The Geekbox RAW EDITION: Episode 17

[Rydog]

Give the new episode (another raw edition, by popular demand) a listen right here! Don't forget to Digg and all that jazz.

And ALSO, I mention this in the episode, but I apologize for basically being an absentee forum administrator lately. I've been more than a little busy with my new job, preparing for E3, etc. I promise I have not forsaken this place.

[LiQuid]

Yeah, Raw Edition must continue. Faster casts is awesome, and the more natural sound is appealing, not a turn off at all.

[Hellsfire]

I don't see what you had to edit anyway. Most of you are used to being on a podcast and there's more than 2 so there's not going to be many pauses, you're not in a loud place with a crap microphone so there's no static or no bumper music or segments per say. I, personally, think you just enjoyed making more work for yourself.

[Duke_Of_Havoc]

I think its more Rydogs excessive use of "errrr" and also the occasional 7 minute laughing fit that he has.

But on the whole I hardly notice a difference and if getting up online is quicker then all I can say is "Hell Yeah!"

[KindGalaxy]

It's not really getting up quicker; logically, if they record once a week, the RAW edition is posted on say a Wednesday/Thursday as opposed to a Saturday/Sunday the waiting period per episode is the same regardless; 7 days.
What the RAW Edition enables is less work on editing the podcast for consumption, we the enjoy-person of the podcast still experience a 7 day wait between episodes.
Summation: Do more RAW because the hosts of Geekbox have their real jobs and real lives to attend to and shouldn't have to spent half a day editing some audio track.

[LiQuid]

The "quicker" casts means that we can hear about the things they talk about a few days after the fact instead of a week + a few days after. I was getting sick about hearing about "last weeks" episode of Lost every week. That shouldn't be happening anymore.

[joeben81]

I don't care what you haters say.... The second Matrix movie with freaking awesome!!!11!.

..and you call yourselves geeks... pfft..

[bayfield]

I don't care what you haters say.... The second Matrix movie with freaking awesome!!!11!

the 2nd matrix failed to really get me psyched and excited about the movie or want to be keanu reeves (what other moment would you possibly ever WANT to be keanu? dumbstruck constantly saying 'woah'...) After watching the matrix everyone leaving the theater was pumped up, wanting to run on walls, slow time, stop bullets, dress in trench coats, pack heat, wear sunglasses and use japanese slide cellphones that would never be released in the USA. heck, i even wanted to have a friend named Tank.

the 2nd one.. not so much. i do however think the trilogy as a whole does have it's place in anyones movie collection

[Luminari]

Man...for Geeks you guys throw out a LOT of apocryphal, vague, and unsubstantiated info...I know it's RAW and all but there are about Five of you on average...

[bayfield]

Man...for Geeks you guys throw out a LOT of apocryphal, vague, and unsubstantiated info...I know it's RAW and all but there are about Five of you on average..

this post is useless without references.

[Dr Mrs The Monarch]

yah! great show lady and gents! i'm totally making a geekbox comic now and it'll be full of awesomeness and wonder and....stuff... yeah.....

[IcarusII]

I wish this podcast had better structure, better information research, and a host that can host (so that transitions from topic to topic don't start with "uhhhhhh, so have you....?"). I don't listen to the Gamespy podcast, but if its anything like this, I don't think I'm missing anything. I don't mean to be rude, and I do like listening to some of the ideas and discussions between the people on this podcast, but without focus and form I wonder how long this ramshackle podcast can last. Back to RebelFM and the 1UP podcasts I go.

I think I might be an impetuous nerd. Discussing nerdy things with friends is fun because you can interject when someone is wrong or mistaken. Listening to a group of people being mistaken about a bunch of stuff through a pair of headphones? Not so fun.

Oh, and while Terminator Salvation wasn't good, at least I was smart enough to tell if our governor of California could not have been as physically fit as his character was in the movie. It was cgi face manipulation on a body double, people. Have you seen Arnie lately? Hardly fit for the role. And the main character of Salvation is neither Kyle Reese nor John Connor. Greg, can you guess who?

[Lombaszko]

Oh, and while Terminator Salvation wasn't good, at least I was smart enough to tell if our governor of California could not have been as physically fit as his character was in the movie. It was cgi face manipulation on a body double, people. Have you seen Arnie lately? Hardly fit for the role.

Dude, don't they mention that they knew it wasn't a real Arnold?

I don't know why some people are complaining about a free podcast that takes time and effort from all involved to make. I think the format works well and conversation flows pretty natural from topic to topic.
Some of you don't realize how good we have it here at the Geekbox, excellent audio quality, a forum and Ryan Higgins! But I guess you can't make everyone happy.

[Dr Mrs The Monarch]

Oh, and while Terminator Salvation wasn't good, at least I was smart enough to tell if our governor of California could not have been as physically fit as his character was in the movie. It was cgi face manipulation on a body double, people. Have you seen Arnie lately? Hardly fit for the role.

Dude, don't they mention that they knew it wasn't a real Arnold?

I don't know why some people are complaining about a free podcast that takes time and effort from all involved to make. I think the format works well and conversation flows pretty natural from topic to topic.
Some of you don't realize how good we have it here at the Geekbox, excellent audio quality, a forum and Ryan Higgins! But I guess you can't make everyone happy.

I DEMAND MY FREE THINGS ARE ALL THE SAME AND MY FREE THINGS NEED TO ALL MEET A CERTAIN LEVEL OF QUALITY AND STRUCTURE!

dude, if you like structure then go listen to those other podcast, i like this free flow thing because it actually feels like a conversation you might actually have with friends or do you demand your friends show up with a structured list of all topics they want to discuss along with source material? this isn't put out by some company with a quota, it's by a bunch of friends who have intelligent opinions on fun geeky things. get over yourself you podcast snob!

hearts
monarch

[LiQuid]

IcarusII, if I give you a dollar, will you leave this forum and never listen to another Geekbox episode again as long as you live?

[Master Higgins]

I wish this podcast had better structure, better information research, and a host that can host (so that transitions from topic to topic don't start with "uhhhhhh, so have you....?"). I don't listen to the Gamespy podcast, but if its anything like this, I don't think I'm missing anything. I don't mean to be rude, and I do like listening to some of the ideas and discussions between the people on this podcast, but without focus and form I wonder how long this ramshackle podcast can last. Back to RebelFM and the 1UP podcasts I go..

Maybe it got cut out in some of the original edits, but we make fun of Ryan for going "uhhhhhh, so have you....?" It's almost become the ongoing joke of the podcast. We also congratulate ourselves when we successfully segue into another topic.

I think I might be an impetuous nerd. Discussing nerdy things with friends is fun because you can interject when someone is wrong or mistaken. Listening to a group of people being mistaken about a bunch of stuff through a pair of headphones? Not so fun.

We've been wrong about certain things we've said, but we try to correct ourselves in the talkback or on the next podcast. I came clean about having the wrong name for Elizabeth Mitchell's character on the V remake. Mistakes happen. If we're wrong about something, call us on it.

[AdamGS]

I'm guessing this was the Green Lantern fan made trailer mentioned?

Looks fantastic.

[Dr Mrs The Monarch]

Brought to you by unemployment and boredom, I give you the first rough for the GEEKBOX COMIC! yeah you thought I was kidding...well I wasn't.

http://alilawrencerocks.deviantart.com/ ... -124126914

I based the art on the Scott Pilgrim series, which needs more people reading it damnit! I don't know if really will go any further then this with it but you never know.

[Duke_Of_Havoc]

hmmmm Ill join a forum purely to leave a message about how poor I think it is. Kinda pointless, dont ya think.

I like the structure of GB as it feels like it could be in a bar or round a friends house. I know there is a loose agenda but I dont want a point by point rigid cast.

If you dont like it. Get The Fuck Out.

[IcarusII]

I appreciate the replies (especially Master Higgins') that attempted to remain civil in the face of my admittedly vehement post earlier regarding the quality of the podcast.

I realize this podcast is free. I realize that it takes time and work to put it together (no wonder it's weekly releases are so sporadic). But just because it is free doesn't mean I am not allowed to give my criticisms about it. When you put out a podcast, you asking for people to spend time to listen to it. People are busy, so the time spent listening to a podcast should be worthwhile, especially considering all the other enthusiast podcasts out there vying for your time and your diggs and iTunes votes.

Are my complaints invalid? I don't think they are. If I retract my complaints about structure, focus, and hosting, there's still the issue of poor information research and the constant spouting of erroneous and apocryphal info. As I said in my previous post I do appreciate the opinions and ideas of the people on the podcast and I do take note on the crew's interests, recommendations, and critiques of nerdy stuff, but there are times when the information passed along is so dubiously researched and vague that I end up disappointed in the podcast when I eventually search for the facts. You guys try so hard with the Lost facts, why not spread that effort across the other topics?

I did consider that I'm just not the audience this podcast was aiming for, but that can't be true if I like podcasts like RebelFM and A Life Well Wasted so much. I wouldn't pull punches when I talk about those podcasts, why would this one deserve better? And what I said here is nothing compared to the stuff thrown around at Neogaf about podcasts just like this one.

If you were given a free ticket to see a movie and it turned out to be crap, would you not criticize it for the time you spent?

So that's my rant. I'm done. Thanks for reading. I will gird myself for what comes next. And I didn't just join the forum just to complain, I have left positive comments and I do digg the podcast. I can't fully hate it (and I don't) it if it has members of the old EGM/1UP stuff.