This week, Will and Norm are joined by Dave Snider to discuss Microsoft’s new CEO, the real reason John Carmack left id software, Facebook Paper, Flickr and Facebook’s launch dates, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
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Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
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Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
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One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
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Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
why a? Where is B thru Z?
Really like having Dave on the podcast. The Bombcast this week also made me smile with Whiskey Media memories, it’s nice that all these guys stuck together.
Now I am hungry for Swedish meatballs..
there are sanwa screw in buttons as well will, they’re still not as long or uh.. deep shafted as the happ buttons though.
they have soda stream tonic water, i worked at a cooking store and we sold it alot.
Köttbullar does in fact mean “meatballs” 🙂 The horsemeat did not affect US IKEA stores, only those in Europe (and for some reason, meatballs sold in Norway and Russia were not affected). That being said, the IKEA ones never tasted right to me, I prefer homemade ones.
This was a good show, as much as Gary is missed, the rotating guests are always good.
Norm : Eggs :: Will : Folgers?
It’s more video/podcast friendly than gas station coffee, anyway.
I used to work at a call center that was literally 1 block from a Costco. We would do lunch runs there frequently because it was both cheap and fast which made a huge difference when you only get a 40 minute break.
ReSpawn has said the dedicated servers for Titan Fall will run on the Microsoft cloud for all three versions of the game. They are not building a separate infrastructure to support the PC version.
Paul Fusco performs ALF, and that was definitely still him in the Radio Shack ad.
Only problem with sodastream I have is the limited selection at most stores. The mango and other energy options are great, but never in stores.
Is it bad that the first baby sent down the river that came to mind was the one in Willow?
The first image posted to Flickr was on December 15, 2003 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bees/74/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/88/
Clearly the sodastream “Dr. Pete” flavor has to be awesome. Dr. PETE???
Couldn’t you just get some quinine (and a little sugar) and add it to your sodastream club soda? And then some gin? Defeat malaria!
After Madmen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLPAE9wLEU
I like the old stuff better.
Ha! I thought the 199a was because Will didn’t want to get to episode 200
I’m guessing the A is because the special guests for the 200th episodes are not available for the next week
Dr. Pete is… well, imagine store’s-own-brand diet Dr. Pepper. Even the non-diet Dr. Pete tastes like that. (This is a standard problem with SodaStream flavors, admittedly, and not confined to Dr. Pete, but still… Dr. Pete is pretty horrible. My opinion only, of course. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Your parents help you put it together! And other rather dated advertising disclaimers as available. 🙂
Valve need to make a windows environment and then start to configure the games to run well that don’t have a Linux
port.
Gentlemen, I’m an avid fan of the podcast and happily spend my saturday nights with my family watching your show, and listening to the podcast while at work. Thank you and well done!. Question… For you. My wife is a teacher, and has both shown the show and tried to use some of the ‘tests’ in her 6th grade science class. They have done ublick (sp?) mentos, etc… But are there any ideas you might suggest to try, possibly a little more engaging and interactive (being mindful that they are 6th graders)?
Thank you, sincerely,
Tom
I think one feature Valve should consider for SteamOS as a hold over until more games run natively on Linux is adding a way to launch games that run decently in Wine from within Steam. As my desktop, I’ve got two copies of Steam installed, the primary being the native Linux version the other being one in it’s own Wine prefix. Getting some games to run in Wine is a pain, but there are a number that run perfectly fine as well with minimal effort, so I’d think it would be best left as an ‘advanced’ feature only.
For porting existing games to Linux, it’s probably a lot more work than creating new ones from scratch that will run on all three platforms (Win, OSX and Linux). However, for those companies that already release their titles for Windows and OSX simultaneously (I’m looking at you Blizzard), I’d say 60-70% of the hard work is already done just for the OSX version to get the game engine rendering properly with OpenGL, it’s just a matter of figuring out what libraries are needed to get it to compile for Linux. Though as a counter point, finding all the fiddly bits of why something won’t compile because you don’t have the exact version of a specific library you need can be quite frustrating too.
I haven’t had a bare-metal install of Windows on any of my personal hardware for going on 7 years now and don’t miss it one bit. It’s not something I’d recommend for everyone, you have to take your on personal computing needs into account. The only reason I still keep my WinXP VM around is to update the maps on my Motorcycle’s GPS.
As you guys have stated before in the podcast and your other videos, Valve is taking quite a gamble here with SteamOS, but I do hope (and believe) that it will work out for them in the long term.
Another great one!
Horse meat was not a problem for ikea because it was horse meat itself. Horse meat was a problem because of peoples’ personal ethics issues. Like cats and dogs, a lot of people, believe that horses should not be chopped up and eaten. Take it from a guy who has been a butcher, chef, and grew up with farmers, horse is not a bad thing it just an ethical issue.
People are strange, but only by how they are raised. I have eaten bugs, cat, dog, horse, sneak, balute, brain, eyes… I can go on but I wont. It’s just how you are raised and how much you are willing to experience other peoples culture without judgement.
Here’s some info on Major Havoc. This guy’s channel (John’s Arcade) is great for arcade games. He buys, restores, reviews, and owns tons of arcade games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIBTfXd5AAE
Maybe semantics, but it’s unclear to me why the people shooting up the power station were called “snipers”? Sounded like it was just dudes with assault rifles? Sniper (to me at least) indicate some sort of sharp-shooter/scope/distance element. Spraying something with bullets, even though high caliber, is not necessarily snipers. Did they say how far away they were? I thought they were pretty close..?
This may not have anything to do with the topics of the podcast, but I really have to weigh my point.
Norm acts as if he really doesn’t care to be there. Kinda like that friend that acts like they know everything and as if he has already “heard it all before”. Try to chime in more often on the topics, get into the vibe and really let it show!
Also, move that mic away from your face (Norm), you hide behind it in many podcast. Not very professional in the end.