-Betting on CS:GO/Controversy As Summed Up By Jim Sterling:
-Dan Ryckert is "for the love of God he's trying" in human form. It
seems that every week on the Bombcast he says something that makes me
blurt out "Wait, how did you NOT know that?" But, as he reassures us
week to week, he is trying new things and undoing old bad habits.
Except the whole "I expect a palette of diet soda to be shipped to my house every month" I think during Giant Bomb's 2015 End Of The Year Podcast he was compared to Papyrus from Undertale.
-We've shittalked Livin' Da Dream enough on this podcast. I feel bad
about it, but I also hope that NBA 2K17 has a similar stupid campaign
mode story.
-For comparison, here's the beginning of "Up":
-Sakaguchi's Mega64 Video:
-Gnarls Barkley's Music Video for "Run":
-Barney in Robot Chicken:
I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 19
-Andy is a married man with a child, so of course his friends list is zero. HAHAHA OWNED says the man who 95% of his social circle is from Magic The Gathering and Conventions and never goes out.
-In theory, aren't all magnets anti-magnets? Because I learned in Basic Fucking Science that magnets have these things called "poles" and similar poles repel each other.
-Soylent is the latest new trend for Tech Bros who don't want to bother with shit like "Reasonable Work-Life Balance", "Cooking", and "Nutritional Supplements Made By People Who Know What They're Doing" named after a movie where all food stuffs are made out of human beings.
-The Turing Test is a
test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being
should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by
using the replies to questions put to both, developed by computer scientist Alan Turing. The Reverse Turing Test is a computer convincing you that you are a computer, as shown in XKCD:
The Douglass Test is a burger that convinces you to eat yourself because the I'd Rather Not Gods hate your stupid ass named after Podcast Emperor Owen Douglass.
Because this is what I was thinking when they mentioned "Shout 2000:
-Truth be told, I like playing Reaper because he plays the same way I
play League of Legends: go in, do some damage, then run away like a
little girl. With his Wraith mode and teleportation, he's essentially
the Spy from Team Fortress 2, who I used a lot to get behind enemy lines
and key targets. But then I hear him talk...
Demoman? Is that you?
-REAPER'S PLAYLIST:
"Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
"Bodies" by Drowning Pool
"Down With The Sickness" by Disturbed
"I Am Hated" by Slipknot
"Crawling" by Linkin Park
Overwatch lore is very in depth for something you're pretty much
thrown in the middle of having no impact within the gameplay. TF2 was
also like that, but it had the core game first, then all the lore came
much afterward. Characters like Saxton Hale and Merasmus weren't planned
when TF2 first released, all it had were it's 9 classes, all it will
have will be its 9 classes.
However, since Overwatch is a game that plans to expand it's
character roster over time, it wants to make sure players stay invested
in the characters themselves, so naturally they make all this other
stuff up to make this new guy sound like the coolest ever.
TF2 needed investment in it's gameplay, Overwatch needed investment in its characters.
-History Of Japan because WE KNOW YALL LOVE THAT SHIT:
-HiImDaisy Comic Dub of Persona 4:
I use the phrase "I got a body by doing situps" in every conversation.
-Sequelitis Mega Man:
-Andrew Crashes E3:
-Mr. Bones Wild Ride sounds like a treat and a nightmare:
-I just downloaded RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe off Steam and I spent 2
hours on it. I can confirm that the UI doesn't scale, but not in the
way they stated. I had this weird thing where the icons were cut off on
the top.
-While "Social Eating" is probably part of some Korean thing called
"muk-bang", you KNOW it's going to be used for some fetish shit.
-Stakin's Law: Everyone on Twitch will mention their dick. Always.
The Wild Thornberry's Movie I was thinking about "Gift Of The Gab".
The Twitter polls I find tend to be closer, because they don't hear discussions and come to the same conclusions we do. So this week's Twitter Poll ignores the fact that I SHIFTED IT INTO HIGH GEAR.
FUN FACT: "Girlfriend" by Kabbage Boy was going to be a song included in the PC release Rock Band 4, which is probably the greatest tragedy of that not Fig not succeeding.
The word "Gypsy" is thrown around a lot in this episode, my bad.
The premise John, I'm sorry, "American Ass John" is describing sounds like this really bleh show "Kappa Mikey":
That sounds a lot like Rolling Stones' "Hey You"
Crank 2 Kaiju Scene:
Until next time: MONSTERS ARE REAL! DANGER CAN HAPPEN!
I seriously need to catch up on these... I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 15
I'd really like to know what program Ben used. HE HAD A CONTINGENCY PLAN IS ANDY CHOSE THE OTHER OPTIONS.
Bleach is still deadly, because sodium hypocholrite is an oxidizing agent, which is why it's used for cleaning. Conspumption reulst in the burning of your body's tissues and even inhalation can cause stinging eyes and a sore throat.
Sodium hypocholrite has a chemical reaction to the air, so this will go down over time, and even adding a minute amount to water can make contiminated water slightly potable. Still, don't fucking chug bleach. Or watch bleach for that matter.
I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 16
We've been really good about flipping the script on the show between Alex's question this episode and the hotline thing last episode.
Also, interesting thing about Alex's question is that normally we'd take two already bad options and make them worse, Alex took two good options and make them better. In that,
Like, I REALLY hate moving. Stairs are my mortal enemy, not because I hate climbing them, but because I have to carry a couch up them.
This is actually a video of Andy, since he wants all the PS4s. This guy has a beard, so there's really no different:
Also, New York is really screwy with cities. My old neighborhood of Bay Terrace was technically lumped in with Bayside, which in turn was part of Flushing.
Around the world cruises cost around $40K year, which is slightly below the Median Income in the U.S. of $50K.HOW DECADENT DO YOU WANT TO LIVE?
I've been on cruises for a week and I've gone insane. No internet, no proper gym, schmaltz everywhere, I'd go nuts.
Let's go day by day, 'cause I had another big weekend: AT SOME NEBULOUS POINT BEFORE THE WEEKEND: My cover of "The Hero (One Punch Man)" is on YouTube!
FRIDAY:
I went 4-0 at Friday Night Magic because I was sitting to the left of a kid who passed me a Reality Smasher, a Kailtas Traitor of Ghet, Thought-Knot Seer and Ob Nixilis, Reignited, A MOTHER FUCKING PLANESWALKER.
As of right now, that was $40-ish in cards, not including the packs I won, which so far have contained nothing special, but then again there are still 5 packs out of my original 10, I've yet to open SO WHO KNOWS!?!?!?
SATURDAY:
The sound system was probably the best HHC had, but the guy that went on before I did ran a little long, and since there was a little scheduling tweakage, my set went on shorter than planned. I was thrown off, but I still played well. Though appropriately, my set ended on "Hunting Bigger Game" where I throw Magic cards into the audience, so it was still a good song to end on.
After me were chipcore metal band All Hail The Mustache from Hollywood, FL who brought shit down and made it moshier than I ever could have.They're a 4-piece metal band that are backed by a chiptune-ist, the latter I couldn't see. I'll assume a Game Boy is haunting one of their amps. They opened up with a cover of the Airship song from Super Mario 3, a classic that doesn't get enough love.
After them were 8 Bit Wave, an orchestra that covered video game music, doing Super Mario Medleys, Mega Men Medleys, a funky version of Chemical Plant from Sonic 2 and a Smash Bros Medley. However the real capper was the Undertale medley they did for an encore, and their Hopes and Dreams/Save the World gave me the feels all over again.
Hero Hype Con and Omni Expo are the two cons I've been a part of
since I've moved down here. While Omni Expo was always well backed, Hero
Hype Con was done by some people who were like "hey guys u wanna start a
con".
Last year was not a good year for the con, and
GeekFest (more on that later) was the same weekend, but all things
considered, it was a good turnout. It's been scaled back from the past
couple years to one day, but the focus on one day helped a lot.
SUNDAY:
The mother of all cheat days, EASTER. But fuck that, I went to GeekFest!
I got there kinda late, and didn't stay too long, and it was Easter, but the place was bumping regardless. It was a packed vendors room, with plenty of artists to steal business cards from. I also brokered a couple deals, and played some Star Realms, which is always a huge bonus. Again, my big regret is that I couldn't stay longer, since them and Ultracon know what they're doing.
Either way I have a billion business cards to sort through, so see you all later!
I've been having Mega64's Twitch Stream on in the BG while I work and I caught this on the stream one day. There's a lot of older stuff they show sometimes that either I forgot about or never made it to the website proper.
This song was in the original Rock Band with a special mix where the lead synth was also matched with some kickin' rad guitars, and while that version's good (and clearly better), I loves me some Mega64. For the record this is the video they were referencing.
NEW SONG!
THE HERO (One Puunch Man Theme) Cover
Originally I wanted to do a cover so I had a sample project to work on when I was learning how to do mixing/mastering, but then I loved the song so much I decided to make a proper version. Still need to finish the rest of the episodes, but for all intents and purposes, GO WATCH ONE PUNCH MAN!
There might be another thing coming this week, but HHC practice comes first. I will be streaming that at least once this week.
HERO HYPE CON!
This weekend! I don't know if I'll have a table, but I will put on one hell of a show. Still want to check out some of the other cons though.
I'm also on the verge of confirming a show elsewhere and working on new material, so plenty more to come!
NEW MENTION?
Not quite.... It's from over a ,onth ago, but I got mention on The Cli3nt's show GeekOut! for my release of "Think Geek Is Not Nerdcore"!
Now I've got two weeks to catch up on, thankfully not a lot of ground to retread:
GODS AND MONSTERS: SLAYERS OF DECADENCE EPISODE 9
Another episode where we're out of our comfort zones with Ray playing a aggro goat demigod Landris to his trickster water god Zun Quib Slay, and me playing Explorer for the Future Fillion to my smashy-smashy War God Kindunos.
While it's not quite the finale, we did set up a REALLY good final chapter, and some groundwork is laid for Fillion to a perfectly politicking asshole.
-"I Should Have Killed You When I Had The Chance" Supercut
-"You Just Don't Get It Do You?" Supercut
-OK GO "Upside Down Inside Out
I'm fucking glad OK Go is doing these music videos. Back in the early
days of MTV, the first people to make videos were art students and
people who wanted to make weird shit, and they were the one of the first
ones on YouTube to go "FUCK YEAH! EAT OUR CONCEPTS, NEEERRRRRRDS!"
-Rock Band 2 Update brought us A LOT of good music, like "Ace Of
Spades" (the '08 rerecord where he says "But no one wants to live for
ever/but apparently I am), "Alex Chilton", "Alive", "Bad Reputation",
"Chop Suey", "Come Out And Play", "Down With The Sickness",
"Everlong"... that's only up to E. Rock Band 2's soundtrack was probably
my favorite out of the lot.
It was right at that confluence of "We haven't completely mined
everything yet" and "We have a shitton of money and promotion behind
us".
However, I think it's the soundtrack I got sick of the soonest. Like
GH3, it was the peak of it's popularity, the setlist was the most played
and there were setups EVERYWHERE. Especially "Livin' on a Prayer" and
"Anyway You Want It", two of the biggest singalong songs ever. I think
the only thing RB4 is missing now is Lego Rock Band and AC/DC, the
former I regret getting on.
-Mystakin Of The Axe v. 3 with the CORRECT flavor text
-The notion of a "Console Wars" I believe has subsided in the past
few years, primarily because everything has gotten so expensive, all the
games come out for pretty much everything. In response to that, the PC
Master Race comes out of the ashes, and the focus shifts between not who
has the better platform, but who plays their games in the best way.
The term comes from an old Zero Punctuation Review of The Witcher
(the first one), where Yahtzee states that the nature of the game's
PC-Only Nature meant it had to be very difficult and complicated.
What started as an ironic joke turned into a symbol of pride. "Look
at these snobbish assholes" became "LOOK, WE'RE SNOBBISH ASSHOLES!".
It's like if rich people introduced themselves with "As A Fat Cat
1%er..."
Also PCs are more expensive than consoles. Whereas the CONSOLE WAR
mentality was usually because you could only buy the one, PC mentality
is like "I spent more on this, why isn't this the best? I need 60 FPS!"
-Pokemon's Super Bowl Commercial
I was in the right age to get absolutely overwhelmed by the Pokemon
Machine as a kid, and this ad is peak "Sure, whatever kid, had a big ol'
adventure for yourself!" and presents a world where people can have
Pikachus for pets.
Now I want The Miz to play Giovanni in a live action Pokemon thing.
-The name of Demetri Martin's show was "Important Things With Demetri Martin". It
was all right, considering how often Comedy Central gives standup comics
a sketch show for a couple years then cancels it.
-Mystakin is one of the Authors under the Rhythm Authors banner, who Harmonix has been outsourcing some authoring work to.
Not necessarily a surprise, since Harmonix is independent studio and
has a fraction of the manpower they used to have, so reaching out to
experienced Rock Band Authors is a completely acceptable course of
action.
Rhythm Authors did a lot of songs for the Rock Band Network for some
very popular metal bands, such as A Day To Remember, Between The Buried
and Me and Five Finger Death Punch.
-Mystakin covers Single White Infidel:
-Mystakin covers Rhythm Bastard:
-Mystakin covers Arcanon:
4chan would paradoxically be NICER than most other places? Like,
they'd probably call us "gay faggots with shitty butt music" and it
feels so generic that I couldn't be offended. It's still offensive, but
it loops back around to being inoffensive since that's what they say to
everybody.
-Christian McBride: Cherokee, because I have to feature the improvised jazz solo at least once:
I find this odd, since technically this album came out in 2013... DUN DUN OPEN NOTES
The
hard separation between fast and slow is jarring, but I take it this
won the Grammy because the Pianist, Christian Sands is able to keep up
regardless. Like, the rest of the band is like "Hey, let's see if we can
fuck him up" and Christian Sands is like "Ha ha you wish motherfucker."
Or
possibly because the way Christian McBride plays bass is like a normal
guitarist busting out a solo. If this were an octave higher it would fit
right into a metal song. That guy's fingers must be swole as fuck.
What I'm saying is that it's a good song. Not one I'd have on my MP3
while I'm pumping iron in the gym, but one I enjoyed listening to
writing this recap.
-Nuclear Throne is the best class of
roguelike, because the "run" is as simple as pulling the lever on a slot
machine. Same with FTL, where a run doesn't require a major time
commitment, and if you lose, you're only out an hour at most.
-"Tacos are a renewable experience"- Rhythm Bastard
-Pro level strats with Jeff Gertsmann
-Mega64's Deadpool Movie Sketch
-So, in Magic the Gathering, there are 5 colors, each with it's own
strengths and weaknesses. I'll summarize as quickly as possible: WHITE- Usually white spells are about keeping you and your creatures alive for as long as possible. BLUE-
Usually blue spells are about playing the game on your own terms, doing
things such as making creatures weaker, or countering your opponent's
spells. BLACK- Black spells involve death of some sort, usually
either killing creatures, or interacting with your discard pile (aka
"Graveyard") RED- Red spells are about speed and direct damage, like
"Deal X damage to target creature or player" and creatures that can
attack very early on in the game. GREEN- Green spells are about big
creatures and lands, so you can make lands big creatures or get more
lands to get to your big creatures sooner.
Around the mid-2000s, Magic made characters called "Planeswalkers" that act as an embodiment of each color.
Jace,
who Jeff talked about is the blue mage, and he's the most popular
probably because A. He looks the most like what we think of a "Wizard"
and B. He's moody and brooding and all the anti-hero types in what is
basically a scrawny scene kid: Every bit of lore he's involved in goes as such: Someone tricks him, then he gets tortured, then he Protagonists his way to victory.
Garruk was the Green Planeswalker for a while, until the Innstrad block when he'd been cursed with a magic artifact. Origianlly he was going to use his magic to be a farmer, then local army wanted him, but him and his Dad were all like, "Nah, fuck that noise" and the Army killed his Dad. He then spent the next 10 years suplexing progressively larger beasts, then eating them.
Chandra is the Red Planeswalker. Guess what her magic preference is?
I agree with Jeff that her "Origin Story" is the best. She was raised on Steampunk India (Kaladesh) where her parents were Engineers but she was like "I'm gonna be King Of The Outlaws!" which is a coincidence because her parents were also working for a rebel alliance because the government was basically Reaganomics and was like "THE AETHER WILL TRICKLE DOWN!".
So when she was delivering some Aether the royal guard caught her, but she fought them off with her newly discovered fire magic. Her parents were like "That was cool and all, and we love you baby, but we need to GTFO".
They fled to a village, then the Royal Guard caught up with them and was like "Gorbachev, burn down this village. Chandra was to be excecuted in an arena, where at the last second she planeswalked away.
-Some highlights from the Sonic The Hedgehog Twitter:
As my 700th post on this blog, I would like to say a big and hearty "THANK YOU!" to everyone who's been with me so far. Since this blog began in 2008, I've released two albums, lived in a different state, graduate college, played a shitton of conventions and made some new friends along the way.
What better way to celebrate this than a podcast I was interviewed for?
This was fun! It really helped that me and Chad both loved the hell out of MtG and Fallout. Keep in mind this was recorded late in December, so this was back when only 75% of the population saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
-Now, normally this is where I'd put my card, but Jeff beat me to a
card based off me. AND I'M ME! Here's the two for comparison: JEFF'S VERSION
MY VERSION:
Eh, formatting!
My rare spell:
I didn't want to lean too hard into the FIGHTBROS thing, so I just made a card in green's wheelhouse.
And to complete the cycle, our brave leader:
And his rare spell:
And, here's a tribute to Paolo's Shoutout, AKA Guardians of Meletis:
-Rock Band 4 new songs: They released 90% of the bands they announced THE FIRST WEEK
Lots of good tracks here. If the Mad Catz news spells out bad news for Rock Band, they certainly are going out on a high note.
-ALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHTALRIGHT
FUN FACT: This wasn't released online because it was part of an
episode of their Musical Episode from Version 3, "Mega64!". That episode
also featured their PaRappa skit, and their Elite Beat Agents skit,
some of their best work.
-"Overkill" from Scrubs, because the acoustic version is so great:
-I can listen to me and Jeff say "CHICKEN FRIED" in our fake-AVGN voices for hours and hours.
-Also Audioslave's "Killing In The Name" feat. Bill Cosby
-Real names I made up for this podcast: Steve Programmerson Rick Janitorson Robert Vaperson Jerimah Smokesworth
-Nothing
against hoverboards/vaping, but that kind of stuff is very prominent in
brogrammer culture, which, like Hipsters and Emos, is one of the much
maligned subcultures that, five years down the line stopped getting
hate. Like, who gets upset at music/kids being emo? Instead we punish
people for having feelings by calling them an SJW. Hipsters? Pssh...
They invested their trust funds and are now doing stuff that older white
people do, like gentrification, only this time, they do it on purpose.
Brogrammers will be broke in 5 years, or like their hipster bretheren, will reinvest and start doing Evil White Person Shit.
-YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS comes from the Doom Comic:
It's OK that he talks like a dumbass, that's the bezerker drug talking.
-Now would be a good time to plug my friend DJ Roborob's remix of Mirror's Edge's "Still Alive'
Holy shit Ctrl+Alt+Del: The Animated Series is bad. RETSUSTREAM!!!
Anyway this week's jam is a Christmassy Jam:
The entire point of it is for use in Mega64's "Aggressive Caroling" series:
I'm not joking, I want to do this at Holiday Matsuri.
HOLDIAY MATSURI? Yes, Holiday Matsuri. The biggest Florida party con that comes by the Holidays!
It's kinda late, at 10:30 PM, but it's on Saturday, so it'll be a good starting point to your evening's debauchery.
I've never been, but it's up there with MegaCon and the Supercons as the big ones to visit in FL from what I hear.
So, I'm making it a big awesome show, playing lots of songs, giving out lots of presents and digging up some songs I haven't played in a while! You even score physical copies of Status Quo Radio!
While I've gotten older, Christmas has become less special
since I know more about what goes on behind the scenes, but I love the
leadups to Christmas: Those last minutes before work or school let out,
the week or two before when all the decorations are put up, driving down
the main drag with a chill in the air, seeing stores lit up... This is
part of that experience, because I've got a recital with my vocal coach that Thursday, work stuff on Friday, and this on Saturday.
WAIT, WHAT WAS THAT THING YOU SAID? About what?
STATUS QUO RADIO! The listening party? Yeah, I-
NO, NOT THAT- WAIT LISTENING PARTY? Yeah, but that'll be after I get the physical copies of Status Quo Radio in. Which, I just found out shipped! I ordered a lot, so you don't have to worry about them selling out, and this was so easy, I'm probably going to do a run for Dino Hunter MD: The Sound Track, but one step at a time.
GAME SHIT
Guitar Hero Live is still taking up a lot of my time, but I've been streaming Borderlands 2, which you can catch here.
PLUGGING PEEPS!
Two albums are coming out soon and both had listening parties: "Fragmentation" by Professor ShyGuy
A Chip-Pop-Opera filled with sensational singing and boisterous bleeps and bloops!
-":Listen, Johnson, we need a device meant to calm down hypersensitive people, you know, for those suffering from autism, whatcha got?"
"Well, we got a device that gently squeezes people like a box of hugs."
"Good, MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A DEATH MACHINE"
-PINK FLOUD MUSIC VIDEO, "Another Brick in the Wall"
-So far the "Must-Have" games for the WiiU seem to be:
Mario 3D World
Super Mario Bros Wii U
Wonderful 101
Super Smash Bros.
Mario Kart 8
Hyrule Warriors
It's a solid lineup, but like with the Xbone, I need something MORE...
-The Amiibo shit is getting ridiculous, but I guess Nintendo erred on the side of caution in the event it would be another e-Reader, so I can see them being conservative with the release, but surely they're going to be coming out with the new waves a little more frequently. If/when I get a WiiU, I'd only want the Capt. Falcon., Little Mac and Jigglypuff Amiibos, because I love punching shit.
-According to HMK, the Nintendo World Championship prequalifiers will be Ultimate NES Remix, for the games Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Dr. Mario. One of the qualifiers is in Miami, so I might try to get my brother to go, but that would involves waking up on the weekend, so I doubt he'd be down for that.
-The day after this episode aired I had to leave work early (hit my 40 hours), so I was able to catch some of the IGN stream, and here's some tiddles and bits:
SETLIST SO FAR:
-Footage was a little choppy, but it was still in Pre-Alpha. It looked great, though. -During downtime in certain sections of songs (no vocals/bass/etc.), you can vote for the next song in general categories (70's song, songs with female vocalists, David Bowie), and everything seemed to work right off the bat, as they played a lot of older songs.Seemed to work really well, and the random element could help people rediscover songs they didn't know they had.
-They seem to be playing up the "live show" aspect by making the vocalist say things like "HEY BOSTON" or "ARE YOU READY FOR MORE?" before the next set of songs starts. Seemed to slow things down, unless that's how they hide loading, but hopefully that will be made more relevant as we find more details.
-This is why I said Welcome To Chili's:
-This is why that guy made a welcome to Chili's meme:
-Whenever someone says "You do know that's fake, right?" they're doing it to say "You're having fun with something I don't like, so I'm going to invalidate it"
It's like, what do you expect me to do? "WHAT? GAMESTOP LIED TO MEEEEE!!!" and throw it down? Stop playing? What? Tell me how I am supposed to react to your genius insight. I could stop playing the game. Would that please you? Or is Dave Matthews coming out of nowhere and sucking your dick for protecting the integrity of music reward enough.
Wrestling is fake? I thought Bray Wyatt really was a swamp cult leader, The Undertaker was a wizard, and Vince McMahon was a really crazy person who hired sociopaths and violated labor laws, then telivised it because I'M VINCE MCMAHON GODDAMNIT! Would you like to turn off the TV and watch something you'd like? Or I could make wrestling real, and give you an Attitude Adjustment, because you sure as hell need one.
-Mega64: Shitting on the GDQs?
Things missing (according to Mystakin):
-Kappa faces
-Dongers raised
-"Gold Splits"
-A-holes running alongside them telling them they suck and they can do the IRL easier.
-"It's like League of Legends, mixed with a dating sim, mixed with Fat Princess, mixed with Tinder"- Rhythm Bastard -"Update to our Tinder MOBA Fat Princess Game... It has to take place on hardwood floors"- Rhythm Bastard
-For those of you further behind, here's a time lapse of Mystaking making his game LIVE ON TWITCH!!!!
-"I really like the part when Michael Bolton sung about anuses"
-Heads up, Jeff: "Lust for Life" was not on that Iggy Pop live album.
-The best 5 Second Films about a failed Presidential Run:
-So, here's "Expiration Date", the TF2 short me and Mystakin geeked out about:
It's impressive how they've still been plucking away at this game for the past 7(!!!) years.
Also, "Sexual Congress" is:
A. The name of my Presidents of the United States of America cover band.
B. A sex move where one person begs the other for sex, nothing happens and instead they shit the bed.
C. Weird Al's poorly received "Sexual Healing" parody meant to spur voters in the midterm elections.
D. Classy way of sayin' boner-time
E. All of the above
-Dear Esther is the game that Jeff is complaining about, and here it is in ALL ITS RIVETING GLORY:
Things that would make Jeff love Dear Esther:
-Soundtrack by Bad Religion
-Puzzles that require thinking so out of the box that you're in another box
-Puzzles that require you to use Google to translate ALT into Braille into Morse Code
-A way to get on the damn boat
-"It's Always Sunny" clip for reference:
Fuck tha haters.
And I was right, it was the epiosde where "The Gang Wrestles For The Troops"
-Majesco: STILL EXISTS!
Current projects: COOKING MAMA 5 and porting Gone Home to consoles.
A very, very sad state of affairs indeed: The Mama series, movie games, ports, $5 bargain PC games on the Nintendo DS...
-HERE'S THAT MEGA64 SKETCH YOU GUYS!!!
-Weezer: Ehhh.....? I guess...? I kinda liked "Memories" of Hurley, but it doesn't seem like they've been trying anything too different. And I guess I can say that for their previous albums where I liked one song or two, but then again I haven't really listened to any of their recent albums in their entirety. It's like with Green Day and their "Uno! Dos! Tre!" triple album: if they waited on some of that, they might be able to make one excellent album.
-GWAR: Really, Oderus Urungus MADE that band. A great front man is ridiculously hard to replace. They can get a good metal singer, but to have one that was so into the character like Dave Brockie was would be like replacing MC Bat Commander. Like Queen, the singing ability can still be there, but the face of the band, however scarred and hideous it may be, is the soul of the band.
-YouTube Let's Play Discussion- I'm gonna skip over this a little bit, since Mystakin did bring up a lot of solid arguments, and mine felt kind of half-assed in comparison. Really mine just comes from a place of "Well, the people with the most money are going to fuck with all of this."
There was also a later one, but I'm not including it because of Harrison Ford's traumatic death.
-Is E3 necessary?
I forgot who it was, but someone on the Giant Bombcast mentioned that while those of us "in the know" already knew a lot about what's going on in the video game industry already, E3 is more for the average consumer who gets their news through more standard/mainstream outlets (Newspapers, evening news, 24 hour cable networks except for Fox News because technology is scary). A local news station that Bombcaster worked at was only aware of video games during the E3 conference, or during some kind of moral panic.
Your average consumer couldn't care less about what's coming up outside a game that's already being advertised on TV, or more than a month down the line, so they still look to go "GOLLY, look at all these shiny new toys!" before caring about the couple they buy a year.
There was the failed "E for All Expo" that happened a couple years ago which was supposed to be a "Hey, guys! Come and see what's coming out!" thing, but it ultimately flopped.
FOR NOW, until more consoles get online so we might be able to do some time-limited demo/beta stuff for the masses, and until the news gets more video-game savvy (see below) we still need that central rallying point.
-Re: Arcanon on Amplitude: Given Jeff's comments on the previous episode (his credit limit was boosted more or less right away, Arcanon had to wait), I think from this we can determine that Arcanon's bank is WAY LESS likely to receive a government bailout in the future.
-So, while my Skype setup was all good, I still had my USB mic plugged in, which Reaper set as the default. FFFFFF-
-Carolyn was a great guest, and probably the main reason (behind
Ozone of course) that this podcast happened in the first place. It was really awesome to hear how much she loved running the RBN Network, and she felt warm fuzzies with us talking about how much we loved making stuff for the RBN.
-Revolution 60- This game sounded really unique from the description she gave, and my brain is stuck on The Walking Dead Telltale meets Megaman Battle Network, which is enough to get me to play it. According to their Facebook page, it's ready for testing.
Which reminds me that I still need to watch Cowboy Bebop and on top of that, I got my brother bitching at me to watch Attack On Titan.
-We out ourselves as Nintendo Fanboys a lot on this one. Whereas Sony and Microsoft are competing with each other, Nintendo at this point is flailing it's arms going PAY ATTENTION TO US!!! Mario Maker and Splatoon got us the most hype, but my attention was more focused on 3DS and their offerings. So, in average PODCAST RECAP TRADITION, here's what's going to be on my wishlist in the coming months:
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright:
A.K.A. Two of my favoritest DS games had a baby and now I get to play them at the same time instead of choosing what to bring with me on the toilet.
Persona Q:
The universe and characters of the Persona Series, on a console I don't have to beg my brother to use!
Project S.T.E.A.M.:
Steampunk Advance Wars where you and Abraham Lincoln fight aliens and for the love of Xenagos you had me at "Advance Wars"
