Cruncheons 54: Snow White and the Seven Cryptocoin Miners

[Eel O'Brian]

http://cruncheons.podbean.com/mf/web/svqecp/Cruncheons54.mp3

Segment One:

1. Is the recent news of Irrational Games closing a starting marker for an industry-wide shift away from AAA games with huge budgets?

2. (26:35) The Nvidia 750 TI and the AMD R7 265 and the imaginary money dwarves

Segment Two:

(36:30) D3 Update and Path of Exile
(53:15) Out There
(58:00) Plants vs. Zombies vs. EA's Shitty Servers

We'll talk to you again soon!

[D3RANG3D]

 

[Eel O'Brian]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=779885

[pilonv1]

1. Is the recent news of Irrational Games closing a starting marker for an industry-wide shift away from AAA games with huge budgets?

2. (26:35)

surprised this took 26 mintues

[Barry Egan]

aw man, the thread title made me think there would be bitcoin trolling this episode.  still looking forward to listening though.

[Rufus]

aw man, the thread title made me think there would be bitcoin trolling this episode.  still looking forward to listening though.

It does say something about imaginary money dwarves, so I think we're in for it yet.

[hampster]

Looking at the time stamps I was hoping for more games talk but I'll take whatever Cruncheons I can get

[Human Snorenado]

We're all kinda, I don't know if "burnt out" is the right term when it come to games... maybe "meh."

[Joe Molotov]

We're all kinda, I don't know if "burnt out" is the right term when it come to games... maybe "meh."

oldfegs gonna old

How long before Doug is doing a review of the HurryCane on Cruncheons?

[Rufus]

Lots of dead air this episode. Nobody wanted to play host, huh?

[hampster]

We're all kinda, I don't know if "burnt out" is the right term when it come to games... maybe "meh."

 

[Eel O'Brian]

I still play games, I just don't have a lot of time. When I do have time I'm usually playing BF4. No one wants to hear about BF4 on every show, though. I tested a bunch of games on my Windows tablet, but I doubt it would be interesting to listen to unless you had that particular tablet.

By the time we do the next show inFamous SS will have been out, so at least I'll have one new game to bitch about

[Rufus]

Btw, Eel, I hope you're crossposting those test results somewhere else.

[Eel O'Brian]

I intend to, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Human Snorenado]

Lots of dead air this episode. Nobody wanted to play host, huh?

Doug was fucked up on cough syrup.



BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON.

I think we're gonna talk about music on an upcoming episode. Not that we value your input (ok, we do, but I'm a dick) but what other shit would you guys like to hear about besides games n tech?

[D3RANG3D]

Lots of dead air this episode. Nobody wanted to play host, huh?

Doug was fucked up on cough syrup.



BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON.

I think we're gonna talk about music on an upcoming episode. Not that we value your input (ok, we do, but I'm a dick) but what other shit would you guys like to hear about besides games n tech?

Books, TV Shows/Movie Recs like The Borecast.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I agree with what Triumph was saying.  There are so many more avenues for entertainment but our spare time has not been changing with it.  The average gamer 10 years ago had TV (which wasn't as good, which was pointed out), movies, and video games.  Now you have social media sites, TV (which is going through a renaissance), Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Video, messing around on your iOS/Android device (whether that includes games or not), and video games.  It's just a smaller space that video games have to compete in.  Combine that with out of control AAA budgets and it's easy to see why the industry is where it is now. 

[Van Cruncheon]

i ride motorcycles way more than i game in my tinyass free time these days :-(

and no joke, i was fucked up on nyquil this ep :-(