Grabbing the product description from Amazon and replacing every ‘pimp’, ‘car’, ‘whip’, ‘vehicle’, and ‘ride’, with ‘dolphin’:
“Enter Dolphin City, where bling is king, and style is everything. On these streets, if your dolphin isn’t fully dolphined out, you’d be better off walking. You and Xzibit will take on the challenge of hooking up your homies, and transforming their hoopties, buckets and beaters into the hottest dolphins on the street, while redlining through the highways and alleyways of Dolphin City. You choose the mods, you choose the route, but dolphinin’ ain’t easy. It will take speed and style to hook them up. Do you have what it takes to Dolphin Their Dolphin? 5 unique boroughs , all free roam envorinments for the ultimate combination of racing and dolphining 16 dolphins in all - one for each of the 15 customers plus Xzibit’s own high-rolling feature dolphin Over 15 suppliers per borough and 100s of parts, from tires and rims to bumpin’ subwofer systems and high-def display panels. So many parts, so many combinations, so much replayability Tons of challenges and bling to collect Show your skills by Ghost Riding your dolphin!”
Do to a string of bizzare coincidences, a college student’s phone rings off the hook, rung by rabid Halo 3 fans, all set off by the launch of the viral marketing campaign.
For our 3rd Birthiversary as a show, we talk about cooperative gaming and how it makes for the most memorable experiences. “Sequels only by name” are contrasted to “sequels in spirit”, and a couple examples of this are shown. All in all, we make lots of furry references as we bring out examples like Shining (in the Darkness/Force/Tears/etc), which is many times over a sequel only in name, while games like Etrian Odyssey and Yggdra Union continue in spirit. (Secret/*) of Mana is also dogged for letting go of multiplayer in the new Dawn of Mana, but we also discuss when a single player only game is more appropriate. Many a Red Stripe is consumed in the making of this show and much reminiscing (with sound clips!) and lols.
Creator of the highly under-appreciated MMO Auto Assault is going on to make the next big MMO: LEGOs. Time until Cock? About 7 minutes (about how long it’d take me to make a sizable one using only retro blocks).
I don’t know about you, but on hearing this news my mind reels with glee at the thought of blockganking, cross faction knight/pirate battles, ‘botting’ the game with a real mindstorms bot, hot stop-frame-animation goldshire scenes, The Sword of 1000 Blocks, tradeskilling up your connect-flower-to-stem skill, rez via reconnect any plain-yellow head back on your body, ‘griefing’ by capping peoples’ blocks off with the flat finisher pieces with no nubs, and furious flights of other fragmented fantasies.
It comes off a bit like a similar concept of someone reading, say, the Dungeon Master’s Guide for Dungeons and Dragons, and then making up a skit off of an hours worth of reading, but he means well. Like, Warlocks need a lot of dexterity because they’re softies. At least the audience was receptive!
