Jerk Radio - The MASTER THREAD

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Then you didn't listen to the conclusion of our last episode. I'm usually bugging everyone to do an episode every week or so.

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I just assumed there would be a break between seasons. I listened to the whole episode, but recall nothing about scheduling being mentioned. Perhaps my attention lapsed.

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AND YOU CALL YOURSELF ONE OF OUR FANS!!! YOU MAKE ME SICK! I'M ASHAMED TO BE POSTING IN THE SAME THREAD AS YOU! A TRUE FAN WOULD MEMORIZE EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THE PODCAST AS I HAVE (god i hate editing some times)

...ahem.

Yeah, we really don't have a set schedule. I started at weekly, and that didn't work, and 2 weeks left me bored for a while, so we've all committed to a binding schedule of "Whenever we feel like it."

HAY GUESS WHAT GUYS

WE'RE DOING THINGS.

Jerk Radio is coming soon. Possibly tonight. Stay tuned!

Story: I moved during the interim between these two episodes. Details are contained in the podcast that I'm putting together now.

EDIT: EPISODE 15 IS ONLINE

Check your RSS feeds, and iTunes should catch up fairly soon (I hope), but Episode 15 is now online! Thrill as we preview Issue 13!

Questions, comments, flames to thisisjerkradio@gmail.com

Hooray! Finally another one

I was shocked to see a new episode in iTunes and came here just to say I'm shocked to have seen a new episode in iTunes. Funny how that works, isn't it?

P.S. TWiT sucks very badly this week. That show has been losing the plot recently, I may unsub. They should study the Jerks to see how a podcast is done (not audio lol).

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...You DO know that TWiT is one of my inspirations. That, and Retronauts.

Gasp! Another episode is up! Check your RSS feeds, and iTunes should update soon. Jerk Radio 16 is online!

Well, we got too excited about the Mission Architect, so the devs took it back to the drawing board. New kid on the block Doug Rowell hijacks the podcast AGAIN to talk about his first Statesman TF EVER. Link's in my sig.

Also, if you haven't played it, PLAY MEGA MAN 9. RIGHT NOW.

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...You DO know that TWiT is one of my inspirations. That, and Retronauts.

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TWiT used to be consistently good back when it started up. Recently, it's taken a horrible, horrible turn for the worse. The most recent episode looked like it was going to suck when they started talking about stocks, but they pulled it out and actually managed some tech stories for the first time in two weeks.

When John Dvorak isn't there, you can count on it stinking up the joint. I still like the show, but man, when they talk IPOs, stocks and all that bullcrap rather than tech, it just really bugs me.

And ah, I see another Jerk episode is up! Good to see. Just don't go all TWiT on me.

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Good episode, but it sounded like you mentioned the name of the gold farming site responsible for most of the spam in game. If so, boo.

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Okay, guys. We're going to be recording an episode here in the next few days, perhaps this weekend. I urge all you loyal, rabid fans (insert single digit listeners joke here) to write in for a segment I'm going to be doing after the discussion topic at hand, which is tentatively going to be the Halloween event, as well as some minor off-topic conversation. Then I want to read a little audience mail. The topic for this will be from an earlier episode: What would YOUR character's TF/SF be? Keep it concise, but awesome. All the good responses I get will be read on the podcast. To send in your e-mails, point it at
thisisjerkradio@gmail.com
Also, you can send any suggestions for Bio of the Week or whatnot. Knightward needs some serious competition with the seven or eight bios he threw in our direction a few months back!

Anyway, Jerk Fans, send me some e-mail!

P.S. I will be at MAGFest this year in Alexandria, VA. If you can find me, you MIGHT earn a guest spot on Jerk Radio! Of course, you'd have to compete for space with some other Jerk alumni.

You people...YOU PEOPLE AREN'T WRITING. STOMACH PUNCHES ALL AROUND. >

And he wonders why we don't write lol. PWND.

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jerk. with a lowercase j.

JUST FOR THAT, I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THAT EPISODE 17 OF JERK RADIO IS OUT. NYAH NYAH NYAH.

...crap.

Anyway, yeah, it's out. We comment a little about the Halloween event, and then digress so horribly that it can only be described as 'strange, funny and heartrending'. Well, not so much the heartrending part, but I just wanted to use the Mother 3 line.

Anyway, enjoy, kids! iTunes already sees the update, so the rest of the RSS readers should see it as well.

The show was way off topic, but it's understandable given how much time has passed since we last had an Issue. There's not that much to base a show on right now. Sounds like you guys are losing interest in the game. Well, it happens.

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Well, the thing is that I personally am waning in my interest in City of Heroes. Once Issues 13 and 14 drop, however, I'll probably hit it hard and heavy once again, as the mission architect and stuff totally rages my dream. Plus, I've been wanting to get my rocket launcher back ever since I respecced for Flame Mastery to get Rise of the Phoenix. Sometimes, when you're awesome like me, you don't die.

...of course, I've been giggling too much at Self-Destruct to justify dropping Rise of the Phoenix. Ah, well, c'et la vie.

In Other News:

1. Jerk Radio's 1 Year Anniversary is coming up soon. No foolin'. I want to do some things with it, but I haven't decided what yet. I was thinking either a simple retrospective of the last year of podcasting, or something far more interesting: a PVP Arena brawl commentated on by the Circle of Jerks, in a similar vein as the Paragonian Knights thing.

I'm thinking of calling it The (Real) First Annual Jerk-Off. Catchy, ain't it?

The anniversary is Thanksgiving weekend, if I'm doing my calendar math right, so expect SOMETHING coming up the pike soon. I gotta mull it over a bit.

2. I, Adam Nelson, will be at MAGFest this year. It's at Alexandria, VA, the 1st through the 4th of January. During that time, I'll be recording a podcast, and depending on how many participants I can get to agree to join in, I MIGHT let YOU in on the fun if you can prove to me how much of a Jerk you are.

OMG I must play a mission created by the Jerks. That will be...interesting. lol

It's going to be interesting to see if the player base at large find player-created missions rewarding enough to even bother with. Though fighting costumed opposition more often than you do in the current missions alone could make it worth the price of entry. They just need to get the rewards to a sweet spot where people will do both player missions and dev missions. Right now...I don't know. I question it.

And taking breaks is healthy. I do it too from time to time. Everyone should.

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Okay, I'll level with everyone.

I need serious critique of the podcast as it stands now.

City of Heroes/Villains, while still a mildly interesting game from time to time, can no longer be the sole focus of my podcasting efforts. For one thing, you can only wank on for so long about an issue that isn't even out yet before you tire of hearing about it. Three episodes about I13. THREE. And the thing isn't even out yet.

Basically, I'm thinking that Jerk Radio, as it is now, might conclude its current format with this episode coming up.

Nothing's been set in stone as of yet, and I'm still jazzed about having done an ongoing project for a year now.

Bottom line, I NEED feedback for this thing. I'm probably going to cross-post this to the Virtue forum just to get a clearer picture.

The Kindle of podcasting is back (you don't have to give them your credit card number, but they'll take it if you really want to), and this time they actually cover CoH for like half the show. What a treat.

Dvorak dot org slash blog.

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