Anyways, suggestions:
-The Hounds of Haske
-Steve’s Suck-ups
-The Haske Hierarchy

… and I can’t think of anything else. I’ll come back tomorrow if I come up with something.

“Hey Harvey! Would you get a look at the gams on that dame?”

I do look forward to when all-digital models are more reliable. For cameras, I’d effing love to cut out importing time. For video games, I’d love to not have a shitload of discs lying around. As a Maxis whore, I have a metric fuckton of Sims expansion packs, and each new one makes the previous set of discs pretty much useless until something makes a fresh install necessary…by which time, I’ve misplaced the discs or the damn purchase code.

I welcome digital downloads, once they come up with a surefire “We are not going to rip you off” method that allows me to re-download a purchased-but-lost game without buying it again. That’s all I really need; in this day and age, the speed it would take to download & install would - in many cases - take the same amount of time as it would to install it from a CD or DVD.

Dammit Robert, you’re a fucking moron. That was “Dream On” by Aerosmith which, by the way, sounds nothing like “Stairway to Heaven” although they did rip off our hypnotic sound for their AOR ballads in the early 70s. I swear Plant, you really need to stop drinking with Allison Krauss. By the way, I stole your Grammy.

Fuck off,

Jimmy Page

1. Have a nice chat with my lawyers and get prepared for a lawsuit.

2. Send me 500 Euros (yes, Euros, not American dollars), a nude photo of Meghan McCain, a bootleg copy of Roger Corman’s “Fantastic 4″ and a bottle of Santana DVX.

The choice is yours.

Have a lovely day,

Robert Plant

Greetings from Tim.

[EDIT: I'm pretty sure this is spam, but of the hundreds we get, this seemed the only clever one - Switch]

“W” IS a vowel, although it is not used as a vowel by itself in any modern English word. Instead it is used as part of a dipthong (two vowels that run together to make a sound). So the “w” in “brown”, “lawn”, “blow”, “blew”, and “two”. It’s considered a consonant when at the beginning of a syllable, like “whack” or “always”. Boo-yah! Score one for the English majors!

I spell good

and I know wat you meen by computers brack vay easely

can’t spell for shit

I suppose the first volley should be the obligatory picking apart the minutiae of your statement to ridiculous extremes:

(1) How can you possibly disagree with the entire article? Do you really believe I would not date younger women? Does that pie chart not look like Pac-Man to you? Do you think pissoff@dangerouskids.net is not a real email address? I assure you that these points of the article are facts, sir. I can see how you may argue certain parts (such as whether the ship in Asteroids is blown to space dust or reincarnated as a jousting ostrich), but to discount it wholly smacks of, well, insincerity, if I must be so blunt.

(2) The biblical reference is an apt one, considering that the New Testament IS considered (by Christians) to be a better, updated version of belief–thus the reason they do not perform animal sacrifice or guilt their children into marrying a nice Jewish girl (<–here’s your chance to label me antisemitic if you can’t think of anything off the top of your head). Now, if you mean to tell me that most devout Christians fully understand the Old Testament, I would ask you (assuming you count yourself among them) to explain the biblical wisdom in chopping up your dead wife after sending her out to be gang-raped in your stead (Judges 19:22-29). How have you applied this Christian value to your life? Also, why are Christians, theologians, and damn near everyone else in disagreement about the Old Testament if they understand it so well? (And please note that despite the lack of agreement, they still teach it–perhaps there is a lesson in this?)

Let’s see…I think I’ll skip the “your mom” statements that usually get thrown around in these situations and just go into what I disagree with. I assure you my childhood is very much alive. I still read comic books (although not just superhero titles). I still play board games (yes, even the ones I enjoyed as a child). And I still play video games (I enjoy strategy games and RPGs as much now as a I did then).

Please reread the part about me enjoying Dragon’s Lair and wishing they would update and re-release Mail-Order Monsters. Just because Donkey Kong no longer gives me a prepubescent boner hardly means I’ve died inside and have no soul.

Hmm…I think we’re at the part where I have to close by insulting your intelligence in as clever a way as I can. Well, let’s get it over with.

I never said I don’t understand the retro aspect of gaming. I don’t understand the overall retro gaming craze–why people buy into the hype and feel compelled to purchase collections of games just because they were the games of their youth. I understand why those of my generation found them fun then. I don’t understand how they can find them to be fun now, but that is just my opinion–just as I am sure you wouldn’t understand the appeal of some of my hobbies, such as reading.

(Note: I do not really think you are an ignoramus. It is merely the protocols of the Geneva and Hague Conventions of Modern Flame War that require me to insult you thus. Thanks for the response. Sorry we don’t see eye-to-eye, but that’s life.)

To be frank, I don’t completely agree with the article either, but I see where he’s coming from, and he definitely knows what he’s talking about.

Personally I find games that mix up that old school arcade flavor with new gaming technology to be the most fun, plus some of them are pretty difficult (Team Fortress 2, Street Fighter IV).

The thing is, I think “retro gaming,” as it apparently has been titled has a time and a place. I would say the time is occasionally, and the place is in compilations, bonus content and novelty products. A child of the nineties, my first exposure to video games was the Sega Genesis. I still have one, and pull it out at least a couple times a year. The thing is, I think the fact that I can milk so much enjoyment out of the system even today, is that when I bought it, I paid a lot of money for it, and it was the best there was. Ecco Junior cost me back just as much as Fallout 3 would when it came out, but now that it’s been out a few months, it’s even cheaper.

That’s right, kids. When I was your age, if I wanted to pour 6 hours straight into a game, I could do it with the Lion King for SNES, and I would like it. None of your fancy-pants 3D graphics, or stupid save files for me!

A few years back, I bought an Atari collection for the Dreamcast out of a bargain bin for $10. Was it worth it? certainly! I logged a fair amount of time with it. Would it have been worth the $50 you would normally pay for a Dreamcast game? Probably not. Would I pay even the $10 for Warlords, my favorite game on the compilation? Absolutely not! That would be a total ripoff. Nowadays, that wouldn’t keep me entertained long enough to make it even close to worth it. Had I bought the game when you had to pay the full price of an Atari cartridge to play the game, however, I probably would have felt differently.

Finally, I like the idea of Megaman 9. I don’t own it, but it’s a fun concept, and I’m told it’s fun to play. But that’s because it’s a novelty. After it’s relative success, it seems a lot of companies are rushing to make “new retro games,” but I’ll tell you right now, that will kill it. If there are too many games in a retro style coming out, than they will stop being retro, and start just being games, and people will realize that there are better ones out there.

…That was way longer and way more rambling than I intended. Oh well.

For the new setup for our show, I mix everybody live on the fly and then just send the output to the line-in on my laptop. My laptop just functions like an expensive voice-recorder at that point, so for that kind of basic recording, I use Sony’s Sound Forge software. I’ve been using Sound Forge since version 4 back in the 90’s for tons of various editing applications. As a stand-alone editor, it’s great, especially if I’m working with samples for a remix or some project I’m doing in Acid. The biggest thing for this show, though, is that even though it takes a little longer to bounce down 30 minutes of uncompressed audio to an mp3, it’s stable and reliable, so I use it to record DK.

For production, I’ve been using Adobe Audition. It’s a multi-track editor where I can cut together the news segments, mix the music in for the show, apply compression and minor EQ tweaks if I need to, and basically just put the whole damn thing together. Once I export the final mp3 from Audition, I just change the file name and some basic tag info and upload it to the site.

In a perfect world, I’d be recording everybody to their own track in Pro Tools so I can tweak everything in post instead of mixing on the fly, but mixing on the fly is cheaper and I had some experience mixing a live sound board growing up, so Pro Tools (or Digital Performer, if you prefer) will have to wait.

The worst? Audacity. Fuck free audio software. I’ll never go back.

- Switch

Zeus: I felt bad for you, it sounded like you needed a lozenge the entire second half of the show. I hope you’re feeling better =)

Tayo: I respect your opinion for Joss Whedon, though I have to disagree. The manner in which you presented your argument made it sound as if you were insulting his career via only one of his works. I agree, Buffy was a mediocre series as best, and the casting could’ve been better, though you cannot insult a man’s work just for one of his pieces. That would be like Zeus saying she hates Will Wright just because of The Sims Pets. Joss Whedon has come out with several great works since then, such as Firefly, Dollhouse, Serenity, and my all time favorite movie/musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. They have all been fantastic productions, and yes, they have had climaxes without the need of a sexual medium. Well, that’s my rant for this week. Tayo, you can call me a Joss Whedon fanboy all you want, and I won’t mind. I just wanted to voice my opinion.

It shouldn’t matter if you’re playing Xbox or PC (I hated the PC interface for KOTOR, so I switched after the first level), the guides should be identical.

Anyway, the work is good, albeit slow, so keep it up.

Especially now that LOST is done for this season, hopefully I can get Mike to talk about something else …

That’s my take on it, at least. Don’t agree with me, but I had to get that off my chest.

”I’d Say Something Like, How Old Are You? 7?! But… You Are :)”

Also, Zeus Is Crazy. And She’s Probably The Most Explicit Kid

But I Keep On Losing My Chickens, But The Ladies Love Me!

Of ”Most Commented User On Site Thus Far xD”

You Gotta Give Props To Mike Though, Otherwise, I wouldnt Of Found DK.

Is Anyone Going To Video It? DK Should Have A Youtube Profile.

1) Title Has The Word ”Fuck” In It
2) In The First Paragraph, My Eyes Caught The Words ”jiggling boobs” And ”Bikini Zombie Slayers”

Also, By Now Im Not Sure If Anyone In DK Has Got Madworld, I Havent But It Looks Sweet!

I Didnt Say YOU Were A Clown.

But Clowns Freak Me Out….

And They Look Homo LOL.

Also, Am I Your 4th Listener?

I have some folks working on it, though, and that’s the best I can ask them for right now.

At least not since college.

Not to sound like a broken record, but great job on Sunday…I look forward to having you on again.

Thanks again, Sinan. Can’t wait to do another BRP down the road.

A URL, then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnkefjCES-4

Now you can add one more to your listeners list!

And if you ever find yourself up in the Tacoma/Seattle area, I’m sure we could put together a video on the fly.

When/if you ever get back down here, we should talk about doing some video stuff. We have lots of ideas and no camera.

However, in light of your constant references on how few listeners you have, I’m curious - do you actually *know* how many people are listening? Are you tracking that in some manner?

Anyhoo, I’m really enjoying listening to you guys. Makes me miss Oregon a lot, but that’ll happen. Keep ‘em coming, and I’ll do my bit and try to spread the Gospel of The Dangerous Kids. Or, uh…something like that.

If you accept that we have to pay taxes, and that Michigan (at some point) chose sales taxes instead of real estate taxes or income taxes or some other method…then isn’t it natural that sales tax has to follow consumer trends?

If people are spending a greater amount of money online, and those same people have chosen to fund their state through sales tax, isn’t it logical to tax online sales?

You know … like a squirrel.