I got a bunch
of stuff done today. Vacuumed the place, cleaned up the laundry room
(had lots of loose boxes there), cleaned up by room. I also put a
couple items up for sale on eBay and packaged some stuff to mail out
tomorrow. Didn't get any work done. But at least I got something done.
So I moved downstairs where it is a lot cooler. Still maybe a bit warm
once I've been working here for a couple of hours, but a lot better
than upstairs. Probably another year of saving up before I can buy an
air conditioner. It will cool off in another month and then it'll be
fine for another year.
So, The Gamesome Mac is
back on the air after a three month hiatus. Apparently the hosts of the
three radio shows on MacRadio bought the whole kit and kaboodle from
the former owner. Now they're trying to run it themselves. Good luck
but I really don't think this is a money-making venture. Nice as a
hobbby though.
In any case, host Sean Smith has a new cohost, David Finley who lives
in El Cerrito in the Bay Area. Sean lives in Seattle. David phoned in
to participate and kept getting dropped out every hour because their
phone system hangs up calls after an hour. They've had this problem for
a while and still haven't fixed it.
They have new equipment: a G5 doing the broadcasting instead of the
PowerMac 6400 they were using before. Amazing that it worked at all
before. Apparently they're using AAC to encode the audio now and people
on the chat board said it sounds better. Me, I don't remember what the
sound quality was before.
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David spent
most of the show reviewing Never Winter Nights. The Mac version does
work with the PC version and the various scenarios work on both
platforms. There is no scenario editor for the Mac though. It looks
like NWN is a viable candidate for Friday night gaming.
The review was a bit boring. This is David's first so we can forgive
him that. It was a bit too detailed a review -- he listed every race
and class you can play. I suppose they needed to stretch it a bit
because there was no guest tonight.
Sean reviewed Bloodrayne. Not so much a review as a re-review. Didn't
get much of an impression out of the review other than that Sean hates
big-busted female characters in PC games. Very politically correct sort
of spiel that went off on for a few minutes. It just seems like "we
know all this, we don't need to hear it again." Especially since he and
Omaha (his former cohost) have given that spiel before.
The Gamesome Mac is not that great of a show. At least when it's just
the hosts talking. It's a much better show with the guests. Lots of
gaming industry people have been on the show talking for an hour or two
and it's quite interesting. That's why I listen to the show.
This is stupid for me to think about it. But I'd like to run a second
GURPS campaign alongside the GURPS BattleTech campaign. Certainly not
for a few months, until I'm more comfortable with GURPS 4E and the G-BT
campaign is running on auto-pilot. Something to run in the Saturday
daytime slot alternating with Erzo. Big challenge and probably a very
bad idea. But still...
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