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Title: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 01:25:00 PM: direct download - http://media.libsyn.com/media/borecast/Borecast31.mp3

In our first show in the '10, we look ahead to some of the gadgetry coming in the new year, look back on some of the games we played over our break, and get our cameras ready for the Wii Poop Channel.

SEGMENT ONE: 2010 TECH

3DTV, Tablet PCs, Natal, Sony's wand, Nintendo's future handheld, Ion 2 netbooks, etc.

SEGMENT TWO: HOLIDAY GAMES

Bayonetta, Darksiders, Divinity 2, Risen, Torchlight, Serious Sam, Uniwar

Listener Comments - Plants vs Zombies, Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

CONTEST: Listen for how you can win a Microsoft Bluetrack Mouse.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 01:25:25 PM: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=385483
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Brehvolution on January 21, 2010, 01:27:47 PM: :hyper
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Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on January 21, 2010, 01:42:35 PM: unf unf unf unf unf :hump
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 21, 2010, 01:43:50 PM: Preparing hate mail if anything bad is said about Bayonetta.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 21, 2010, 02:21:34 PM: Woot, listening now.

Kevin/Doug we should play through our Steam backlog together. :heartbeat :heartbeat
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 03:36:05 PM: Definitely, "Borecast Backlog" would be a great segment
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Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 21, 2010, 03:53:38 PM: Why so many people hate on Bayonetta's story? People just don't understand :'(
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Post by: Rman on January 21, 2010, 04:12:04 PM: Do you guys have a voicemail line set up?
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: demi on January 21, 2010, 04:50:25 PM: Quote from: Junpei the Tracer! on January 21, 2010, 03:53:38 PM
Why so many people hate on Bayonetta's story? People just don't understand :'(

Luka
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: tehjaybo on January 21, 2010, 04:58:15 PM: Quote from: Rman on January 21, 2010, 04:12:04 PM
Do you guys have a voicemail line set up?

This would be cool as shit, just saying.

Also, will download tomorrow and listen while I work. Borecast is back, baby!
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: cool breeze on January 21, 2010, 05:14:59 PM: sounds like a nice line up
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 05:31:28 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 03:36:05 PM
Definitely, "Borecast Backlog" would be a great segment

i vote yes on borecast backlog

it'd be like a weight loss segment, we could talk about our progress in earnest tones
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Beezy on January 21, 2010, 05:33:04 PM: Will listen for Bayonetta.
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Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 06:52:44 PM: we don't usually do politics
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 21, 2010, 06:54:58 PM: Yeah, politics isn't polite talk, southern rule.

Also, would be incredibly uninteresting unless you consider doug and I trying to one up the each other's metaphors for an entire segment fascinating listening.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 07:00:18 PM: yeah, it would be me and frag screaming for socialism and the destruction of all banking endeavors and kevin snoring in a bored drunken stupor
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 21, 2010, 07:04:34 PM: Speaking of screaming, your segment on the Wii Vitality Sensor had me thinking of what kind of games get elevated heart rates out of players, and sadly I thought of

:uguu ANIMU RAPE SIMS :uguu

Only solution is to be proactive and gas the otaku now.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 07:08:44 PM: perhaps nintendo could get a license for the fleshlight, and make the wii stimulator.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 07:13:25 PM: american puritans prefer to disacknowledge that fact
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 21, 2010, 07:30:59 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on January 21, 2010, 07:13:25 PM
american puritans prefer to disacknowledge that fact

That doesn't make any sense.

They acknowledge that it is mainstream, which is the problem. They believe it should be kept behind closed doors in the bedroom or

spoiler (click to show/hide)
glory holes and craigslist
[close]
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 21, 2010, 07:32:26 PM: Quote from: Fragamemnon on January 21, 2010, 02:21:34 PM
Woot, listening now.

Kevin/Doug we should play through our Steam backlog together. :heartbeat :heartbeat

I don't think Prole actually plays PC games - he prefers to play PC ports on consoles or uguu games on the PSP.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 08:35:57 PM: i'm looking into some sort of voicemail setup
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 08:37:38 PM: as for politics, i think everyone's a closet fascist in their own special way

there, now i don't have to talk about it on the show
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 08:41:27 PM: i am openly fascist
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2010, 08:43:10 PM: I am openly animuterian.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 21, 2010, 08:47:42 PM: i am chaotic neutral
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 21, 2010, 08:59:30 PM: i am lawful evil

or chaotic good, i wrap around the diagonal like that
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 21, 2010, 09:06:10 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on January 21, 2010, 08:59:30 PM
i am lawful evil

or chaotic good, i wrap around the diagonal like that

A little "bimoral", you might say? :smug
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 21, 2010, 09:08:33 PM: I'm a radical pro cock fascist.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on January 21, 2010, 09:14:00 PM: I am for whichever party will put me in charge of choosing who gets thrown into the sun.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 21, 2010, 09:31:14 PM: Good episode! I like all the weird novelty songs from the 30's and 40's.

Doug complains that Bayonetta's cutscenes and minigames are awful, and asks why the entire game can't just be beat-em-up action. To me that's just like asking why movies can't just be nonstop action. You need pacing. You need something in between the action sequences to let people calm down and relax for a little while. Even though I didn't care for Angel Attack or the cutscenes, I would have felt pretty overwhelmed if the game was just wall-to-wall action without a break.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 21, 2010, 09:35:34 PM: Drinky is right about Bayo's enemy design. When you beat the game a gallery opens up and there's a 3D model viewer. The angels have such detail put in them, it's crazy. You wouldn't notice most of the stuff in-game, quite a bit of care was put in them. And I agree with border, the game has those moments so you are never doing one thing for too long, so you'll never get bored.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 21, 2010, 10:09:57 PM: Final Fight is one of Bayonetta's most primitive ancestors, and even there they realized that the action had to be broken up by cutscenes and bonus stages. What Final Fight does better is that the minigames are just an extension of combat (smash up a car, break barrels), whereas Bayonetta's minigame is something completely disconnected from the normal combat. Maybe they should have had some Alfheim-style time challenges instead of Angel Attack, where instead of earning bullets for the minigame in normal stages, you earn bonus seconds so that you have longer to complete the time challenge.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Bloodwake on January 22, 2010, 01:07:18 AM: Will listen tomorrow on break from work. Finally, I can quit listening to the last 10-15 episodes I have stored on my iPod.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: archie4208 on January 22, 2010, 02:10:58 AM: Bayonetta has a story? ???
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Post by: Cormacaroni on January 22, 2010, 02:12:07 AM: Bayonetta looks like a great reason to avoid ever working in the Japanese game localization industry.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Beezy on January 22, 2010, 08:07:51 AM: Why are people in this thread taking Bayonetta's story seriously? It's just an excuse to make some flashy and funny cutscenes. Taking time out of your life to analyze it even a little or compare it to other games is a waste of time and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 22, 2010, 08:25:24 AM: FUCK ALL YOU GUYS :maf
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 22, 2010, 08:38:22 AM: Quote from: Junpei the Tracer! on January 22, 2010, 08:25:24 AM
FUCK ALL YOU GUYS :maf

Oh, take your hormones and shut the fuck up.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Ichirou on January 22, 2010, 08:38:49 AM: The serious analysis of Bayonetta's cut scenes in this thread make me :lol

The game doesn't take itself seriously and I thought all the stuff with Luka and Cerezita was awesome. Luka constantly getting owned by Bayonetta and Cerezita is so adorable!

My only complaint is I wanted to see more of Rodin, he's so fucking badass. I hope he's playable in the sequel.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: demi on January 22, 2010, 09:31:06 AM: Yeah it is pretty funny. All those twee japa games and Bayonetta has ~~everyone~~ douglas all a fluster
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eric P on January 22, 2010, 09:42:25 AM: Quote from: Professor Prole on January 21, 2010, 08:59:30 PM
i am lawful evil

so was hitler
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Beezy on January 22, 2010, 01:06:33 PM: Quote from: demi on January 22, 2010, 09:31:06 AM
Yeah it is pretty funny. All those twee japa games and Bayonetta has ~~everyone~~ douglas all a fluster
:lol
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 22, 2010, 04:03:34 PM: wat? i said i skipped most of the cutscenes! how could i analyze them if i didn't watch them?

i skip cutscenes in MOST games i play!
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Raban on January 22, 2010, 04:12:14 PM: Do you talk about the Nexus One in this?
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 22, 2010, 04:13:37 PM: nah, we don't talk about phones at all
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Post by: Raban on January 22, 2010, 04:47:19 PM: Poo. I want one really bad, and I want some like, really good, in-depth impressions.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 22, 2010, 07:18:36 PM: Am I the only one that gets sad when Kevin talks about how he sells his personal possessions to pay for gaming? And now he's out of possessions to sell, so I just picture a guy coming home from a hard day of hanging Sheetrock to an empty living room with a TV on a cinder block and a fold-up lawn chair.

Plus it's only a matter of time until the only thing left to sell is his body.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: demi on January 22, 2010, 07:37:40 PM: Must be a borecast exclusive, I was never under that impression from his posts
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Post by: Kestastrophe on January 22, 2010, 08:10:06 PM: Quote from: border on January 22, 2010, 07:18:36 PM
Am I the only one that gets sad when Kevin talks about how he sells his personal possessions to pay for gaming?
I do that too. I don't like to acquire stuff, and I like to be somewhat thrifty, so in order to justify purchasing something for pure entertainment purposes I will make myself sell older games or movies that I don't like anymore or have gotten full use out of. I think its a smart way to manage discretionary spending
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 22, 2010, 08:13:51 PM: i can talk about phones if anyone wants, lord knows i've tried them all

or if i haven't, tvc has
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 22, 2010, 08:16:18 PM: I sold off all of my 360 games to get another 360 (an Arcade unit). I want to just Gamefly shit from here on out.

I remember wanting to collect as much games as possible until I realized that it is very expensive and a lot of these games rapidly depreciate over time, unless you're buying rare shit (like Zone of the Enders 2 apparently) and even that is a gamble. Now I'm almost the polar opposite - most of the time I only play a game to completion once and even sometimes, I don't even play them until completion.

I understand where he is coming from. I still have a few DVDs and box sets I can sell off if I want to.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 22, 2010, 08:26:35 PM: Please god no cell phone talk please. I can't tell you how that stuff bores me. The cell phone wars (Google vs Apple vs Microsoft) are kind of interesting to hear about, but hearing actual phones described and discussed is dullsville.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: demi on January 22, 2010, 09:10:11 PM: Why would you buy DVDs/Blu period... talk about depreciation.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: drew on January 22, 2010, 09:25:25 PM: Quote from: T EXP on January 22, 2010, 08:16:18 PM
I sold off all of my 360 games to get another 360 (an Arcade unit). I want to just Gamefly shit from here on out.

how did you sell them? lord knows if it was via gamestop youd only have enough to buy some earbuds and a snicker bar at the best buy checkout
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 22, 2010, 09:37:32 PM: Quote from: border on January 22, 2010, 07:18:36 PM
Am I the only one that gets sad when Kevin talks about how he sells his personal possessions to pay for gaming? And now he's out of possessions to sell, so I just picture a guy coming home from a hard day of hanging Sheetrock to an empty living room with a TV on a cinder block and a fold-up lawn chair.

Plus it's only a matter of time until the only thing left to sell is his body.

I maintain a budget-neutral (except for Nov-Dec) gaming hobby, selling stuff to fund other purchases. Keeps things relatively uncluttered around the house-it's the accumulation of stuff that bothers me the most.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 22, 2010, 09:39:12 PM: yeah, i sell a good portion of my shit to fund my hobby, although i have no financial reason to do so beyond a) less clutter/distraction; b) a reduced sense of guilt for wasting money on entertainment instead of saving it; and c) like i'll ever get around to replaying shit anyway
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 22, 2010, 09:43:55 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on January 22, 2010, 09:39:12 PM
yeah, i sell a good portion of my shit to fund my hobby, although i have no financial reason to do so beyond a) less clutter/distraction; b) a reduced sense of guilt for wasting money on entertainment instead of saving it; and c) like i'll ever get around to replaying shit anyway

(http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sony_psp_go-480x3661.jpg)

Never forget.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 22, 2010, 09:46:03 PM: I got the sense that Kevin was actually selling personal possessions like appliances and TVs and furniture and shit -- not just trading in games for other games. If it's just the Gamestop burn-through then it's not really sad.

I don't re-sell many games because I don't buy many games in the first place. My biggest game collection was probably for PS2 and I doubt it ever got above 25 games. Trade in-value for stuff is so pathetic that I doubt I could bring myself to part with any of the stuff I have in fact purchased.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Fragamemnon on January 22, 2010, 09:49:42 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on January 22, 2010, 09:39:12 PM
yeah, i sell a good portion of my shit to fund my hobby, although i have no financial reason to do so beyond a) less clutter/distraction; b) a reduced sense of guilt for wasting money on entertainment instead of saving it; and c) like i'll ever get around to replaying shit anyway

I would like to say that the lack of physical clutter mixed with less guilt because you get everything so cheap is what makes Steam so incredibly insidious.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 22, 2010, 09:52:16 PM: You still can't mod a lot of the stuff you buy on Steam, so *blech*

**gently rubs retail copy of Mirror's Edge PC**
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 22, 2010, 11:00:53 PM: i collected comics and related nerd memorabilia/crap for over 20 years (i used to have a pretty healthy lower-grade golden age collection, but that's dwindled to a couple of short boxes)

that's the stuff i tend to sell off to fund the gaming

collecting comics (and all the brickabrack that comes with it) is just about the worst hobby as far as accumulating boxes of stuff you're never going to look at again once it goes into storage, so when i really got back into gaming/gadgets i made the decision to pay for as much of it as possible through selling/trade

i still have a ton of it left, but between wanting to build a nice desktop, getting a cheap tablet, and games i can see the well running dry this year

i also don't tend to hang onto many games and either sell them on ebay (even with their hefty fees you still come out ahead of gamestop), or trade when there's some sort of "bonus" credit percentage - i only own about 25 (boxed) games split between the various systems and pc

i'm not poor, but i'm not swimming in dough, so i try to keep the hobby as guilt-free as i possibly can
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: border on January 23, 2010, 12:04:33 AM: How much for the Wolfman bust statue?
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 12:11:40 AM: :lol those came free with the dvd boxed set of universal monsters movies, i'm keeping them
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Post by: Eric P on January 23, 2010, 12:13:28 AM: the legacy collection?

that was a pretty good set, i think
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 12:15:27 AM: yeah, i own all the legacy monster collections, lots of good stuff there

the boxed set came with dracula/frankenstein/wolfman and the busts
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eric P on January 23, 2010, 12:16:42 AM: yeah. aside from the steve sodenbergh "intros" where he essentially said how much he loved these films so he couldn't wait to shit all over them for van helsing
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 12:18:47 AM: :lol
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Post by: border on January 23, 2010, 12:23:07 AM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 12:11:40 AM
:lol those came free with the dvd boxed set of universal monsters movies, i'm keeping them

Okay, but think of how many pints of plasma you'll be forced to sell for Bad Company 2 if you can't give me a good deal on those sweet Wolf-Man collectibles.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: demi on January 23, 2010, 12:24:13 AM: Where can you sell plasma anyway... I would love to stab my body for free games
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 23, 2010, 07:24:07 AM: With Gamefly, unless I'm downloading XBLA stuff, I don't see a need to buy another game again. If I get an itch to play a game again, I can just rent it again.

Once I build my octo core PC, I might get Steam for the insane deals they offer. As I'm getting older, I'm finding less and less room for justification for spending a lot of money on video games.

Quote from: drew on January 22, 2010, 09:25:25 PM
Quote from: T EXP on January 22, 2010, 08:16:18 PM
I sold off all of my 360 games to get another 360 (an Arcade unit). I want to just Gamefly shit from here on out.

how did you sell them? lord knows if it was via gamestop youd only have enough to buy some earbuds and a snicker bar at the best buy checkout

It was a Gamestop and I sold 7 games and got $45 in credit. I haven't stepped into a Gamestop in years but that was about double what I was expecting.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 07:47:34 AM: Quote from: dcharlie on January 23, 2010, 07:32:21 AM
what would the stance be on an offshoot J-bore cast?

i mean - i have all the equipment here for a 4 man pod cast so....

sounds good to me
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 23, 2010, 07:57:02 AM: just sent you a pm, dcharlie
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Post by: Kestastrophe on January 23, 2010, 09:38:59 AM: jap borecast :o

Sounds awesome
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 23, 2010, 10:08:57 AM: I would listen to a j bore cast.

No sporkskljsfksjkljkskss tho.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 23, 2010, 10:34:56 AM: Is the trin still in Japan? If so, he should participate.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 23, 2010, 01:35:49 PM: Quote from: dcharlie on January 23, 2010, 07:32:21 AM
what would the stance be on an offshoot J-bore cast?

i mean - i have all the equipment here for a 4 man pod cast so....

i personally would love to have the xfe on the show sometime, meselfs

and cormac for a "nerd fitness" ep
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: cool breeze on January 24, 2010, 11:37:52 AM: I listened to a bit of this. My resolution is pretty much the same as Eel's about buying less games, but if I do buy a game, not at full price.

About the 3DTV stuff, I'm interested in all that stuff only for gaming reasons. I tried out the Nvidia PC solution at a friends house a while ago and recently tried Wipeout HD in 3D. For movies I don't really care about it, but for games I think it can add a lot. The simplest use was in Wipeout HD where hud is closest thing to you. Everything else is 3D too from vehicles to the track but having the hud in the front makes it look like you have the benefits of a no-hud game without all the nonsense screen flashes and shit like that. The Nvidia stuff was great too. The glasses are pretty awful and uncomfortable, though. Only problem I had with Avatar 3D was the dimming but the 3DTV tech is just using shutter tech, and that slight flicker gets unbearable after a bit. Add that to the glasses not sitting on your face properly and it's something you don't want to be wearing for long stretches.

My interest is mostly for where the tech is going. They've already shown off the 3DTVs that don't require glasses, though, you only have a small range where it appears 3D. I'm hoping for these glasses 3Dtvs catch on enough that there is a lot of content for when there is a proper home solution that doesn't require glasses. If there is enough interest, you will have Sony and Panasonic and others then competing to make a TV that doesn't require glasses and all that.

and realistically, like the motion controls, 3D on the PS3 and 360 is probably just a test for whatever happens next gen. Wipeout both ran and looked noticeably worse in 3D because they had to had to draw two images. There is talk of Killzone 2 in 3D, and that game didn't even run at a smooth 30. Wipeout normally runs at 1080p 60fps, sometimes changing resolution in real time to keep the 60 fps. Or you can look at the benchmarks for the Nvidia stuff and see how much of a dip in performance there is when using 3D.
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 26, 2010, 01:04:30 AM: kevin TOTALLY googled for images of charlaine harris' clitdick while recording the next episode, DO NOT let him deny this
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 26, 2010, 01:07:04 AM: lies
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 26, 2010, 01:07:42 AM: SEXY lies
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 26, 2010, 01:08:28 AM: :(
Title: Re: Borecast 31: 2010 Tech, The Holiday Loot Game
Post by: Cormacaroni on January 26, 2010, 02:28:07 AM: Quote from: dcharlie on January 23, 2010, 11:16:29 AM
Quote
Is the trin still in Japan? If so, he should participate.

he is not.

One thing that i thought made past podcasts, um, "work" was the 4 of us were in the same room. So probably go for that.
The issue is getting us together.

Hopefully Groo, Cormacaroni, myself and chinchilla (?) could sort something out.

whoa, mr ambition

let's just concentrate on having a few beers first, I can barely remember what you all look like!