Spelchek: alright you guys welcome back to particular, this is episode 15 I am Spelchek and filling in for foo mo jive we have…
Decidus: Decidus, how’s it going everybody?
Spelchek: thank you for coming in and Decidus and we really appreciate it
Decidus: oh, well then I’m happy to be here anytime
Spelchek: this is like the second day you’ve had to fill in; you’re like the official fill in
Decidus: I know I’m just the guy you call and, you know you gotta do something.
Spelchek: well as some of you may know Decidus is the lead person for podtacular TV, podtacular TV is an amazing project that currently is coming along very well
Decidus: ya, ya it certainly is coming along, um yah podtacular TV, it’s coming along great, now I’ve got allot to tell you about that a little later.
Spelchek: All right, we’re looking forward to it. Um, so as you can probably tell the site’s been redesigned, so it’s pretty cool, been up there for a while now, but the NEW version, podtacular.com version 2.0 coming along really well, I’ve seen it myself it is some great, great stuff, it is some great stuff, we’re really privileged to have those guys over there doing, we’ve got Kap’NKrunk, and all those guys that I don’t know all they’re names yet, I think paradox is another one.
Decidus: although they’ll be famous soon.
Spelchek: ya they’ll be famous, they are so cool they’re cool guys… COOL… cool guys, and I really wish I could think of them al by name
Decidus: ya, that’s unfortunate, but it’s ok, we respect them.
Spelchek [whispering]: I don’t, I don’t know them… all by name, [not whispering] all I know is paradox and Kap’nKrunk, that’s all I know.
Decidus: well we’ll make them stars
Spelchek: yes, we’ll make them stars
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Spelchek: MOVING ON
Decidus: ya, moving on, we have the new podtacular store available at www.podtacular.com click on the store tab which is the last tab on the right, and over there you can see all our designs for shirts you can get, there’s a black one that has the podtacular logo on the front, we have a hoodie, we have just a butt-load of good stu-swag, good swag.
Decidus: get in there and buy some
Spelchek: ya buy some swag
Decidus: you guys asked for it now here it is.
Spelchek: you can buy our swag, anyways we also have the tournament coming up, and I want to mention that the podtacular all-stars beat clan Okinawa the other day, they won 2-0, they were gonna do three matches, they were gonna do a slayer, a CTF and an assault, but the all-stars beat ‘em before they got to assault so.
Decidus: way to go all-stars, way to represent, definitely, we’re proud of you boys, good work
Spelchek: we are very proud, but the podtacular tournament, this just keeps getting pushed back farther and farther, but it’s, you can still sign up over at podtacular.com click on the forums, and you will be redirected to our bungie group and you can use the forums to sign up. But it’s going to be platoon based so you need to find four other buddies from you’re clan, if you’re not in a clan we are getting to you, I have a whole bunch of clan invites that I need to send tonight, um, but we are getting to you, don’t think that just because we haven’t gotten it out yet we don’t care about it, we will get you, promise.
Decidus: we’re on the way
Spelchek: it’s just that we have so many, we will get to you guys, I promise, in fact I might not even make it, I’ll like to the guys about it but, about making the, about being part of a clan not a requirement for the tournament, but it really helps.
Decidus: definitely, definitely
Spelchek: um, hm, not a whole lot has been happening in halo land my friends, not a lots been happening.
Decidus: a little slow
Spelchek: a little slow, but I think hat if you care about halo land you will notice that the leader boards are gone
Decidus: good-bye
Spelchek: not gonna miss them
Decidus: no, so all those dirty rank whores, boosters, madders, cheater and you know other scum bags that you know pretty much polluted the leader boards you know, that were efficiently becoming a list of Americas idiots…
Spelchek: no, international idiots, international
Decidus: you’ve got a point, good point, I’m sure I’ve gotten cheated on by international folk.
Spelchek: I got cheated at by a Spaniards, and a frog, which is French, um nobody from Istanbul yet.
Decidus: no they’re very honest people in Istanbul
Spelchek: they are honest people, you gotta love those istans.
Decidus: except they’re from turkey, so they’re Turkish.
Spelchek: Turkish, ya that’s the ones, istanbulians, they’re my favorites. But they were, there are some people who were genuinely brilliant, um you know, we offer our utmost condolences, but uh, to the rest of you all, SCREW YOU.
Decidus: yah good it’s about time they got a little less exposure and a little more education.
Spelchek: yah, ya tough, enjoy you’re hard earned anononim, no anaminimity.
Decidus: exactly enjoy it.
Spelchek: ya foo moo and I used to play a little game called “find the legit player†a couple weeks you know, is there an even number or an odd number, we’d out down like 20 bucks.
I’m just kidding, but it was bad, it was really that bad
Decidus: the leader boards have been a joke since day one, it’s sad but it’s good to see them going away, not giving any attention to these losers.
Spelchek: most DEFINITELY, but there have been a couple halo stories that were unrelated to the game play, like the DOA4 mention of halo, allot of buzz about that, do you know anything about this Decidus?
Decidus: I know a little bit I hear there’s a female Spartan creeping in there.
Spelchek: ya, female Spartan, codename Spartan 458, so not the master but the.
Decidus: I don’t know how you’ll be able to tell the difference with the armor, but maybe she’ll be pin or something.
Spelchek: I don’t know I’ve seen some female Spartans, and they’re pretty nice.
Decidus: ah, yes
Spelchek: inside joke you guys inside joke, you’ll get it when podtv comes out, don’t worry.
Decidus: they’re all gonna be very happy.
Spelchek: now everybody’s going oooouuuuu, but a, I don’t wan to leak anything more than I have to
Decidus: ya speaking of leak, who, I don’t know how that got out there, but it did.
Spelchek: oh, who did that?
Decidus : I have no idea
Spelchek: well, if I find them, I will shake they’re hand.
Decidus: excellent, excellent
Spelchek: but really have you seen how many hits that are Decidus man, it’s getting like 1200 hits.
Decidus: I have, you now and I guess that this is as good as any to let you now about podtacular TV, and how it’s coming along, for anybody who hasn’t seen the trailer yet, why don’t you tell them al about it Spelchek.
Spelchek: pan up on darkness, man with a gun runs forward, this is very dramatic by the way, I’m trying to be dramatic
Decidus : oh ya, it’s very intense
Spelchek: the man with a gun runs forward and then goes BUN-dun-dun-un-ununununun. It’s cool, so then the man with the gun, he’s still running forward, and like it pans across his face and then you see him just standing there, and then it’s like zooming around and then you see like a full body shit, and he’s like shooting bullets OH shooting bullets now, and then you see a full body shot, and you zoom in on his face and then he’s like “podtacular TV.†and then you see these other guys like blue guy and you see like one of those things on hat cold place, you know like the little purple box that like blows up and you see him with the rockets and he’s like BR-hmhmhm and it’s like “tactics strategies podtacular TV and moreâ€
Decidus: it’s all that and more
Spelchek: it’s that and more, but cooler cause you can watch it.
Decidus: exactly, it’s like podtacular except like cerebral; it’s in your face. So here’s a run down about what’s happening with podtacular TV, something that everybody has to understand about what we’re doing here is that it’s a little different from the pod cast. Anything involved with the video out, when you want to make something like that on-power with the quality of podtacular, it needs to exude those qualities, TV shows usually get months and months of prep work before they come out, now I know we’re not quite on that scale, but that’s something we’ve been lacking from the start, so I really came up with a new way to handle this, u I think this is the first time, I know it’s the first time it’s been done with machinima, but I’m sure it might be the first time it’s been done with any video production, so letting you guys know about the hot podtacular tv.b which is a beta, essentially, I’m sure you’ve all heard of this process, we’re gonna have a forum on the new site where everybody’s just gonna come in and post they’re ideas, on the show, how we’re doing what we’re doing. It’s going to be a community show and essentially we’re going to build it up from a foundation of what you guys want to see, and then we’ll make it happen for you.
Spelchek: cool
Decidus: so obviously I can’t take every bodies idea, some ideas are gonna suck, some ideas are gonna be great, a lot of my ideas suck so that’s why I’m trying to source it from everybody, and I’m hoping that at the end of this we’re gonna get a good solid group of people that we’re gonna work with every week. And get out some great stuff for you guys.
Spelchek: yah, Decidus you know, you became famous for your good old rants.
Decidus: oh the rants
Spelchek: you wouldn’t happen to be able to crank one out right now would you?
Decidus: crank out a rant, well I suppose I could do something like that…
Spelchek: queue music
[Recording of Decidus]
And again for your podtacular rant featuring Decidus, this week’s topic: screamers and potty-mouth kids take it away Spelchek.
Spelchek [still the recording]: AAAAAAA AAAAA
Decidus: what you just heard was probably the most horrendous words you will ever hear over Xbox live. Walking around, doing your thing, having a perfectly civilized game, when the head-shot on the noob next to you prompts the most horrifying scream from a six-year old goat I’ve ever head in my life, as with most of you I don’t understand the constant barrage of filthy language complemented by crushing insults you and your mother, but guess what children not only do I not care what you think of my mother, I don’t care about you or what you have to say, so talk to you’re own mother, and ask her to tech you some manners, and then have her punch you in the face. Until next week this is Decidus and this is the podtacular rant
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Decidus: alright fellas there’s a live rant this week
Spelchek: alright, thank you so much Decidus
Decidus: anytime, I’m hoping soon I’ll be able to make it a weekly feature
Spelchek: yes, I remember those were some good old days, those back episodes.
Decidus: seems like so long go.
Spelchek: the last week we had to cut out this one cause of the major nelson, aw man I wish we could have him on the show again: he was so cool.
Decidus: I think he was a good guy; I enjoyed listening to him talk.
Spelchek: you find some clear answers about the Xbox 360
Decidus: exactly, so you heard it first on podtacular
Spelchek but as you can probably tell, it sounds like it was a while back considering we’re up to episode 15, but it’s really cause we had switched over from a mores show format you get three shows a week, and the reason we do that is not because it’s you’re convenience, it’s for our convenience, um, everything pretty much comes down to the point where it’s less downloads per week pretty much. Actually it makes it easier for you because it’s a smaller download per show.
Decidus: exactly, and he’s able to produce much higher quality material.
Spelchek: exactly I can put out a higher quality show in a half-hour show than in an hour and a half show, so it’s benefiting you; I know that a lot of you are really unsatisfied. I know allot of you are really unsatisfied with the one show, you like having one show, but think of it this way, do you want a show at all.
Decidus: exactly
Spelchek: and really the biggest thing, and what it comes down to is the fact that we’re not gonna do, we have one voicemail this week, I’m dead serious you guys, so call our listener voicemail 206-888-HALO, we really need your voicemails this week, we have one voicemail.
Decidus: come on guys, help us out.
Spelchek yah, call us up 206-888-HALO, 206-888-4256. I know the number now I called it so much. Another thing I wanted to mention was that we have a friend of the show, he made a halo table. And I know you’re saying, halo table, what is that. He made a table, well actually he took a glass table, like the type where you can put pictures or sand or whatever for a beach themed table, and you know what I mean. That kind of junk.
Decidus: yah I know what you’re talking about
Spelchek: well he filled it with sand and dirt, but he didn’t put seashells and pictures in it, he put in ghosts and Spartans to make it look like the ultimate halo table.
Decidus: wow, big shout out to that guy.
Spelchek: yah I don’t have his name right here, with me right now.
Decidus: I think he knows who he is.
Spelchek: oh its walking nightmare W-L-K-N-G_N-G-H-T-M-R-E, he did it for his welding class. He couldn’t decide what he was gonna do for his final project so he sat around demolishing everyone at halo 2, and was like OH, a good TV stand. So he made the table from scratch, he actually put lighting in the table.
Decidus: oh my
Spelchek: and put a little tiny war, and he has a total of 3 warthogs, 1 wrecked and battle damaged though.
Decidus: poor warthog.
Spelchek: 1 ghost, 20 Spartans.
Decidus: twenty Spartans
Spelchek: and a banshee flying over the table itself, and you can check a link on the site and get some links to go see some pictures.
Decidus: ya, check it out in the show notes.
Spelchek: picture, and there’s even some BRs hanging around the map.
Decidus: I’m looking at it right now it’s actually really neat.
Spelchek: ya it is, actually pretty sweet, pretty sweet
Decidus: never underestimate the creativity of halo 2 players.
Spelchek: pretty sweet, the ghost, I had never seen the toy ghost before, that was a nice little addition to the table.
Decidus: definitely, alright so we just gave about twelve minutes for the table, it’s a nice table.
Spelchek: ya, but anyway we have to jump into some web resources here. Halounder.blogspot.com, don’t know if you guys had known this but far cry instincts is available, I just thought of this like ten minutes ago, but far cry instincts, the Xbox version of the popular pc game, that is apparently amazing, it’s like awesome from all the stuff I’ve seen.
Decidus: that’s what I heard
Spelchek: but I haven’t had a chance to play it because I’m running like a really crummy computer, but, it seems really cool, and in the game you have the ability to actually male you’re own maps and even send them to your friends via Xbox live.
Decidus: wow that’s huge.
Spelchek: I know what you’re asking is how does this pertain to what I’m talking about right, well what this is they made some maps based on like backwash, and a couple other halo 2 maps, and I’m like boohoo.
Decidus: I’m ready to go
Spelchek: hey
Decidus: definitely get on, maybe check those out.
Spelchek: um they have a beaver creek, and they have a lockout map, and they have a backwash map so.
Decidus: excellent
Spelchek: and they said the map is exactly like it so if you want to get a hold of one of those maps you need to send these guys friend invites, and if you want to get their information you need to go over to halounder.blogspot.com
Decidus: where all your dreams come true.
Spelchek: ya
Decidus: definitely alright, coming up next we got… it’s really a stat tracking site, very similar to query spree if anybody has heard of it, which I’m sure everybody has.
Spelchek: oh I love query spree but I love that site even more, tell me more.
Decidus: ya it’s a halo2.junk.ws right now it’s a little tough to get on they’re only accepting a certain amount of people, I’m not on there, but you know keep trying, it looks like some of the best stat tracking tools out there, so a big shootout to those guys.
Spelchek: yes, actually I think it’s just one guy.
Decidus: one guys is doing all this?
Spelchek: as far as I’ve known
Decidus: wow, well big shout out to him.
Spelchek: but he writes in an Ajax and he does it all himself, I’m really amazed with it, he does a fantastical job. Anyways, halo2.junk.ws it’s a really good site, really good, he was starting to give out stuff for like forums and stuff, people are always bragging about their show and stuff. You can actually see you’re kill per death ratio, you’re kills average per death, you can see your beat-downs, you can see all you’re levels and some stuff. Some things are really basic, like they’ll show you’re picture, you’re highest rank, you’re gamer tag, and all, and it’s really cool. And I’ve already got my, my sigs and stuff up for the new forums over at the new podacular.com, but you just can’t see it yet. Cause…
Decidus: it’s a surprise
Spelchek: it’s a surprise, you guys are gonna flip, and the good flip.
Decidus: Gets a good solid form of community going… yah I don’t know what I’m saying.
Spelchek: but seriously it’s going to be amazing, I think you guys are really gonna like it.
Decidus: definitely, I don’t know anything about the praetoria guard video.
Spelchek: oh the praetoria guard, I’m I don’t know if you guys are familiar with praetoria guard, they’re probably the coolest clan ever.
Decidus: pretty much.
Spelchek: yah they are pretty amazing. If you haven’t ever heard of Praetorian Guard, I recommend you go over an check out their site which is at ptg.halo2webring.com or just search halo webringer.com, click on praetoria guard, they run the halo 2 cheaters site, I don’t know if you guys have heard of that.
Decidus: ya it’s a great site, I’m there allot.
Spelchek: they mark cheaters for every game they play, they also run the halo 2 customs website, I don’t know if you guys had heard of that one, it is a pretty good site, you can go see what the top game on there is right now, I thinks its ninja ctf or something.
Decidus: there you go, I don’t play a lot of custom games myself but…
Spelchek: it’s halo2 game types, their current top thing is ninja ctf so if you want to find out more information about praetoria guard check out the halo2webring.com or you can go to praetoriaguard.com and if you know the belise alphabet that’s papa, alpha, echo… oh who am I kidding I don’t know. So you’re listening to podtacular.
Decidus: we love you
Spelchek: we really do, we love you
Decidus: keep coming back you’re making us rich
Spelchek: you really are, no really but in all seriousness we want to thank you guys for dropping by today, as you can probably tell this is the shortest of the three pod casts, this is the podtacular update. On behalf of foo mo jive, who is in Jamaica, I am Spelchek.
Decidus: and this is Decidus
Spelchek: thanks for dropping by you guys, keep on fragging
Decidus: see you later guys.