Shotgun Content 8: Shameless self-promotion edition

Me, me, me, me! It's all about me.
On this blog, at least....

• I'm writing now on another site, Top Cultured. I've even got me a new-fangled feature, entitled "Who Ya Got?", where I pit fictional characters and whatnot against one another in a theoretical fight. My writing there won't replace anything I do here, it's just another side project I'm working on.
  
  As always, I strive for a good read. Go check it out and let me know what you think!
  
  
• Another episode of the Fair Use Law (ep 202) has been released and is available for your listening pleasure.
  
  What's relevant about it is that starting with last week's episode, we had moved to a new hosting server. If you were listening to the podcast using the embedded players on the FUL website, you've likely already made the switch. If you were subscribed via iTunes, there's a new feed. You'll need to re-subscribe to us using this link:
  
  
  Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. I promise you we're being as inane as ever on the new hosting server (podbean).
  
  
• Though hardly breaking news, particularly given the speed of the internet, the TF2 Spy and Sniper packs were released last Thursday. To much of the community's disappointment, earning the new unlockables were no longer tied to the new achievements, but rather released randomly over time. Though I'm unsure if this has been fixed, anecdotal reports indicate that these unlock events would even give you stuff you've already unlocked previously.
  
  I don't like this new direction. Obviously, the lion's share of the fun of these packs are the unlockables. They radically change the way we play a given class. The precedent had been set that if you actively farm for 2 or so hours, you'd likely do enough to earn all of a class' unlockables. Not too huge of a time commitment, given the reward. In this new system, it wasn't uncommon for people to sink in 5+ hours and come away empty handed.
  
  I get why they changed the unlock system. It helps newer players get access to unlockable stuff without having to grind out achievements. This lets them just *play* the game (a novel idea). But Valve's implementation of it was less than Valve-perfect and they frustrated a lot of veterans in the process.
  
  
• Lastly: http://www.laserportraits.net/ LOL

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Fair Use Law Episode 13: "I didn't know an episode of this podcast could have negative downloads"

Episode 13 of the Fair Use Law Podcast has been released for your enjoyment.

This and all previous weeks' episodes, as well as show notes and other inanity, is now up for your enjoyment at:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

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Fair Use Law Episode 112 - "I was born watching Golden Girls and I'll die watching Sesame Street"

Once again, the Fair Use Law has put out another fine episode, available for your listening pleasure. There was a bit of a hiccup with the streaming of the episodes on the Fair Use website last week - the reason I didn't plug it - but that seems to be ironed out and those of you who have subscribed to us via iTunes (btw, THANK YOU) should have been getting their regular dose of their favorite 3 disembodied voices.

This and all previous weeks' episodes, as well as show notes and other inanity, is now up for your enjoyment at:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

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Fair Use Law Episode 110: "That was in our wedding vows: Never look at me. I do."

Holy crap, it's been a while since I've plugged the podcast on this blog. Fair Use Law has been going strong for quite a while, and we've just recently put out episode 110. Please note this is the tenth episode, and not the 110th episode - that first 1 is solely there for tax purposes.

This and all previous weeks' episodes, as well as show notes and other inanity, is now up for your enjoyment at:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

As always, you could subscribe to our podcast out on iTunes:

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Fair Use Law episode 104 - "Spoiler Alert: That wasn't a Clown"

Not the Christmas episode (or intended to be at least), but given to all as a gift, this week's episode is up earlier than usual. We had a special guest and everything! Join us for a graphic recalling of one man's ordeal with a nasty kidney stone - just the kind of thing to get you in the holiday spirit.

This week's episode, as well as show notes and other inanity, is now up for your enjoyment at:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

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Fair Use Law episode 103 now up

Another week, another episode. This week's episode is now up for your enjoyment at:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

As with other episodes, you may want to listen to this with headphones. We usually earn an explicit rating, but this one probably landed us a double-secret explicit rating. And I'm not even talking about the riveting discussion about Wilford Brimley's moustache or Burger King's meat-scented body spray.

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Fair Use Law - Episode 102

Self-promotion fail.

I'm a little late (only by over 24 hours) to posting this. Episode 102 of the Fair Use Law podcast is now up for your enjoyment:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

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Fair Use Law Podcast - Episode 101

Finally, at long last, the first episode of Fair Use Law is available for your streaming or downloading enjoyment:

http://fairuselaw.blogspot.com/

This blog should serve as the updating hub of the podcast. Additionally, you should be able to subscribe to us on iTunes:



It's an hour long podcast chock full of inanity and non-sequitirs. Be forewarned, if you're at work or around impressionable children, you may want to listen to this with headphones as there is sporadic harsh language.

A synopsis of the episode, as plagiarized quoted from Dan Robinson's synopsis of the episode:

For your post-Cyber Monday goodness, please partake in our first episode. I can guarantee it's roughly 99% STD and Stone Temple Pilots free.

As with all future episodes of our merry band, listen in awe as myself, Danger Dan Robinson, my partner in rhyme, Baker, and our producer, the Reverend Randy Lewis spin a yarn that you could knit a deliciously awful Christmas sweater with. Discussions found within include tales about Siena College and their inability to provide beds to their dorm dwellers, Rampage 64, former head cheerleaders becoming strippers and the awkward way of handling the touchy subject of meeting them in public, and, of course, our lord and savior.

Oh, and Cloverfield. We talk about Cloverfield.

Not mentioned: we bust out into an a capella rendition of Dr. Mario.

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Shotgun Content 5

Every so often, I have some things I'd like to post here at The Unwind, but can't really justify making a whole post out of any of them.

• An old friend of mine, "Danger" Dan Robinson, and I are starting a podcast call Fair Use Law. We're still working out when we're going to actually start it (with Thanksgiving coming up and all), but it should be a weekly podcast of everything and nothing all at once. It's essentially doing what we always do, only we'll have a microphone in front of us recording it.
  
  More details to follow, but to give you some insight into my future colleague, here's the intro theme to it that he wrote and created. It's delightfully whacked-out, and I wholly approve:
  
  http://www.carlandsons.com/fairuselawtheme.mp3



• Steam has been a huge pain in my butt today. After I updated my client, I've had issues logging in all day that are still unresolved. I need to kill me some zombies, Valve.



• From the "why the hell can I not look away" files, I wanted to share MiniKiss, which I originally found out seeing them in a random sports bar some time back with friends. MiniKiss is a coverband of Kiss... played by dwarves.
  
  Yes, it's all the Kiss hits you've come to know and love - like "Rock and Roll all Nite", "Strutter", and "Detroit Rock City" - played by people half the size of the original. We're talking pure, concentrated 80's here.



• Lastly, this week's Cracked.com photoshop content is "creative ways to break bad news". Only really had one idea for it:
  
  

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Traveling Munchies Radio Podcast

A couple of my friends over at Traveling Munchies asked me to join them in an episode of Traveling Munchies Radio. For those not in the know, Traveling Munchies Radio is grown men talking inappropriately seriously about snack food.

If you like monkeys, pumpkins or pound cake, or if you'd just like to hear my voice in cell-phone quality, you should check it out! It's... entertaining, at very least.

http://www.travelingmunchies.com/2008/09/unwinding-with-monkey-crackers-and.html

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