Episode 70 : Yell at Wood

Posted on July 12, 2012 by themagicaltalkinghat

We’ve got a little video game talk, and some RPG talk. So get ready for that, haters. Afterwards, it’s superstition and clowns. Clowns! CLOWNS!!!

 

 

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14 Responses to Episode 70 : Yell at Wood

  1. Bloodsparrow says:
    July 12, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    Oooo a reporter! Look at fancy famous Mr. Game Master Dude!

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  2. Bloodsparrow says:
    July 13, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    I also want to know where Frakenstein Town is and if they have pitchfork sales often.

    I remember hearing somewhere they have great Day Spas in Frankenstein Town.

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  3. Bloodsparrow says:
    July 13, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    I think we all guessed you were living “la vita batchlor” when you mentioned trying to make a margarita with Taq and Mt. Dew…

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  4. Bloodsparrow says:
    July 13, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    I was introduced to knocking on wood by my Mom. You do that when you say something you hope will happen, or hope to not happen.

    Other cultures just touch wood or touch iron. I like to think knocking on or touching wood was like touching a doorknob after walking across a staticy carpet.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocking_on_wood

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    • Bloodsparrow says:
      July 13, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      I don’t think wood encased by a sphere of lead would work.

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      • Bloodsparrow says:
        July 13, 2012 at 1:16 pm

        You don’t have to knock on ALL wood, because if you knock loud enough the sound would carry to the other wood. So the yelling think might actually be an option.

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  5. Bloodsparrow says:
    July 13, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    I do not find clowns creepy.

    … Well except for that guy on that show Children’s Hospital, but that’s intentional.

    I do remember my Grandmother trying to give me a puppet that freaked me the hell out when I was little and then later when I was in my teens when I found it in a box.

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  6. Azuretalon says:
    July 14, 2012 at 11:40 am

    I think this explains the fear of clowns perfectly well.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

    Long story short, we find things creepy that act and look almost human but just not quite. The exaggerated motion and makeup that separates them from humanity just a little bit makes them inherently creepy to us. Almost like it’s a predator disguised as one of us to get close. Same as this commercial that makes me want to crawl up on the back of my couch and scream.

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  7. Craig says:
    July 16, 2012 at 5:27 am

    Having just finished Mass Effect 3 I have to say I enjoyed the game far more than I did Mass Effect 2 which suffered from an extremely weak plot. Other than the ending (I now understand why everybody got so annoyed by it) the one thing that annoyed me about the game was way they incorporated the RPG elements, it felt like every time I completed a mission I then had to run around every deck of the Normandy and the Citadel checking for new sidequests and conversation points. Which given the amount of loading that then occurs is really frustrating, especially if there’s nothing new to find.

    Bioshock – From watching somebody play through it the impression I got of the game was that it was an interesting setting and good story telling wrapped up in an otherwise generic FPS. If they’d added some actual RPG elements (including regions of Rapture which haven’t fallen apart) then I think the game would have been far better.

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  8. Mark says:
    July 20, 2012 at 11:47 am

    I don’t believe anybody (except William and possibly members of his family) say any either of those sayings, but I like “hotter than pitchfork sales in Frankenstein sales” and may start using it.

    Wait you had a reporter at your game? Did you remember to plug The Magical Talking Hat?

    I’m not going to AnimeIowa, though my wife is. I don’t watch much anime these days and I definitely don’t watch the mainstream/popular stuff. Plus the majority of the people attending AnimeIowa these days are so much younger than I am, just attending the con was starting to make me feel like I was a creepy-old guy. *shudder* Cranky-old guy, I’d have no problem with but creepy-old guy bothers me.

    Sounds like your DF game is pretty awesome so far. And when you said “shot hornets” I instantly pictured a gun holding a shotgun, pulling the trigger and hornets shooting out from the gun barrel. Also, I totally pegged the librarian character as being Lisa; though I’m not quite sure which one Dan is playing (there’s a couple that sound like it could be him).

    I thought I told you guys to stop talking about video games unless you were going to buy me a console that plays the games you’re talking about! Grrrr!

    Killer Klowns from Outer Space, enough said.

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