At the Buzzer (02/16/12)
Episode 32: 1st Anniversary Special — The guys celebrate their first year of existence with returning guest Jason Hagerty, vomit up a bacon milkshake, and introduce a new segment with a dumb name. Also, Chris becomes the all-time champion, Dave … Continue reading At the Buzzer (02/16/12)
Cereal Wars part 2
Last week the first 2 rounds of the quest to determine the best cereal of all time happened, and now today, we decide the best breakfast treat to start your day right! For a recap, click on this link, otherwise, let’s dive right in.
Going the Distance 015: A Vicious Cycle
I’m dealing with some family stuff this week, so we’re digging into the old GTD archives to look at some of the classics. Notice how bad the art is, even by our standards. In Going the Distance, our main character, “You,” has to manage to make his way to delicious cake. Sounds simple, right? But there are deadly spikes to deal with, and a host of other problems that appear each time. Let’s just say You fails more often than You succeeds. After all, it wouldn’t be much of a quest if You could just get cake whenever You … Continue reading Going the Distance 015: A Vicious Cycle
At the Buzzer Focus Group
This week marks the one-year anniversary of At the Buzzer’s first episode.
It’s kinda surprising to look back and see that much ground behind us. That first episode (which was terrible, by the way) ended up leading into 30 more over the course of 12 months. More importantly, the quality and regularity got much better.
As we’ve continued to put up more shows, we’ve started getting a variety of letters and comments from listeners. All things considered, I’m appreciative of anyone who takes the time to do something with ATB, whether that means simply listening in or sending us something for Buzz In.
Still, we’re always looking to improve. With that in mind, I’m using the time after our first year of business to ask for something more. Consider it a survey of sorts, a poor man’s focus group, where you tell us what you like and don’t like in the show. Your input has made a difference before. For example, the intro used to be twice as long before folks said “hey, that’s dumb and you’re dumb.” But this is on a much bigger scale.
So I’m asking fans of the show to take a few minutes and respond to this questionnaire. If you’re diligent, you can answer every question. If you’re less familiar with the program or you’re leaving for a hot date in a few minutes, you can answer only the ones you feel strongly about. Or you can give some kid a dollar and let him mash on the keys for a while.
Once you’re done, you can submit your feedback in two different ways:
- To our inbox at mail@atthebuzzershow.com
- As a comment on this post (use the box below)
Your test begins … now. Continue reading “At the Buzzer Focus Group”
Review: Katawa Shoujo; or how I stopped worrying and learned to love disabled girls
**I’m gonna start this blog off by giving you all fair warning that the game I’m about to “review” most certainly crosses into NSFW territory. Although the content of this blog does not, Google searching this game and clicking some of the following links could very well be a trap.**
Katawa Shoujo, or Disability Girls, is a game/visual novel centered around a young man with a heart condition who finds himself at a school for the disabled that just so happens to be filled with cute, single girls. If that sounds like the setup for a bad porno or some kind of webcomic you’d find on 4chan, then you aren’t all that wrong.
Produced by 4 Leaf Studios, Katawa Shoujo does indeed find its origins on 4chan (/a/ in particular) where a thread popped up featuring the artwork of one RAITA. The piece featured all the building blocks for a dating game involving a private school for the disabled, and started quite a wave of interest in the subject. Of course, this kind of thing isn’t all that surprising to see on the Internet. Although surprisingly, from what I understand, this push for disabled and crippled girl content was actually urged on after a thread on /b/ featured the touching tale of a nurse at a nursing home doing his best to take care of a 7-year-old girl that had recently come under his care after having lost her family (and most of her limbs, plus an eye) in a terrible car accident. Kotaku posted a slightly more detailed history of all this on their site a little while back, for those interested in their article it’s here.
Regardless of its origins, though, the most important thing to remember about Katawa Shoujo is that it’s a game that would never have seen the light of day had it not been for the Internet. Now I don’t mean that in a “the web helped them put it together” kinda way that almost any project could claim these days. I mean it in the sort of “this game was developed and put together by people from many different locations all around the world without ever getting together in the fashion an typical game studio would” kinda way. This game is a shining example of the kind of quality projects that can only just now be made in this day and age. Continue reading “Review: Katawa Shoujo; or how I stopped worrying and learned to love disabled girls”
Lebanon
1. It’s not that I hate dancing, there are just things I would rather do. Like drink poison. In all seriousness, I’m just not that good at it. So that’s why the dancing in Lebanon is so perfect for me; as opposed to American dancing, where I can just blend in to the mass of incoherent writhing bodies, the most popular Lebanese dance, the Dubke, is set up as a circle. This way, every single person has an angle on just how bad I’m botching the steps and struggling for rhythm. I don’t dance with two left feet; it’s more like one left foot, and one horribly mangled left foot.
2. The toilets flush differently. Could be a European thing. I’ll check into it and get back to you on that one. Continue reading “Lebanon”
At the Buzzer (02/09/12)
Episode 31: Valentine’s Day Special — The guys focus on love, relationships, how girls are traitors, and do a Buzzcut with Valentine’s-specific top three lists — all with the help of special guest Gary Sundt. Also, Chris delivers a serious … Continue reading At the Buzzer (02/09/12)
Cereal Wars
Growing up, I was always told my commercials that certain cereals were “part of a complete and balanced breakfast.”
That quote confused the hell out of me. My complete and balanced breakfast didn’t include cereal, milk, orange juice, toast, and eggs. Mine included about 3 bowls of some sort of sugary cereal. Cyclical as things are, as I get older I’m finding myself eating cereal again in the morning…and in the evening when I don’t feel like cooking.
So the obvious question now is: which cereal is the best? Since I broke down the best dunks of all time last week, I shall now break down the best things to dunk your spoon into this week. However, this time, I’m going tournament style. Continue reading “Cereal Wars”
Going the Distance 014: A Sheepish Joke
That’s right, folks. It really is that simple. In Going the Distance, our main character, “You,” has to manage to make his way to delicious cake. Sounds simple, right? But there are deadly spikes to deal with, and a host of other problems that appear each time. Let’s just say You fails more often than You succeeds. After all, it wouldn’t be much of a quest if You could just get cake whenever You wanted, would it? For more background on the comic or info on how to submit your own ideas, click here. Continue reading Going the Distance 014: A Sheepish Joke
Adventures in Video
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: We played golf in Phoenix this past weekend.
No, wait, don’t go! There’s a new twist this time: We took the opportunity to test out some video! Ooooooo, multimedia.
See, you can never have enough content for the show. Radio’s fun and all, but shooting some footage and uploading it to YouTube is easier than ever. So now you get our usual banter and nonsense mixed with ocular enjoyment. And it never hurts to put a face to the voice.
Here are the videos from this weekend. It’s like a test run. There’s also some more notes after the jump for those who may be interested. And to top it all off, the Photos page has been updated too.
