CAGcast #406: The 4th USB Port

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Yo Cheapy!  Hook me up with one of those Vision codes.  Also, Wambat's audio sounds okay (better than many podcasts) so I'm thinking the local recording wasn't as bad as the Skype connection.  He might try plugging the mic into the side of the macbook with 2 ports and not having another USB plugged into that side.  I know this helped me when I had a mic issue years ago.

 
VISION CODES! YAY!!

Oh as for Avengers, I thought that they did the same joke one too many times in the movie and I didn't like having my Ultron crack jokes. Just didn't do it for me. Screams for the need for a Black Widow movie though...

 
MLB The Show 15 and Bloodborne were the games driving PS4 sales in March.  Once the bulk of those sales had been made, the $349 Halo MCC bundle was enough to put the Xbone 13K ahead of the $399 PS4.

http://majornelson.com/2015/03/09/xbox-one-halo-master-chief-collection-bundle-launch/

And in April Gamestop offered a $125 credit towards an Xbone when you traded in a PS3 or 360.  Back in February, they had the same deal but for the PS4.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/02/10/gamestop-offers-125-to-buy-a-ps4-for-used-ps3-and-xbox-360-in-view-of-the-order-and-bloodborne/

http://www.twinfinite.net/2015/04/07/gamestop-xbox-one-deal

 
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That Nintendo E3 video was done by Mega64, same as last year. I think bringing back the world championship is a great idea and is something that I will watch not like the smash bros. tourney last year. My guess is that all the games will be played on the Wii U, probably similar to what was on NES Remix 2.

 
Kumail Nanjiani, from Silicon Valley, might legitimately be following you. He's a big gamer and even hosts a video game podcast with his wife called The Indoor Kids.

I also wouldn't mind a Vision code for Marvel Superheroes 2015. Funny bit, on Rebel FM their community manager admitted he knew almost nothing about Marvel.
 
Kumail Nanjiani, from Silicon Valley, might legitimately be following you. He's a big gamer and even hosts a video game podcast with his wife called The Indoor Kids.

I also wouldn't mind a Vision code for Marvel Superheroes 2015. Funny bit, on Rebel FM their community manager admitted he knew almost nothing about Marvel.
 
What is Ship in his high school hall of fame for? His Dead or Alive Extreme Volleyball faq? Or maybe for gifting the Venus suit to every girl in the game?
 
I love Wombat, but with that audio, it felt like his jokes fell even flatter than usual.

I would like a vision code please.

 
I would like a Vision code as well.

Love the 90210 talk! Shanen Doherty was always my favorite, I had the Playboy that she was in until my wife made me get rid of those types of magazines when we got married.

 
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I would love a code for the Vision.

And how come Wombat isn't playing Marvel Heroes? There is a Mac client. And quite frankly the game is awesome fun.

IMHO Marvel Heroes proves that free-to-play can be done right. And that actually being free-to-play can be a great motivation for the developers to provide the content that the players want and like.

By that I mean the devs want players to keep being involved with the game so they keep releasing new content, new heroes, new costumes, new game modes, new events at a really fast pace.

The devs do not want players to have a negative experience with a particular heroes and stop playing ghe game so they go back to earlier heroes to improve their powers and unique items taking into account player feedback in the forums.

One last thing, it's great to feel like the devs have your back. Once I clicked on a 4 hour xp and special items discovery boost instead of a 15 minutes one. So ok I tried to play as long as I could but at some point I had to go with several hours left on the boost, oh well that's that I thought. But when I logged on the next day, I noticed that the the boost had been paused while I went offline and resumed when I logged back on. Awesome. Most games wouldn't do that, but since it's a free-to-play game and those boosts are for sale the devs did right by their paying consumers.

There are so many other little things that have impressed me during my time with Marvel Heroes (and I play it every day), I think that in this era of shitty business practices (abusing day one dlc, micro-transaction for full price games, free games with stamina bars, pay-to-win, etc...) Marvel Heroes should be heralded as a great example of a free-to-play game with a very high level of player satisfaction from both paying customers and the ones that play for free. Maybe a video game "journalist" should look into it.
 
Vision Code please Cheapy! Marvel 2015 is a pretty big improvement over the original release, though not sure I agree with the rename to get a new metacritic score. Wombat your audio was fine, not great but still good enough. 

 
Thanks for the shoutout about my Steam and Wii  :wiiu: game High Strangeness, Shipwreck!

Wombat - bonus points for making it weird, don't ever change  :rofl:

My old game where CheapyD and Wombat could cause vehicular mayhem before Cheapy's Saint's Row fame was Agent MOO:Maximum Overdeath

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Who designed the CAG Crew's avatars? You, Agent Moo?

Great episode as usual. I wonder if Shipwreck will have to upgrade his computer again now that Oculus Rift PC specs have been announced. I looked at the spreadsheet and wonder why he has a water cooler system and 800W PSU when his graphics card and processor doesn't need that much stuff around it. At least he has less stuff to buy for the Oculus upgrade.

One more thing regarding the basement rumper room, has Shipwreck picked out the arcade machines that will be placed next to the candy dispensers? Or is he going to run a Multicade?

How dare you guys talk down to Fox News, the honest messengers!

 
I'm interested in the Vision code for Marvel Heroes!

On the topic of Witcher, I agree with Wombat in that when I play RPGs they kind of lose me when the character is set on not-my-own character. It is hard for me to invest all that time on a story that I feel like I don't have total influence over and I have to follow the general predetermined arc.  

Also, I think Shipwreck should definitely represent for the World Championship tournament!

 
Would love to get back into marvel heroes and that vision code would get me to it if you have any left. Love the show, you guys are always my most anticipated podcast every week!
 
Wombat, I live 5 min from Walt Disney World. I don't work for Disney, but both my roommates do, one in attractions and the other one is "friends" with Mickey Mouse. Every so often, they bring home paper fastpasses that guests turn in when they go into the attractions, and they don't expire until the end of the month and we have a whole bunch of them. When I saw on Twitter that you were here, I toyed with the idea of meeting up to give you these free FastPasses, but then I didn't want to be that creepy guy stalking your family at the park. Hope you had a great time though!

-Tobby
 
Despite having a premade character the Witcher games have always been about crafting a story that truly feels tailor made to your decisions -- far more than Skyrim for example. Witcher 2 even had an entire middle act that half of the player base probably never saw depending on a choice they made at the end of act 1. I met characters, learned details about the world, and visited an entirely different area when compared to a buddy's game. If that's not my own story then I don't know what is.

 
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I didnt think Wombat's mic was that bad.  I'll take tin-can audio over the 8-4 guys chewing into the mics anyday.

Also please enter me into the vision contest.  Got hooked back into the game and it'd be cool to play as him.

 
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Good show guys. I'll agree that the second Thor movies is one of the weakest from marvel lately. Age of Ultron was fun to watch but had a lot of issues for me. Be interesting to see the extended cut and alternate ending that is going to be on the dvd release.

Also put me in for a vision code, I've recently got back into marvel heroes and loving it.
 
WhipSmartBanky created the CAG avatars, I just used them as a reference to animate vector art sprites for my game

detectiveconan16 said:
Who designed the CAG Crew's avatars? You, Agent Moo?

Great episode as usual. I wonder if Shipwreck will have to upgrade his computer again now that Oculus Rift PC specs have been announced. I looked at the spreadsheet and wonder why he has a water cooler system and 800W PSU when his graphics card and processor doesn't need that much stuff around it. At least he has less stuff to buy for the Oculus upgrade.

One more thing regarding the basement rumper room, has Shipwreck picked out the arcade machines that will be placed next to the candy dispensers? Or is he going to run a Multicade?

How dare you guys talk down to Fox News, the honest messengers!
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Wombat should've changed this twitter name to CAGwombat or something.. every week.. "don't forget to follow Wombat at Wombat52- damn it NEW Wombat"

 
Has Wombat tried blowing into the USB ports on his computer like they're NES cartridges? I'm sure that would get his mic working in no time.

I'd love one of those Vision codes, BTW. I just got back into Marvel Heroes. It's really pretty cool. I hope we get a Console version some day. It could work just as well on PS4 as Diablo 3 does.

 
You know Wombat is tottaly the person who'd go on a vacation. I bet he was like "Well everyone let's go ahead and eat some salad with humus dip!  Derrrrrr"

 
This has nothing to do with anything, but: Wombat, I wear glasses too, and have since I was a child. Meaning I am pretty f'in blind without them. I don't wear contacts; never have. But I can still shave in the shower. Just gotta squint at the shower mirror is all. No excuse!

 
I would like a Vision code.

Ultron making jokes and acting like Red Reddington from Blacklist made the movie very odd. He was like a little kid, when he should be cold and menacing.

 
Vision code maybe?

Am I the only one who gets the impression that Wombat gets the short end of the stick? We hear Ship talk about building this awesome game center in his house and how Cheapy has a decent amount of freedom after getting his son off to school. Wombat has children crying in the back round and a mic that breaks. RNG has no love for the Wombat.

 
I want a Vision code, pleaaaase! :D

I'm surprised Wombat thought that they would end the Olicity relationship. Sure, it is really awful in the show, but there are so many fans of the relationship that it is insane. It's like the main pull for their target female audience (second only to Diggle).

 
I'm interested in one of those Vision codes. Been playing Marvel Heroes for a while and am really enjoying it.

 
harrymcback said:
Yo Cheapy! Hook me up with one of those Vision codes. Also, Wambat's audio sounds okay (better than many podcasts) so I'm thinking the local recording wasn't as bad as the Skype connection. He might try plugging the mic into the side of the macbook with 2 ports and not having another USB plugged into that side. I know this helped me when I had a mic issue years ago.
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I agree, the audio sounds fine to me. Like harrymcback said, it still sounds way better than many other podcasts.

 
Great cast as usual, despite Wombat's mic difficulties! Cheapy -Tori Spelling, really??

I'd love a Vision code!

 
A fantastic podcast. Although the show was heavy on movies and TV shows, hearing about Wombat’s vacation was entertaining. The only complaint would be Wombat’s mic problem.

I will be checking out Cheapy’s suggestion, Frontline’s Secret, Politics, and Torture.

 Peace.

 
encendido5 said:
I agree, the audio sounds fine to me. Like harrymcback said, it still sounds way better than many other podcasts.
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After listening some more, I think the more annoying audio is the whistling through someone's breathing. I'm not sure who it is, but now I can't stop hearing it.

 
I'd be stoked to have a vision code, as someone who's put a bunch of hours into it. 

Wombat's audio didn't bother me too much.  As for Avengers 2, I think that Avengers 1 is better on a first viewing of each, but 2 is better after the nostalgia/wow factor wears off.

 
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