Show027: Interview with Ram Hull
Here’s the interview I did with Ram Hull at Gen Con last year.
So here’s a show. How about that? I’ll have to get to links Monday. I’m about to fall asleep.
Edit- I’m four days late, but here’s those links:
Grumbling Dwarf especially this episode.
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.
I’m starting a new podcast and this is the first episode of it’s first season. Each season will have different topics and whatever length is required to discuss them. This is going to be a monthly show, and it won’t be reducing the frequency of Theory From the Closet. I love making podcasts. Not the post editing, or the internet posts about it, but the planning and chatting with folks or teaching is great. So I’m expanding, there’s other things I want to do. Anyway….
This episode entitled, “Story Games, What?” is about what Story Games are. I discuss it with my cohosts for this episode Mario Dongu, and David Moore from The Gamemaster show and Chris Perrin from The Cannon Puncture Show. There were some difficulties in recordin, but what’s new about that right? I had to really boost Chris as he sounded fine on Skype, but is incredibly quiet in the actual recording. Also for some reason late in the episode I say Derrick, when my brain was thinking Darren when referring to Darren watts and the interview I did with him. you might not have even noticed, but I cringe everytime I hear it.
Show025: Interview with Ron Edwards and Vincent Baker
I’m going to do notes and links for this one tomorrow, but I wanted to get this out so I could listen to it at work tonight.
Show024: Interview with Jeff Lower
Here is my shortest interview ever. I spoke with Jeff Lower, one of the folks from the Ashcan Front at Gen Con. Jeff is one third of the Sons of Kryos and the creator of Giants. On his show their segments usually don’t go over 15 minutes, and that’s how this interview went also.
This is another one from Gen Con that got screwed up so you’re going to hear hiss as I had to use The Levelator to boost Jeff up on my microphone.
Show023: Interview with Darren Watts
We’re back. The site has been transferred to the new computer and as promised here is a new show. I sat down with Darren Watts, President of Hero Games at Gen Con. We talked about how Hero is designed as a very large toolkit, what the heck Indie means, and several Hero products. If you hear a repetitive thumping that’s Darren punctating his speech by thumping his hand on the desk in karate chop motion. Kind of like those 70’s Steve Austin dolls. He might have had to buy the hotel a new desk, but it was certainly indicative of his passion for Hero.
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.
Show022: Interview with Paul and Danielle Czege plus Matt Synder
3 weeks. Wow. I didn’t think I’ve been goofing with my computer that long. Here’s one with Paul, Danielle, and Matt the folks behind the Ashcan Front. I’ll do links and stuff later, but I need to take a quick nap and then head back to Geek.kon.
