ScytaleZero

Again, how would moving the off-topic conversations after the game content hurt the people who like that stuff? I listened to Bombcast for many years because I think the crew has a very honest and conversational way of talking about new games that give me a better handle on where to spend my money than just reading a review. I miss that since I have moved on. It's just too hard to skip through the stuff I don't care about for the stuff I do when I'm driving or exercising (my usual podcast consumption activities).

Why not make both camps happy by putting the game talk up front and the other stuff after some kind of jingle that lets me know when to stop listening?

I understand that lots of people love the non-gaming talk; I have no problem with that and don't want to take it away from you. But what would be so bad about having the game talk up front, and the non-game talk at the end? The current format is unusable to me because I don't want the OT stuff and it's too much work to skip through it interspersed. With a change to the structure, the Bombcast could very easily be valuable to both of us. I would just stop listening when they played the "game talk is done" jingle while you would continue on.

With minor effort on the part of the GB team, wouldn't that let us just all get along? What would be the drawback for people who like OT content? It doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

I'm a long-time fan who took the often quoted "quit listening" advice. I did send the crew an email with my thoughts before I did. Basically, I think it would be best if the off-topic stuff was at the end or in a separate podcast. I wouldn't want to deprive those who enjoy that stuff, but I got tired of hitting the skip button on my iPhone. I like the crew but they just aren't funny enough to make what Vinny had for Thanksgiving dinner entertaining to me. Maybe other people like that, and that's great, but I'd like the option to skip it and hear stuff mostly about games. If there's only 30 minutes of gaming news for a week then so be it. I'm only asking for a way to skip the stuff I don't care about - I don't want to take away the stuff you do care about.

So yeah, yeah "don't let the door hit you"; I'm already out. I only came to this thread because a friend pointed it out to me.

Thanks for the write-up; you answered several questions my wife and I had.

@BBQBram: But we have to make some concessions to be able to have any meaningful discussion or science. We can't really "prove" anything by inductive reasoning. We can, however, say "as far as we can tell, by consensus on observable evidence, in the absence of any future contrary discovery, this is how we think things are." And that's worked pretty well.

PoP 08 ... and I thought the ending was perfect.  I didn't buy the DLC because I had a feeling they would Hollywood it due to popular demand.

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My original attempt to sign up had a '+' in the email address.  Gmail supports that and it's handy for tagging and categorizing.  The signup dialog hung on me and now I can't access that username.  Requesting a password reminder also hangs.  That original attempt was under the username 'Scytale'.