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Lone Goat posted:Danielle's puns on this week's Idle Thumbs were incredible. Cara was also very very good. A+++++ episode. Her anecdote from the British map guy talking about how SimCity is unmistakably an American game was really interesting. Never really considered that perspective for a thing like SimCity before
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The Milkman posted:Her anecdote from the British map guy talking about how SimCity is unmistakably an American game was really interesting. Never really considered that perspective for a thing like SimCity before That was Cara, but yeah it was good.
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Did this weeks Idle Thumbs go straight from the ad to the middle of the Full Throttle discussion with no introduction or theme song or do I need to redownload?
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im just happy "video games" is back in the thumbs theme. last week i had to rip my earbuds out in rage and throw my phone out of the moving car because that poo poo is not canon imo hth tia also i hope people check out both cities skylines and ori and the forest, they're both SO GREAT
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:im just happy "video games" is back in the thumbs theme. last week i had to rip my earbuds out in rage and throw my phone out of the moving car because that poo poo is not canon imo hth tia And you can get both of them for the same price as Assassin's Creed : Rogue, now on Steam. I'm really glad I bought both of them.
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Chris Remo posted:That was Cara, but yeah it was good. I knew that, and yet wrote that like I didn't. 
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If we don't at least get a short Skype cameo from Cara "Steve Gaynor" Ellison on next week's cast, I'm quitting Idle Thumbs. 
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They should at least pretend to call her and play a clip of the Ganon laugh.
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:im just happy "video games" is back in the thumbs theme. last week i had to rip my earbuds out in rage and throw my phone out of the moving car because that poo poo is not canon imo hth tia I can confirm that skylines is amazing. I've just finished daming off an entire bay and pumping all the water out to make more room. Early attempts have lead to lots of accidental flooding. I'm also using the mod that lets me make 100km^2 maps instead of the 36km^2 that is default, and I am still waiting for a mod that lets me use the full 324km^2 area. I just can't get enough. Also http://terrain.party/ is great.
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C-Euro posted:I can't figure out Cara Ellison's accent on the latest IT and it's driving me crazy. I assume she is scottish but has lived in america for a while and has a kind of hybrid accent. Great episode all round.
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Jippa posted:I assume she is scottish but has lived in america for a while and has a kind of hybrid accent. Great episode all round. I think's its fair to call it a hybrid accent, I mind back when she was on Bombing the AM with Scoops and the Wolf and she sounded drastically more Aberdonian than she does on the latest thumbs. A native scots speaker would be hard pressed to distinguish her from a typical mid-western 'John Barrowman' style accent tbh.
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Dr. Stab posted:I can confirm that skylines is amazing. I've just finished daming off an entire bay and pumping all the water out to make more room. Early attempts have lead to lots of accidental flooding. I'm also using the mod that lets me make 100km^2 maps instead of the 36km^2 that is default, and I am still waiting for a mod that lets me use the full 324km^2 area. I just can't get enough. I can double confirm that Skylines is amazing, I really hope the Thumbs check it out and rave about it, if only to make up for SimCity being their 2013 GOTY. Also that new Thumbs theme was great as an instrumental, but Chris' interpretation of Video Games as one of Buffalo Bill's victims really makes it something special.
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MASTUR.BAT REPRODUCTIVE.SYS Goofy Remo is best Remo.
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As a Scot who has had to do some public speaking to non-Scots, I find my accent changes as soon as I open my mouth so that people can understand what the gently caress I'm even saying. Enunciating is hard you guys 
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Cara had a weird hybrid Scottish / American accent in this. And says like so much... Fun discussions. It's great when someone with genuine enthusiasm is on the cast.
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Lugaloco posted:As a Scot who has had to do some public speaking to non-Scots, I find my accent changes as soon as I open my mouth so that people can understand what the gently caress I'm even saying. Honestly you scots get one of the best deals from british accents to be honest. Every one loves scottish accents. I always felt so sorry for noel gallagher when they would sub title him on MTV in the 90's.
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Scottish accents are a delight. Every vowel is a surprise!
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Listening to WOFF Extrasode 39 with Gary giving out bad comic advice. Y The Last Man and Transmet are way, way better than Ex Machina and Planetary, respectively.
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The Milkman posted:Her anecdote from the British map guy talking about how SimCity is unmistakably an American game was really interesting. Never really considered that perspective for a thing like SimCity before I remember the discussion coming up in one of the podcast threads when the Thumbs were all over the new simcity.
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mango sentinel posted:Listening to WOFF Extrasode 39 with Gary giving out bad comic advice. Y The Last Man and Transmet are way, way better than Ex Machina and Planetary, respectively. Respectfully disagree, of course. I think the Y/Ex is more of a gray area but I think Planetary is near perfect. Transmet is great but some of the monkey/cheese stuff didn't age as well for me. Planetary rewards being a comics fan the same way the best Alan Moore work does and it's my favorite execution of the monster-of-the-week style structure in any medium. It feels silly to be arguing the merits of four comics I love dearly, however.
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Woffle posted:Respectfully disagree, of course. I think the Y/Ex is more of a gray area but I think Planetary is near perfect. Transmet is great but some of the monkey/cheese stuff didn't age as well for me. Planetary rewards being a comics fan the same way the best Alan Moore work does and it's my favorite execution of the monster-of-the-week style structure in any medium. Transmet is great, but for monster of the week you can't beat Global Frequency. I loved it so much I searched out and stored the TV pilot they made from it. Planetary is basically the perfect comic book. .
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EC posted:Transmet is great, but for monster of the week you can't beat Global Frequency. I loved it so much I searched out and stored the TV pilot they made from it. Global Frequency rules. I think I appreciated Planetary's take on comic book revisionist history more, however. That golden age of Warren Ellis is pretty unstoppable though.
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On the topic of SimCity being an American expansion into terra nullis, I thought that an interesting philosophically European angle would be to have a Half Life 2 City 17 situation, where an alien architecture is expanding into an existing architecture, literally ripping up the streets and replacing them with something else.
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Ramagamma posted:I think's its fair to call it a hybrid accent, I mind back when she was on Bombing the AM with Scoops and the Wolf and she sounded drastically more Aberdonian than she does on the latest thumbs. A native scots speaker would be hard pressed to distinguish her from a typical mid-western 'John Barrowman' style accent tbh. Yeah she's just been not-in-scotland for ever so she's gone native. She still writes extremely scottishly though!
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New thread OP near-final draft, want some other eyes on it given that I'm tired as gently caress and am going to bed before I post anything. Please tell me if I ruined a link/name/show you like so I can repair it.quote:
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If you want to be my hero, co-list Tone Control and Designer Notes as more or less the same show, as Designer Notes is almost the same show as Tone Control but is 1) hosted by Soren Johnson instead of Steve Gaynor, and 2) actually still publishing episodes. Don't ever change that description of VGHD because I think it kinda irks zack.
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I hope my comment didn't haunt you for the past twelve and a half months. I don't even remember posting that. Time sure flies.
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Spawn on Me is a cool podcast about video games and social issues in games.Timett posted:Brad hosts the Bombcast now Also, Vinny is not likely to be on the podcast too much on account of living on the other side of the country.
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ja2ke posted:If you want to be my hero, co-list Tone Control and Designer Notes as more or less the same show, as Designer Notes is almost the same show as Tone Control but is 1) hosted by Soren Johnson instead of Steve Gaynor, and 2) actually still publishing episodes. No way, I love it the most.
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:New thread OP near-final draft, want some other eyes on it given that I'm tired as gently caress and am going to bed before I post anything. Please tell me if I ruined a link/name/show you like so I can repair it. Dr. Stab posted:Also, Vinny is not likely to be on the podcast too much on account of living on the other side of the country.
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I'd like to see Minnesota Public Radio's (yes really) Top Score on there. It's a weekly show where host Emily Reese interviews people involved in composing the music for video games. It's a bit public radio-y, for obvious reasons, but it's an interesting look at a side of games that doesn't get much real attention. More recent episodes have been interviews with Winifred Phillips, composer for Little Big Planet 3 and Assassin's Creed Liberation; Jason Graves for Evolve and The Order; Peter McConnell for Grim Fandango and Hearthstone; Jukio Kallio for Luftrausers; and Ben Prunty for FTL. Cast: Emily Reese and weekly guest Links: Twitter Site iTunes RSS
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Whoa subscribing to Top Score immediately. Awesome. Edit: just listened to the Peter McConnell episodes about the scores to Grim Fandango and Hearthstone. Super good stuff. ja2ke fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Gameinformer has their podcast, which is relatively short (about an hour each) and they usually focus on the newest games in segments. The cast is a rotation of whoever reviewed the game, so there's no real core. There could possibly be a total of 9 per podcast because 3 could be per segment. http://www.gameinformer.com/p/gishow.aspx
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How about Cane and Rinse podcast? They seem to do plays of older games then comment about them. rss feed , iTunes, and twitter. They also have a podcast about game music, the sound of play. Edit:broken brackets fixed. SpannerX fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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We've got twitters if you want to list them. @garybuh and @koleross. Also, and I don't mean to be prescriptive, but it'd be nice if Check it Out, Comrade was listed too. http://duckfeed.tv/comrade
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Thanks for adding From US to You! and Axe of the Blood God to the main list. Much appreciated.
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Giant Bomb and Super Best Friend Cast both have their own RGD threads, might as well include those links somewhere. Rest of it looks good.
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TetsuoTW posted:I'd like to see Minnesota Public Radio's (yes really) Top Score on there. It's a weekly show where host Emily Reese interviews people involved in composing the music for video games. It's a bit public radio-y, for obvious reasons, but it's an interesting look at a side of games that doesn't get much real attention. More recent episodes have been interviews with Winifred Phillips, composer for Little Big Planet 3 and Assassin's Creed Liberation; Jason Graves for Evolve and The Order; Peter McConnell for Grim Fandango and Hearthstone; Jukio Kallio for Luftrausers; and Ben Prunty for FTL. Unless I missed it skimming over the episode titles, they've never interviewed Jake Kaufman, C418, or Danny Baranowsky? Have they never tried, I feel like all three of those dudes have been pretty open to interviews and stuff, and they're clearly not averse to indie music interviews if they're doing stuff like Bastion. Honestly surprised me that they've skipped over some of the best indie composers in the industry after 132 episodes.
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I haven't listened to that podcast but it seems like it's intended for more of a classical crossover audience than a gamer/VGM audience, so guys like virt or Danny B who are heavy on kitsch and low on "prestige" aren't gonna be in their wheelhouse.
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