Podcast Recaps for 1/29/2016- No Gods, Fox Only, Final Destination

No Slayers Of Decadence this week, but it is wrapping up, so this might go back to just Zone-Casts Stuff, but it IS worth it, as I write a goddamn essay on the G-Diffuser.

ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 153
SERIOUSLY, HE HASN'T LEFT SINCE WE RECORDED THE PODCAST. I KEEP THROWING HIM OUT, BUT HE KEEPS COMING BACK
 
-As per our intros, our Magic The Gathering Cards. When I'm less pressured to put this up early, then I'll do better ones, but for now, here goes:

SITE RECAP BONUS!!!!!

 I envisioned Jeff's deck to be about +1/+1 counters and 2-for-1s, but I think that might be a bit too OP.

In his card I reference both his music projects, Single White Infidel and The Sixth Shot.
His BONUS SPELL CARD is a reference to his song in Amplitude "Assault On Psychofortress"

Paolo's deck is about getting the Rock Band Instrument Artifacts out and winning the game. He plays Yu-Gi-Oh, and his strategy is akin to getting the four pieces of the Legendayr Yu-Gi-Oh monster Exodia onto the field, and his spell that gets rid of creatures and enchantments helps with that by keeping him alive just long enough to do that. His spell's flavor text is a reference to something he told me on Twitter about his usage of Palutena in Smash.

-OK, I got Peter Molyneux to leave my house, but only because I told him there's an even bigger cube he can tap called the sun. NASA will be properly funded in... soon...

-Final Fantasy is an expansive series that has defined the Role Playing Game Genre and has reinventied itself with every console generation.

INSERT REST OF ESSAY HERE
 

-Cracked used to be a rip-off of Mad Magazine, with humorous comics parodying pop culture:

To the thinking man's Buzzfe-

That phrase made me throw up in my mouth, so I'm going to stop there.

Seanbaby still writes for Cracked on occasion, but he only does about one article per year it seems. Since then it seems he's been working on a game called Calculords, which is getting a sequel soon.
Back in the day, Seanbaby was the absolute coolest video game guy ever. He had pink hair! He said cuss words! He talked shit about bad video games! HAHAHA! Then I graduated high school. I linked his website above which has some absolute gold, including tracking down someone featured in an issue of Nintendo Power. I e-mailed that address about a year after discovering the article and they claimed they were trolling Seanbaby.



One classic I remember the best, but aren't immediately available on the site is his article on Mega Man bosses, and the introduction of the Mega Man Robot Naming Comittee.

-Sigh... Reposting Mickey Mousecapades on Game Grumps:

-I was going to write a summary on the Kingdom Hearts Series, but fuck it, someone else can do it:

-Andrew Huang's "Hotline Bling":

This sounds a lot better than the original. Huang's singing is crisper, and the fact that every sound is made by hitting things gives it more energy than the very dour "holding music" of the original.


-The G-Diffuser is a piece of technology in the Star Fox and F-Zero universe that is supposed to remove the effects of gravity on the pilot and, according to the Arwingpedia, is also the power source for shields and propulsion.

More accurately, as I said in this episode "Some sci-fi engine sounding thing"

Allow me to nerd out, since there are two explanations for this technology: The first is the "kayfare" or "Thermain" explanation, which is that they create an artificial gravity field around the ship, that can provide an Earth-level environment so that the ship can move laterally quicker (such as performing a "barrel roll"), and so that the pilot is comfortable. This gravity field is then turned inward when the ship boosts and moves into hyperspeed.

The other explanation (which I am borrowing liberally from the Arwingpedia) is how it can exist in real life. This requires manipulation of Zero Point Energy. Zero Point Energy, is the ground state of a quantum mechanical physical system, From High School Physics, an electron in its ground state is when the electron is in the lowest possible orbit. When energy is added to the system, the elctron gains energy and is moved into a higher state, or a higher orbit.

Vaccuum Energy is the zero point energy of all the various electromagnetical fields in space, which leads us to believe that the vacuum of space is not empty, just at the ground state. If this is true, then that means that energy exists with space, and according to relativity, exerts a gravitational force, as would a mass (such as a planet).

With advances in ZPE, this energy can be manipulated to simulate the effects of the G-Diffuser.

SOURCES:
Arwingpedia: G Diffuser
Wikipedia: Zero Point Energy

-OK, now for more science:



So, the "Barrel Roll" in Star Fox 64 is actually an Aileron Roll, in which an aircraft does a full revolution along its axis (i.e. nose and tail are at the same height, the rest of the aircraft spins around).

A proper barrel roll is in a helix motion, where is looks like the plane is going around the outside of a barrel.

A rudder roll (aka The Pacman) is a tigheter version of the barrel roll where the rudder is used to slip into the the roll.


-Another hit from LazyPillow, that sums up this episode in a nutshell:

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Echo Chamber's Post Gaming In The 90's

ALL RIGHT, STOP, COLLABORATE AND DOWNLOAD EPISODE 90

-WeffRiddles.com is still up.

-Road Trippin' by Red Hot Chili Peppers:


-Abracadabrafornia:

This is scary in how accurate it is...

-MYSTAKIN STREAMS HERE YOU GO

But he's moving and streaming will be difficult?


-Deadpool Footage, because it's still painful a month later:


-SeaWorld's animal containment policies are a lot less strict than the zoo, since you can't exactly recreate the ocean. In places like The Bronx Zoo, where a lot of effort is put toward recreating their habitat as best as possible, whereas in an aquarium, it's just "here's a pool go nuts kids you have an extra hour in the ballpit"

-Here's the whale we were playing with...

-And some Nintendo 64 USB Controllers

THAT'S ME IN THE SPOT, LIGHT, DOWNLOADING EPISODE 91

-Welcome to X Plays Pokemon rip-off number #457452345.

-The whole thing with Twitch was summarized by Mystakin: These guys need a half-decent PR guy.

But the muting audio thing itself isn't bad, it's what it's leading to. Obviously Twitch wants to go legit so it can be bought out by someone larger, so they need the veneer of "We will totally respect all copyright, you guys!" There could be the abuse of "We don't want people knowing our game sucks" and watch a full LP of it, but then again YouTube has yet to go down that rabbit hole yet, and Twitch is more secure in that the experience is fleeting. The reduction of time in which you'll be allowed to keep highlight videos being smaller is them saying, "You can do this guys, but we're not YouTube 2.0"

It's not terrible, just inconvienient. For example, one streamer I love to fall asleep to, SGDoc, streams Magic The Gathering Online. He also plays a lot of classic rock on his Pandora Station, which he listens to while he plays (and why I love falling asleep to him). If he wanted to highlight a particularly interesting moment on his Twitch page, he wouldn't be able to, since the audio would be muted, and he couldn't explain what he just did.

The worst thing to happen to Twitch would be MLG or some other large entity steppijng and saying, "Hey, only we can stream XYZ game for official Championship purposes, because we don't want anyone else making money off our game for eSports purposes." So all the people streaming TF2, League Of Legends, DOTA, etc. would not be able to generate revenue. 

-The "Flappy Bird with The Room I got from a Cracked article by Winston Rowntree. Here's the chart below:


-Monkey Selfies was probably one of my favorite discussion we had on the podcast. Not only was interesting and on topic, but it led us to one of my favorite tangents, which I posted below:

I'd say "I'm Sorry", but sorry implies I did something wrong.

SMELLS LIKE EPISODE 92

a.k.a. The One All About Ferguson. It was an interesting discussion to say the least, Mystakin with an outsiders view, who is well versed in social justice and Arcanon having recently finished up a Citizen's class, meant to educate the public about how the city's cops operate and why/how they do what they do, with some dept. history thrown in.

There were times it felt a little uncomfortable, but primarily the three of us agreed on one thing:

DARREN WILSON (the officer who shot Mike Brown) FUCKED UP BIG TIME

Not only shouldn't he have shot someone unarmed, but the gun doesn't come out that fast. Even then, you don't shoot someone 6 times, because, you know, there's other people around. 

"Oh, be he commited a crime at some point in time before!"
Yeah, you get arrested for that, not murdered. Even then, in the case of Trayvon Martin, the shooter can't be Judge Dredd and immediately divine that he was suspended from school or whatever.

"But if you had a 300 pound, 6-4 urban feral black man coming toward you, you'd do the same thing!"
One, we don't know that yet, and two, I also wouldn't aggravate the large black man so shooting him wouldn't be an option.

As you'll hear in this week's upcoming podcast (#93), things did not calm down or get better, but there's been a lot of outreach within the community to continue schooling, provide shelter and help those in need.

Though the "Support Darren Wilson" on GoFundMe is fucking disgusting, and the only hope I have is that the person in charge will go "PSYCHE!" and contribute to the Michale Brown Memorial Fund.

There's one last thing on the matter I want to say, but I'll save it for the beginning of next week's podcast recap, since it does involve something else we spoke about at the beginning.