Conference Call

GWJ Conference Call Episode 455

Live from summer rabbitcon 2015! Boardgames, Batman Arkham Knight, Oculus, RPGs and More!

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Live from summer rabbitcon! Allen, McChuck, Sean, Julian and Shawn recount their board game and RPG adventures. We also announce the winners of the donation drive icon and guest host draws!

To contact us, email [email protected]! Send us your thoughts on the show, pressing issues you want to talk about or whatever else is on your mind. You can even send a 30 second audio question or comment (MP3 format please) if you're so inclined.

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Comments

Aww, I didn't win anything. I don't know any of the people that won the spot on the conference call, except for the last one. And, like the hosts, I'm very pleased with that result. I look forward to hearing whatever topic she comes up with!

The winners for Conference Call guest spot!

Skiptron
Nazkill
legopirate27
Amoebic

The winners for custom icon!

SpaceDog “Space Dog”
DeThroned “Golden Chair”
Mousetrap “Wedge of Cheese”
Rat Boy “Golden I’d Hit It” thumbs up
m0nk3yboy “Golden finger butt”
Cod “Fish skeleton”

4:25 Contest winners
9:18 Batman: Arkham Knight
21:42 Board games
1:06:05 Alien Isolation
1:08:43 Oculus Rift

Hooray! My perfect raffle streak remains unblemished!

Grats to everyone who won something!

The finger -> butt will be immortalized in gold.. how appropriate.

I won something and *Legion* didn't?

Edit: Please tell me there's video of the wrestling RPG.

Wow, I can't believe I will have the honor of carrying around the greatest of all GWJ memes...

Can't wait to see how that one turns out!

Spoiler:

hopefully space is not an issue

As of 8PM on Wednesday it still hasn't shown up in the apple Podcast app.

It was late last week too. Is there a better way of getting the podcast that doesn't involve streaming it or downloading it to a PC and syncing it to the phone?

m0nk3yboy wrote:
Spoiler:

hopefully space is not an issue

I'm disappointed no one referred to this in the podcast.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

As of 8PM on Wednesday it still hasn't shown up in the apple Podcast app.

It was late last week too. Is there a better way of getting the podcast that doesn't involve streaming it or downloading it to a PC and syncing it to the phone?

It was in the Apple Podcast app as of ~2:30PM. It didn't automatically download, though -- I had to manually go into the full list of episodes and tap to download episode 455. I notice that both episodes 454 and 455 have a datestamp of Dec 31, 2000, which may be what's causing the Podcast app to not think that it's recent enough to download. Anyone know where that date's getting assigned? None of the older episodes have a datestamp at this point (though they may have had datestamps from the prior site's feed?).

Rat Boy wrote:

I won something and *Legion* didn't?

:'( I WANTED THE GOLDEN COACH'S WHISTLE!

Certis wrote:

The winners for custom icon!

SpaceDog “Space Dog”
DeThroned “Golden Chair”
Mousetrap “Wedge of Cheese”
Rat Boy “Golden I’d Hit It” thumbs up
m0nk3yboy “Golden finger butt”
Cod “Fish skeleton”

Aside from DeThroned, critters seem to be the order of the day.

Congrats to all, but especially the simian! That should be some icon.

That was definitely one of the most entertaining podcasts that I have heard you guys do.
Not that your regular podcasts are not entertaining.
More like this one was up to "11".
Maybe it's because you are all face to face, it brings more sparkle and fizz to your presentation.
Maybe you should all just move into Rabbit's house...

merphle wrote:
doubtingthomas396 wrote:

As of 8PM on Wednesday it still hasn't shown up in the apple Podcast app.

It was late last week too. Is there a better way of getting the podcast that doesn't involve streaming it or downloading it to a PC and syncing it to the phone?

It was in the Apple Podcast app as of ~2:30PM. It didn't automatically download, though -- I had to manually go into the full list of episodes and tap to download episode 455. I notice that both episodes 454 and 455 have a datestamp of Dec 31, 2000, which may be what's causing the Podcast app to not think that it's recent enough to download. Anyone know where that date's getting assigned? None of the older episodes have a datestamp at this point (though they may have had datestamps from the prior site's feed?).

Got it. Thanks!

There is something fishy with my iOS podcast app too - it doesn't show up on my "Unplayed tab" and only showed up on the "Feed" tab this morning.

The link to the Vine of Elysium's Tom Sawyer is oddly missing from the show notes.

Wow, I think this is the first time I've won anything. Not just here, anywhere. Much appreciated!

The Monikers: Shmonikers Kickstarter looks to have 7 days left, as of the posting of the podcast.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...

That wrestling game sounds amazing and requires a purchase.

chaosmos wrote:

There is something fishy with my iOS podcast app too - it doesn't show up on my "Unplayed tab" and only showed up on the "Feed" tab this morning.

The GWJ Podcast has been acting weird on the iPod/iPhone since a couple of episodes back. The rss feed must have changed with the site revamp or something. Suddenly there's one tile for the older episodes and a second one for the newer ones. I think the best bet is to wipe them from your device, unsubscribe, then just resubscribe from the iTunes store. Maybe that'll fix it. Seems to have worked OK for the CAGCast, which was doing the same thing.

At first I was lazy and asked if anyone has put a list of games played over the weekend. Then I went back and put this one together.

Batman Arkham Knight
Sherriff of Nottingham
Fibbage
World Wide Wrestling RPG by NDPdesign
Regular Human Basketball
Monikers
D&D Mass Combat
Chopsticks Dexterity Mega Challenge 3000
Dead Men Tell No Tales

Thanks for the list, you forgot

Home Improvisation
http://store.steampowered.com/app/35...

Stay strong Game King!

There are still some of us who don't want to have to wear 0.8 pounds of sense depriving computer equipment on our heads just to play video games!

Here's the wrestling rpg: http://ndpdesign.com/wwwrpg/

We played it again in Maine and it was again a total blast. The system is simple and requires next to no prep. I hope to get to play this a lot more. Especially as a season since each session is an episode. When do you a season, there's space for doing backstage politics stuff, etc.

doubtingthomas396 wrote:

Stay strong Game King!

There are still some of us who don't want to have to wear 0.8 pounds of sense depriving computer equipment on our heads just to play video games!

Then you shall be laid low in battle as we vr gamers give you a surprise attack that you'll never see coming!
No, wait..

Certis wrote:

The winners for custom icon!

m0nk3yboy “Golden finger butt”

It's a shame these can't be animated

Quintin_Stone wrote:

IMAGE(http://www.rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/fingerbutt.gif)

Hurrah & congrats all. Except anyone who uses that animated gif of golden finger butt.

I've been super busy so haven't really had a chance to check back, my new icon is awesome!

SpaceDog wrote:

I've been super busy so haven't really had a chance to check back, my new icon is awesome!

QF(MF)T!