Al_B on 10/3/2011 at 07:59
I know you have hearing problems, dethtoll and as I said before the best situation would be if there was a transcribed version as well as the podcast. At least it's possible to create one with the material that has been posted. If the interview had only been uploaded as text then it wouldn't really be possible to create the audio version for people who prefer to listen to the source material.
Briareos H on 10/3/2011 at 08:07
I'm with Koki on that one.
Text = future references, quotes, long-lived data, google referencing and personal indexing.
Podcast = waste of bandwidth and hosting space, search for specific terms impossible, hard to understand for foreigners, fundamentally linear.
I'm not sure that "can be listened to casually" is something positive. Tone and specific auditory cues are a fair point but they're usually not essential information. And you can put audio excerpts for those parts.
Less podcasts, more journalism please.
Thirith on 10/3/2011 at 08:35
Since they've got the thing as an audio file, it makes sense to post it as a podcast. It shouldn't be an either/or situation - almost any interview will exist in audio format before it's transcribed. It's just a bummer that the last step - transcribing and putting the interview up in text form - is skipped.
twisty on 10/3/2011 at 09:38
That was quite entertaining and informative and I am looking forward to hearing more of these. As a result of the length of the podcast, I had to listen to it over three attempts: on the bus, on the way to work; during a virtual meeting at work; on the way back home. For situations like these, Podcasts are very useful but unlike text if you skip over a section you don't really know what you've missed; as with text you can skim/speed read over parts that you're not interested in.
fett on 10/3/2011 at 17:41
I'd be up for transcribing it if that's okay with the OP?
Goldmoon Dawn on 10/3/2011 at 19:58
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Or are you just going to flip a table and tell me to man up because YOU don't need any help
Sorry about that dethtoll, I didnt know that about you. But on the other hand, it seems that you are not fully aware of jtrs situation either! Guys, geez!!!!
june gloom on 10/3/2011 at 20:05
Unless jtr7's condition prevents him from hearing, it's not really relevant to the discussion at hand.
Goldmoon Dawn on 10/3/2011 at 21:45
Just because you *can* verbally assault someone on a message board with the latest colorfully vulgar language, doesnt mean that you *should*. However, the size of that chip you are carrying around far outweighs anything that I can bring to the table, so yeah. Have at thee!
Eldron on 10/3/2011 at 21:58
ttlg's gonna be ttlg.
I loved every bit of it, exactly the kind of interviews I love listening to, looking forward to more.
jtr7 on 13/3/2011 at 06:54
Not familiar with this Austin Grossman character, wanting to pay respects to someone who no doubt had influence on my favorite games, I've started to poke about the Internet for stuff, and this book reading reveals quite a lot from an angle other than gaming. He's a nervous-type speaker, I can't help but note:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPOOgDNeH5I)
