Author Topic: Borecast Episode 4: Saving Private Ryu (with special guest Frag) (Read 11389 times)

Eel O'Brian · « **on:** March 02, 2009, 08:09:29 PM »

http://borecast.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=439138

VH1 & Pop-Up TV, Adult Contemporary Music, Comfort Television, The Food Network, Star Ocean 4 & Japanese RPGs, Puzzle Quest Galactrix, Street Fighter 4, WWII Games, The Borecast Se7en Challenge, Borecast Quiz Show: Is It Dirty, or Can You Dig It?

Frag, if you will send me that Panzer General link you were talking about I will edit it into the blog post

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:14:20 PM »

file link

http://media.libsyn.com/media/borecast/Borecast4.mp3

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:28:17 PM »

downloading now

Brehvolution · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:32:36 PM »

Will listen tomorrow at work. I can't wait to hear Frag.

I'd also like to hear your thoughts on the banking bullshit. Should be good for some lulz. Frag and Patel should be on that one too.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:05:41 PM »

i try to stay away from the really heavy shit, like the economy and politics, just to keep the show relatively civilized.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #5 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:09:28 PM »

the things i would say about certain govt collection agencies would be less lulzy and more along the lines of spittle-flying rage

Eric P · « **Reply #6 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:10:12 PM »

i smell bonuscast material

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #7 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:11:08 PM »

if i talked about political stuff the title borecast would become quite literal

Enl · « **Reply #8 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:22:40 PM »

Good to see this still going. The past 3 1/2 episodes have been very entertaining. Having the set up of informative, random topics with a bit of game talk really helps keep this from becoming too monotonous like some of those other podcasts.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #9 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:28:13 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on March 02, 2009, 09:05:41 PM

i try to stay away from the really heavy shit, like the economy and politics, just to keep the show relatively civilized.

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on March 02, 2009, 09:09:28 PM

the things i would say about certain govt collection agencies would be less lulzy and more along the lines of spittle-flying rage

Totally understandable. Forget I mentioned it.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:41:09 PM »

plus i am willfully ignorant about political matters, so i'd be too busy googling whatever prole would be talking about to actively participate

also a lot of "could you spell that" interruptions

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:57:06 PM »

pretty glad we didn't talk politics-the sound of prole and I mutually masturbating each other's leanings would not have been good podcast material.

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:57:57 PM »

get your pwnzor general 2 right here :

http://panzercentral.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38679

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #13 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:05:48 PM »

thanks, i inserted it into the official show notes post

Vizzys · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:31:13 PM »

"tales of lolitas, zzzz"

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #15 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:44:55 PM »

i am totally cramming my netbook full of some panzer general this weekend

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #16 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:45:21 PM »

I know it was an aside on the show, but I dislike Jack Benny. The humor and sitcom conventions are just too dated. This goes for all classic radio comedies, Life of Reily, the Bickersons, Amos and Andy, etc. Hate radio Westerns too. Mystery, horror, suspense, and sci-fi hold up. I used to listen to shows like X Minus One, Suspense, The Creeking Door, Tales from the Tomb, The Whistler, and The Shadow and thought they were still entertaining today

Rman · « **Reply #17 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:47:01 PM »

I will give it a listen. Are you guys on iTunes, yet?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #18 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:47:44 PM »

Quote from: Rman on March 02, 2009, 10:47:01 PM

I will give it a listen. Are you guys on iTunes, yet?

yes we are

Quote from: Malek on March 02, 2009, 10:45:21 PM

I know it was an aside on the show, but I dislike Jack Benny. The humor and sitcom conventions are just too dated. This goes for all classic radio comedies, Life of Reily, the Bickersons, Amos and Andy, etc. Hate radio Westerns too. Mystery, horror, suspense, and sci-fi hold up. I used to listen to shows like X Minus One, Suspense, The Creeking Door, Tales from the Tomb, The Whistler, and The Shadow and thought they were still entertaining today

jack benny is my comfort radio (i believe i own every available show, and have listened to each episode several times) - i just like the cast

i like all those mystery/scifi shows you listed, but my absolute favorite horror otr show is Quiet, Please!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Please

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #19 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:50:51 PM »

I'll listen at work, keep it up dudes

cool breeze · « **Reply #20 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:50:55 PM »

Grandia is awesome

cool breeze · « **Reply #21 on:** March 03, 2009, 12:33:20 AM »

at 1:03-ish, is this Medal of Honor Frontline music? It's either Frontline or Allied assault, but I'm thinking Frontline. I remember the Operation Market Garden level of Frontline also had amazing music. I actually think they might have been the same.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #22 on:** March 02, 2009, 08:59:55 PM »

Fragbert

PC gamers

thanks for the work guys

*I liked the talk about JRPGs, and I feel the same way that Doug does about the genre (i.e. there is something I like about them, but I typically can't take the whole pill). I think it's interesting that you think that the stories are nothing but copy and paste with animu thrown in, as I often think the same thing. I remember last year there was an interview on 1up in which a JRPG developer said that the distinguishing characteristic between Japanese and Western RPGs was an "intricate and complex story" or something to that effect (i'll look for the link). Does the fact that the Japanese think that their JRPG storylines are intricate and complex, while being viewed as copy-pasta by non-otaku in the west, have anything to due with the genre's perceived stagnation?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #23 on:** March 02, 2009, 09:55:49 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on March 03, 2009, 12:33:20 AM

at 1:03-ish, is this Medal of Honor Frontline music? It's either Frontline or Allied assault, but I'm thinking Frontline. I remember the Operation Market Garden level of Frontline also had amazing music. I actually think they might have been the same.

That snip is from the Video Games Live! performance, and I think it was a medley of MoH theme music. I believe that snippet is from Frontline specifically, but the MoH games all use pieces of the same music (even Airborne).

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #24 on:** March 02, 2009, 10:22:54 PM »

Oh, that's awesome that the Outfit got some love. Offline co-op was great fun, but I remember hitting a certain mission in the campaign that was ungodly difficult. Fun, fun game though, kind of blends strategy and third person shooting. I need to rebuy it so I can finally beat the campaign.

tiesto · « **Reply #25 on:** March 02, 2009, 11:46:12 PM »

Listening now... (not up to the RPG part yet, the part I'm most looking forward to hearing) my one complaint is that the volume seems pretty unbalanced - Eel's voice seems a lot louder than Drinky and Frag's.

EDIT: niiiiice, Star Ocean 1 boss music

cool breeze · « **Reply #26 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:17:30 AM »

Quote from: Kestastrophe on March 02, 2009, 10:22:54 PM

Oh, that's awesome that the Outfit got some love. Offline co-op was great fun, but I remember hitting a certain mission in the campaign that was ungodly difficult. Fun, fun game though, kind of blends strategy and third person shooting. I need to rebuy it so I can finally beat the campaign.

yeah, the Outfit was a lot of fun local co-op. It was actually one of the two games my roommate could play on the 360 and we used to play it a bunch way back when.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #27 on:** March 03, 2009, 11:49:19 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on March 02, 2009, 11:46:12 PM

Listening now... (not up to the RPG part yet, the part I'm most looking forward to hearing) my one complaint is that the volume seems pretty unbalanced - Eel's voice seems a lot louder than Drinky and Frag's.

EDIT: niiiiice, Star Ocean 1 boss music

yeah, i think i set my mic sensitivity too high this time

Brehvolution · « **Reply #28 on:** March 03, 2009, 01:21:08 PM »

Listening now.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #29 on:** March 03, 2009, 02:29:04 PM »

What did you guys think of The Borecast Se7en Challenge and the quiz show?

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #30 on:** March 03, 2009, 02:34:12 PM »

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on March 03, 2009, 02:29:04 PM

What did you guys think of The Borecast Se7en Challenge and the quiz show?

The quiz was fun, but you didn't have to repeat the book titles each time--bit of an energy sapper, especially since they're fairly long titles.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #31 on:** March 03, 2009, 02:36:08 PM »

yeah, i should have cut that down a bit

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #32 on:** March 03, 2009, 02:59:08 PM »

"Spiritual successor to Richard Marx"

Holy shit, Drinky likes Hazard?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #33 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:01:32 PM »

It was Michael Penn who sang "No Myth," btw.

Don't know why I kept calling him Andrew. He's Sean Penn's brother.

Lyrics:

See, it was just too soon to tell
and looking for some parallel
can be an endless game
We, we said goodbye before hello
my secrets she will never know
and if I dig a hole to China
I'll catch the first junk to Soho
what if I were Romeo in black jeans
what if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth
maybe she's just looking for
someone to dance with

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #34 on:** March 03, 2009, 05:26:51 PM »

That's why I couldn't be a songwriter cause' I'll probably shit stuff like that out and thanks for giving me the urge to listen to Jon Secada

[youtube=560,345]9yfu9egNOdA[/youtube]

:'(

Secada is like 90's late night love stations go to track

In Spanish!

[youtube=560,345]Ok0O23pnBJI[/youtube]

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #35 on:** March 03, 2009, 06:12:41 PM »

jon secada

Oblivion · « **Reply #36 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:03:51 PM »

Listening now. Frag sounds like Shane Battenheusen (sp?).

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #37 on:** March 03, 2009, 07:46:47 PM »

Quote from: Oblivion on March 03, 2009, 07:03:51 PM

Listening now. Frag sounds like Shane Battenheusen (sp?).

same blantant fanboy bias, marginally better platform!

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #38 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:45:33 PM »

Listened to most of it.

Segment One - Aight. I think we all have our adult contemporary guilty pleasures, regardless of age.

Segment Two - Good reviews.

Segment Three - I didn't listen to this portion.

Segment Four - Weren't there some audio comments sent to you guys?

Segment Five - Only listened to a couple of minutes.

Good jon, guys.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #39 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:50:47 PM »

Quote from: T EXP on March 03, 2009, 08:45:33 PM

Segment Four - Weren't there some audio comments sent to you guys?

nah, no one ever sends us voice mail

...but they will...

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #40 on:** March 03, 2009, 08:53:49 PM »

a pc mangod trumps a sony mangod

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #41 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:05:38 PM »

i have decided to make every show title an awful pun, btw

consider it my audition for the simpsons writing staff

Brehvolution · « **Reply #42 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:46:57 PM »

Another great show guys.

Bob

Kev and Doug

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #43 on:** March 03, 2009, 09:52:28 PM »

the wife gave this ep a thumbs up BUT demanded the return of robot madam sahib

and another dramatic reading

sending your special gift tomorrow

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #44 on:** March 03, 2009, 10:26:13 PM »

So I was unable to get the headphone out to work on my computer, so I listened via the internal speaker. Got a few laughs outta some people near by. Not the wisest of ideas though as a manager heard two words and was offended I would listen to such a podcast willingly. But soon after started listening in the cube next to me. You got some laughs out of them and they wanted to know who you were. The bit about live search made them lol (for obvious reasons)

I'm putting up a few "flier's" tomorrow to promote the borecast. Is there an official image you'd like used for such a flier? Making one with a bunch of cut out's with the url.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #45 on:** March 04, 2009, 06:53:44 AM »

hey, thanks!

we don't really have an official image, i just use this for the album art on the mp3 files:

it's what i used for the steam group avatar, as well

don't know how it would look blown up on a flier, though

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #46 on:** March 04, 2009, 08:26:06 AM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on March 03, 2009, 09:52:28 PM

the wife gave this ep a thumbs up BUT demanded the return of robot madam sahib

and another dramatic reading

she'll be back!

we'll have to come up with some proper material for the next reading that skirts the fine line between haha and ewww

Quote from: Professor Prole on March 03, 2009, 09:52:28 PM

sending your special gift tomorrow

:'(

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #47 on:** March 04, 2009, 11:25:58 AM »

Done! I was able to blow it up pretty nicely. Placed it right in the thick of the coffee bar.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #48 on:** March 04, 2009, 01:59:18 PM »

I listened, I liked

That second Jon Secada song posted made me look up PM Dawn and I just listened to it like 5 times in a row and counting. Thanks $:-\$

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #49 on:** March 04, 2009, 02:06:57 PM »

Oh man, PM Dawn is so good

border · « **Reply #50 on:** March 04, 2009, 08:14:13 PM »

Only 10-20 minutes in....

Eel: "It's only a Google search away. Or a YouTube Search."

Prole: "Or a Microsoft Live Search."

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #51 on:** March 04, 2009, 08:43:41 PM »

sometimes i have to mute my mic because of stuff like that

muckhole · « **Reply #52 on:** March 04, 2009, 09:47:13 PM »

"EricP writes, 'Bob Hope is awesome. Fuck you all."

border · « **Reply #53 on:** March 04, 2009, 11:30:49 PM »

Got done with it a little while ago. Man, the "Gaming Segment" is looooooong. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it might be worth considering who your audience is. Previous episodes seemed a little broader in focus, and there aren't a lot of non-gamers that will sit through a lengthy gaming segment. There aren't a lot of gamers that will sit through a lengthy WW2 games segment either, really. I thought the guys made a good case for why that period is an interesting setting for games, but it didn't really do much to make me want to play any WW2 games. I tend to think of the WW2 RTS as something for armory nuts and history buffs -- I don't know anything about howitzer cannons or tiger tanks or any of these units I hear discussed. As for the WW2 FPS, well I guess it's just fatigue that makes people tired -- always the same weapon sets and locales again and again.

I think most people decide what to play based around just the general premise, and WW2 is a premise that has left some gamers bored (even Infinity Ward seems to have gotten bored with it). Considering that the genre's two major franchises were getting annual sequels for many years at a time it isn't hard to explain the burnout.

I had previously asked that Doug explain "the allure of the JRPG", and he does it fairly well here, even if he seems to indicate that it's just some strange compulsion. Best Buy has Persona 3 on clearance for $10 and I actually thought about buying it. When Doug says something to the extent of "Well I really should get out of JPRGs, but if the only alternative is what Bioware has been putting out lately that might be a pretty bad idea" and everyone laughs in unison, that felt like the episode's most dorky "inside baseball" moment where I was totally clueless and strangely alienated. Which is weird considering that the episode also contains a programming joke about infinitely recursive stacks that should have been far more "inside".

Eric P · « **Reply #54 on:** March 04, 2009, 11:55:10 PM »

"Bob Hope is awesome. Fuck The General Audience"

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #55 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:00:22 AM »

the gaming segment ran longer because i figured this might be my only shot to talk about WWII games

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #56 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:05:37 AM »

i am genuinely surprised no one has given us shit yet about our SF4 commentary

muckhole · « **Reply #57 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:10:09 AM »

Having just brought home Street Fighter 4 last night, your commentary was pretty bang-on. My glory days are long behind me, and I don't know if I have the time nor will to put into getting it back. :'(

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #58 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:11:59 AM »

i know, and i gots the old man hands nowadays :'(

i was expecting at least one "you guys are just gamepussies" by now, though

cool breeze · « **Reply #59 on:** March 05, 2009, 12:17:25 AM »

I actually like the game talk since you guys don't restrict it to what's new

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Author Topic: Borecast Episode 4: Saving Private Ryu (with special guest Frag) (Read 11389 times)