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Author, podcaster, and Trendawg Nora McInerny joins Molls this week to talk about the DashCon of erotic book festivals, why the Cradle Catholics are beefing with the Catholic Clout Farmers, and how r/WeddingAttireApproval done goofed. Make sure you ⁠follow Nora's Substack, Feelings & Co.⁠ On The Afters: Millenial wedding cringe and the importance of checking teens for bad behavior GET TICKETS TO FRIENDS ONLY LIVE IN BOSTON ON JUNE 25TH WITH MOLLY MCPHERSON LINKS Trending with Nora Brick - Use code NORA for 10% off Trending with Molly Dr. Melaxin Peel Shot Moscow Murders Dateline episode A Million Lives - Baltimore Book Festival  Original video from percijay_fantasy author Perci Jay's website Catholic Drama Cradle Catholics vs converts - Sprucewoodboys video r/Weddingattireapproval Update! Kind of a miss  Follow us on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter Find more of Molly's stuff Find more of Tiffany's stuff

Considering promoted events that have been reported in recent years to be sketchy including Fyre Festival, DashCon and Willy's Chocolate Experience. It's like a haunting refrain... these well-publicized parties and celebrations that turn out to be a bust. Join the Blerdsassins Next Door at 6p PDT/ 8p CDT 9p EDT to determine whether your Con is a Con.

Welcome to the 10 year anniversary of DashCon! The little con that made internet history. We chat about what happens when a con fails and how it affects the local fan community. And give an an overview of WCS 2024.

Welcome to the 10 year anniversary of DashCon! The little con that made internet history. We chat about what happens when a con fails and how it affects the local fan community. And give an an overview of WCS 2024.

Welcome to the 10 year anniversary of DashCon! The little con that made internet history. We chat about what happens when a con fails and how it affects the local fan community. And give an an overview of WCS 2024.

Welcome to the 10 year anniversary of DashCon! The little con that made internet history. We chat about what happens when a con fails and how it affects the local fan community. And give an an overview of WCS 2024.

Brian and Angelo watched some Marvel movies and they talk about them (some spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine), they reminisce about the time the Dave Matthews Band dumped a bus full of poop on people, and then talk about the sad ball pit at 2014's infamous DashCon. In the paranormal, the duo takes a look at the horrible connection Montreal has to MK Ultra.

DashCon war als Traum für Tumblr-Fans gedacht, endete jedoch als spektakuläres Desaster. Statt aufregender Veranstaltungen fanden die Teilnehmer ein tristes Konferenzzentrum mit einem winzigen Bällebad vor. Ein verzweifelter Spendenaufruf, um die Kosten zu decken, machte das Chaos perfekt. Am Ende wurde das traurige Bällebad zum Symbol für die gescheiterte Convention und ihre unerfüllten Versprechen.

On this week's Dukect Lounge, I talk about the recent bombshell layoffs at Sony and EA. Once thought to be invincible, the gaming industry is showing its vulnerabilities. Hundreds, if not thousands have been affected by the sudden upheaval. We'll explore the ripple effects of these layoffs, from the human toll to the potential shifts in the gaming landscape. But that's not all, folks. Hold onto your golden tickets, because we're about to delve into a sweet yet sour saga straight out of Glasgow. Picture this: families eagerly anticipating a Willy Wonka experience, only to find themselves in an industrial area, staring at a shoddily decorated warehouse. Instead of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers, they're greeted with disappointment and disbelief. What went wrong? How did a promised magical journey turn into a nightmare on Sugar Street? We'll peel back the layers of this confectionery calamity, exploring the motivations behind such a deceptive scheme and the fallout for those left with a bitter taste in their mouths. All that and more here in the lounge

A Glasgow Willy Wonka event is trending because of how hilariously sad it is. Angry parents want refunds, and the pictures make DashCon look good. It got so bad that the POLICE had to get involved. Oompa Loompa Doompity DOH! ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 ➡️ Gaming News: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A7VIqE3r5MQkFgL9nifNc Additional Context: In a turn of events that has the internet buzzing with both outrage and a peculiar kind of schadenfreude, a Willy Wonka-themed event in Glasgow has gone down in history—but for all the wrong reasons. Picture this: a promised "journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises at every turn" turned into a dismal display that had children in tears and parents fuming, with some even calling for police intervention. Yes, you read that right. Police had to step in at a children's event. The debacle unfolded at the Box Hub Warehouse in Whiteinch, Glasgow, where an all-weekend event was canceled halfway through its first day​​. The organizers, House of Illuminati, might have been aiming for a world of pure imagination, but what they delivered was far from the magical experience Roald Dahl's stories promise. Instead of an "enchanted garden" and an "imagination lab," visitors were met with sparse decorations, plastic props, and a small bouncy castle in what was described as an "abandoned empty warehouse." The reality was starkly different from the colorful fantasy advertised, leading to an uproar among the attendees​​. Adding to the chaos, an actor hired to play an Oompa Loompa shared insights into the ill-preparedness of the event. Jenny Fogarty revealed she was given a 'sexy' version of the costume just an hour before the event started, with no rehearsal time and a 15-page script handed to her the night before. The event's failure was not just in its execution but also in its conception, with a lack of professional planning evident​​. The House of Illuminati issued an apology via Facebook, acknowledging the event's failure and promising refunds to disappointed ticket holders. They admitted to being let down in many areas of the event and recognized in hindsight that canceling from the get-go would have been the wiser choice​​. In a twist of irony, amidst this real-life fiasco, the world of cinema continues to celebrate Willy Wonka's fantastical universe. A new film starring Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka and Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa is set to premiere, promising to offer fans a glimpse into the chocolatier's early life. This juxtaposition of a failed event against the backdrop of an anticipated movie serves as a stark reminder of the challenges in bringing fictional worlds to life​​. The Glasgow Willy Wonka event has indeed become a trending topic, but perhaps for reasons the organizers never intended. It serves as a cautionary tale about the importance of delivering on promises and the consequences of underestimating the expectations of a beloved literary world. Oompa Loompa Doompity DOH, indeed. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of th

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Kev and Kelly do a second harvest of Graveyard Keeper Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:17: What Have We Been Up To 00:06:11: News 00:34:56: Graveyard Keeper 01:14:29: Outro Links Coral Island 1.0 Moonlight in Garland Early Access Sun Haven 1.3 Update Fabledom Fairytales & Community Update Moonstone Island Eerie Items DLC Lonesome Village Physical Edition Garden Story Translation Update Fantastic Haven Graveyard Keeper Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:32) Kevin: this is kelly ween this is kelly ween kelly ween kelly ween and in this show uh we talk about games that are filled with cottage gore yeah hi everyone welcome to the harvest season um with me today is kelly i’m kevin she’s actually gonna be here for well spoilers but then she’s gonna be on next week too she were on last week I bring it up because last year you were on for Halloween we did Cult of the Land. (0:00:47) Kelly: Hey. (0:00:57) Kelly: Oh, I forgot about that. (0:01:02) Kevin: And so, yeah, so, well, that’s exactly right. (0:01:03) Kelly: Is this just like my thing? (0:01:07) Kevin: Um, yeah, you’re Kelly our pumpkin queen. (0:01:10) Kevin: So here we are. (0:01:11) Kevin: Um, she’s all about this stuff. (0:01:14) Kevin: And so we are here today to talk about graveyard keeper, another, um, cottage gore game, um, technically this is a second harvest episode. (0:01:25) Kevin: Uh, Raschelle covered it way back. (0:01:28) Kevin: Like the first Halloween episode. (0:01:32) Kevin: And so I knew about it for years, but I didn’t get a chance to play it until recently. (0:01:37) Kevin: Um, and Kelly has played it significantly. (0:01:40) Kevin: Um, yeah. (0:01:40) Kelly: I only got out of it though last year. I was very new to it, so… (0:01:44) Kevin: Well, still more than I have. (0:01:49) Kevin: I’ve only played, uh, just a handful, relatively speaking. (0:01:51) Kevin: Um, but yeah, that’s, uh, we will get to that soon enough. (0:01:58) Kevin: Um, but before that, as always. (0:02:02) Kevin: Show notes and links and the transcripts are all available on the website for people to see and look at and on. (0:02:09) Kevin: Ooh, and whatnot. (0:02:11) Kevin: Um, and, uh, before the graveyard keeper will do news as always. (0:02:17) Kevin: And more importantly, what have you been up to Kelly? (0:02:19) Kevin: What have you been playing, watching, doing, yada, yada. (0:02:21) Kelly: Um, playing? I’ve really been slacking. I’ve been playing solitaire in Pokemon Go, which is not… It is, but I just… I get stuck playing it, and like, it’s fun, but I’m also like, I could be playing something better. (0:02:37) Kevin: Yeah, I mean it’s like comfort food sometimes it just it’s simple and I get it Exactly sometimes you just need a mindless game Okay, okay madman okay, I have not watched it. I’m familiar with it. That’s the one with That’s the one like 50s (0:02:37) Kelly: Um… [laughs] (0:02:39) Kelly: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It’s like, thoughtless. Um… (0:02:50) Kelly: But I just… (0:02:51) Kelly: I rewatched Mad Men, so that I think is more exciting. (0:03:05) Kelly: yeah like 60s advertising, yeah. (0:03:05) Kevin: add agency right (0:03:07) Kevin: 60s okay all right how how mm-hmm how long is it like the whole thing oh wow that’s longer than expected well that’s cool yeah sure (0:03:07) Kelly: uh I was a big fan when it came out. (0:03:12) Kelly: uh it’s like seven seasons I think? yeah seven seasons. (0:03:18) Kelly: yeah when I first ran I jumped ship like I think after season five. (0:03:25) Kelly: uh I mean it’s not the worst last two seasons but they’re not as good. (0:03:32) Kelly: Good. (0:03:34) Kevin: Um, let’s see, uh, well, I’ve last week we covered paleo pines actually kept up with it a good bit after There was a patch that dropped It’s been a big dinosaur for a week for me. I watched Jurassic Park this week again - (0:03:35) Kelly: What about you? What have you been up to? (0:03:52) Kevin: Boy, that movie’s real good good other than that Yesterday I cried that Super Mario wonder it just came out yesterday (0:04:04) Kevin: the newest one for this switch and It’s a good one Um, I’ll plug the rainbow road radio the other show I do with our mutual friend Alex We did our first look at it on that show. We just recorded and that’ll be dropping soon It’s fantastic it’s There’s I’m only a little bit in like on the second world but like every (0:04:23) Kelly: What do you think of it? (0:04:34) Kevin: level feels like it is introducing something new and different and I mean classic Mario is good you know 2d it’s your standard 2d Mario and whatnot so the gameplay is good and it’s just filled with all sorts of fun surprises and delights I’m going to spoil people on probably the best part that I’ve experienced so far there’s this level it’s like the second or third level you can do. (0:05:04) Kevin: There’s a bunch of piranha plants popping out of the pipes and you run and jump past them and whatnot. (0:05:09) Kevin: And then there’s the Wonder Flower which changes the level in different ways or whatnot. (0:05:15) Kevin: So when you touch the Wonder Flower, it starts this musical production and all the piranha plants just start singing. (0:05:23) Kevin: And it’s incredible, you entice everyone to at least look it up. (0:05:29) Kelly: I actually, I saw it on TikTok this morning and I was like, hmm, okay. (0:05:30) Kevin: It’s just so much fun. (0:05:34) Kevin: It’s so, because it just, right? (0:05:37) Kelly: Very much unexpected. (0:05:38) Kelly: I thought it was like somebody made it at first, like, you know, somebody edited it. (0:05:41) Kevin: Yep, it’s so out of the blue. (0:05:42) Kelly: But no, it was real. (0:05:45) Kevin: Yeah, no, it’s good. (0:05:48) Kevin: It’s really funny and yeah, the game just brings smiles to me every level with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns like that. (0:05:56) Kevin: So yeah, Mario Wonder, two thumbs up for me for sure. (0:05:59) Kevin: Like I said, people can go to Rainbow World Radio to hear more in-depth thoughts. (0:06:04) Kevin: But, yeah, that’s mostly what I’ve been up to. (0:06:08) Kevin: And now, with that, let’s hop on over to the news. (0:06:15) Kevin: We have, as always, a handful of, mostly game updates. (0:06:19) Kevin: Yeah, there’s a lot of game updates for some reason right now. (0:06:24) Kevin: So we’re going to start off talking about Coral Island. (0:06:30) Kevin: Okay, the one, okay, this is a big one. (0:06:34) Kevin: For people who may not remember, Coral Island is your standard Stardew-esque, well, I say standard. (0:06:40) Kevin: It’s got all your fixings, your farming, and it’s on an island, hence the name, right? (0:06:46) Kevin: So it has the tropical aesthetic and whatnot. (0:06:51) Kevin: But the big news is the 1.0 version is launching on November 14th, which is exciting. (0:06:58) Kevin: They have a trailer, and it looks expansive. (0:07:05) Kevin: There’s a lot going on. You have your farm, you can go underwater, you can meet mermaids, you can do your romancing, (0:07:12) Kevin: you can do, I think there’s even a race in there somewhere. All that good stuff. (0:07:18) Kevin: It looks very polished and like a 1.0 game. You can also… (0:07:22) Kelly: Yeah, I was going to say, it definitely looks like there’s, it looks a lot different than like the first, you know, clips I saw of it. (0:07:30) Kevin: Yep, absolutely. Yeah, it’s definitely a game now, for a better way of putting it. (0:07:36) Kelly: Yeah. (0:07:37) Kevin: And you can also dress up as a panda or dinosaur, so you know, there’s a lot going on there. You also get your little animal crossing, you can redecorate your house wherever you want. (0:07:49) Kevin: Oh, you can even have a baby in this, that’s wild. Yeah, that is dropping on November 14th, (0:07:58) Kevin: just a couple of weeks and it will be dropping on Steam, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5 they’re hoping for a 2024 release for a Switch version. Do you think you’ll try Coral Island or look in its general (0:08:12) Kelly: I think I might. I think it definitely looks really cute. I think it depends on if I’m playing anything, you know, when it comes out. I’m trying so hard not to, like, backlog myself. (0:08:22) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, that’s the hard part right too many games Yeah, no, that’s that’s a good idea I definitely have bought back So I respect that I think you can romance a mermaid so, you know, I’m not that going free I wonder how that’s gonna work. How are they gonna move up the land or vice versa? (0:08:43) Kevin: It’s a two-story floor but the bottom floor is underwater [laugh] (0:08:44) Kelly: just uh living in a two separate homes kind of situation there you go (0:08:52) Kevin: I’m down for that, um, yeah, right now it’s only 25 bucks, oh that’s not bad for this, that’s, that looks like a lot of content for 25 bucks, so, um, get excited. (0:09:06) Kevin: Um, oh, oh yeah, okay, sure, yep, that makes sense, that’s fair. (0:09:07) Kelly: Oh, it does say it’s going to release, I think, at $30, though. (0:09:11) Kelly: There’s a note about the price adjustment. (0:09:14) Kelly: But the diving looks really cool. (0:09:16) Kelly: I played a lot of Dave the Diver over the summer, (0:09:19) Kelly: so I feel like I’m still looking for games where I can go exploring like that. (0:09:19) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s good. (0:09:23) Kevin: Yeah, it does look good for like the animation stuff. (0:09:29) Kevin: I’m also a big fan of underwater type games and it looks very expansive down there. (0:09:35) Kevin: So yeah, there’s a post on Steam page with all the updates and everything. You guys can check it out. (0:09:44) Kevin: If you do have early access, it looks like there will be a save reset. (0:09:53) Kevin: So there is that. But, either way, November 14th, I look forward to it. I might actually check it out now. It looks pretty… (0:10:00) Kevin: So, next up we have Moonlight and Garland. (0:10:06) Kevin: I don’t know if this is a game announced, but it’s… (0:10:09) Kevin: Yeah, I guess it is, because they’re announcing their early access October 24th, which will probably already be out by the time people are listening to this. (0:10:18) Kevin: This is… here, let me read their, uh… (0:10:22) Kevin: The elevator pitch, where is it? (0:10:24) Kevin: A cozy open-ended life sim about finding your feet in the big city, decorate your apartment, make new friends, grow too many houseplants, and love your city life. (0:10:33) Kevin: Um, so it… yeah, it’s… it’s city-based, right? So you’re in an apartment, you’re not running a whole farm, but you can grow plants, you can have pets, um, make relationships and whatnot. (0:10:46) Kevin: The art style is… (0:10:48) Kelly: That’s the most realistic farming sim. (0:10:52) Kevin: » [LAUGH] (0:10:54) Kevin: » No, you’re right. (0:10:59) Kevin: » Yeah, yeah, Kelly can. (0:11:00) Kevin: Well, no, you’re in the house now, you’re not in an apartment anymore. (0:11:03) Kelly: No, but definitely, you know, went through that also, like, how do I keep my plans alive in my apartment when there’s no sun? (0:11:04) Kevin: But yeah, you know the feeling. (0:11:12) Kevin: Man, gosh, you’re super right. (0:11:16) Kevin: Boy, there’s a person showing an apartment with a lot of bunnies in their apartment, that seems difficult. (0:11:23) Kevin: You’re gonna have that many bunnies in an apartment. (0:11:26) Kevin: The art style is, it’s 2D pixelated, but it’s not Stardew-esque. (0:11:31) Kevin: It’s a little more cutesy than that, and I don’t know how to best describe it. (0:11:35) Kevin: And all the NPCs are kind of bobbing their head at the same time to some unknown beat, it is cute looking. (0:11:43) Kevin: And it’s only the early access, so I’m sure it’ll grow considerably more. (0:11:51) Kevin: That is, you know. (0:11:52) Kevin: October 23rd? 24th? I’m seeing two different days. (0:11:58) Kelly: I definitely want to follow up on it because just looking at the coming soon photo, it’s like why is there an iguana on the sidewalk? (0:12:06) Kevin: Hahaha! (0:12:06) Kelly: Can I have an iguana? (0:12:07) Kevin: Wait, you havin’ a guana? (0:12:08) Kelly: And then there’s also the bear man. (0:12:10) Kevin: Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me see, which one are you talkin’ about? (0:12:10) Kelly: I’m on the steam page, the early access release. (0:12:14) Kevin: What? (0:12:15) Kevin: Okay, okay, let me see… (0:12:17) Kelly: So in the coming soon photo that says steam early access, October 24th, whatever, wishlist now. (0:12:27) Kevin: Okay, okay. Oh, I’m looking at the wrong page. I would explain it wouldn’t it? Yup. There it is. Okay Yeah, I was looking the wrong page. There is a bear man. Why is there a bear man? (0:12:28) Kelly: There’s a bear man in the iguana, like do I get a pet iguana, do I get pet pigeons? (0:12:37) Kevin: Okay, I Okay, I want to mine a department full of pet iguanas that that I can do they’re pretty low-key There are pigeons. So, you know, definitely, you know, they’re hitting Oh, are they gonna have the the trash bags out on the sidewalk? (0:12:55) Kevin: Are they gonna go all in on the city? (0:12:57) Kevin: I don’t know if garland is a city name. It’s a city in texas. I know that much. (0:13:11) Kelly: Yeah. (laughs) (0:13:28) Kevin: But yeah, coming soon, early access. (0:13:31) Kevin: Next up, the clip side of early access, we got DLC patches, whatever you want to call it, for Sunhaven. (0:13:39) Kevin: This is the magical-esque farm where you do magic, there’s monsters, dragons, etc. (0:13:51) Kevin: It is patch 1.3, which includes new buildings. (0:13:58) Kevin: There are several that don’t look human, one is an angel, just straight up an angel. (0:14:04) Kevin: One guy is blue, he’s a moon attendant, whatever that means. (0:14:11) Kevin: You have to, they will be unlockable at some point, but that’s fascinating, dating non-humans like that. (0:14:20) Kevin: Oh, they will have a couple of other romancibles coming later this year. (0:14:28) Kevin: They will also have new farm structures and buildings. (0:14:32) Kevin: Greenhouses, silos, chicken coops, butterfly gardens, I like that. You don’t see that in farming games. (0:14:38) Kelly: That’s very unique, yeah. (0:14:40) Kevin: That’s cute, I love a butterfly garden. (0:14:44) Kevin: Monocyphoners, glorite siphoners, I don’t know what they are, workshops, and ticket counterfeiters. (0:14:54) Kevin: I don’t know what that means, but you’re counterfeiting. (0:14:57) Kevin: They’re up to crimes. I like that. (0:14:59) Kevin: I want to know why you can do crimes. (0:15:01) Kevin: Tickets for what? (0:15:03) Kevin: I don’t think they’re concert tickets. (0:15:05) Kevin: That’s fascinating. (0:15:07) Kevin: But yeah, there’s a whole bunch of other stuff. (0:15:10) Kelly: A lot of stuff. There’s like a ghost shed kit? I want a ghost shed. (0:15:11) Kevin: What does that mean? (0:15:18) Kevin: Do you keep ghosts in there? (0:15:19) Kelly: You grow them in there, maybe? (0:15:21) Kevin: I don’t… (0:15:23) Kevin: Oh wait, there are variations. (0:15:25) Kevin: variations because there’s pumpkin and mushroom. (0:15:27) Kevin: It looks like a ghost, oh I see it. (0:15:29) Kevin: Yeah, it has the eyes, the windows look like eyes and the glow, okay. (0:15:29) Kelly: Oh! (0:15:31) Kelly: That makes so much more sense because I was like oh mushroom shed. That’s just a shed where you grow mushrooms, you know That’s and then I just took the rest of them like that [laughs] (0:15:33) Kevin: Um, sh*t skins, yeah it does. (0:15:36) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, okay. (0:15:44) Kevin: Um, oh that’s the butterfly, wow those are big butterflies. (0:15:47) Kevin: Um, oh those are fascinating buildings. (0:15:49) Kevin: Um, let’s see, player birthdays. (0:15:53) Kevin: There is the birthday, birthday celebration. (0:15:57) Kevin: There is a huge pinata that you can hit, so I’m already down for this. (0:16:01) Kevin: Um, geez that’s like a full sized lion looking pinata, that’s great. (0:16:06) Kevin: Um, that’s uh, so all that’s included in the patch. (0:16:10) Kevin: Aside from that there will be DLC available. (0:16:13) Kevin: Um, all six different packs, trick or treat, spirit battle, rock and roll, cyber pop, monkey monkey, and dreamy ram. (0:16:22) Kevin: They’re all, they contain different items, packs, outfits, items, whatever. (0:16:27) Kevin: You guys can check the Steam page for details. (0:16:30) Kevin: Uh, for, yeah, there’s more details out there than we talked about, but, uh, yeah, that seems like a hefty patch. That seems like fun. (0:16:38) Kelly: Yeah, there’s a lot in this. This page goes on. (0:16:38) Kevin: Um, uh, yeah, it does. Um… (0:16:41) Kelly: And there’s even a coming soon, so… (0:16:43) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, they’re talking about future. (0:16:47) Kevin: Um, wow, new season of weather. Wow. (0:16:50) Kevin: Gloomy, what’s the difference between rainy and gloomy rain? I don’t know. (0:16:55) Kelly: Um, I think there’s I could I could understand that one (0:16:55) Kevin: But there you go All right, yeah, I guess. Okay, uh See like out here in Georgia. It’s a little more like rain. Not gloomy rain. Gloomy rains like hurricane force rain That’s what I think Wait no, yeah, okay. I get it (0:17:10) Kelly: No, I think gloomy rain is like when it’s kind of cold and like the sky is just dark and grey all day and it’s like just kind of constant. Like you could have nice rain, like you could have sunny rain, you could have like… (0:17:24) Kevin: Yeah, I do enjoy sun showers. (0:17:25) Kelly: It doesn’t have to be gloomy. (0:17:26) Kelly: Just like a normal rain shower isn’t always gloomy. (0:17:27) Kevin: You’re right. (0:17:28) Kevin: Yeah, no, you’re right, okay, um Yeah, so there’s all the whole bunch of stuff you guys can check that out Is that sorry? Yeah, when’s the release? I didn’t it’s it’s Oct they posted it October 20th It is oh, yeah, it’s already out on Steam. Yeah, so Now time this recording which means by the times you guys are listening. It is definitely available. That is again Sun haven (0:17:58) Kevin: Huh? Oh man, I’m just looking at the picture like a big tree man monster. I might have to check this out I like tree monsters. I I haven’t played a magic game in a minute. Well, I mean, well, maybe our keeper gentle notwithstanding Um, but it’s high, you know fantasy magic II I’m down for that. I could use that Yeah, uh, okay speaking of well, I don’t know more updates (0:18:04) Kelly: right? like i’m kind of like- i’m intrigued. i’m definitely very (0:18:17) Kelly: Mm-hmm. (0:18:18) Kelly: I feel like this is pretty different, yeah. (0:18:28) Kevin: We have so this is The what I refer to as not a city builder but a village builder because it’s medieval villagey themed But you’re helping build the whole village and run everything it is currently in early access and they are dropping a update for it I’m excited for this game myself. I’m gonna wait for the 1.0, but I love the art style. It’s cutesy and goofy (0:18:59) Kevin: and they are dropping all sorts of things in this update including a An encounter with a misunderstood Cyclops who’s very cute. His eye is just a dot His name is Eric one eye you can there will be a witch’s hut a red hooded girl Who’s looking for her grandma’s house? That that’s a speech. I don’t trust that at all. Oh, no, I don’t like that Hemisary gnomes (0:19:26) Kevin: It was seriously rare! (0:19:28) Kevin: And then a fawn with a really big nose and mustache. Oh, I like this guy. (0:19:33) Kevin: There’s a… and a few more. (0:19:36) Kevin: Well, those are fun characters that they’re adding. I love the art style and it looks really fun on these mythical, magical, whatever you want to call them. (0:19:46) Kevin: Cyclops and fawns. Gnomes. They’re fun looking characters. (0:19:48) Kelly: No, yeah, they look they look so cute. It looks very adorable (0:19:49) Kevin: Yeah. (0:19:51) Kevin: Yep. (0:19:53) Kevin: There are, oh gosh, 50 new world events and 30 new objectives. (0:19:58) Kevin: I don’t know what that means, but those are big numbers. (0:20:00) Kevin: Oh, there’s a magic bean. (0:20:03) Kevin: There’s monthly and yearly objectives. (0:20:06) Kevin: Hot weight. Positive and negative events. Oh, oh, they’re, they’re, they’re wild. Okay, I’m down for that. (0:20:15) Kevin: They have, let’s see, new buildings, a laborer guild. Oh, so you can hire better laborers. That’s fun. A bank. (0:20:24) Kevin: Oh, you can tax your villagers at different rates? (0:20:28) Kevin: Oh, that’s awesome. Grand theater? Oh, that’s a nice looking theater. (0:20:34) Kevin: Fisherman’s hut? Fish up stuff? All sorts of quality of life stuff? (0:20:40) Kevin: Well, there’s a lot of graphs in this game and things like that. I’m down for that. (0:20:45) Kevin: Yeah, that’s a lot of stuff coming. Like I said, I’m probably going to wait for 1.0 myself, but I’m glad that it’s coming along nicely. Yeah, that is again fabled. (0:20:57) Kelly: Is there any, is there any real estate or? (0:20:59) Kevin: Go. Oh, it is live. That update is already live as of this recording. (0:21:05) Kevin: So, yay. If anyone is playing the one point or the early access, first of all, (0:21:10) Kevin: somebody tell me if they are because I want to know about it. And it is out already. (0:21:15) Kevin: Um, yeah. All right. Good. Oh man. I’m just trying to fable them. It’s so goofy looking and the. (0:21:23) Kelly: Is there like an overall release date or no? (0:21:33) Kevin: uh not that i’m saying now um I have left here a quick glance um yeah so probably still a hot minute probably sometime in 2024 i’d hope but uh it’s not dead yet so i’ll take that let’s see next up we have uh moonstone island we have dlc for that this is which one’s this one okay all right we so we have dlc come (0:22:11) Kevin: Well, let me get to the details. Yeah, it’s the Halloween update right? That’s the key thing here. Um, (0:22:16) Kelly: I think so, ‘cause it’s for Halloween. (0:22:17) Kevin: We’ve got just a whole bunch of Spooky decors per their website gravestones skeletons a big old pumpkin house um Web’s five types of cobwebs. Oh Oh a rug. That’s just the tongue. That’s clever. I like that. Um, (0:22:38) Kevin: uh So yeah, there. (0:22:41) Kevin: Okay. (0:22:43) Kevin: Okay. (0:22:45) Kelly: I’m sorry, it’s actually not out yet. (0:22:45) Kevin: Okay. (0:22:47) Kelly: It’s not out, which I’m kinda… (0:22:47) Kevin: Um, there are n- some- the- so some of this stuff is DLC, which I’m assuming means purchasable separately, but there will be stuff included for free in the updates on the skeletons and things like that. (0:22:58) Kevin: Um, spirits are free- I don’t know what spirits are in the context of this game, but um, but they’re coming some out. (0:23:05) Kevin: Um, oh wow, I didn’t check- it’s got some good reviews. (0:23:09) Kevin: Um, I’ll have to check that out. (0:23:11) Kevin: Oh wow, what? Oh gosh, I forgot about- I’m remembering the game. (0:23:15) Kevin: There’s- you can fight like robots with a card battling system. (0:23:19) Kevin: They are… (0:23:21) Kevin: Yeah, oh man, oh gosh. (0:23:23) Kelly: These are really cute looking things, these creatures. (0:23:26) Kelly: I, yeah, like, I really like the style of it, yeah. (0:23:26) Kevin: This whole episode’s just me getting excited about games I forgot to get excited about. (0:23:31) Kevin: Um, as if I didn’t have enough already. (0:23:33) Kevin: There are really cute characters- there’s a fishbowl with legs. (0:23:36) Kevin: Um, I like that. (0:23:39) Kevin: that. And then at the end they just. (0:23:41) Kevin: Have a picture of a cat with like a sun hood. I don’t know but um, it’s very cute cat. (0:23:47) Kevin: That is Moonstone Island. That is already out, I believe. Why do we have a date for that? (0:23:52) Kelly: It is a very cute cat. (0:23:54) Kelly: The game is out, it says “NA” for them. (0:23:56) Kevin: Okay, thank you. But it says, while says it’s October 27th. I (0:24:06) Kevin: Couldn’t find that myself. Oh wait. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, October 27th. It’s only $4. (0:24:11) Kevin: Okay, that’s actually not bad at all and 10% off the first week. So there’s 46. (0:24:18) Kevin: Yeah, okay. Oh, it’s a new spirits must be a little monster buddies. That’s what it means. I’m excited. One looks like an apple with a worm through it. They’re just showing silhouettes. I’m just guessing. (0:24:23) Kelly: There you go. (0:24:29) Kevin: And yeah, I don’t know all that. Oh, I might check this out now. It’s a very cute game. (0:24:34) Kevin: Moonstone Island. Um Let’s see Next up we have oh, this isn’t an interesting (0:24:41) Kevin: one because boy, I never thought we’d see this this is Lonesome Village game that I notoriously advocate because the developers are from Mexico. It’s got the cute coyote as you saw puzzles in a tower. They’re coming out the fiscal edition. Pre-orders are live. You can check the show notes for the link. It is not from limited run games actually. A game a site called premium edition games. (0:25:11) Kevin: physical edition which includes all sorts of goodies including oh wow a full-color manual oh that’s exciting Wow a dog tag yeah they do um oh man a manual that’s exciting um yeah it’s great um yeah I I cover this game with Johnny, it was last year or year before, I don’t remember. (0:25:22) Kelly: Dude, the indie games always put so much into like what you get from… (0:25:32) Kelly: I love a manual. (0:25:33) Kelly: A full color manual too, that’s so nice. (0:25:41) Kevin: It’s a fun little game with lots of puzzles, and just very very cute little animal-closing-esque villagers. (0:25:47) Kelly: It looks really cute. The art style kind of reminds me of like Cult of the Lamb, but without the like paper feel. (0:25:47) Kevin: It’s actually funny because in the “story” of the game, so it’s called Lonesome Village because there’s a village and everyone’s kind of been turned to stone or disappeared. (0:26:03) Kevin: And the villains, they’re the people who did it very much look like Cult of the Lamb. (0:26:06) Kelly: Okay. (0:26:07) Kelly: Oh! Oh! It’s a cult! It’s a cult! What is happening here? (0:26:09) Kevin: Yeah. (0:26:12) Kevin: It came out around the time Cult of the Loom. (0:26:14) Kelly: I’m watching the trailer! Oh my god! (0:26:15) Kevin: It looks a lot like Cult of the Loom. (0:26:18) Kevin: The cult from Cult of the Loom. (0:26:20) Kevin: I think we made the joke in the episode. (0:26:22) Kevin: It came out around the same time too. (0:26:25) Kevin: Yep, yep, exactly. Yep. (0:26:26) Kelly: That’s so funny, ‘cause I was thinking it kinda like reminds me of the way they do the animals, like the style of the animals. (0:26:32) Kelly: But now that I’m watching this trailer, it’s like literally… (0:26:32) Kevin: It’s cult, it’s a lot like Cult of the Loom, Cult. (0:26:36) Kelly: That’s so funny. Oh, I gotta play this. (0:26:41) Kevin: Yeah, I have to check it out again. I still have it. (0:26:45) Kevin: It’s been a while. I’m sure they patched it up and done some stuff. (0:26:48) Kevin: ‘Cause I had a few rough edges back then, but I’m curious. (0:26:51) Kevin: I might do another look at it at some point. (0:26:54) Kevin: Because, yeah, props to–but, again, Mexican dev team, so I gotta shout them out. (0:26:59) Kevin: Ogre Pixel, that’s the name. (0:27:02) Kevin: But, yeah, that is a cute little logo of an Ogre–Pixillator Ogre. (0:27:07) Kevin: And again, this is the physical edition release. (0:27:11) Kevin: $40 for the premium edition, which seems to be their only version but includes all sorts of goodies. Um, I When do pre-orders end? I don’t know if I see that but the pre-orders are available now So you can check out the site and get it. Um Alright next up we have Not Garden Galaxy is perfect. We’re heading on the notes. That’s a different game that I was going to cover almost (0:27:42) Kevin: Garden story. That’s the one with the playable grape. That looks a lot like Stardew Valley a lot like It has It’s very cute though the grape that’s playable It is an update that has 11 new languages. Wow, that is a lot of languages I don’t know which ones they are. I just see the It’s out on Steam and switch already this update (0:28:09) Kevin: Very cool. Yeah, I actually don’t know what language is. I don’t know. (0:28:11) Kevin: Let’s see the details. But wow, that’s a big number. Good for them. (0:28:16) Kevin: Always props for making it more available for more people and whatnot. (0:28:19) Kevin: Yep. It is. The grape is very cute. (0:28:20) Kelly: Yeah, that’s always awesome. It really does look like stardew though. It’s cute though (0:28:25) Kevin: Next up, a new game announcement for as far as I can tell. (0:28:31) Kevin: This is called Fantastic Haven, which actually I find really intriguing. (0:28:36) Kevin: It’s the prime… (0:28:40) Kevin: Let me read the– (0:28:41) Kevin: The elevator pitch. (0:28:43) Kevin: So, this is a… (0:28:57) Kevin: Yeah, a Zook cheaper-esque type game, but they’re all magical creatures. (0:29:03) Kevin: Um, so you’re building big pens that look like circular homes more? (0:29:09) Kevin: Um, you alter the land and… (0:29:11) Kevin: It’s full 3D graphics, um, the… I think the actual designs of the creatures are actually quite nice, um… (0:29:18) Kevin: I like animals and critters and… (0:29:21) Kevin: …cheaping them and whatnot, so I’m already pretty interested, um, especially with the spin of… (0:29:26) Kevin: …like, they’re all magical creatures, I don’t see any other animals in here, I see like a griffin, uh… (0:29:31) Kelly: No, I’ve only seen, like, yeah, griffins and some weird frog with, like, horns and stuff. (0:29:31) Kevin: Yup, it’s a bullfrog, you get it? (0:29:36) Kelly: Ah, yes, yes, yes. (0:29:41) Kevin: The color shows a lot more, uh, it looks like you’re even busting some out of, like, cages and, like, carny… (0:29:46) Kevin: …you know, those carnival cages with the wheels, the cars, um… (0:29:51) Kevin: So that’s… that looks very fun, yeah, like I said, a lot of menus, probably, um… (0:29:57) Kevin: …very zookeeper tycoon-esque, um, but with the heavy, uh, magical fantasy paint over it, um… (0:30:06) Kevin: So that is right now the only release date planned is for Q2 of 2024 so it’ll probably be a minute but look forward to it I certainly am those are some fun designs yeah it’s it’s it’s charming enough for me I’m definitely interested um and then lastly okay this one I want to talk about in depth a little more because this one’s affecting me personally uh well actually there’s two me and my neck was night market once again got another patch that one. (0:30:41) Kevin: one point two point one oh whatever the it’s out on switch so you know it’s out on the steam version or whatever um so uh there’s a lot of quality of life stuff you can do with it. (0:30:48) Kevin: I’m not gonna go into the details because I don’t remember them but the other one I want to talk about because we just talked about last week is paleo pines. (0:30:53) Kevin: We just got yup okay so uh one point two point one oh whatever the it’s out on switch so you know it’s out on the steam version or whatever um so uh there’s a lot of quality of life stuff you can do with it. (0:30:54) Kelly: Which I still have to play, but I have not yet. (0:31:11) Kevin: We can change how quickly time passes in the game um oh gosh so one of the after I recorded last week with Spencer and we talked and played I was getting a lot of crashes. (0:31:23) Kevin: They had released a patch previously to fix some of that they said it was like a memory issue um but they were still experiencing it. (0:31:26) Kelly: Mmm. Okay. (0:31:31) Kevin: I felt like the more farther I got in the game the more I was crashed getting crashes uh they addressed some of that. (0:31:37) Kevin: that the game is still not free of crashes because (0:31:41) Kevin: we’ve been probably within an hour after downloading the update the game crashed on me again But it is better in general So they’re definitely aware and working on it at probably top of their list There is Also, there’s a whole list and you can check the show notes for them. I’m trying to look at which ones that are Stand out to me. Oh, there’s a cooking pot (0:31:46) Kelly: Oh, God. (0:32:07) Kevin: But it was weird because it was at some other guy’s house you have to go all the way to this other (0:32:12) Kevin: cook stuff but now you can buy one for your own ranch so that’s great oh here’s a fun one um so you can ride your dinosaurs because of course you can but the thing was whenever you got off of them they would just run away from you at max speed it was whole it was wild you could like try to stop them but um clearly not intended they have addressed that and and this definitely was an update needed and and it works um they will no longer run away from you when you get off of them (0:32:42) Kevin: um yes well luckily I think it was only in the ranch like your home base when it happened they wouldn’t leave you when you’re out in the wild oh my god that would be the worst yes but it’s still a pain because your character is a lot slower than the dinosaur so yeah yeah it’s just a pain having to go across the ranch to find them I mean it’s a pretty big ranch too um (0:32:44) Kelly: feeling it’s like okay nice I can I can get to the place I’m going to but once you’re there you’re stuck there now (0:32:56) Kelly: Oh, okay, okay, I was picturing like you, yeah, like you in the middle of like some field or something. (0:33:12) Kevin: uh there’s all sorts oh horse lock so there was a uh resource called forestwood that was needed for a lot of things it was pretty rare they increased the respawn on that that’s great um they did some ui improvements which were nice uh um lots of other things some oh there was a storage glitch spencer talked about think they fixed that um yeah just sort lots of little things (0:33:42) Kevin: because there were lots of little things that needed fixing um like I said still not 100 percent yeah yeah there is um where is it do they not have it um so there there is I read there is one glitch that they haven’t addressed yet um they know it’s an issue but for some reason at some point and it’s happened to me your game will reset to the first day of the game because there’s you know calendar like most farm. (0:34:12) Kevin: games and whatnot like you’ll keep all your stuff but somehow the calendar will just have reset to the very first game or very first day of the year which is wild um luckily I was able to get around that if you encounter it you can just reload an old save and it’s fine but um that was the wild glitch to see um but yeah that was I’m glad that came out because that addressed a lot of the little nitpicks Spencer and I had with the game and I’m sure (0:34:42) Kevin: they’re still working hard on that so good for you paleopines that update again is out already for switch and probably the other versions whatever versions it’s on all right so that was uh yeah the hearty helping of news and things but that’s now we’re doing that let’s talk about grave graveyard keeper yeah what’s what’s the tagline the most inaccurate medieval simulator isn’t that (0:35:09) Kelly: Something like that. I know inaccurate is involved of [laugh] (0:35:14) Kevin: Hold on let me look at it. Um the most inaccurate cemetery simulation game. Okay. Yeah, I think that’s what it is Okay Well Yeah, so again, um It and this game’s been up for years at this point. Um, I’ll covered it years ago Yeah. Yeah, there you go. That’s cute (0:35:24) Kelly: Oh, the most inaccurate medieval, yeah, cemetery sim of the year. (0:35:36) Kelly: Uh, they had their five year anniversary actually in August. (0:35:42) Kevin: There’s a bunch of DLC I bought the (0:35:44) Kevin: version with all the DLC I don’t know what the base game hazard does not have. (0:35:48) Kevin: I’ve only played it for an afternoon or two. I don’t think I’ve reached any of the DLC portions yet probably. (0:35:49) Kelly: Oh, did you? Okay. (0:35:57) Kevin: They’re all parody names there’s a stranger sins there’s breaking something (0:35:57) Kelly: Um, I’m trying to remember. I know the DLC… (0:35:59) Kelly: Yes, because there’s better save soul. (0:36:04) Kelly: Um, I did look into getting them, but I didn’t- I didn’t, because I think it was like- (0:36:11) Kelly: I feel like there’s- there’s so much going on in this game already. (0:36:14) Kevin: Even if it is, there’s a lot going on. (0:36:14) Kelly: Uh, that I was very happy to not have the added, um, things that like go along with the better save soul one. I heard that gets a lot of pretty tedious. (0:36:24) Kevin: Yeah, heh heh heh. (0:36:25) Kevin: Better save solo, that’s good. (0:36:29) Kevin: I don’t think that one’s out on Switch. (0:36:31) Kevin: That’s it? I don’t know if that one’s out on Switch. (0:36:32) Kelly: Oh, are you playing on Switch? I am not gonna lie. I have not. (0:36:36) Kelly: I’ve been so bad at playing my Switch this year. (0:36:44) Kevin: But, I mean, that’s fine, like, I know that the Switch port gets black for a good reason. (0:36:55) Kevin: There’s a Switch tax for sure, so I don’t blame you. (0:36:57) Kevin: But hey, at least we can compare notes on that. (0:37:00) Kevin: If you played on Steam, I would guess? (0:37:10) Kevin: Um, but okay, so let’s okay, let’s the elevator pitch Okay, first of all, I didn’t expect that this game’s an isekai That I didn’t expect at all so for people unfamiliar with isekai that is a genre of anime primarily where a character wakes up in a simulated often fantasy type world (0:37:38) Kevin: Sword Art Online and just… (0:37:40) Kevin: …other ones. It’s a whole trope now. (0:37:42) Kevin: Umm… (0:37:43) Kelly: I was gonna say it breaks the, you know, inherited your grandpa’s farm trope though. (0:37:44) Kevin: … (0:37:46) Kevin: Yeah. Yeah. (0:37:48) Kevin: You’re just a guy who gets hit by a car cause he’s looking at his phone. (0:37:52) Kevin: Don’t look at your phone when crossing the streets. (0:37:54) Kevin: It’s dark in the rain, people. (0:37:56) Kevin: It’s not recommended. (0:37:58) Kevin: And he wakes… (0:37:59) Kelly: Poor dude’s just trying to give back to his girlfriend or whatever. (0:38:00) Kevin: …yeah, his love, as he says, and… (0:38:03) Kevin: …he wakes up in a graveyard area and… (0:38:08) Kevin: There’s a talking skull that talks to you. (0:38:10) Kevin: And he says, “Hey, welcome. You’re the graveyard keeper, I guess.” (0:38:13) Kevin: Um, more or less, and sure enough, you’re put in charge of this graveyard in this little medieval village area. (0:38:23) Kevin: And you’re trying to figure out how to get back home while managing the graveyard and all the stuff people are asking you. (0:38:32) Kevin: Because, of course, people are going to ask you to do everything around here. (0:38:35) Kevin: Uh… (0:38:36) Kelly: I mean, what would a game be without everybody asking you to do all these things? (0:38:40) Kevin: Right, right. (0:38:42) Kevin: Um, so, okay, hell, you beat the game, correct? What are your overall impressions? (0:38:50) Kelly: I really liked the game. I thought it was a lot of fun. I think there’s a lot of stuff to do, (0:38:57) Kelly: like it can get a bit overwhelming, but I think, you know, it definitely involves, you know, (0:38:59) Kevin: Boy does it. (0:39:01) Kevin: Oh. Yep. (0:39:04) Kelly: looking things up online. But I will say there is an issue with how intuitive it is. (0:39:08) Kevin: Yep. (0:39:10) Kevin: Yep. (0:39:12) Kelly: I think I could have been further along in my gameplay if I understood some of the (0:39:20) Kelly: panics. A lot better. And I will say on that note, it was not always easy to find the answers on the internet. So that made it even worse. And sometimes if you did find an answer, (0:39:21) Kevin: Yep. Okay, so yeah, so. Mm-hmm. (0:39:31) Kevin: Oh yeah, the double whammy, oh yeah. (0:39:35) Kevin: Yup, it’s wild. (0:39:38) Kelly: it was from like 2018, so something got patched or didn’t work like that anymore. (0:39:46) Kelly: So, that was my biggest issue. (0:39:48) Kelly: Did it stop me from putting in, you know, (0:39:50) Kelly: 90 hours, I think, or whatever into the game? (0:39:55) Kelly: No, but there were definitely moments where I was frustrated. (0:39:59) Kelly: Or, like, again, just like, I was playing the game, I was enjoying myself, (0:40:03) Kelly: but I could have been further along than what I was. (0:40:07) Kevin: Yeah, um, okay. Mm-hmm Okay, yeah for sure they’re just Yeah, absolutely. Um, so for comparison I got the game Thursday I think today’s like Saturday. So two days ago So I’ve only played for and Mario wonder so I didn’t play as much yesterday So I played the game for an afternoon and then some um, I like the game a lot. Um, (0:40:07) Kelly: And not even in, like, a micromanagy, like, you know, whatever kind of way. (0:40:13) Kelly: Like, in, like, a… (0:40:15) Kelly: It would have made more sense. (0:40:26) Kelly: Mm-hmm. (0:40:37) Kevin: I think it is Almost minecrafty and how open it is and crafting and everything But I fully agree like that’s my biggest criticism there’s a lot that is not intuitive Or explained well Yep, yep, yep, I’m sure (0:40:50) Kelly: you haven’t even gotten or opened a lot of the, you know, different aspects of the game yet at this point, I’m sure, because it really expands. It expands a lot. There is a lot to do. There is so (0:41:03) Kevin: But I can imagine… I mean I see the skill tree. (0:41:07) Kevin: So… I can… I can… she’s… I can… (0:41:12) Kevin: So there’s a skill tree in this game, right? You have to get points to unlock your skills. (0:41:18) Kevin: And you can see how far it goes. And yes, I can see there’s a lot to unlock and do and whatnot. (0:41:24) Kevin: But… I think the skill tree is probably where I can direct my first criticism. (0:41:32) Kevin: Because there’s three types of points, whatever you want to call them. (0:41:37) Kevin: Red, green, and blue, and you need different amounts of each for unlocking each new skill, which lets you craft new things or do new things, whatnot. (0:41:46) Kevin: Um, the red and green work hard to get, but the blue, the blue is killing me because I hit a point where I had like one blue point overall and couldn’t figure out how to get more. (0:41:56) Kelly: You run out of them. (0:41:58) Kevin: Yeah. (0:41:59) Kelly: There’s a certain point where the game just stops you from getting more for a bit. (0:42:02) Kevin: Really? Wow. (0:42:04) Kelly: Not like stops you. (0:42:06) Kelly: There’s definitely a roadblock, I would say. (0:42:11) Kevin: - Yeah, okay. (0:42:14) Kelly: I struggled with that for so long. (0:42:17) Kelly: And then, of course, at a certain point, it’s like, oh. (0:42:20) Kelly: Now, actually, you’re out of red. (0:42:23) Kelly: Or now you’re out of green or whatever. (0:42:25) Kelly: And it’s like, oh, something that I– (0:42:26) Kelly: so I think one of them is done from manual labor, red, I think. (0:42:27) Kevin: yep yep your manufacturing and things yeah red okay oh you don’t get read from them (0:42:34) Kelly: Yeah, so at a certain point, you get helper zombies that you can assign to do things. (0:42:42) Kelly: So you’re no longer getting the red from those things that you would be getting red from. (0:42:47) Kelly: So it definitely makes you have to stop and think and watch everything. (0:42:56) Kevin: Yup, absolutely, um, it’s a very resource-manage-y heavy game and that includes your skill points or whatever you want to call them. (0:43:07) Kevin: That’s fascinating. (0:43:09) Kevin: Like I can see the blue are going to be very scarce. (0:43:11) Kelly: But I think it’s interesting because it does… (0:43:13) Kelly: Sorry, I was gonna say it just it does impact, I feel like, (0:43:18) Kelly: what you’re trying to do in that day. Because if you’re trying to get blue points… (0:43:19) Kevin: Right. Yeah, exactly. (0:43:22) Kevin: The nice thing, one of the nicest things about the game, (0:43:26) Kevin: there’s no real pressure. (0:43:28) Kevin: There’s no seasons or years or whatever. (0:43:31) Kevin: There’s a week. (0:43:32) Kevin: So like in six, seven, I don’t remember how long, how many days, (0:43:36) Kevin: but that’s the worst that you have to wait. (0:43:37) Kelly: It’s seven days Which and I liked I like I really like the fact that there was no pressure on the seasons or When you finished the game even or anything like that. I also liked the Each day is a different person You have to make sure that you’re getting the things you need to have done before that day so you can go and deal with that person (0:43:38) Kevin: Yep. Which go by quickly. (0:43:42) Kevin: Yep. (0:43:57) Kevin: Yep. (0:43:57) Kevin: Yep. (0:44:03) Kevin: Yep, he just gotta wait until… (0:44:03) Kelly: Because there’s definitely some weeks where if you miss that person you’re screwed (0:44:07) Kelly: Yup. And there is something later on in the game, you know, when things have slowed down in certain areas and you’re just like waiting for that one day where you can fast forward. (0:44:10) Kevin: Until that point. (0:44:21) Kelly: Yes, but I do actually want to say on that point, I think this is very interesting because there is no pause button. There’s no space yet. (0:44:21) Kevin: Yeah, sure that makes sense. Yeah, you can fast-forward at any point you should go to sleep and (0:44:32) Kevin: Yeah, yeah, even if you’re in your menus, time goes on. (0:44:37) Kelly: Yeah, you have to literally like go to the exit screen or whatever. Like the main menu page. (0:44:41) Kevin: Yeah Yep Yep, so if you’re looking through your notes here You know hemming and hawing at a menu thinking about where you want to spend your points that happened to me just just today When I was playing I cuz I finally got some blue points today. And so I was just like agonizing over I wanted where I wanted to spend them and before when I got out of the menu Oh, it’s evening already. Cool. The whole day’s [laughter] (0:44:43) Kelly: There’s a certain page that stops time, but the rest of them don’t. (0:44:48) Kelly: Mm-hmm. (0:45:09) Kelly: Yep. (0:45:11) Kelly: Yep. (0:45:12) Kevin: But they’re the kind of I mean, I don’t know if it was their intent or not But the way to combat that it’s very easy to reroll your did your save like you own there’s no autosave It just saves when you go when you wake up So most of the time you can say you’re pretty much have a safe at the start of the date or start of the day, excuse me, and You can just reload to that and have a plan or save yourself (0:45:23) Kelly: Oh, yes. (0:45:25) Kelly: Yes. (0:45:29) Kelly: I would just quit the game. (0:45:32) Kelly: Mm-hmm. (0:45:40) Kelly: Oh yeah, no, there was many times where I would either just, you would see like the NPC walking away from their post, and I would have to go and reset the game and then do the day over and make sure I got there early enough. (0:45:47) Kevin: Oh my gosh. (0:45:50) Kevin: Yep. (0:45:52) Kevin: Oh my gosh. (0:45:54) Kevin: That happened to me twice already when I go down and Snake is running away and like, “No, I need to talk to you, Snake.” (0:46:02) Kelly: oh god he’s so annoying he’s so annoying for the skill points though I think it’s like kind of fun like there’s some weird ones you can choose from uh-huh (0:46:05) Kevin: He is. (0:46:08) Kevin: He is. (0:46:11) Kevin: Yeah. (0:46:13) Kevin: Overall, I’m a big fan of the Skilled Trees, umm… (0:46:17) Kevin: Because you can very much pick and choose if you want to focus on certain areas and whatnot. (0:46:23) Kevin: Umm, obviously like… (0:46:25) Kevin: To get green points, that’s the farming stuff, so you do want to invest in some of that stuff. (0:46:30) Kevin: Umm, but like, early on you can really get through a lot of the wood and metalworking stuff. (0:46:37) Kevin: Umm, and again, with almost no pressure on when to do it, umm, it’s… (0:46:42) Kevin: It’s very open and you’re very free to pick and choose as you want. (0:46:46) Kevin: You know, (0:46:47) Kevin: the limitations of how many skill points you actually have notwithstanding. (0:46:52) Kevin: I think it is a clever system. (0:46:54) Kevin: And because you get to see what’s coming ahead, that helps you plan that too. (0:47:00) Kevin: I really like that. (0:47:01) Kelly: Yes, definitely. (0:47:01) Kevin: Um… (0:47:02) Kelly: There was definitely some areas in the skill tree though where I did not understand what, (0:47:09) Kelly: like if you unlocked something, (0:47:12) Kelly: I didn’t understand how to access it afterwards, (0:47:15) Kelly: which then led to me diving down a rabbit hole, (0:47:18) Kelly: trying to figure it out. (0:47:18) Kevin: Yeah, sometimes that’s a little unclear most of the time When you look at the skill tree thing it says okay, you can craft at this bench or that bench or whatever But some are not very clear. Yeah Some aren’t super clear. Yeah But I do agree (0:47:27) Kelly: Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, it definitely is pretty good. (0:47:30) Kelly: It’s pretty good. (0:47:34) Kelly: Can we talk about the main premise of the game, which I think is the most weird and fun part is, you know, collecting your corpses? (0:47:41) Kevin: Yeah, the it’s definitely yeah the differentiator the the the graveyard itself. Yeah, let’s talk about that (0:47:43) Kelly: Because you are, you are quite literally the graveyard keeper. So you get a (0:47:54) Kelly: Annoyed little donkey that delivers corpses to you. (0:47:56) Kevin: I’m red donkey from a leftist stable [laughter] (0:47:57) Kelly: And oh my god, there was so many times where I would hear that bell and just be so far away from home. (0:48:06) Kelly: And just go running because it’s like the second you hear that bell that corpse starts, you know, deteriorating. (0:48:12) Kevin: Yep Yeah, that’s that’s an interesting aspect that the forps is deteriorate and it affects a lot of things And yeah, they’re kind of deliver just at random times. It feels like I didn’t detect any pattern Umm… (0:48:22) Kelly: Yeah. (0:48:23) Kelly: Yes. (0:48:27) Kelly: No, they can definitely be whenever. (0:48:31) Kelly: And they can pile up too. (0:48:34) Kevin: Oh my gosh, I don’t think I’ve had that happen yet, but I could see that happening. (0:48:35) Kelly: Yeah, no, they can definitely pile up. (0:48:43) Kelly: I mean, this game goes in depth. (0:48:48) Kelly: I have freezers for bodies. (0:48:53) Kelly: So, you know, it’s like you are literally treating it like a morgue, like… (0:48:57) Kelly: But I think one of the most fun parts is removing the organs, (0:49:03) Kelly: but also the most hard to understand initially. (0:49:06) Kevin: Right, so yeah, let’s talk about that because as very early on you’re introduced that you have options to do the corpse One you can bury them in your graveyard. It has a prettiness rating you how you decorate it Well, you bury them and whatnot You can even just throw it in the river or cremate them or You can take them into your morgan Do a little bisection, you know see what you can poke around and find in there pull out a skull some blood What? (0:49:36) Kevin: A bit of flesh. (0:49:38) Kevin: It’s fascinating that they gave you this option. (0:49:43) Kevin: There’s… (0:49:44) Kevin: I haven’t gotten too in-depth with the body parts. (0:49:47) Kelly: So, I’ll explain it. It’s a lot. (0:49:51) Kelly: Basically, your corpse, so when you bury a corpse, you want it to be as high rated as possible because it impacts your cemeteries overall like beauty rating, (0:50:05) Kelly: which is a whole different aspect. (0:50:07) Kelly: And that’s a big part of the game because it kind of roadblocks you if you don’t keep up with it. (0:50:11) Kelly: But so you want to make sure you’re removing. (0:50:14) Kelly: If you remove certain organs, it makes your corpses… (0:50:17) Kelly: …that’s how you can remove them. (0:50:19) Kelly: If you remove other organs, it decreases it, and they don’t really tell you at first. (0:50:23) Kelly: You have to unlock skills on the skill tree… (0:50:25) Kelly: …that tell you. (0:50:25) Kevin: Yeah, I mean they tell you like there’s bad organs, but you don’t you can’t tell which ones until you go get that later (0:50:29) Kelly: Yes. Yes. (0:50:34) Kelly: And so you can remove organs, and you can also try to put the organ back. (0:50:38) K

Today, We decided to take it easy and talk about this train wreak of a  convention called Dashcon. Be prepared that you will cringe! Once again what could go wrong with three unprepared internet friend and a ball pit? Learn More About Dashcon: Sarah Z Internet Historian The Verge CNN   Check Out Our Socials:  IG: www.instagram.com/justonemorepageofficial/ Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@justonemorepagepodcast Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgQxE__Hxln2LWHWza_94w  

Do you want an extra hour in the ball pit? This week, for the first time, V and Emily are joined by a VERY SPECIAL GUEST, Lauren Shippen of the podcast Dashboard Diaries! They discuss the convention to end all conventions, the first (and only) DashCon. From its birth on the blue hellsite to its death in a Chicagoland hotel, DashCon was truly a lesson for the ages that just because sometimes fandom can pull off amazing and inspirational feats, sometimes it... cannot. Lauren brings her expertise in all things Tumblr to TWIFH with humor and grace. Did you go to DashCon? WOULD you go to a DashCon?

It's. Finally. Time. The episode you've all been waiting for. Mishapocalypse. Fandom blogs vs. Hipster blogs. DASHCON. This week, Brittany and Sarah take you down this absolute hellhole of a website. Go to https://Zocdoc.com/VCG and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Then start your search for a top-rated doctor today. Many are available within 24 hours. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 yearsupply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit https://athleticgreens.com/vcg For listeners of the show, Dipsea is offering an extended 30 day free trial when you go to https://DipseaStories.com/VCG YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4SYGqhLznPx7HiRzZSMu2Q VCG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vcgpodcastclips Brittany's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski Brittany's Twitter: https://twitter.com/brittany_broski Brittany's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittany_broski/ Brittany's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCad_KQumqRY06gpb24HkpPw Sarah's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahschauer Sarah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahschauer Sarah's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahschauer/ Sarah's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1T0JN1hhHfNsiKtqKn_dEQ  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In July 2014, a handful of Tumblr users opened the doors to the long-awaited DashCon. The eclectic Tumblr community had been dreaming of a scenario where they could gather and celebrate their various fandoms for years. Unfortunately, when a group of friends got together a few months before, they had no clue what they were getting into. Needless to say, the event was a disaster. Before the conference even began, the team that planned the event was heavily laden with problems, from talent backing out to financial missteps. It all culminated in a sad ball pit that has become an internet meme. As a result, DashCon will go down in internet history.

You didn't think we were done talking about Dashcon, did you? We've heard what it was like to BE there, but what was it like to RUN Dashcon. In this episode, we talk to Lochlan O'Neil, the Tumblr user who started it all.  Follow us on Tumblr at dashboarddiaries.tumblr.com to see the posts we talk about on this episode or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com! Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cherokee McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription (which can be found on our Tumblr) by Laudable.

It is time. Time to travel back in time. The date? July 11th, 2014. The place? Schaumburg, Illinois. The event? Dashcon. What was this now infamous convention like to experience first hand? We get two former Tumblr employees and Dashcon survivors on to talk about their time at the Renaissance Hotel.  Thank you Amanda Ferri and Chase Turner for joining us! Follow us on Tumblr at dashboarddiaries.tumblr.com to see the posts we talk about on this episode or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com! Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cherokee McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription (which can be found on our Tumblr) by Laudable. Sound effects: "Correct Answer / That's Right!" by Beetlemuse; licensed under the Attribution 3.0 License.

This week the Time Pals-and returning guest ShadoSpartan-drop elbows onto the solar plexus of the scam convention known as Dashcon. We paid the extra hour for the ball pit.You can find ShadoSpartan's newest videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ShadoBat/featured

“Sadly, there will be extra time in the ball pit. Not because there is time slot system, but because it's deflating. Oh and someone pissed in it. No refunds.” This week on the podcast, the boys talk about “This American Life” unironically doing the same story as our “This American Life” parody (check out that parody in Episode 100), Will's recent night cramps, what media bums us out, Theo asks “What Does This Rap Lyric Mean?” about “Fourth Chamber” by Ghost Face Killah and “Diet Coke” by Pusha T, Will continues his investigation into Pornhub's Yearly Insights including statistics about how holidays and national events affect site traffic, Theo talks about Fancy Feast's new limited (human) restaurant “Gatto Bianco”, and Will takes us back in time to recount the disaster that was DashCon, the first (and only) Tumblr fan convention.   Email us at segmentcitypodcast@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/SegmentCity Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtOxbiSIX1NlSrNMLSqzFqQ

This week, we take a beat to talk through some Tumblr terms and the finer points of navigating the website. Whether you're brand new to the hellsite, diving back in after years away, or just a user who feels as passionately about terms like OTP and Glupp Shitto as we do. It's time to go back to Tumblr University! Follow us on Tumblr at dashboarddiaries.tumblr.com to see the posts we talk about on this episode or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com! Thank you Pia for sharing your feels with us! Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cherokee McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription (which can be found on our Tumblr) by Laudable. For bonus clips (this week, definitions of "Mishapocalypse", "Dashcon", and "Skeleton Wars", ad-free episodes, and more, become a patron at patreon.com/dashboarddiaries

The well intentioned but absolute audacity of DashCon and TanaCon existing as well as The Worlds Fair lighting shit up literally and figuratively.

The internet has birthed so many wild moments of hilarity over the years. During the second half of their South by Southwest show, Rachelle and Madison play a game to find out which piece of internet history is the greatest. With contestants like the man singing a gospel remix of the Golden Girls theme song, “Thank You For Being a Friend,” the Beto O'Rourke sex tweet, Julia Fox saying “uncut gems,” and the infamous DashCon, it's quite the tough field. Tune in to find out which piece of internet ephemera comes out victorious. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The internet has birthed so many wild moments of hilarity over the years. During the second half of their South by Southwest show, Rachelle and Madison play a game to find out which piece of internet history is the greatest. With contestants like the man singing a gospel remix of the Golden Girls theme song, “Thank You For Being a Friend,” the Beto O'Rourke sex tweet, Julia Fox saying “uncut gems,” and the infamous DashCon, it's quite the tough field. Tune in to find out which piece of internet ephemera comes out victorious. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The internet has birthed so many wild moments of hilarity over the years. During the second half of their South by Southwest show, Rachelle and Madison play a game to find out which piece of internet history is the greatest. With contestants like the man singing a gospel remix of the Golden Girls theme song, “Thank You For Being a Friend,” the Beto O'Rourke sex tweet, Julia Fox saying “uncut gems,” and the infamous DashCon, it's quite the tough field. Tune in to find out which piece of internet ephemera comes out victorious. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabe has every fire achievement ever, Anna gets a cheese grater to the brain, they both discuss Hannibal's snacking tendencies, and also did you know the Dashcon ballpit was actually a portal to the Space Jam universe??? It's Bad!!! Find us on Twitter @badcursed, and if you want to send us some cursed audios, send them to badcursedconceptspodcast@gmail.com and we'll give them a listen! Be sure to give yourself a fancy title (and tell us your pronouns!) Bad!!! is part of the Common Unity Media podcast network! Many exciting things are happening, like a Patreon, a merch shop for your favorite shows, and special exciting bonus content! Head on over to commonunity.media to check it out and peruse the other wonderful shows on the network! The first six episodes of Bad Bites are live now for our patrons to listen to! If you want to see lists of audios and extra info about Bad!!! episodes, head over to our fan wiki, created and maintained by our lovely listeners! https://bad-cursed-podcast.fandom.com/wiki/Bad!!!_-_a_Cursed_Concepts_Podcast_Wiki

A deep dive into the internet's "number one" ball pit

This is our Halloween 2021 episode! Join LVC for a tale of terror and mystery around one of the most imfamous conventions ever to grace the United States. This event was the definition of "If It Can Go Wrong, It Will Go Wrong".  Unpaid bills, donations, Welcome to Nightvale....and a ball pit.References below.https://www.instagram.com/podcastscs/https://www.instagram.com/laviecosplay/https://linktr.ee/podcastscs for additional listening platformsProduced by LVC Productions. You can find us on facebook, instragram, twitter, and vero at La Vie Cosplay. Our podcast instagram is podcastscs. Our website is laviecosplay.com. Have a fun, crazy con or cosplay related story? Absurd cosplay question? Or just something in general to share with us? Email us at podcastscs@gmail.com or DM us at podcastscs. If you like what you heard please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you for listening and remember; just because you can, doesn't mean you should.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashConhttps://www.theverge.com/2014/7/15/5901679/disastercon-how-a-tumblr-fan-conventions-big-dreamhttps://fanlore.org/wiki/DashConhttps://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/dashconhttps://www.dailydot.com/parsec/dash-con-controversy-tumblr/https://jezebel.com/the-tumblr-user-convention-dashcon-was-a-beautiful-hil-1604571770https://www.escapistmagazine.com/tumblr-convention-disaster-dashcon-gives-official-statement/https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/inno/stories/news/2014/07/17/the-dashcon-disaster-how-a-tumblr-convention-in.htmlDashCon (archive.org)DashCon was created by a 15-year-old girl - by Ryan Broderick - Garbage DayAnimeSecrets.org | Dashcon 2014: Interview with Organizers

Serpentbeard is a neckbeard that definitely earns his namesake. I abhor this story and what happens to our poor OP... But more and more neckbeard stories like this are popping up, so I just want you guys to know that you are not alone!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/reddxyDiscord: https://discord.gg/Sju7YckUWuPayPal: https://www.paypal.me/daytondoesPatreon: http://patreon.com/daytondoesTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/daytondoesFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReddXD/

Content warning: discussions of pro-ana content This week we look back into the weird and wonderful world of Tumblr 2012-2017. We discuss what we loved about it at the time and the sense of community from fandoms, the failures of Dashcon and how the ban on adult content didn't do enough to protect children accessing other harmful posts. Pop culture moments of the week include Grimes reading Marx, Givenchy's 'noose' necklace and protestors on the runway, Facebook crashing and the discovery of the Zodiac Killer. We have a Patreon with TWO bonus episodes released each month! ELEVEN episodes of Celebrity Corner and Bad Book Club and Met Gala Review are out NOW! Join our Culture Gang! Email us at culturehangpodcast@gmail.com and follow us on instagram @culturehangpodcast, twitter @CultureHang, TikTok @culturehangpodcast and Youtube! Links: https://mashable.com/article/tumblr-mistakes-tiktok-teen-creators https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/ Ready To Glare ‘Why Tumblr sucks ep. 4: PRO ANA/PRO MIA' ‘Why Tumblr sucks ep.8: Self-harm glamorizing' Internet Historian ‘The Failure of Dashcon | The world's first Tumblr convention' Sarah Z ‘Tumblr's Failed Convention: The Story of Dashcon' STRANGE ÆONS ‘A Cursed Look Into Tumblr History (Heritage Posts)' ModernGurlz ‘tumblr aesthetics from the 2010s

In this episode of Muppet Fans Talking, Maria roleplays as Uncle Travelling Matt and his therapist, Sprout sends him to Dashcon, and Uncle Travelling Matt "accidentally" calls himself a Gilf. Our art banner by: @fireferret93 on Twitter Intro and Outro voice acting by: @turning2stone on Twitter Transition sound from ZapSplat Find us: @Muppets_talking Mary: @MuppetMulaney Maria: @NerdyMariaMania Sprout: @paopusprout

Original broadcast date January 31, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/01/binary-system-podcast-162-convention-disaster-stories/ Can we just say for the record that if you've attended a convention and been bitterly disappointed, you have our sympathies. THAT BEING SAID, grab some popcorn, because in the wake of the Fyre Festival documentaries (which we adored) we're going to talk about a bunch more conventions that imploded due to inexperience, egos, financial shenanigans, downright mental incompetence, or all of the above. (We don't know why we love Convention Disaster Stories, but we really, really do.) Listen in as we go over what we know about TanaCon, Dashcon, Nerdcon, RainFurrest, and Universal FanCon, not to mention a bunch of geeking out about Fyre Festival because holy cow that crapfest makes for a great story. SPOILER WARNING for Better Call Saul at the 5:53 mark! This week's outro music is a clip from If This Were An Actual Emergency by TeknoAXE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYsrCNb6uM&index=2&list=LLTLISidXZNOcw-O8EN9m4EA&t=0s If you're wanting even more Fyre Festival content, the Fyre Festival episode of the Swindled podcast (which came out two months before the documentaries) is very fun, and the intro about a disastrous Christmas Festival is a nice bonus. http://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-2/episode-04-the-fyre-festival/

We discuss our favorite scams:Fyre Fest - the luxury music festival that left people stranded on an island.Blade - the helicopter company that created a fake spokesperson.DashCon - a Tumblr fan convention gone terribly wrong.Theranos - Elizabeth Holmes' blood testing scam.The Lakers twitter catfish story. Gabrielle Bluestone, journalist and producer of the Netflix Fyre Festival documentary, joins to talk about how social media has exacerbated scams, Nickelback fans getting scammed on Facebook, and a restaurant scam she experienced recently.Get Gabrielle's book HYPEEMAIL: Webcrawlerspod@gmail.comVOICEMAIL: 626-604-6262DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/VNGJnHrFOLLOW: Twitter / Instagram / Reddit / FacebookPATREON: HEREMERCH: https://webcrawlerspod.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/webcrawlers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Kayla, Mariel, and Zoe LIVE from the Dashcon Ballpit at RTX at Home where they break down the worst conventions of all time and maybe cancel Hatsune Miku??

Hello babies! We hope all of our lovely listeners had a wonderful ID4. On today's ep, Lisa shares her thoughts on a recent viewing of the very bad film 500 Days of Summer. On Chunch Chat, we're wishing Martha a speedy recovery from her recent injury. On Wiki of the Week, we read the Wikipedia page for "Dashcon", a convention for Tumblr users featuring a less than awe inspiring ball pit.

In 2013 and 2018 respectively, two conventions unfolded and soon became infamous for being the disasters they inflicted upon their fans. In story #1, Bijan and Saige peel back the layers of what happened at DashCon, the unofficial convention for Tumblr... and the now legendary ball-pit. And for story #2, Rowan and Harry discuss TanaCon, the spite convention to rule them all. Sit back, grab your snacks, and enjoy.

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This week on Animation Kimmunication: KP and Lauren welcome back cosplayer Lochlan O'Neil to talk about Dash Con and how she created the famous Ball Pit there. Introduction by Scribbler Intro Theme by Thomas Collins Edited by Emmegart Twitter: Lochlan - https://twitter.com/lochlanoneil

Hey everyone! Welcome back to Useless! This week we really can't CONtain our enjoyment as we CONvey our thoughts on TanaCon and DashCon. With Tana failing to CONsult anyone to help her, and the ball pit being an area of CONcern, we ask ourselves "What Went Wrong?". Yet as we CONtinue to talk about these things, it's still difficult to CONvey why either of these CONventions even happened! (ok, I'm done now, I promise). If you like what we do and wanna be on the show, record a short intro and send it in! You can do this either through our email or through the link at the bottom of the description! This week's fan intro is from supporter, friend, and Wanna-Be Bedtime Meditation Voice Over Actress, Julia Button (@Julia_button on Twitter) Make sure you leave a review if you enjoyed our podcast! We love doing it and would love to hear what you think! If you would like to send us an email about anything, including comments, questions, topic suggestions, fun facts. or even just to say hi, find us at uselessthepodcast@gmail.com Thank you to anchor for sponsoring and hosting our podcast! You can make your own podcast at Anchor.fm! Use code Useless10 when checking out at Tarabusicreek.com for 10% off your order! Follow us on Twitter so you never miss a Useless Update! https://twitter.com/useless_podcast Rec Corner: Nora: Being Nice To Service Workers, Dancing Dee Hand Crafted Leather: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DancinDee, Doing Billy's Homework, Squishmellows, Owning a Sword Kevin:N̵̺̣͈̫͉̖̲̘͚̙̳̥͂̐͛͂̍̏̇́̍͂̽̀͑͂̍͜ͅƠ̴̧̧̮͎̝̞̜͚̘̅͛̇̽͛́͒́͋̈́̓̅̕͠T̸̢̧̛̯̘͇̯͚̤͇̏͗̏̎͒̉̀͂͒̌̊̂͛̈́͑̕͜͜H̷̡͔̙̠̝̱͇̩̟̱̟͑̒̃̄̓͌̓́̒̌̀̕̚̕Ȋ̸̗̞̮̙̝̩̗̘̺͍̰̇̂̀́͆̿̎̐̐̇͌̏N̴͕̲̖͚̝̼̯̜̤͇̯͈̏̋̈́͛̏̐̐̐͋̾̀̐̃͊͊͒̚̕G̷̡̛̹̦̻̗̱͛͒̾͌̏̒̓̓̃̇̅́̈͗͊͒̕͠ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/uselessthepodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/uselessthepodcast/support

TL and Robert get an extra hour in the ballpit with friend of the podcast Sarah to explore her firsthand experience at DashCon. The before, the cancellations, the panels, and the money sack, yes, there was a money sack for the $17,000. Stay for live reactions to delicious trump enabler bans! Watch as a companion piece: Sarah Z's Tumblr's Failed Convention: The Story of Dashcon Referenced Tumblr Fandom Islands: https://64.media.tumblr.com/cf264f077c5777a57e7237d4526f3e1e/tumblr_n31xxob7tW1trhk44o1_500.jpg

TL and Robert get an extra hour in the ballpit with friend of the podcast Sarah to explore her firsthand experience at DashCon. The before, the cancellations, the panels, and the money sack, yes, there was a money sack for the $17,000. Stay for live reactions to delicious trump enabler bans! Watch as a companion piece: Sarah Z's Tumblr's Failed Convention: The Story of Dashcon Referenced Tumblr Fandom Islands: https://64.media.tumblr.com/cf264f077c5777a57e7237d4526f3e1e/tumblr_n31xxob7tW1trhk44o1_500.jpg

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This week we have our sweet Amber share her disaster story. We go way WAY back to 2014 and experience the infamous DashCon event (think the predecessor of Fyre Festival). So listeners grab your badges, put on your cosplay, and get ready for an extra hour in the ball pit!  Instagram: disastrouspodcastTwitter: disastrouspodCWebsite: disastrouspodcast.com

Luke and Ryan dig into the cringey, but beautiful legacy of peak Tumblr. They explore that one fateful weekend in Chicago when a bunch of grifters convinced Tumblr cosplayers to invade an unsuspecting hotel in Chicago to attend the ill-fated DashCon. They also look at what Luke refers to as the beginning of the "era of mass-produced viral content." Can anyone break the internet anymore? Or is it just completely broken now? Also, is TikTok culture the thing we'll look back on in five years and feel the same level of secondhand embarrassment that we feel looking at old SuperWhoLock posts? So many questions! Head over to our Patreon for show notes and a great video of a skateboarding dog.

This week the boys discuss three failures, each more disgusting and ridiculous than the last. Internet Historian's Dashcon video: https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ Whale blown up news coverage: https://youtu.be/_KTQtIBsum4 Whales exploding compilation: https://youtu.be/hkBscgjlCaQ Whale explosion in Tainan, Taiwan: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1078252/sperm-whale-exploded-in-street-taiwan Rate and review us on iTunes: apple.co/2ywmL8o Visit our website: bradisabadperson.com Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/bradisabadperson/ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/bradisabadperson Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/BIABPpodcast Discuss our episodes on Reddit: reddit.com/r/bradisabadperson/ Donate to help with our running costs on PayPal: paypal.me/bradisabadperson Outro song credit The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Great Molasses Disaster (Divine Industries, 2017)

Dani is joined by five community panelists to discuss the earlier days of the Homestuck fandom. Topics: Sorry transcribers! Wrong fan theories. Dale Strider. The Gigapause. Dashcon. Being trans is kind of woke and racism is not. Hairy Dave and fun ship names.Get the Perfectly Generic Album by GoomySupport the show on Patreon and get access to the exclusive bonus [I]ntermission podcastwww.perfectlygenericpodcast.comFollow the podcast on Twitter.Join the podcast Discord.

In our first commercial disaster, it was supposed to be the first Tumblr convention, a safe place for fans to share their joy in things like Sherlock, Welcome to Night Vale, anime, and other interests. But what was supposed to be a good time ended up being a prolonged dumpster fire, complete with a bouncy house and a ball pit.

This week Jacob and Ryan search for Chips Ahoy cereal, the history of pinball, chat about Jacob's dream house, learn about DashCon, Hoop and Stick, and more! Plus, if you listen all the way through you can hear the newest installment of Jacob and Ryan's Search of the Week.

This week Jacob and Ryan search for Chips Ahoy cereal, the history of pinball, chat about Jacob's dream house, learn about DashCon, Hoop and Stick, and more! Plus, if you listen all the way through you can hear the newest installment of Jacob and Ryan's Search of the Week.

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Some thoughts on virtuous circles inspired by my experience at Dashcon.

This week, we celebrate our FIFTIETH episode... conventionally. Alicia offers some etiquette for a good time. Jay goes back to Schaumburg. Cristaly gets revenge on the Brothers Property.

Fyre Fraud was not the first failed event of its time. First there was DashCon. In July 2014, users of the blogging service Tumblr descended on Schaumburg, Illinois. They were there to celebrate their fandoms- Sherlock, Welcome to Nightvale, Supernatural and Doctor Who, amongst others. Find out what happens! Marie from Go Your Own YA Podcast guest co-hosts. Follow Go Your Own YA Podcast The books you never knew you loved; the friends you never knew you had. GoYourOwnYa.com Twitter @GoYourOwnYa Instagram @goyourownyapodcast Follow Sip & Shine Podcast on Social Media: don’t be shy Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sipshinepod Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sipshinepod Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sipshinepod More Episodes & Information sipandshinepodcast.com (http://www.sipandshinepodcast.com/) This episode in general may contain certain copyrighted works that were not specifically authorized to be used by the copyrighted holder(s), but which we believe in good faith are protected by general law and the fair use doctrine for one or more of the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research. Produced by Horn Creative  Media Clips 2 Clips retrieved from Youtube, User TheGeekiary

Recommendation: Mirai no Mirai: https://youtu.be/6d-lsJZgmJs Last Recommendation: Life before life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Before_Life Link list: Weiron in da otta(morning): https://youtu.be/viV_r_XxPfY Bamse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamse Rats - Kickstarter: https://kck.st/2WTAteu The Failure of Dashcon: https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened: https://www.netflix.com/Title/81035279 Human Hibernation Part 2: https://bit.ly/2LkUeZo Tool - Album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_(band) He Will Not Divide Us Documentary: https://youtu.be/_p4h3jwJob0 CNN - MEME War:  https://youtu.be/b_yCj6fXtlA  

     GameEnthus Podcast ep366: Goofy Relations or Dougxiety   This week Jazz (@Its_JazzYo) from ItsJazzYo on Youtube  joins Tiny (@Tiny415) and  Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: Kingdom Hearts, Thriving Ivory, Midnight Cinema, Feeding America, Epic Mickey, Deadly Class, The Guardians, Annihilation, IO, Too Many Games, Extra Life, Bumblebee, The Good Place, Shaft, The Office, PSVR, Nintendo Switch, Virtual Boy, You Have A Drunk Friend, Portal Knights, Kingdom Hearts 3, Egggg- the Platform Puker, Second Life, Metro Last Light, Apex Legends, Ticket to Ride, WarGroove, Mystic Vale, WarGroove, Riot Civil Unrest, Melbits World, Magic Nations, Guns N Stories Bulletproof, Mercury Race, Egggg- the Platformer Puker, Downhill Domination, Rocket Power, Doug, Hey Arnold!, Ahhh! Real Monsters, Ren & Stimpy, XBL SDK, DashCon, Universal FanCon, Iron Galaxy, The Escapist and more.                  If you like the show please leave us an itunes, Google, Youtube or Stitcher review, a tweet, an email or a voicemail (202-573-7686).   Show Length: 162 minutes  Direct Download(right click to download) Episode Live Stream on Youtube:   Timestamps Intro/Jazz Anecdotes    1min  5sec Tiny Anecdotes          18min 27sec Aaron Anecdotes        36min 52sec Feedback                   51min 30sec               Games Jazz played         1hr  3min  Generational Tangent     1hr 19min         Games Tiny played        1h  31min Games Aaron played      1h  50min Topical Topics               2h  14min Outro                         2h  35min     Show Links Follow Jazz @Its_JazzYo Jazz on Youtube Team GameEnthus on Extra Life   New videos GameEnthus.com   Youtube.com/user/GameEnthus      Community Info   Major Linux and Crew's Notcho Podcast Kiaun's Show The Analog Circle Podcast Gary and Dan's Show TheGamesMenRPG Open Forum Radio SingleSimulcast    Show Music     BoogieMonsters - Strange Instrumental De La Soul - Ego Trippin Part 2 Instrumental Slim Cutta Calhoun - It's OK Instrumental Busta Rhymes - Dangerous Instrumental Thriving Ivory - Hey Lady Instrumental Erick Sermon - Welcome Instrumental Jeru - Statik Instrumental The Roots - The Next Movement Instrumental Raphael Saadiq - I Want You Back Instrumental Goodie MOB - Beautiful Skin Instrumental    

The first podcast of 2019 is here! The ACAD crew get together to discuss the shutdown (and subsequent rescue) of Hentai Haven that occurred over the Christmas break. We also talk about alternative hentai streaming sites, and the potential viability of a legal hentai streaming platform à la Crunchyroll. iTunes: https://apple.co/2wAwKtq SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2GfabtA YouTube: http://bit.ly/2rENRo4 Join us for more fun: Discord: https://discord.gg/btGp69j Facebook group: http://bit.ly/2KZQ5aD Twitch: http://bit.ly/2Ii9CRC Website: http://bit.ly/2KlP6Am Email us: animeclubafterdark@gmail.com The intro song and outro song is “Invincible” by Deaf Kev, provided by NCS. Check out the full song here! https://youtu.be/J2X5mJ3HDYE Follow Deaf Kev below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/atm-dubstep Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ATMDubstep YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ATMDubstep Check out Internet Historian's video about Dashcon, it's hilarious: https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ

Oriana, Fast Company News Editor Christopher Zara, and Internet Culture Expert Sarah Hayden discuss the twin shitshows of Dashcon and Tanacon along with parasocial relationships and fandom! Two Gen Y-ers and a Gen X-er talking about the Kids These Days. What could possibly go wrong? Also, Facebook is the Grift of the Week. Dismantle Facebook. Reading: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/what-happened-at-tanacon.html https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/dash-con-controversy-tumblr/

Dashcon was one of the most mismanaged attempts at a convention in history. Other than memes about ball pits, the con was an absolute disaster that bordered on fraud. This first attempt at a Tumblr convention would go down in history as an epic example of outright incompetence.  || More Human Echoes stuff: http://humanechoes.com || Become a member for BONUS PODCASTS: http://bit.ly/1NkSWnQ || Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HumanEchoes   Bad Ideas Podcast on iTunes: http://apple.co/2yrDfyx   Buy some T-shirts: http://bit.ly/1NetNNP   Follow us on Mixer for all of our live streams:: https://Mixer.com/HumanEchoes Listen to Bad Ideas: https://youtu.be/8RDb6jlY_4A Watch Dirt Block: https://youtu.be/MfdHU-E_N70 Watch Dwarf Fortress: https://youtu.be/H2KR9Ny4iy8   You can also follow the Human Echoes Peeps on Twitter! @HumanEchoes @tsouthcotte @albert_berg @josephdevon  

Joe goes over the legendary Dashcon that was held July 11th-13th, 2014. He goes over the preparations for the entire event, the actual DashCon itself and the aftermath of the whole ordeal. The JoeDini Podcasting Network (JDPN) is a multi genre and platform podcasting company made by JoeDini. JDPN is dedicated to making content that crew members as well as the viewers can enjoy and strives to be the very best they can be. If you have any suggestions or would like to show your support, please check our other pages! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeDiniPodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/joedini Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/joedini Joedini’s Website: https://joedini.squarespace.com/ E-mail: legendsoftheinternets@gmail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeDiniLegend Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joedinilegend/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/legendsoftheinternet/support

There’s a new IaaS magic quadrant out that we finally take a look at. Plus, with some nerd-fighting in the kubernetes world, we discuss the point of all these blinking cursors. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%. DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/registration/). Follow up Did Matt watch The Tick (https://www.amazon.com/The-Tick/dp/B01J776HVW)? (Spoiler alert: no.) Relevant to your interests BA now part of TSA Pre (https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/05/17/british-airways-tsa-pre-check/). Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. It’s hard to find where to enter this: on individual flights? Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdjcdZqODoE&feature=youtu.be), slides (https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140). Cloud is a six-horse rac (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/)e, and three of those have been lapped State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem (https://blog.spotinst.com/2018/05/20/kubernetes-ecosystem/) Kubernetes won - so now what? (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/05/25/kubernetes-won-so-now-what/) Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-platform-breaks-into-leader-category-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/). The Full Gartner MQ (https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-50WJ5CK&ct=180525&st=sb). Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/) coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/gartner_2018_magic_quadrant_for_infrastructure_as_a_service/). IDC survey on digital transformation (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/30/whats-really-driving-digital-transformation-globally-idc-has-answers/) says organizations are motivated to get more “productivity” and be more competitive, among other survey findings. And, as always, “the biggest barriers are people oriented.” Get the Infor sponsored PDF (https://www.infor.com/content/analyst/Designing-tomorrow.pdf/?noRedirect=1) if you’re into this kind of thing. Infrastructure software is back (https://twitter.com/ritam/status/1002339901507899392)! Also, Amazon’s DB has huge growth. “Full Life-cycle Developers” (https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/full-cycle-developers-at-netflix-a08c31f83249) at Netflix Like SRE, but “platform ops.” Which is to say, something like, “shallow DevOps.” “Netflix created centralized teams (e.g., Cloud Platform, Performance & Reliability Engineering, Engineering Tools) with the mission of developing common tooling and infrastructure (https://netflix.github.io/) to solve problems that every development team has. Empowered with these tools in hand, development teams can focus on solving problems within their specific product domain.” “As additional tooling needs arise, centralized teams assess whether the needs are common across multiple dev teams. When they are, collaborations ensue. Sometimes these local needs are too specific to warrant centralized investment. In that case the development team decides if their need is important enough for them to solve on their own.” “we arrived at a model where a development team, equipped with amazing developer productivity tools, is responsible for the full software life cycle: design, development, test, deploy, operate, and support”…but not the infrastructure, common middleware and services, and “platform” that they run on. Just like SRE, eh? Which the post says. Use of the roads seems optional, and sometimes challenging to recruit for: ‘Netflix has a “paved road” set of tools and practices that are formally supported by centralized teams. We don’t mandate adoption of those paved roads but encourage adoption by ensuring that development and operations using those technologies is a far better experience than not using them. The downside of our approach is that the ideal of “every team using every feature in every tool for their most important needs” is near impossible to achieve. Realizing the returns on investment for our centralized teams’ solutions requires effort, alignment, and ongoing adaptations.’ Coté had dinner with Netflix tools engineer many years ago where they described exactly this. Question: what exactly is DevOps (now) anyways? Is it too expansive to be useful as a phrase, and instead a buffet of thought technologies? BMC changes PE hands (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-29/kkr-to-buy-bmc-software-from-bain-group-golden-gate-capital): Brenon@451 (https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=95026&type=mis&alertid=1645&contactid=0033200001wgKCKAA2&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-insight&utm_content=newsletter&utm_term=95026-A+sizeable+secondary+for+BMC): “Terms of the BMC secondary weren't released. However, early reports indicated that the price paid by the syndicate for BMC and the price received for BMC [$6.9bn five years ago] weren't radically different.” Same: “the software vendor that says it posts revenue of $2bn each year.” The reporters are like “I got no idea what the fuck these people do”: “Houston-based BMC builds various types of software solutions for businesses looking to manage and streamline their information.” “BMC has about 6,000 employees in 30 countries, according to its website.” “BMC has more than $5 billion in debt outstanding, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.” Annual Meeker Slide Fest: recording (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdjcdZqODoE&feature=youtu.be), slides (https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-report-2018-99574140). Reports that the decks are getting more concise (https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/1002125689749848066). Kubernetes Korner PodCTL #37 (https://blog.openshift.com/podcast-podctl-37-how-to-deploy-applications-to-kubernetes/) covers Helm and other deployment schemes - Very responsible Coté hasn’t listened to it yet. Nerd fight on forking (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3276009/open-source-tools/the-kubernetes-fork-open-source-purists-miss-the-point.html): Asay: “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.” Question: how close are we to going OpenStack on all this? Is that even a helpful question, or just trolling? “Kubernetes has, in fact, already lost the war to serverless,” James Governor (https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2018/05/25/kubernetes-won-so-now-what/). By the time you hear this, Coté will have finally given a Kubernetes talk (https://twitter.com/cote/status/1002338318846083072). The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem (https://blog.spotinst.com/2018/05/20/kubernetes-ecosystem/): Overview of all the (vendor) players. “A Forrester study (http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/Containers_Real_Adoption_2017_Dell_EMC_Forrester_Paper.pdf) found that 66% of organizations who adopted containers experienced accelerated developers efficiency, while 75% of companies achieved a moderate to significant increase in application deployment speed.” “According to predictions from 451 Research, the market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020” Important nonsense BA now part of TSA Pre (https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2018/05/17/british-airways-tsa-pre-check/). Can show up later for that AUS→LHR flight. Although, it’s hard to find where to enter this. Perhaps it’s ticket-by-ticket. # Conferences, et. al. June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker! Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! Listener Feedback Gabriel from Puerto Rico got a sticker Daniel had a sticker sent all they way to South Austin SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Recommendations Brandon: Station Eleven (https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Station-Eleven-Audiobook/B00M27L7TC). Zone 1. Matt: The Terror (https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/the-terror-amc/559031/), still. Coté: American Airline’s software. Compared to others like BA, Cathey, Korean Air, Thai Air. Also, Star Trek: Discovery (https://www.amazon.com/The-Vulcan-Hello/dp/B077M2959Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1527812877&sr=1-1&keywords=Star+Trek+Discovery). Star Trek: Voyager (https://www.amazon.com/Caretaker/dp/B005HEVBGG/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1527812805&sr=1-1&keywords=Star+Trek+Voyager) is pretty good plane TV fodder. That Neelix guy needs to calm the fuck down though with his space-mullet (https://coub.com/view/3cjcd).

“Packaging,” let’s talk about it - still your beating heart, dear listeners! We discuss the news, eats, and entertainment from ChefConf and then dip into the news from the OpenStack summit. As we meander between those two we also talk about kubernetes Helm, packaging, and how Docker is (they say) going to save you $50m in computer costs. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog also wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/sdt use the discount code DASHSDT and save 20%. DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/registration/). Follow-up If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful. #chefconf Chef Automate 2.0 (https://thenewstack.io/chef-takes-an-app-centric-approach-with-the-automate-2-0-release/): Don’t worry, it’s been rewritten in Go. Scott Carey (https://www.computerworlduk.com/devops/chef-shifts-towards-app-automation-with-20-release-3677749/): “with the release of Chef Automate 2.0 during Chef Conf in Chicago this week, the company is focusing on building a platform on these three pillars: infrastructure, apps and compliance, setting the company up for wherever the future takes it.” CEO’s keynote summary (https://www.computerworlduk.com/it-leadership/chef-ceo-we-want-be-like-salesforce-3677935/). On-prem Habitat Builder (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/announcing-habitat-builder-on-premises-and-expanded-ecosystem-integrations/). Chef Workstation (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/introducing-chef-workstation/). Matt tells you how suck out some InSpec stuff from Terraform (https://blog.chef.io/2018/05/23/automatically-generating-inspec-controls-from-terraform/). How CapitalOne uses Chef (https://www.computerworlduk.com/devops/why-capital-one-completely-re-architected-its-chef-stack-on-aws-3677848/): “[M]ore than 15,000 nodes for dev, QA, and production environments, all hosted on AWS” They like public cloud (quote from 2017 article): “About 40 percent of our production workload is on AWS now. At 40 percent we are larger than Netflix on the AWS footprint, it's huge. We are not running a hybrid model - our focus is everything on cloud. There are data centre-based applications being transformed, re-written, re-engineered, thrown out, to get to cloud." Also, WTF is Helm? See: this talk from Amy Chen is really good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQX5nokoqrQ), and this other one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1S2Gp47ng). OpenStack Summit So, it’s still NFV heavy with existing enterprise deploys? Plus, Mirantis us pushing for a CI/CD focus? Haven’t read the survey yet. Brief (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/) Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/) coverage (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/24/networking_roundup_may_24/): VMwware updates (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-ready-to-release-new-openstack-cloud-program/), AT&T and others donate some code, Solarwinds adds in some more support. VMware likes NFV (https://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-ready-to-release-new-openstack-cloud-program/): ‘VMware is targeting the telecom industry with this release. Gabriele Di Piazza, VMware Telco NFV Business Unit's VP of products and solutions, said in a statement, "VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 will enable customers to achieve the massive scale required to power Telco and private clouds globally, and address NFV and edge computing use cases as telecom networks evolve towards 5G."’ Shuttleworth gonna Shuttleworth (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntus-mark-shuttleworth-pulls-no-punches-on-red-hat-and-vmware-in-openstack-cloud/#ftag=RSSbaffb68): “If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you're already wedded to VMware, you've made your choice. There's room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.” Over on TechCrunch, in his layup (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/openstack-in-transition/), Frederic Lardinois paints a picture of the current Story of OpenStack. “That current state produces fewer flashy headlines, but every survey, both from the Foundation itself and third-party analysts, show that the number of users — and their OpenStack clouds — continues to grow.” Mirantis, after $200m in funding, refocusing(?) on CI/CD with Spinnaker support, “shrunk from almost 1,000 employees to 450 today, but as Mirantis CEO and co-founder Boris Renski told me, it’s now cash-flow positive.” Boris: “I think that Spinnaker should become part of the Foundation. That’s the opportunity and I think it should focus 150 percent of their energy on that before it builds its own thing and before [Spinnaker] goes off to the CNCF as yet another project.” Caroline Donnelly (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252441808/From-open-clouds-to-open-infrastructure-OpenStacks-evolution-continues) covers the quest to become a more general foundation for infrastructure stuff, started in 2015 with “The Big Tent” positioning. Side-note: Donnely’s and Lardinois’s articles are good example of doing good tech journalism (I mean, I always like more charts and TAM’s, but they don’t really do that over art Oath - could have also gotten a paragraph of “the kubernetes threat” backed up by usage momentum surveys - but, hey! - pretty good all around.). Relevant to your interests Coté’s three methods of dealing with grumpy people (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/14/devops_change_barriers/) when you’re digital transforming and DevOps’ing all the things, the The Register. All these GDPR emails. Oh for fuck’s sake! (Cf. Jon Collins interview (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/61).) What does Terraform do again? When is that company going to be acquired? Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker's CEO says yes. (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/22/can-it-finally-deliver-innovation-without-busting-its-own-budget-dockers-ceo-says-yes/) Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst On How He Plans To Win The Container Market (https://m.crn.com/slide-shows/virtualization/300104051/red-hat-ceo-jim-whitehurst-on-how-he-plans-to-win-the-container-market.htm). Docker, Inc. still on that cost take-out strategy (https://diginomica.com/2018/05/22/can-it-finally-deliver-innovation-without-busting-its-own-budget-dockers-ceo-says-yes/): “What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 50 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars you can go spend on innovation. That’s not going to the CEO and saying look, I need another hundred million dollars in my budget. That’s freeing up 50-100 million dollars of your existing budget.” Bro. So the message is “Docker will cut $50m [annually?] out of your IT budget.” $12.5m a quarter in extra cash? That kind of shit could make quarterly numbers. Could that even be real? Bruh. Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM: MuleSoft, Revisited (https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/122991fe-f2db-4104-8156-c4be45f8c003.pdf) - Mule “application integration revenue could quickly scale to $1B+” over next 2 to 3 years. Google Cloud Platform breaks into leader category in Gartner's Magic Quadrant (https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-cloud-platform-breaks-into-leader-category-in-gartners-magic-quadrant/). Google reps breath a sigh of relief. gartner-iaas-mq-april-2018.png https://zdnet1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/05/23/42a0e1b3-1500-436c-af05-ba02bec87fd3/resize/770xauto/f09abc28f0cf9395a2e3a6ef5201cfa5/gartner-iaas-mq-april-2018.png Weekly “get off my lawn” segment, monitoring corner edition Sensu overvu (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/24/making-sense-of-sensu/). Flat vs. hierarchical (https://thenewstack.io/dimensional-data-making-the-leap-from-monitoring-to-observing/) - You’ll always end up with a reverse tree, complete with those little plus signs at each leaf to expand what’s under it. PATROL https://communities.bmc.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-89991-1445/450-337/PatrolCentral.JPG PATROL Express https://www.sentrysoftware.com/_images/screenshots/pm-hardware-sentry/pm-hardware-sentry-5.png Important nonsense Daily Deal: Nope Portable Sound Microphone Blockers 2-Pack (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180524/09312539897/daily-deal-nope-portable-sound-microphone-blockers-2-pack.shtml) Conferences, et. al. May 29th, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps meetup in Seoul (https://www.meetup.com/Seoul-Cloud-Foundry-Meetup/events/250977906/). May 31st, 2018 - Coté speaking at DevOps Singapore Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/devops-singapore/events/251015285/). June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). June 28th and 29th, 2018 - Coté at DevOpsDays Amsterdam (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-amsterdam/welcome/) - come get a sticker! Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Also, check out the Spring One Tour - coming to a city near you (https://springonetour.io/)! SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Recommendations Brandon: Deadpool 2 (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deadpool_2/). Matt: The Terror (https://www.amc.com/shows/the-terror) AMC mini-series. Coté: PodCTL podcast (https://blog.openshift.com/tag/podctl/), e.g., episode #35 (https://blog.openshift.com/podctl-35-kubernetes-news-events/); Madam Mam’s Yum Green Bean dish (http://www.madammam.com/diskmenu/salads/); Tasty Meats Paul’s cold open style (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3mEEAcfDY).

We discuss recent kubernetes news, London, and whatever the hell "serverless" is. If you’re lucky enough to have access, check out Hammond & Rymer’s Jan 2018 report on serverless (https://twitter.com/cote/status/997492961758900224), it’s amazingly good and helpful. This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) This week Datadog wants you to know about their upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/ DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2018-minneapolis/welcome/). It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 Relevant to your interests Upbound emerges from stealth, raises $9M from GV to build a multicloud platform on Kubernetes (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/upbound-emerges-stealth-raises-9m-gv-build-multicloud-platform-kubernetes/) Another thing k8s doesn’t do…I guess? “The eight-person Seattle-based startup plans to build a platform that will let Kubernetes users interested in multicloud deployments build services that scale across multiple public clouds and help those companies deploy their applications across those environments.” DC/OS for all the DC/OS’es. It’s DC/OS’es all the way down. (I’m glad they linked to the wikipedia definition for “lingua franca.”) As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake (https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/as-kubernetes-grows-a-startup-ecosystem-develops-in-its-wake/) This about 1/3 of what a good, internal strategy memo would be. Needs market-sizing, forecasts, and, well, more numbers. If it also said what action to take, you’d have most of it there. Is K8s Too Complicated? (http://jmoiron.net/blog/is-k8s-too-complicated/) AWS Won Serverless – now all your software are kinda belong to them (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/11/lambda_means_game_over_for_serverless/) You know what old Jack Burton always says in a time like this: “I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE HELL THAT MEANS!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC_LI0UWhm4) "We can't be more than one to two years from Amazon hitting that 2 per cent of the serverless (i.e. platform) market. Which means, if you're going to counter play then NOW (not six months later) is the time to be dropping $5 to $10bn on that counter play." See also… (https://twitter.com/littleidea/status/997077211407466496) Serverless is going to crush Kubernetes (but only in a theoretical world which doesn’t actually exist) (http://www.diversity.net.nz/serverless-is-going-to-crush-kubernetes-but-only-in-a-theoretical-world-which-doesnt-actually-exist/2018/05/10/) - oh boy… CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer (https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/coreos-is-new-linux-not-a-rhel-classic-killer/): ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of the Kubernetes container controller, will be deployable on either the full-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in pets mode or the minimalist Red Hat CoreOS in cattle mode. But it will be using the Tectonic version of the Kubernetes controller going forward as well as integrating the Prometheus monitoring tool and etcd for storing telemetry. Gracely tells The Next Platform that the implementation of Kubernetes had outside dependencies such as the CloudForms hybrid cloud management tool (formerly ManageIQ) and was not “native” to Kubernetes in the same way that Tectonic is, meaning free of outside dependenies.’ Developer Advocate Wars / Arms Race (http://aniszczyk.org/2018/05/15/developer-advocate-wars-arms-race/) - outward and inner…kingmakers Google now says controversial AI voice calling system will identify itself to humans (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/10/17342414/google-duplex-ai-assistant-voice-calling-identify-itself-update) - that sort of defeats the whole point. Important nonsense Long, loooooong MAN (https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/991506293499215872)! Conferences, et. al. May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). Also, Coté doing some meetups in Korea (May 29th) and Singapore (May 31st), URLs pending. Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. Listener Feedback Colin from Scotland got a sticker. Says he always learns something and enjoys the banter. Tells us to “Keep up the excellent work!” SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). 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Conference season is upon us so we recap all the announcements from Google I/O and Microsoft Build. We also discuss the Mesosphere funding and attempt to deceiver what exactly they are doing with DC/OS. Finally, we have recommendations for Mother’s Day gifts, making kid lunches and some talk of the Lego Millennium Falcon. Relevant to your interests Mesosphere Scores $125M in Funding to Target IoT, Geo Expansion (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mesosphere-scores-125m-in-funding-to-target-iot-geo-expansion/2018/05/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=sdxcentral) more coverage from George Leopold (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/05/07/mesospheres-investors-bet-on-multicloud/). Twitter signs for Google cloud at list price of about $10m a month (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/04/twitter_adopts_google_cloud_for_hadoop_and_cloud_storage/) Oath to Use More AWS Cloud as It Expands Video Play (http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/amazon/oath-use-more-aws-cloud-it-expands-video-play) Microsoft Build 2018: Top Five Takeaways (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/) (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/)from Jeffery Hammond at Forrester (https://go.forrester.com/blogs/microsoft-build-2018-top-five-takeaways/) RedHat OpenShift running on Azure Stack and Azure (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/microsoft_azure_redhat_openshift/), partnership. See also the RedHat/IBM partnership along the same lines (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-red-hat-couple-containers-for-hybrid-cloud-deployments/#ftag=RSSbaffb68), plus nifty history of the two collaborating. Miniature ponies (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/993557979336065027)! CoreOS folded into Red Hat product suite (https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-tech-to-combine-with-red-hat-openshift), the old “reverse integration.” The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018 (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17328828/google-io-keynote-summary-highlights-news-recap-2018) 15 Google I/O announcements (http://www.businessinsider.com/google-io-announcements-highlights-2018-5). Serverless Survey: +77% Delivery Speed, 4 Dev Workdays/Mo Saved & -26% AWS Monthly Bill (https://hackernoon.com/serverless-survey-77-delivery-speed-4-dev-workdays-mo-saved-26-aws-monthly-bill-d99174f70663) Related, Serverless to take over like space carpets (https://twitter.com/swardley/status/994333147130220549). Azure at Microsoft Build Announcements| Microsoft Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/build/announcements/) JEDI mind tricks: Brakes slammed on Pentagon's multibillion cloud deal (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/08/house_slams_the_brakes_on_pentagons_big_cloud_deal/) AWS numbers reveal extent of Aussie growth (https://www.itnews.com.au/news/aws-numbers-reveal-extent-of-aussie-growth-490694) IBM bans all removable storage, for all staff, everywhere (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/10/ibm_bans_all_removable_storage_for_all_staff_everywhere/) This episode brought to you by: Datadog! This episode is sponsored by Datadog, a monitoring platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. . Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadoghq.com/ts/tshirt-landingpage/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=Advertisement&utm_campaign=SoftwareDefinedTalkRead-Tshirt) at www.datadog.com/sdt (http://www.datadog.com/sdt) Datadog wants you to know about there upcoming conference DashCon, in NYC on July 11th-12th (https://www.dashcon.io/?utm_source=Advertisement&utm_medium=GoogleAds&utm_campaign=GoogleAds-Dash&utm_content=Dash&utm_keyword=%2Bdatadog%20%2Bconference&utm_matchtype=b&gclid=CjwKCAjw8r_XBRBkEiwAjWGLlH3LXgGYu4iPzwOh8gkrY5NAQ1B9dWqB2OukaISujKyVCU4_5sUUchoCfT8QAvD_BwE). You can register to attend at https://www.dashcon.io/ DevOpsDays MINNEAPOLIS - JULY 12-13, 2018 Get a 20% discount for one of the best DevOpsDays on the planet, DevOpsDays Minneapolis. It's July 12th to 13th, and you can bet it'll be worth your time. If you're new to DevOps you'll get an idea of what it is, how it's practices, and how to get started. If you're an old pro, you'll dive down into topics and catch-up with all the other old hands. Code: SDT2018 Nonsense Google Duplex making an appointment on the phone (https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bd1mEm2Fy08) Lego Millennium Falcon, enterprise edition (https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Millennium-Falcon-75192). Conferences, et. al. NEXT WEEK! May 15th to 18th, 2018 - Coté talking EA at Continuous Lifecycle London (https://continuouslifecycle.london/sessions/the-death-of-enterprise-architecture-defeating-the-devops-microservices-and-cloud-native-assassins/). May 16 to 17, Matt presenting at Cloud Expo Hong Kong (https://www.cloudexpoasiahk.com/) May 22 to 25, ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io/), in Chicago. June 1st, 2018 - Coté speaking (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/program/) at Voxxed Days, Singapore (https://voxxeddays.com/singapore/). June 7th, 2018 - DC Cloud Native Meetup, “Beyond ‘Survival is Not Mandatory.’” (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Cloud-Native-Meetup/events/250543895/) Sep 24th to 27th - SpringOne Platform (https://springoneplatform.io/), in DC/Maryland (crabs!) get $200 off registration with the code S1P200_Cote. SDT news & hype Check out Software Defined Interviews (http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/), our new podcast. Pretty self-descriptive, plus the #exegesis podcast we’ve been doing, all in one, for free. Keep up with the weekly newsletter (https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ce6149b4008d62a08093a4fa6&id=5877922e21). Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Buy some t-shirts (https://fsgprints.myshopify.com/collections/software-defined-talk)! DISCOUNT CODE: SDTFSG (20% off) Send your name and address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. If you run into Matt he’ll give you one too! Recommendations Matt Ray: New phone, Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact (https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/24/sony-xperia-xz1-compact-impressions/). Brandon: Postal Service - Against All Odds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jWYJrycJC8) & A Quiet Place (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_place_2018/) Coté: Chasing Hillary, (https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Chasing-Hillary-Audiobook/B079F31QY1?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=MS4QEGZS6C7BGEP2CCDQ&) Amy Chozick. (https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Chasing-Hillary-Audiobook/B079F31QY1?ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=MS4QEGZS6C7BGEP2CCDQ&) Photo Credit Bridget Kromhout (https://twitter.com/bridgetkromhout/status/993557979336065027)

In this episode, Chris and Steve get DIGITAL! They run the gamut of some most recent and baffling Internet trends. Along the way, Steve impersonates like 500 robots, Chris tries to confuse Steve with some internet deep cuts, and they both talk about 9/11 for like, 8 minutes. Reviews This Episode: Slenderman Steamed Hams Harambe DashCon Ball Pit Ice Bucket Challenge The Dress Leeroy Jenkins Chris Chan Harlem Shake Dabbing Tide Pods How Can She Slap? Space Jam Website  

This week, we interrupt our global fandom safari for a matter of dire urgency! ~~People are wrong on the internet!~~ There is a crisis that only the Doctor, the Winchester brothers, Holmes and Watson can solve (and possibly the Avengers if they aren't busy?)! That's right, this week, we're getting meta and bending the laws of time and space to talk about fans of SuperWhoLock! Next week, we bend the laws of space and time back into place as we travel to Russia to talk about fans of that magical sport (and its fans): Figure skating! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Fandom Origins:** SuperWhoLock is, unsurprisingly, the crossover between the fandoms of Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock (with the Avengers sometimes making an appearance). The first tagged SuperWhoLock post (on Tumblr) appeared in August 2011, and the first SuperWhoLock fanfic was tagged on Archive of our own in August 2012 (though it is possible that stories first appeared as early as January 2012 elsewhere). > In SuperWhoLock's case, this usually involves saving the world from impending apocalypse, something so serious that it only makes sense to enlist as many superheroes as possible to stop it—in this case, the Doctor and his assistants, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sam and Dean Winchester, and the angel Castiel. > > — [The Daily Dot - WTF is SuperWhoLock?](https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/superwholock-fandom-supernatural-sherlock/) **Names:** SuperWhoLockian??? **Most Active:** Based on [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=superwholock) and [Fanlore](https://fanlore.org/wiki/SuperWhoLock), it appears that the fandom was most popular in the summer of 2014 (in particular, mid July 2014 - The month of [DashCon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon)). Interest was maintained from June 2013 to about January 2015 before starting its downward decline again. **Where does fandom live:** Almost entirely on Tumblr **Related fandoms:** Obviously, Sherlock, Doctor Who, and Supernatural are most related to SuperWhoLock fandom. There are some parodies fandoms that exist as well: - Bee Shrek Test in the House - Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons ### This week's spotlight **[Organization for Transformative Works](http://www.transformativeworks.org/how-you-can-help/)** The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures. ## Where can you find us online? We are everywhere! Most notably though, we like to hang out in a few places on social media: - If you want to help us to create more amazing fannish content, become a patron on [Patreon](http://patreon.com/thenickscast); even as little as a dollar a month pledge really helps us out! - For all the latest updates, check us out on [Facebook](https://facebook.com/thenickscast) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/thenickscast) - To see the latest hijinx from our conventions or even our daily lives and adventures, check us out on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/thenickscast) - For our latest convention updates, *Let's Plays*, and other in-real-life video, [check out our YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) - We're also on [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/fanthropological/id1163621210), and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/music/m/Icmngxz7yhaoivdvivvf6q6c2pu?t=Fanthropological), and would love it if you could leave a review and rating! - if you want to reach us, and for some reason none of those work for you, try [nick@thenickscast.com](mailto:nick@thenickscast.com) - You can check out [our website](http://thenickscast.com); that will mostly bring you back to this stuff. - Everything is `thenickscast`, so if you can't find us, go on your social network and search for that! - ... You're still looking for ways to reach out? You can also use the hashtag `#fanthro` on Twitter!

This week on the Dukect Lounge I get into a con that did not go so well this past weekend. I get into what happen at Fandom Fest 2017. I also talk a little wrestling as I talk about some of the Smackdown matches going into Summerslam. All that and more into the Lounge

Sooo technical issues abound on this podcast that almost didn't happen this week. Jeff is out and very little news happened so Alex and Charley go crazy on the Destiny 2 BETA and consequently make crazy requests for Destiny 2's final release. We are aware Alex's audio is a mess, sorry about that. YouTube: youtube.com/swstudiozEmail: wickedawesomecast@gmail.comWe also have a FaceBookSometimes we remember to post on Twitter

Disclaimer: Our two hosts recorded this episode in the cursed witching hour right before the birthday of our nation, meaning we have another CURSED EPISODE!! Not only did we hear Tom talk about the disaster of Tumblr’s Dashcon, but he also talks a lot about piss! Cower in fright as Liam tells his story about […]

When did cringe reach its peak? Might be when people from Tumblr made Dashcon, unbelievable story. We also talk about Jenkem and a japanese hairdresser. ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ Send the podcast a question by typing it in the comments or by using this email: poodcastofficial@gmail.com ▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ Remember to subscribe, follow all of us on the social mediaz … Continue reading PoodCastShow 05 – The Story of Dashcon / Tumblr Cringe →

It was the most disastrous convention that everyone saw coming, but no one knew just how right they were. Tumblr’s own convention DashCon came and went, producing a barrel of memes based around the ineptitude and sheer, utter failure of its staff and participants. It was a failure so spectacular that the Other Side, who have already taken tumblr to task in the past, had to revisit their old friend to laugh at its pain. And this time they brought “tumblr expert” LeighAnn Williams along to help explain all the dumb shit they don’t know about. LINKS: Jim Norton intellectually piledrives a radical feminist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtUb_E1qUHA Hebe Goldstein’s DashCon footage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWkYEG_G78XBNZyZu1py-sP28WcikJ5Fh’

This week we are joined by Eric Randall and Phillip Fitzlaff to talk about Max Adventure, their pitch on Indiegogo. we also talk about DjangoCon goes One Direction, Dashcon, CW's Atom, the death of Deadpool, Minority Report TV show, Taylor Negron, 51st State, Shannara, Tales of Halloween, Star Talk, Friday the 13th: the Game, Porn stats, and crowdsourcing the Stanley Maze. So get an extra hour in the ball pit, it's time for a Geek Shock!https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/max-adventure-animated-educational-series

After talking about Spock's delicious arse-hole, Robocop, Flash fiction, the imfamous DashCon- the lads bring it back to base with Back To Batman! Ste's the first guest and Daz gets his angry face on when Dragonball Evolution is mentioned. Outro theme by Rainbowdragoneyes who can find here: www.rainbowdragoneyes.bandcamp.com

We all have those movies from our childhood that changed us, shaped us into who we are now. For today's main topic, Brad, Brian, and Josh discuss the movies that influenced them the most at the age of 9 years old or younger. Continue checking back for more discussions of films throughout our lives. For recent news, we discuss DashCon, insane Star Wars Episode VII rumors, The Sims 4 going premium, and the upcoming Simpsons 12-day marathon.

Plenty of greatness this week as Scott and Jeremiah discuss the world's longest movie (and movie trailer), Dashcon fails, Weird Al's new #1 album, canine sex toys, and of course, that age-old stereotype about white people and their noodles.

When the Baker Street Babes went to Dashcon, little did we know what was in store!  We are honored to have been asked, and we would like to thank our amazing fans for being a part of the podcast and quiz, and our special guest, emmagrant01, for being a brilliant addition to our live podcast episodes. Join Babes Liz and Lyndsay and our fabulous Dashcon audience as we discuss with Emma Sherlockian AUs--from Rathbone to tunalock, from "A Cure for Boredom" to "Nothing to Make a Song About," we will chat over everything about Emma's work that makes us excited and curious about new incarnations of Sherlock Holmes, as well as aspects of the character which will always and forever remain timeless.  Babes Liz and Lyndsay, who both attended Dashon, also offer a commentary at the outset of the episode.  More importantly: listen to Emma being fierce, and applaud the wonderful people who contributed their time and helped make this new live ep so special!

We're back! Paris and The Business, LLC lend me their "studio" in this rambling episode where we discuss what to do if your friends and family don't like your significant other, or what might be going on if you don't like your friends' significant others - 60 minutes into the show (in true MHMG Fashion). We wax poetic about our favorite Netflix Originals; The Business, LLC has a fangasm over Dark Secrets, and we examine what happens when all the neckbeards don their fedoras and cry like babies over the latest Thor news. Also, Dashcon was kind of an epic fail...a funny epic fail, but an epic fail all the same. A spider tries to kill me and take over the show, and I flip tables over fan-entitlement, and The Business definitely doesn't want to do work at your house. BONUS: If you make it to the end of this episode, you get one extra hour in the ball pit! Mating Habits of the Modern Geek: Love and Dating within Your own Species - your comedy  source for relationship advice for geeks and nerds!

The Echo Crew have made a drinking game for the podcast! This episode might kill you. Topics include: DashCon, MomCon, MILFs, Weird Al, Star Wars, the Destiny Beta, Cards Against Humanity, and more!

The crowd is hot tonight at Jester's Playhouse, that 545 Tilton Rd. in Northfield NJ. This week Jimmy Viola drops by the podcast! Jimmy is a stand-up comic and the host of Five Star Smash! This week we talk about the art of Met-tal, food shows and Dashcon. Plus we play "Five Star Flop" for Host vs Guest vs Audience.For More Jimmy:  TwiiterTumblrFive Star SmashUpcoming ShowsJuly 23 Helium Comedy Club in PhillyAug 8-10 OtakonAug 15-17 In-Con-CeivableThis episode of the +2 Comedy Podcast is brought to you by Audible. 

This week, residential newshound Mako-chan gives us the complete breakdown of Dashcon! If you were away at ConnectiCon, Metrocon, or any other convention, and you missed what all went down, we have it all right here for you! Also, That DJ Ranma S Guy and Ari Rockefeller discuss Miyaki's retirement, more One Piece, and Michael Bay steps up about Neon Genesis Evangelion! And in our Open Forum Topic this week, "When we listen to anime music, certain songs will get our attention for various reasons, whether it's for motivation, power, dedication, love, cheering up. What's anime song do you play for your moods? If you have more than one, by all means tell us." And our News From Japan segment, a toilet exhibition, neko bar, and a political meme? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/animejamsession/support

This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne & Andrew as we discuss: Chinese hackers break into US gov't employee records, Hulu gets South Park, a shakeup at Microsoft, Apple & IBM join forces, a new vehicle from Tesla, and...Worst. Con. Ever. All this and much more... What We're Playing With Andy: iTunes Extras on Apple TV; Video Games: The Movie Greg: Soundscape 8 by photive Dwayne: Google Drive Headlines Chinese hackers accessed personal details of US federal employees, targeted applicants for top-secret security clearances Google grappling with 70,000 'right to be forgotten' requests Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+ Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks Audible Book of the Week Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Novelization by Alex Irvine Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown Music Break: You'll Never Make a Monkey out of Me from The Simpsons More Headlines Microsoft CEO readies big shakeup, drops devices and services focus Microsoft to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week Apple-IBM Partnership is a Direct Challenge to Microsoft Novartis and Google connect on contacts Tesla announces new, smaller electric vehicle named Model 3 Music Break: Tacky by "Weird Al" Yankovic Final Word Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos http://www.dashcon.org/ The Drill Down Video of the Week “Weird Al” releases 8 new videos in 8 days WeirdAl.com (All videos posted here) Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter Geeks Of Doom's The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.

Domestic beer, female condom put to the test, the Fedora Brigade, DashCon debacle, Knights of Sidonia reviewed

Domestic beer, female condom put to the test, the Fedora Brigade, DashCon debacle, Knights of Sidonia reviewed

On this episode, we discuss the epic fail of the Tumblr convention DashCon; we praise the wonderful webseries High Maintenance; and we talk in the 1950s documentary voiceover voice a lot. Links: rumorsontheinternets.org/episode55

Ramblings of a madwoman.

This week, we interrupt our global fandom safari for a matter of dire urgency! ~~People are wrong on the internet!~~ There is a crisis that only the Doctor, the Winchester brothers, Holmes and Watson can solve (and possibly the Avengers if they aren't busy?)! That's right, this week, we're getting meta and bending the laws of time and space to talk about fans of SuperWhoLock! Next week, we bend the laws of space and time back into place as we travel to Russia to talk about fans of that magical sport (and its fans): Figure skating! ## Episode outline ### Fandom Facts **Fandom Origins:** SuperWhoLock is, unsurprisingly, the crossover between the fandoms of Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock (with the Avengers sometimes making an appearance). The first tagged SuperWhoLock post (on Tumblr) appeared in August 2011, and the first SuperWhoLock fanfic was tagged on Archive of our own in August 2012 (though it is possible that stories first appeared as early as January 2012 elsewhere). > In SuperWhoLock's case, this usually involves saving the world from impending apocalypse, something so serious that it only makes sense to enlist as many superheroes as possible to stop it—in this case, the Doctor and his assistants, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sam and Dean Winchester, and the angel Castiel. > > — [The Daily Dot - WTF is SuperWhoLock?](https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/superwholock-fandom-supernatural-sherlock/) **Names:** SuperWhoLockian??? **Most Active:** Based on [Google Trends data](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=superwholock) and [Fanlore](https://fanlore.org/wiki/SuperWhoLock), it appears that the fandom was most popular in the summer of 2014 (in particular, mid July 2014 - The month of [DashCon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon)). Interest was maintained from June 2013 to about January 2015 before starting its downward decline again. **Where does fandom live:** Almost entirely on Tumblr **Related fandoms:** Obviously, Sherlock, Doctor Who, and Supernatural are most related to SuperWhoLock fandom. There are some parodies fandoms that exist as well: - Bee Shrek Test in the House - Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons ### This week's spotlight **[Organization for Transformative Works](http://www.transformativeworks.org/how-you-can-help/)** The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization run by and for fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and fan cultures. ## Where can you find us online? We are everywhere! Most notably though, we like to hang out in a few places on social media: - If you want to help us to create more amazing fannish content, become a patron on [Patreon](http://patreon.com/thenickscast); even as little as a dollar a month pledge really helps us out! - For all the latest updates, check us out on [Facebook](https://facebook.com/thenickscast) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/thenickscast) - To see the latest hijinx from our conventions or even our daily lives and adventures, check us out on [Instagram](https://instagram.com/thenickscast) - For our latest convention updates, *Let's Plays*, and other in-real-life video, [check out our YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) - We're also on [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/fanthropological/id1163621210), and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/music/m/Icmngxz7yhaoivdvivvf6q6c2pu?t=Fanthropological), and would love it if you could leave a review and rating! - if you want to reach us, and for some reason none of those work for you, try [nick@thenickscast.com](mailto:nick@thenickscast.com) - You can check out [our website](http://thenickscast.com); that will mostly bring you back to this stuff. - Everything is `thenickscast`, so if you can't find us, go on your social network and search for that! - ... You're still looking for ways to reach out? You can also use the hashtag `#fanthro` on Twitter!