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Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: Lemon on March 13, 2014, 09:20:42 pm
with Boots Raingear, Bunnybread, Kumquatxop, and Lemon.

Content for this episode was compiled by Montrith

Edited by Boots Raingear.

When the internet shrunk our world, it became easier for everyone to compare their own lives against those of their peers and, invariably, feel meloncholy about what they've become and eat a bunch of ice cream. But there are those who rise above this sort of thing, and they are called gamers, or more accurrately, ---+==G4/\/\RZ==+-----. We're looking at True Achievements, a site that assigned each man a number, and then quickly went back to playing Halo again. This week, Mario Lopez steals your girl.
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: Lemon on March 13, 2014, 11:54:22 pm
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: montrith on March 14, 2014, 01:07:38 am
Hey everyone! This is the episode that Lemon kidnapped, so the doc pretty much looks like shit. Blame him, not me. We had many interesting conversations about cheevos and when I showed Lemon Bboy360 it was love at first sight. Excellent work on the puns in this one. "Not the cheevs!" was a stroke of genius.
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Post by: A Meat on March 14, 2014, 04:19:11 am
I wish Steam Achievements gave some sort of fictional points too. Mostly so that the Xbox fanboys can argue endlessly with PC fanboys about which platform's cheevos are worth more.

Also, Steam has some games with literally impossible achievements, and I'd like to see idiots breaking their heads trying to get all 1297 achievements on ToME.

I've just listened to the episode and I already want another fix of cheevos. Listening to people claiming that their time-waste points are like pheromones to the chicks is kind of amazing.
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Post by: Ansemaru on March 14, 2014, 05:26:45 am
This is looking like a portal to the year 2005, and it is fucking glorious. Let's preserve this bizarre, time-warped community in digital amber- future generations must know of this.
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Post by: STOG on March 14, 2014, 09:58:07 am
I wish Steam Achievements gave some sort of fictional points too. Mostly so that the Xbox fanboys can argue endlessly with PC fanboys about which platform's cheevos are worth more.
A Meat, March 14, 2014, 04:19:11 am

There is! It's called Steam Levels. You get XP and upgrade your Steam level by completing trading card sets! And you get emoticons as rewards!!!

Also you can sell the individual trading cards for eight cents a pop, perfect for building up towards some extremely small game purchase during one of the sales.

EDIT: There are also Foil cards, which are rare and sell for one to five dollars. I was able to wrangle six bucks out of some poor sucker on the market due to the card being extremely rare (read: I was the only seller). There is absolutely no benefit to Foil cards except they are really good at deflecting the negs from other Steam card enthusiasts at the gamer bar.
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: A Meat on March 14, 2014, 11:51:51 am
I wish Steam Achievements gave some sort of fictional points too. Mostly so that the Xbox fanboys can argue endlessly with PC fanboys about which platform's cheevos are worth more.
A Meat, March 14, 2014, 04:19:11 am

There is! It's called Steam Levels. You get XP and upgrade your Steam level by completing trading card sets! And you get emoticons as rewards!!!

Also you can sell the individual trading cards for eight cents a pop, perfect for building up towards some extremely small game purchase during one of the sales.

EDIT: There are also Foil cards, which are rare and sell for one to five dollars. I was able to wrangle six bucks out of some poor sucker on the market due to the card being extremely rare (read: I was the only seller). There is absolutely no benefit to Foil cards except they are really good at deflecting the negs from other Steam card enthusiasts at the gamer bar.
STOG, March 14, 2014, 09:58:07 am

How did I forget? I've gotten like four bucks from this dumb thing already. Who would even want a Rome: Total War emoticon anyways? I wish I got a foil card, I like getting money for doing nothing.

Edit: Are there actually any cool emoticons/badges?
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Post by: STOG on March 14, 2014, 01:03:19 pm
Edit: Are there actually any cool emoticons/badges?
A Meat, March 14, 2014, 11:51:51 am

Emoticons are never cool. Except for the animated cat on the keyboard I can make in Skype, but other than that they are not worth it.

I don't think there are any cool badges, but the developers and Valve do get an extra cent or two every time an item is bought/sold from the market. I have no hard and fast rules for badges other than I get ones for games I like with the eighty cents I've made from selling the cards I don't want. Then I use the fifty cents or so I have remaining to buy 1/4th of a shot of gamer whiskey.
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Post by: Fanzay on March 14, 2014, 01:54:21 pm
Then how come this is a thing, STOG? (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cool+emoticons)
[stab]
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Post by: Spacebat on March 14, 2014, 04:25:49 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/96iGcxZ.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/AA215EI.png)
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Post by: Runic on March 14, 2014, 05:08:19 pm
Okay, so there is one cool emote.

EDIT: I checked, and the price of that emote on the Steam Workshop is about twice of the price of the actual game that it comes from. Capitalism!
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Post by: Runic on March 14, 2014, 06:04:35 pm
Listening to this now. Bunnybread was an absolutely perfect choice for this episode.
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Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on March 14, 2014, 06:22:56 pm
I like how the cheevos movie is very adamant about one thing: The girl WILL go after the guy who accomplishes the silliest nerd thing. She's attracted to gamerscore, and the plucky young hero's best shot is to MAKE UP FOR THE GAMERSCORE... through breakdance.

This is how women act, you guys.

Also I want to point out that I know folks who are the absolute best at video games* and I have never heard the term "cheevos" before this episode. What in the fresh hell???

* Other than you, Bunnybread.
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Post by: KingKalamari on March 14, 2014, 08:21:16 pm
It's funny because recently I've been thinking about soloing Borderlands 2 on Ultimate Vault Hunter mode so I've been doing some farming for Legendaries. To help myself I decided to check the Gearbox Forums for advice on how best to farm and was awestruck by the posts I saw of people talking about farming this game for items for eight hours a day. I was just like "Who the fuck does that?"

...Now I know
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Post by: Runic on March 14, 2014, 08:25:43 pm
Also, is there any particular reason why this episode and the one before it did not have a front bumper?
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Post by: Isfahan on March 14, 2014, 08:36:39 pm
New format. We're opening up the bumpers to the room rather than the host/co-host format.
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Post by: Cyberventurer on March 14, 2014, 11:48:49 pm
"Not the cheevs!" was a stroke of genius.
montrith, March 14, 2014, 01:07:38 am
PWNING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMNED TROPHY
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Post by: Lemon on March 15, 2014, 12:32:17 am
PWNING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMNED TROPHY
Cyberventurer, March 14, 2014, 11:48:49 pm
Stog, please give my bulb to Cyberventurer when you're done with it.
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: One Of The Crappy Pokemon That Nobody Likes on March 15, 2014, 12:35:45 am
PWNING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMNED TROPHY
Cyberventurer, March 14, 2014, 11:48:49 pm
Stog, please give my bulb to Cyberventurer when you're done with it.
Lemon, March 15, 2014, 12:32:17 am

Got you covered, bro.
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Post by: Adam Bozarth on March 15, 2014, 01:28:08 am
BBoy360 listing his YouTube view count, Gamerscore, and HotOrNot number is exactly what I think of when people use the word "Gameification."
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Post by: 🍆 on March 15, 2014, 12:10:03 pm
Because of soccer  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.D._Guadalajara)I know that chivas means "goat" in Spanish...  that's what my mind fills in when I hear "cheevos".

I like how BBoy has a forum on his website. I especially like how there are other people trash talking him (http://bboy360.com/messages/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=113) on it.
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 15, 2014, 12:41:25 pm
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd totally fuck both guys if they competed for my attention by getting out out their systems and declaring "first one to x points wins the girl".

And by fuck I mean I'd take their wallets, tie their shoelaces together, and slip out the back while they were distracted by video games.
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Post by: Isfahan on March 15, 2014, 02:18:41 pm
Well really it's no different than two dudes actually, physically fighting over a girl.

Woman Law states that, if two men are in direct and overt competition over you, whether that entails gamerscore dick-measuring or actual blows exchanged, you are obligated to engage in sexual intercourse with the winner. Men know this, which is why it happens.
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Post by: Spacebat on March 15, 2014, 03:09:47 pm
What if the two men are fighting over a girl who's actually a man pretending to be a girl for free shit?

Do they have to have sex with the man?

What if the girl is actually a dog?
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Post by: KingKalamari on March 15, 2014, 03:22:34 pm
What if the two men are fighting over a girl who's actually a man pretending to be a girl for free shit?

Do they have to have sex with the man?

What if the girl is actually a dog?
Spacebat, March 15, 2014, 03:09:47 pm

It all comes down to the Cheevos. The party with the lowest Gamer Score is required to have sex with the party with the higher gamer score regardless of gender, sex or species.
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Post by: cyclopeantrash on March 15, 2014, 03:31:41 pm
How would one handle an encounter of a person with no Cheevos? Or a person who didn't know what Cheevos were?
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Post by: A Meat on March 15, 2014, 03:39:22 pm
How would one handle an encounter of a person with no Cheevos? Or a person who didn't know what Cheevos were?
MicroMissles, March 15, 2014, 03:31:41 pm

Fuck 'em.

By the way, Lemon, can you change the score under each person's post count to say cheevos instead of score?
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Post by: Goose Goose Honk At Me Now on March 15, 2014, 03:42:14 pm
What if the two men are fighting over a girl who's actually a man pretending to be a girl for free shit?
Spacebat, March 15, 2014, 03:09:47 pm

I smell a red hot Kindle single here.
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Post by: STOG on March 15, 2014, 07:39:22 pm
What if the two men are fighting over a girl who's actually a man pretending to be a girl for free shit?
Spacebat, March 15, 2014, 03:09:47 pm

I smell a red hot Kindle single here.
CuddlePLEASE MAKE IT STOP SNOWING, March 15, 2014, 03:42:14 pm

The World of Warcraft Diaries.
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: Bobalay on March 15, 2014, 09:40:09 pm
Lady Cheeverley's Lover.
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: STOG on March 16, 2014, 04:14:14 am
Lady Cheeverley's Lover.
Bobalay, March 15, 2014, 09:40:09 pm

How are you all so better at this than I am?
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Post by: Neal on March 16, 2014, 10:01:25 am
Lady Cheeverley's Lover.
Bobalay, March 15, 2014, 09:40:09 pm

How are you all so better at this than I am?
STOG, March 16, 2014, 04:14:14 am

They're overacheevers.
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Post by: Boots Raingear on March 16, 2014, 11:20:56 am
They're overacheevers.
Neal, March 16, 2014, 10:01:25 am
THAT'S NOT HOW PUNS WORK
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Post by: Neal on March 16, 2014, 01:54:42 pm
They're overacheevers.
Neal, March 16, 2014, 10:01:25 am
THAT'S NOT HOW PUNS WORK
Boots Raingear, March 16, 2014, 11:20:56 am

Sometimes anger's better than a laugh.
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Post by: A Meat on March 18, 2014, 04:33:15 am
Boots, the joke you were actually looking for is Juegos Rancheevos
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Post by: Bunnybread on March 25, 2014, 04:18:40 pm
There is! It's called Steam Levels. You get XP and upgrade your Steam level by completing trading card sets! And you get emoticons as rewards!!!

Also you can sell the individual trading cards for eight cents a pop, perfect for building up towards some extremely small game purchase during one of the sales.

EDIT: There are also Foil cards, which are rare and sell for one to five dollars. I was able to wrangle six bucks out of some poor sucker on the market due to the card being extremely rare (read: I was the only seller). There is absolutely no benefit to Foil cards except they are really good at deflecting the negs from other Steam card enthusiasts at the gamer bar.
STOG, March 14, 2014, 09:58:07 am

That's a lot of words to just say Steevos, Stoggy. 
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Post by: Lemon on February 03, 2015, 11:20:26 am
By the way, Lemon, can you change the score under each person's post count to say cheevos instead of score?
A Meat, March 15, 2014, 03:39:22 pm

I didn't see this until now. God yes.

Also hi BBoy360.
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Post by: Mistress Eva on March 29, 2015, 02:02:05 pm

BBoy360 is doing an awards show for other lifeless idiots with high Cheevos scores. As the world's biggest douche (just watch the video), he is handing out monetary rewards in - you guessed it -- BITCOIN!!!! $10 worth of bitcoin!!
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Post by: Old_Zircon on April 11, 2015, 06:30:14 pm
Lately I've been listening to F Pus episodes while I work on the instruments I've been building in my free time, and I just listened to this one this afternoon.  I'm still not convinced BBoy360 isn't an elaborate troll/parody but I don't care one way or the other.
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Post by: Nikaer Drekin on November 09, 2016, 09:43:29 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/9dBTj4i.jpg)
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Post by: Yavuz on February 18, 2017, 02:56:00 pm
This is a character in episode 8 of season 3 of The Strain, a series that I have never seen and know very little about (it involves gross vampires, I think):

(http://i.imgur.com/1MrkvuDl.png)
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Post by: Achilles' Heelies on November 14, 2017, 11:37:56 pm
Bboy360 just liked my tweet about him. Maybe I can be in Cheevos the Movie.
(https://i.imgur.com/C4He4EG.png)
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Post by: Lumbermouth on January 09, 2019, 08:31:40 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/g0U45mp.png)

Damn, I could have made $30. (https://www.freelancer.pk/contest/Add-Muscles-Lightning-Fire-and-Awsomeness-to-a-photo-of-Me-22670.html)
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Post by: SHAMBA~1.SBB on January 09, 2019, 09:29:23 pm
I have to say that there's a disappointing dearth of fire in his final pick.
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Post by: Sherman Tank on February 13, 2019, 02:51:35 am
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Post by: ikaribattousai on February 13, 2019, 07:28:14 pm
SHERMAN TANKS!!!, February 13, 2019, 02:51:35 am

I am almost 100% sure he cut this video where the run time was exactly 4:20.
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Post by: dickthedick on September 27, 2020, 05:28:55 am
https://twitter.com/danthat/status/1309858585212604416?s=19
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Post by: KingKalamari on December 10, 2020, 01:53:23 pm
So apparently the marketing department for AMPM are fans of the podcast, because I'm pretty sure the store's current mascot is just bunnybread's "Huge Stoner" adlib given flesh...

(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/an-awesome-and-random/images/9/93/Toomgis.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20190516173550)
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Post by: Shell Game on January 19, 2021, 09:35:45 am
the store's current mascot is just bunnybread's "Huge Stoner" adlib given flesh...
KingKalamari, December 10, 2020, 01:53:23 pm
Wh... What did he do with the flesh he was given? O_O
Title: Episode 130: Achievement Unlocked: Downloaded Podcast (40G)
Post by: EYE OF ZA on April 08, 2021, 12:54:17 pm
I learned that there's an API and community (https://retroachievements.org/) for creating and implementing achievements in games too old to have any.

Why am I posting it here? Well, on Github one of its components is named rcheevos (https://github.com/RetroAchievements/rcheevos). Also I learned about it thanks to these changelog notes:
(https://i.imgur.com/WjN3oNo.png)