That Guy With The Glasses

[The Question]

Spoony mentioned tonight something about that. How they've introduced changes into 4ed to make it a little more unbalanced.

Have you heard anything about Red Box? I'd heard nothing about it except the title, but apparently it's not the 5th edition so many people feared.
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/09/08/pax-coverage-dungeons-and-dragons-essentials/

Yeah, it's just a more beginner friendly expansion to 4th. Really, I'm not too huge into D&D itself, I'm more of a fan of Savage Worlds, mostly because of how easily customizable it is. I have a short attention span when it comes to tabletop games, and it's nice to be able to start up a new campaign with a completely different setting and genre in the same session with the same book.

 

[C.F. Kane]

"WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!!!"

Does anyone else think that CR's voice doesn't match his face?

I thought the same thing. He's pretty photogenic - I thought he would be an out of shape neckbearded slob. I'm kind of glad it's not the case.

 

[The Squirrel]

"WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE!!!"

Does anyone else think that CR's voice doesn't match his face?

That bit was great.

 

[Manic]

C.F. Kane, I just watched your review of What Is It?

You're only 10 episodes in, and I've already lost track of how many times these movies have driven you to insanity.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Actually, very few. This one was my only real breaking point. Most of the others have just driven me to rage and/or misogyny.

 

[Manic]

Well, unless you regularly imbibed menstrual blood, you were probably a misogynist to begin with




...if I understood that movie correctly.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Well, unless you regularly imbibed menstrual blood, you were probably a misogynist to begin with




...if I understood that movie correctly.

Yeah, that's pretty much it.

 

[Manic]

Is anyone else subscribed to TGWTG's RSS feed, and noticed that it hasn't updated in about 2 weeks? I thought something was up this weekend, so I checked the site found a ton of new videos.

 

[The Squirrel]

I still don't even really know what RSS feeds are or how they work. I check the site manually at least once a day.

 

[Kane52630]

RSS feeds are pointless to me and a bit lazy

 

[Manic]

An RSS feed will show you when a site has been updated, and what exactly was added. In Firefox, RSS feeds show up as Live Bookmarks.

For example, I'm subscribed to TGWTG's RSS feed. I have a folder in my Bookmarks menu labeled "That Guy With The Glasses." Every time a new video, blog, etc. is added to their website, those new pages show up in my "That Guy With the Glasses" folder as bookmarks.

I also have a Firefox addon called Brief that puts a little icon on Firefox that tells me how many new bookmarks have shown up in my RSS subscriptions. Right now, it says I have 11 new entires in my subscriptions:
2 from 4thletter.net
3 from Blogtor Who
1 from El Goonish Shive
1 from Least I Could Do
2 from Polite Dissent
1 from Spoony Experiment
1 from Shortpacked



Basically, I know whenever something new is added to my favorite websites as soon as those updates are published online.

 

[Manic]

RSS feeds are pointless to me and a bit lazy

Lazy? Perhaps. But I'd rather VG Cats told me when they're updated rather than me checking manually every week to find that they once again haven't updated in the past 2 months.

 

[The Question]

Someone earlier asked about submitting videos and stuff to their website. I don't remember it being answered in full detail. Since I just found out, I thought I'd share. You go here:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/site-news/contact/12-contacts/5-rob-walker-aka-the-other-guy

And these are the guidelines:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=15423

 

[The Squirrel]

I kinda want to start one at some point, but I just don't know what I would cover. I do really want to start a narrative web series though. I'd probably end up doing that first.

 

[Manic]

I want to start a review series. I already know what genre and medium to cover, the title, and a first episode.

I just don't have a camera or editing software.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I want to start a review series. I already know what genre and medium to cover, the title, and a first episode.

I just don't have a camera or editing software.

I'd suggest doing written reviews for now, then you can turn them into video reviews later when you've developed a back catalog.

 

[C.F. Kane]

I want to start a review series. I already know what genre and medium to cover, the title, and a first episode.

I just don't have a camera or editing software.

Do tell! What's the genre, medium, title and first episode?

And if you do, get used to being ignored for a long time. I've been doing the series for four months and I still haven't gotten the attention of the bigger names on the site. I have fans in some of the lesser forum-based reviewers but I haven't broken any big barriers yet.

 

[Manic]

Do tell! What's the genre, medium, title and first episode?

I was thinking about covering science fiction films (and maybe TV shows). A lot of them have it coming, the bastards. Some are filled with scientific inaccuracies that an 8th grader could spot, shoddy special effects, nonsensical plots, and some of the most insane cliches in all of fiction.

The name of my show would be Webb of Science. My last name is Webb, my TGWTG screenname is ManicWebb-- the pun just works. The only other "Webb of Science" I can find on Google is some Wordpress blog by a freelance tech journalist named Sarah Webb.

My first episode would be a review of The Core.

And if you do, get used to being ignored for a long time. I've been doing the series for four months and I still haven't gotten the attention of the bigger names on the site. I have fans in some of the lesser forum-based reviewers but I haven't broken any big barriers yet.

Eh, I'm used to being ignored. I'll just add my videos to my current comic review website, which is heavily ignored as it is. But I don't do my reviews for the attention and fandom. I do them for art and SCIENCE!*




*I'm pretty much gonna have to give up saying that, aren't I?

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

so any word on why NC has changed more of his reviews

 

[Kingfish]

Newsies was dropped because the Nostalgia Chick is doing it. The Old Vs. New on Prince of Egypt was pushed back a month so they could have the Scariest thing for Halloween. No idea why he changed Drop Zone, but I doubt there was any interest in it.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Erm... I got Awesome Blog of the Week.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/podcasts/tranmission-awesome/28042-ta-episode-58-nash

 

[The Question]

Erm... I got Awesome Blog of the Week.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/podcasts/tranmission-awesome/28042-ta-episode-58-nash

Woah. Congratulations.

 

[The Question]

Do you really speak dutch or did you have to look it up?

 

[wiegeabo]

Very cool, Kane.

Does that mean I have to start watching your stuff now?

 

[C.F. Kane]

Do you really speak dutch or did you have to look it up?

Well, I had to have people double check my translations, but yeah, I do speak a little Dutch.