Showing posts with label recap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recap. Show all posts

Saturday, April 1, 2017

PODCAST RECAP FOR 4/1/2017: Goofs And Grapplesports!

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Southpaw Regional Wrestling:

Favorite moments:
-"Not Ric Flair"
-Rusev as a farm hand and Tyler Breeze as a maniacal banker
-John Cena's diction that make Jonesy Spencerson look hyperactive
-SEA CREATURE
-Anything Chris Jericho

Colonel Sanders Is Fucking Ripped:


Enzo Amore Wants To Fuck A Chicken:


Podcast Boyz Go Hard:
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HEEL TURN ROUNDTABLE
I appeared on this to talk about how Wrestlemania Sun/33 will be meh at best.

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Oh, those wacky Youtubers with their Fascist Tendencies! They say the darnedest things! But the old media hates them which is why they call out their racist and anti-Semetic jokes.

Thankfully, Patreon is there to aid in monetizing whatever crazy bullshit you want to do because YouTube's CPM market is bullllllshit.

Oh look, JonTron's back on the GameGrumps! Oh wait...



Adam Sandler Ghost. WARNING THIS IS A HAUNTED IMAGE IT WILL BE 2SPOOKY4U

















Hbomberguy, Genius:
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Now let us close with The SJW Regime Manifesto:
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 1/27/2017: ONE PUNNNNCH!!!

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-Trace Evans throws his hat in the ring in "Most Sexually Depraved Intro"

-Owen Douglass is President now. He hasn't caused an international crisis, or appointed a White Nationalist to the head of security.

-Jaden's Smith Translation of my single payer healthcare system is a reference to The Miz's theme song:


-Actual Picture Of President Trace Evans Nixon:













-And remember, do your part, and punch some nazis:


VOICE OF ALL: "Burn"


This was a fun one to do, because Dovin goes from "Professional General Type Man" to "Sassy Gurrl"

Now with bonus video!

Saturday, December 31, 2016

PODCAST RECAP 12/31/2016: FUCK OFF 2017

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-Every member of the podcast is within a year of each other: Weff was born in 87, Me and Mystakin '88 and Arcanon was '89, so we all have the same frame of reference for pop culture.

-Family Feud's NEKKID GRANDMA!


-Family Feud's BUTT


-As far as Game Completion goes, a lot of that falls upon that person's personal psychology. I'm the kind of guy who would prefer to buy a game I can obsess over and play the shit out of it, then spend 60 on a game I'd only play once.

While I enjoy games like Dishonored and ZTD, there's not a lot of replayability in those games. With Stardew Valley, there's enough to do to keep me occupied. With HITMAN (2016), there's a big environment to play around in with lots of challenges sprinkled throughout.

-HowLongToBeat.com is a website that lets you import your Steam Library and let you know how long it would take to beat the games in your library. 

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-I didn't really feel like writing anything, so here's the 42 Puzzle from Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

-JinjOzone


-ShittyFlute's best song:


Sunday, December 11, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 12/10/2016: Daddy Give Me The Issues


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-Why CCR was not part of the Color Bands challenge, according to head designer of Magic The Gathering: Mark Rosewater: (warning- artist is Canadian)







-The Who Super Bowl Smash Up is the only way we get any Quadrophenia on Rock Band. "5:15", "The Real Me", "Love Reign O'er Me", "Sea and Sand" WHY CAN'T WE HAVE SOME QUADROPHENIA?

-:Fire Water Burn" by The Bloodhound Gang

-For an example from Deadly Premonition, one of the side missions you do is for Michael, an aide to Harry Stewart, an eccentric businessman who is also an aficionado of gas masks. At the time of completing the game, Michael is only seen as speaking for Harry and escorting him around.
http://www.gatheryourparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/tillotson.jpg

Michael adds weirdness and mystery to someone who ends up being a central character while getting little to do himself. Not a useless character, but he just serves a prupose. However, after running an errand for him, you find out that Michael is adopted and wants nothing more than to please his adopted father.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-7moXsqTugk/maxresdefault.jpg

-"Stopping Points" in video games are a double edged sword. Yes, they can provide a "Hook" to get you back, but it's also a place to leave the game FOREVER. Arcanon brings up Borderlands, and like Skyrim, it's easy to forget what you're doing in a game like that because the quests are so small, and the world is so big, so if by any chance you DO come back, you're like, "Eh...."

The key there is to make the segments digestible enough in 30-60 min bursts that provide both significant value, and something big enough to come back on. I understand there's SO MUCH ELSE that a game has to account for before player psychology, but at least games are at the point to where we can have this discussion.


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-John's "Killer Voice" is but the latest in the roster of "weird voices we happen to do" and I hope, like Jonesy Spencerson, he make a comeback.

-Owen has 2 Daddies came off the tail end of the Mega 64 Podcast that day where they talk about the phrase "Daddy Give Me The Cummies" whcih is probably the least appetizing phrase in the English language behind "Trump Era Republican"

-And now, to give you some brain bleach, the worst thing I ever did:


-Marc Summers suffers from OCD, which is all the more badass considering his job as host of Double Dare. Then he got fired from his job on a talk show after disclosing it. Though "Lunatic Fringe" is a tad insensitive when he's suffering from internal turmoil.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 12/3/2016: Boopin' To Flavortown

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-For the sake of comparison, here's a handy chart that has all the vocal ranges:

http://www.singwise.com/images/vocalRangeFigure.png

There is some overlap between vocal ranges, for example bass (lowest male voice) and soprano (highest female voice) overlapping by middle C. Of course, it varies from singer to singer and song to song, but given that you can sing a note in Rock Band in a different octave and still have it be "correct", so it's not that bad. Of course, this was recorded two weeks ago, and the challenge will be different by the time you read this, so fuck me.

-Sombra's the newest playable hero in Overwatch:

While I haven't given her much playtime, I'm glad she exists because Overwatch needed its equivalent of the Spy from Team Fortress. Usually I'd bring out the Spy when the other team has a lot of defenses set up, since, like Sombra, I can go invisible, get behind enemy lines, and fuck shit up.
In general, OW is more dynamic then TF2 with each charachter having ultimate abilities popping off quicker, thereby enabling the tides to turn. However, her hacking ability gives the game that much more back and forth, and can do things like hack Torjborn's turrets, and Bastion's sentry mode, two of the biggest STOP signs on the battlefield.

-Metallica On Youtube:


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-Ben getting Hors D'Voures wrong as the episode wears on is probably my favorite bit.

-This week's Indiegogo is... A Donkey Sauce Cannon! Our stretch goals include a trip to Flavortown and a wacky robot sidekick.

You can learn how to make Donkey sauce here. It's not that special

-Between Inspector Gadget and Godzilla, if Matthew Broderick was involved in a movie based off something from your childhood, it's not going to be good.

-

Saturday, November 19, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 11/19/2016: Glorious Battle Corner

INSERT QUEST HERE ON PATREON!

I took part in the Patreon Launch Livestream for Insert Quest Here! (I come in at arount 55:00 in). Ray's a super cool dude, the podcast is super fun, and hopefully he has me on more in the future.

I play the love child of Tibalt (from Magic The Gathering) and Captain Kirk.

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-PCPartPicker.com is a pretty cang good website, with recoomended builds, advice, and price comparisons. Thankfully my computer is at the point where I can upgrade shit piece by piece, but building a PC from scratch is a good exercise, just so you can better understand what can and will go wrong.

-For those who are further behind, here are the two decks I've been using for Hearthstone:
Beast Druid
Midrange Shaman

Neither are too expensive to put together, you just need to play through the last two solo adventures and Ragnaros The Firelord, which is in the Classic set. 

-Overwatch VA Video is so adorable. Sadly Jonny Cruz, the VA of Lucio posted it on his twitter, but there's a YouTube video here:


-Reinhardt VA Darin De Paul with some Reinhardt Cosplayers:
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-Pokemon Drum Kit Signed by Mike Portnoy:



-Lil' Jon x Lazy Town


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-I was going to do some number crunching with regards to who was the best question asker, but I think Trace just swept it. Or everything will have to measured in fractiions of Traces.


-
Given my research, as it turns out, you won't be "eaten" so much as "vored" by Griffin McElroy, because "eaten" implies that your flesh will be torn, whereas vore is- Wait where are you going? I HAVE RESEARCH FROM DEVIANTART TO SHOW YOU!

Sunday, October 30, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 10/29/2016: Five Nights At Arby's

INSERT QUEST HERE: ECLIPSE PHASE: LUNAR HELL HUNT


I was on the Special Halloween Episode of Insert Quest Here!


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-Something... happened last week? I think. I dunno, the podcast is the same as it ever was!

-Dumb Bullshit Jared Leto Did To Get Into Character For The Joker:
1. Sending random gifts to his coworkers like used condoms and anal beads.
2. Fucking with his coworkers by being "in character" the whole time and insisting everyone call him Mr. J on the set.
3. Dropping a live pif in the middle of a table read.

Yeah, everyone hated him.

Jared Leto feels like the  director was egging him on the whole time. Like, all the other actors were like "Man, not this shit again" and David Ayer, the director, along with the marketing team was like "HOW MESSED UP IS THE JOKER GONNA BE?"

-Why I Am The King Of Five Nights At Freddy's: without my kickass song, nobody would have heard of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Markiplier, NateWantsToBattle and Game Theory are all liars and charaltans. Never played the games, but I'm the real King Of Finve Nights At Freddy's: A Game I've Never Played.

-"Bad Things Happen Warehouse Starring Jared Leto" is what is on the marquee at every 30 Seconds To Mars concert.

-Creepy Stuff Scientist is how I imagine John would act if were still alive and unactivated by The Protocol after [REDACTED] activated it.

-Real people painted like animatronics? Did you mean Steam Powered Giraffe:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/steampunk/images/1/1e/Steam_Powered_Giraffe_01.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140909002240

-If we're doing jump scare muppet house, I'm surprised we haven't brought up the one guy who's got "innocuous object but REALLY SCARY" on lock down:http://www.c21media.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oscar-the-grouch.jpg

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-Rockudrama, while not meaty, is really big on dry humor, like, as Arc mentioned: Jake and Amir. While nowadays it seems "DORKLY" is the big CollegeHumor brand, CH in general was pretty good at that aloof, "bullshit with a striaght face". I thought the series ended when I graduated college, but it's still going on, like this from a couple days ago:

Let's look at comme-

oh... oh... oh...

-I've come around on Kool Terry. Kool Terry is Kewl with Mee. He's like onions: when made to put in a dish, it's great, but you can't eat it on your own. Also it smells bad.
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 -The TRUE AND HONEST Nintendo Switch Trailer:


-The curly fries look SOOOOO GOOOOD, but those Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches could look better.
Arby's tweets out their own Nintendo Switch hype 

Sunday, October 9, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 10/08/2016: VIDEO GAMES? Videjo Garmes!

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I didn't forget, we just railed on the Xbone for 90 minutes.


VOICE OF ALL- BORN OF AETHER

I play Not-Soldier 76! This was one of the better MtG stories of this block, so kudos!


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-As of this past Friday, the Giant Bomb Shenmue Quick Look ended, and BOY WAS THAT ENDING THE EPITOME OF NOT WORTH IT.

Hope they do Shenmue 2.

-The game I was talking about where your uncle is a cosmic horror is called "The Uncle Who Works At Nintendo" It's pretty interesting, and I might play it on stream one of these days.

Something Awful: So what exactly is your uncle's role in the Nintendo organization?
Guy Whose Uncle Works for Nintendo: My uncle is one of the main guys. He invented Mario. He lives in Japan and he knows the president of Nintendo. The president of Nintendo is named Ryu Nintendo and he invented the first Nintendo, which was a robot that did math. My uncle works on all the games and makes up how the levels look, and he knows all the cheat codes and can get extra men in any game. He gets to play all the games before they come out and he gives them all to me when he beats them.

-Campo Santo of Firewatch posted up an article noting a situation similar to "UNCLE NINTENDO"


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-For those of you saucy boys wondering who Griffin McElroy is:


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Saturday, October 1, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 10/1/2016: Creative Anatomical Descriptions

VOICE OF ALL- RENEGADE PRIME


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-My intro is of course referencing, a Bad, Bad Man by John Cena:


-In my door-jump scare searching escapades, I found a website called "Where's The Jump?" that highlights when jump scares come in movies. An interesting idea, and I'm curious to see how the jump scare rating corressponds to the movie's quality. Some of you are going to whine about it because it's the same line as-
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 -Tom is a hot dog salesman from the game Shenmue, who drunkenly shambles across 7 different stereotypes and then recommends you see a Travel Agency to know about Chinese people:


-John: Do I have a curfew?
RB: John., you're a grown ass man, you can do what ever you want.
John: Will Ine-san give me a daily allowance?
RB: You're a grown ass man John, you need to work for it.

-This and another episode was where me and John went back and forth on a question where I end up repeating the same thing. I think the "cartoon in the real world" scenario. I'm a big fan of comical repetition

-ANDY AND JOHN OPEN UP A BURGER STAND:
One day in 1980's Japan. John and Andy opened up a burger stand.
"This will be a fine burger stand!" said Andy. "We got burgers, we got homebrewed beer, what more could the people of 1980's Japan want?"
"I KNOW RIGHT" said a very shy, reserved John, his voice like whispers on the wind. "WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SO MUCH MONEY! LET'S GET STARTED!"
John lit up the grill with a smile on his face, and Andy looked at the bottled beers like they were beautiful babies
Suddenly, a hot dog truck pulled over across from them. A strange man with sunglasses and dreadlocks stepped out, and started dancing.
"Oh hi Mark! You guys want a hot dog?" he said, dancing. "How's your sex lifes?"
This man was very strange.
"HEY, ANDY! THIS GUY IS SO STRANGE!"
"I know, right! Hopefully he doesn't cut into our business!"
"MAYBE WE SHOULD WORK WITH HIM?"
"You know what, John? That sounds like a fine idea! If we work together, we can all be successful!"
"AND WE CAN GET WHAT DRUGS HE'S CLEARLY ON!"
So Tom, Andy and John all worked together and made a lot of hungry people in 1980's Japan happy, all while getting super fucking baked.
Ryo's father also wasn't dead.

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-Millennial Weddings:

If we can bother to afford them, what kind of traditions will we pass down that our kids will think is lame? Our generation, because of aforementioned financial issues, are questioning the big to do. While we keep the legal and religious ceremonies, the fact that it needs to be a lavish affair are-

No, wait, what kind of DJ brings a fucked up file to their party? Like, what happened? Did this guy NOT check?

-Since this episode was recorded, Green Day released this video for a song WAY more coherent:

-Stars Playing Rock Band-
The Protomen, as mentioned:

Rush, also mentioned:


Alice Cooper, Death In His Eyes:
I CAN'T FIND IT GRAAAAH

-Party Cannon, as made famous by Viral Image:


Saturday, September 24, 2016

Status Quo Wednesday And The Podcast Recaps Had A Baby

PALMCON THIS WEEKEND!
Sasdly, I did not check the schedule that well, and did not realize I had a gig Saturday. I apologize for the invconvienece, as I also came from a work thing.

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Anime Owen: Manly Edition:
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Kokoro makes me think of this comic
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-The heist angle for that Wu-Tang Album is BS but apparently that whole story is being turned into a musical.

-That sound effect at the end fits in perfectly with "You just screwed with Martin Shrkeli!" and the sad trombone is all like "Dang, I can't be Seto Kaiba"

-Persona 4 continues to have the best soundtrack:


THIS WEEK'S JAM:


House music is a secret love of mine. Not a shame, because house music rules. It's secret because all the EDM kids are inbto the wibble wobbles these days. I find it calming in a way that a lot of other genres that are supposed to be soothing aren't.
Also, this song rules, because it's made by a man called Sagat and wears an eyepatch like Sagat, who's the best Street Fighter character.
The lyrics are not high art, but they're stupid enough to be featured on Beavis and Butthead:


STILL SELLING TANK TOPS!
Rb Black T-Shirt Front

Sunday, September 18, 2016

PODCAST RECPAS FOR 9/17/2016: The Epic Crossover Event

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-The Simpsons and classic movies:

-My Dad is a HUGE Star Wars nut, so naturally he took us to the Special Editions in '97 and The Pahntom Menace in 1999. He was talking about it all the time, so I just assumed it was a big deal. Then again, I haven't seen Captain America: Civial War yet, so it is possible to miss out on an "event" movie.


-Possible feature to add to the side:
Who Are We Throwing Our Money At?
A collection of all the people we recommend supporting through Patreon, Kickstarter, Buying All Their Shit, etc.


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-I think adding a "Hashtag" to things is the equivalent of adding Dad to it where it worsens and cheapens whatever the word is.
#Courage- WE ARE SELLING YOU WHAT WE BELIEVE IS A COURAGEOUS MOVE
Dad Courage- I'm going to try the DOUBLE Bacon Cheeseburger
#Jokes- I am ironicaly referring to what I just said as comedy
Dad Jokes- Hi ____, I'm Dad! See also, "I know you're good, but do you want any more food?" and "You can tune a piano but you tune a fish?"
#Bod- This Instagram picture has a body in it. Somewhere. Alive?
DadBod- Not fat enough to be fat, but fat enough to show that you stopped trying.
 

-Super Mario Run Trailer:


-It feels... desperate that the console market is working in iterations. The main rallying point of consoles is that everything works right out of the box, and the main thrust of this console generation is that they want to be the main focus of your living room. I'm not sure what these upgrades are supposed to accomplish other than "we're making them better". Look at the "thesis" of the past couple generations:

-WiiU/Xbone/PS4: We want to own your TV. You can stream your TV through us, you can browse the internet us, we want to OWN YOUR LIVING ROOM.
-PS3/360/Wii: Online mofos!
-PS2/Xbox/Gamecube: I think we figured out this 3D shit you guys!


-Everyone plays video games. Especially during the 80's. However, a lot of what changed our perspective of video games happened after the Crash of '83. Nintendo fixed this by selling video game as Toys rather than Electronics. Toy aisles back then had were separated by gender, they picked Boys. Still, even in the early days, video games were still popular with everyone.

However, as mentioned in the podcast, then shit got complicated. FOUR buttons? SHOULDER PADS? ANOTHER one?


Where games like Halo succeeded is that they removed the "feelbads" from the game: Recharging shields, less complicated firing weapons, etc. While the controls are still ridiculous to someone who hasn't played, the game itself is more accommodating.

-Japanese Yodeling:


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First Google Result for "Anime Owen":
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/14600000/Owen-in-Anime-total-drama-anime-14603701-1000-1500.jpg

Though personally, I'm a fan of Powerman 5000's cover album with "Electric Avenue":


And yes, IndieGoGo.Space is an actual URL

This is BoBoBo BoBoBoBo:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/bobobo/images/3/3e/Bo-bobobo-bobobo.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081213001602
It's about this dude who fights a tyrannical regime who wants to steal everyone's hair. BoBoBo, having a lot of hair, will NOT stand for this, so he roams the land employing his technique Hanage Shinken, or Fist Of The Nose Hair.

-The cosplay scene is verrrrry, shall we say, expansive? Like, there are cosplay models, cosplay porn, cosplay strippers, cosplay burlesque shows, and all of those exist in Florida because OF COURSE IT'S FLORIDA.

Hey Andy:
http://cdn.ientry.com/sites/webpronews/article_pics/meatwad_1404114.png
I want you to remember this in your DREAMS.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/08/Meatwad_shapes.png/200px-Meatwad_shapes.png

IN YOUR DREEEEEEAMS!!!! 

VOICE OF ALL- HOMESICK

I play Dovin Baan, the planeswalker from Kaladesh. He was a fun voice to do. I tried to go for a British accent with some Indian influence, and while it came out well for the most part, except for the times when it slips into Irish/Scottish because I roll my R's as part of the voice I chose.

Still, SUUUUPER hyped for Kaladesh.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 9/3/2016: The Return Of The Rhythm Dadstard

To my number one fan:


One podcast to recap this week since I'm WAY far behind:
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-Observation: A lot of my calls are to friends I want to catch up with.

-This episode was done RIGHT after I recorded something else in a radio announcer/Jonesy Spencer type voice and forgot to turn off the filter.

-Pro Gamer and Mediocre At Best Magic Player Day9 is doing a playthrough of Toonstruck, and that's what made me think of this question.


-According to Wikipedia, "noids" were the name for normal people, and "doodles" were cartoons. When "noids" are killed by "doodles", they're reborn as "doodles" in Cool World. I feel like I need to watch Cool World, but my time would to be better spent watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? again.

-"Cartoon Characters Shiting" is John's "Sausage Party Orgy"

-Steven Universe is one of those shows where it supposedly has this rich deep lore, but I watch episodes years apart, and still be OK.

STAAAAAARDUSSSSSST!

It's amazing how outdated these things become when they;'re released because wrestling changes faster than Scooby-Doo.

-Max Steele I remember being a meh CGI cartoon, and there was an episode with Tony Hawk for some reason.

-Scrooge McDuck being a badass:


-Time police from SuperJail! look like the Dream Police from Cheap Trick:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-FWhteZYY9U/hqdefault.jpg
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/superjail/images/9/9a/Time-Police.png/revision/latest?cb=20090225080518


 -And with all that, I'm going to leave you with the sick MC Lars track, "The Dip":

Sunday, August 28, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 8/27/2016: 750 Posts!

I'd Rather Not fans get a double dose this week!

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-Babymaker can be purchased here.

-Here's the game I designed. HINT HINT!

-What they have at Disney now is FastPass+, where after you register, you can select FastPasses for 30 days in advance, or if you're staying at a hotel, it's 60 days in advance. The thing that sucks is that they limit you to 3 FastPasses.

Universal has a better option if you're a Florida Resident like me, so you can buy an Annual Pass, and then an unlimited Express Pass, which is valid every day your normal admission is valid. The downside is, you live in Florida.

-Mickey Mouse as proven himself to be vengeful:


-Ben's scheme has to be in one of the top 10 Most Harebrained Schemes in I'd Rather Not

-DROP THE BEAT:


-OH SHIT HERE COME DAT MOUSE!!!!
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-TAKE IT AWAY DON HENLEY"


-I've got some backup against Jon Stewart...






AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!
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If I can guarantee that we can get some fallout on RAW the next night I'm good.

-Owen's provision of preventing us from starving to death is a lot like AM in "I Have No Mouth I Must Scream", where he keeps his survivors from starving to death so he can continue torturing the five survivors.

-I'm kind of honored how I'm the crew's ideal of a "buff guy".




Saturday, August 13, 2016

PODCAST RECAP FOR 8/13/2016: Goons Commiting Crimes

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-Arcanon, we're your friends. Please stop doing crimes. First you start off by having been mistakely banned in GTA V then you commit more dire crimes, like marijuana needles or saying the cusswords.

Remember: When you want to do crimes, instead eat a lime.

-Having since played Lucioball, I can confirm that it's really fun to play, and lends itself better to a proper soccer proxy than ROcket League, since your characters don't move as fast or as loose as a car, so you have more control, and more players per team lends better to having strict positions (usually forward/midfield/goalie)

-FUN FACT: The Soldier being healed by a medic in TF2 is called the "Pocket Soldier" and the un-Medic Soldier is called the "Roaming Solider"

-"Cowboy" by Kid Rock




-Here's just one example of Ubers's cosplay witchcraft:







The Goon is seriously really good, and when it takes a break from the hilarious action to focus on The Goon as a human being, then it gets required reading for any comic fan. Yeah, there's punching zombies and all some freaky mob shit going down but yo, check this: The mob boss he was The Goon for gunned down the aunt who raised Lil' Goon who then bashed the boss's head in with a rock out of vengeance.

-Rhythm Bastard's Super Group
Vocals: Janelle Monae
Lead Guitar: Tom Morello
Rhythm Guitar: Nile Rodgers
Bass: Flea
Drums: Travis Barker

Arcanon's Super Group
Vocals: David Draiman
Guitar: Tom Morello
Bass: Justin Chancellor
Drums: Neil Peart

Jeff's Super Group
Vocals: "Zoli" Téglás
Guitar: Trevor Riley
Guitar: Tepe
Bass: Matt Freeman
Drums: Brooks Wackerman

Mystakin's Super Group
Vocals and Guitar: Orianthi
Bass: Rob Trujio
Drums: Zack Starky


-All Metallica Songs In 4 Minutes:



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-For more info on Jonesy Spencerson, click here!
Recap: Music!Jonesy: A harrowing tale of intrigue with Orwellian Inspiration.
Podcast!Jonesy: A dumb carny barker voice I do.

-Now, I'd like to address two moments early in the podcast.
Owen and John: Heihachi? Heahachi! Heihachi. Heihachi!
Jonesy: Who's this Heihachi fellow? Are the Japs coming back?

Alex: Can we call an audible? I don't want to focus on them being fat people, how about "your car is filled to capacity".
Me: That is an acceptable substitute.
John: Or how about just sweaty people?
Alex: Filled to capacity with sweaty people.
John: I FUCKING SWEAT A LOT! or something like that

Looking back at these two moments, there was no reason for me to use that particular language and a substitute was readily available.

Same as with the Kaiju episode a few weeks ago. Was there a reason I had to use "gypsy"? Why not "witch" or something?

Like Jonesy could have said something like "Wasn't he a general during WWII?" Or "I prefer to drive American!" Something that shows that he's still in that era and an idiot, but not using that particular term.

Or my half of the question: why did I specify fat people? The change we made kept the main thrust of the question, and none of my responses changed as well.

Because society, they were the "natural" response. Mystic powers and vengence? OF COURSE gypsies. Sweaty and stinky? OF COURSE fat people. But why?

It took just a smidgen of effort to change it to where I would be able to communicate the same endpoint and nobody would be excluded/offended. 

It's why all of these people who complain about "PC CULTURE IS RUINING COMEDY! WHY IS EVERYONE SO OFFENDED?" come off as lazy. Slurs and stereotypes aren't the backbone of comedy and ideas, they're a crutch that defy reality and keep those already marginalized down. For example, I could have used "bitch" instead of "complain" in that first sentence. However, I caught myself doing it often, and decided to use the word I actually meant.

Every post, every song, everything I do is a challenge. As Mark Rosewater from Magic The Gathering puts it, "Restrictions breed creativity". Status Quo Radio was a set of restrictions. My Magic The Gathering songs are a set of restrictions. The fact that I try to connect something real to this unrelated thing is what I love about doing music, and it's a restriction.

If "respecting people who are different" is a restriction too large to bear, then please vacate society.

Saturday, July 23, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 7/23/2016: My Pokemon Go Team Is The Best Team

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
  • I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12
 I seriously need to catch up on these... I WILL be adding more this weekend.


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ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 174
-Arcanon The Pokemon Prof.!


-How to get a starter Pikachu:

-is me:


-FUCK YOU WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH JIGGLYPUFF IS MINE.
-Andrew Huang's Pokemon Song:


-For those of you interested, here's our list of 30 SNES games:
Super Mario World
Super Mario RPG
Harvest Moon
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
SimCity
Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past
Donkey Kong Country
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Super Mario Kart
Battletoads
Illiusion Of Gaia
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid
Mario Paint (Extra Add On)
Mega Man X
Super Bomberman
Wild Guns
Super Punch Out
NBA Jam
Earthbound
Contra III: The Alien Wars
DKC2: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
Super Castlevania IV
Secret Of Mana
Rock N' Roll Racing
Super Street Fighter II
Gradius 3
Kirby Super Star
Mortal Kombat II
Goof Troop
Yoshi's Island
Turtles In Time
Pilotwings
Starfox


-Captain Skyhawk was a shooter for the NES that started my love for games with thing that are in the air combined with animals. I never played far in the game, what I did instead was replay the first two levels 100 times. That's the weird thing about young me: I inherited 50 games from my older brother and played the first 5 minutes for hours and hours.
Yo, but check these graphics. DON'T THEY JUST BLOW YOUR FIVE YEAR OLD MIIIIIIND?


I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 20
-Choice Auto-Correct Quotes:
"That birch of a wife left me"
"There's a flat bunny"
"Her carves are biking"
"I'm really liking this flap house walking down the sheep"

-Books by Chick Tickle sounds like they'd be the opposite of a Chuck Tingle books.

-"I AM SO JOYFUL RIGHT NOW" reminds me of this comic by Kelly Turnbull of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: 
 

-The AutoCorrect ZoneCast Network, featuring such shows as:
Hell Turd
I'm Rashly No
Elmo Chandelier

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Sunday, July 17, 2016

PODCAST RECAP FOR 7/16/2016: Bogs For Poglins

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
  • I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12
 I seriously need to catch up on these...


ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 173

-There seems to be a Monopoly game for pretty much anything, 
 

-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:


Turing Test

 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.

-MY BURGER BUDDY AND ME:




Saturday, July 9, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS for 7/9/2016: Very Impolite

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
  • Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
  • I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12
 I seriously need to catch up on these...

ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 172

-Horse Beach by Rockhead:

-Disturbed's "Shout 2000":



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


-Fun fact: Keith Ferguson, the voice actor for Reaper is also the voice of Bloo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends :



Death walks among you
-Overwatch Lore: Reaper and 76's origins

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.


-Overwatch Characters as dogs from Reddit.
 
-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.

I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 18 

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!