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Weekend Confirmed Episode 34
by Garnett Lee, Nov 12, 2010 12:00pm PSTCall of Duty: Black Ops dropped this week and we've been playing it along with, oh, a few million other folks around the Net. It hoards the spotlight in Whatcha Been Playin? and fair warning, there are some spoilers in the discussion but with a clear disclaimer beforehand. Battlefield Play4Free and the Vietnam DLC for Bad Company 2 also come up as shooters rule this week's show. In the Warning your counter-points to the idea floated last week of 2-3 hour games get us started and we also open the question of how susceptible to fatigue Call of Duty looks to be? News of Rock Band developer Harmonix hitting the sales block, a handful of new game announcements, and more wrap it all up in the Front Page.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 34 - 11/12/2010
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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:
Whatcha' Been Playin: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:30:10
Whatcha' Been Playin and Cannata-ford a New Game: Start: 00:31:14 End: 01:04:29
The Warning: Start: 01:05:34 End: 01:37:29
Music Break featuring "Line 'em Up": 01:37:29 End: 01:40:40
The Front Page: Start: 01:40:40 End: 02:05:20
NFL 'Tailgate': Start: 02:06:20 End: 02:16:10
Music Break this week features "Line 'em Up" by Final Gravity. This track is from their "4 Pack" EP available on iTunes and CDBaby. For more from them check out the official Final Gravity site. And if you're in the LA area, Final Gravity will be opening for rock guitarist Gary Hoey (who, if you don't know the name, shreds) at the Brixton on the Redondo Beach Pier, Thursday, December 16 at 9pm.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page.
Jeff can also be seen on The Totally Rad Show. They've gone daily so there's a new segment to watch every day of the week!
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Comments
I do agree with Brian that it is a sport to many people. Also, that while there may not be as much an emphasis on FPS games as the AAA title set in the future, I'd suspect there to be one AAA entry a year on into the future. They will be other AAA titles in other genres also, which is a kind of lowering of the emphasis on these shooters.
I've seen on JTV not only people playing these kill/die/kill/die/kill/kill/die games for hours upon hours, and also having as many as 1,000 people *watching* someone do this! Roman's watched gladitoral blood games, seems these are still popular today, and that is no surprise.
I also agree with Jeff that the realism of the horrors of war seems to be seeping out more and more, and war is being presented as more and more *fun*... this turns me off quite a bit, but again, I understand how many people would like this.
Finally, talking pretty obviously about bankers and such, a favorite cliche for leftwingers talking about pro-capitalist folks in general, the lyrics, "line them up, do the world a favor, line them up, fire" are hate speech: period.
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