Joystiq Podcats 065 - DRM edition

Normally, we want you to share the J-Pod with everyone you care about, but not this week. This week, inspired by the Spore DRM, you'll be limited to putting the podcast onto two different devices for a total of listens not to exceed 10. Any more than that and the podcast will become sentient and kill you.

Thanks to Michael Mayne of the JPAG for the totally wizard photochopping. (We're still in need of photochops by the way, so keep them coming on the JPAG!)

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Hosts: Chris Grant, Ludwig Kietzmann and Justin McElroy

Music: "Get Ready for Love" by Nick Cave, "Red Eye" by Ben Kweller

For fans: Joystiq Podcast Facebook group

See all of this week's links after the jump.

NEWS:
August NPD: Madden scores big, 360 outsells PS3
Microsoft: Xbox 360 sales double following price drop
Ensemble closed after Halo Wars

DRM CHAT:
Amazon users slam Spore for DRM
Ken Levine got threats
Only one Spore account per copy

Reader Comments (41)

CAAALLLIIFFOORRRNNIIAAA

knows how to party

JIMMY!!! WATCH THE MUSHROOOOOOOMS

we got moar bounce than all y'all combined

I've already exceeded my limit! I'll have to haxorz you, Joystiq, so as to listen on my 87 devices.

DRM doesn't work. muahaha

Woooooo! Just heard my B-B-Brush with fame! Thanks guys! I just recently changed my name from "Microswirl" to "In A World" so now it matches my XBL gamertag. Suh-weet!

finally... time to get his weekend started, Joystiq podcast and Lover Boy's "Everybody's working for the weekend" playing in opposite channels of my headphones.... while I'm driving.

FIRST!

Hehehe that's just too funny...

Joystiq's comment system is broken, don't you remember?

"YOU SON OF A BITH YOU DID IT AGAIN!" - Justin

It seems you always try to get first and never get it. Time to grow up

ps - that was a joke. i saw three or four comments prior to my posting. thanks for voting me down, guys!

i still love you hezbollah owl

I used to think she was so hawt.

virus, or something is wrong with your rss feed. as soon as I open the rss for joystiq. a continues stream of tabs open up. then a new window. and in that window it start all over again. it only happen at your rss feed. not at any of the eighty other one I have.

FFXII is like Star Wars.

Vaan = Luke
Blathier = Han Solo
Fran = Chewy
Ashe = Leia

Yes, but Fran is uber hot.

I love guitar hero. Its so bad.

I got this podcast off the torrents last night, and with no DRM. I win the internet.

Good show fools.

For Zune users (fixed album art)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/joystiqpodcast

Jesus christ Chris, I can beat Fable 1 with every sidequest in 1 day and you take 3 WEEKS!

But remember, he said he's either old or misses his chair too much to do his 50 hour non-stop marathons of gaming.

my hand is raised

Hey Chris, I have exactly that same chair you're talking about. If I don't use one i can't play for more than 2 hours without having to lie down. The problem is that they're shit manufactured and the steel bars that do the ratcheting thing just crack or split or whatever and i cant literally just pull them out. They still make them and Target has them near the pillow or desk chair sections

So you TOTALLY understand what I'm going through? How do people play for long periods of time without one? I just don't get it ...

Also, the reason Fable was taking me so long was a result of various environmental factors:

1) The chair situation, which has already been discussed
2) I put it down to play through Force Unleashed and Castle Crashers
3) I unfortunately keep myself very busy and most of the extra work time gets siphoned off from game time. Stupid work.

Podcats?

shhh . . . besides do you know how long it worked on broadway and the internet runs on feline images

Effin' A, Cotton! I have touched destiny!
I'm adding my experience of Photochopping the Joystiq Podcast's 65th Episode header image to my resumé.
Right now.

Good show, gentlemen. Make your time.

My brush with fame was taken from me. I am broken inside.

Oh god, I work for a pharmaceutical website now and they sell two different models of laser comb (one's $400, the other $550).

And the sad thing is, that's not the craziest thing they sell - I'm not sure if that honor goes to "Anti Monkey Butt Powder" or "Chicken Poop" brand lip balm.

I appreciated this podcast more than usual as it made my grueling train ride much more bearable. I'm doing my best to spread the love of Joystiq to new international frontiers.

Chris-
I have also been playing through Fable: TLC in anticipation of Fable II. I too struggled figuring out where to shine lantern. The "stable house" is at the entrance into the Grey House area. As you enter the Grey House area from Barrowfields it to the right.
Keep up the good work guys.
-Jon

How was anyone supposed to figure that out? I finally found it totally by accident – looked into it and this whole sidequest was added onto Fable TLC to clean up what was apparently an even more undeveloped plot area in the original release.

But, yeah -- overall, Fable 1 was good. Had a lot of promise though, and the shortcomings make me strangely more excited for the future of the series (ie: Fable 2).

Am I the only one that plays the "air drums" when "Get Ready for Love" starts?

I sing and dance, and not what I got Nick Cave's Lyre/Blues on half I can listen to the whole song.

now!

Argh.

Hey Mr McElroy,

I started up a new game of spore and randomly I had the exact same experience. My carnivore walked onto land for the first time and there was a dead Grimace by my nest that I had to eat.

A Hiaku

Cliché ridden
Over priced branding
Put Brattner in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)

I can't believe they read my email.

Sweet...and i wish i could quit my job but i can't.

At this point, the only reason I'm leaving a comment is so that I might have even the smallest chance at a Bw/F. But I'm not asking for it. Definitely not asking for it.

Chris & the boyz (Ubistyle), check out this chair or chairs for gaming. I have been using the Taurus chair for almost 7 years now and it's been saving my old ass from your typical long gaming session aches and pains. It does not have speakers built in or vibrate for your pleasure but it is comfortable as hell. It pretty much supports your back like a sweet chair should.

http://www.ekornes.com/us/stressless/stressless_recliners/

Brian

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