Idle F***in' Thumbs Podcast

They've released two podblasts which also contain nuggets of awesome.

Mr. Remo, if you read this:
Hi! 2 things:
1) Might I suggest a file-naming change? Your content makes more sense chronologically and I file your newsblasts and specials along with your regular podcasts. I've renamed the files in my download folder to idlethumbs_datecode_episode number/News and now I can listen to your content in the order it was released without having to do any special voodoo on my mp3 player. (I can also pick out content by episode number and not by cryptic dates... of course, I'm probably the only person left on the Internet that doesn't browse their audio content by meta-tags...)
2) A few of your specials don't download properly from your archive page. Fireside chat, and the Joe Pesci files, among one or two others. Are you ashamed of that content?
Keep up the great work!

Rallick wrote:

You mean you're not??

Hmmm. Good point.

It never stops being funny when they break into the Diablo 2 emotes.

After seeing that post I gave it a listen last night. It was wildly entertaining. The guys are naturals. I even listened to an earlier episode (something I rarely ever do with podcasts since the news are outdated) and still enjoyed it because they're a fun bunch.

sivartTheGreat wrote:

Tangentially: I stopped by the 1UP forums a couple of times, and I honestly think the show's primary problem is that the poor guys have to cater to a legion of negative, immature kids. I saw so many personal, cutting attacks in 10 minutes on that forum that it bummed me out for the next hour or so. I even considered writing Garnett a note that just said "dude, I feel for you."

Tell me about it. I started posting over there because I liked the editors, the content and the podcasts, but the community is a mess.

I started posting here the day they fired everyone, and haven't been back since, although I still listen to ListenUP.

On topic: Idle Thumbs seems to be an acquired taste. The first few times I listened, I didn't "get it," but with each new show I am liking it more and more.

TheCounselor wrote:
sivartTheGreat wrote:

Tangentially: I stopped by the 1UP forums a couple of times, and I honestly think the show's primary problem is that the poor guys have to cater to a legion of negative, immature kids. I saw so many personal, cutting attacks in 10 minutes on that forum that it bummed me out for the next hour or so. I even considered writing Garnett a note that just said "dude, I feel for you."

Tell me about it. I started posting over there because I liked the editors, the content and the podcasts, but the community is a mess.

Agreed. Their community is terrible and a reminder why I usually stick to places like this one on the internet. It's an extremely mean-spirited, insular group of misfits. This is obvious on ListenUP as whenever Garnett feels obligated to "include the community" and talk about something on the forums, it's always posts from the same three users, and even with that filtering it's almost always negative and they're saying something rather banal in a completely hostile tone. My guess is a lot of the horrible dredge of society that makes up the GameFAQ/Gamespot forums ended up at 1UP after Gerstmann-gate.

The only reason i am disappointed at the news blasts is that we don’t get a full length show this week.
I am with Thin_J the diablo emotes never fail to have me belly laughing.

kuddles wrote:

Agreed. Their community is terrible and a reminder why I usually stick to places like this one on the internet. It's an extremely mean-spirited, insular group of misfits. This is obvious on ListenUP as whenever Garnett feels obligated to "include the community" and talk about something on the forums, it's always posts from the same three users, and even with that filtering it's almost always negative and they're saying something rather banal in a completely hostile tone. My guess is a lot of the horrible dredge of society that makes up the GameFAQ/Gamespot forums ended up at 1UP after Gerstmann-gate.

Which is weird - you'd think that dredge would have flowed over to Giant Bomb, but the community over there seems nice enough. (Great podcast, too.)

What really bums me out about 1UP Yours - and Garnett in particular - is that the 'include the community' side of things probably isn't so much his 'feeling obligated' as it is just part of his job. I can imagine that the 1UP skeleton crew has certain expectations to meet and roles to fill, and Garnett is tasked with running the 'community podcast.' Tough role when your community is of that caliber.

Die!
Time to Die!
This is for you..
Die!

Gold!

sivartTheGreat wrote:
kuddles wrote:

Agreed. Their community is terrible and a reminder why I usually stick to places like this one on the internet. It's an extremely mean-spirited, insular group of misfits. This is obvious on ListenUP as whenever Garnett feels obligated to "include the community" and talk about something on the forums, it's always posts from the same three users, and even with that filtering it's almost always negative and they're saying something rather banal in a completely hostile tone. My guess is a lot of the horrible dredge of society that makes up the GameFAQ/Gamespot forums ended up at 1UP after Gerstmann-gate.

Which is weird - you'd think that dredge would have flowed over to Giant Bomb, but the community over there seems nice enough. (Great podcast, too.)

What really bums me out about 1UP Yours - and Garnett in particular - is that the 'include the community' side of things probably isn't so much his 'feeling obligated' as it is just part of his job. I can imagine that the 1UP skeleton crew has certain expectations to meet and roles to fill, and Garnett is tasked with running the 'community podcast.' Tough role when your community is of that caliber.

I hate to drag out this discussion, but I tried to get into the 1up boards back when I was a subscriber to GFW, but I just hated the setup . . . and the community was rather run-of-the-mill for a (major) gaming site. To be fair, however, people at 1up are a bit more mature than the boards over at Gametrailers. I never saw one intelligent discussion over there. Ever. I would bet the average user age is 12.

IUMogg wrote:

It's in episode 8 about 30 mins in.

Oh God. The song. The song.

I've been going through them from the beginning and I wonder what kind of sh*tty neighborhood they are recording in. You can hear sirens in the background in every other episode it seems.

It's not the neighbourhood—it's them.

Chris actually mentions in one episode where he is, the sirens are coming from his place. I don't remember exactly but it's some busy section of San Fransisco I believe.

Or Oakland? I used to listen to Rebel FM to fill the erstwhile 1UP Yours void, and often there were also sirens—or they too were outlaw podcasters on the lam.

nossid wrote:

I've been going through them from the beginning and I wonder what kind of sh*tty neighborhood they are recording in. You can hear sirens in the background in every other episode it seems.

Yeah, Chris said he lives on one (or possible the corner of two) major streets in san fran, so the police and fire departments drive by a lot because it's the best way to get to a lot of places in the city.

Episode 39

Sounds like the guys had problems with some of the encounters in Mass Effect. I wish I knew which classes they played. I'm guessing not a gun based class. I didn't have a problem with any of the fights in terms of balance. The combat was fantastic throughout the game. On the hardest difficulty the Benezia fight was tough and took a few tries but I still thought it was a great fight.

From what I've read, the real imbalance in the game is in the classes. It sounds like some of them make the game too tough. I was forewarned about it so I avoided the problem.

I hated the continual interjection of the word baby. It seemed unnecessarily hostile to me but, maybe, that was because the Mass Effect segment was already getting on my nerves.

baby.

Also: Videogames Rodkin!
I'm beginning to enjoy it. However, I don't even expect them to talk about video games. I just listen to it when I'm to tired to listen to things that make sense.

UCRC wrote:

baby.

Touché. I was probably reading too much into the baby thing.

It made me think of that song by Make The Girl Dance. The one with the best music video ever.

Just finished 39, and yeah the episode seemed to be a bit more scrambled than usual. The over-the-top stuff is funnier when it's interspersed between more serious segments. All crazy, all the time, not as effective (or funny). Still, everyone has an off day.

Giantbombcast was pretty meh this week too. Hopefully Three Moves Ahead will end my podcast week on a high note.

And to think, I thought they were just making Time Donkey up.

LobsterMobster wrote:

IMAGE(http://blurst.com/img/games/time-donkey/prelaunch.jpg)

Link :D

"Beating a dead time donkey."

It would be great if it was just a normal donkey that travelled in time.

It could visit different prehistoric eras and alternate dystopian futures in order to eat grass. If the grass wasn't very nice in one time or if there was too much competition from triceratops it could just move forward or back a few hundred years.

There's now a countdown! These are the guys who made Minotaur China Shop so I'm actually kinda excited to play this.

Plus donkey is on my list of "all-time funniest words".

I don't know how many people are still checking this thread, but over at http://www.idlethumbs.net/ we've posted the new episode (41: Space Boss: The Lord of Space) but also a new website, which includes details on the first organized Idle Thumbs meet-up, this Saturday evening at PAX.

Maybe someone here is going to PAX and is free! We'll find out!

I really wish I could get to PAX.

The 55-WIZARD-NO voicemail from today's show had me cracking up. That was great.

This has been reliably funny recently, but by far the biggest laugh I've had in the last two weeks worth of podcasts was Giantbomb talking about Fable 3 and a slight diversion they had talking about Peter Molyneux.

I laughed out loud in front of a bunch of electricians that were dutifully studying blueprints and trying to figure out why something wasn't working. It seems podcasts are pretty good for info on games but great at making random people think you're crazy.