It’s bound to happen when a group has the kind of rock star runaway success that we’ve had with Spoiler Warning. The sudden fame and money has really come as a shock to most of us, and I think we went a bit sideways there for a bit. There’s been a rift forming between Randy and the rest of the group for some time now. It came to a head near the end of the series when Josh and I got fed up with the way Randy’s hotel vandalism and drug abuse was getting in the way of our greed and womanizing.
So now Randy has broken off to pursue a solo career:
(Randy explained to me that the name of this episode comes from the story of drummer Pete Best who put out “Best of the Beatles” after he was fired from The Beatles. I mention this because I’d never heard this story before and I found it interesting.)
More seriously, there’s no real drama behind Randy leaving the show. Randy is open to doing more in the future. We still hang out and everything is cool, he’s just not doing the show right now. Our Fallout 3 series starts next week. We’ve already recorded the first couple of episodes with Rutskarn, who doesn’t actually like it when we call him Ringo.
Hardware Review

So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
This Game is Too Videogame-y

What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Crysis 2

Crysis 2 has basically the same plot as Half-Life 2. So why is one a classic and the other simply obnoxious and tiresome?
Skylines of the Future

Cities: Skylines is bound to have a sequel sooner or later. Where can this series go next, and what changes would I like to see?
Dear Hollywood: Do a Mash Reboot

Since we're rebooting everything, MASH will probably come up eventually. Here are some casting suggestions.
I wasn’t all that into the Mass Effect one, maybe because much of it was a spoiler for me as I only played through it once. However, the Fallout 3 series sounds awesome, especially with Rutskarn involved.
You’ve entombed Randy in a plexiglass coffee table, haven’t you?! YOU MONSTERS!
Wow,Shamus,youve conditioned him to notice foliage.I wonder why there “realistic” shooters cant be more like original call of duty.On the hardest settings there were no medpacks,and you could survive 2,3 bullets tops.
I’m really looking forward to the Fallout 3 one. Also, Rutskarn, that guy is awesome.
Honestly, that was way more funnier than ME1. I laughed out loud multiple times during it. Will there be more? Randy is just awesome.
Shamus, you should really view your site in the way it was originally intended: As a 1996 geocities version of itself:
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=7&url=www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale
What the…AHHH! My eyes! MY EYES!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!
For the last couple of years I’ve wanted to do a Geocities style theme for April 1st, but didn’t have the time to put into it.
Still, that’s pretty hilarious. Looks like my CSS prevents it from making all the text centered, which would have really sealed the deal.
well your regular site isnt centered on my comp, either.
both of those have the text in the same exact spot to me
Thank goodness, then. This link looked really atrocious
WTF?!?! MY EYES! THEY BURN!
The horrible background, layout and dancing GIFs are one thing, but the MIDI background music just seals the deal completely.
It does, reminds me of HTML design way back in 6th grade. But still, I loved midis! Still do, actually. So I decided to “remaster” it for funsies. (Now it’s a slightly synthetic-sounding MP3) Instrumental Wonderwall
I did like the solo Spoiler Warning, but it still felt kind of lonely without the banter going on. Looking forward to Fallout 3.
Awesome :)
MY EYES! The goggles do nothing!
The first thing that came to mind when I clicked that link was: “OMG WHY WAS I CURSED TO HAVE EYES!?” My second thought was: “Hmmm I can’t seem to remember what I’ve been doing for the last few minutes.”
I was about to post “AAAH, MY EYES!” but then I found everyone else has already done so.
I hate you now.
What was he playing? “Cut-Scene, the Video Game”?
But The Johnson of Spoiler Warning would have been a much better joke…
EDIT After Fallout 3 you guys should do STALKER, if you think dying three times in a row was bad. Try that.
STALKER depending on version is not terribly hard, I had been playing Clear sky, properly upgraded gear will kill things soundly.
But I must admit on STALKER (Normal) difficulty, the NPCs take far to many bullets, and the guns are as inaccurate as thrown creampies going mark 1.
Shame it crashed when it did for me… Note to all playing Clearsky, DO NOT, change ammo type while heading into another area. yuck.
The scary part is the grenades literally track your position.
stalker wasn’t hard, you just had to put quick s/l on right and left click.
but seriously, once you understood the mechanics of the game it wasn’t really hard.
Nice Beatles reference, yeah. I know it’s explained in the text, but I read over that bit and got the reference anyway, so THERE.
I really enjoyed this video.
Also, what game is this anyways? It makes no sense at all…
Battlefield Bad Company 2, yet another ultra realistic cover based shooter with health regeneration and a huge focus on multiplayer (My favorite part). The Single player is fun, but short and obviously intended to be a comedy rather than drama.
I’m liking the pyro sign.
To add to the things I like, the Monty Python credits got a hearty laugh out of me as well.
Sweet mercy, those were a LOT of cut-scenes.
I played through BC2 in one sitting, and yeah, there’re a lot of cut-scenes. To be fair, most of them allow you to look around while people are talking, so it’s not totally static.
The game was awesome though. :)
Umm did Randy miss the ‘swap weapon’ button? Only played another two levels of the single player myself and it didn’t start making any more sense by then. Love that multi-player though.
P.S. I can’t stop the military nerd in me but the Mi-24 ‘Hind’ would have been appropriate if the level had been in set in the seventies (as opposed to the level title being a bad pun).
The original Hind model sure, but the one shown in the video is a Mi-28
Actually, it is a version of the MI-24, you can clearly see the open side-door which the MI-28 doesn’t have since it has no secondary transport-role…
Weird! But good catch. The Russian helicopter that you actually get to fly is a Mi-28 Havoc, so when this one flashed across the screen I assumed it was the same one, but apparently they do have the Mi-24 in the game files, and it can be seen on a single multiplayer map, a rather unpopular map that I have never been on.
Oh man, Monty Python and the Holy Grail style credits.
haha THIS WAS GREAT.
i want more.
great commentary. XD
Hilarious. I nearly blew my morning coffee out. Kudos.
Seems to be missing the banter involved when you have more people… go grab some people off the streets and force them to join in!
Agreed. Not that Randy isn’t funny – he is – but according to my calculations he’s not 3 people.
It would have been better if he did FarCry 2…
… and not splicing out every instance where he dies and and the frustation from playing until he figures out the easy way to play & beat the game.
So… what ever happened to this?
Hm, now that Viddler’s gone and killed itself, Randy’s vid doesn’t load anymore. Might want to inform him, you guys?
You can still see the ‘best of’ video here:
http://tube.7s-b.com/video/5MJHQktRcAo/Best-of-Spoiler-Warning-Part-1.html
http://tube.7s-b.com/video/cPPevdFeCQU/Best-of-Spoiler-Warning-Part-2.html
enjoy…