brettchalupa

The Final Fantasy Gifting Saga had me cracking up. So dang good.

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The GOTY gunpla section definitely reminded me of the summer I tried gunpla before leaving for college. I never finished the larger RX-78-2, but I did enjoy what I built of it. That Exia was fun, but simpler. I can't remember the grades of each kit, but it was fun building them and using the markers to add details. I was never much into building as a kid, but I sure do think they look cool.

Wooh about an hour until it starts. I am really looking forward to GOTY with a full crew. I think a lot of the GB crew has different opinions and interests, and I always find the how can one person convince the rest of the group that their underdog game should make the list to be great. I think Patrick always did that well. Also, I am excited to see what the categories are going to be. That is always a highlight.

I am going to listen to the podcast first before watching the video/checking the list each day.

@jslack Awesome, thanks for the detailed info. I appreciate you looking into it!

This is awesome news. I am really glad to hear all of these games are coming out in NA. I really enjoyed Gods Eater Burst on the PSP, as the setting and aesthetic was more appealing to me than that of Monster Hunter's. I didn't play the JoJo game that was released on PS3, but I enjoy the series and would be interested in giving it a go. More Tales of games are a good thing. I really enjoyed the trailer, the main character looks cool. Also yay a Gundam game. It has been quite a while. Here's to hoping it is a solid one.

@jslack Thanks for a link to the docs. The docs say:

Tag values are limited to 255 characters, except for <itunes:summary>, which can be up to 4000 characters. Don’t add leading or trailing spaces to your values.

In the RSS feed the <itunes:summary> gets truncated as well even though it can be 4000 characters instead of 255 like the others. Could just that attribute in the generated XML not get truncated so that podcast apps can view the longer summary?

Edit: Also, for what it is worth, there is no <description> attribute in the iTunes spec. It looks like <itunes:subtitle> is used for the brief description. Maybe <description> does not need to get truncated as well?

Howdy there devs who work on Giant Bomb. A bug that I have noticed is that the episode description of podcasts in the RSS feed gets truncated, causing the description of the episode to be cut off when reading it in a podcast reader or RSS feed.

The RSS feed has the following attributes of the truncated description: "description", "itunes:subtitle", and "itunes:summary". I created a gist that specifically shows off what I am talking about in the XML. As far as I know, there is not a word or character count for podcast descriptions, but I could be wrong.

Here is an example from 12/15/2015's episode. The full description is:

As the holidays draw nigh, GameSpot's Mary Kish joins in for a chilly chat about Nintendo patents, produce rankings, Star Wars saturation, the long-awaited release of Nuclear Throne, smelly VR, Pokemon pooping, more foreign movie titles, and the perils of anonymous Tumblr asks.

The description in the XML is:

As the holidays draw nigh, GameSpot's Mary Kish joins in for a chilly chat about Nintendo patents, produce rankings, Star Wars saturation, the long-awaited release of Nuclear Throne, smelly VR, Pokemon pooping, more foreign movie titles, and the perils of

The last three words are missing. My armchair guess is that it gets truncated wherever the RSS feed gets generated based on word count.

For example, here is how the episode from 12/15/2015 looks in Pocket Casts.

Thank you, and I appreciate all the work that goes into making the site work!

My sad but true answer is "Nope, rarely or never." I am embarrassed about that answer because I want to try my best to at least beat the main story of the games I buy, but I often get bored or lose interest unless the game really hooks me. I also tend to be interested in and buy Japanese RPGs, which are almost always very long (20 hours+). Usually around hours 5~10 I start to lose interest. I am going to try my best to work through my backlog though!

I played for a bit last night and got to the point where the game starts to open up. The plot is pretty interesting for something that I thought was going to be not so great. I am getting some Pokemon vibes from the game, which is not a bad thing. The way the 3D world works looks like Pokemon, and the villain organization reminds me of Team Rocket. The mech building is quite fun. The battle/combat is somewhat fun, but I am hoping that it gets deeper. You basically just mash the attack button and can change weapons.

I downloaded Xeodrifter and Super Time Force since they are free on PS+ for NA. I played Xeodrifter on the 3DS, and I am curious to see how it feels on the Vita. I have not yet played Super Time Force, but it looks neat.

I am very excited for Persona 4: Dancing All Night. The Persona 4 OST is so good!