Hosted by Kevin Pereira with Special Guest "Drama" from Rob&Big, and the Creative Director for Planet Side 2 Matt Higby.
The show started off great Kevin and Drama got into a conversation about Drama's rise from an assistant to a guy who pulled up to the Death Squad studio in a new Lamborghini. Drama got into it, he talked about initially feeling crushed when he went to Rob and asked for help, and Rob basically said "go do it" which meant on your own. Drama thanked Rob for doing that because it forced him to learn the things that he needed to learn to make the company happen and are the skills he uses time and time again in all of his business ventures.
Kevin towards the end of the interview brought out a pocket humidifier for smoking. It's the PAX vaporizer, and if you want to know more type that into Google. I am not a huge vape guy so can't speak too much about it. I only mentioned it because Kevin gave it such an high praise.
They took a break and then came back to talk to Matt Higby.
Before Kevin went into the interview with Matt. Kevin got into some NRA gun control stuff and the chat went ape shit. Kevin I think was trying to share the experience of being at a gun show at the same time that the Obama made his announcement about assault weapons. I can imagine it was an intense and frightening experience no matter what side of the issue your on. Some people are just nuts, and then a room full of weapons doesn't help that. It doesn't matter that most people in that room are sane, just the 20-30 "Gun Nuts" are a little intimidating. I have been to one years ago and it was for Military Academy purposes so I had my squad with me. A little different but the same crazy people where there.
Kevin tried to diffuse it with talk of porn star's with the Producer Brian. Brian also co-hosts Joe Rogan's show. Not sure how much that worked since the religion, left v.right comments flooded the chat. It dried up pretty quick with only comments hear and there as soon as Matt joined the show.
Then Kevin got into Plant Side 2 with Higby and I gotta say it sounds amazing. I am gonna link the episode at the bottom of the blog, if your just interested in that part skip to like the last hour and enjoy!
Planet Side 2 is a mmofps[Massive Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter] that takes you into battles on the larges HALO map you've ever imagined with 10x the PVP. Which is all it is PVP. Also you can use Mech, Tank, Helo's, there is bullet drop, and so on.
I have not as of yet been able to play PS2 but it's free to join and not a game that will be one of the typical on-line deals that if you want to level you have to pay. It's pretty even across the board, at least according to Kevin and Matt. Several people in the chat downloaded the game and started playing before the show was over.
The only downside to the game is the learning curve. The game is hard, it actually requires thought and player immersion. Be willing to invest into learning the game and dying a lot, or find a friend who is into it and have them walk you around. Both Kevin and Matt recommended finding a friend as it makes it easier too get up to speed.
They have suggested getting a team Death Squad together and Matt will bring his team and having a mini-tourney. Both Matt and Kevin give there gamer tags so if you wanna play with them you gotta watch the show and write 'em down. Kevin mentioned to each of his guests trying to work something out with the podcast to hook up the people that joined in with free gear(Drama) and in game goodies/upgraded profile(Matt Higbe).
I had a lot of fun watching and participating in the pod-cast some minor trollish behavior but not bad. The time the show was on and where it actually was happening was hard to find and Kevin did not post it till the day of, kinda the last minute. Hopefully it will be better scheduled and posted on the Pointless Forum in the future. That it, hope you found this useful. Don't forget to add my blog and leave a comment.
Kevin Pereria
KevinPereria.com
(all his info links from here, obviously)
Drama's Clothing Line
http://www.youngandreckless.com
Matt Higbe
http://www.matthewhigby.com
Pointless Podcast Forum
http://www.pointlessforum.com
deathsquad.tv
(tons of content check it out)
Pointless Podcast #10 is not up yet(as of my post) but you can find it under the Shows drop down tab Pointless will be the one that will lead you where you need to go.
Here it is the direct link to the page. See you in the drop zone
http://www.planetside2.com/
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
G4 Tech Tv Died and the Gamer Revolution Begins
G4 tech tv dies, and all I hear is how it does not make sense, the fans are pissed, and "it's just like Firefly". This is without a doubt one of the greatest thing's to happen to the gaming industry since Final Fantasy started sucking. IT MAKES ROOM FOR SOMETHING BETTER!!!!
If G4 limped along with it's meager ratings and the wrong people in charge of it but some how kept getting funded the demographic that G4 represents would be aware of it's presence enough to occasionally tune in but nothing would change and gamers would continue to be a marginalized demographic that never grows up.
Loosing our sleeping pill(and it was a great one) is going to open a Pandora's box of Blogg's and Pod-Casts and internet based content attempting to lure the G4 demographic to there site. There are already hundreds of video game based podcasts on the itunes store. [https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts-video-games/id1404?mt=2]
So yes this exists but now, we have nothing on cable to go watch. We still want the same info, and seek the same entertainment. So now the podcast/blogg numbers go up, then people try and launch a indie version of G4. This eventually will be a cycle, as the either two things are gonna happen (both of which can create a cycle). 1.One of the indie version's of G4 is self sustaining and able to make profit. 2.People keep trying to make an alternative to G4 that keeps failing but they keep trying until enough of the sub-culture is involved that one version or another become self sustaining.
Yeah, I just said the same thing twice. Because it's happening. Kevin Smith is making a fortune right now appealing to comic book fans. So is Warner Brothers, video games outsell both of these demographics. VG out sells comics (yes even online) and more units of games are sold then tickets every year. The best part is, gamers go to movies a ton, and many of us buy comic books. This is a multiple demographic demographic. We are four quadrant, and cross every line possible. Al-Queda plays video games. So do Navy Seals, the President's staff plays games on their smartphones, and so does everybody at Fox news.
You know who doesn't play games? Caucasian wealthy men over 60. Yeah I know a couple in that demographic also but those are the exceptions not the rule. Who are most of the decision makers in television/film/entertainment period? White old rich guys. Yes, the female power broker demographic is skyrocketing, and ethinic minorities are moving up so fast in my lifetime minority will not be used anymore because of how inaccurate it is compared to usage in the 90's.
The bottom line is the people who don't understand gamers are still in charge, but that is going to change. Eventually these folks will pass away and get replaced as in every part of life on this planet. We, the fan, the gamer, the geek, the unsung, the discarded portion of the "Geek" sub-culture. We will have more power in every industry in the next 50 years one way or another. We are about to begin the Golden age of the Gamer Geek.
Arena gaming is coming, immursive 3-D is coming, every CES, or tech convention that happens every year continues to show us that. I for one am so excited I can't believe I am able to be any small part of this.
If G4 limped along with it's meager ratings and the wrong people in charge of it but some how kept getting funded the demographic that G4 represents would be aware of it's presence enough to occasionally tune in but nothing would change and gamers would continue to be a marginalized demographic that never grows up.
Loosing our sleeping pill(and it was a great one) is going to open a Pandora's box of Blogg's and Pod-Casts and internet based content attempting to lure the G4 demographic to there site. There are already hundreds of video game based podcasts on the itunes store. [https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/podcasts-video-games/id1404?mt=2]
So yes this exists but now, we have nothing on cable to go watch. We still want the same info, and seek the same entertainment. So now the podcast/blogg numbers go up, then people try and launch a indie version of G4. This eventually will be a cycle, as the either two things are gonna happen (both of which can create a cycle). 1.One of the indie version's of G4 is self sustaining and able to make profit. 2.People keep trying to make an alternative to G4 that keeps failing but they keep trying until enough of the sub-culture is involved that one version or another become self sustaining.
Yeah, I just said the same thing twice. Because it's happening. Kevin Smith is making a fortune right now appealing to comic book fans. So is Warner Brothers, video games outsell both of these demographics. VG out sells comics (yes even online) and more units of games are sold then tickets every year. The best part is, gamers go to movies a ton, and many of us buy comic books. This is a multiple demographic demographic. We are four quadrant, and cross every line possible. Al-Queda plays video games. So do Navy Seals, the President's staff plays games on their smartphones, and so does everybody at Fox news.
You know who doesn't play games? Caucasian wealthy men over 60. Yeah I know a couple in that demographic also but those are the exceptions not the rule. Who are most of the decision makers in television/film/entertainment period? White old rich guys. Yes, the female power broker demographic is skyrocketing, and ethinic minorities are moving up so fast in my lifetime minority will not be used anymore because of how inaccurate it is compared to usage in the 90's.
The bottom line is the people who don't understand gamers are still in charge, but that is going to change. Eventually these folks will pass away and get replaced as in every part of life on this planet. We, the fan, the gamer, the geek, the unsung, the discarded portion of the "Geek" sub-culture. We will have more power in every industry in the next 50 years one way or another. We are about to begin the Golden age of the Gamer Geek.
Arena gaming is coming, immursive 3-D is coming, every CES, or tech convention that happens every year continues to show us that. I for one am so excited I can't believe I am able to be any small part of this.
Conversation on G4.com
Jeremy Nedd · The Art Institute of California – San Diego
Everybody G4 will be rebranding its self this year but at a bad price. G4 is becoming what its called a Esquire Channel they are towards a metrosexual audience about travel, cooking, fashion and some game-related shows. The network is going to be terrible, I rather see re-runs of FILTER CALL FOR HELP THE SCREENSAVERS GAMESPOT TV EXTENDED PLAY EVEN PORTAL CINMEATECH ROBOT WARS AND SCREENSHOTS.
- Trenton Miller · FollowingOMG you remember all those shows!? Man, what happened? TechTV and the early days of G4 were freaking great. Even shows like Cinematech, simple shows but shows I would watch over mostly everything else on TV. Great original quality content, all gone now. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see anything like it again. RIP The greatness that you once were.
- Jeremy Nedd · The Art Institute of California – San DiegoHell yeah brother I started watching adam sessler when he was donig gamespot tv with lauren fielder I believe back in the late 90's when ZDTV was still around and watching call for help omg those were the days i tell you. When extended play came out with his co host kate botello that show was great man for real then that whole techtv and g4 merger crap ruined everything
- Trenton Miller · FollowMaybe, HOPEFULLY, some intelligent television executive will realize the whole this is creating in the market, and maybe the will buy the rights to the TechTV brand and restart it. Imagine if Adam Sessler, Kevin Pereira, and the rest of the guys that were there for so long will the be ones to do something. But let me tell you this: if they did start up TechTV again with new episodes of all those classic shows, OR if they did a spiritual successor to the network and those classic shows, OR if they did something brand new that was of equal quality back then, it would, without a doubt, be the most watched channel in my house. And if that's true of one person, it is true of many people. They need to get smarter people running the networks to make this thing profitable. Because honestly, the only thing still keeping me from having a TV account is ESPN at this point. For everything else, I'd rather just get it on the internet. I'll miss the days of eating dinner and watching Kevin and Olivia, or waiting to hear what X-Play rated that new game that just came out. Even Ninja Warrior. Or back in the day with The Screensavers - man I miss that show more than any other on TV, especially when it was on TechTV with Leo and Patrick, and then later with Kevin Rose. CLASSIC
- Gamers Tech Entertainment i-NetTrenton Miller It's what I have been saying for a long time. This market is so misunderstood by the current power demographic in entertainment that a "revolution" of sorts is inevitable. You have execs sitting at the top with the power to fund a project but are at best "add sales" guys. The paradigm of any person under 40 right now in a tech heavy country are a completely different culture from the 55+ Executives In Charge. The internet/blogging/
podcasting are going to be ground -zero for the rebirth. This goes back to the study in the early part of 2000 that sited the largest cultural generation gap in American history. Very simple formula, get a show, get sponsers directly (Wayne's World Style) and when the gamers blow that brand up. The executive branch that is out of touch will wake up. G4 going away is actually an opportunity in disuse. The Gamers Tech Entertainment INternet group of people that watched g4 now are going to get frustrated and create more content. This is the beginning of something that will change the game. Lets face it, by the time I am 60 the guys in charge of TV now will be long dead and G4 will be the legendary.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
The biggest problems with Video Games is...and here is what is next
The biggest problem with Video Games is...they aren't real. Is also the best thing about them and lets face it, a ton of people would be dead and life would probably be terrible depending on the game.
Games like books, and movies before them tell a story that you can insert yourself into and alter the reality that your in. Good, bad, or otherwise this is in the eye of the beholder and not my point. Every generation of game creators, and player's for that matter want to find ways to have a more realistic intimate gaming experience. Game engines that create seeming real time environments where things happen in game as close to what we would imagine would happen in real life "if" the game was reality.
At some point video games are going to reach the limits of what any "Device" can do. So what's next? I'll come back to this first let me take you back to the days of Laser Tag.
In my home town there is very small amusement park that had a "Laser Tag" game that you could play in a room upstairs. Basically they got a bunch of guns and vests and charged people to run around in a obstacle sized room and see which team could rack up the most kills. It was fun cheep and the liability insurance eventually closed them down.
Now lets take the laser tag arena and instead of cheesy plastic guns and pads(you put a chest piece on over your clothes and it had target sensors all over it) in a cheep small environment. What if things got ramped up to the next level? I say these guys should have taken it a step farther, and they could have saved the Laser Tag room and eventually the whole park. No, I don't mean they should have turned it into a paint ball park. Yes, that would have probably worked also.
Imagine if you will a headset, that really is a real helmet, imagine that instead of a chest piece you have full armor. Now imagine that inside the helmet, is a screen that displays the scenery and environment of let's say the first HALO. Using OLED tech like what was unveiled at CES this year.
[ http://journik.com/convergence/]
So you could not use a small room or a large room for that matter you would need something bigger. I think indoor soccer is perfect size, also Hockey rinks are not a bad choice.
Now maybe your asking "why full body suit?", well there is a good reason for this. Your environment fights back.
Now that I've got you on this train of thought digest that and I'll come back to it in my next post.
Friday, January 25, 2013
JJ Abrams, Star Wars, and Sundance.
First I just want to get this out there. Abrams directing Star Wars sounds like a great idea. The guy who wrote Toy Story 3 as the writer for Star Wars sounds like a retarded idea. Why get a sci-fi director who's on a hot streak and then pair him with a, "who?". Hey Disney, did you know there are people in Hollywood who actually write sci-fi, and who do it well? I know this guy is in house so you don't have to pay him as much but um, how about you don't give us the whole Woody/Jar-Jar hybrid.
BTW if you break cannon or screw up the time line from what the books have established, we, the fans will unleash the fury of the dark side of the internet. Ticket sales have no fury like a spurned Geeks. Example:Green Lantern, and nobody names there kid after Hal Jordan (Lot's guys named Chewie. See what I did there, pun within a pun...just sayin).
Ok rant time, I have ranted about this for many years but here we go again. FU Sundance...unless I get in.
BTW if you break cannon or screw up the time line from what the books have established, we, the fans will unleash the fury of the dark side of the internet. Ticket sales have no fury like a spurned Geeks. Example:Green Lantern, and nobody names there kid after Hal Jordan (Lot's guys named Chewie. See what I did there, pun within a pun...just sayin).
Ok rant time, I have ranted about this for many years but here we go again. FU Sundance...unless I get in.
Gamers not be taken serously, CNBC pay attention.
If your a gamer then you know that there are many different types of gamers that exist. Different levels different kinds. The one thing that every gamer does in today's' world is interact with other gamers. My aunt is 60+ and is the top DPS player in her guild currently. She plays an M.M.O.R.P.G. on her phone. She has a doctorate degree in education is the principle of a private school and the highlight of her weekend was doing a dungeon with her guild.
What this means is that she is in a position as a person who owns stocks and financial properties to influence the market. My uncle does all the investing but he listens to his wife. She talks to and listens to the people in her guild. Also she is on her phone with the game so she is a smartphone gamer. She used to game on her laptop with FB, but switched when she purchased a smartphone. She stopped using Facebook, and now uses G+ on her phone to do the FB networking. All the people she interacts with have switched, her student us FB (elementry school kids). And then when they hit Jr. High, it's Twitter, Facetime, or an app. The FB app is not as fluid as it should be. So they don't use it.
All afternoon on CNBC "Closing Bell", and "Options Action" everyone is talking about FB. They analysts are not sure what to do and are blaming the launch of the IPO for the bad performance of the stock. This is ignorant of what is happening on FB itself. If FB does not does not reshape how it deals with the people that conduct business on FB and the Gaming community on FB it's gonna be gone in less than Ten years. When FB crashes it will be worse than Myspace which is technically still around. Myspace died for three reasons, no block button, overspam, predatory user reputation. Facebook will die because Mark Zuckerberg is not paying attention to the geeks and gamers. He needs to log-in again.
If any of you have sat in Ironforge, or any other populus area in WOW you know that they Gamers on WOW talk about everything. These places on the internet and in-game on consuls and on phones are where market trends are being decided daily. If FB is pissing people off they are gonna find another way to get done what they need to get done. I don't need a FB page anymore, G+ is partnered with everything that I use anyway (Except Twitter, which may happen).
I log in to one place and can do everything. FB is connected to many things but it has a sense of not being serious or not being worth the time to update. I still network on FB but that is all I do with it. More and more people I do business with are using Google+. And we can't chat from G+, video conference, the ease of use to other things that I deal with in regular business is there. FB has a childish or "take or leave it" feel to it. Which is what Myspace had towards the end.
Gamers are fickle and speak in layers, G+ came out and they all hated it, pretending to see through Google's attempt to take over the world and stuck with their way of doing things. Then gradually as G+ got easier to use they started using it and the conversations in forums and Raid ques started to change in tone.
Why does this matter to the financial sector? Video games in terms of net profits outsell Hollywood and porn, every year. Gaming is measured millions of units sold, there are less than 15,000 movie theaters on the whole planet. If you compare tickets sold, to units sold, and apps downloaded it's no contest.
It's only a matter of time till we start having gaming celebrities that go mainstream.
Keep in mind, Lady Gaga got big on the internet first, she got trended by Google search optimization first. Gamer generation(anybody who gaming or the iNet is part of daily life) gave her the hits to make Google optimizer her, and blow up her You Tube. Don't believe me? Google Lady Gaga and Google.
Parting punch: A friend of mine, +Spiro Frentzas has a food company that he is launching, as a creative consultant I sit with his team from time to time. One of the biggest trends in new start-up companies and a concept that has been running in the Add-Sales, Marketing worlds is one word. "Gamification" Combined with Kickstarter and you have an on-line game funding a non-tech related business.
C'mon CNBC, wake-up. In the next 20 years the gamers are gonna go IPO, and Wall-street just might miss it.
What this means is that she is in a position as a person who owns stocks and financial properties to influence the market. My uncle does all the investing but he listens to his wife. She talks to and listens to the people in her guild. Also she is on her phone with the game so she is a smartphone gamer. She used to game on her laptop with FB, but switched when she purchased a smartphone. She stopped using Facebook, and now uses G+ on her phone to do the FB networking. All the people she interacts with have switched, her student us FB (elementry school kids). And then when they hit Jr. High, it's Twitter, Facetime, or an app. The FB app is not as fluid as it should be. So they don't use it.
All afternoon on CNBC "Closing Bell", and "Options Action" everyone is talking about FB. They analysts are not sure what to do and are blaming the launch of the IPO for the bad performance of the stock. This is ignorant of what is happening on FB itself. If FB does not does not reshape how it deals with the people that conduct business on FB and the Gaming community on FB it's gonna be gone in less than Ten years. When FB crashes it will be worse than Myspace which is technically still around. Myspace died for three reasons, no block button, overspam, predatory user reputation. Facebook will die because Mark Zuckerberg is not paying attention to the geeks and gamers. He needs to log-in again.
If any of you have sat in Ironforge, or any other populus area in WOW you know that they Gamers on WOW talk about everything. These places on the internet and in-game on consuls and on phones are where market trends are being decided daily. If FB is pissing people off they are gonna find another way to get done what they need to get done. I don't need a FB page anymore, G+ is partnered with everything that I use anyway (Except Twitter, which may happen).
I log in to one place and can do everything. FB is connected to many things but it has a sense of not being serious or not being worth the time to update. I still network on FB but that is all I do with it. More and more people I do business with are using Google+. And we can't chat from G+, video conference, the ease of use to other things that I deal with in regular business is there. FB has a childish or "take or leave it" feel to it. Which is what Myspace had towards the end.
Gamers are fickle and speak in layers, G+ came out and they all hated it, pretending to see through Google's attempt to take over the world and stuck with their way of doing things. Then gradually as G+ got easier to use they started using it and the conversations in forums and Raid ques started to change in tone.
Why does this matter to the financial sector? Video games in terms of net profits outsell Hollywood and porn, every year. Gaming is measured millions of units sold, there are less than 15,000 movie theaters on the whole planet. If you compare tickets sold, to units sold, and apps downloaded it's no contest.
It's only a matter of time till we start having gaming celebrities that go mainstream.
Keep in mind, Lady Gaga got big on the internet first, she got trended by Google search optimization first. Gamer generation(anybody who gaming or the iNet is part of daily life) gave her the hits to make Google optimizer her, and blow up her You Tube. Don't believe me? Google Lady Gaga and Google.
Parting punch: A friend of mine, +Spiro Frentzas has a food company that he is launching, as a creative consultant I sit with his team from time to time. One of the biggest trends in new start-up companies and a concept that has been running in the Add-Sales, Marketing worlds is one word. "Gamification" Combined with Kickstarter and you have an on-line game funding a non-tech related business.
C'mon CNBC, wake-up. In the next 20 years the gamers are gonna go IPO, and Wall-street just might miss it.
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