Reply With QuoteAndrew Fitch back on the Geekbox for a week. No Karen. So basically 'skip this week's Geekbox'.
I've been downloading Games Dammit for a long time, and whatever it was called before that, but never seem to get to it. What happened that Jeremy Parish took the podcast over from Ray?
Andrew Fitch back on the Geekbox for a week. No Karen. So basically 'skip this week's Geekbox'.
8-4 Play is pretty boring this week.
Ray was laid off. But the tone of the show is pretty much the same. I love it.Originally Posted by MSUSteve
I tried out an episode of the Player One podcast and am rather liking it. Going to check out some more.
That's too bad. Shows how much I pay attention to 1up anymore, but I always really liked Ray. He looked sort of boyish and innocent, but he had a sneaky, subversive and sometimes filthy sense of humor that I really appreciated.
Steve keeps a picture of Ray Barnholt next to his picture of Jensen Ackles in his wallet.
So when he closes it ..
They're both dreamy.
Wow...
I can see why you'd be shocked by my appreciation of Ray Barnholt's sense of humor. Clearly I'm totally gay for the guy.
Oh, it doesn't seem to be his humor you're appreciating...
Anyway, it's true Fitch is on the Box this week, but it's been one of their best lists of topics in recent memory. I endorse this episode.
Yeah, drawing a comparison between his innocent looking face and his subversively filthy sense of humor leads to the reasonable conclusion that I want his man meat. I completely agree.
Good.
Anyway, 51% of people in the poll on the 1up front page either say that Catherine is "so hot" or that they've already preordered it. That is awesome. That means the audience has shifted to being super nerdy, just like everyone on "Games, Dammit!" If the site is sustainable, then the community will be the best ever. Er, uh, second to Qt3, of course.
have some episodes of 3 moves ahead shown up on the qt3 feed for everyone else, or just me?
Same here Abilio. It seems Tom must have added the shows he featured on to the front page. Episode 31 was the most recent that showed up for me (I went and listened to it again just for kicks). I knew it had been a while, but it seems that Tom hasn't featured on a TMA for 66 episodes now *Sad Face*
Looking at the RSS feed itself I wouldn't be surprised if it listed every single item on the site, rather than the most recent 10-20 like most other places. That would at least explain why "old" items that were just added to the site are still updated by our feed readers.
Speaking of the Qt3 podcasts, I wish there was a separate feed for the movie casts and the game casts. I never want the movie podcasts, but iTunes insists on downloading them anyway.
No more Brian Leahy on Weekend Confirmed. No goodbyes, he just isn't on anymore starting with today's episode. Anyone know what happened?
What I read sounds like he got another job. There was a twitter post about him leaving. I really liked him on that show. He was a voice of reason when the others went off in weird directions and a voice for hardcore gamers.
I miss the 1Up golden age of podcasts.
Yeah, Brian was easily my favorite person on the show. He really was the only one who seemed to either have his head on his shoulders or wasn't interested in manufacturing the schmaltz or "debate" that the other hosts did. If he shows up on another podcast I'll definitely check it out.
I'm bummed to hear that Brian is leaving. I haven't listened to the latest Weekend Confirmed episode yet. Does it at least sound like the parting was friendly? I checked Brian's Twitter feed and he said his new job is outside the game industry entirely.
Just a short comment about "Brian has moved onto different opportunities and we wish him the best." Of course, I usually read that same sentence at work in emails after someone was fired or laid off...
nah, he mentioned on NeoGAF that he got some great job opportunity unrelated to games writing or game development and wanted to do something new, so he jumped on it.
I know what you mean, but that "age" lasted like a year or a year and a half, and we need to forget about it. It's also the paradigm for a lot of people because that's when they started listening, but that doesn't mean it was wholly the best.
I'm taking the end of the year Bombcasts very slowly, so I know this is old news, but I wanted to acknowledge that you guys did not exaggerate the length or stupidity of the Minerva's Den vs. Lair of the Shadow Broker discussion. What killed me is that Brad essentially filibustered his way to victory. He refused to give up and thus, even though no one else agreed with him, GB awarded Minerva's Den the best DLC award. Again, Jeff Gerstmann was a total asshole during the discussion. He hadn't played either DLC, but felt the need to interject his opinion regularly, stating over and over that Bioshock 2 was not very good and so he wouldn't vote for Minerva's Den.
I suspect his "month-long illness" was actually a "month-long job acquisition." Good for him; I hope he has great success at his new gig.
That said -- why is it so hard for Garnett to get four regular cast members (assuming that's his goal)? I would think that LA game media types would be jumping at the opportunity to get on Weekend Confirmed.
I've really been getting into the Gameshark podcast recently.
Originally I was just listening to episodes with Tom in but I went back and started listening to the first few and am really enjoying it. Everyone's approaches to subjects are pretty thoughtful and there has been absolutely no sense of platform bias whatsoever.
I wonder what is going on with the Shack. Gamefly hasn't really done anything with it.
I dunno. The guys seemed to genuinely think that Brian was in bad shape. I don't think he'd need that much time to interview for jobs either. I guess it doesn't matter either way now.
Regarding Garnett being able to get four regular cast members, I would think that if you're doing it for free, appearing on Weekend Confirmed would lose it's thrill after awhile, especially if you have to fight L.A. traffic to get there. Brian will be sorely missed on WC, that's for sure.
I generally felt like Brian was the relentlessly cynical soggy blanket .. To the point where you could almost always predict exactly how he was going to react to any given subject - usually beginning with a snort.
I haven't been much enamored with Weekend Confirmed overall, though.
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