The Geekbox: Episode 35

[Rydog]

This week sees the return of our full, regular cast (and a more reasonable running time). Give it a listen right here!

[ATC 1982]

I am glad you put it up at 6:something am. As I hit refresh I was glad to see I would not have to find another horrible podcast to hurt my ears with today. So thank you for saving me and hour and 22 minutes to try and find this morning out of 9 hours.

[James-Kond]

Black superheroes?
Way to go racial.
Jeez.

[LiQuid]

Wow. Legend of the Red Dragon. I used to play LORD, Usurper and Cartel on about a dozen BBS's back in the day. I've been looking for a Usurper game on the internet forever since that was my favorite BBS game, but this will do.

[bayfield]

Wow. Legend of the Red Dragon. I used to play LORD, Usurper and Cartel on about a dozen BBS's back in the day.

I was a TW2002 junkie myself. in college we set up TW2002 and LORD doors (forget the BBS software) running on a machine with a fossil driver attaching a telnet port to serial so we could get our ANSI door game fixes.

[aguynamedjustin]

Bring back Patrick Joynt. He's rad.

[LiQuid]

Wow. Legend of the Red Dragon. I used to play LORD, Usurper and Cartel on about a dozen BBS's back in the day.

I was a TW2002 junkie myself. in college we set up TW2002 and LORD doors (forget the BBS software) running on a machine with a fossil driver attaching a telnet port to serial so we could get our ANSI door game fixes.

Aha! Trade Wars! I'd totally forgotten the name. There were only a few popular BBS's in Milwaukee running it that I knew of, so I didn't play it as much as the others.

[LiQuid]

Dammit. I registered for Nuklear LORD and all of the realms are down. The first three need to be reset and the special realm has max players.

[ArrestedDeveloper]

I'd give Karen a Phantom Stranger.

[Karen]

I'd give Karen a Phantom Stranger.

Let's just hope Dry Bones doesn't happen to you.

[SJSchmidt93]

Hey Fitch....

loosen up.

[Uno Ill Nino]

Could you please put more effort into your show notes? It drives me nuts when it says "Wherein we discuss Tekken 6" and the reality is that you brag about the arcade cabinet Namco sent you, but then move on and fail to actually discuss the game at all.

Otherwise, its a good time. Its just that I keep getting excited about topics that never actually get discussed.

[KindGalaxy]

Great podcast, as usual, lacked Mr. Karen Chu but I don't imagine he'll be back soon unfortunately, though it was great to hear the views of Mrs. Patrick Joynt and her reasons for... well, not sure if there is a word for it beyond boycott, but one can hardly boycott a decade old product; you just don't play it... her reasons against Dragon Quest and support the Dragon Quest product line and was in total agreement. Shame really, I was tempted by the last Dragon Quest DS game but now... no... never. Keep it Geeky, as always

[achickenchaser]

I imagine they'll talk about Tekken 6 more after it's been reviewed. Besides, if you listen to the @1Up podcast, at least one of them isn't exactly a Tekken player.

We wouldn't want anyone using phrases such as "button masher" and claiming 10-strings are useful, now would we? Well, actually, 10-strings are good for something: they're a good way for you to get smacked down and wind up missing half your health against any decent player.

I don't even know if they're still in the game, as I haven't played T6 yet. Namco doesn't love some of us enough to send us a T6 machine

[shota]

For Karen,

The deal with Koichi Sugiyama is that he is part of the right wing revisionist party in Japan. One of their main platforms is the denial of Japanese war crimes against the Chinese people such as The Massacre of Nanking and Comfort Women. Back in 2007, The US Congress proposed H. Res. 121, which asked the Japanese government to acknowledge the crimes against the Chinese people. Sugiyama is one of the people who signed a document to oppose this and claims none of these events ever happened. Hope this helps.

Link to the document: http://www.jiaponline.org/documents/Jun ... esLIST.pdf

[bunnyhero]

i haven't finished listening to this episode yet, but i find it hilarious that karen had to stop listening to episode 34 after 20 minutes, too

[LiQuid]

For Karen,

The deal with Koichi Sugiyama is that he is part of the right wing revisionist party in Japan. One of their main platforms is the denile of Japanese war crimes against the Chinese people such as The Massacre of Nanking and Comfort Women. Back in 2007, The US Congress proposed H. Res. 121, which asked the Japanese government to acknowledge the crimes against the Chinese people. Sugiyama is one of the people who signed a document to oppose this and claims none of these events ever happened. Hope this helps.

Link to the document: http://www.jiaponline.org/documents/Jun ... esLIST.pdf

I just have one thing to say to that. Denile is not just a river in Egypt.

[kenzo]

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a complicated period of history with disgusting atrocities committed by all sides of the conflict. Japanese revisionism is embarrassing and inexcusable. But at the same time, I am just as annoyed by Chinese politicians who continue to focus on this issue as a way to drum up nationalistic sentiment and distract from domestic issues.

I understand boycotting something because of ideological reasons, but I'm not sure my refusal to purchase this or that is going to do a lot of good. Voting with your dollar isn't the only influence individual people are capable of, and is a very cynical view of how humanity operates. What's needed instead is public discourse and education on the subject, something an individual can accomplish by being vocal about a subject, talking to friends, family, and colleagues, writing to papers and congressmen, etc. If you simply refuse to buy something, you're just a meaningless statistic. The company and parties responsible don't know you exist, let alone the reason why you don't give them your money.

[lemon-fresh]

Anywho, great episode as usual. The levels were a little funky at the beginning but sounded like things worked themselves out by the end.

[deadairis]

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a complicated period of history with disgusting atrocities committed by all sides of the conflict. Japanese revisionism is embarrassing and inexcusable. But at the same time, I am just as annoyed by Chinese politicians who continue to focus on this issue as a way to drum up nationalistic sentiment and distract from domestic issues.

You're "just as" annoyed by people who attempt to wipe atrocities from history's eyes as you are with political manipulation?
Wow. Not even a little bit more annoyed by the people attempting to erase even the mention of these previous horrors?

I understand boycotting something because of ideological reasons, but I'm not sure my refusal to purchase this or that is going to do a lot of good. Voting with your dollar isn't the only influence individual people are capable of, and is a very cynical view of how humanity operates. What's needed instead is public discourse and education on the subject, something an individual can accomplish by being vocal about a subject, talking to friends, family, and colleagues, writing to papers and congressmen, etc. If you simply refuse to buy something, you're just a meaningless statistic. The company and parties responsible don't know you exist, let alone the reason why you don't give them your money.

That bolded part is where you're off base. I don't disagree with the idea of educating other consumers, but sales are an incredibly meaningful statistic. They're the meaningful statistic, for a business.