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TurtleStomp does The Passing
Apr 28th
Despite the lack of a podcast recently, don’t think that we’re not actually doing things. Infact, we’ve recorded two casts you’ll not have heard thanks to a certain someone being a little slow on the editing front >__>
Anyway, whilst they writhe around in the creative editing pipeline, the rest of us decided to take matters (and Toby) into our own hands. So here’s Tom, Cheese, Brett and Toby chatting about The Passing DLC for L4D2 as they play it through, poorly.
Let us know what you think in the comments, should we game and cast more often?
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Titchmarsh gaming “debate”
Mar 22nd
If you’ve not seen the clip from Alan Titchmarsh’s ITV chat show, in which games were pretty much shouted down by two morons as an industry expert tried to put across valid points, prepare to rage.
I did, and felt that I needed to express said rage in complaint email form.
To whom it may concern,
As a writer and editor of a gaming website, host of a videogames podcast and a seventeen year old, I found the so-called debate on gaming featured on Alan Titchmarsh’s show to be deeply insulting to gamers and teenagers alike. Watching Tim Ingham’s valid and well thought out points drowned out by the two other vastly uninformed guests left me with a stack of rage far greater than that of any violent videogame.
With some points flat-out ignored by everyone present, such as the fact games are subject to the same stringent ratings system as films, the ‘debate’ turned into a mockery, with two loud, wrong people allowed to shout themselves over the voice of reason. Leaving uninformed viewers with the sense that games are not a legitimate form of entertainment, and are more harmful than any other violent media. TV seems incapable of ‘doing’ games properly, stuck with the arcane stereotype that videogames are only of interest to basement-dwelling, neckbearded sociopaths, and this “debate” only served to exacerbate this.
I’ve been playing videogames the public would probably deem violent for many years, and whilst a little socially-awkward (Hell, that’s more to do with the internet than gaming, but don’t go and try to debate it on your channel, you might invite the geniuses behind the Chinese firewall or something) I’ve turned out just fine. Infact I’m anti-war, non-violent and about as likely to steal a car thanks to GTA as I am to thwart a terrorist plot thanks to Die Hard, which is unlikely. Years of sitting at a PC or console have left my bones withered and weak, and I would certainly not fare as well as Bruce Willis in such a situation because of this. Curses!
I’m also irritated at the implication that teenagers cannot think for themselves, because I’ve yet to kill someone with a plastic bag, overthrow the leader of an underwater city, eat mushrooms in order to extend my life or contain animals in tiny cages, occasionally forcing them to fight each other, despite having done all of these in the lovely, pixelly word of videogames. I don’t see it and suddenly jump to the conclusion that “Oh my, I simply must imitate this bad example”. No, and the thought that most teens would be swayed by games is silly. So please stop implying as such.
This continued sterotyping of gamers and the scapegoating of games in the media is one of the reasons I no longer watch your channel, and this video (which I saw illegally uploaded to Youtube, I bet the uploader was a gamer, I bet it was GTA what made him do it) has reaffirmed my decision to stay well away from your programming.
- Thomas Gibbard, disgruntled teenage gamer
If you too would like to complain, the email address is viewerservices@itv.com.
(Bought to my attention by @nickstone333 and TheSixAxis)
UPDATE: I received a reply telling me to instead complain to feedback@channeltvlondon.co.uk, I’ve done so, and would urge you to do the same.
TurtleStomp #0.5:The episode which never was
Mar 5th
Well this is a bit… fail…
Today we were meant to be recording our first ever official episode, with y’know content and the like. However, it would seem the powerful combined forces of internet and fail decided to KO any attempts to bring this back on the [Daryl]roll. So here’s what’s been scavenged from the recordings, what went on? This went on:
- Tom was 13 minutes late trying to get his landlord to fix his internet
- Tom disconnected after 10 minutes
- Tom got the landlord to reset and fix the router
- Tom disconnected again
- Landlord had left, leaving Tom without internet
- Tom actually PAID for BTFon, which turned out to be a pile of shit
- When Tom left, Daryl and MasterCheese attempted to go on, but TOM IS TOO AWESOME TO CONTINUE WITHOUT [Yeah, re-writing this post is fun -Tom]
Apologies to all listeners who wrote in, we still have your questions, and we’ll try and answer them next week if we didn’t!
Tom's sorry face ;_;
Tom has been whipped mercilessly by the other hosts (and received an IRC ban for a while ;_; Fuck you guise), and he promises to get somewhere with a decent connection to record next time.
So here’s what we have, the podcast that couldn’t.
Either:
Or:
Listen here:
