Ryan Fleming helps answer some legitimate mysteries: The Higgs-Boson. The Three Seashells. Why Nice Guys really do finish last, and why that doesn’t have anything to do with your lack of hygiene skills in high school. He also weighs in on the new Mass Effect DLC, last week’s Walking Dead, Chapter Two from Telltale games, and the unfortunate decision by a Destructoid intern to do live research on Felicia Day, via Twitter, while drunk and sexist. Cort reveals something that makes him grumpy while he grumpies, and Bobby once again apologizes for being such an idiot on the internet, and sets the record straight on his opinions of Atari 2600 classic “Pitfall.” Oh, and I guess some dude who reads the news is gay. But we don’t really talk about that because everyone already knew that.
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The Destructoid guy is such an asshole. So glad that Wheaton gave him a Twitter beatdown.
Does being drunk impede his ability to Google? It’s not a long name at all. “Glorified booth babe”? Fuck off, Destructoid Douche.
Yep.
That entire discussion of the three shells and Goatse didn’t come up once? Never would have called that one.
(I’m not bringing this next point up because it’s fun to point out when you guys are wrong. Please don’t yell at me.)
When asking people to participate in the Merc’s survey, you should mention that they need to answer at least 20 questions. If they only vote for TFAW and the Kennedy School, their answers won’t register. I almost glossed over that point before doing the survey.
Bobby,
Pretty sure you were referring to the Stanley Milgram Experiment, very famous in the social psychology world. We spent half a semester on it in school. It’s incredibly fascinating. For more on it, the wiki entry is pretty thorough.
It was indeed the Milgram experiment. Thanks!
To answer your question, the Extended Cut for ME3 isn’t pandering. Or if it is it’s really TERRIBLE pandering. The Extended Cut pushes the ending from a 1 to a 5 or so.
Wouldn’t that make it good pandering? The intended result of pandering is to garner a positive response – the word is only negative because the resultant positive response is garnered by cheap, calculated and insincere means.
Love the new Bobby invention: the rap-n-crap restroom!
re: seashells
step 3: Wipe with t-shirt
There was almost no chance of a black hole. If one was created, it would be smaller then an atom, and dissipate when it came into contact with an atom.
Good chance it would create a black hole my ass.
Why is there so much Fear mongering around science?
I would argue the studies indicate a perception of power and not money. That’s a real fine line, especially in America.
The study about nice person is too fine. Being nice has many long term gains.
The Milgram test was seriously flawed in methodology.
Liked the Radio Lab mention.
While the destructoid intern is an ass, Why is Felicia Day still around ? Her character is always the same.
I’ve used to like her, not I’ve gotten to the point where I wont watch a show if she is in it because it’s going to be the same person. Of course, this is about her character, I’ve never had the pleasure of talking to her.
First, the black hole thing was a joke. We’ve talked about the Collider in the past and joked about it killing us all. If you listen to the show regularly then you know Cort and I are both big into fringe science and stuff like the Higgs Boson particle is awesome. Bobby on the other hand thinks you should use a coarse and sharp seashell on your bunghole, so there is room for debate.
As for Felicia Day, she is far more than an actress. She is a producer, and more than that, she is a role model for women in gaming and geekdom in general who are typically not well represented. She is also one of the pioneers in web television and has helped to drag it into the mainstream. That is a huge accomplishment and can’t be understated.
If you don’t like her as an actress, fine, but she has done an awful lot more than just act in her short career so far.
For those of you who need the visual to go along with the seashells discussion, here’s the URL to the diagram we were talking about. Still don’t buy it…
http://www.thejay.com/wp-content/3seashells.jpg
Yes.
Also, why is it that all of your country’s assholes think that they can just crash my party because they trashed your house. This is bullshit.
P.M. Fuck yeah, science.
Because of Nickelback. We still owe you for that.
You invented the nuke, let’s call it even.
yes, but I feel the same way as Cort. Public pooping is a no-no unless you are having an emergency.
Poopie in a clamshell: FECAL POWER!
I was always able to play Pitfall at stores, but never had my own game. Activision did make some of the best games for the Atari, but the one I did play the most was Chopper Command, but I don’t think I had that either. I always played that at a store in Honolulu called Holiday Mart, and we went to Holiday Mart A LOT. As I look at the graphics, it looks as basic as the “Empire Strikes Back” game, which I did have and played a lot. I would add Megamania but that looks way too basic these days. On another Atari note, there was an Atari app last week where games were made available for free, and I was able to get the first Swordquest. I never understood that game, and as I’m playing it today, it still doesn’t make sense.
Megamania LOOKS way too simple, but that shit is just as addictive as it ever was, even if the patterns are way easier to spot now.
Still maybe one of the five games I’ve had the most fun playing in my whole life.
Yeah…so thanks for the poop diagram. I don’t know why I clicked on it, knowing full well it would be foul, but my hands have a mind of their own.
Felicia Day is kind of one of my heroes.
Pooping outside your own home is inconsiderate, and just asking for your boyfriend’s toilet to plug up on you while you realize there’s no plunger.
With the seashell thing, I always figured you did your business in the toilet like normal, and then took two of the seashells and put them together, concave faces facing each other, and then just kinda ran it down your crack to wipe away excess? Does that make sense?
And then use the third to scrape off the particularly stubborn hangers on, or whatever.
Bobby, how the fuck can you aggressively not give a shit? Just by being aggressive about something kinda means you at least give some shit.
Cort , you need to shit at work. Two years ago did I did the math. If I pooped at work once a day, by the end of the year my company paid me over $1200 to shit (factoring in overtime and triple time). For $1200 a year I don’t care who does or doesn’t smell my shit.
That’s the joke, Chuck.