From this show on, we’ll be having more guest c0-hosts. Last night, we had the honor of having a Cosplay Idol, Ms. Yaya Han, as our first guest.  Yes, we did have her on our show before.  But, that was before we reformatted the show. Yaya has a new website out and it looks very beautiful, thanks to her very artistic friend, Meg.

Topics:

• Yaya Han’s new website
• Apple iPad reactions with Joe the Peacock
• Mass Effect 2 – 1 week in
• The Grammys

Also, if you weren’t part of the live audience, you missed out on some free games. Congratulations to Krisikins for winning a free copy of Plants VS Zombies and to MrGlowsticks for winning Bob in Pieces.

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It was a party last night and no one threw up! Awesome! On this weeks show, we had the always awesome, Joe “The” Peacock, Jessica, Raul, Andrew and James.  Topics for this weeks show included:

• Apple iSlate and Keynote event
• Mass Effect 2
• Jessica’s first day as a Production Artist
• Career tips from Joe

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If you weren’t part of the live audience last night or stayed through the after show, below is a video of me doing the “Truffle Shuffle.” Why was I doing this? Well, remember last time Joe was on? He gave me money to buy Christmas gifts for everyone on the podcast staff from BustedTees.  I got lazy and forgot. So, this is what I had to do to make up for it. =(

It was the podcast before Christmas and all through the house.  Mr. Peacock was derailing the show while I clicked the mouse– ok. I’ll stop. I’m not a poet. Any who, Joe the Peacock joined our show again, this time last minute. And, as always, he brought a lot of laughs, random thoughts, and rants.

Topics:

• Mainstream Filmmaking is equal to Auto-Tuned Rap
• E-Readers – Is it time to make the Jump?

We couldn’t get to the rest of the topics because I let the Peacock run rampant. Which is ok because he gave us all presents! If you were part of the live audience last night, e-mail me your full name and ustream username to nelson -at- pixelatedgeek .dot. com so I can send you your Christmas gift.

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Big thanks to Joe again for giving away Christmas presents.

Artist of the Week is attempting to branch out a bit further and also include Writers and Film Makers. We’ve all heard him as a featured guest on the Pixelated Podcast, this time Joe Peacock is the Featured Writer.  Joe has written two books called Mentally Incontinent. Here’s a short interview with Joe. Be sure to check out his Website.

Featured Writer: Joe Peacock

Website

Tell us a bit about yourself:
Hmm… Not sure what to put here. I’m Joe Peacock from Atlanta, GA. I have lots of cats, love comic books and football, and once ate an entire bag of jet-puffed marshmallows. I can run faster than a cheetah. I once ate a lightbulb. I can backflip over two cars. I know tomorrow’s lottery numbers.

More after the break.

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So we had a podcast. Cool. Wanna hear about it? Here it goes.

• 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

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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