Celebrate it, louder

I turned 26 the day G.I.Joe hit theaters, and after watching it… not such a great birthday present. It was alright, but the more I think about it the more I loathe it and want it to burn, so I’ve stopped thinking about it… mostly.

I personally haven’t been up to much, besides the lame movie for my birthday I had the spark plugs and wires in my car replaced, joy! The auto shop also decided to leave it outside, unlocked, with the keys in it. Thanks guys, I will be talking to you in the morning, I’m looking forward to it. Actually, make that afternoon. I work nights for the most part so I sleep into the day, meaning that when their day is winding down and their in a bad mood already I’ll show up just starting mine in a very good mood. I prefer that one, otherwise rolls are reversed.

I have taken notice of a little site out there that Matt introduced to me, it’s called Uncrate, and it’s magnificent. It shows a lot of cool stuff, and really, it’s about time Star Wars went this route. Sadly though, this means they are running out of ideas and things are going to close up soon. Sometimes they have cool books, other times awesome machines, and well… sometimes things that are just weird, but in a manly way. I also found an article about machines that will break your brain.

I have been openly bugging Robert Bohl on twitter about hurrying up on misspent youth the game, and it has helped apparently. His author edition/tester edition is done. If you can get in a game with feedback to him in the next month, you should get in touch with him. You can do that through his site or stalk him on twitter. Okay, I don’t expect anyone to read this who isn’t already bugging him but meh, it’s worth a shot. Don’t say I never did anything for you now Rob! …. just in case you try to say that, but I don’t see him trying to say I never did anything for him.

Alright, I’m out! If you want to try and get in on a game, let me know and we’ll see what we can set up.

Have fun kids!

Episode 21 – The Psion

Welcome to Episode 21 – The Psion. We start off with a little discussion about Transformers 2, then roll right into our main topic, the recently debuted Psion class. We go over the basic mechanics, a few sample powers, and we give our impressions of the class so far.  We also discuss the release method being implemented for debut PHB3 content, going straight to the Compendium and the Character Builder and not a full article with the content.  We are divided a bit on if this is a good thing or not, but we are in agreement that this method of distribution for non-debut content is not a good idea.

This episode runs about 50 minutes.  Send any questions, suggestions, or feedback to podcast@runningdtw.com

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Things to come

First of all, I’d like to assure all of you that things are indeed moving forward and we’ll be back on schedule full swing soon, with new things for you on top of it all. Won’t you just love that? I knew you would!

In light of things I have begun reading Engadget much much more and well, I’ve come across a lot of cool things. Most notebably would be a certain story that made me laugh… hard. The idea that Apple called and asked Microsoft to stop playing it’s laptop hunters commercials is hilarious, I don’t care who you are. I’ve always felt that apple’s computers were horribly over priced myself, so I find this story extra great. I also make sure to never ever buy an apple product, mainly because even though they say that ipods play nice with windows, I refuse to attempt it myself. It’d be like someone telling me that Pepsi with a splash of Coca Cola is delicous. I trust not those people.

Also, Engadget shows things occasionally that make me drool and pass out due to excitement. I’d link it but I don’t feel like searching for it but they talked about a netbook that had both XP and Android on it. Sweet.

I’ve always been a reader of Kotaku, and I feel like I need to read more of their sister sites now…. but that’d require more time and reading… do I really want to do this? hmmm.

I might have mentioned getting the chance to play a game of Blazing Rose by Edward “Sabe” Jones and absolutely loving it, so I suggest you all go and at least pick up the ashcan pdf of the game. At first I know all of our audience will shy away from it, but I garauntee you that this is one heck of a fun game once you get into the mood and swing of things. Last I knew, his full version should be done soon, and I will let you all know when it comes out.

If any of our listeners… well… readers really, are from Iowa and or plan on being at Anime Iowa this August let me know, I am going to be there myself and am more than willing to let any and all of you buy me a drink(s).

Have fun kids!

And as usual, twitter and e-mail stuff would go here, but you know that by now.

Toys

I mentioned it before, but it all finally came, our new toys! Well, not toys really, but our brand new recording equipment. While we are still stumbling around experimenting with this equipment to try and find our perfect sound (something that we’ll honeslty never ever find) we do sound much better. It feels nice to have a real mixer at our hands, something that we know we will have for a good long while.

While episode 7 will not be using this new equipment, episode 8 most definately will be. It should be rather, that is if Matt can pry me away from the mixer while I randomly twist its knobs and pretend I’m aboard some spaceship on a mission.

Hey, when something has that many knobs and bright lights, you can’t look at it and not think of some 80’s space tv show console.

-Jason-