Idle F***in' Thumbs Podcast

boogle wrote:
SuperDave wrote:

Just got my Thumbs rewards. I'm going to Lord so hard in my gold foil tunic.

Idle thumbs top gun sticker is the best. THE BEST.

Thank you for posting this because my top gun sticker almost got thrown away with the box!

SuperDave wrote:
boogle wrote:
SuperDave wrote:

Just got my Thumbs rewards. I'm going to Lord so hard in my gold foil tunic.

Idle thumbs top gun sticker is the best. THE BEST.

Thank you for posting this because my top gun sticker almost got thrown away with the box!

Oh man that would have been the worst. We shall have to serenade someone with "You've lost that loving feeling" at pencon in celebration.
I will be playing the role of Goose (obviously).

Hey y'all, I just started listening to this podcast my own self and I really like it.

Veloxi wrote:

Hey y'all, I just started listening to this podcast my own self and I really like it. :)

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Wolfen Victrocious wrote:

It's taken me a week to listen to it all but I'm down to the last 13 minutes or so. I'm not exactly sure what I actually remember hearing and what was a dream.

Multiple times now I have listened to Idle Thumbs while in bed, falling asleep. This happened no fewer than 3 times on the ruination cast.

I usually wake in a bizarre stupor and find myself in the middle of a foreign topic. Then I'll rewind, and do it all over again, sometimes listening to parts all over again that I only half remember due to being only half awake.

Oh, does anybody know whereabouts in the ruination cast they mentioned Dear Esther? The question was specifically about its significance, and I have a sort of general memory of them saying that there are other things like it, and that the only exceptional thing about the game is that it was a financial success.

I will say I've personally never played anything like Dear Esther before. It has basically no systems other than triggered voiceovers, and it has pretty much no player agency other than wandering around. It seemed completely unique to me. I want to listen to that segment again so I can send some reader mail without relying on my memory of what they actually said.

I got my rewards. The T-Shirts are definitely nice. Now I just have to talk the wife into letting me frame and hang the print.

Famous had an erotic panic.

Two things.

I have the shirt that says videogames. It's pretty awesome.

On the Ruination cast, a Portuguese guy, Abílio Carvalho, if I recall correctly, wrote in. My name is not Abílio, nor I endorse the question sent (comments on the Portuguese New State (Estado Novo)).

If anything, I'd ask something involving a goldblum trimmed goatse riding a horsebag. Also, I'm poor.

Thank you.

Giantbomb has a video feature called Spookin' with Scoops where Patrick Klepek plays a horror game. Every time I see the title listed on their website it pisses me off.

Kickstarter rewards get! Wearing my Thumbs shirt now, and the sh*tty Wizard prints are absolutely top notch, they look amazing. Next step: framing them. Final step: convincing my wife to let me hang them.

Thumbs on the Tested Octoberkast right now.

I saw an article on Kotaku and I can't stop thinking of Idle Thumbs. Here's the video the were linking to.

The guard rolls off the ledge.

Goldcat Jeffbloom

Alf Protocol

Last week's cast was the best show so far. All the impressions given by the Thumbs about how working on videogames can be despairing, frustrating and dangerous were really eye-opening, especially for one that keeps asking "what if I took that plunge?"

And particularly Sean's drilling down to "I just want to work with creative people, doing creative things, leaving my mark on something" was tremendous for me.

Thank you guys so much.

I really think they've hit a grove inline with before the break. I like listening to the podcast, especially when it's good (which is great, because a lot of it is good).

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(Gone Home, of course)

UCRC wrote:

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(Gone Home, of course)

I want Gone Home so badly. And not just because Scoops is making it.

Caught Clash of the Titans the other day. Stuck with it purely because of the character named Phaedrus.

I hope he found his brother.

As long as he contacted him via RocketMail.

"Double-down on that origin stuff."

Further to "that type of gamer", I encountered one the other day when my wife's friend and her husband visited. I've met him before, when he told me that I should have bought a PS3 instead of a 360 ("Blu-ray"), and this time he wanted to tell me that a really good game is "Batman". My wife politely asked, "Is that on Xbox?"

"No," he said. "PS3 only."

I didn't have the heart to correct him—let alone ask him if he meant Asylum or City. I just said, "Yeah, I've heard it's really good."

It does make me wonder which of us is doin it wrong: him for being too casually uninformed, or me for being in too deep.

Gravey wrote:

It does make me wonder which of us is doin it wrong: him for being too casually uninformed, or me for being in too deep.

Were the topic anything else, would it make it any more acceptable for a person to be so absolute in their ignorance? I don't think so.

Though, if he is right ... what the hell have I been playing?

Cats: The videogame.
The Mr. Snuffleupagus chapters haunt me to this day.

Obviously he was talking about the PS3 exclusive challenge rooms to Arkham Asylum where you can play as the Joker. Have you considered that maybe you're the one who is ignorant?

Latrine wrote:

Obviously he was talking about the PS3 exclusive challenge rooms to Arkham Asylum where you can play as the Joker. Have you considered that maybe you're the one who is ignorant?

Briefly, but then I remembered that this guy told me he pretty much mainly plays Madden—so I assume he just saw a commercial for Batman: Arkham [Asylum|City] bookended by PS3 logos, bought it, and that was it. He is, as far as I can tell, pretty much the ur-casual gamer: he plays games, or at least a couple anyway, but it's not his main hobby and his knowledge and desire to know more doesn't extend beyond the machine itself, e.g. websites, reviews, etc.

BadMojo wrote:
Gravey wrote:

It does make me wonder which of us is doin it wrong: him for being too casually uninformed, or me for being in too deep.

Were the topic anything else, would it make it any more acceptable for a person to be so absolute in their ignorance? I don't think so.

That's sort of the thing I've been wondering. It's acceptable to be ignorant about video games because that's the norm: it's de facto wrong to know too much about video games—where how much is "too much" is directly proportional to one's age, i.e. at 14 it's fine to know everything, but at 32 you should probably know next to nothing, having replaced that with... sh*t, what are things adults know about? Urban dining or golf swings or something.

It's why I spend so much time on this forum, or listening religiously to Idle Thumbs, instead of talking to people in meatspace. There are very few I can engage with about my main hobby at the same level (and, crucially, who are also my age) outside of, say, PAX.

Ep. 83 - Chris's recollection about a flash game + chat room reminds me about how the Kingdom of Loathing community coalesced before it could be considered a game. I guess if you slap a chat room or forum on anything, a community will eventually form?

EDIT: ... and Jake or Sean basically made the same observation after I posted this. I should probably listen to the entire episode before making comments >_<

shoptroll wrote:

Ep. 83 - Chris's recollection about a flash game + chat room reminds me about how the Kingdom of Loathing community coalesced before it could be considered a game. I guess if you slap a chat room or forum on anything, a community will eventually form?

EDIT: ... and Jake or Sean basically made the same observation after I posted this. I should probably listen to the entire episode before making comments >_<

I loved that.

I had to google tkep, and I realized that Chris's memory of the timeframe may have been wrong - it ran from 2001 to 2007. I... don't really know how I missed it. Or maybe I didn't miss it, and I just forgot about it.

I ran into this:

http://www.gammagamers.com/gfuel-tub...

and it reminded me of the early thumbs episodes. Finally, we have something to chug with our gamer grub.

Coldtouch wrote:

I ran into this:

http://www.gammagamers.com/gfuel-tub...

and it reminded me of the early thumbs episodes. Finally, we have something to chug with our gamer grub.

I love it, especially the Those guys are collectively 227 years old promo.