Joystiq Podcast PAX Prime 2010 #1

Fable 3 and 360 Controller talk?

Not sure if want....

A beer? At this hour?

are those the gamer glasses by that company that makes the 360 cans with like 8 speakers

@ben linus

....what?

@ben linus - And now for something completely different.

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They must have been some god damn ugly puppies

I can't find that Joan Allen video on Youtube!!! HOW AM I GOING TO FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!

@ben linus A few months ago I put out my blue trash can for recycling: It's the only blue trash can I've seen in about a 5 block radius from my home. I put it out late afternoon the day before it was to be picked up, so that people could get to anything they might need before it goes to the recycle center.

I went to put a couple more things in the can the night before, but as it was fairly dark, I didn't see someone was helping themselves. Awkward, but not a big deal, I engage in polite banter with the man. In the brief time we're speaking, i notice on my curb laid out upon a newspaper ad are three dead puppies. I'm crushed, I don't know why they're dead, or where he got them or, most troubling, what he intended to do with the remains. In the split second where I had seen the bodies and those thoughts flashed through my mind, the flight instincts had kicked in and I was already silently but briskly walking back to my door.

I haven't forgotten the image of those, I believe, pit bull puppies laying there limp strewn across the Vallarta sales like three cuts of meat.

My recyclables are picked up only every other week, so I dragged the remaining paper and cardboard filled can back to the side of my home. It wasn't a total loss though, considering the man had made off with most of the heavy stuff, which consist of mostly soda and Tanqueray bottles: glass. So even though it didn't get picked up, at least I had more room for stuff now.

It's very rare that I fill up the actual trash can for trash, not recyclables, not yard waste. That's the brown can, and man is that mofo RANK. Again, living alone and not having much waste to put into the blue and green cans, it's pretty rare I fill those either, although my blue recycling can sometimes gets filled all at once because I have my mother saving her paper/cardboard/glass recyclables so that she doesn't have to throw them away or lug them to a recycling center. But the blue can is all clean: no food, no snot or otherwise (mis)used tissue, none of that. But my blue can sat out there for another week or two, to the point where I had again lost track of which week the truck would return.

Something was amiss. That nearly-sterile blue can gave me a whiff of something fierce, a smell I expected of that god forsaken brown can, but not my blessed blue one. I should not have but did investigate, and upon opening the lid fully and getting a nose full of what had gone awry in my can, those same three little puppies lay there in my blue can. Only now they were no longer pitiful and depressingly adorable lifeless heaps, they were writhing maggot filled fur sacks that haunt my dreams to this day.

Thanks for sharing your story, I'm glad I could share mine :)

How the hell did you not call this a PAX Prime Primer? For shame, Joystiq.

I can't go. I hate everyone.

@ben linus Oh doodie, i jumped the gun there a bit on the end of the story, I didn't even tell you guys about how it ended.

So I close the trash can, obviously more devastated by the now completely relevant event which transpired between the gentleman and me more than a month earlier. The three dead plump pulsating red and black patched nightmares were still in my can, just outside my door exuding an odor most foul.

I marched the can straight to the curb, neither knowing what day it was nor caring, just hoping and praying that no one would come in search of a few pennies worth of glass in the few days or few days plus a week until the trash man came for his now wretched parcel.

I didn't check to see if it had been picked up for two weeks, during which empty Gatorade and Jarritos bottles filled their designated small can and were spilling out just inside my door.

I washed that can, but it still LITERALLY smells of death.

God bless, good night!

How was the pizza?

@Assmar you should make it into a horror story.. Good intro into something a lot more sinister, you never know it could even be turned into a game and actually some how end up being actually related to the post you decided start it on ... ! ;)

Widmer Heff, yummy. Also try the seasonal Drifter and year long Drop Top Amber Ale. But, if you want to one up your beer experience (other than driving to Oregon where it would seem everyone garage brews amazing beer), then dive into the Black Butte Porter by Deschutes Brewery. Hell, just try their entire line of beers. Oregon, I love thee and thy beers.

I'm amazed how 6 dead puppies can become a news story, while we all fully support an industry of meat packaging and distribution, which routinely kills hundreds of thousands of pigs, cows and other animals every day. I call that hypocrisy.
Either go all the way and stop using animal products of any kind, or come down to earth and accept that we humans, as a species, only live by abusing animals, plants, and other natural ressources around us. Just because you don't see it in your everyday lives doesn't mean it isn't happening all around you. Stop the whining please. Animal cruelty is one thing, but simply getting rid of unwanted pets is not really anything to get riled up about.

As to them saying "cod" as a word for Call of Duty, it gets even worse: Black Ops.

So. You know it will get shortened in the community to: "Cod BO".

Oh god, the sound quality of the opening song killed my ears! O.o

@ben linus

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Maybe he lost his blanket. :/

@ben linus Why would you care about a few puppies when you killed off an entire village of hippies that were living peacefully on an island?

My favorite part of this podcast was instantly recognizing The White Stripes playing in the background

@szimm It's not quite that simple. The puppies were obviously intended to be sold as pets or something, not killed and used in the meat industry. At least if that were the case, someone would, well, eat them. Instead they were just thrown into a river, just thrown, nobody's going to get any use out of them. Cruelties inflicted upon animals in meat processing is at least for the benefit of food, this clearly and only for some idiotic person to get their shot at e-fame and end up a meme on 4chan.

I believe this is the mostly nsfw scene chris was referring to. Watch without headphones at your own discretion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoCV903Qxc

I'm glad they took the time to do a podcast in what's probably a busy week/ weekend. 30 minutes over beer, pizza and soda's is a heck of a lot better than No Minutes at all.

Thanks dudes!