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Podcast 25 – Mass Characterization

February 21 2012

Part 2 of our Black History Month podcast. I get together with Jeff, Raph, and Marcellus to talk some ish about black characters in games. We go across a wide variety of games and mostly complain about Japanese characterizations. Of course, we get into Native Americans, Asians, and wonder whether or not Abobo is Filipino.

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Update: The character is Bust-A-Move is named ‘Hamm’, not Burgertime as the Internet led us to believe

Linkage:
Bust-A-Groove: Hamm’s Ending Cutscene
John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad (Fuckwad) Theory
Kevin Kelly TED Talk: The Next 5000 Days of the Web
Group Think
Racist Comments on Yahoo! News?
Penny Arcade’s Mike vs Ocean Marketing
X-Clan – Xodus
Complex’s 50 Most Racist Movies

Mr Benja.


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PS Vita PreLaunch Party by Shifted2u

February 19 2012

Last Friday night in Santa Monica, the 8-Bit Cubist crew got together with Shifted2u and GameFanatics to host a PS Vita PreLaunch party. They know how to put on a party, so when they asked us to get involved, we were there. This is our record of that event.

Art by Raph and Mr Benja. More on this soon.

Darion








Team LoveHate was on hand to show off their Infiniti G35 Panty & Stocking Itasha. This thing was pretty dope. At one point, we started blasting the radio, and all the building owners ran outside and started yelling at us. We laughed. We laughed so hard that we decided to do some projects in the future.


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Podcast 24 – Gaming With Virtual Feelings

February 14 2012

In this podcast, Maggie aka Luperza aka @PurrfectStorm aka Crazy-Cool Gamer Girl is the featured guest. Valentine’s Day is discussed. Maggie also tells about her path into the video game industry even though she was studying to enter the medical field. She has also maintained a relationship with another gamer for nine years without either of them getting choked out with a controller cord. It gets philosophical, and a few topics are discussed. This podcast clocks in at about 2 hours. It was pretty good that way.

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Linkage:
Maggie’s website
Maggie on Twitter
John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad (Fuckwad) Theory
The :P emoticon that not everyone understands
Women In Gaming International
Pro Gaming Overview.
The Foundry in San Diego
One-In-Six Parents Don’t Understand Their Childrens Technology
Dating for Gamers

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Podcast 23 – The Minority Report

February 07 2012

This is Part 1 of our Black History Month podcasts, so we get the crew together to talk about…some black shit. Marcellus, Jeff, Raph, and I convene to cover a couple topics and have a good time. We focus on our separate experiences as three black people and one Filipino in the industry.

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Linkage:
V-Nasty (Kreayshawn’s sister that doesn’t drop the “n-bomb”, but says nigga all the time)
Blacks In Gaming bringing up black video game characters
Morgan Freeman on Black History Month
Tavis Smiley on Obama
Man Dies After Eating Cocaine Hidden In Brother’s Butt
Chocolate Shop Wine
Dylan Ratigan Loses It
A Typical Yahoo! News report
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia – The DENNIS System

Mr Benja.


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Podcast 22 – I Laugh At Your Dream

January 31 2012

Artist Josh Lange (8-Bit Legends creator) joins me so we can talk about following dreams and laughing at problems along the way. You have to laugh at problems when you’re obsessed with fulfilling your dreams, so Josh and I talk about that. We also talk a bit about getting into the game and movie industries. You want to know what that’s like? Josh tells you how it is.

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Linkage:
Josh Lange’s Blog
Josh’s 8-Bit Legends Series
Star Wars Chess Scene
WIRED Article on Heavy Rain’s Story
A Good Table Tennis Rally
Obama and Pac-Man
Steve Jobs on Following Your Dreams

Mr Benja.


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