Couchcast 59 – Stupid Gets A Kick

Posted on | July 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

Created from a lab discovered in a basement under our villa, this week’s Couchcast gives a 1,2,5 punch to the solar-powered plexus. It all starts off with the horrible TV shows we still wanna see on DVD. We only think they’re great because we haven’t seen them in years. From there we go on to talk about Comic-Con, Batman Engrish, the madness of King Lee, The madness of fool Phelps, Y the last bathhouse, 8 minutes(!), Darth Vader gets kicked out of the 501st, Bruce Banner gets kicked out of the Hulk, Pekar gets kicked out of life, Tron cares about it’s script, Robocop vs. Dexter, D23’s film festival, James Cameron’s cash festival, Kevin’s bacon powers, when we get to walk on the Boardwalk Empire, zombiewalk…out of a wrecked car, play MMO and win a sex doll, when I think games-I think Macy’s, the FCC’s f&#king decision, and Deadpool gets maxed out. So, join the Whiz Kids on the Phoenix as the Voyagers head to the Saturday Supercade… you Manimal, you.

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Fail: Star Trek Online

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

“If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.”

I first heard those words when I complained of being bored in history class in middle school. Being a child of such fortunate circumstance to have been blessed with sharp wits at an early age, those words sunk in and I passed that class with an A. I have always tried to learn the easy way, allowing those that came before to learn through toil and trial and pass on their hard won knowledge to me so that I would not have to waste time and effort doing it. This is an obvious and effective means of education; the concept that we do not have to keep reinventing the wheel with every passing generation.

Yet it seems that some game developers cannot learn from the past. Games that are rushed have problems. Content that is rushed will be buggy and untested. And gamers, as a whole, are not stupid. I point to the brutally obvious example of Star Wars Galaxies to illustrate this point. Even developers of that game have come forward to admit mistakes were made on an epic scale. There are numerous blogs and news articles detailing why that game failed so miserably. Their words, apparently, have fallen on deaf ears.

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CouchCast 31 – The Wangus Tree

Posted on | December 22, 2009 | No Comments

It’s almost christmastime here at the the Ugly Couch Show, and CouchCast 31 delivers like a drunken Santa all hopped up on bennies and cough syrup! We talk about Grant Morrison’s biopic, one-more-turn-itis, geeky christmas ornaments, nintendo’s next console, playstation network, age of conan and mmo subscriptions, paranormal activity’s iphone comic, zombie roadkill on fearnet, paul reubens (pee-wee herman) and the pee-wee’s playhouse movie, a sequel to batman: arkham asylum, the marvel universe, frank miller’s xerxes, damn nation, sigourney weaver spilling the beans about ghostbusters 3, avatar, twilight moms, and more!

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