3921

That’s a perfectly acceptable rule :-)

3922

Screw you guys. Dvorak rocks. I only constantly groan at Jerry Pournelle, who constantly tells irrelevant decades-old stories at his trademark plodding pace.

The best TwiT episodes are when Leo is actually gone, because so much more gets done. Molly Wood is probably the best guest host and guest. A recent one where Leo was gone hosted by Tom had more topics covered than probably two or three Leo-TwiTs. It was awesome.

3923

I still listen to TwiT. You just have to accept that the quality is all over the place from week to week, depending on guests and Leo’s mood or whatever. The goofing off can be funny – Leo trying Chat Roulette for the first time live on air? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43FwxrxNojM

As for something substantive, I like This Week in Google. Jeff brings a bit of an academic bent and Gina is one of the few real devs on any TwiT show. So they actually have a bit of expertise, rather than being a panel of journalists.

3924

In the spirt of game developers doing podcasts (e.g. irrational) a nice and short one comes from the folks over at Double Fine.

Apart from some shameless plugging, it’s podcast hosted by Tim Schafer which means a fun time… for ears!

3925

If you are into hearing Tim Schafer, Giant Bomb had a fun Quick Look of Stacking guest starring Schafer and one of his designers.

3926

This week’s TWiT was actually pretty fantastic. Even Dvorak was pretty good.

3927

Well if you are bit tired of Leo the next three weeks is on vacation, so with Tom Merrit Twit and all the other shows will be a lot more on track. By the way TNT with Tom is great.
I still think Leo is great, but I agree that Twit is bit of hit and miss according to the guests, and Leos mood.

The advertisement on the network tends to not be annoying and it’s actually a very good thing because it proves podcast can be successful on there one instead of being just community service that drives traffic to a site, or magazine like every gaming podcast tends to be.
It always me annoys me when in gaming site podcast they start to talk about something and them refer to website for the rest. Its understandable because the site traffic is what pays the bills, but if they could learn how to monetize the podcast more original content could be delivered this way.

3928

After I heard Pournelle say for the third time that he invented the idea of an iPad in one of his book, I gave up. Now any episode he appears on gets marked as watched so I don’t have to bother with it.

Maybe I’m imagining things, but I swear he asked the panel what Netflix was (or some other mainstream technology that even my mom has heard of). That’s unacceptable for a show that is supposed to be talking about the Week in Technology.

As for Dvorak, I can put up with him. It helps that he doesn’t actually seem interested in talking most of the time, and just makes sure the rest of the panel doesn’t stay on one topic too long.

3929

For some reason Podcaster decided I’d never listened to any episodes of the Geekbox today and set about DLing every episode. I canceled the DL, but it continued to say I hadn’t listened to them despite the fact that when I went in it showed I had. When I tried to manually say I’d listened to them, the only option to pop up was to say that I hadn’t listened to them. I’m sure there was a way to go about fixing this had I set my mind to it, but in the end I decided it was easier to just unsubscribe to the Geekbox and not think about it anymore. I was five episodes behind anyway.

3930

None of us really liked the topic but felt like at some point we needed to get it out of the way. We held out for 50+ episodes. Not the best show to start with, I agree. And we hate doing the show when we’re missing one of the team members.

3931

I’ve listened to several other episodes and I’m on board. Keep up the good work!

3932

I’m always hesitant of podcasts done by developers, the videogame podcast episodes I enjoy the most are the ones that talk about the industry as a business and don’t pretend it’s all fun and games. Somehow I’m willing to bet that developers wouldn’t be allowed to criticize their own company/industry.

3933

That’s been my issue with the Irrational Interviews podcasts. They’re often interesting, but they’re blatantly self serving. Some honesty and/or inside baseball would be appreciated.

3934

I use this. It avoids that problem, at least, because it keeps its own download history (though depending on what you use to form the name, that might still grab it again if they improperly format the date string or change the title). It doesn’t necessarily deal very well with poorly formatted XML (EA Podcast - I’m looking at you, because I never managed to download a single episode because of some kind of improper date formatting or something), but otherwise I haven’t had a problem since I switched.

Confession: I know the guy who wrote it. He’s also on here.

3935

Pretty sure it’s Ryan Davis playing a parody character on this week’s NintenDownload Xpress. Pretty funny.

3936

It’s Jeff’s roommate.

He’d pop up on Jeff’s iPhone stream he used to do all the time. The voice is exactly the same.

3937

I too thought it might be Ryan Davis, as there’s something about that voice that is reminiscent of Ryan’s. Guess I was wrong :)

3938

NDLX was really funny this week. Jeff plays a sad single guy on Valentine’s Day, and fans submitted their own entries for favorite VC and DSi-Ware games.

This stuff should go back on the regular cast.

3939

I discovered the Retroist podcast that doesn’t cover games every week, but enough to make it worth mentioning. It’s well produced, and a little dry, but some may find it interesting. It has a real NPR vibe. This week’s episode is about Dragon’s Lair.

The real reason I’m posting this, however, is that I recognize the guy’s voice from some radio show or other podcast, but the web site/show/Twitter doesn’t contain the creator’s name anywhere and I just can’t figure it out. Does anyone else recognize this person?

3940

You might want to look at an app called Downcast. I used Podcaster for a long time, but was always pretty frustrated with how flakey and crash-prone it was. For a long time, Podcaster had no competition in the app store, but there now a few other apps that support direct subscription to podcast feeds. Of those, I like Downcast best. Much more polished and stable than Podcaster.