GWJ Conference Call Episode 94

Episode 94 - July 23rd, 2008
Too Human, Some E3 Thoughts, An Interview With Dr. Horrible's Felicia Day, Batman, Your Emails and more!

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This week, we reminisce about the wonder that was Dr. Horrible with geek-heartthrob Felicia Day. She does a little dance with Rabbit about why humor is so freaking hard, and what she's really looking for in a ... game.

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Links

Felicia Day Blog
The Guild
Aurora Feint
Dr.Horrible
Jeff Green's EA Live Blog
Steam Community

Music Credits:

Intro/Outro Music - Ian Dorsch, Willowtree Audioworks
"Los Pistoleros" Ian Dorsch - 0:20:22
"The Way Your Journey Ends" Tom Quinn - www.citadel-studios.com - 0:35:15
"Washaway" Ian Dorsch - 1:18:47

Also: Special thanks to Mutant Enemy Prod for the use of the "Dr. Horrible" Theme Song.
Special thanks to Felicia Day for the use of "The Guild" Theme song.

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Seriously? Felicia freakin Day?

Jesus Hoppity Christmas, Rabbit. I'm expecting to see you in Wired or Entertainment Weekly any day now with the string of interviews you're racking up.

//Yayyyyy! I got a shoutout!

"Personally I'm looking forward to buying a PC with a 128 core processor integrated with 32tb of memory in about 10 years time. Shortly there after Will Wright's Spore 3 will become self aware and annihilate humanity in a nuclear holocaust."

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Implied promises delivered in bulk!

The brain you stole, Fritz. Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands!

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Ooo DADDY LIKE

I know I have made some comments in the past you may not have been fond of. I really do love the conference call, just wanted you to know that. I'm saving this one for work tomorrow.

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Enough said.

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Oh dear. Please tell me Elysium didn't sing, "I Want To Friend You Up."

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TGIF
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I was just thinking about Dr. Horrible when I hit the refresh button, and Felicia Day jumped from my thought onto the screen. She's a gamer?

"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey

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Oh, just you wait. Girl's got mad gaming cred.

"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis

the pot and the kettle
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Wow.
We moving on up
to that deluxe apartment in the sky.

*Legion* wrote:

Ignore boogle, his PCs have hookers inside of them.

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Elysium wrote:
Oh, just you wait. Girl's got mad gaming cred.

Really? Really? I mean, I agree. But did you have to phrase it like ... that?

Certis beat me to it. - Elysium

TGIF
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boogle wrote:
Wow.
We moving on up
to that deluxe apartment in the sky.

Next stop: Steven Spielberg on Boomblox.

"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey

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Quote:
Really? Really? I mean, I agree. But did you have to phrase it like ... that?

*snap, snap* Word.

(I'm a dork)

"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis

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Good lord. I can't take you people anywhere.

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Good lord. I can't take you people anywhere.

Could you at least take her to Oakland? Hubba, hubba, hubba.

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Thirteenth wrote:
I was just thinking about Dr. Horrible when I hit the refresh button, and Felicia Day jumped from my thought onto the screen. She's a gamer?

Oh, you have to check out The Guild. She created and wrote most of it, and she just plain gets it.

Nice work, Rabbit. *seethes with jealousy*

It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds.

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Hot.

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It's like we're legit or something, I swear.

Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...

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rabbit wrote:
Good lord. I can't take you people anywhere.
Just because its a theme song don't mean it ain't true.

*Legion* wrote:

Ignore boogle, his PCs have hookers inside of them.

Me Love You Long Time
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F*cking fantastic.

McChuck wrote:

rabbit wrote:
Spaz wrote:
It's weird who you meat during ConSeason, aint it?

Paging douchebag community copyeditors on aisle 3. McChuck? Wordsmythe?

Oh, c'mon. You suck one c*ck and you're forever known as a c*cksucker.

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... my work here is done

Oh, I feel all of you guys will try Alone in the Dark now -- except the MMO addict. Seriously man! play something else for at least 2 hours a week, I don't know!

No but seriously about the part in the car with the bats, it says ''drive into things OR drive really fast'' to shake them off, so you don't *have* to run into things. I made the same mistake you did and ran into a bunch of sh*t before I realized that if I go fast enough it'll shake them off.

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I'm in love.

Also with Felicia Day.

Another wonderful, intelligent interview from Mr Murdoch.

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When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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Great interview, Rabbit. Also, great song, Tom Quinn.

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I am in awe.

Plain and simple.

http://www.oohsometimes.com

The rantings of the Lord of Leisure. Enjoy!!

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Thanks for the link to The Guild, I'd never seen it before. I just sat and watched the first 6 episodes back-to-back and really enjoyed it.

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Location: OZ

As one of the two Australians who plays/pays for games, it's pleasing to hear such nice things said about the place; but having all the women talk with Australian accents is not quite as alluring as you guys make out.

As for the pricing of games and gaming hardware here, it's a comparatively small market, the prices have traditionally been set by overseas headquarters, and the value of the Aussie dollar (formerly called the Pacific Peso) bounces around like a super-rubber ball. Consumer goods are almost always more expensive here and that's just the way it is.

I also want to applaud both Elysium's and rabbit's statements regarding game piracy. It's not my intention to inflame the issue or provoke a discussion, but after hearing your opinions on the podcast, and afterwards checking out the Escapist piece (and attendant vitriol comments!), I just wanted to say that I have long shared your view and wished that it was more popular. And, no, while I am certainly a tool, I'm not a tool of the industry.

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May I see your wife wavers? You know you had to get them signed by your wives before you could interview a hottie like her.

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Fantastic interview. 'The guild' is great. It's brilliant to hear she is such an enthusiastic gamer.

I've actually watched a lot of tournament films for one particular game (you'll never guess.) Myth could record films for games. Every year the fans held a tournament called Myth World Cup. There were reviews for all matches (in theory anyway. It tended to break down after a while) and the films were posted. Myth had unique attributes that helped make the games easy to watch. It was always slow paced, so you could follow the action. You could keep track of everyone in the game (unlike first person shooters when you can only ever see part of the action) and the fight weren't just a swirling scrum of friendly and enemy units.

... herald of Piggledy 'Destroyer of Worlds'

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Certis wrote:
Elysium wrote:
Oh, just you wait. Girl's got mad gaming cred.

Really? Really? I mean, I agree. But did you have to phrase it like ... that?

Why phrase it?

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Did you mention how much I loved her character arc in Buffy season 7? didjadidjadidja?!?!?!!

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I didn't even realize E3 was happening till I got back from the Austin Slap and Tickle. Goes to show you how far it's fallen as I've always followed most trade shows.