Blurph. This one’s putting me to sleep, unfortunately. Maybe I’ll try again next week. I don’t need to hear about Jonah Falcon’s allegedly immense genitalia.
I deleted the Giantbomb Day 3 podcast from my iPod without listening to it. If it’s even half as bad as everyone says, it’s not worth it, even for the comedy factor. I had enough of Leigh Alexander last year.
It doesn’t cause cancer. There are some interesting points. Dino Ignacio argued that Natal/Kinect is a step backwards for UI because it lacks haptic feedback. Paul Barnett sort of monopolized the conversation but told some funny stories. etc etc I found the Leigh stuff train wreck funny and the rest was engaging.
Ryan did you one better by straight up calling her a sociopath.
Weekend Confirmed mentioned that as well last week and they were the first to bring up that all these motion control devices are near impossible for disable people to use.
I wouldn’t want to get too far on a tangent with that one, but the very definition of disabled kind of assumes that you won’t be possessed of some abilities.
And that blind, echolocating kid managed to work shit out with probably the worst disability for video games.
I didn’t understand getting huffy about disabled people not being able to play Kinect games. The system presupposes that one can stand and move his/her legs. I mean, if you’re going to get upset about Kinect excluding disabled folks, may as well bitch about skateboards and jump ropes.
I’m going to make a new thread to reply to this.
I’ll be interested to read your take on it, Rob. I’m not trying to be an insensitive dick about it. I just don’t understand what makes Kinect different from the many other things that disabled people, unfortunately, can’t use.
That entire segment is hilarious. It’s one massive rip on Falcon and his ego.
Possibly. All I know is that whatever tracks Robert was using for the breaks was knocking me right the hell out this morning (granted, I hadn’t finished my coffee yet, so I’ll probably give it another run when I’m more alert so that I can figure out what the hell they’re talking about), but by the time I actually woke up it’s just some mostly unremarkable guy who wants to be a games journalist talking about how he’s got a big dick and this one time he totally made out with Sulu on the Howard Stern show for some reason. That is NOT what you want to wake up to.
Man, that’s even funnier with the video. “Scratcher tickets!”
What were the guys on the left-hand screen doing when they were holding their hands up over their heads and making a triangle shape, though? I’m missing the joke.
Sims 3 gang sign.
Or possibly calling for a diamond cutter.
Our podcast producer, Andy Bauman (he also does Official Xbox Magazine’s podcast), did this ad for us.
And here’s our second 'cast in a week. http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/25/pc-gamer-us-podcast-228-ultra-peace/
if those numbers are even a few 100 million off, that’s pretty disgusting… considering the economy and how much some game studios work long hours and worry about there next project. all this excess for what?
ridiculous really. but then again we’re living in a country where the FED/Treasury throws trillions of public dollars at derivative based MBS that are trash.
ah looked up the story… was 7.5 million. dont follow gaming biz news much.
Still 7.5 million is alot of money! could of went to CoD4/MW2 dedicated servers on PC!
I’m not a Bombcast regular listener, and I generally like Leigh Alexander’s written work.
My questions is who the hell thought it was a good idea to get drunk before and during a podcast? I have often imbibed heavily after recording and will slowly nurse a drink while my team gives me a migraine. But for god’s sake…once the heavy drinking starts, people are going to make asses of themselves in very uncomfortable and unflattering ways. Maybe some podcasts are fine with that, but I’m really not.
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It’s kind of expected from big E3 wrap-up shows from console-focused websites, ever since 1Up did a big poolside drunken marathon several years ago. They’re uniformly terrible, and I have no idea why listeners seem to demand them.
They are normally entertaining, when Leigh Alexander isn’t involved.
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Staples center cost 375 million to BUILD. Fuck I can’t even finish the youtube clip of her argument.
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Everyone else was drinking and were doing fine, she obviously can’t sip a beer without turning into That Girl At The Party Who Won’t Shut Up And Will Hopefully Pass Out Soon.
