Episode 4

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Date: June 6th, 2008

Length: 35:50

Hosts: Chris, Brett, Mikel, Tyler, and Shane.

Special Guest(s): None

Intro: Altered Beast "Welcome to your doom."

Quote of the week: "If you can't kill black zombies, regardless of context, you're the racist."

Closing Words: Chris Antista "See ya next week. Peace."

Closing Song: Venture Brothers Closing Theme

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Content Covered:

• Top 7 Gory Deaths in Cutesy Games
• Digg bitching about the Top 7 article being 7 pages long.
• Rant about online videogame publications publishing articles about why they have the most integrity.
• Mikel Reparaz discusses how the Ad Department is separate from the Editorial Staff, and a publisher run-in over his 6/10 review of Bourne Conspiracy, both of which were also mentioned in "Ask a Games Journalist".

Notable Facts:

• This is the shortest podcast to date.
• Shane Patterson and Chris Antista volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. (This verifies that they are good people.)
• 1st ad by GamesRadar promoting TalkRadar.
• Living on the Edge - Aerosmith was cued

Funny Stories and Quotes:

• Chris Antista
  • "GameDaily go suck one!
  • "I drive this minivan to the strip club, and the ladies love it."
  • "calls strippers "tit peddlers and stripwenches". [24:02-24:36]
  • "You never had Othello day at your school?"
  • Othello is a gateway to sexual progession?
  • "These people breathe flys."
  • Saints Row 2 assumes that none of its missions is going to suck.
  • (On Far Cry 2 and PC) "That's the game that comes with the $1,000 console."
  • "Everyday a review is late, is $1,000 we didn't get from a publisher."
  • "Street Fighter 2 in a yacht called Capcom." (call forward to episode 33 the SF rap)
  • Not that many franchises has the balls to release 10 games in a span of the month, but Petz there's too much innovation it can't be contained.

• Brett Elston
  • grew up in an area where an Othello board didn't have enough pieces to play a proper game. [9:28-9:41]
  • "Gratpooitius." (on Saints Row 2's shit)
  • Buff white guy blowing away Africans on the street.
  • "Nintendo gave me my Wii, which I take into account everytime I review a Wii game. I have to add 6 to 7 points for a score, which explains the 14 out of 10 I gave to Smash Bros." [26:30 ish]

• Shane Patterson
  • We need context for killing black people?

• Mikel Reparaz
  • "Finally a game where I get to spray shit."

• Tyler Wilde
  • "You guys are full of shit. I'm recording in a yacht right now."
  • Paperboy does he die or does he quit?
    • Chris "It's always newsworthy since it is on the front page.

Link: Episode 4

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