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Open Forum Radio - Ep 512

OFR Season 13 (Episode 1) - Merry OFR Podcast to you!

Wednesday, December 15th 2021 9:30 EST

Hosts: Derek & Vladz 

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OFR Season 12 (Episode 4) - Bursting at the seams

Tuesday, August 24th 2021 9:30 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek & Vladz 

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* What’s new?* We’re back!!!! - New Website/new look, same losers

* I finally got on the untapped app (did I mention that last time?) anyway… also discovered this marshmallow whiskey at the local brewery we go to that I really like. And tried a Vanilla Coffee whiskey that we drank a bottle of before the GNR show (plus a bunch of beers, etc)

* Have you got Covid? Are you going to get the jab?

* Gaming stuff: Flight Simulator, Xbox App for the PC/Streaming, Didn’t get the Halo early access invite… that’s okay, I can wait. What do you think about Call of Duty Vanguard? 

* New Spider-Man trailer No Way Home 

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Song writing, COD, GNR / Mammoth concert, Funeral for someone that OD’d

Hardee’s employee glove story, My favorite popcorn is ruined, Cruella & Old, Phone died 1st day at the beach - using loaner, reading Stephen Percey’s Book,  Sons got vehicles, back to work in person more, my new favorite place to see bands also has the BEST Caribbean BBQ Jerk Chicken!    Call of duty, reminiscence, stillwater, snake eyes gi joe saga, new smoker, sons graduation party, and he passed his drivers ed test, been to some festivals, next up made in michigan fest at canterbury village kool place,  riders republic beta under strict nda,  cant play flight simulator on my xbox need the new one sad face,             peyton parrish ragnarok                                                                        Shout-outs:  ofr crew, angry mailman podcast, conspiracy otter pod, all the listeners,my girl sandy for being awesome i found my ride or die, stuart page 2 screen, jay guiles, rocketchip thanks for the nacho cheese machine, josh laney, k.c , shout out to the brew crew and krowl family kitchens for the awesome food   OFR Crew, Stuart from Page2Screen, Conspiracy Otter, KC and Shaft, Feedback on the new OFR site theme - they dig it.     

OFR Season 12 (Episode 3) - Back from Panama

Thursday, July 22nd 2021 9:30 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek & Vladz 

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* Where has OFR been this year? * Vacation (how was it?)* Website issues (Early show shoutout to Denny and Blue for being there for me) 

* Summertime in Covidtime 

* Gaming stuff: COD, New Battlefield: Portal - Announcement Trailer (will let players mix-and-match elements from the most popular Battlefield games to create their own crazy custom modes, new consoles & PC up to 128 players and old consoles 64 up to players. How crazy can you get? Find out here: Battlefield 2042 New Gameplay and Battlefield Portal Reveal! - Open Beta in Sept), Flight Simulator, Xbox App for the PC/Streaming, 

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Song writing, COD, iFit -36 then gained back 5 but still at it. Clubs, Breweries, Ballparks, Wineries… pretty much where there is a bartender.    New badass lg fridge , Call of duty, mlb the show, looking forward to battlefield they always get me with trailers, ice road liam neeson, fast 9 , the tomorrow war chris pratt, loki tv series, new woman in my life shout out to sandy , having fun going out and hearing live music again, bought youngest son a car , setting up for his graduation party, my song of the week https://youtu.be/G8fOInE9dys for the glory   by all good things ft hollywood undeadShout-outs:  ofr crew, angry mailman podcast, conspiracy otter pod, all the listeners, stuart page 2 screen, jay guiles, rocketchip, josh laney, k.c , florida , beaches ,xtreme shaft for tripping with me to meet the crew minus bubba ,matt white and everyone who missed the show   OFR Crew, Stuart from Page2Screen, Conspiracy Otter, Denny, Blue, Panama City Beach, KC and Shaft  

OFR Season 12 (Episode 2) - Off the Radar

Tuesday, March 9th 2021 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek Bubba AA & Vladz 

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* Sorry for not putting out an OFR so far this year until now 

* How’s your 2021 going?  

* How’s the pandemic working out for you?

* Another advantage of digital games Prison escapee recaptured after he tried to buy Call of Duty 

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Song writing, iFit -23lbs, Outlander, Friday Family Movie Nights  Borderlands 3, AC Valhalla, Ink Masters, New Mic, organizing freak, dogs  call of duty, wreckfest, jurassic park evolution, doom eternal so much tv and movies, snowpiercer sean bean, quality of movies is declining but watched 3 movies with gina carano, sotw watch me bleed 

Shout-outs:  ofr crew, angry mailman podcast, conspiracy otter pod, all the listeners, stuart page 2 screen, jay guiles, rocketchip, josh laney, k.c the ladies sandy, donna, chantel ,josh from new work new listener  OFR Crew, Stuart from Page2Screen, Conspiracy Otter, Alcohol, John Peel on iFit, ItzVon   Bubba, Vladz and Derek, KC, My Fam, all the podcast listeners and podcasters

OFR Season 12 (Episode 1) - OFR Mailing It In

Tuesday, October 27th 2020 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek & Vladz (and now the AMP crew)

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* AMP / OFR mashup

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Call of Duty MW, Xbox Series X, AC Valhalla, Mafia Trilogy, NordicTrack new cod blah and  work work work doing christmas decorations with my kids . new center channel speaker for my surround sound and its uuge lmao sotw welcome home guitar for vladz coheed and cambria Welcome Home

Shout-outs:  ofr crew , angry mailman podcast, conspiracy otter pod , golf rat check out lore podcast. all the listeners  , stuart page 2 screen , jay guiles, rocketchip, holy headshot,  pat white, josh laney, OFR Crew, Stuart from Page2Screen, Conspiracy Otter, Alcohol - liquor store shopping with a cart, Holyheadshot, Tommy Rivs on iFit, Bubba’s Facebook top(pop) songs of the 80’s and 90’s, Happy Birthday TMO!, Sam for the Series X solid, GolfRat, 

Open Forum Radio - Episode 507

OFR Season 11 (Episode 25) - OFR the Next Generation 

Tuesday, October 27th 2020 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek & Vladz

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* Pre-Next Generation * New consoles drop in a just a few days* Is this the last big console? cloud gaming to phones or browsers, streaming games via streaming sticks, etc. * Stack of games I buy has gotten much smaller as I get older* Thanks to really deep games like Assassin’s Creed, game crack like COD, GamePass, EA Play coming to GamePass on Nov 10th,  * Election happening (hopefully we’ll know who won shortly after)* 11th season of OFR comes to a close in a few short weeks* You’ll probably hear/see changes as we go into Season 12* Cool Xbox news (maybe): Phil Spencer Hints that a 1 vs. 100-Style Experience May Return on Xbox Series X 

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Call of Duty MW & Cold War beta, Haunting of Bly Manor, The Thing on the BIG SCREEN, Still writing more songs - love my studio/office, I got banned from Twitter for a couple minutes  

Activision/COD account issues, cold war beta , new desk in office , put on 2 hall closet doors . the boys ssn 2 awesomeness .new dishwasher fiasco nothing goes right ever lol lol movies cod work changing soon  song of the week hollywood undead, papa roach, ice nine kills     https://youtu.be/Adwl0y3qKUI     heart of a champion. And for halloween song of the week ice nine kills jason's mom parody https://youtu.be/BkY-EIkuxJo 

Sports

* I watched my first football game of the year, Penn State vs Illinois and junk ending 

Shout-outs:  ofr crew , angry mailman podcast, all the listeners  , stuart page 2 screen , jay guiles, rocketchip, holy headshot,  pat white, josh laney, OFR Crew, Stuart from Page2Screen, Conspiracy Otter, Alcohol, Jay Guiles, Bubba

Open Forum Radio - Episode 504

OFR Season 11 (Episode 22) - OFR All Fun and Games

Tuesday, July 28th 2020 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek, Vladz, Whiskey

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* So this past Thursday Xbox had the Series X Games Showcase where they showed nothing but games. Here are some of the games they showed Xbox Series X games list: every exclusive and cross-gen game just announced * What were some of your favorite trailers or announcements? * Tetris Effect: Connected - because of the art style of the trailer more than maybe the game itself. * As Dusk Falls: Like Telltale games interactive story, but with a really cool art style. * State of Decay 3: F@cking Crazy Zombie Deer, right?!!* Everwild: Don’t understand it, but again, the art style is soothing? - Feels relaxing and interesting to me. * I could say the exact same thing about The Gunk, but not as relaxing. The Gunk stuff… is it an enemy, pollution from an enemy, something odd. * Fable: Funny, beautiful trailer, but nothing to really give you an idea of what the actual game is going to look like. Teh best experience of gaming you can get following the advises from https://kingscasino.net. * Cool looking, dark maybe a Left for Dead with awesome graphics type of game with the worst name. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide  * S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - another cool trailer, not sure what gameplay will be like, but a sequel to a 10 year old PC horror survival game * Psychonauts 2 - just looks trippy, warning do NOT drop acid and play this game. * The Outer Worlds: Peril on Gorgon * Crossfire X - the campaign looked very COD meets Crysis - which is good I guess. I SAW a half a second of aim down sites, WTF does this game have against ADS? (I didn’t even want to finish the free to play MP demo that they released because of it.)* HALO INFINITE: First, Loved the warthog, 60 FPS smooth, grapple? My son said it best “If you can’t have fun playing with a grapple in a video game, there is something wrong with you” (paraphrasing). Graphics stayed with the previous style wrong or right; they didn’t completely change that vibe. 

* Anything you thought you’d see but didn’t?* When are Sony and Xbox going to announce the price, pre-orders and release dates?* Hate spilleth over from the normal channels. Console-Derangement-Syndrome is real. Omg, it's so funny to see the crazy negativity and complete b.s.* I liked Scorn, The Medium, and it seems like survival horror is going to be good again. So many great games to look forward too… who could be unhappy about that? oh yeah, console derangement syndrome. 

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played) 

Call of Duty, Writing another song - love my studio/office, big rolls of hay and baby goats, Got a new phone!, took apart an xbox one controller and fixed the left thumbstick, still have to clean the right it seems. Found two Day One edition Xbox One controllers going to work on them next.           

Built a deck for the new pool, broke a toe, trying to maintain some sense of normalcy (struggling), really struggling with how rude and crappy people are getting in public, feels like I'm working harder than ever at work, really miss you fellas 

Lots of cod , lots of tv and movies , red dead 2 online with rocketchip and posse new cyberpunk 2077 controller, , super busy at work , going to get phillips hue for more awesomeness like vladz says  , new riding lawn mower , funny story selling the old one ,

Open Forum Radio - Episode 502

OFR Season 11 (Episode 20) - Triangles

Tuesday, May 26th 2020 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek, Vladz, Whiskey

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* Triangles A first look at Unreal Engine 5 * Unreal Engine 5 is a state-of-the-art real-time engine and editor that features photorealistic rendering, dynamic physics and effects, lifelike animation, robust data translation, and much more—on a open, extensible platform that won't tie you down. * Unreal Engine 5 PS5 demo runs happily on current-gen graphics cards and SSDs * I think that the fact that the demo was running on a PS5 was supposed to be a positive spin or get the Sony fanbase excited about the new hardware. But the new SSD tech on both consoles will help load assets faster, the hardware & chips will get us better framerates, we’ll have raytracing, etc. It is the engine and the photorealistic capabilities that are the important things that we should be talking about. I think SONY fans were just a bit excited to see ANYTHING running or about their new console because not much news has been coming out. 100% agree with this sentiment

* Last of Us Spoilers & open Tweets* Naughty Dog tests new twitter feature to prevent further spread of spoilers It's a feature only available to selected accounts at the moment, but Naughty Dog appears to have made the cut to use it now. It enables users to define who can and cannot reply to a tweet. This can be set to allow everyone to reply, only people you follow, or only people you tag. Selecting the latter and then not mentioning anyone effectively cuts off direct replies.* Previously, anybody could reply to anybody on Twitter (as long as their profile wasn’t private or blocked). 

* Proof that the Terminator foretold the AI uprising… Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played 

* Free stuff* Minecraft Dungeons is out on Game Pass today* No Man’s Sky (now that everything has been upgraded and it’s a good game now) is coming to Game Pass in June!* Mafia II and III upgrade - 2K Games is giving free Definitive Edition upgrades to owners of Mafia 2 on Steam and Mafia 3 on all platforms. * Mafia II is one of my favorite all time games. The visual update is nice, just think it could be better….But free is free I guess. This comparison video shows you just how great the game looked so long ago. Original VS Remaster Comparison * Digital Foundry Mafia 2 Definitive Edition - All Consoles Tested What's Up with PS4 Pro Performance? * In other remaster news: * Mass Effect Trilogy Remastered* Getting us ready for a new Saints Row?  (released May 22 2020)* Saints Row The Third Remastered An Exceptiona...

Open Forum Radio - Episode 501

OFR Season 11 (Episode 19) - We Are Back

Tuesday, April 14th 2020 9:45 EST

Introduction & Roll Call: Derek, Vladz, Whiskey

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* Over the hump, one month later…. Thank you to everyone on Ep 500, AA and Bubba especially for helping 

* Dealing with the Kona* How are you and your family holding up? Are you about to call this quarantine quits and start to resume some sort of in-person social interactions?* Music streams on Instagram and Facebook have been pretty cool

* Let’s talk about SONY for a minute: * Stupid Timed exclusives* We’ve heard silliness that: “exclusive timed anything is fine to me. It actually helps the publisher/developers make some extra cash” and “Consumers want good games. Well it costs money. The studios as a whole lose a shit ton to used games sales. It’s nice for them to get that money up front. It’s def not a few bucks either. We need more of it.” - OMG!* Modern Warfare’s $1B Sales Are Not That Impressive Compared To Previous CoD’s * SONY* The Last of Us Part II digital preorders refunded as the game has been pulled from the PlayStation Store* I’m sure there are some SONY fanboys on twitter that will now argue that this is a good thing and we need more of it. LOL* Troy Baker says be open minded  it might not be the story you are expecting * PS5 Controller DualSense 

* Xbox Series X and PS5 demo clips & Xbox ray tracing are pretty SWEET!* Xbox Series X - INSANE DEMO GRAPHICS 2020* Grand Theft Auto V | Xbox Series X - DirectX Ray Tracing Tech Demo* PS5 Graphics Demo - 4K 60FPS   

Our World (Top Things you saw, heard or played)

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Finished COD MW campaign, and reached lvl 30+ in multiplayer, started Ori Will of the Wisps and Ace Combat Skies Unknown, got new cable internet installed finally!, lake place is setup for the summer, lots of Call of Duty multiplayer with friends Ori and the will-of-the-wisps lots of yard work extreme shaft came and helped we broke the law Tiger King Jumanji 2 bloodshot Vin Diesel thanks to vladz  link which we shouldn't share because it kicks people out when it has a lot of users and that's the only way that I'm going to watch Westworld cuz I cancelled HBO LOL sotw ac/dc back n black     Lots of COD, tried to rank up before the end of the 2nd season, got up to about level 74 or 75, had enough COD points then to unlock season 3 levels and I’m about 12 or 13 with that now. Onward, Sonic, Picked up my guitar again - hurt my fingers playing for a bit - but I wrote a song, sent it off to my friend Doc to record vocals, found an OLD 1992 VHS tape of about 4 gigs from back in the day - going to get that copied over into a digital format. Drinking, eating, quarantine life is not too far off from my normal life -...