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Weekend Confirmed Episode 44
by Garnett Lee, Jan 21, 2011 12:00pm PSTGarnett took a quick trip earlier this week to New York for Nintendo's big press event unveiling the 3DS. Along with the pricing and launch info, he returns with detailed impressions of the upcoming hardware and hands-on impressions of several of the games. Jeff, Billy, and special guest Ryan Payton also get in plenty of questions, but there's more to the show than just the 3DS. Fluidity, LittleBIGPlanet 2, and 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors round out Whatcha' Been Playin? The Warning starts with what may become a regular feature of talking about favorite game endings before moving on to some excellent questions Ryan brought. And in the Front Page, December and Year-end sales figures for 2010 lead a full slate of news that concludes with a few thoughts on EA's ill-conceived "Your mom hates this game" marketing campaign for Dead Space 2.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 44 - 01/21/2011
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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: 00:31:44
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:32:48 End: 01:05:05
The Warning: 01:06:12 End: 01:37:32
Featured Music "1 Way Ticket" by Beat Bullys: 01:37:32 End: 01:41:00
The Front Page: Start: 01:41:00 End: 02:16:42
Tailgate Playoffs Wild Card Special: Start: 02:17:42 End: 02:30:09
The Featured Music segment presents "1 Way Ticket" by The Beat Bullys. They are a hip hop rap group based in Southern Califorina. Members BNews, Kree & Osama Bin Rappin were brought together creatively by Long Beach Native & Member of LBC Crew, Bad Azz! Their Debut Album, "Bully Music" is set to be released this year on up and coming Indie Label, Provocative Ent. "1way Ticket" is their newest single Produced by Prophit. Check out their Introduction Video on Youtube "Dedication" and follow on Twitter: BNews83 and itsjustkree
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
Moving onto something a bit more recent I would feel better talking about the ending of Inglourious Basterds instead of The Salton Sea. Despite Basterds being more recent it's ending in particular was very quickly part of the cultural discussion because of it's revisionist take on history.
One other thing to consider, especially with games is how important the ending is to the rest of the experience. Talking about the ending of Heavy Rain is a bigger deal than Uncharted 2. I think people understand (or at least should) when an ending is worth not talking about with people who don't already know it. It's why nobody I know has talked about the end of Shadow of the Colossus without giving fair warning to people to get out if they haven't played it and why Rosie O'Donnell was a bitch for talking about Fight Club's ending on TV.
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