Oh my... 2 hours... This is the longest you've ever done, isn't it?
That's a big show, baby.

The Ken Levine show was about the same length, although this show did beat it by a few minutes. There was just so much to talk about.

Not sure what you are talking about, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I wanted to say thanks for answering my email. I was happy to hear your opinions, and for the record it's she not he. Thanks again and great show!

Hey, where's the link to the gametrailers.com video showing the difference between American and Japanese games?

Oh, and great podcast! Though I was a little bit shocked listening to you talk about MMO after MMO and their smaller audiences and the chat went on and on with nobody mentioning LOTRO! Eventually you came around to it, but it got me wondering. Where does LOTRO fall in terms of audience and/or success in the galaxy of other MMOs you were talking about, like Everquest 2 and Galaxies?

On the topic of if you reveal yourself as a gamer to others, my answer is simple. If the topic comes up then I will speak my mind on the direction of the conversation. I do not care if people see I am reading reviews on games online. I carry a PC-Gamer mag with me on occasion to locations when I have to wait. And lastly I have a T-Shirt that I wear on occasion that specifically shows the world that "I am a gamer!"

T-Shirt Picture Here
"Not Now I'm Busy"

There are times that you don't talk about gaming because it's not appropriate but I'm not going to hide it because I don't have to. I'm in the IT Industry also but since I work for a University it's a pretty liberal atmosphere.

Edit add: BTW where is that link to the article talking about the differences between Japan and US gaming and thoughts between them? It was mentioned in the email call section of the podcast.

Like the MMO talk. I have an unusual high anticipation for AoC, and i was also one of the ones that went back into SWG to save my houses.

More:

- A "game equivalent of MySpace" is enough to make me think it's just a raunchier, buggier version of Second Life -- probably with animated gifs and obnoxious embeds. "Playing with each other in social spaces" is just the cherry on the sundae.
- I have used the XBLA versions to introduce friends at parties to both Catan and Carc. I've in fact had groups go through the Catan tutorial as I set out the hexes to play the game.

When females talk to me about their gaming hobbies, my mind usually jumps right to the aesthetic qualities of their vaginas.

I don't recall a scene in Episode IV where Luke, Obi-wan, and the droids kept running into empty buildings when they were driving to Mos Eisley.

Alert the thought police!

My written words, those you can give me crap about construction, idiom and usage. But after two hours trying not to make too much noise while sipping a martini after writing for 14 hours straight? You're lucky I'm lucid.

This has been, by far, the deepest look into the deep dark cerebral depths of gaming I've yet heard. As a person that prides himself on his "gamer identity" being seperate from his real identity I can understand the fear you have with identifying yourself with games.

I go to work each day wanting to reach out to gaming companies, small dev studios, big publishing houses, and finding that none of them want my help. All of them know better, none want my expertise or exposure to smarter people than I that crave to help them. Gaming is such an insular industry, they themselves on the inside don't want to foster relationships how can their social endeavors hope to flourish? It all seems doomed to brain drain as burned out individuals flee.

GTA got into trouble because the sexual content shipped on the disk. The mod unlocked it. From a PR standpoint, that's a lot different from user-created content introducing sexual content from scratch.