pabosher

HitchHiker's.

nice spoiler toblix and yes, I know that everywhere is reporting it, but I honestly thought that the Idle Thumbs thread would be kind enough to spoiler it, as I was trying to avoid it elsewere.

Oh man, if it took 6 months for just one video....

I'm sure this is the case for most members of the forum, but I have all the episodes on my iTunes if you need it/ if it helps.

Yes there was. Very good it was, too. Even if it only partially, minimally, slightly related to Adams' DG.

I have. I even have mine signed by the author and everything! On the whole, it is good. It does have a very Adams' style humour to it, but it lacks the downtime that the original HHG had. It is funny, and it works, but it's a more exaggerated Adamsian style, as opposed to the real DA's more subdued, yet still hilarious, work.

Yeah, I'd totally recommend everything written by Adams, and if you liked the book, I highly recommend buying the radio series. Look out for: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (I know Jake likes this) The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul Last Chance to See The Salmon of Doubt

conversation system is cool though

Only in the sense that everyone else is controlled by AI, instead of real people.

The rumour (a while ago now) was that Far Cry 3 would be set in Antarctica.

Far Cry 3: This Time, Grenades Roll Uphill.

I was saying that during the campaign. So disappointed with how this vote has turned out. Oh well, here's hoping that we'll win the next referendum in 30+ years!

hell yeah. wait, I don't write for that site anymore. screw those guys!

I liked the subtle implication that Molyneux, Kojima and Spielberg created a game that raped you through a hole then shoved you in their mailbox.

Oh man, how did I not get that?! Also, I agree -- I loved Sunshine, and think it's a simply phenomenal game.

Hahaha wtf is that. Is that how you feel when your hear people say nice things about the pod?

I think it's The Walking Dead: The Game. At least, that's the way it sounded from their discussions.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. If you were to keep the third chair rolling, that could be a cool idea - finding out a little bit about them (something I keep crying out for the games industry to do more of - talking about normal developer dudes) and then finding out their job specifically on TWD, and their affiliation with the series. I wouldn't even say that, when you ask about their job on TWD, they would even need to bust bargoes to be truthful. Instead of saying "Oh, I'm the guy who draws the nosehairs on Johnny Zombie's nose" and receiving 10,000,000,000 emails saying "OH SHIT JOHNNY ZOMBIE'S IN IT?" but saying like "I'm Dave, I'm an artist and I do all of the smaller, more intricate stuff. Earlier today actually, I was drawing nosehairs onto some characters." As far as a structure goes, I'd suggest keeping the mail stuff toward the end of the cast, as you have done already, and try to keep a rough structure of something like: Introduction of guest/theme discussion about design aspect reader mail from us the readers Doing podcasts isn't easy - once you've done one yourself, you begin to appreciate how hard it is to edit and keep everything on track, ending up with a show that is both fun to make and easy to listen to! Obviously idle thumbs was one of the better shows ever created (and I say that because I believe it), but I can imagine that, with just the two of you doing this, it can be a daunting task. ps: when you come to the uk to promote this video game i will totally be a guest

Hey, I liked it! There are a couple of things I would suggest, mind: I do think the show needs a third voice. Not that I don't like the dynamic of a one-on-one conversation, but it feels like it just needs an extra dimension. I'm also not sure how I feel about the off-topic stuff. On the one hand, I really like it because it reminds me of olde thumbs, but on the other, I'm not sure if it's really suitable for a podcast where people solely want to find out about TWD? Perhaps there could be some better way to structure it where you might say "Oh, today we made a model of this dude" and then you can go off on a tangent like that, but it didn't ever really seem to have a base for any of that stuff? At least, not until the end, where even though you began to talk about SMS, it still felt connected because it had that question as a base. I hope you got what I was saying; please make more!!

it is? I must've misses that - what is the explanation?

No, I think Marek saw Chris's tweet, and just called it a reference.

Again, I use 'reference' loosely. It's definitely not an intentional reference on the part of the designers, but it did make me go "haha oh yeah fuck yeah [redacted] idle thumbs"

Have you finished it? Toblix is right when he says it's not a 'reference' per se - it's not like Glados says "Baboo, the Wizard, far cry 2, trine" etc. But which I thought was awesome, and did make me think of Idle Thumbs.

I only noticed one, and that was at the very end.

I would move it but I can't.