Pokemon will never die…

Well, I’m all for it – back to the days of CatFancy….

I’m affraid that if you want to go back to being the funny guy, you shall have to give up the position of host, and dredge up a Chris Privetere style character to become dismayed every time you launch into a bit of 19th C. poetry …

@Z. Bill: I’ve been thinking about that myself lately. Once upon a time I was a funny guy, now I’m stuck playing referee for Larry, Curly, and Moe.

I enjoyed the podcast, but now you seriously gotta retire the Pokemon song. Nate has sung that almost every podcast since the beginning of effing time. It’s like his default thing to do when he’s bored.

It’s great that Shawn used to be this insane avante-garde iconoclast, but has now surrounded himself with dudes that make him the straight man. He is now the one being driven insane. I like that; it makes me laugh.

It was better than all those other podcasts, ones far too fancy for my tastes. So keep on making podcasts and entertaining me for free while I provide nothing in return, dammit!

Also, Squall referred me

This episode was very awkward,but somehow entertaining. Keep up the good work

Ahh, I seriously never caught the whole create a wordpress account >.<

My friends have been listening to the 'casts, but I'm gonna kill them since they haven't posted crap — then again, now I can tell them to create wordpress accounts correctly before they do.

Kotor descriptions were actually more baffling, most of them were like: this skill will work if you roll XX while your oponent fails to roll XX as their saving throw … didn’t make much sense until I read that they were actually referring to virtual dice rolls, which gave me something to picture …

@Breaka: Then the combat might not be your thing, as it is pretty much what you’re describing (lots of queuing commands and background dice rolls). As far as the RPG-speak goes, I seem to remember being much more baffled by KoTOR’s spell/skill descriptions, but it’s entirely possible that, by this point, I’ve just descended so far into the geek caverns that I’m just used to phrases like “will save.” It seems like the KoTOR combat system was most strictly based on D&D combat, whereas Dragon Age is more of a variation (or maybe it’s based on 4th Edition? I haven’t played any of that, and probably won’t any time soon).

“Lusipurr’s Broken Heart”… seems like any podcast with Bup on the panel could be called that…

@SN & DG – admittedly, I didn’t see much of it but I did notice that you tell your character to attack and then he just goes (my friend thought that his button mashing was actually doing something). your only input is skills and I usually don’t like that. also, there are dice rolls in an action RPG which I hate like the KKK hates me. but as I said, it could grow on me. FFXII had auto-attack and that’s my favorite Final Fantasy in the main series.

as an aside, did anyone else notice how much RPG speak is in the game? it feels odd to say this about an RPG but the descriptions of spells and skills were so technical that my friend only had a vague idea about what he was spending his skill points on.

I’m hoping they tighten up the combat in ME2. As much as I loved that game, it certainly wasn’t for the combat. It was stuck in that weird middle ground between “shooter” and “tactical RPG” where you couldn’t really play it like either, you know?

The combat in the console version is better than KOTOR, but worse than Jade Empire. It is also better than Mass Effect, but only because the controls in ME didn’t feel tight enough to feel natural or comfortable, if they are improved for ME2 than they might be better …

I’d actually say I enjoy the combat in DA:O (PC version) the most out of any of the Bioware games I’ve played. Granted, I haven’t played any of their stuff before KoTOR, but it’s still really enjoyable. Apparently I really love micromanagement, because I’m pausing like a madman in most battles :D.

@Bup: Today is Wednesday!

-The combat is certainly enjoyable enough.

really? well if I still have a chance to get a free game I suppose the combat could grow on me…

Well you never know! You’re still in with a chance for the drawing since *no one* actually logged into their WordPress to post their referrals.

ah, well this sucks. my friends both made wordpress forum accounts at wordpress.org. I did that shit too. well, nobodies fault but my own.

all’s well that ends well though. I saw Purp play the game and the combat really turned me off from it.

enjoy your 60 bucks SN.

GLORY BE TO UNDERBOOB! DEATH TO MICHAEL ATKINSON!

@SN – And they are glorious UNDERBOOBS!

Today is Tuesday!

Today is Tuesday!

Would that it were that easy …

@SN: KILL the South Australian Attorney General. PUT HIS HEAD ON A PIKE as a warning to future imbeciles.

“@Oliver- Washroom = bathroom = restroom = toilet = all the same , are you retarded?”
Thank you! It was the most desperate attempt to make fun of me yet. A lot of my Canadianisms I understand, but really?

Ah, it would seem the nature of the competition has changed. Just as well, I had been wondering at the legitimacy of my referrals.

-It also bares mentioning that I was first referred to Lusipurr.com by Oyashiro, Underdog and Squalldane.