to us at the time what we were doing was wrong. I know I would've regretted it now if I had twitter/facebook as a kid. Guys doing this poo poo in their 20s/30s though are what's really loving scary because they've had the time to see the broader picture and just went "Nope, I'm gonna send threats of violence/rape/death to people who have a different view on video games than me and that's totally an OK thing to do". poo poo's hosed.
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Aug 28, 2014 10:48
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It always cracks me up when people confuse censorship with criticism of an expressed opinion. If you can't tell the difference then frankly you're ill-prepared to defend your position at all.
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Aug 28, 2014 22:31
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Jippa posted:I agree with danielle that the internet has got really depressing in the last few months. Is it just that we are noticing this stuff more or has it actually got worse? Sometimes poo poo hits the fan in multiple ways and it amplifies everything as a result. I remember feeling similar back in 2011 when a lot of crap went down and wondering what the gently caress was happening to the world. That year you had the Arab Spring, the Japan earthquake and Fukushima, The Occupy movement, Gaddafi killed, Bin Laden killed and there were also some serious riots over here in the UK just to name a few. Sometimes events happen in multiple places in a small timeframe and, as Sean (I think) said on the podcast, we've not really evolved to cope with all that poo poo.
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Aug 29, 2014 09:18
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ElMaligno posted:Seeing how things in the world at large have been poo poo, its going to become a mild-mannered protest. Two exclamation marks? Careful now, let's not get carried away here.
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Sep 1, 2014 08:22
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Chris Remo posted:(Edit: I thought it was funny to claim that I accept bribes because at the time literally nobody had heard of us and the idea of anyone offering us a bribe was utterly absurd. A decade later I have still never been offered a bribe.) That's exactly what someone who has taken a bribe would say. Fraud Remo rumbled.
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Sep 9, 2014 00:30
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coyo7e posted:Does TotalBiscuit really sustain that big of a following? I thought he was just the brit who did murloc voices. I knew he had a bunch of videos but hearing Thumbs talk about how he's the #1 channel on Steam etc is kind of surprising, it comes across like he's the Joe Rogan/Adam Corolla of video game podcasts/videos. He's got a couple million subs on Youtube and is part of a network that (I think) got bought by Disney recently. Dude's pretty big.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:22
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Song For The Deaf posted:That episode is really important for people to hear, I think. A lot of Gamergate coverage is done through blogs, chatlogs, tweets, and John Nash redline conspiracy MSpaints, and it's easy for me to get inured to just how absurd the whole thing is. That might just be me, so I will speak for myself. Came here basically to say this. That episode is very hard, but necessary, to listen to at points because it's loving horrifying actually hearing what women who are targeted by GamerGate are going through. When Anita Sarkeesian was getting so much poo poo back when she started Tropes vs. Women (doesn't that seem like a lifetime ago now that all this poo poo is happening by the way) I naively thought it couldn't get any worse but here we are, it really puts into perspective what they've been going through. The people that have been behind all these threats and harassment need to be held to account.
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Oct 22, 2014 22:45
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Oddly enough, when people talk about getting into The Wire I always tell them to at least watch up to and including the episode called "The Wire". Typically that's where things start to fall into place for the show and the people watching it.
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Oct 29, 2014 14:58
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Latest Crate & Crowbar was pretty great, their thoughts on Elite: Dangerous seem particularly spot on.
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Jan 9, 2015 15:40
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I really don't see what the problem is with selfie sticks. It just seems like something for people to get self-righteously mad at as if they're above it all or something.
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Feb 19, 2015 14:08
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ja2ke posted:Was I mad at selfie sticks? I said they made me feel old (which they do! I don't care about them one way or another but tourist spots look undeniably different than they did when I was younger because of their presence), and Remo gave a pretty succinct and accurate reason for their (and selfies) rise, in a way that was not about anger or shaming. Just because someone has a selfie stick discussion it doesn't mean they're immediately having the conversation you're apparently assuming they are. It wasn't directed at you at all, I haven't even listened to the episode yet
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As a Scot who has had to do some public speaking to non-Scots, I find my accent changes as soon as I open my mouth so that people can understand what the gently caress I'm even saying. Enunciating is hard you guys 
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