Gaming Podcast Discussion

Ginger_Yellow · 2012-03-23T06:31:18.000Z

FYI, Tom et al, it’s “Seenay” Mora, not “Sign” Mora. You guys were driving me crazy on that podcast.

ubrakto · 2012-03-23T07:06:30.000Z

Wolff:

A major reason I got an iPhone! Anyone else listen to JTS me3 discussion? They sounded pretty uniformed yet still argumentative, didn’t know the difference between assests and readiness. Big pet peeve of mine because I want to be able to correct them so they can have a legitimate debate.

That show, unfortunately, got out of hand. It was a mistake to get so deep into it before we’d had time to really play the game, although to be fair, neither of our positions have changed even with a better understanding of how Assets and Galaxy at War work in conjunction with each other. Regardless, hopefully Brandon and I have made it up for it with this week’s show as well as the one going up next Monday.

Our apologies to anyone who was turned off by that episode!

divedivedive · 2012-03-23T09:04:08.000Z

Ginger Yellow:

FYI, Tom et al, it’s “Seenay” Mora, not “Sign” Mora. You guys were driving me crazy on that podcast.

Looks like we done got ourselves a college boy. You know what we do to college boys 'round here, son?

Troy_S_Goodfellow · 2012-03-23T16:44:01.000Z

Christien Murawski:

All due respect, but you couldn’t be more wrong about this Troy. It’s a great game to play in person. In fact, it’s near perfect for that. It has a reasonable time commitment. It’s fairly simple to teach but still has plenty of complexity. Beginners can compete immediately and the more experienced players still remain engaged.

I’ll take your word for it, since I haven’t played it in person. I’m relying on my own perceptions and some spare thoughts from other people I trust.

Troy

Super_D · 2012-03-30T21:01:38.000Z

GFW reunion on the Comedy Button woohoo!

mono · 2012-03-30T21:16:01.000Z

Very cool.

Here’s the link, in case I’m not the only person who’s never heard of The Comedy Button:
http://www.geekbox.net/archives/2012/03/30/the-comedy-button-episode-23/

mono · 2012-03-30T21:16:48.000Z

Super_D:

GFW reunion on the Comedy Button woohoo!

Very cool.

Here’s the link, in case I’m not the only person who’s never heard of The Comedy Button:
http://www.geekbox.net/archives/2012...on-episode-23/

pyjamarama · 2012-04-02T15:07:17.000Z

Listenned to the GFW reunion episode, the Shaw Elliot Internet horror segment was rather disturbing, but the rest of the podcast was entertaining and insightful just as as the old episodes.

Papageno · 2012-04-02T15:42:39.000Z

So is the Brodeo reunion available on iTunes at all, or do I have to grab it manually?

Rock8man · 2012-04-02T16:07:59.000Z

I had a question for you guys. I recently heard Justin McElroy on the GWJ podcast a couple of weeks ago. On the podcast they mentioned that he’s with Vox games and does a podcast with them. I wanted to check that out since I found him pretty engaging on the GWJ podcast. But the only Vox games I can find through internet searches is some site called The Verge vs Vox Games. Their podcast doesn’t mention Justin McElroy as being on the podcast at all. And their About page doesn’t list him anywhere. When I do a search for his name with podcasts, I get the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast. Is that the podcast he’s on that he was mentioning on the GWJ podcast? The one on which they count down the best games of the year so far, and discuss if the new releases supplant any games on the list this week, etc?

Fortitudo · 2012-04-02T16:13:15.000Z

Could somebody tl;dr The Besties podcast for me… I’ve tried listening to it but after each episode I’m not sure what I just listened to? Here’s what I’ve gathered so far. Justin, Griffinn and Russ make up meaningless games and then rant about how theirs is the best and how bad the others are? Some real world gaming talk interspersed throughout.

I’m not sure I dig it, I really liked The Joystiq Podcast and the banter there but with The Besties it’s a totally different vibe (more like MBMB&M?)

pyjamarama · 2012-04-03T01:35:44.000Z

Rock8man:

I had a question for you guys. I recently heard Justin McElroy on the GWJ podcast a couple of weeks ago. On the podcast they mentioned that he’s with Vox games and does a podcast with them. I wanted to check that out since I found him pretty engaging on the GWJ podcast. But the only Vox games I can find through internet searches is some site called The Verge vs Vox Games. Their podcast doesn’t mention Justin McElroy as being on the podcast at all. And their About page doesn’t list him anywhere. When I do a search for his name with podcasts, I get the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast. Is that the podcast he’s on that he was mentioning on the GWJ podcast? The one on which they count down the best games of the year so far, and discuss if the new releases supplant any games on the list this week, etc?

That’s him in both podcasts and he also did the Joystiq podcast back in the days.

I tried the Besties at least 3 times because I enjoyed the joystiq podcast with Justin and I find him enterteining guy when he does a more on topic podcast, but I found the podcast to be a complete train wreck the humour completly fails to me and there is so little information on the games beyond them just trying to hard to crack jokes at each other. I also don’t like My Brother, My Brother and Me but that at least as lot fans so maybe is just a question of preferences in humor. I had the same problem with the Joystiq podcast when it was a regular show it was much more entertaining that when they did a show just trying to be funny.

Ginger_Yellow · 2012-04-03T02:08:54.000Z

So is the Brodeo reunion available on iTunes at all, or do I have to grab it manually?

It’s on iTunes. Just search the podcast directory for Comedy Button. It’s not specially indicated as being GFW/Brodeo, but it’s the most recent episode.

Brad_Grenz · 2012-04-03T03:57:48.000Z

Besties is unlistenable. I can see how they wanted to do something difference from the standard news+letters format, but listening to those guys making bad faith arguments every week is torturous.

Papageno · 2012-04-03T08:20:19.000Z

Okay, I downloaded the Brodeo podcast but inadvertently discovered that it’s apparently no longer possible in iTunes to download an individual episode of a podcast, and when you subscribe, it only downloads the most recent episode. There seems to be no way to download previous episodes (say, of NPRs Fresh Air podcast). Anyone else seeing this?

Eric_Majkut · 2012-04-03T08:23:36.000Z

iTunes? Completely bloated and worthless? SURELY NOT!

Ginger_Yellow · 2012-04-03T10:10:17.000Z

Okay, I downloaded the Brodeo podcast but inadvertently discovered that it’s apparently no longer possible in iTunes to download an individual episode of a podcast, and when you subscribe, it only downloads the most recent episode. There seems to be no way to download previous episodes (say, of NPRs Fresh Air podcast). Anyone else seeing this?

Um, no. I’ll double check when I get home, but

a) I’m 99% certain you can download old episodes without subscribing. Just click on the show title, then click on “Free” by the specific episode you want. And I downloaded this very podcast without subscribing, like, this morning.

b) If you’ve subscribed to a podcast, so long as the feed has links to old podcasts, you can download them from within your podcasts list. I suspect your problem is with Fresh Air, rather than iTunes - I know that This American Life only puts the most recent episode in the feed, so it’s probably an NPR policy.

Jcrawford33 · 2012-04-03T11:51:49.000Z

Papageno:

Okay, I downloaded the Brodeo podcast but inadvertently discovered that it’s apparently no longer possible in iTunes to download an individual episode of a podcast, and when you subscribe, it only downloads the most recent episode. There seems to be no way to download previous episodes (say, of NPRs Fresh Air podcast). Anyone else seeing this?

I was initially thrown off by this too. In their newest update, iTunes removed the “Get” button that was formerly used to download old podcasts. In order to do this now, you just doubleclick the podcast episode you want. It seems really simple, but it took me about 15 minutes to figure it out.

Papageno · 2012-04-03T11:58:58.000Z

Ah, double clicking, got it. For the record, the “get” button was a lot more intuitive.

Chris_Remo · 2012-04-03T12:23:20.000Z

Ginger Yellow:

Um, no. I’ll double check when I get home, but

a) I’m 99% certain you can download old episodes without subscribing. Just click on the show title, then click on “Free” by the specific episode you want. And I downloaded this very podcast without subscribing, like, this morning.

b) If you’ve subscribed to a podcast, so long as the feed has links to old podcasts, you can download them from within your podcasts list. I suspect your problem is with Fresh Air, rather than iTunes - I know that This American Life only puts the most recent episode in the feed, so it’s probably an NPR policy.

This American Life isn’t actually an NPR podcast, it’s PRI (Public Radio International). TAL does indeed only put the most recent episode on its feed, but that isn’t true of the NPR podcasts I subscribe to, including Fresh Air and Planet Money, which include many recent episodes. For example, Fresh Air’s RSS feed goes back to May 2010: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=13