I don’t know why, but I went into a whole thing about the broadcasting school I went to years ago, and how I eventually got a (short-lived) job at a radio station.
Jen recently guested on the Girls Gone WoW and Obscurecast podcasts where she talked about video games with a bunch of other nerds.
I’m a little obsessed with the Digitech iPB10 pedalboard. It integrates with iPad and is REALLY COOL.
We had an interesting time trying to play Diablo III on launch night.
Our Internet experience at home is super slow and kinda sucky and we want to know what to do to make it better.
And no announcements at the end of the show but this summer is gonna be the Summer of Truth for GeminiDragon. Will the podcast still be here in the fall?
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About the podcast downloading in iTunes, yes you can set it to manual. I actually have mine set to daily and manually do it whenever I want to get some more for some reason and I know they’re available. However, with that being said, if you have that big an issue with your internet connection, you’re going to have to upgrade that connection somehow. Since you both need it for work and for entertainment, you can’t have issues like what you were talking about for long. Like you said Shawn, the internet is not going to start requiring less bandwidth. I’m starting to crave a better connection because 8 mb/s is starting to feel slow with two of us and Netflix.
Thanks for the iTunes tips, David.
Found out yesterday that we’re getting a measly 6 Mb down. Nathan Lott is getting 15 Mb down from Time Warner in Texas. I feel like some kinda savage compared to him.
I just retested my speed and apparently at this time of day I get 12.5 mb/s down. That’s a good bump over the 8 I was getting the other day. I really want something in the 25+ range. If only that was in the budget!
Another very important aspect of the Diablo III debacle that neither of you mentioned is that this necessity for the game to always be connected to the internet is effectively DRM by the back door. If the game is always connected then Blizzard always knows it’s not a pirate copy.
I too update my iTunes manually. It’s possible to completely turn off automatic updates.
Much as I love both of you as people and Gemini Dragon as a show I’m just not going to pay for podcasts. I already have so many podcasts I subscribe to and I’m over a year behind on some of my shows. Adding another barrier would make it not worth the trouble. As you said podcasting is fundamentally a free platform and I don’t think there’s any getting past that for the vast majority of podcasters.
I too have had a crisis of confidence recently and genuinely considered whether I should give up podcasting all together. It’s very hard when you get so little feedback and interaction with your audience. Ultimately I came down on Jen’s side of your discussion. I still find it fun. Whether you don’t feel you can continue without some financial support is up to you, but I for one would be sad to see you go off the air again.