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welcome!!

I posted a question on Twitter, tho my knowledge of Twitter is limited so I have no idea if it even got considered/seen (it was a reply to Certis)...

Great show as always guys =D

WOW, this might the only gaming podcast that makes me wanna play a deer hunting game...

i wonder if i can mod the game and replace the deer model with an Osama Bin Laden model instead?

Yes indeed it did! I even got screenshots of it into a piece I did on game humor for one of those paper thingies you read on the toilet. Remember those? Whatchamacalits?

I'm pretty sure it was a monogrammed towel.

Speaking of steampunk, is anyone following Damnation?

I kind of am. I thought it was pretty neat back in its incarnation as a UT2k4 mod, so I am cautiously optimistic about the retail version.

Also, that woman's outfit is hilarious.

Musical-style segment in a game: Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64! You fought a big pile of poo who sung like and opera singer. Granted, it was breaks in the action for the song potions, but they broke it out like 3 times throughout the course of the fight.

Someone please make a muscial-genre game. It could be so hilarious.

Grim Fandango would have worked as a musical. As for steampunk I dont know why someone hasnt snatched up China Melveille's New Crobizon/Bas-Lag IP for that kind of thing.

I played some of Damnation at last year's PAX. It was very pretty, but didn't really impress me beyond the setting. I only played it for 20 minutes, but in that time it didn't wow me as much as I'd hoped. I'm sure lots will change between that time and its release.

Also, may I be the first to say "let's hear it for METH!" Thanks, Certis. Your delightfully twisted - and downright wrong - comments have been sorely lacking from the last few weeks. Next week, I'd appreciate it if you could draw some comparisons between playing games and drowning puppies.

That was a great scene in a wonderful game.

Here's the link to The Onion video (which contains a link to the "demo") for Point-Blank. You mentioned it in the podcast but it isn't in the show notes. I laughed out loud.

Part of the reason that some of the bands mentioned in the podcast, particularly the 80's bands mentioned by Rabbit, aren't in the Rock Band library is that they have non-standard instruments that are difficult to replicate with the guitar/bass/drums/vocals setup the game has. Taking one quick example, Echo and the Bunnymen's "Ocean Rain" would be difficult to translate into a Rock Band because it has multiple guitars, a number of overdubs, and no drums (the "Echo" in the band's name is their drum machine; they don't have a physical drummer). Likewise, the Human League and the Cure both use a number of synthesizers in their songs. This is also part of why you don't see popular indie bands like the Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah showing up in the game; how on Earth would you play some of those songs? You would have to abandon the idea of the guitar controller as a guitar replica and instead view it as a controller; I think that the developers at Harmonix are hesitant to break that sense of immersion in order to get certain songs into their catalog.

This kind of counts as a musical moment in a video game.

I'm not sure it takes a lot of training to understand lines like "You're just an itty bitty sh*tty little tag-nut" . I just threw that in there because it was so very well done, as far as style and technique.

This is well worth the miniscule investment, not just for VI but V and the rest of the great series. The skeleton scene was so amusing, in part because it was interesting to actually arrive at that location. I don't know about you, but by the time I got there I'd already seen that screen about a hundred times by throwing a rotten tomato at the minotaur or whatever other stupid idea I had...the realization of "hey, that's a real location!" was very cool.