A Miserable Podcast of Secrets

[ChaoofNee]

That'll be sure to rake in the endorsements!

[Rated E]

Not a huge fan of the opening anymore for some reason. I think you guys should try this one out. If you ever have Finch on as a guest, you need this opening.

[Mzo]

lol, epmode and I have been singing pa pam pam pam all weekend.

[Finch]

The opening should be Mzo and epmode singing that song

[dog$]

I finally remembered to buy a $25 piece of shit MP3 player and download these. It's a nice change from BBC news on NPR every goddamned night. Only got through half of the first one so far.

In looking at your upcoming schedule and in re-reviewing this thread, I think that there should be an entire episode for TNL's history, or at least the last ten years of it, as was discussed in the SO thread recently. Everyone who regularly posts here has stories to tell about how they arrived and remained here, and has opinions of most anyone else who has done the same. It could potentially make the show and site more accessible to the ever elusive New User market. It would also help to establish your identity and define what it is about your video game podcast which makes you all think it is worthwhile.

[Korian]

Agreed Dog "New User" market is a great target. Part of my business I can share is a "Think Tank" to help others improve projects and opening wider audiences. I'm not offended by profanity but it should be used sparingly for the under 18 audience. Use statistics and figure out what podcast was listened to most and what worked. Try branching out with a segment on rap or Macs and see if that changes anything.

[FirstBlood]

Just caught up on the last episode.

Hexic is a wonderful game, fuck all of you except Mzo.

[DirtySouth]

Didn't the creator of Tetris develop that game during his time at Microsoft?

[Diff-chan]

Didn't the creator of Tetris develop that game during his time at Microsoft?

Yes. Also the underrated Pandora's Box.

[Darmonde]

Yeah it was the Tetris guy. I agree that Hexic is rad! The 'grand pearl pooh bah' that mzo mentioned was the hardest achievement in the game, which no one understood because he was kind of just rambling.

It took me forever to catch up on these cause I was out of town so I don't think feedback is relevant anymore on the old episodes. Basically, I thought the console discussion was okay, rating the launches was kind of random. The discussion was almost too predictable- very old stuff was, 'yeah, that was good for the day, lol at graphics'. the next gen was 'wow, I loved that shit when it came out, so awesome', and current gen was 'lol so bad, lets hate on everything'. I didn't mind the factual errors so much, and thought the old discussions were actually better than the current stuff.

Good discussions but I still feel like if someone doesn't know exactly what you guys know, it just turns into babble, there's little attempt at setting a foundation to anything. I don't have any examples sorry, except maybe the Mass Effect talk: whenever ME comes up, its just a private conversation between fans of ME that we're hearing for some reason. You talk about specific missions, characters, cut scenes, mechanics, make a point/joke, and everyone laughs. I can understand where you're coming from but I haven't played ME, and if I didn't care about it, it would have gotten tired a long time ago. I think anything you mention (like games you've been playing), you should assume your audience hasn't played, and approach it from that angle. If 2 of you have played a certain game, it quickly turns into details that would be lost on someone who hasn't played. I have other random thoughts but this is bitchy enough.

I'd like to come on someday as a guest, but you already talked about all the topics I think I'd be a help in. Plus I'm boring. But maybe that would be fine cause you guys are colorful enough.

Edit: random- I think the problem with the intro is 30 seconds I think is way too long without even starting to talk. Its a great song, but a pretty impersonal intro.