Best … Podcast … Ever … and not just because I was in it.

Is that what I sound like on podcast? Ugh! I think I much prefer to hear Viv read my words than hear myself fumbling them. *grin*

Thanks for the vocal kudos. I ‘am’ a trained military journalist, after all. Your tax dollars at work. I recorded it using the shareware program Goldwave and a headset microphone.

Thanks for the advice on podiobooks. I’ve been busy rewriting some superhero fiction and I will certainly take you up on your offer to be characters.

I liked hearing how you guys manage your enhancements. I waited until level 12 to slot enhancements into ‘The Psight’, and I really didn’t see any negative effects on gameplay. At low levels, the enhancements just don’t seem to help that much, so why waste the influence? I will always slot Accuracy first on an attack power. The way I see it, who cares how much damage you can do if you can’t hit the little buggers!

I remember the fast-talking guy on from the Micro-Machine commercials! His name is John ‘Motormouth’ Moschitta (Moe-Sheeta) Junior and he also did the voice of Blurr in the original Transformers animated movie. He has also recently reprised that role in the new ‘Transformers: Animated’ series. He’s credited as being one of the world’s fastest takers. And now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

IRC would be great! I’m in Japan, so I’m severely disconnected from everyone else’s time zone. But I’m up early most mornings, which is late afternoon on the East Coast. It would be cool to chat with some Pod Caste members in real time!

I have not tried Puzzle Quest either, but some other fun mini-games I enjoy include RocketBowl, Airport Mania, Pizza Frenzy, Chuzzle, Peggle and Fashion Solitaire (Viv, you might really like this one).

Fear the wrath of Pod Kong, the evil iTunes monkey! All your bananas are belong to him.

BTW: ‘Bulbous Bouffant’ is a comedy sketch/song by Radio Free Vestibule. You can hear it on YouTube. (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNZfQcSf4U)

Fun Recipes: Try stuffed bell peppers with layers of cheese like lasagna. Made it just the other night and it was delicious! This inspired me to create my latest alt: Bella Pepper - Sonic/Fire Blaster.

-Write on!

Just finished listening to the podcast on my way home, loved the fact that you’re going to do a large segment on the Shard, one of my favorite places.

I’ll start doing IO set research for a submission…

I’m really looking forward to seeing and buying a CoH Podcast T-shirt to show off to all my friend. Does the company you’re using allow individual customization of the shirts? I think it would be cool to have my Podcast name or even a pic of my PodCaste toon on the shirt.

Transcendence Trial? What’s that? OH, in the Hollows! You see, I usually skip the Hollows all together (I remember when the zone first appeared and it seemed horrendously overpowered. In retrospect, I think they were trying to encourage teaming at lower levels). The one time I tried running through all the missions, I leveled out of the range for the trial on the mission before I had access to it. Ugh.

Viv, the reason the patch note about the 48-month veteran pet says ‘really’ at the end is because the were supposed to have fixed it a couple of patches ago. ‘Supposed’ being the operative term.

I say ‘Moo’, not ‘Myou’. But that one could seriously go either way. *smiley*

I can’t go to HeroCon either! And it’s even in my sister-in-law’s hometown! Double Wah. They should fly you guys out there for free.

I love vague 80’s movie references.

“Greetings Professor Falken. A strange game. The only winning move is NOT to play. How about a nice game of chess?” -Joshua (a.k.a. WOPR), WarGames, 1983

Try this one: “We’re ALL unusually ‘large’ and ’strong’ here.”

Great Macro & Keybind tips! I didn’t know you could edit a macro after creation. Now that I know that, I might use them a little more.

I currently have a macro on my primary toon that says ‘Please put your seats and tray tables in their full upright position,’ before executing Recall Friend. *chuckle*

Looking forward to Pt. 2.

-Write on!

-le GB-

As FOR everything else…

and ignore omments!) at the bottom…

This is why I shouldn’t post at work.

This is my first post here but I enjoy hearing Chooch and Viv read them every week so I needed to get in on the fun. It is almost as fun hearing Mr. Foe and Mr. Hickmans posts as it is hearing the cast itself. So I wanted to thank you, Mr. Foe and Mr Hickman, and of course Chooch and Viv for the entertainment. It helps pass my time at work.

As of everything else…I know it is a few weeks behind but as for you “holding out the promo fo the special people” in ep28, well, my mother held out a promo on me once…once.

(*obscureish johnny dangerously reference*)

Viv don’t let anyone tell you different, my wife and I both say Shi-van like you do too. Well, I look forward as always to the next cast and cannot wait to read the next round of banter from the esteemed messers Foe and Hickman!

Jim “Cannot think of a clever nickname like Troy Hickman” Gross

-I laughed, I cried, It was better than Cats. I would listen again and again!
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Oh, yeah… one more thing. It’s pronounced sam-uh-rye-KOH (like Coke). Don’t worry, a lot of folks get it wrong. I’ve gotten used to it by now.

Cheers!

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

(This should not be read on the podcast, it should be sung!

Within the context of the game, if you appear as Spidery-Man for a night, you’d probably be ok (there wouldn’t be time for you to be genericed anyway), but if you’re playing him up to level 50, that’s A LOT of time and exposure, and would hardly be limited usage.

Like I said, more shortly, but you got on a subject that, as the regular readers of the CoH boards can tell you, is near and dear to my heart (which is three sizes too small).

Thanks Chooch for clearing up the channel name, and thanks for the great bind/macro cast. I’ll check out your samples and the links.

A podcast for my birthday! (More or less…)

Being a new listener, I would like to say that this podcast is great to get me back into the groove of playing after my 9+ month break. Way to go and keep it up!

I’m sorry I mentioned the ‘knuckles’ thing. I’m sure you’re going to get a bit of razzing about it, and I apologize for that. Feel free to exact whatever vengeance you deem appropriate.

*bows humbly* ‘Only the penatant hero shall pass.’

-Write On.

Oh - and its “Podcaste” (no space)… I have taken the appropriate amount of debt; sorry about that.

Hey, suddenly my knuckles hurt…

Wouldn’t the “Chooch & Viv Experience” (presented in High Definition and Low Pronunciation) have to be a TWO-person show? I’m just saying. And which of them would you prefer to play? You know you wanna be Viv.

Viv,

Watch out, Troy might be after your job … Nay, your life!

-Write on!

Looking forward to the t-shirts, especially since I’m on this diet and won’t have to buy a size 14X anymore (I’m just now to the point where I no longer have to wash myself with a rag on a stick!).

Do I have a “racy comment” in Twilight Guardian? I thought it was pretty G-rated. Now I’m going to have to go back through and make sure I didn’t suddenly drop the f-bomb in public. It’s happened before, and I was massively embarrassed. And so was my pastor.

I will most definitely mail those copies out to the winners, and if they have a cool car and a hot tub, they may also receive a huge, one might even say “man-sized” box full of goodies. But for gosh sakes, open it quick, or at least poke an airhole in it!

Thank you for the rest of the Invention Enhancement info. It always seems so much simpler when you guys explain it. Maybe next time you could also have that talk with me that my parents never did about where babies come from.

Yes, Wordsmythe, I’m not the ONLY one who thought Viv said “nipples.” At first I thought alienation of affection was playing tricks on my airplane glue-deteriorated brain, but I went back and listened a few times, and with each listen I was more and more sure she had forgotten she was on the mic. And with each listen, I just laughed and laughed and laughed. And then I felt kind of bad about making such a ridiculous assumption…until I listened again and just laughed and laughed and laughed.

Thank you both very much for giving me a few hours of great infotainment this week. You guys are the cat’s pajamas, the bee’s knees, and even the wombat’s prostate exam. Keep on rockin’ in the free world!

To quote Jose Japelaneo on a Stick: “Ees my job.”

I’ve had to point out to younger disc jockeys that it’s “Len’rd Skin’rd” and not “Lie-nard Sky-nard”, “Bob See-gar” instead of “Bob Seg-ar”, and “Die-doh”, not “Dee-doe”.

I was also considering calling Chooch out on Sheevan, the way I would pronounce it, instead of Shivvan, the way he seems to be pronouncing it.

But since I also was all over them on Bainsidhe, and insisting its roo-LAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR-oo instead of ROO-la-roo, I’m glad you went ahead instead of me.

OMG! Viv said my global name! First she gets it right, then wrong, then right again, then wrong again. Make up your mind woman! Just Kidding; but I prefer the olde English pronunciation: Word-Smythe not Word-Smith.

I love hearing Viv say funny words: Gazebo, Plethora, Foible, Bulbous Boofant (smile if you know the reference)

Great podcast guys! Chooch is right to want to visit Alaska one day. It’s wonderful, and the free money is better than a poke in the eye!

What does ‘wiped’ mean?

Viv, I could have SWORN you said ‘Ow, my nipples hurt’ at one point, but repeated replays and the sound of a ‘pop’ convinced me you said ‘My knuckles hurt.’

Regarding in-game advertisements: I think phase five might involve introducing trademark logos as chest insignias. I can finally create a speedster named ‘Ekin’ with a nice ’swoop’ on his chest!

Chooch, I checked dictionary.com, and it says that ‘Shiva’ is pronounced ‘Sheeva’, so I think they should be ‘Sheevans’. Potato, potato; Tomato, tomato.

I’m currently building the Psight with Invention Enhancements only. However, there are certain salvage pieces that just won’t drop, and they’re still expensive at Wentworths. I think we should be able to straight-up buy Salvage somewhere. That would probably destroy the economics of Wentworths, but hey!

Sitting at level 13 and standing by to dive into the Troll Caves (where I’ve never actually been).

-Write on!

PS: If I ever get published, would you two read my superhero podiobook?

And to clarify: I didn’t mean to “diss”, as it were, you two; I just didn’t want to be so bold as to presume your age. So I gave myself a very very VERY broad range.

I also did not hear the promo, got a bit of blank space that made me think I messed up the download somehow, heh.

-GB-

-GB-

I can’t believe you guys! What a great cast! Seriously, I appreciate all the work you put into each episode.

I found 4 or 5 of the shoe ad billboards in Boomtown yesterday. That place is a wreck and there even was a half destroyed billboard where it had fallen off of a wall onto the ground. I found it amusing.

But think about it, how often do you hear a dev pronounce these? Now how often do you hear Chooch & Viv pronounce them? Yeah, thought so. Thanks to human (et al.) psychology, we’re going to be pronouncing the words C&V’s way in no time. When most people pronounce a word a certain way then that way is the prefered pronounciation. We outnumber the devs by plenty to one. Hence, C&V’s pronounciations are definitive. QED.

1) Glad to hear RD is recovering well. Yay!
2) Ooooh! Contest. I’ll be sending my submission.
3) Next meet-up I think I’ll try setting up a tab with all the channels in it, global, sg, coalition and team. I’d didn’t know where to look.
4) Also, did someone post a bind that would add your forum or character name in global chat? I think I remember seeing it somewhere on here.
5) If you ever make a Villain Group I totally call the name ‘Death Crack’.
6) Was there missing promo? I got about a minute of dead silence right before the IO talk.
7) I like to make lists.
Re the comment on mishearing Machimina as Much-Enema. When I first went back and listened to your older episodes I couldn’t figure out why you kept playing a clip of someone saying ‘Micheal Vick for President’.
9) Re Roeux-laaa-Rooooo. Other things I don’t know how to pronounce: Tsoo, Kheldian, Ouroboros.
10) Great tidbit of the show: I had no idea you could use the crafting tables and invention storage a coalition bases. Thank you!
11) I think Viv’s map would make a great show. Maybe we could all help by sending in our favorite content by level.
12) Thanks for getting this out when you were obviously exhausted. Get some sleep next time. We can wait.
13) I really like to make lists.

just kidding another 10 star performance with a 5 star bonus for putting it out when exhausted and 5 more for just being yall. love it keep it up,

Yay! More COH podcast goodness, I have no doubt!

Thanks for Everything

Danger Force

P.S. Yes, you can vote in a Chicago election, but only ONCE per election.

Hey Troy, ease up on the non-existing thing. If this is your response to a non-isode, you need to Bizarro-speechify it up instead.

Bizarro speech is so easy, and can be done in two ways…

Hulkish Speech- Me Am Bizarro, me smash puny Hickman’s post!

or

The painful to read reverse-speech: Me love when Vooch and Chiv no-post cast-pods! Me no go to u-tunes, no give them 1-star review!

Hmmm, even I’m can’t be sure what the above said.

Anyhow, nice to hear from you guys. Sorry Sincere Fake Nemesis could only appear for 1 minute at the meetup, thanks for including me in the Pod Caste SG (even if my Prince of Brass forcefield/energy defender has to rub steam-cleaned shining shoulders with the likes of Troy Hickman, that infamous ne’er-do-well.)

Pat, aka Fantastic Foe

Another excellent cast.

Thanks,
Countryboy

I would also like you to read aloud my local newspaper, each month’s Reader’s Digest, and the entirety of War and Peace. OKthxbye.

ru-LAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR-uu….

I love the podcast, but I would respectfully ask that you not read all the release notes. Just the headlines or funny stuff. I mean it’s there on the web for us to read. Alternately, you could put in chapter bookmarks on your AAC files so I can skip that and forum post dramatizations.

Since I don’t want to be just critical, I really like the guides you usually have. Even the short accolade description was helpful. I’ll be getting the Freedom Phalanx Reserve Accolade as soon as I can fire up the third party add-on. Or I mean I would if I was the kind of person who did that…

Just sayin’

Write on!

-WordSmythe

Viv - My longest running toon ‘Sourceror’ has 38 Free Tailor Sessions; 9 from Veteran Badges, and 29 from various free tokens. I’ve only ever changed his primary costume once, and his secondary costume had a few modifications. But all and all, I’m very satisfied with his current costumes. If only we could transfer free tailor sessions between toons, or give them to friends as gifts!

Ewe Too Rocketh!

Write on!

-WordSmythe

Loved the Viper plug. bye the way and great idea with the sending people to the myspace. to get the full glory of touch of pain.

One minor correction though is that the email has changed. vipercommand@verizon.net

{c}

Troy, if I may call you Troy…

Mister Hickman, sir, you are not the only one wishing the portable crafting station was more easily accessible. One of my characters has it, and it took so long and cost so much (time and influence), I’m not likely to repeat it.

Before the issue came out with craftable inventions, I had read up that there would be craftable temp powers and a means to earn the ability to craft in the field. I had imagined that this was done as a step further towards character customization, where you could virtually add a new power to your repertoire by getting a mess of recipes for the power, a mess of salvage to craft it, and earn the portable crafting station so when the power runs out, you could take a moment to recraft it.

Sadly, the menu of temp powers is pretty small and unexciting. But my scrappers are all packing pistols… I just need to head back to the Aggrobatcave to reload.

Pat, aka Fantastic Foe

Great job on the veritable cornucopia of topics this time, gang. You were both on your game and in great voice (though, to be honest, I didn’t realize Chooch was saying “machinima” until I actually read the word later, so it sounded for all the world like he was saying “much enema”…and that’s…well, you know, different).

Hey, am I the only one who wants them to make the portable workbench more easily available (at least as a vet reward, or TF completion deal, or something)? I’m not much of a badge-getter, and man do I hate making my way to a university to craft something. Besides, I have to spend all week teaching at a college; who the heck wants to venture back on-campus when I’m in Paragon City?

I hadn’t considered the pronunciation of Rularuu before, but it’s a good point that it should be growled. Otherwise it sounds like you’re talking about the king of kangaroos: the Rularuu.

Thanks much for again plugging Twilight Guardian. You are truly “las únicas personas que nunca me han llamado cara de caimán” (which loosely translates to “the only people who have never called me ‘gator face’”).

And thanks again for the great cast. I joke around a lot, but I mean this sincerely: you two make Sonny and Cher look like Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. Guten Abend, Lieblinge!

WordSmythe here! I’m a new listener and a 48-month veteran of CoH (missed the Beta by ‘THAT’ much). However, due to my extremely casual gameplay, my highest toon is only Level 34.

I thouroghly enjoy your podcast and I’m having lots of ‘I gotta try that!’ moments when I’m listening. For instance, on Viv’s suggestion, I’m going to check out the Croatoa Taskforce. I solo most of the time, but enjoy a good PUG once in a while.

I’m going to try to make the Listener Meet-Up on the 28th, but because I’m in Japan, I’ll need to be up at 3 a.m. Sunday morning! I primarily run on Virtue, but I went to Guardian and created a psychic/mental blaster for the occassion. And Viv; I was able to get him to level 5 in a little more than an hour. I hope I crawl out of bed in time to meet ya’ll.

-WordSmythe

PS: Who dared to call you while recording Episode 25? I swear I heard your phone ringing in the background at least twice.

Set bonuses do have their own cap though. You can only benefit from a given bonus up to five times. Different values that affect the same attribute are different bonuses for this stacking max (so 5% regen and 10% regen would each stack five times for 75% total)

You two have no idea how helpful this cast was! I took a break from the game back before CoV went live, and when I came back just a little over a year ago the Invention system was more than a little overwhelming.

I sort of got it, but just couldn’t wrap my head around how the sets worked. I slotted a proc here and there on a few heroes but that was extent of my foray into IO Land.

After listening to the cast on Thursday, it finally clicked.

I took my Cold Defender to WW, and spent almost all her money from selling snowcones and frozen margaritas. Got some nice sets slotted into several of her powers before I ran out of influence, and I could really tell a nice difference while on STF last night!

I can’t wait to hear the next installment in the IO series.

Thanks for the info on IOs and thanks for a truly faxcinating podcast.

Or maybe that was some other handsome rogue…

LIES!