May 19, 2009

Episode 81 - Would You Like Some Content with Your Technical Difficulties?

1 hour 59 minutes

This episode was a complete mess, but

not for you to listen to. Allow me to explain. First, we are joined

by our old friend AJ of "Kill AJ" fame. This leads to our

pre-recording conversation becoming a completely random mess that I

really wish we could have recorded. Then we have a bit of listener

feedback, which we always appreciate. Hint hint!

Then there's some news. The Xbox 360

Live Arcade game, Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers,

is coming out soon, and the list of Achievements has been released,

so I spend a couple minutes going over that. Then Mike gets all

giddy about the latest Rules Update that happened a couple weeks ago,

and he goes over the various functional changes from this update.

Believe it or not, this is actually interesting enough to pay

attention to. To follow along yourself, go here:

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/35b&page=2

Then there's this bit of news about

Planechase, which sounds like a new Vanguard-ish type of thing.

Whatever it may be, we're going over the press release with a

fine-tooth comb. Actually it's a shoeshine brush, but whatever. To

follow along yourself again, go here:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/187

Then I have a bit of Magic-playing news

about my trip to Newport News, VA for Mother's Day. My cousin took

me to a cyber cafe/card-playing location called Cyberwocky where I

did lots of trading and was involved in a pickup Emperor game,

something that is completely unheard of around here. It was great,

so I talk about it.

Then we wanted to hit some of the high

points of Alara Reborn, and this is where things started to fall

apart. Brian suddenly realized that he had to go. Then Mike

suddenly and involuntarily left us. While he was trying to get back,

the rest of us soldiered on. He finally returned to us, sans some of

his enthusiasm (not a word you'd usually associate with Mike, but he

had a big Rules Update to go over this episode), and the episode

ended shortly thereafter.

The real problems came when I tried to

put this show together. Four and a half minutes of footage were

covered in the horrible clicks that I only sort of managed to remove.

I love you guys so much that I recorded a quick apology right before

that part. Then the freaking edited-completely-except-for-music file

decided it didn't want to save properly and I had to do it all over

again. And then I had serious troubles getting the music for this

episode to include both left and right stereo channels when I copied

it over. But I eventually figured it out. As I write this, I should

have been in the bed 45 minutes ago, but I wanted it all ready to

upload tomorrow before we record the next show. That's how much I

love you guys. Sleep is not as important as getting the episode out

sometime before we record the next one, you know?

Music for this episode: Slave by Social

Outcast u.b.

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http://www.myspace.com/socialoutcastub

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