This is cut and pasted from a post I made on story-games, anyway….
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I’m planning to do an interview with Vincent Baker on Saturday May 30th 9:30 PM (21:30) eastren, 8:30 central, 01:30 GMT. The plan is to take questions, we’ll be focusing mainly on Creative Agendas (GNS), but there might be some clouds and boxes questions, and perhaps a few other things. I don’t want questions here. I want to hear peoples voices. More about that later, but for now if you are interested you can look for Clyde Rhoer on Facebook, or follow radiofreeclyde on Twitter.
The plan right now is to use Skype. I can’t include a bunch of people as there is no control over who can talk, every person you add seems to increase the editing difficulty tremendously. I’ll announce via twitter and facebook when we’ve started talking, and again when were ready to start taking questions. Questions should be about Creative Agendas as that’s the focus of the show, if this works out perhaps sometime in the future we can talk to Vincent about something else.
Now if I can get it figured out and Vincent is okay with it, I’d prefer to use Talkshoe.com, as that would allow everyone to listen via streaming, and perhaps have more cogent questions.
This isn’t intended to be an argue with Vincent (or Clyde) show, you can do that later on the internet via whatever methods you normally employ, so approach this positively please.
Creative agenda is a lot more complicated than the other theory shows I’ve done. It’s going to be an additional day.
Show046: State of the Podcast 2
Another year down. Here’s the state of the podcast for this year. I’ve finally decided to halfway pursue turning podcasting into a job, so you’ll likely be seeing changes soon, as I gather the money I need for more hosting, possibly professional software, and gain knowledge. I’m not sure what else to say, except expect… holy crap those two words are beautiful together… anyway… except expect a Ron Edwards interview on Monday the 19th and a theory episode on Monday the 26th.
Links
Brilliant Gameologists
Narrative Control
Atomic Array
I installed Disqus for the site today. Disqus turns the comments into something a little more like a forum, but not quite. Think of it as working somewhat like Vincent’s anyway blog, but with the ability to track what the users say, across other Disqus enabled blogs. It’s fairly easy to start an account, you can use a sign-in you likely already have, if you are like me and get frustrated by having to record another password.
You can read more here.
I was recently on Stabbing Contest again. I had contacted Ogre because there were some things I wanted to talk about publicly but didn’t feel Theory From the Closet was the appropriate vehicle. We talked about how not letting girls in the group doesn’t always equal misogny, the ethics of podcasts and money, how roleplaying is used as an exclusionary term, and frustration in the creation of a game. I think it was a pretty interesting show.
I recently talked with Ogre from the Stabbing Contest podcast and blathered so much that I have the distinction of having the first show he had to cut in half. We talked about games, punk, and perhaps touched on their crossing a bit. I insulted a good portion of punk rock and perhaps some other people, including myself. We also touched on some dirty words like Gamism, Narrativism, and Simulationism. I enjoyed it and it ran about two and a half hours long. Here’s a link to the post for the first part.
Theory From the closet will be offline for a few days starting November 1st, so I’ve been holding off putting out the new show. The computer this site is on is being switched out for a new computer in a new data center. My host is going through some changes, but the new computer should be faster so it’s worth a few days of inconvenience. As soon as I see that we’re back up I’ll be posting the show with Darren Watts from Hero Games, and we still have Jeff Lower, Ram Hull, Ron Edwards, Vincent Baker, and Jason Walters. After that Gen Con will be officially over. Heh. Then we get back to my lonely monotone.
I thought I’d do a little maintenance on the site real quick and found out I’d been hacked. Thankfully while it was a little aggravating, whomever got control, redirected the site to a place that explained the hack they used. They got in through my tikiwiki page which had an exploit that could be done through the tiki graph which did not properly sanitize user input. Shame on them.
Anyway… I’d link to the site that Theory From the Closet was being redirected to… but it’s running Javascript and I don’t trust the site enough to send you folks there. Especially since I imagine most of you aren’t using Noscript for Firefox, or SandboxIE on Windows like you should be, or running in a virtual machine like I should be. If you aren’t you should take a look, it’s a minor inconvenience for a great gain in security.
So thanks Mr. or Mrs. Hacker for not being malicious. Now I’m off to change all my long passwords just in case someone had better access than I thought and is running some Rainbow Tables. They should be salted since it’s Linux, but you can never be too safe. Not that anyone would bother.
What sucks is now I have to think about what I’m going to do wiki-wise, as the wiki was where I would plan out my shows. It’s not like anyone but my friend Tim was using it to give me suggestions, but I still like the idea of planning the shows openly.
Gen Con was tiring. I did around 12 or 13 recordings. Those interviews are going to be coming fast, faster than the normal once a week, be prepared. I’m working on getting some on the computer right now. I want to get back to boring you with my monotone theory discussions as soon as possible. Otherwise I’ll never get to it as I am likely to have more interviews coming up in September for Geek.kon here in Madison, perhaps OshCon, RockCon, and Dreamation.
Hungry Hungry Hippos equals a bloat.
So I’ve been thinking that after GNS/The Big Model I’ll be looking at trying to go through and set up a series for Mo Turkington’s Push/Pull theory. We’ve still got like 20 more episodes of The Big Model so it won’t be soon, but it will be happening.
