The Giant Beastcast: Episode 70

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Nice to see that Jeff is backalar.

Jeff is Backalar!

Probably recorded too early for Palmer Gate news?

Spectacalar.!

where were you, when shenmue

bakalar

Italy talk!!

God Dammit Jeff. I spat so much coffee out when he cracked the Agregator joke.

You guys joke but this seriously is the world's best podcast of ALL TIME!!!

EDIT: I have to agree with Vinny about having extra software from peripheral manufacturers on my PC. Keep that junk off of my machine! No thank you Razer Synapse!!! And as far as keyboards go, I'll take dye-sub PBT keycaps over RGB lighting any day. Turn off the gaudy light show and keep it classy baby!

It IS my birthday. Thanks Vinny!

I love Jeff bigging up those tasty Podcast boys at MBMBaM. Genuinely tear inducing laughter to be had.

bunz

Ooh, a new podcast for my commute back home, thanks GBeast!

Come on guys, Seagate was sitting there, ready to use during the Bioshock water discussion.

I certainly hope so. I could not care less who anyone is voting for, nor who they support or how they get that message out. Their politics is their business. And if I did care, I sure would not seek out that sort of thing here.

The Beastcast is the best cast but particularly with Jeff Bakalar, just make him a permanent staff member already.

Going to have to agree. Unless there are jokes to me mined from it there really is no discussion.

@joker8765:



i'll allow it

It's really good having Bakalar back. Badly missed in recent weeks!

BEEEEEEEEEEEEASTCASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST!! <3

please never leave me again, jeff bakalar

Oh Boy, Alex and Jeff are so right about Now You See It. Worst fucking movie ever. I saw it on a plane as well. So shitty. I'm flummoxed as to how there could be a sequel to that.

Batman v Superman wasn't atrocious, just a mess. It's still entertaining. Not a good movie. Not really actively bad though.

Also The Dark Knight Rises is great. You might call it the best Batman movie.

Oh baby, hardware talk!

Regale us with your travel stories Mr Bakalar!

i can't believe he's bak

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Beast cast is Best cast!

Welcome back to The Giant Bomb J.B!

Haha I love it. Time to Herzog tonight was 1:54:14

Are 4k tvs really as rare as they make it seem? I've had one for a little less than a year and I thought they were starting to become relatively common for new tv purchasers.

Y'all should watch the Great British Bake Off

I just had a horrible experience taking my cat, Lucy, to the vet. They treated her like garbage and I'm hoping they didn't end up hurting her (more than they already did psychologically). I'm so pissed. I definitely need the good vibes of this podcast right now. Thank you for doing this each week. I love you guys.

I hate how the audio player doesn't remember your spot like the video player does, after all you can't just play Premium stuff in other programs.

Yeah Jeff, the Vesuvio is a tragedy guaranteed to happen. Not much for the historic cities, the real problem is that people built unlawfully a bunch of houses (in southern italy, more than anywhere, law is "optional") right around and up the sides of the freakin volcano. When the Vesuvio will erupt (and it will) that's a big, tragic, bye bye.

Chicken Parmigiana is part of North American's cuisine, not Italian's (only place i had it was in Canada). It's a bastardization of the real Parmigiana (the eggplant one, which is amazing, you should have tried it! :)) and the Cotoletta (which is what we actually eat here in northern Italy)

@warptoon said:

Jeff is Backalar!

nice

That doesn't sound like a problem for you, BEVERLY?

this.

In the talk about Xbox Scorpio "on paper" it occurred to me that both Scorpio and PS4 Pro seemed to have simailsr parts, yet MS is instisting taht they will output better, faster, more powerful visuals.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-08-18-project-scorpio-release-date-price-games-xbox

So there is a lot of speculation, but people agree the CPU is nearly identical, and that the GPU might have more cores and the amount of RAM might be more...but they don't know. Yet, PS4 Pro is rated at 4.2TF by Sony's calculations yet MS is saying Project Scorpio's might possibly reach 6TF.

Above it shows people speculating the way to do that woudl be more 'graphical cores' or memory to achieve that power and Native 4K. But, what if it isn't?

I think this might be done with Microsoft Azure? We saw that Microsoft, from the very start, was trying to leverage "cloud computing" to enhance the power of a weaker Xbox One. In effect, that is why they wanted the system to be online only so badly. Without a requirement of online they could not implement Azure into everything. So -what if- much of the power gains the Scorpio promises are just Microsoft managing games through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters? If Scorpio were just Microsoft going BACK to that playbook of the system being online only it woudl make a lot of sense. It would be a way to sell the system at $399, right? (It is not all bad news if this is their plan, because price could be a non-factor, but there are some issues.)

• If Scorpio was required to be on the internet with a very good (by US standards) internet connection, would that be seen as reversing what people had fought against in 2014?
• If the CPU/GPU/RAM of a Scorpio were the same as a PS4 Pro (very possible under this scenario) would you view Scorpio as more powerful?
• If your games reverted back to 1080 p @ 30fps, if your internet were slow that day, would that be a trade off you could live with?

#MakeBioshockWetAgain

I dunno. I'm sort of interested in what they might have made about the fact that Palmer is funding 'magic memes' and shitposting. Because I found that hilarious when I read it.

Especially because his employers just donated a ton to fund disease research.

Here, here.

Capri is definitely cool, but dang are those cave boat rides expensive. Watch my terrible pre-smartphone era video and save yourself some Euros.

Good to have you Bakalar!

I'm not getting any sound...

Jeff priding himself on being able to find the right theater and the right time made me realize that Jeff Bakalar is George Costanza.

I think I'm one of the four people on earth that didn't hate Nacho Libre.

That makes 2 of us. And welcome Bakalar!

You should look up Del Toro's multiple attempts into involving himself into developing an original game. He made genuine efforts to be 100% involved, but a bunch of bad luck happened. Look for the times where he put things into his own words.

He was really wanting to ACTUALLY make a game.

@skinnersweet: They aren't it's just that a lot of people don't want to buy one yet out of fear of being burned as an early adopter.