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Failcast episode 52 records tonight; A wild Abra appears!
FAILCAST \| 4:44 PM on 11.03.2009	22 comments

Failcast is recording again tonight! If we were at all consistent, 52 episodes would mean that we had put out one episode a week for an entire year. Yeah...that's not the case, between breaks, bonus episodes, more breaks, and that whole business with the "beta episodes" during our first year. (We were so young and foolish...) Oh well, at least we've stuck with it this long and found yet another reason to congratulate ourselves.

Tonight's guest is one Mr. Taumpytears, a person on the internet. He enjoys surfing the web and riding horses.

You know what to do in the comments, so let 'er - oh, you need me to spell it out? Sigh. Ask questions about Destructoid and The Vidya for us to answer on the show! Aaaaaaaaand go!

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21 comments | showing # 1 to 21

Krow

Failcast often discusses the downturn in the quality of the Community Blogs, but it's rare that you give suggestions for aspiring bloggers to use a springboard to start off their Destructoid blogging career.

Are there any particular things you'd like to see come out of the community blogs? More editorials? More reviews? I'm curious to hear the thoughts of Failcast on this issue.

Bonus Question: Why do you think the majority of people new to Destructoid don't put the time and effort into making their blogs presentable to their readership?

king3vbo

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

ryu89

This isn't my first time saying dick. dick dick dick dick dick dick dick.

Also, you see two potions. One gives you a giant penis at the cost for only living 24 hours longer after you drink it. The other grants you immortality, but also the inablity to orgasm. Which do you drink?

Buddha

I would personally love to see more reviews, maybe an editorial about a particular character in a game one adores, or thoughts on Bioshock's philosophy and how it is played out throughout the game.

More stuff like that.

Dead Movie Star

What's poppin', Tears?

Tascar

I recently left my guild after being completely screwed over by the officers. I kind of want to get back at them by saving myself to their 25-man heroic TOC and wasting all 50 of their attempts. Should I let vengeance dictate my actions? Or should I just "move on" peacefully?

Xhumation

this is technically your one year anniversary then?

If you could have ANYTHING as an anniversary present. What would you want?

Krow

@Xhumation

I think that was technically in last December.

Puppy Licks

So what did you all dress up as for Halloween?

BulletTrain

King's meme knowledge is vast and unending.

Wowcast:
I've been doing Loremaster of Kalimdor on my main, and its slowly making me want to kill myself. Are any of you guys cheevo whores? If so was the most annoying cheevo you ever spent time getting? (Doesn't necessarily have to be wow related).

Taumpy-cast:
Who is your daddy, and what does he do?

Community-cast:
Anyone else hate seeing a sea of "review" blogs, that don't offer much in the way of interesting, thought provoking content? Or 1 paragraph blogs that link news or trailers that have been posted and reposted? Is there a good way to rid the c-blogs of such empty content or do you think we're stuck with the way it is now?

infinity

in mech games, do you like your mechs to be slow and clunky, like steel battalion, or fast and agile, like armored core?

Tascar

@BulletTrain, most annoying for me was "The Immortal" and sadly I never got it.

madninja

Thoughts on Prince of Persia movie trailer?

Thoughts about me?

Clint

Pour one out for the Podcastle?

Also, hypothetical scenario: Suppose Modern Warfare 2's citizen killing level did indeed place the player in the role of an actual terrorist (this doesn't really jive with the actual level at all, but for the sake of argument let's pretend it does,)and was supposed to be very meta, and demonstrate the true horror and costs of warfare to the player, by putting them in the shoes of the true evil it breeds, sort of like Edmund. Would it still be crossing a taboo line even though it's using this horrible situation for valid narrative goal, like Six Day's in Fallujah, or is this a boundary we have to push if we want to truly increase the scope of material game's can cover?

grassr00ts

Any cool or interesting ideas for using the new community podcast forum thread for failcast in the show?

mourning orange

King, i was just wondering that if what happens begins that an afterwards, how is that at then greater through was what before?

ParaParaKing

If you all had vaginas, who would get the most action?

ParaParaKing

But seriously who would have the best pubic hair around their vaginas?

GamingGoddess

Seconding Krow's question about what you want to see in the cblogs. At the risk of sounding like I'm complaining, sometimes I do post stuff that I think is different, and it'll get like one comment, while "My Review: New Game X" gets 20. I don't judge success by the number of comments (that is the route to madness), but I get the impression that a lot of Dtoid readers actually prefer those kinds of standard blogs.

Krow

Last minute question: Does the cast of Failcast have an opinion on the recent announcement that the next Zelda game on the Wii will use Wii Motion Plus for more realistic swordplay? http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/03/miyamoto-next-zelda-will-use-motionplus-for-more-realistic-swor/

Cataract

Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the madman

Forever young, i want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever forever
Forever young, i want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever
Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth is like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams are swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, i want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever forever
Forever young, i want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever forever forever
Forever young, i want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever forever
Forever young, i want to be forever

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