In this week’s wide-ranging episode, Gary wonders what’s up with Windows 8, Norm searches for the perfect Portal 2 buddy, and Will invents a new verb. All that, plus the latest news from Microsoft’s MIX conference, ad-supported Kindles, and fake outtakes.
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So is Wednesday the new Thursday? Be honest 😛
HEY LETS START ZE MOTHAFUCKIN SHOW
Wow two hours and forty minutes, I better get to it.
The store had one pint each of Americone Dream and Late Night Snack, I shall enjoy one of them while listening!
Once a year, I suddenly have an uncontrollable desire for a McGriddle and binge on them. Both the best and worst day of the year.
You guys said Gingham so many times at the start that it stopped being a word.
Oh well, I have a 5 hour flight tomorrow and I have yet to listen to the bombast and now I have TIOAT. It looks like I am set!
I have never and likely will never see the twilight films…
I haven’t had a McGriddle in years.
Awesome, it’s early. Now I have something to listen to on the bus to uni.
You obviously do not understand internet consumption as well as I thought you did. If people don’t consume as soon as possible and as fast as possible stuff is lost. How can we not listen to the podcast when its put up? It’s not like there is some mechanism that allows one to store the podcast for later almost as if you are downloading and saving it to a place of storage.
(AKA. I like it when the podcast goes up on either Wednesday or Thursday)
As to whether or not people will enjoy this podcast because of the amount of tangents: “You can’t know what’s good if you don’t know what’s bad.”
I still liked it. Still a lot better than other podcasts about similar topics.
*1 hour in* I thought this was a tech podcast. Betrayed!
P.S. Voyager was the first series I saw so I actually like it!
I love the random talk more than the tech talk, this episode has been the best yet!
Will has to do a better job keeping the podcast on track, especially for those of us that dont want to hear about Star Trek crap for 20minutes. Save that for the fake outtakes. Still a great show.
I was listening to this on the way to work this morning and I was compelled to stop and get a Bacon, egg and cheese McGriddle. That shit was awesome!
Yeah fuck v-neck shirts! Thank you Will!
Geocaching is INCREDIBLY fun! I go every few weekends and during the spring/fall I might grab one on the way home from work when it’s nice. You can get a great hiking GPS for less than $200 that will work for years that will give measurements as accurate as possible. It’s such a great way to experience parts of your area that maybe you’ve never seen before, add in the fact that it costs basically nothing to do (outside of your gas/hand-held GPS) and you’ve got a great weekend activity.
One of my favorite geocaches had fake coordinates and a puzzle to figure out. The puzzle gave real coordinates and a message: best at night. The cache was in the woods near a lake that was probably 45 minutes outside of town and the sky was so absolutely amazing to see. I’ve seen caches on islands in the middle of lakes and even caches that require rock climbing equipment. If you enjoy being outside, geocaching is incredibly fun.
http://www.geocaching.com
I agree with everything you wrote. Just wanted to add that many people here are likely to have smartphones, so they don’t need to invest in a dedicated GPS unit to get started. The official geocaching.com iPhone app is great, for example.
I knew the Phantoms joke was coming but I still wanted to HIGH FIVE the nearest person when it happened.
PHANTOMS LIKE A MOWL FAUL
Portal was available on day 1 for 19.99 on Steam.
I would fear for my life if I somehow play a co-op game with Norm.
I’ll be looking for a Portal 2 coop buddy as well. It’s gonna be tough… i’m not quite as intense about it as Norm, but almost.
cheddar cheese on pie?!?! D:
This outtake cast was pure gold. You were too hard on it.
Wow that was long. 😛
That wasn’t the worst Will. It was one of the nothing but tangents ones but it kept going. Some of the tangent shows spiral to nothing. This one was alright. It got me through my Thursday afternoon.
HL2 EP2 was great!
Thought it was one of the best paced games ever o_O.
The final boss fight was a little meh though. Wish the sticky bombs had a little more auto aim, but the overall game was great imo.
And it was odd listening to the podcast while eating a triple cheese NY pizza style slice.
Gary’s “Let’s start the show” was the best this week IMO…it had that good almost-cheesy super-cheerful tone to it, sounded really authentic for some reason.
dammit Will! You cut Gary off in his prime! What could this podcast be???
God damn, I zone out for a few minutes and suddenly I’m in the middle of possibly the nerdiest Star Trek conversation ever.
A couple of thoughts about tech mentioned by Will in the show:
What the hell is a Portal?
Permit me to save your shirts:
http://www.certaindri.com
If the next Tested T-Shirt says “Winning is the Norm”, then I’ll be the first to buy it.
This has to be the best podcast you have ever done. I nearly drove off the road laughing when you started arguing over The Orange Box only because I have heard Will defend himself before and knew where this was going! (Which I am in the Will camp, HL2 was at best a 7) Portal and TF2 however are absolutely 10’s! PLEASE continue to bring us the news, tech, apps and other stuff. And feel free to travel down the rabbit hole more often!
Be Blessed!
Norm, I loved your Tasteless catchphrase ;). Wonder how many others noticed it.
this is now my new catchphrase.
you win the no-prize! “the vehicle of e-sports is technology” never fails to crack me up
Definitely! I’m surprised it’s not caught on as a meme yet really, has such great potential.
Loved this one. I thought it was great when Will was like “I’m ending this podcast.” And it stops abruptly.
I would not want to play Portal 2 with Norm. He scares me sometimes.
It is odd how two people who basically have earned most of their living from ads rip the Kindle with ads. Having un-intrusive ads on a website/magazine and having ads on home screen and screensaver is very similar IMO.
I was chatting with my daughter who is just starting her first job and she was very happy with purchasing the Kindle with ads, she can’t wait for it to ship in May. I think this will appeal to more than just the “Wallmart” customer. I’m like you guys and I often think “it’s only 20$ more” but I think we tend to forget how tough it was to budget for things when we were younger; for her, it means a few more books.
I’m behind Will on the way he formed his Orange Box opinion. If you have the world’s best burger served with limp, soggy fries you’re not going to tell people you had the best meal of your life, just the best burger.
Gary and Norm can’t review games. Nuf’ said.
Yeah that was a fantastic episode.
I’m just the same with sweatpants. Four in the morning, going to take NINE steps down in the stairwell to the mailboxes? A pair of jeans will be on me – maybe not a shirt – but definitely not sweatpants. Saw a couple enter a large grocery store in perfectly ordinary late-winter evening clothes for a chilly day, only that they wore grey cotton sweatpants. Unless you returned from working out and your regular pants were stolen, you’re going to look like white trash for me.
(Just don’t forget to laugh at us who never wear sweatpants outside of our homes. I’m a casual suit & tie guy)
I’m with you on the Orange Box review Will. You can’t give re-released content the same adoration as something fresh out of the box otherwise it’ll hamper the new content. Gaming isn’t bargain basement hunting people, it’s about innovation, so Portal unfortunately gets points deducted for having to piggy back all the old stuff everyone has already played, LOL!