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Here's Power Girl for the curious:

Originally Posted by mik Since you mentioned the disturbing FatalFarm DuckTales parody video, you should go check out the rest of the TV intros that are on FatalFarm's site. There are a few that are even more... "out there." (for example, the Zoobilee Zoo one) http://www.fatalfarm.com/tvthemes.html

Thank you! I just had to find out what they were talking about. Man, that video is sure messed up.

Seemed like a less than epic show guys. I would know because I usually listen to each show twice. Your enthusiasm totally died toward the end of this one with the CagBag questions. Next week had better be the super shipwreck spectacular like you mentioned!! Also, I'm still searching for that ducktails video.

Edit: Oh shit I should read the forum before I post next time, thanks mik!

A big thumbs up to Cheapy for admitting he didn't know anything about the removal of dedicated servers for MW2 and then not commenting on it.

There's been a lot of coverage about how no dedicated servers means no mods, but it's a lot more basic than even that. I played about 40 hours of CoD 4 multiplayer on the PC, and most of that time was spent on servers with 20, 30 or 40 other people, with little-to-no lag. The large scale of the battles was a huge part of the fun.

Because MW2 will be using P2P matchmaking, PC gamers who buy it will be stuck with a maximum of 16 players with lag depending on the connection of whoever is hosting the game. Check out what the founder of Infinity Ward had to say about the importance of dedicated servers just before CoD 4 was released:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfTR8PBrsE

Originally Posted by Curufinwe A big thumbs up to Cheapy for admitting he didn't know anything about the removal of dedicated servers for MW2 and then not commenting on it. There's been a lot of coverage about how no dedicated servers means no mods, but it's a lot more basic than even that. I played about 40 hours of CoD 4 multiplayer on the PC, and most of that time was spent on servers with 20, 30 or 40 other people, with little-to-no lag. The large scale of the battles was a huge part of the fun. Because MW2 will be using P2P matchmaking, PC gamers who buy it will be stuck with a maximum of 16 players with lag depending on the connection of whoever is hosting the game. Check out what the founder of Infinity Ward had to say about the importance of dedicated servers just before CoD 4 was released:

*sniff* That video brought a tear to my eye. It was like activision cared :(
I think Bobby took that man and slept in his organs shortly after.

I was going to suggest exChAnGe as well, pro: CAG Exchange- the word exchange lends itself well to a logo, with the letters CAG inside of it.

I look forward to seeing what Cheapy says about Borderlands. It's a neat game, just started it. I don't find the story compelling, but then again nobody promised it would be. I would like it to have more depth in that respect, even if the jobs are go kill, go fetch.

It's funny how both of you CAGhosts have switched to mostly single player gameplay from the online stuff you guys talked about doing more. How do you think that having kids has affect you guys with respect to your gaming habits?

I can say that I cherish solid non-violent games, although there are few of them that I want to play. I also like 'family' games like 'Nintendo' titles for play with the kids. I hate to foreshadow, but when your kids are around 5, you may just play with your Wii or whatever Nintendo console is around at the time. Nooo!

I enjoyed the episode, more than other recent shows actually.

Marketplace sounds lame, why not just Trade & Sell, simple and gets the point across, thats what cheapy is going for anyway not some elaborate name that most people won't know what it is unless they click it.

Powergirl for those who don't know (since gentle gamer's photo is dead).

Live action Powergirl ain't too shabby either.

I had something, but it's too late for me to remember. I'll listen to the show again, and repost later on.

CagEmporium Just throwing it out there. or you can rip off other names examples: cagbuy, cagstop, or cagmazon.

Originally Posted by contej85 It seems they can't win. When they tell too many personal stories, everyone seems to complain that they need to stick to game news and such.

Yeah, that's true. However, I think the CAGcast is more of just a video game podcast. I see of it more as a show about the lives of two gamers. So you're going to hear stories of events in their lives along with mentions of games they're playing and what-not. Instead, this CAGcast was more like two gamers who feel like acting like game reviewers, giving extended reviews on both Borderlands and Forza 3.

Instead of hearing a 5 minute story about Cheapy doing something funny, followed by a short, sweet review of Forza 3, instead we get a very boring and long review of Forza 3. And I'm pretty sure people that were interested in the game already knew about the rewind feature and the marketplace for other users' cars and such. Hell, I have no interest in the game whatsoever and I already knew about them.

Forgot to mention: Cheapy, your Win 7 Whopper video was mentioned on the Giant Bombcast this week. They mention that they watched you trying to eat it and how disgusting the burger looks. Pretty funny.

So Cheapy, it seems the GB guys know who you are. Say hi to them next time.

Hi Gents,

Enjoyed the show, as always.

One topic which annoyed me a bit was Cheapy's Rock Band Beatles DLC rant. Cheapy you were complaining even before you got the game that you didn't think there were enough songs, yet you still bought it. Then in your next breath you're saying you'd pay $60 for a RB game with Tommy in it.

If you make the decision to support these games then you need to suck it up dude, until people vote with their wallets, DLC will remain with us.

Hey Cheapy next time you see someone from Giantbomb say your the guy that ate the windows 7 burger. It's funny that you guys talked about ever meeting someone from Giantbomb and they talk about Cheapy eating the burger.

Re: The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 server controversy. The PC community only has themselves to blame for this. Because no matter what Infinity Ward has said about the matchmaking experience, the whole setup is so that copies of the game will have to check in with IW's servers and check to see if it was a pirated copy. Everybody's forgotten that this was a huge problem for CoD4. The original post by Robert Bowling, Community Relations Manager, has been taken down but lots of news stories still have the quotes.

From January 2008:
On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)," said Robert.

"[I'm] not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see; if I can I'll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do.

Unfortunately this affects people who bought legal copies of the game, but so many bad apples spoiled the barrel.

no need for a new computer. Get VMWare Fusion and install Windows 7 on it. Instead of going through the hassle of dual booting or anything like that.

Hey didn't see how many people mentioned it but the audio sync was off, don't you edit the shows together from 2 separate audio files? One recorded locally for each of you? Or do you record the skype stream? Either way I'm guessing Cheapy was about half a second or more ahead on the timeline than Wombat, so Cheapy would start saying something literally as Wombat was finishing a word. This is not from Cheapy wanting to cut Wombat off this is a technical issue, I know it's really nitpicky but if you can recognize the cause that'd be great if you could fix it. Never noticed on any other episodes this bad of the problem.

Also terrible name for CAG trading. Cagslist

Sorry to hear about your grandfather, Wombat. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Cheapy, there is a reason for the multiple use of certain songs in DJ Hero. Each mix in the game is composed of two separate songs. The debeloper still has to pay licensing fees for each individual song that is used in the game. The entire tracklist is composed of 102 individual songs. If the setlist used each song only once, they would have to pay for almost 200 song licenses for the 93 mixes that are on the game.

When you actually get to playing the game, you will notice that the songs are used in completely different ways during each mix. One song wont sound the same when in two different mixes.

Hmm.... Maybe CAG Bazaar or CAG Mercantile? I'm guessing I'll probably be the only person that likes either of these suggestions.

Yes 27" imac with 4850 and i5 Quad-core and you won't need a Windows gaming pc. It's only $2k. ORder now. Ships November. Bootcamp for Windows gaming.

There was something that stuck on me from the show, but I forgot what it what was. Ok now I remember. I like your review of Forza where you said "There's just a ton of sht to do."

I can just imagine Wombat calling a game crap and Cheapie saying there's a ton of sht to do or something like that. Ah well there's got to be a joke or angle in there somewhere to go on about.