Podcast bombing. It’s a thing.
Also a thing? Review bombing, DMCA abuse and the Tokyo Game Show.
0:00 – Will technology advance to the point where we fear it will harm our children and turn them into bad apples?
29:55 – Let’s talk DMCA abuse. At length…
1:10:28 – Valve tries to address review bombing
1:20:51 – Monster Hunter Worlds wasn’t the only game at Tokyo Game Show, but it may as well have been!
If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube or to your left. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes or download them from our good friends at KNGI.
Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night right here on RandomTower!
Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
11:14 AM7PM => 5AM over here
11:25 AMOuch. Sorry the show doesn’t air live at a convenient time for you.
6:56 PMHello Everyone.
7:01 PMSpeak in your deep
7:01 PMnot true, R&D on transistors/ micro processors happened for years before they cam avalablr\e. nothing in tech happens over night
7:01 PMSpeak in your deep voice please
7:04 PMhow old is that pc?
7:06 PMIt’d probably be weirder if it had web cam but no microphone.
7:08 PMits time 7 years
7:08 PMps go the higher gpu over a better cpu
7:09 PMandrew you will notice a massive render speed increase if you upgrade trust me
7:11 PMWhoa how long is Molehill Mountain running this week?(just tuned in)
7:12 PMI can do a 24 minute 1080p/60 in about 50ism minuts, and 1080p/30 in near real time
7:13 PMthats gameplay btw
7:13 PMOh right, Andrew is PST, so it’s 7 for him. <.<
7:14 PMwell the next seasson is starting in 2 weeks
7:15 PMall being said you know whare I stand in games I rather a worse looking game, with 60fps,than a better looking game at 30
7:21 PM4
7:21 PMspring,summer,fall,winter
7:25 PMthey are being sold on gamestop switch + mario + case for 380\
7:27 PMthere website is forcine switch+ 1st party game at retail price
7:27 PMyou do
7:31 PMthis isnt dmca abuse lawyers have said they are well within their rights to dmca the video
7:35 PMcontract law is clear, unless a contract says its non revokable, its revokable at any time
7:40 PMnothing
7:40 PMreviews are fair use lps arent
7:42 PMThen what would be the right tool?
7:49 PMwhat TB does if fair use, what PDP does isnt
7:59 PMmostly only walking sims suffer from that
7:59 PMThat did happen with That Dragon, Cancer
8:01 PMthat being said, I dont care about walking sims, so I dont care
8:01 PMthe ps4 does,xb1 doesnt
8:07 PMProbably better to use a real person, like Micheal Vick streaming a Pokémon game
8:11 PMsteam doesnt allow you to revew games you dont owm
8:11 PMJack Thompson and Cooper Lawrence were review bombed.
8:12 PMalso there are good reassons to revew bomb. for example china famulsy does it if a game is released there without translations
8:13 PMBoth were lying about videogames .
8:13 PMRight, but unlike Thompson, Lawrence’s book had nothing to do with video games.
8:17 PMnah I think not having localization is good reason to revew bomb
8:17 PMYou can’t even find Thompson’s book anymore?
8:17 PMOut of Harm’s way?
8:19 PMFound it. Last time I looked I couldn’t find it.
8:20 PMplayed mh world at pax
8:21 PMyup the game has a system that straight up leads you to the monster
8:21 PMso no more tracking foot prints
8:26 PMit is, they confirmed they are using the newest engine
8:27 PMthe game I cant wait for is dragon ball fighters z, played it at pax. I am not even a fighting game fan
8:36 PMnah my guess dlc. they will treat it like a platform
