Update

Hello all!

I know awhile back I said we’d be fully on schedule again but well, I didn’t intend to decieve anyone, I fully expected us to be on schedule podcasting in full earnest again, but sadly, we are not. Due to some personal issues within my life, I have been unable to podcast, edit, and so forth at all. I do have a podcast sitting on the back burner that I will, i repeat, I will release either Monday or very early next week, but I cannot say when the next one will go up. Mayhaps I can convince Matt to bring in some of the guest hosts and continue on while I am dealing with life.

I won’t fully explain what is going on in my life, but I will say that times are hard and my family needs me now more than ever. I am currently doing everything I can do support them mentally and physically. Unfortunately they seem to add to what they need from me faster than I can dole out any help, and it’s been stressful. This is not to say things haven’t been hard on me as well, so with the free day a week or every two weeks I get I have been trying to get out and have fun, rather than grunt away at yet another draining task for my family.

I expect things to get back on track …. well…. I hope things to be back on track within a month for me, but I can’t guarantee anything. Also, please accept my sincere apologies for not putting this up sooner, it actually took someone leaving a comment for me to realize I’ve waited far far too long for this.

Have fun kids! (twice as much please, gotta make up for my slack)

P.S. The next episode will be an overview of the Adventurer’s Vault 2, where we go back to our original book overview style. If you want us to look over a specific book before others, please, let us know and we’ll see what we can do. Otherwise well… you’ll probably get the Primal Handbook after the AV2.

Soon, soon…

It’s been awhile since we released a podcast, and I said you’d get one shortly after the new year came around, and it’s true! We’re just waiting on Matt to get done being sick, which isn’t an uncommon thing around these parts lately, and we’ll be able to record again soon. If he was just a cough and wheeze sick, I’d just set the microphones on opposite ends of the room, but since it revolves around his voice, it is a different story.

As of right now, we are looking at going through the Adventurers Vault 2 for you and maybe picking out a few DDI things to tell you about. If there are any other books you’d rather know about sooner, let us know and we’ll see if we can swing that.

C-c-changes!

Bah humbug! Wait… the holidays are over, now it is the seasn of returning items. Good luck to everyone who has to do that.

With the new year will come old things, specifically Matt and myself talking about going back more to our roots of the show,  which is 4E D&D book and DDI information. We still plan on trying to sneak in a real topic once in awhile, but based on what all of you have said, you liked the DDI and book information the most, and wer’re happy to oblige!

Besides that, you’ll notice that we are more organized and will have obvious and clean transitions from one topic to another. We plan to clean up the show a lot, now don’t go thinking we are going to stop our initial idle chit chat or side commentary on things, far from it. Removing that would make us plain boring, rather than mildly entertaining.

Are there other things we plan on changing? Yes! But I just don’t feel like sharing them, mwa ha ha. Are we still wanting you to e-mail us? Yes! We are always open to listening to what you like or don’t like or trying to answer your questions, regardless of if you want a quick e-mail or an in depth discussion on the show, we’ll do our best. Heck, you want to hear a shout out from us? Go for it, we just like your e-mails.

Have fun kids.

Droid Me Sir

I have contacted Verizon and the replacement phone send back e-mail thing was indeed in error, I don’t have to send back my old phone, hooray!

I really really want Monday evening to come around so I can spend all night f’ing around with my new phone.

Have fun kids!

Saturday Spoils and Stories

Today is the day I go with family to visit other family for the time honored tradition of a Christmas dinner held on a non-Christmas day. Oddly, as time goes on I find that the satchel of spoils I bring home is less and less every year, becoming an adult means one thing, less loot. At least it does for me and mine. I’m not sure why, it could be due to the fact that I don’t speak to my own family very often and only ever have awkward silences if either of us have to call the other. Regardless, I’ll just blame the economy or something.

I on the other hand, have boughten myself something, I have ordered a Motorola Droid, hooray, unfortunately myself and Verizon seem to have a mix up.  Originally I e-mailed them and basically said that even though I know I’m still 4 months out from being able to upgrade for a non-rape price, was there anyway I could get a phone at non-retail price? They told me sure, and that i could get a phone at the 1 year contract price. I am okay with this, due to the very small price difference phones can have on a 1 or 2 year contract. I order myself a Droid later when I have the time to actually sit and talk on the phone for an hour. While the ordering process was far from smooth, it was due to the guy on the other end of the line being use to a different system of menus and what not than what he was currently using, nice chap though. Regardless, the phone was ordered!

I come to find out later when I look at my Fedex shipment statement that my order is on 2 day shipping and not overnight shipping, like anything else you get from Verizon. I e-mail them asking “what the fuck?” and they tell me that if you order something on the phone, it gets 2 day, if you order in store or online it is overnight. My thought process found this odd, very fucking odd.  Oh well, that just means Droid arrives on Monday and not Saturday, meaning no time to play around on it for hours and hours. sigh.

I then get another e-mail about 8 hours later telling me how the replacement phone system works, with pictures and everything, an automated e-mail obviously. I have since dropped a line at Verizon letting them know that no one ever said I would have to send my old phone in, or that the phone I’d just ordered and paid for might be a fixer upper. To say I was upset would be like stating that seeing an real Minotaur would be unsettling. I am waiting to hear back from Verizon on if I get to keep my old phone since no one ever so much as hinted that I’d have to send in my current one. Would I have agreed to this arrangement had I known I’d be losing my current phone?

Short answer: No. Reason being, I planned on tricking out my old LG Dare and giving it to my dinosaur phone carrying brother, full of things I know he’d love. Honestly, I’d hate to have to send the Droid back because Verizon’s lingo of “upgrade” and “equipment order” really mean “trade” and “refurbished”. Also, it’d be enough for me to drop them as my carrier, except they are about the only company that gets reception in this back water town I reside in. There is another company out there, but they only get a single bar out here, maybe 2, tops.

If anyone has any strings inside of Verizon, have them get a hold of me, so I can abuse their power. I really don’t want to have to re-think what I’d do for my brother for Christmas this close to it, ugh.

Have fun kids!

A question!

Out of curiosity, what sort of things do you prefer we do topic wise? Real topics like the ones we have been doing recently, or do you prefer it when we go over new DDI material and 4E books? You can e-mail the show, here, or leave a comment.

I really want to hear what everyone has to say, I want to produce something not just for us, but for you. What can I say, I’m a pleaser like that.

Episode 27 – Speed it up!

Welcome to Episode 27 – Speed it up! In this episode we give tips about how to speed up gameplay and what we plan on doing in our very own gaming group. That is after we spend some time catching up with you all, mostly we talk about TV shows and Dragon Age, we love Dragon Age. Have you played Dragon Age? You really should play Dragon Age if you haven’t, seriously, the game is awesome.

This episode runs just under 1 hour and 18 minutes, or 77.5 minutes to be slightly more exact.

Questions? Comments? You can e-mail the show here. If you want to speak to one of us directly both myself (Jason) and Matt have e-mails as well, how handy. We are both also on twitter: Matt & Jason.

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Monday Monday

It has been awhile since an episode went up, but this coming Monday you will have another podcast, finally! I can’t garauntee when the next one will be due to the holidays, but I figured I’d give you all a little present before the end of the year.

Also, I will try to be better about posting here again, I slipped and well… I apparently fell asleep on the ground and no one woke me up to make sure I posted here more. Whoops.

We are dumb

A nice human being pointed out that we might have spelled something wrong somewhere important on the site. We are going to correct this injustice as quickly as possible!

Thank you again e-mailer, you know who you are.

Have fun kids, this time, at our expense.

Holiday Break

As you can see, we haven’t posted anything up lately, and that is our bad… well… not really. It’s the bad of society for placing holidays during the end part of the year, making it very hard to get things done, due to social obligations with… ugh… family. In other words, Matt and myself are taking a small snaffoo of a break. We’ll try and bring you a holiday podcast, or holicast, before too long, but I promise nothing!

Have fun kids.