Gaming Podcast Discussion

JonRowe · 2010-06-19T20:48:07.000Z

Bahimiron:

(Popularity leads to intimacy.)

Those were the days.

JonRowe · 2010-06-19T20:50:53.000Z

Alcohol is good when you have a small group of people. In a large group, things get yelly.

MattN · 2010-06-19T23:03:21.000Z

So did gamespy turn off their podcast subscriptions to keep traffic as low as possible during e3 or did I miss the part where the debriefings isn’t happening? Whenever I refresh my podcasts I get a “!” in itunes.

Brad_Grenz · 2010-06-19T23:19:30.000Z

I’m getting the same thing.

Moggraider · 2010-06-20T05:35:13.000Z

They didn’t release one, though. Nothing on the site.

sinfony · 2010-06-20T07:14:08.000Z

I think the Gamespy Debriefings set a new record for least time spent in my subscription list. Got through one episode that was okay, then listened to the most recent one where they lead off with a lengthy and embarrassing discussion of Megan Fox. Goodbye, Debriefings.

Jumping the Shark, on the other hand, is awesome.

kentdog · 2010-06-20T13:39:20.000Z

interman:

So what’s this year’s “NEVER!”?

I’m only now starting on the day 3 episode. So much stuff!

Moggraider:

There isn’t one.

I thought it might be, “and that was E3!”

Quaro · 2010-06-20T14:01:17.000Z

Jeff Gerstmann will be on Twit in an hour.

Moggraider · 2010-06-20T15:05:11.000Z

I’m watching it live. I never have before. The magic is gone. Now I feel stupid for listening. And I have for four years.

Bahimiron · 2010-06-20T15:52:04.000Z

Why? Jeff didn’t match the image in your head, with the flowing locks and chiseled portrait and bulging muscles?

Moggraider · 2010-06-20T15:58:57.000Z

No, don’t be silly. I accept Jeff for who he is. I guess it’s just because I’m idle; usually I’m working out or running errands when I listen to a cast. Maybe it’s cuz the whole thing seems so sterile. Only two of them are in the studio, after all. I dunno.

kentdog · 2010-06-21T16:38:46.000Z

I know this is dumb, but I just have to get it off of my chest. I really can’t stand (particularly in this week’s episode of Weekend Confirmed), the whispering for emphasis. Something about it just grates my nerves. It’s as annoying as using italics. Just look; isn’t that horrible?! It’s as bad as “super fun”.

Pumpkinhead · 2010-06-21T17:33:39.000Z

Moggraider:

That was funny, but it will never be on the level of “Maybe? Never!”

It’s kind of self-centered, but I guess it’s consistent with her behavior on the cast. She went on and on with false apologies, then by the end obviously felt totally vindicated by the positive comments she brought up, leaving with a “haters suck it” or whatever she said.

Then after she left, you could hear her continuing to yammer on with someone else in the same room in the background of the podcast for several minutes. Ugh.

No alcohol next year! And no Leigh Alexander! The best Bombcasts are always sober.

Energy drinks = OK

Beer = Not OK

Agreed. I found the day 3 bombcast to be completely unlistenable. I can’t see how anyone could make it through the whole thing unless they had zero other options. And I consider reading the I-Phone’s online help guide to be another option.

Jamie_Madigan · 2010-06-21T17:38:11.000Z

I just listened to most of the clusterfuck Bombcast. Whats-her-name is drunk annoying (hey, been there, done that) but the thing is worth listening to alone for her SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS rant and the apoplectic way in which she made it. And made all the more funny by everyone else in the room pausing to make sure they were picturing the decimal point in the right place through the alcohol haze, then realizing that yes, yes they were, and that she was off of her gourd. No, Bobby Kotick did not spend three quarters of a BILLION dollars out of his own personal fortune to rent out the Staples center. For that price he could have bought 12.5 million people a copy of Black Ops at retail.

Moggraider · 2010-06-21T17:40:50.000Z

No but! That’s just how expensive the stadium gets! Do the math, man!

Vesper · 2010-06-21T19:11:49.000Z

Hooray, iOS 4 shows podcast episode descriptions.

Papageno · 2010-06-21T19:19:46.000Z

Vesper:

Hooray, iOS 4 shows podcast episode descriptions.

Thank God. When I went over from my 5th Gen iPod to my Fall 2009 iPod Touch, I really missed having those accessible on the device without having to do the whole song and dance.

Adree · 2010-06-21T20:44:45.000Z

Not even Barnett was able to outspeak the shambling she-beast.

MattN · 2010-06-21T21:28:02.000Z

Is that a gerstmann sex tape screencap?

Adree · 2010-06-22T00:18:52.000Z

Matt Nahman:

Is that a gerstmann sex tape screencap?

I could have posted an even worse one where her tit pops out while she’s asking someone a question. It’s really sad that one yappy bitch nearly takes down an entire podcast that had some really interesting guests.