The Podcast Thread

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by Skippy » Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:21 pm

degoose wrote:
Mafro wrote:What's my boy Scott Bromley up to these days?

Just the Comedy Button now. I think he now works for Disney if i remember correctly so is just on that now whilst Brian and Max are all over the place with multiple ign things and the comedy button.

Yeah he works Star Wars events for Disney.

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by Qazwsxedc » Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:23 am

chalkitdown wrote:Do we finally have another RebelFM listener on this board? :shock:

Gotta say, though, I'm starting to tire of the constant DOTA talk. They insist on warbling on about it for 20 minutes (or more) every week and it's like they are speaking a foreign language to me. Just have no interest in it whatsoever. It's like John Davison's mobile games corner on the old 1up Yours episodes. Like toxin for my ears.

No real DOTA talk in this week's RFM.

And to respond to those who don't like Mitchy D... To a certain extent, yes, I do agree with you folks that Mitch Dyer isn't as easy on the ears as his predecessor (Tyler Barber) - although he has gotten infinitely better as time has gone on. Probably due to more practice speaking in a mic as well as having better rapport with his co-hosts.

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by chalkitdown » Wed Aug 26, 2015 12:20 pm

No DOTA talk whatsoever this week which was a relief. I enjoyed that episode.

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by Qazwsxedc » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:28 pm

I enjoy every episode... Even if I don't like DOTA (as MOBAs don't appeal to me), I don't mind as I enjoy the hosts' personalities.

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by chalkitdown » Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:09 pm

Mangod is on this week's 8-4 Play :wub: It's a Tokyo game show special.

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by chalkitdown » Mon Sep 28, 2015 11:30 pm

The Comedy Button got reeeeeal dark towards the end of this week's ep. Anthony is such a scary person :lol:

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by Cuttooth » Sun Feb 07, 2016 5:58 pm

The payoff with the troll bear in the latest Idle Thumbs was amazing. :lol:

It's picked up quite a bit recently as it seems the consistent trio has gone back to Chris, Jake, and Nick.

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by Mogster » Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:26 am

The bear defusal was filmed too. :)



Idle Thumbs has been ace over the last few weeks, and I think Idle Weekend has very quickly become excellent too. I was worried it would just be an Idle Thumbs B-Side, but it's a very different podcast built around a pre-decided "feature" discussion each week. Danielle's great in it, and Rob Zachny seems to be a podcasting machine.

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by Rog » Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:25 am

Thumbs has improved. I think it's because Danielle left they have made an effort to actually play games as they don't have her to pick up the slack.

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by Mogster » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:14 pm

I think that's more due to development of Firewatch finally rounding off.

To be honest I felt that Danielle didn't mesh too well with Idle Thumbs on many episodes. She played a lot more games than the others, and often much more diverse games too which was refreshing, but as a result her input didn't tend to lead to interesting discussions. She'd describe a bunch of games, the others would ask a couple of questions and that would be it. That wasn't the case for every episode or anything, but I think Idle Weekend is a much better fit for her.

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by chalkitdown » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:22 pm

Great Comedy Button last week. I continue to be amazed by the things that Anthony comes out with :lol: How has that man continually found employment with the stories he tells on the show.

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by 7256930752 » Mon Feb 08, 2016 5:14 pm

Mogster wrote:I think that's more due to development of Firewatch finally rounding off.

To be honest I felt that Danielle didn't mesh too well with Idle Thumbs on many episodes. She played a lot more games than the others, and often much more diverse games too which was refreshing, but as a result her input didn't tend to lead to interesting discussions. She'd describe a bunch of games, the others would ask a couple of questions and that would be it. That wasn't the case for every episode or anything, but I think Idle Weekend is a much better fit for her.

Might try it again if Danielle has left, she is the female Arthur Gies. The Shadow of Mordor episode was just so dreadful that I unsubscribed and never looked back.

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by Cuttooth » Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:47 pm

Mogster wrote:I think that's more due to development of Firewatch finally rounding off.

To be honest I felt that Danielle didn't mesh too well with Idle Thumbs on many episodes. She played a lot more games than the others, and often much more diverse games too which was refreshing, but as a result her input didn't tend to lead to interesting discussions. She'd describe a bunch of games, the others would ask a couple of questions and that would be it. That wasn't the case for every episode or anything, but I think Idle Weekend is a much better fit for her.

I think that's fair. She was great as a guest but a combination of things made some of the episodes where she was a regular feel flat.

Loving Idle Weekend for the most part, Danielle and Rob Zacny bounce off each other really well. It's become it's own thing very quickly too, rather than being every other podcast.

Hime wrote:Might try it again if Danielle has left, she is the female Arthur Gies. The Shadow of Mordor episode was just so dreadful that I unsubscribed and never looked back.


Eh?

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by 7256930752 » Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:56 pm

What don't you understand? The episode in which they discussed the sexist and racist undertones in The Shadow or Mordor was the peak (at least before I stopped listening) of manufactured controversy on the show and the point which I gave up on it.

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by Cuttooth » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:08 pm

I think it's a bit much to suggest they manufactured a controversy out of it. From what I remember they discussed how there's a disconnect between Talion being this noble hero and the sheer amount of violence directed towards a single enemy.

They discussed race too, something not exactly unheard of in analysis of Tolkein's work, and I think in the episode after someone emailed in a description of The Last Ringbearer which fit the general tone of what they were getting at previously.

There was no tone of outrage, no real soapbox style talking, no call for a boycott. I don't understand the controversy over discussing the themes of the game the way they did.

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by Mogster » Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:51 pm

Especially as they liked it. There was certainly no "outrage" there unless I'm really misremembering things. I'm struggling to think of anything close to "manufactured controversy" on the show, unless you count beargate which I suppose technically qualifies. ;)

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by 7256930752 » Mon Feb 08, 2016 9:55 pm

Maybe we should all go back and listen but I specifically remember them talking about the introduction sequence and making a huge deal about the stealth mechanic being shown to the player as sneaking up on your wife. That was manufactured controversy.

I also just found Danielle particularly grating.

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by 7256930752 » Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:34 am

Have listened to the last two Idle Thumbs and they were pretty good. Hopefully the few episodes I really disliked were anomalies or down to my growing hatred of Arthur Gies at the time affecting my judgement.

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PostRe: The Podcast Thread
by chalkitdown » Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:20 pm

Incredibly depressing Comedy Button this week :( Brian just found out his mother doesn't have long to live. Great listen, though.

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by degoose » Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:53 pm

for anyone that enjoyed joypod David Turners has now come out of retirement and a new podcast is born https://twitter.com/ComputerGamePod

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