Episode #63

29 Dec 2009.

William is alone this week because the recording was botched. He explains the situation and then goes through the week's news alone, it lasts for about 23 minutes. Thanks to Emanuel, Dave and Aaron who were here for the original recording.

Transmission Code: 19121 (#63)

Transcript

I regret to inform the listeners of Podcast 17 that this weeks recording was botched. I am still in the dark on what exactly happened, but allow me to explain everything I know thus far. For the past 40+ episodes we have been using a program called CallBurner in conjunction with Skype. CallBurner records both a “this side” and an “other side”. In our case, the “this side” is my voice (William) and the “other side” is everyone else in the call; in this case, Emanuel, Dave and Aaron. The “this side” of the recording came out fine; meaning my voice was crystal clear. The “other side” however had extreme electrical static. Allow me to play you a spamle so you know we aren’t simply making this up. This is a sample of the “this side”, meaning my own voice from the podcast:

*Audio sample plays*

This is now a sample of the “other side” of the recording:

*Audio sample plays*

When we put it together, this is what we get:

*Audio sample plays*

You might be asking yoruself “What about a backup recording?” Well somehow, that was botched as well. I record a seperate mp3 file (with lesser compression) for each show, and somehow the “other side” on that mp3 was also corrupted. Here is a sample from that file now:

*Audio sample plays*

So what happens now? Well to be honest, I’m suprised this hasn’t happened sooner. In 63 episodes we finally hit a snag – this week I promise I will work out what hapenned and we will also instill a third backup system whereby another PC outside of my own records a backup, in case we run into some local issues. I blame Emanuel – he was being a dick on the show and now on his first time back, this happens. I believe the Gods of the Internet do not want him ever to come back. I still feel horrible though because each week I stirve to bring news from mods that work extremely hard to release content nad information. So in short, I am going to do a qucik rundown of the news and everything that happened during the wee. I apologize tat it is just me and I aploogize that I can’t get everyone back to record a new episode. I would just like to point out that this is not a way to punish those who didn’t come to the live show. Those 30ish people are the only ones who heard the renouned “Un-recorded Podcast 17 Episode” – consider yourselves lucky.

From the Mouth of Valve

  • Left 4 Dead 2 8v8 not happening, 8 player coop could still be a possibility.
  • Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools and Add-on Support released.
  • Team Fortress 2 Update (Tue, 22 Dec)
  • More on the Team Fortress 2 Bots
  • STEAM HOLIDAY SALE ON NOW
  • All I Want For Christmas (is to kick your ass) – Midnight Riders

Releases

  • Kreedz Climbing Beta 4.2
  • Land of Legends: Heroes of Loria
  • Sven Co-op – Community Map Project
  • Distraction Beta1
  • Too Many Crates!
  • Nestlings
  • Flesh
  • Combine Mountain Complex (HL2:Ep2)

Media Blitz

  • Battle Grounds 2 Update: December 2009
  • SHIFT – Exclusive Gameplay Video Private Screening
  • Ragnarok Arena – Bring in the new year with Ragnarok Arena
  • Nightmare House 2 – It’s getting closer.
  • Multiverse Materials – Current Work.
  • Orion – City of Cera
  • Visage – Interview with PHL, exclusive screenshot and Christmas special!
  • The Rising – Update 2 “Ammo Checking”
  • The Rising – Update 3 Part 1: The Resistance Voice Command Menu
  • Cube Story – First Crazy Media
  • Outbreak: Condemned – Merry Christmas with a Hint of Evil
  • Blacksector – The Sound of an Upcoming War
  • ToxisResiduum – Merry Christmas From Toxis .INC
  • Exodus – Christmas Update
  • Lost Hope – Tactical Anti-Personnel Robot concepts
  • GoldenEye: Source – December Report
  • Orion – Beta 3.0 Information, Human Classes revealed, new weapons
  • Ham and Jam – A bumper Christmas post
  • Age of Chivalry – Siege Engineer and Animation Overhaul
  • 1187 – December 24th Update
  • Room Escape – Christmas Update
  • Zeitgeist – christmas media update!
  • Overlordess – Map progress update
  • Wilson Chronicles – Christmas Update
  • The Mortewood Plaza – Merry Xmas & New Year Everyone
  • Cry of Fear – Merry Christmas
  • Obsidian Conflict – Merry Christmas
  • Exterminatus – Back in Business
  • Earth’s Special Forces – Christmas Update
  • Raindrop – Счастливого Рождества! (Merry Christmas!)
  • NMRiH – Christmas Update

Articles

  • ModDB 2009 MotY Awards
  • Eurogamer: Kim Swift, Nurbacular Drop Interview
  • Halflife2.net interview with Flesh

Discussion

  • Aaron (Bluewolf72) asks: “Best, Coolest, Epicness moment in any half life game?”
  • PlanetPhillip Poll Question 151 – Would you prefer new content or more maps?
  • PlanetPhillip Poll Question 152 – Have you played the HL games in release order?

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