Quote: "I thought the beginning was a really off though, make sure you practice the opening before you start recording (also it doesn't need so much music)..."
Shake-y start is down to a number of things, mostly bloody Daniel.
Might upload what went on before hands; and you'll see what I mean.
Suggested topics were in an msn chat with myself, martinos and pieter.. The lovely chap who decided after telling me he quite several days before hand, and continued to repeat decided he was going to join in.
It really threw me off quite a bit, especially how much he kept talking through each damn announcement take. By the end of it I gave up and decided to go with something half-way decent and completely forgot what we were going to talk about.
Though as for the music, personally I want to get rid of it all entirely. You either have to have it long enough to be worth it and for people to recognise; or just not at all. I want to get rid of it, then again no doubt we'll get complaints of not having any again.
to be honest, apart from the first one; we've tried to change and incorporate things people wanted, and has been noted they've progressively gone downhill. if this is done again, frankly what'll happen is I'll go back to our original concept and layout.
I liked it, and from the hits and comments made everyone else did too. Frankly trying to juggle what everyone wants, just ended up stressing me too damn much.. also never really appreciated Daniels' constant attempts to take over how it was run either.
Every other week I got either "I'm going to do my own podcast" or "I'm quitting", which frankly irritated me; but there was no one else at the time who could really contribute regularly or could be trusted to turn up when we set a time. Another factor that truely stressed me out to begin with.
The podcasts were suppose to be a couple of us, reporting on things to do with TGC, DevHat, Games and Game Development. New tools people might be interested in, objective reviews on new games from a developer standpoint so to speak, etc..
I tried several months in a row to get through to Batvink about news, which I was completely ignored by until he asked if we had any news he could use.
Been constantly ignored by several developers, although the E.L.E. team has now got back to me about a preview demo - so waiting for confirmation we can preview it from their publisher.
Still it's stuff like that which just got on my nerves about it all. So much work was put in to trying to get more and more TGC information and the community just didn't seem to care, or even worse we'd get someone who'd be really all excited about it then just bail at the last minute.
Somehow like, those of us working on it have nothing better to do in our free time than to put in all of the work to chase people up to get things for it.
I thought after it appeared to be quite popular (about a month in we had over 100 downloads and a further 50 plays per week) that it might be talked about a bit.. yet no. Very little response here, no feedback e-mail.. I've yet to see someone on a thread go "Hey your game was in the podcast!"
Instead it's all been a fairly big fat nothing.
It is really appreciated those who've listened and followed these, but seriously; if it's just going to be a couple of people who actually care about this carrying on, we might as well just setup my teamspeak server to be public; have a few moderators on it, and post up the news for everyone to gossip about.
I mean seriously the whole "language thing", we've done what.. two podcasts where language was fairly bad and really noticable. Both times we've very openly told you this was the case, and both times EricT was a guest.
While yes, I know my mouth is hardly clean.. that's the language I use most of the time; and in daily situations it can get far far worse. What's more I highly doubt any children will be listening, Teenagers perhaps but even then fgs you heard the language they use?
A parent might not believe their child swears or such, but c'mon.. even EricT would blush at the language teenagers use today.
What's more is unless the parent is actively sitting there listening with them when they click the link from this very forum; they'd never know it was even associated past us actually providing TGC news; which seems to be mentioned that we don't do enough of.
Past age-gating each podcast, all we can do is post a warning in both the podcast (which we've done in each where it's got bad) and on the forum. What more do you expect us to do, talk like sodding saints? Sorry, but I'm not a childrens presenter and we're discussing as we go.
If you want a completely clean podcast, then do one yourselves.
If this podcast restarts, it will NEVER be scripted, and there will never be a 100% clean podcast. Jesus even Daniel cusses in them, which I found ironic given he said he wouldn't do them anymore because of the language.
It's stupid how some words are considered acceptable while others aren't. At the end of the day I will always find words like "Retard" can be far more offensive than the word "Duck" (with the D replaced with an F)... yet if I said Retard, while being labeled a biggot is still considered acceptable language.
Hell people have a problem with words like Hell, Damn, Jesus, etc. To me while they can seem a tad blasphimus are not considered bad words by the general public.
So for some reason there is a fine line between what is good language, acceptable language and bad language. You know what screw-it.. to me it's just sodding language, and people can complain all they damn well like; but it doesn't change the fact that's true.
While I may have written that with fairly soft-language, trust me in my head stronger words are used; and would be what I'd say.
And you know what the stronger words to me have a valid place in everyday language above those softer ones simply because they constue far better the level of passion or such you have with something rather than feeling fairly feeble given how society has placed them within this realm.
Jesus, kids wouldn't even know words are good or bad unless you tell them such. Why is it children can say "Sex", and it's just an uncomfortable situation but they say the F-word and suddenly it's like someone just killed your dad in-front of you.
It's the same damn word, only one has more damn passion behind it due to how it's integrated into society.
Testicles is perfectly fine language, but Bollocks isn't.
It's all retarded double standards on things that are just words, and while they could be used as offensive words; quite frankly I could use clean language to be FAR MORE offensive than just rolling off a string of bad ones.
Get the hell over it. It's dumbass Politically Correct world gone mad.
