#softparagon

[spacetwinks]

I've been listening to GiantBomb for a few years and it only occurred to me how much I really missed Ryan Davis after Vinny moved to the east office. What's so similar in their approach that makes listening to the bombcast so much fun?

i'm a johnny come lately to giant bomb who hasn't dug far enough into the past to really get a feel for ryan's comedy or the bombcast's history in general, so it's hard for me to say!

vinny, however, i'll say he's got a kind of comedy that is extremely quick on its feet but without going over the top. like he can drop jokes into any kind of situation, and while jeff tends to get more exaggerated, more into a sort of blatant "i'm making jokes" here tone (and is really good at it), vinny's got this really casual tone and speed that makes his comedy, and his back and forths with everyone else, feel really natural. he's an excellent conversationalist, basically, without dominating a conversation.

[maliciousbee]

softparagon replied to your post: uuuuh my pc is kinda broke and idk how...

Hit up a Microsoft Store if one is near you. I used to work at one as a tech and it’s company policy to do diagnoses on computers free of charge.

oh gosh that would be awesome buuuut I'm pretty sure Australia doesn't have any? or at least none that my 3:30am googling can find.

[spacetwinks]

Twinks, I place great value on your breakdowns of comedies. I need to know what you think of Hot Shots! and Hot Shots Part Deux.

i'll have to actually do a rewatch of those movies, not least of which is because i've somehow seen hot shots! part deux at least a dozen times as a kid without ever actually seeing hot shots the first, but, rundown from what i can remember of hot shots part deux

really accidentally good peek into the general political american mindset of 1993 - jesus christ, even animaniacs had a saddam hussein joke bit around this era. trace this to comedy now w/r/t the middle east. ugh. bad shit, all around.

this is about where you start to see the transition from really, really fucking dynamite sight gags and straight up good joke fundamentals from stuff like top secret and airplane! police squad!/the naked gun and into an overreliance on 'specific parody' material that requires you to know what it is, exactly, they're referencing for the joke to be funny. the bits like the energizer bunny, for example - totally doesn't hold up anymore, right? and neither do the other pop culture references and specific movie parodies hold up much. you can see good joke ideas, here and there, but the execution isn't as good, and they're not as willing to play it as straight faced - they're winking at the audience too much, you feel me? and the more straight up physical comedy bits - bloodsport parody at the start, the long rambo parody that ends with him shooting the chicken arrow - just aren't as funny as jim abrams' previous material.

from this you can begin to trace to how we went from great parody movies like Airplane! to Meet The Spartans and Dance Movie or whatever the fuck. it became less about making a funny movie, period, and more about just making jokes about whatever is happening now

the bit where the dude kills hundreds of enemy soldiers to a level that's ridiculous that they even count it off like an arcade game is so close to being a good bit but they just managed to fuck it up because it just comes out feeling limp

[biowarefangirl]

What's your steam ID?

it’s sehrglanzvoll. i’m, uh, very shy on steam though. u///u

[spacetwinks]

Do you know what happened to the author of the Hsu and Chan comics? I tried following him for years after EGM died but he stopped updating his website

here's his new website!

he also started doing youtube stuff (with a rather sadly low amount of views, but marketing/advertising has never been jeremy scott's strong skill)

hsu's voice sounds off, but chan's feels pretty solid after a bit

[spacetwinks]

I haven't listened to the newest bombcast yet. Did they fuck up somehow?

the dudes they hired seem fine but they are a pair of straight cis white dudes getting announced as hires in a rapidly growing in popularity games site that does have fairly frequent talks about diversity and representation right as the hotpoint in games journalism discussion, sparked off by people like maddy myers, is this massive silent wall that constantly passes on hiring anyone outside of that and always says "next time, next time"