GWJ Conference Call Episode 94

Too Human, Some E3 Thoughts, An Interview With Dr. Horrible's Felicia Day, Batman, Your Emails and more!

This week, we reminisce about the wonder that was Dr. Horrible with geek-heartthrob Felicia Day. She does a little dance with Rabbit about why humor is so freaking hard, and what she's really looking for in a ... game.

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Felicia Day Blog
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Show credits

Music credits: 

Intro/Outro Music - Ian Dorsch, Willowtree Audioworks
"Los Pistoleros" Ian Dorsch - 0:20:22
"The Way Your Journey Ends" Tom Quinn - www.citadel-studios.com - 0:35:15
"Washaway" Ian Dorsch - 1:18:47

Also: Special thanks to Mutant Enemy Prod for the use of the "Dr. Horrible" Theme Song.
Special thanks to Felicia Day for the use of "The Guild" Theme song.

Comments

BtVS was better before they introduced her sister. Stupidest plot point, although MT =D but FD >

t0W wrote:

BtVS was better before they introduced her sister. Stupidest plot point, although MT =D but FD >

Should I feel dumb for not having the slightest idea what he's talking about?

edit: "Although Main Tank = Defense but Feign Death is better"?

wordsmythe wrote:

At best, that makes her a tragic hero--an aspirational hero. Sure, she makes a small improvement to the state of the world while the self-centered machos are distracting the press, but serving one meal does not a homeless shelter make. I do, however, agree with you as to the "cowboy diplomacy" lesson. Heck, I could apply it directly to modern international politics, but I think even then it would reinforce the notion of Penny as the person we all wish was more powerful and important than she really is.

I assume the shelter went on after her death and helped lots of people. So I think she's better than aspirational. Tragic hero, sure. But my point is that she's a realistic hero that people should aspire to be like. Real people are not usually more powerful than Penny, and if she would have put on a leotard and kicked someone's ass she would have gone against (what I saw as) the entire thesis of the show.

But lets talk about what should happen next. I say that we find out that Bad Horse is from some kind of Negaverse (like in Darkwing Duck) Doctor Horrible discovers this and builds a machine to bring Penny back from the alternate universe, Is this his chance for redemption? Of course the Negaverse version of Penny is a supervillainess (Called "Bad Penny"?) that hates Doctor Horrible and Captain Hammer.

Then we can have our ass kicking Penny without desecrating the character.

There is so much to love about this episode and this interview (I am very happy to hear that she played and loved all the King's Quest and other Sierra adventure games - Leisure Suit Larry? Seriously? Awesome.), but I was maybe happiest to hear her mention Depths of Peril. I just discovered that myself, and it really is great. Nothing better than to admire somebody for one thing (in this case her acting in Dr. Horrible) and then find out there are a bunch of other awesome things they do. I had never heard of The Guild, but I'm downloading it now.

Great show, great interview, guys. Bravo. Now just have her connect with Nathan Fillion and get him on your show - we learned on the Evil Avatar podcast from David Hayter that he loves Guitar Hero.

You guys rock. GWJ Conf Call gets me to completely forget that I'm on the freakin treadmill. (And probably has the people around me wondering what the hell I'm smiling/laughing at)

Just something interesting that I've noticed. Get a pretty girl on the podcast and you get 126 and counting comments. Should do that more often, maybe some Fragdolls :p

I think it's the content not the cover personally. But maybe I'm biased

rabbit wrote:

I think it's the content not the cover personally. But maybe I'm biased

wordsmythe wrote:

No! You are stupid and wrong!

Let's see:

Brother Can you spare a Smile (cute kitten image) : 45 comments
Conference Call 93 (previous one, just the reporter image) : 60 comments
Conference Call 94 (cute girl image) : 129 comments

Right, so, I claim that 129-60=69 means you have at least 69 additional comments because of Felicia Day.
So, potential comments on Felicia Day holding a cute kitten: 105 !!

And you don't even have do to a Conference Call!

Jayhawker wrote:
rabbit wrote:

I think it's the content not the cover personally. But maybe I'm biased

wordsmythe wrote:

No! You are stupid and wrong!

QFT

FeddEx wrote:

Let's see:

Brother Can you spare a Smile (cute kitten image) : 45 comments
Conference Call 93 (previous one, just the reporter image) : 60 comments
Conference Call 94 (cute girl image) : 129 comments

Right, so, I claim that 129-60=69 means you have at least 69 additional comments because of Felicia Day.
So, potential comments on Felicia Day holding a cute kitten: 105 !!

And you don't even have do to a Conference Call!

See! Science! Although I would hypothesise that Felicia Day and Kitten would give 144-159 comments.

Felicia Day average: 129
Kitten (taking account of people who would comment anyway 33-66% of kitten comments: 15-30
Total: 144-159

I propose a rigorous regime of testing of this hypothesis.

And thanks for dismissing an entire nation's gaming problems. "Suck it up, Australia is great" (apart from our access to games).

I just want access to Rock Band. Please! GH3 and now Aerosmith are not cutting the mustard. It's killing me.

We do have some good things here. Mod chips were ruled legal so people could play imported games, the fact that they could also be used for piracy was considered tough luck for Sony as they linked the 2 items together. Importing therefore is a common option for people like me (except for 18lb boxes like RB) - particularly with the relative values of our dollar being so favourable for .au lately.

But then we had Fallout 3 "refused classification" (ie. banned) for drug use.

It hurts to be an Aussie gamer.

And thanks for dismissing an entire nation's gaming problems. "Suck it up, Australia is great" (apart from our access to games).

I'm not sure what we could have told you. I feel your pain - or rather, more specifically I don't but sympathize that it's gotta suck.

I think Austrailia probably isn't an ideal country if you're into the gaming scene, but our point stands - at least you've got other things to be positive about.

I do applogize if I came off as flip, that was mostly me. My point was, if I'd said it more correctly: my assessment is that Oz has had some huge media-import problems for decades, not just for distance, but for tax policy and other issues.

But then again, during the year that I spent in sydney (some off and on, some just on) I never once found myself caring because I found Sydney and the 200k radius around it to be such a blessed and glorious place that I have a hard time associating anything, anything at all, negative with the experience. I recognize this is ludicrously blind, and it has as much to do with me, my place in life at the time, etc, as it does with the place.

But I'm just sayin'.

I know it was meant in jest guys.

Although I can't believe you thought so highly of Sydney. Melbourne is where it's at.

I spent some time in Melbourne. I spent lots of time drinking and eating around Sydney harbor, spending weekends up the coast on the beach at a friends bungalow, surfing badly.

rabbit wrote:

I spent some time in Melbourne. I spent lots of time drinking and eating around Sydney harbor, spending weekends up the coast on the beach at a friends bungalow, surfing badly.

How can you surf badly in Sydney?

Are even the internet pages that badly imported??

MrDeVil909 wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
rabbit wrote:

I think it's the content not the cover personally. But maybe I'm biased

wordsmythe wrote:

No! You are stupid and wrong!

QFT ;)

While I fully endorse any GWJ meme that involves raising my GWJ fame, I think that the general Dr. Horrible buzz was a contributing factor in this episode's popularity.

I always listen to these things late, that's why I'm only commenting now.

I think it's hilarious that Felicia Day schooled Rabbit on indie RPGs. Rabbit ! You are supposed to be the GWJ RPG guy! Hm, let me see... You like RPGs, Elysium likes Madden, Certis likes ... well, I don't know, and Rob likes to complain.

So your role in life is to know the RPG scene and you'd never heard of Depths of Peril - probably never heard of Cute Knight, Aveyond, Eschalon, Mount & Blade, etc. etc. - the solution is for you to keep a close eye on this site:

Tales of the Rampant Coyote - The CEO of Rampant Games, an indie publisher, blogs about indie games and so on.
Read it and be enlightened.

ps. Also I think RPS did a Depths of Peril article once.

rabbit is the Pen & Paper RPG guy, not so much the video game RPG guy. Too much crying for his taste.

Certis wrote:

rabbit is the Pen & Paper RPG guy, not so much the video game RPG guy. Too much crying for his taste.

But how do you know that Rabbit isn't actually video game RPG guy who is roleplaying being the Pen & Paper RPG guy?

Or maybe he is a Live Action RPG guy roleplaying a video game RPG guy who is roleplaying a Pen & Paper RPG guy.

Heck, maybe Rabbit is an RPG gal roleplaying an RPG guy. I bet that is why 'Rabbit' curses a lot in the podcasts... it's part of the roleplay to be more 'convincing.'

Maybe none of you are who you say you are. No wonder we don't get videocasts, just these highly edited podcasts that defy visual confirmation. Maybe, Elysium is Rabbit, who is really Certis, who is actually Vector, if there were a Vector, but in truth you all are being roleplayed by Ken Levine!

My point is, you never know with these RPG guys!

This conversation reminds me of a talk I had with a coworker about my boss, several jobs ago.

Me: "I really like Michael D. He's a nice guy."

Her: "Remember what he got his BA in - theatre."

ps. Who is crying in computer RPGs Certis, is it the characters or Rabbit?

And which guy are you again?

Gaald wrote:
Gemini Ace wrote:

Why did you buys bleep those names out?

Well just imagine you were not a fan of Joss Whedon until you saw this awesome show of his called DR. Horrible and than decided to watch Firefly and Serenity and Buffy, but some jerk spoiled two major plot points of the show for you. It's not like anyone who watched the show didn't understand what Shawn was referencing even with the beeps in and hopefully this saves those late comers to the party.

Thank you thank you thank you! I'm on Buffy season 4 and am so tired of being spoiled every time I read anything about Firefly or Dr. Horrible. No, there is not a statue of limitations on these things!

wordsmythe wrote:
GioClark wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
GioClark wrote:

I feel pathetic that I only recognize her from her Cheetos commercial.

She had a Cheetos commercial?

Link

Girl's got a thing for laundromats.

The laundry theme continues with her Sears commercial.

GioClark wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
GioClark wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
GioClark wrote:

I feel pathetic that I only recognize her from her Cheetos commercial.

She had a Cheetos commercial?

Link

Girl's got a thing for laundromats.

The laundry theme continues with her Sears commercial.

Good thing I hadn't heard about that before I went to Sears today.