Saturday, March 12, 2016

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 3/12/2016: NOPE STILL ON TIME!!!

Omni Expo happened, and I got caught up getting read. MY BAD EVERYONE!

Let's get right to it!
I'D RATHER NOT... TEMPLE GUARDS VS. ALLERGIES
New podcast from the Zone Cast family, and we talk about if we would rather live in constant anxiety of being attacked by a Temple Guard or live with allergies that change every hour,

Now, while you'll have to listen to the episode to hear our choices, I can tell you two things.
1. It is possible to e-mail a wrench into space.
2. This is what a temple guard looks like:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/legends/images/d/dc/Tumblr_lo5frpVi0l1qgfz0f-1-.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120701215323 
OH SHIT!

GODS AND MONSTERS: SLAYERS OF DECADENCE: THE FINALE

Unf. Dem feels.
I think it's only appropriate that this story ended the way it did, especially after Raymond and I put on the best acting in this campaign. Everyone involved in this campaign deserves a pat on the back. I don't want to spoil it for now.

ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 158

COLD BEER ON A FRIDAY NIGHT
-Let's face it, I'd probably end up being the Warrior/Barbarian or some shit.


-Let's take a song that's about enjoying the simple things then tick off the rest of the Country Song boxes.
Throw some shit about Jesus and the Troops in there.

That and the radio up. Yeah, your radio has to be audible to listen to it. Fuck thesauruses and adjectives that might spice it up like "cranked up" or "shaking the windows". "The streets" has officially been unseated as Dumbest Phrase Used All The Goddamn Time In A Marginalized Genre.


-Brad Paisley, bitch:

Also, fuck you, he's way more handsome than all members of the Zac Brown Band put together,

-Mastadon, bitch:


This is the comic it goes to BTW:

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/053/986/white-whale-holy-grail.png
-John Mulaney, bitch:

-America, my plan to have everyone Gay Married by Hipster Sharks:
First, we drop a bunch of Velvet Underground and Neutral Milk Hotel Vinyls into the ocean, then we move all the salt water sharks into freshwater areas so they can gentrify it.
This will help America somehow because if I'm doing it, then Donald Drumpf is not President and we can all say, as a country, "Dodged a bullet there".

-Here's the full list of Rock Band March changes:

Career Mode

  • Career Mode scores now post to Leaderboards
  • Downloadable content is now playable in all paths of the Career

Scoring Fixes

  • Removed drum exploit where you could get extra points by repeatedly hitting the note at the end of a drum fill
  • We will be wiping the Drum, Pro Drum, and Band leaderboards when the update is available. More info here!

New Rock Shop Items

  • 5 new hair options:
    • Ponied Up
    • Shag Doll
    • Liberty Spikes
    • Fanned Mohawk
    • Frizzy Stardust
  • 5 new hat options:
    • Snow Business beanie
    • Cold Soldier
    • Cold Comfort Hat
    • Viking Helmet
    • Sport-Related Head Protector

General Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with “Somebody Told Me” had missing notes when receiving Overdrive on the final unison phrase
  • Fixed issue where Player Stats display white square or yellow box instead of percentage symbol
  • Fixed issue with full streak Stage Presence only occurring once per show in Campaign, now making it possible to get the “Locked In” achievement / trophy
  • Dropping out and back in during a Freestyle Guitar Solo causes the Performance stats to give incorrect values
  • Fixed issue where Freestyle Guitar Solo toggle option was grayed out during solos
  • Fixed issue where achieving a streak and dropping out during an Freestyle Guitar Solo caused the streak meter to not increment during the solo
  • Fixed issue where Longest Streak was incorrect if player did not break streak before entering Freestyle Guitar Solos
  • Notes at the end of “Big Rock Endings” are now counted toward the Longest Streak stat
  • Fixed issue where the Options menu in the Overshell would darken when selecting Breakneck Speed
  • Fixed a camera cut where the guitarist would go through the camera
  • Fixed an animation issue where the vocalist would walk out past the front of the stage
  • Fixed issue where the audio for Dynamic Drum Fills was playing even when a Dynamic Fill was not present after the first successful Overdrive deploy
  • Fixed issue with the Activity Feed for folks who have more than 30 friends
  • Fixed issue where the same song could be suggested twice when selecting an Encore
  • Random band name generator can no longer create a duplicate name of a previously created band
  • Encore requests are now correctly factoring out non-applicable Stage Presence awards for Solo Harmonies or Vocal Freestyle for Easy/Medium Vocals
  • Fixed issue where “Band Hub” music was persisting after returning to the Main Menu
  • Encores now give bonuses in Career Mode
  • Personal account preferences will now save when Xbox One is powered down, including:
    • Freestyle Guitar Solo toggle state
    • Dynamic Drum Fill toggle state
    • Breakneck Speed preference
    • Awesomeness Detection preference
  • Band Multiplier will no longer briefly appear as 1x before disappearing
  • Fixed issue that causes stand-in character to appear in Career if you dropped in/out during a show
  • Fixed issue where players couldn’t back out of narrative Tour Choice screens
  • Score thresholds for star ratings now adjust when switching difficulty mid-song in Career Mode
  • Fixed incorrect audio effect prompt after quitting the song “I Will Follow” during the first show of the Career
-Innuendo Strudios on Smash Bros:

-For some reason, in the early 2000s everybody's brains hemmoraged at the same time, and we all thought voice commands were a good idea. That resulted in Nintendo trying the microphone thing twice. Once with "Hey You Pikachu!" and again on the Gamecube. Also it gave us SOCOM: Navy Seals and Lifeline.

"Hey You Pikachu" I rented, and remember being super excited the first time it worked, because I was fucking 12 at the time. However, half the time it didn't work, and it was ridiculous to control. Apparently it was calibrated to higher pitched voices. The only other game that used the microphone accesory was a train simulator.


The two Gamecube games, "Mario Party 7" and "Odama" were in Nintendo's HOLY FUCK WE'RE DESPERATE Era before the Wii made a shitton of money. "Odama" was created by the same guy who did Seaman, which makes total sense. You were to direct a group of soldiers out of the way of a giant pinball it seemed to get middling reviews, and impressed people. Mario Party 7 is a Mario Party game later than 4.
Then came Lifeline and SOCOM. Both at least tried, but the latter pushed the multiplayer and the headset more than the voice commands. I think you could get extra information about your mission via the headset, but that's all.


-DANNY DEVITO PIKACHU WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER!

Though lets face it, Nintendo will hire someone who can do a good Danny Devito Impression, and make no references to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

-Inazuma 11 was an anime that aired between 2008 to 2011. It's a typical sports anime with a fresh faced kid looking to put together the best possible soccer team. What I want to know is how Jeff knows about it...

ECHO CHAMBER EPISODE 159

CLICK HERE TO PLAY THIS AUDIO TAPE


-Paolo's wrong. Technically Hot Dog Day is July 23rd.


-Actually, the intended purpose of the car conversations in Deadly Premonition is to connect you, the player to the world of the game to its world, and make you think aboutthe game when you're not playing it.

-Everything new I hear about Quiet in MGSV makes Quiet's outfit the least dumb thing about her. Though Metal Gear Solid V gave us more Bowie-ness and made that shit concrete:

The meaning of 1984 in Metal Gear Solid V
-Harmonix does have Rock Band 4 on Fig. 
Currently it's tracking to succeed, with 25 days to go 25% of the way there. I think I speak for the group that we're all excited about it, but are waiting for a concrete go ahead.

Paolo's also got the right idea, archiving everything from the old system. In downtime, I've been working on the rest of the Dino Hunter MD: The Sound Track album for RBN.

It's not too tough to implements the same requirements for the RBN (Peer Review/Demo Phases/Etc), but because of how the Steam Workshop works, the profits would go to the user. Meaning that there is significatly less Peer Review and the system would be way easier to game.

-This was the Fat Kid pitch video:

-Extra Plays Animation Playlist


-Metal Gear Solid Theme Done Right:



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