Mafia Podcast! - Page 24

On March 23 2013 01:46 Mocsta wrote:

yes I can imagine that

its funny, like i obviously dont know any of you guys

but in many ways, having played so many games together etc, you get a real good feel for someones personality.

its surprising to me, cos im normally a body language and tone reader. you have none of that in this medium (other than perceived tone)

On March 23 2013 01:51 Vivax wrote:
Lol now yamato made me really curious.
Do you like...feet?

On March 22 2013 23:08 VisceraEyes wrote:
I see both sides of the argument (rotating, individually driven casts vs. core set of casters with rotating guests).

Here's my opinion.

There should probably be both types of casts. The fact of the matter is that a lot of different people play here with a lot of different experiences and thoughts. And to limit WHO is on the show by saying "Oh well we only have the one guest slot" is too limiting a factor in my opinion. Take this Nomination cast for instance. I wanted to be present for the Nomination discussion, as I said I also wanted GM to be there and yamato said he also wanted to do it. Would the three of us be able to come onto a regular cast with DocH/Hapa/BH/Kurumi? That's seven people! We'd never get anything done!

Now, if you don't care about Nomination or think covering individual games is not interesting, that's one thing. But I like the idea of occasionally covering a game that has recently finished. First of all, anyone who listens to the podcast is going to be summarily familiar with any recently completed games. That's a generalization, but one that I feel is relatively accurate. But because of this, recently completed games serves as a "tying together" of players who wouldn't necessarily have much in common and give them a common ground for discussion.

I understand the want for nostalgia in the form of talking about old games (Kurumi and DocH in particular seemed to enjoy discussions of games long past) and I don't think it should be avoided outright - but as far as making it a regular segment, I think it's too narrow of a topic unless we're like...intending to analyze an old game or something.

But I digress. The point is, because I feel like recently completed games give us a platform to analyze and examine play, it makes the most sense to me to have players FROM those games on to talk about their experience in the game. Does this mean it should be the only format? Negative, but I think if we decide to talk about a specific game, it makes sense to me to have a player or 2 or the host or both come on and talk about it.

For what it's worth, I agree that there needs to be a core set of casters, a minimum of 2, who are on every show. There needs to be a flow to the show, and there needs to be someone in charge of maintaining that flow, or every show is going to be 2+ hours long. Not that I'm AGAINST a long cast, but I feel like 1 hour is optimal in most circumstances.

On March 23 2013 01:50 marvellosity wrote:


For that reason, I think you'd be quite surprised about people ^^

On March 23 2013 00:18 WaveofShadow wrote:
Alright so as one of the 'Casting Golems,' I (think I) actually have a decent amount of experience involved in casting and trying to make things interesting, as well as attempting to prod answers and analysis out of those who aren't as....animated.

If you guys would have me every so often (I'm still pretty new so I don't know how receptive you guys would be) I could try to help out, maybe if you're doing a game I was involved in, or I could help in terms of hosting/advice...? A lot of people made excellent points so far; personally I believe that having one or two hosts and bringing in one or two other people per show is probably the best way of doing things; you'd ideally want the most outspoken and charismatic people to be the hosts. I understand the rationale for getting a bunch of different people to do a game analysis though---you guys may not have to choose ultimately, but I think the one where 4-5 people from a game talk about their game is less suited to a weekly format if you want it to be professional, and have a real flow to the show.

The only issue would be I definitely would not be able to commit to any sort of a weekly thing; I'd only be available sporadically, though the month of April will be much better for me than anything in the next couple weeks. I'd love to do a [V] game at some point as well; there's no reason why that kind of episode couldn't fit into the format I think is ideal for a special episode or something.


Sorry for rambling, just throwing some ideas and thoughts out there. Really enjoyed the last one, probably has to be shorter overall imo.

On March 23 2013 02:42 Vivax wrote:
Would be fun to hear estimations of people's outside personalities.
Or maybe not. I'll give it a try.

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On January 16 2013 01:39 gonzaw wrote:


Why was he modkilled?
I wanted him to show us his Keynesian analysis of the momentum of the Prius force determined by the Cornoullie principle applied to inter-social relationships in an informed minority game!

On January 16 2013 01:46 marvellosity wrote:
gonzaw dear...

On March 23 2013 02:42 Vivax wrote:
Would be fun to hear estimations of people's outside personalities.
Or maybe not. I'll give it a try.

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On March 23 2013 03:40 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
We should just have a mafia lounge thread for off-topic discussion since the TL community at large kinda stinks