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So, I got the chance to hang out with Joe Peacock this past Thursday after a book signing he did at a Borders at the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco. For those of you who where unable to make it but were curious to see what Joe had to say. Unfortunately, due to poor planning, my battery died about five minutes before Joe finished, so it cuts out at the end. Also, Joe is a really funny guy, so laughing at everything he said caused the camera to shake a lot and unfortunately I had no tripod. Also, you may want to turn up the volume on this if you want to hear him clearly.

If you who don’t know who Joe Peacock is, that tells me two things: 1) You don’t listen to our podcast and 2) You’re missing out. Why? Let’s just say Joe’s lived a pretty interesting life and the stories he tells are almost unbelievable and widely entertaining to read. So much so that he got a publishing deal with Penguin Books. His book, the first to be published by a major publisher, entitled Mentally Incontinent: That Time I Burned Down a Hooters, That Time My Stalker Crashed on My Couch, and Nine Other Stories from My Weird Life was recently released and he was nice enough to invite me out to the Stonestown Galleria in San Francisco for a book-signing event he was having. I had never met Joe in person up until that point, my interactions with him based solely around our the times he guest starred on our podcast, so I was excited to actually meet him in person. What can I say, I love meeting people and Joe seemed like a cool enough guy.
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If you haven’t got it by now, our podcast titles usually have nothing to do with the episode. But, what we actually talked about was:

• 4 games that most people are on the fence on buying
• Censorship in Australia on Left 4 Dead 2
• Kojima likes Twilight
• Spain on track to opening a space hotel on 2012
• JoeThePeacock’s 2nd book, Still Mentally Incontinent, is on sale. 2 for 1!

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• Bill went to a Renaissance fair. Here’s a picture of a dragon.
• PeopleOfWalmart.com is funny. But not to Joe.
• An anonymous PR rep at a video game publishing company gets sad about game journalists giving bad ratings to games.
• Uniformed Rating System through music, films, and video games
• We like Joe
• We like Chase and Gamerlimit

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In this episode, we make fun of Nelson.  Then Nelson fails and we make fun of him again.  Then we talk about stuff, like:

• Blizzcon
• The Hilton Parties at Blizzcon (but who cares?!)
• My impressions of Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3
• Joe the Peacock talks about MMO addictions and his experiences
• District 9 impressions
• Sony PS3 Slim
• making fun of Nelson.

Some notable links from this episode

• Fark
• Fark
• Second Skin (An MMO Documentary)
• WoWDetox
• Fark

Tonight’s LIVE recording of the Pixelated Podcast will be at 7:15pm. You can watch/listen to the setup, recording, and other shinanegans at PixelatedLIVE.com.

Our special guest co-host tonight will be Medros from All Things Azeroth and maybe Joe the Peacock.  We’ll obviously be talking about Blizzcon, their games (WoW, Starcraft, and Diablo) as well as other topics that we come up with.

So join us, wont you?

I used to “play” EverQuest.

For those who don’t know what EverQuest is, think of it like the 1998 – 2002ish equivalent of World of Warcraft. It was the first 3D Massively Multiplayer game out there, taking the elements that made MUDs and Ultima Online and making them into polygons, thus sucking you in in a way you’ve never been sucked in before.

Now, for those of you who might get that these are “games”, but don’t understand what “playing EverQuest” actually entails, and you don’t play WoW or know anyone who does, let me enlighten you:

To play EverQuest was to spend 8-10 hours a day sitting on your ass, pressing arrow keys and clicking a mouse as you steer a virtual you around a world filled with bad guys who cough up gold and items. As you acquire new items (say, a pretty stick), you show other people who run around this virtual world your new pretty stick, and they get jealous and go out in search of a new pretty stick like yours (or better). Meanwhile, someone else will show you their pretty stick, and you get jealous and go out trying to find one like theirs (or better). You get one, and show your friends, and their cycle starts all over again; meanwhile someone else gets a better stick and shows you and your cycle starts all over again.

Of course, there’s more to it than that. Sometimes, it’s a pretty earring; sometimes a shiny robe or new shield. But essentially, that’s all the fuck it is. For 8-10 hours. A day.

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