Since we're releasing a bonus episode in place of the regular episode this week, I'll at least give the show notes in the usual format. Also, we'll be back to a regular episode next week!
* Skiing. * Luke's musical aspirations. * Fear the Con. * Fear the Froot, sponsored by Tony Mast. * Cartoons. * Comic books. * A little bit on the future of Fear the Boot.
With DM of the Rings coming to a close, Fear the Boot is proud to announce Chainmail Bikini, a new RPG-oriented web comic coming to our site, developed by Shamus Young and Shawn Gaston!
Like all Fear the Boot bonus episodes, this show is neither edited nor
on our usual subject. So if this is your first time here, we recommend
checking out a regular episode first. Also, excuse the jingling in the background. Two of my dogs were wrestling throughout the entire episode.
As for the episode, the title says it all! This show is about the pitfalls and success stories of internet dating!
Like all Fear the Boot bonus episodes, this show is neither edited nor
on our usual subject. So if this is your first time here, we recommend
checking out a regular episode first.
This episode is a review of Anime Central, which was attended by Adam and Melina. Adam also put together a short film, which you can find here.
While there's no profanity or explicit material in this episode, it does deal with some sexual themes, so please use discretion when playing it.
Like all Fear the Boot bonus episodes, this show is neither edited nor on our usual subject. So if this is your first time here, we recommend checking out a regular episode first.
This particular episode is primarily about "gamer shame", meaning the embarrassment most gamers feel about their chosen hobby. However, before we get into that, we spend a few minutes talking about turn-based strategy games and waning attention spans.
This episode was intended to be a warm-up for Mike, a new host we're bringing on at FTB to help out with several new efforts we're preparing to launch. However, true to form, we spend most of the show chasing tangents, the largest of which is a discussion on pipes and cigars.
Mike was a bit nervous behind the mic, but that's alright. Off the mic he's just as belligerent as the rest of us, so I know he'll be a great addition once he's more at ease.
One of our forum users, Crafterofcode, sent us a box of Australian candies. We spend this bonus episode sampling the candy and discussing international food.
We also bring Tex back via Skype, since he spent several years living in Europe. This was a great opportunity for us to test recording with Skype, which is something we may use for interviews in the future.
Before the bonus episode itself, I take a few minutes to address the listeners with an open letter we posted on our forums. It explains why the design series has been running behind and what we're doing to address the problem.
Since Tex was in town, we decided to do a bonus episode on video games. In this show, we talk about storytelling and artificial intelligence.
If
this is your first time here, we suggest checking out a regular episode
first! Bonus episodes are neither on the same subject as our regular shows nor edited the same way.
This bonus episode is a round-up of unrelated stories from the hosts. As with all bonus episodes, this is both unedited and off topic. If this is your first time here, we suggest checking out a regular episode first!
Just as I promised on the forums, here's a bonus episode to go hand-in-hand with episode 18!
We intended to make this bonus episode about our take on where Battletech went wrong. However, we ended up on so many tangents that the show is really more about where creative endeavors in general go wrong.
As you probably know by now, these bonus episodes are neither edited nor quality controlled. So if this is your first time here, please check out a regular episode to find out what our show is really like.
We're probably just as opinionated about video games as we
are roleplaying games, but the former just isn't what this podcast is
about. However, for this bonus episode, we decided to talk only about
video games.
You guys know the drill. These bonus episodes are not edited or formatted,
so the quality of our normal shows isn't really there. We just make these things for fun.
This episode was supposed to be our farewell to John, who's leaving for Rome soon. However, it quickly degrades into tangents about travel, foreign beer, and international family.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! This show is far edgier than anything we have ever done before. We poke fun at some very serious issues, but please keep in mind we're just joking. If you're easily offended, this is probably not the episode for you.
As always, please keep in mind that these bonus episodes are not on the same topics or of the same quality as our normal work. We do not script, edit, or quality control these extra shows.
This is quite possibly the most pointless and meandering show we have ever recorded. So why are we releasing it? Because these bonus episodes never come with a quality guarantee! This show is primarily our follow-up to the ladies podcast (episode 10), but we also talk about our ideas for future "special" episodes.
The third bonus episode -- and the final one on this topic, at least for now -- is a discussion of the internet-related tasks that go into making a podcast. We talk about posting the show online, getting listed in podcast directories, and so on. This episode was recorded several weeks ago, but I was a bit slow getting it posted, so expect some "dated" comments.
After listening to all three bonus episodes in this series, I think I'd like to re-record these at some point, making them more complete and more serious. We've learned quite a bit even in the short time since these were recorded. We made these episodes because people asked us how we made our show, not because we considered ourselves particular experts on the subject.
Also, a reminder to everyone that we do not edit these episodes for quality, so expect a lot of background noise and other screw-ups that don't normally appear in our shows.
Our second bonus episode covers the hardware (mics, mixer, etc) we use to make the podcast. I want to remind everyone the bonus episodes -- unlike our regular shows -- are completely unedited. There's no intro music and our mistakes are all left in.
This is the first in a series of bonus episodes we want to release. These shows are 10 - 20 minutes long and cover topics that don't fit in the scope of our normal podcasts. They're completely unedited, so there's no intro music and our flubs have been left in. We won't have a bonus show every week, but when we do, we'll be releasing them on Wednesday night.
The first three bonus episodes talk about the creative, hardware, and marketing aspects of making this podcast. We made them in response to a listener that asked how we put the show together. If this topic doesn't particularly interest you, or you don't like the prospect of a rather raw recording, you won't miss too much by skipping over it.
