Castle Crashers Gender Swap
History of the World (abridged)
illustration by Malachi Ward :: via malachiward.blogspot.com
Beware of Canadians bearing gifts. Longtime listener Calvin the Canadian finally joins us for a show and brings a present from the Great White North: a code for Frozen Synapse. Listen for details on how to win it, or just go here.
For once, we don’t talk right off the bat about how long its been since we’ve last podcasted. Instead, it’s motorcycle talk! Sam’s got a new ride, and he and Alex talk for a bit about the hobby, the machines and the necessity (or lack thereof) of loud pipes.
Sam’s got nothing as far as gaming goes, so Alex starts dishing out the Catherine love. It’s chock full of block manipulation, metaphors and ethical choices. Not only that, it gives Alex an excuse to use one of his favorite words, “phantasmagorical.”
Calvin reveals some Dynasty Warriors Gundam love, and that gets Sam hot under the collar. Cthulu Saves The World also comes up, as does Frozen Synapse.
Jonathan points out with pride that he finished LA Noire. Alex counters by saying anyone could finish LA Noire. This may be foreshadowing on their upcoming LA Noire review show. Aside from that, Jonathan’s been dabbling in a little Bastion and Islands of Wakfu. Sam just loves that title.
Then it’s off to the races with Calvin’s top ten list. There are a few surprises here, and the ignorance of the usual hosts when it comes to mega popular games is exposed once again. Still, there are a few oldies but goodies in his list. Finally, Jonathan wraps it up with a translation game. If you’re betting on the winner, here’s a hint: don’t bet on Alex winning. Or even scoring.
NOTE: THIS EPISODE IS EXPLICIT.
So, there’s been a bit of a snafu. Turns out, pretty much as expected, I jumped into Tumblr without actually considering the way the thing works. I had worked out a weird, roundabout way of allowing Alex and Sam to post on the blog, when there’s a much easier way to pull it off.
You’ll notice that this blog’s address is now theholmberg.tumbler.com. I’ll be using this page for…. well, I dunno what yet.
The old address, wotg.tumblr.com, is up and running and, in theory, will be easier to manage on the back end than this was going to be. Perhaps I’ll even figure out how to give proper attribution to the contributors over there. We’ll see.
Anyway, if you’re following this page, I’ll warn you I don’t know what or when I’ll do anything with it. The other page will be getting all the love for a bit while I continue to figure this thing out.
Thanks for your patience!
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I wake up in my safehouse near an airfield in the Serengeti. I have to go back to the main town to finish a quest. I check the map and decide it’d be shorter (and safer) to go to a bus stop about five miles away.
So I hoof it for about a mile to the nearest road and attack a passing car. The guy turns around and guns his engine for me, and I plug him full of lead after he exits the car like a dumbass. So then I get in the car and run three checkpoints trying to get to the bus stop.
I’m ALMOST there when one of the attacking jeeps fishtails me. I get out and realize there are THREE jeeps after me. I get plugged full of lead. My buddy Josip comes to bail me out, dragging me to safety. I regain consciousness and he says, “There are two more of them.”
I consider going straight to the bus stop, but I’m not sure if Josip will survive. So I hear one of the attackers fire an AK, find him and kill him, but then I realize the attacker has critically wounded Josip. Josip’s bleeding out, and I don’t have any first aid syringes to help.
I abandon him to look around for syringes. I look for 20 damned minutes, all the while he’s accusing me of leaving him to die, and I can’t say, “Hey, just shut up, I’ll find something!”
I can’t drag him to the bus and take him to the hospital, and I can’t stabilize him… eventually another jeep ambushes me and I die.
You might think I was upset at losing so much game time. And yet, when I rebooted back at my safehouse, there’s Josip, good as new, offering to stick around just in case things got out of hand. I was much too happy to have him “alive” to whine about the lost game time.
My most recently completed ridiculous Minecraft project. I just wish I had one more shade of red….
