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Posted By Austin Yorski about 6 months, 3 weeks ago
BT Podcast 26: Herpes Slurpees,
Who can you trust?
Featuring the most offensive joke in our sordid history.
Click right here to download the MP3.
Posted By Austin Yorski about 6 months, 3 weeks ago
BT Podcast 26: Herpes Slurpees,
Who can you trust?
Featuring the most offensive joke in our sordid history.
Click right here to download the MP3.
Music Mondays revisits the band that brought us tunes from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Bit.Trip Runner.
Speaking of Gaming journalism, I noticed you guys didn’t mention G4′s X-play cancellation. Was this podcast made prior to announcement?
I remember hearing about X-Play being cancelled, but I never thought to bring it up during the recording. Honestly, I don’t watch TV, so I don’t know how much I’d have to say about it.
It’s always a shame when things end, especially when it’s mainstream attention to video games. It makes me worry about the long-term viability of e-sports, as well.
What are your thoughts on the cancellation?
You had one detail wrong with the libel bit. It was the U.S. who recently passed laws that required foreign lawsuits making libel charges against U.S. companies/reporter/etc. to base their charges in U.S. courts, based on U.S. libel laws. This law was largely passed in response to the UK’s wonky libel suits.
I might not have gotten that quite right, but the point was the US passed the law protecting people, not the UK.
real long intro again, Slurpee ferbies with herpes?
So basically it’s Austin about bullies in High school : “Ich hast das nicht gewusst”
Johnny just think this, how much balls would you need to have to pull off what you did in high heels and still talk about it.
Yes live sucks especially when you buy a game on steam “AND IT INSTALLS THE WINDOWS LIVE GAMES PROGRAM TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IT!!!”
Oh and I am playing emerald right now so I will share my team with you soon if you like it or not. Like I said I blaim Austin for me playing Pokemon right now. (I have no life, people van talk me into a lot at the moment)
Journalists in general should not be limited in this way, a good and fair but maybe edgy article should not bring risks like getting suit bankrupt about it. We should all know and learn about journalists in the so called “free world”.
I rarely have to know something about a specific game and well for news in general I go to BT, but when I really really want to know something about a game I don’t REALLY care about where it’s from i just read it all like a information slut bucket
And again I loved the final 2 words.
You know sometimes you 3 give me a headache, but with a smile, sooo yea idk do with that information what ever you like.
It is not surprising how low a video game publisher like square enix as marketing ploy can hire a person like Lauren Wainwright to act as a postive, biased and optumistic journalist who loves square enix games. I can’t blame them for getting depresed everytime someone critcising their game that might have wasted a lot of resources to make with an end result of a horrible game. but getting emotionally attached over their own video games that they worked so damn long to make and expect an automatic ‘A+’ by critics in the end just makes them look so self centered and immature. Yes I know or may know that it takes development hell to design complex and photorealistic games. but really act like mature adults for crying out loud. it’s like watching a guy shoot himself in the foot with a shotgun and blame it on the news reporter for making him look bad because he himself thought it was an amazing publicity stunt.
The FF collections were V and VI (Anthologies) and Chronicles (IV and Chrono Trigger). Since hey, what are comments for if not pointless factoids.
To this day, I think Chrono Trigger remains the jRPG that best exemplifies the genre. There are better games, but there is no other game that I would point to and say “This. This game is what jRPGs are. If you want to learn about them and don’t know where to start, start here.”
I really want to make more publishers sit down and play the game again. Good boss design. Using villains to tie together disparate plot events. Giving each character a stake in the quest. Help others. Make a brighter future. I miss all those things, and it feels like there’s fewer exceptions, games that remember the core of the genre, as time goes on.
I love chrono trigger myself. the psx anthology version is pretty crappy though. the load times really kill it and the new cutscenes they added are in sub par quality for what the playstation can do. good thing the DS version came out and made everything all better
On the topic of ‘do I care what sites news comes from’ – in short, no.
I tend to read articles from just about anybody, but quite often I will find a writer that I find is extraordinarily untalented, they’re boring, and they have nothing interesting to say or throw temper tantrums when people disagree with them. As a result of that, I just don’t bother reading their articles anymore – and those writers can be on just about any site (there’s one or two on BT, but I’m not going to name names).
There are however, whole sites where I find every writer is like this, and as a result I avoid the publication as a whole, as either their philosophy as a business or the people there hire/attract an element I find most unsavory with regards to penmanship or integrity.
That last note brings me to the other question – ‘do I care if a site or writer holds to a high standard of journalism’, and that answer in short, is absolutely.
When I come to a site where people are talking about news, and previews, and reviewing games, I need to know they’re doing those things from an intellectually honest position. Flatly, if the staff of an ‘impartial’ third party are receiving benefits from a developer/publisher and as a result of those benefits are making special exceptions for those products in either advertising or arguments for why you should buy it which are undeserving on purely the basis of the title’s merits, I may as well write a letter to Microsoft, Sony, EA, Ubisoft or others, and ask *THEM* to tell me if I should buy their game/system.
If you have no integrity, I have no reason to trust what you have to say, and if I can’t trust what someone has to say is at least being said honestly as their own unadulterated opinion, it has no value whatsoever for me in a marketplace of ideas, and I would quickly write them off as being about as useful as a bishop in a brothel.
I hate Geoff Keighley from the time he was a fucking dick to Angry Joe!
Ok, a band called “The Restiform Bodies”? Were the members all Neuroscience professors/students XD? Srsly, why’d they rhyme slurpees with herpes? Now I can’t enjoy one without thinking about all the symptoms of herpes that I’ve read about in med texts XD