I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 10
Why did cassette tapes skip in the first place though? Record players and CD players have very fine readers that can be
The IdRatherNotiVerse is a magical land where space travel is readily accessible to the middle class, shitting in a backpack is socially acceptable, and your decisions curse you forever.
I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 11
What I'm getting from that opening is that this was John's forum Avatar/Signature was at one point than this:
The follow ups to my Eurovision song:
Our Governor Looks Like Lord Voldemort (and yes, the Attack Ad thing was true)
We Have A Major Roadway Named After A Shitty President
The Orlando Magic Play In A Stadium Named After A Pyramid Scheme
YTMND was Vine before it was Vine, and EbaumsWorld was 9gag/Cheeseburger before those sites ripped of Something Awful and boards.4chan.org/b/
ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 165
-Star Fox Zero came out somewhat before recording, and so far the
response has been underwhelmed. It's sad because Nintendo has all these
cool space franchises like Star Fox, F-Zero, Metroid, that appeal to
older audiences, but rarely get used.
At the very least, we'll always have "A Fox In Space":
-Push Me Pull You:
-With a little luck, Codenames will be the "New Big Con Game" after
Cards Against Humanity and Werewolf, since it requires thought and
deincentivises asshole behavior. Then again, that's probably standing in
its way. I love word and vocabulary games, and Codenames is a great
game for expanding your knowledge base, since you need to come up with
words to describe your words, but avoid using a term to describe either
an opponents' word or the assassin.
There should be a 16-bit Arcanon that says "Hi! I'm Arcanon, and this is
my secret room! Don't tell anyone about it!" and then the rest of us
come out and say "UGH! THIS ROOM IS SO FUCKING PRETENTIOUS GRAHHHHH!!!!"
-The Different Priority Airline Clubs According To The Echo Chamber:
1. Priority Sky Business Platinum
2. Priority Priority Sky Business Gold Platinum Double Platinum
3. Mile High Club Dick Sucker Fucking Handjob Extraordinaire (Everyone gets their own handjob)
4. Star Platinum
ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 166
-We talk Overwatch ALOT, so instead of doing a full breakdown and
focus on my thoughts, I'll sum up all the characters in 5 words or less. GENJI- Cyborg Ninja MCCREE- Cyborg Cowboy PHARAH- Rocket jump all day, son. REAPER- When's Hatred? SOLDIER:76- Call Of Duty Grandpa TRACER- GOTTA GO FAST BASTION- Fuck you, robot HANZO- Japanese yelling? SHIT RUN! JUNKRAT- Vroom Vroom? SHIT RUN! MEI- Why can't I move? TORBJORN- Sentry goin' up WIDOWMAKER- Stupid Sexy Sniper D. VA- We've weaponized gamers REINHARDT- This gigantic robot shields ROADHOG- The Hook Man Hands Man WINSTON- Apes A-Zappin' ZARYA- I AM HEAVY WEAPONS GIRL ZENYATTA- Robo-Ghandi SYMETTRA- I don't like playing herbutIlovetheanimaionswhereshe'sjustmakingshapes LUCIO- Jet Grind Radio MERCY- HEROES NEVER DIE!
-FULL BOOBS TEAM:
Kevin Nealon in Little Nicky, aka Magmar
-Soda Drinker Pro Quick Look:
It knocked over a lamp and it broke all over the floor. I spent an hour cleaning it up.
THIS WEEK'S JAM:
Particularly "Obsidian".
I was listening to A Fox In Space's Dev Stream.and he's big on 80's music and instrumental scores. This was in the background and thought I was listening to FTL's soundtrack, but it was actually from John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" album, aka stuff he never really used in his movies. Whereas his themes for Halloween and the like were tense and creepy, these are scary on another level. Spacemen all alone on a station when they hear a door opening in the middle of the night. Bioweapons escaped in the underground facility. A quick breath before the alarm goes off. This is the sound of the calm before the storm completely cut off from the rest of the world.
OUTCON?
OUTCon (which I do not know how to capitalise/write) did well for a con in its first year catering to a demographic (South Florida's first LGBT+ con) outside "nerdy shit". Plenty of familiar faces were there as well!
Most of my time was spent jamming out at my table, so I missed some opportunities to play some games and see some panels, but I got to make plenty of new friends and fans.
No matter how many times I have a con at the MACC, I ALWAYS have trouble getting to it, mainly because my phone decided overheat and I made the wrong turn on my way there. My phone is haunted.
Before my show, however, I was also a part of VundaBlog's Podcast panel
where we talked about various shit and I expressed enthusiasm over a
documentary series about aircraft. I'll link you when it's online.
I did my two amp setup at my show, but a lot of the crowd in the back said it sounded good, so I'm not complaining. Played a couple regular songs, played a couple new ones, including "Think Geek Is Not Nerdcore" and played my Original Five Nights at Freddys song, both going over well. SoFloConBro Chris of his movie (now on IndieGoGo) "Cosplay and Me" was the star of the night, filming live footage for his movie. I had my trusty camcorder on me as well, and recorded some footage off that.
Sandwich luggage, yo.
NEXT CON IS...? FLORIDA FANDOMANIA!
June 17th-19th!
Hopefully I can get more updates on that.... soon...?
I wanted to cover this music video, but all the hype and my song took everything over.
This is the continuation to the story told in MysteryBen's previous music video for the Mystery Skulls, "Ghost". Mystery Skulls have some slick, sexy music, and it's a great counterpoint to see these music videos done in a fun, quirky style akin to the Scooby Doo cartoons. While the story is more straightforward that "Ghost", I don't like it as much. I love seeing more in this universe, but it explains what was a mystery in the old one.
Funny thing about my trip: the first plane experienced a delay because the heating system for the windshield was failing, so they needed to get us a new plane, because to replace it would take 9 HOURS. If there was a Wolfgang Puck Express in the airport, I would have lost my shit.
FRIDAY
After waiting on line for like a bajillion hours, we finally get into the Expo Hall and who do we see playing on the Rock Band 4 stage?
These jackasses:
From left to right: Jeff, Paolo, ComplicitOwl and kitlerc
Amplitude Tournament- This was the first thing I remember hitting up on Friday for PAXventures. Keep in mind, I have never played the PS4 version of the game yet and my skills from the 2003 version have withered significantly. Paolo came as well, and as luck would have it, we got paired up in the first round, and I beat him, but that's as far as I got.
MtG Tournament- PAX East had some free Magic events through out the weekend, one of which being a Modern Tournament, which both Jeff and the persistently late for school Anime Cow also played in. Went against both of them. Went 2-2, but proud, because my tokens deck held up.
Concerts- On Friday night, MC Frontalot and The Protomen played. Frontalot was on point as usual, and The Protomen's set was very special, in that they showed new songs from Act III and the "Light Up The Night" music video. Hopefully he Protomen can get some serious momentum behind them, since they put on a fantastic live show.
SATURDAY
Indie Games w/ Owen- That morning, me and Owen spent some time bumming around the Indie Mega Booth. A couple games of note we played were: 1. Manual Samuel- You control a rich asshole and are required to do everything, from walking, to blinking to breathing with controller prompts and need to survive the day. I can see this being like OctoDad, where speedrunners work to override the purposefully awkward controls to get through it as soon as possible.
2. Stage Presence- The first VR game from Tiny Build. Nothing special here, yell into a mic for 60 seconds. To its credit, the stage graphics are well done, and the full game seems rather ambitious, but eh, did nothing for me.
3. Move Or Die- The latest in bringing couch co-op, this party game is really simple, but can get really chaotic. The big problem I have with it though is that five games for a session feels too repetitive. Will still get it, but it feels like it's been out forever.
4. Screencheat- A FPS game where everybody's invisible, and you have to rely on looking at other people's screens ala what you did during Goldeneye 007 back in the day. There's a lot of little design elements that lean into this, where the levels are designed to have distinct landmarks and different colors in each "zone", and the weapons reveal your location. I'm definitely getting it, I just don't know what everyone is getting it for!
Shy Guy/Mega Ran- Bad news is, I missed the Live From The Magic Tavern Panel, Good News is, friend of the show and host of "I'd Rather Not" Andy is now in the Magic Tavern canon. Also, these were some really good shows.
Harmonix Party- Speaking of really good shows, Harmonix threw a party and Jeff was able to score me a ticket at great expense (he got a Reddit account). They had a party at the Hard Rock Cafe last year, but I missed getting a ticket. This year, I was able to get in to see The Warning, Princess Problems, The Autoblasters (HMX house band that made most of the music for Amplitude), Bearstronaut and Freezepop.
SUNDAY
Some dickweed was being an asshole to his girlfriend, Jeff stepped in and then got punched. He had to go to the hospital, and we were super worried about him.
Jeff, get well soon.
Other guy, you... suck.
PAXAMANIA - Owen helped with the latest shitshow, and like real wrestling, it took almost half an hour before a match took place. Partly due to technical difficulties, partly due to PAX Wrestling canon being so out of control. The first thousand people there got posters, which I had signed by some of the Giant Bomb people.
There will be a game that's a driving game/dating sim called "Rumble Road":
Rock Band Panel- Anything I could write about this is muted by the fact that A. this article has gone on so goddamn long I stopped caring and B. WE'RE GETTING ONLINE PLAY!!!
THOUGHTS?You have no idea how much PAX recharges me. While I do go to cons, I'm "on the clock" and worrying about my show and promoting my show, etc, but with PAX East, even with all the doing, I go to sleep each night with no regrets.
Once I recover, I'm ready to get back in the studio, get back in the podcast, and just get back to the grind.
CONVENTION NEWS?
Yes! My show at OutCON is at 3 PM! I've updated the sidebar in accordance with this news! Also, the first episode of A Fox In Space is out!
