Chris Posted July 9, 2014 Idle Thumbs 166: Cyberpunk Cop-Killer Look, I'm not sayin' Tawmmy shouldn'ta been sent up for doing what he done to all them cahps, but they got stunnas, what else is he gonna do? Also I heard from Stacy—ya know Stacy. Whose fathah died? Ya know, that old guy that choked on that grinda up in P'tuckit. Ya know. Her sistah went to RISD and thinks she's some sahta rawalty. Anyway, Stacy sayin her brothah did thah same but he just got regulah time in the cybah-mines. That's some gahbage. Things Discussed: Jaws, Dota 2, Coming Out Simulator 2014, The Last Night, Wings of St. Nazaire, accents Listen on the Episode Page Listen in iTunes Subscribe to the RSS Feed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
David Posted July 10, 2014 Just got to the Jaws Game section; Majesco's showing at E3 2005 was a huge part of old Thumbs coverage. Why not read the preview? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zerofiftyone Posted July 10, 2014 Just got to the Jaws Game section; Majesco's showing at E3 2005 was a huge part of old Thumbs coverage. Why not read the preview? Nice! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikemariano Posted July 10, 2014 MIKE: "I don't find funny accents funny, therefore I will not laugh at this The Last Night section." DANIELLE: "Cyberpunk." *Mike totally loses it.* DANIELLE: "Blade Runner." *Mike basically falls out of the train he's exiting.* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tegan Posted July 10, 2014 Danielle's accent shattered my perception of her. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brannigan Posted July 10, 2014 I zoned out for a second and then wondered who the new person was on the cast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Patrick R Posted July 10, 2014 Nice! A link in that article brought me to http://www.cafepress.com/idlethumbs Was there a whole other realm of Idle Thumbs inside jokes before the podcast started? This does not seem like a shirt you guys would sell in earnest. EDIT: This is only the best of maybe 6 Manhunt related items. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gritfish Posted July 10, 2014 Idle Thumbs' promo reads continue to be some of the funniest things on the planet. (note - I should really look at hyuvver.carm). Coming out simulator's here: http://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014 Nicky was also the sponsor of the Public Domain Jam I organised in May, and is a huge advocate of open-source - as such, anyone interested can go here https://github.com/ncase/coming-out-simulator-2014 and download the source code and play around with it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Golden Calf Posted July 10, 2014 Chris' experience with Close Encounters happened pretty much in reverse for me with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I wasn't allowed to watch the movie growing up, because the bonkers blood spray from one scene (I don't remember which) was deemed too graphic by my mother. Other children however, particularly the ones I remember having the worst senses of humor, repetitively parroted so many goddamn punch lines from that movie growing up that, when I finally got around to watching it, all I could hear was a bunch of shitty middle schoolers. I don't think I made it past the first 30 mins. To this day, I am incapable of seeing that movie as anything other than hackneyed garbage, even though I know it's not (or might not be, anyway) the creators' fault. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TychoCelchuuu Posted July 10, 2014 Sean mentioned how sometimes, no matter how many movies you watch, there are just some movies (like Casablanca for him, holy shit) that you haven't seen - well, if you'd like to fix that to a certain extent, drop by the Idle Thumbs Criterion Film Club and join us as we watch all those movies you ought to have seen already. Chris talked about how Wings of St. Nazaire is actually like those space sims from back in the day but I have to correct him - Wings of St. Nazaire is indeed like Wing Commander, which used sprites rendered at various angles to represent all the ships, but it's very different from X-Wing and TIE Fighter, which, even back then, were full 3d games using polygonal ships rather than sprites. This, incidentally, is why I was a much bigger fan of the Star Wars games than the Chris Roberts games - everything was much smoother, there was a far better sense of scale and of movement, and the capital ships particularly worked far better. Of course, Wing Commander could be far more detailed with its prerendered bitmaps than X-Wing could (X-Wing had to rely on just plain Gouraud shading, which meant the ships were the right shape but entirely untextured) so Wing Commander's screenshots were much prettier, but X-Wing played much better with its full 3d fidelity. Which, incidentally, is why I'm not a massive Wings of St. Nazaire fan. I mean, yes, it's gorgeous, and it does work better than Wing Commander worked (in large part because I think it's using 3d models for its capital ships, or at least it was when I tried it like a year ago) but honestly we're at the point in video games where you can make something like Enemy Starfighter in Unity and use actual 3d models and get all the benefits that come from that, and we've been there since, you know, X-Wing came out in 1993. When someone was describing the Chris shirt and mentioned his face falling off the bottom like a "Goku shirt," the "ugh" reaction there on the part of all the Thumbs was amazing. That was maybe my favorite of the many hilarious parts of this cast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henroid Posted July 10, 2014 So I'm a weirdo that likes to download the MP3 files. I noticed with the last two episode that when I try downloading the download quickly slows to a crawl (like sub-dialup speed) and yet my bandwidth is 100% consumed (to the point of stopping other net-driven processes). Last week I just had to wait an hour or so after the file was available for download but today it still isn't budging. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainFish Posted July 10, 2014 Danielle's accent was enjoyable and refreshing, just like the center of a Junior Mint. Re: Dota talk, I'm wondering how 1v1 is in terms of quality of players. I feel like when Dota 2 went public the quality of the community, that I thought was pretty decent for the most part, has gone down pretty sharply. Being locked in with one jerk is somehow more daunting to me than being around 9 potential jerks. Do you have to mute the opponent a lot, or is it just 2 people focused on the game? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TychoCelchuuu Posted July 10, 2014 So I'm a weirdo that likes to download the MP3 files. I noticed with the last two episode that when I try downloading the download quickly slows to a crawl (like sub-dialup speed) and yet my bandwidth is 100% consumed (to the point of stopping other net-driven processes). Last week I just had to wait an hour or so after the file was available for download but today it still isn't budging. I can't download it in Firefox, Chrome, or Opera - only Internet Explorer works for me. Same deal with last week (and maybe the week before?). Speed is fine though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yarbles Posted July 10, 2014 Danielle's accent was enjoyable and refreshing, just like the center of a Junior Mint. True, as a listener from the UK I find a genuine US regional accent sounds a lot more sincere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aaron Posted July 10, 2014 Listening to this on the (London) tube this morning, and Danielle's accent had me grinning like a fool - other passengers must have thought me mad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
juv3nal Posted July 10, 2014 "I know 2 things about Dumbledore and 1 thing about Snape." BEST Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Justin Leego Posted July 10, 2014 Please Nintendo, allow your weird licensing practices to envelop Pikmin Extended Universe skins for Dota 2 1v1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperBiasedMan Posted July 10, 2014 The spelling of Danielle Riendeau does not fit with that accent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Synnah Posted July 10, 2014 "I know 2 things about Dumbledore and 1 thing about Snape." BEST I lost my shit at this, too. I've read all of the books, and I don't even remember if I knew that Dumbledore was gay. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainFish Posted July 10, 2014 As someone who hasn't paid harry potter any attention, but has been on the internet, I'm pretty much in the exact same boat as Chris. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Twig Posted July 10, 2014 I've read all of the books, and I don't even remember if I knew that Dumbledore was gay. It was never stated in the book, and AFAIK never really implied. Rowling came out later and revealed this fact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
prettyunsmart Posted July 10, 2014 The accent section was really interesting to me. I know it was meant entirely as a joke, but it got me thinking about how I present myself professionally and how central to that suppressing my northern Midwestern accent has been. If I'm teaching or discussing something academically, and I lapse into my 'normal' accent, I'd probably get laughed at because it is a marker of being from a lower class background. This is probably the wrong place to be writing about this, but there you go. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roswell47 Posted July 10, 2014 I haven't listened to the episode yet but the description made my mind go from southern to Bostonian. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tegan Posted July 10, 2014 It was never stated in the book, and AFAIK never really implied. Rowling came out later and revealed this fact. I really like that Dumbledore is gay, but I hate that it's not mentioned in any of the books. I hate the idea that LGBT characters should be on the down-low so that straight audiences don't have to be offended by their gayness. I brought this up briefly when I wrote about Lumberjanes because that comic does the Dumbledore thing so much more elegantly: there's a pair of characters who are clearly in a lesbian relationship, and though nobody ever says anything about it out loud, there's also no way to mistake them for straight given the way that they interact with one another. Before anyone inevitably uses the old "there was never a good time to say he was gay in these 3400 pages of books/20 hours of films" excuse, remember how Dumbledore was outed. The script for the sixth film called for him and Rowling corrected it. Rather than fix the scene by changing Dumbledore's implied love interest to a guy, they removed it entirely. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] Also, I was pleased with myself for immediately knowing that the NES music discussion was heading toward the Castlevania III sound chip. There's a really fascinating tribute album that recreates the Mega Man 3 soundtrack using the Castlevania III sound chip that Chris would probably find interesting in theory. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
melmer Posted July 10, 2014 GET VOTING To be honest i can't actually choose so i'm not going to. I like the glow in the dark one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites