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Shawn Elliott's "Whiskey Nerd" was a brilliant addition to The Brodeo.
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With what?
Dude I cant believe you underestimated and went old man eskimo with your heating situation in Boston. That story was gold.
They even got a regular guest who pretended to move to LA and was supposedly replaced by his own identical twin brother. It's the laziest bit ever - he didn't even have to alter his voice, just slightly change his name.
Shawn really went all out with this fake-out. The site looks really nice and look at all of those great podcasts. This Ryan Scott character seems so real. Brilliant work yet again!
SeventhSon
Member
Here's a clip that shows how Jeff and Shawn used the "Ryan" character to segue to Second Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPud4WMNSSo
"You are still calling this thing a game."
"It is a game. I make a game out of it."
Lol
Bukake Bliss
Your impersonation was spot on, even better than that time you were acting like your aunt =P
Out of curiousity, do you still play bass regularly?
Jeff whatever your new podcast with "Ryan" is, set aside a single evening to talk and stream Rust with me.
Obviously this has to happen.
Listen to him, Jeff.
Jeff, this is me adding on to the peer pressure. Do this. (Please)
So did Jeff make you play all those hours of Eve (as he was the boss), back when "Ryan" played MMO's not named WoW? Or was it a joint effort to share the pain?
Ryan Scott
Neo Member
Oh well, I guess the gig is up! The greatest ruse ever, finally revealed!
Conscience Falls
Member
Wait, we weren't supposed to know Ryan wasn't real the whole time? I have a hard time buying that one.
I love everything you touch Ryan, it's all gold.
Just finished the first episode of Out Of The Game.
That was really something else. Completely an anything goes podcast with a focus on games, yet tangents still overruled. Much like GFW rocked back in the day. I love Lukes insight. Really wish he would've stuck around for more frequent guest spots other than the final episode.
That was really something else. Completely an anything goes podcast with a focus on games, yet tangents still overruled. Much like GFW rocked back in the day. I love Lukes insight. Really wish he would've stuck around for more frequent guest spots other than the final episode.
I'm new be nice
Member
Everyone discovers things at their own pace. It just so happened that the way it was presented in its hilariously over the top fashion made it so enjoyable for many people who had never been exposed to that sort of thing.
There are numerous examples of the in-depth conversations in game design that transpired on GFW, the best place to start is the compilations, it's hard for me to find them on youtube because the off-topic conversations tend to dominate there, I imagine because they are in a lot of ways timeless, whereas the conversations on game design are period pieces, though still pretty relevant (the industry hasn't really changed all that much).
But the off-beat nature of GFW, if i'm allowed to be a little pretentious here, reflects rather well the odd and silly nature of the PC and the culture that surrounds it. The PC is a very experimental device, unlike consoles (especially around the time GFW was running) which ONLY played games, the PC was your portal to the internet and the oddities that surrounded it, so it was only natural for the conversation to drift towards the general silliness of the internet. If anything it felt like the perfect compliment towards the PC.
But more importantly I think the off-topic nature of GFW reflects the problems that the PC faced at that time, there was not a lot of content to work with, most developers were purely focused on consoles and there was a lot of fear that the PC had lost its relevance as a games device.
SeventhSon
Member
Maybe when he was at Ziff Davis. Luke pretty much slept through each episode of Out of the Game he was on.
megabytecr
Member
Yeah, you nailed it with the last part, and for me that was what made this podcast so unique. Although they did had serious bits every now an then that were really good discussions. If I remember correctly they always joked and were afraid about GFW disappearing, and the GFW jokes were gold too.
dr3upmushroom
Banned
Ha, glad to see the old Brodeo Bro's coming out of the woodwork. Before Giant Bomb, these guys helped me get through my job at a soul numbing grocery store.
ClassyPenguin
Banned
I still want Founding Fighters.
Would make a better beat em up than a straight on fighter.
Would make a better beat em up than a straight on fighter.
WhiskeyKnight
Member
This needs to be the sequel to Jeff's Dark Souls stream.
BrianAltano
Member
I was hoping this wouldn't get out. But I knew the sun would rise today.
After the Brodeo ended and before plans to create The GameSpy Debriefings/The Comedy Button podcasts began, Jeff Green and I met in an abandoned candy store in Sunnyvale, CA to discuss keeping the "Ryan Scott" character "alive" for "the fans" to "listen to."
He taught me everything there was to know about Ryan. How his diet consisted largely of vending machine items and pie filling containers from chain supermarkets. How he carried briefcases full of crumpled notebook papers he would use to obsessively rank the Koopa Kids. How he couldn't make pasta without burning the water.
Jeff whispered gently but quickly because we had little time. He told me that if you pinch the lower half of your Adam's apple while chewing six gummy colas and ONLY breathing angrily through your nose, you can replicate the "Ryan Scott" voice fairly easily. That was the simple part. What happened next changed me forever.
I got lost in the character, sometimes going days at a time only using rooted Android devices, watching standard definition television programs and only buying cereals that came with prizes. "How could anybody live like this?" I screamed, through foot thick glasses and a wilted Indiana Jones replica fedora. It seemed insane to me. Completely insane. But I knew a character this bizarre and obsessed with comic book origin stories, the Three Stooges for NES and whatever the fuck a "pizza whistle" was had to be something special, as deranged as he seemed. I knew he was the creation of geniuses and it was an honor to keep his character alive. And keep him alive I would.
The torch had been passed. The Kermit voiced nerd will live another day. There is always a "Ryan Scott," no matter the year or the show or the generation.
Oh boy. Oh boy indeed.
After the Brodeo ended and before plans to create The GameSpy Debriefings/The Comedy Button podcasts began, Jeff Green and I met in an abandoned candy store in Sunnyvale, CA to discuss keeping the "Ryan Scott" character "alive" for "the fans" to "listen to."
He taught me everything there was to know about Ryan. How his diet consisted largely of vending machine items and pie filling containers from chain supermarkets. How he carried briefcases full of crumpled notebook papers he would use to obsessively rank the Koopa Kids. How he couldn't make pasta without burning the water.
Jeff whispered gently but quickly because we had little time. He told me that if you pinch the lower half of your Adam's apple while chewing six gummy colas and ONLY breathing angrily through your nose, you can replicate the "Ryan Scott" voice fairly easily. That was the simple part. What happened next changed me forever.
I got lost in the character, sometimes going days at a time only using rooted Android devices, watching standard definition television programs and only buying cereals that came with prizes. "How could anybody live like this?" I screamed, through foot thick glasses and a wilted Indiana Jones replica fedora. It seemed insane to me. Completely insane. But I knew a character this bizarre and obsessed with comic book origin stories, the Three Stooges for NES and whatever the fuck a "pizza whistle" was had to be something special, as deranged as he seemed. I knew he was the creation of geniuses and it was an honor to keep his character alive. And keep him alive I would.
The torch had been passed. The Kermit voiced nerd will live another day. There is always a "Ryan Scott," no matter the year or the show or the generation.
Oh boy. Oh boy indeed.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
With Ryan Scott's love of Breaking Bad, this all makes sense. The comic store only exists in our hearts.
Ghost Dad the Whip
Member
U streaming now, Shawn? Wots da twitch?
Lasthope106
Member
In my humble opinion, and after listening to a lot of gaming and non-gaming podcasts, I can say with confidence that the Brodeo was one of the best. You guys had magic going on when you recorded this. It was the perfect storm.
sixteen-bit
Member
Don't forget to tell them to get off your lawn too.
Which is why we make threads like these. Gotta introduce the youngins to the greatest gaming podcast of all time.
dragonelite
Member
Where can you get the complete collection of GFW radio podcast?
Heard them all last year while doing my internship.
Heard them all last year while doing my internship.
GFW/GFWRadio died before a lot of people got into/back into PC gaming. It makes sense they wouldn't know. We can lord it over them, so think of it as a plus.
This is art.
Foxtastical
Member
Good times back then. Made a couple of my internships and retail jobs during college tolerable. For whatever odd reason, I have a vivid memory of doing some freelance journalism during an internship while listening to them talk about Prey and the space coffin.
It's crazy to think how different the PC gaming landscape was five years ago. It really felt like our own little club or something.
"You're still a princess to mee!"
"I dont care if you call me retarded. My own grandma calls me retarded every day."
Crab Milk Mickey
Member
The coincidental echo that TF2 voice chat tends to have popping up right when he spoke about "HONOR" cracks me up every time.
I'm new be nice
Member
I like the counter strike griefing too
"Why do you sound like you hate so much, you are possessed by a devil"
It's just so fucking absurd lol, the team fortress one is definitely the best though
"Why do you sound like you hate so much, you are possessed by a devil"
It's just so fucking absurd lol, the team fortress one is definitely the best though
I'm new be nice
Member
Haha yes, fuck that's some good trolling
I love GFW radio. I remember when me and a couple of friends went backpacking through Europe in 09' and I loaded my mp3 player with the entire brodeo catalogue so i could listen when we had downtime on trains or trainstations. We had a portable speaker with us, so i let my friends listen in on some of the heroes of the web episodes, which they all appreciated. Good times.
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