THE BORE
General => Dysfunctional Hall of Fame => The Borecast/Cruncheons => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on July 07, 2009, 11:31:33 AM
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Direct download - http://media.libsyn.com/media/borecast/Borecast13.mp3
This week Doug and Kevin reflect on past miserable workplace experiences, review a diverse selection of games, read your best fanboy stories, pose a couple of genuinely offensive Either/Or questions to each other, and mourn the loss of a dazzling performer who forever changed the face of entertainment. RIP, Karl Malden.
SEGMENT ONE: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, CRAPPY JOBS
There's been a dearth of Michael Jackson coverage since his death, so we take the first ten minutes of the show to fill that void with unwarranted opinions and factual inaccuracies.
(13:00) Doug talks about his time working in the automotive service industry and stripping bark off trees, while Kevin talks about working in a Chinese restaurant and on a contract painting crew. Tell us your crap job stories!
SEGMENT TWO: THE PLAYLIST, EITHER/OR, LISTENER MAIL
PLAYLIST
(48:50) Ghostbusters
(58:35) Fallout 3: Point Lookout
(1:04:55) BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
(1:16:45) Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires
(1:29:00) Time Gentlemen, Please! - http://www.zombie-cow.com/
EITHER/OR
(1:35:45) It's bad, you'll probably get mad, best just to skip it if you're easily offended.
LISTENER MAIL
(1:40:15)
We read and react to some of the worst fanboy encounters from the listeners, and share a few more anecdotes of our own.
We'll talk to you again on July 20!
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Downloading now. Can't wait!
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Also downloading, I will listen to it tonight!
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:lol Jon and Kate :lol
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367450
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I know who Magnum P.I is!
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I liked the show.
I don't have much of a comment this week besides that I hope I don't get shitty jobs like you guys.
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someone post the ghostbusters impressions so i can be disappointed if they are negative. sorry but ghostbusters is goty. ok.
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great if you're a fan, kinda middling if you aren't
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demi and I will london bridge anyone that even remotely trashes the game.
We will break you in two.
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great if you're a fan, kinda middling if you aren't
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Sounds like Eel JUST SUCKS AT IT!!!!!!!!!!! GHOSTBUSTERS GOTY!!!!!!!!!!!
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THATS RIGHT BABY TAKE THE FRONT I WILL RAM THIS GOTY GOODNESS IN FROM THE BACK ARGH
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THATS RIGHT BABY TAKE THE FRONT I WILL RAM THIS GOTY GOODNESS IN FROM THE BACK ARGH
:-*
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In response to Prof. Prole's fanboy inqueries:
-I used to wonder what some of those guys did for a living too, but I wasn't going to make the mistake of talking to them any more than I had to!
-One friend of mine who did almost nothing but play MMORPGs (this was back when Everquest was the big game) was able to keep up his lifestyle because his parents were rich. The room he had in his mother's house was bigger than the last apartment I lived in! At one point he got kicked out of school (one story I heard was that he was into some game which had bases you needed to defend. Everything was real time, and if your base got attacked, you had the option of getting text alerts [possibly phone calls?] to your cell warning you about this. So he'd get these messages and BOLT from class back to his dorm room. I WONDER WHY HE FAILED OUT?) and as "punishment," was confined to his room all day long. His parents took away his car, so all he'd do 24 hours a day for six-eight months was play Everquest until 8am, sleep until the late afternoon, get up and order a pizza, and repeat the entire process all over again.
-I don't think any of the fanboys that came into my store had the most luxurious of jobs. Most of them wore years-old faded comic book t-shirts. There was this one trio of dudes we used to call "The Three Amigos" who, for most of the nine years I worked at the store, wore the same exact clothes every time they came in, no matter what the season. These guys never bought anything; they'd just come in, ask to check out the latest import, and then leave to go get themselves a burned copy. The leader would always say "My girlfriend in Japan's going to send me a copy," LOL. We stopped seeing them after we were finally given permission by the boss to not let them try out any game until they finally bought something. I remember one of them muttering something about how he had purchased a game like two years earlier. :lol Eventually they did come back, but only that same guy would come in alone and attempt to try out a game while the others sat in the car outside.
-Your impression of the guy who called about Area 51 was dead-on except for the end. He SCREAMED "AREA 51!!!!!!!!!!!!!" incredibly loud and slammed the phone down! :lol I guess the "punchline" is that he was so convinced the game existed on Dreamcast, and wanted me to waste time running down the gun games on the system anyway.
-@ Swaggaz' anime club story :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
-Totally in agreement with everyone on the nostalgic memories of there being far less fanboys back in the day. It's hard to believe I used to actually enjoy going to game stores once!
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I'll download it and listen to it later today. I still need to get you that audio clip too Eel.
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one story I heard was that he was into some game which had bases you needed to defend. Everything was real time, and if your base got attacked, you had the option of getting text alerts [possibly phone calls?] to your cell warning you about this.
That sounds like 10Six. I never played it, but I remember reading about it in PC Gamer back in the day.
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I GET TO LISTEN NOW YAY.
and maybe start recording those damn movie reviews, lol.
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A week later and I'm finally getting to listen in. That shitty job segment was gold, especially Eel's stories of his co-workers. Going to finish it up tomorrow.
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Eel just dropped a Space Jam reference. This podcast is great.