Fri, 29 October 2021
Con Artists #07 - Return of the Con

In the world of 2021, not much has changed. Hope and optimism dares to tread across the jamb as COVID vaccines get into the arms of people across the world and, for independent comickers, conventions start to return...kind of.

After attending only a few shows in 2021––their first in nearly two years––D. Bethel (of the webcomic, Long John) and Kyrun Silva (of Taurus Comics and the 4 Tales Podcast) reconvene to share their experiences, fears, and surprises with the fact that comic shows and conventions have become very different beasts from what they were before, and how difficult it may be to adapt.

RELEVANT INFORMATION:

  • Find Kyrun's work through Taurus Comics at:
    • Taurus Comics website
    • 4 Tales Podcast
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • D. Bethel's webcomic, Long John.
    • Instagram
    • Long John Facebook
    • A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes
    • Podcast Facebook

OTHER EPISODES:

  • Con Artists #01 - StocktonCon, pt. 1 : The drive home from the first day of the show. Kyrun and D. discuss making sales, confidence, and the comics they grew up reading and enjoying.
  • Con Artists #02 - StocktonCon, pt. 2 : The drive to StocktonCon to start Day 2 of the show. They discuss the importance of continuity, the level of fan engagement and ownership over continuity, and Dan's strange reading habits growing up.
  • Con Artists #03 - StocktonCon, pt. 3 : Where Kyrun and D. talk about the breadth of indie comics, writing comics, and dive headfirst into personal nostalgia.
  • Con Artists #04 - StocktonCon Winter 2019: Where D. Bethel and Kyrun try out StocktonCon's inaugural Winter show...with mixed results.
  • Con Artists #05 - No Con 2020: Where Kyrun and D. Bethel address being an independent comic creator in a world without conventions.
  • Con Artists #06 - Tickets & Tables: Where D. Bethe & Kyrun continue to ponder life without incomes and how the industry has tried to fill that void.

Direct download: ConArtists07.mp3
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Fri, 22 October 2021
Meat Pops

NEWS CRUISE: Andrew and D. Bethel cover a lot of different news stories this week, including the acceptance of NFTs in video games by Steam and the Epic Games Store; the workers of tabletop game developer, Paizo, form a union; developers who worked on Metroid Dread not seeing their names in the credits; Ruby Rose speaking up about their treatment on the set of Batwoman's first season; and some announcements made by DC during the DC Fandome event.

UPDATE: Venerated Metroid fansite, Shinesparkers, reached out to Metroid Dread developers, MercurySteam, for clarification on what qualified for crediting in the game, specifically with regard to what constitutes the "25% game dev time" and "significant creative contributions," stating:

"A significant contribution might mean A LOT of things: from designing a playable character, writing dialogues, lore.. anything substantially important to the game. On the 25% this is something based on our experience. Of course it can be seen differently elsewhere."

FURTHER UPDATE: Union issues with Paizo and its workers came to an agreement on Thursday, October 21, with Paizo officially recognizing the workers' union.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Craddock, Ryan. "Metroid Dread Staff Say They've Been Left Out of Game's Credits, MercurySteam Responds." NintendoLife, NLife Media, 14 October 2021.
  • D'Anastasio, Cecilia. "Tabletop RPG Workers Say Their Jobs Are No Fantasy." Wired, Condé Nast, 19 October 2021.
  • Darren. "We Spoke to MercurySteam on Developer Credit in Metroid Dread." Shinesparkers, 15 October 2021.
  • "Day 8: Critical Success!" United Paizo Workers, 21 October 2021.
  • Newton, Casey. "How NFTs Are Creating a Generational Divide Between Platforms." The Verge, Vox Media, 20 October 2021.
  • Patches, Matt. "Ruby Rose Details Batwoman Set's Abusive Conditions, Severe Injuries." Polygon, Vox Media, 20 October 2021.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Business Exempt" (19 October 2018): Where D. Bethel and Andrew talk about the first major attempt to unionize video game workers.
  • "A Casualty of the Rhyme" (22 May 2020): Where our hosts, along with Taylor, talk about Ruby Rose's sudden departure from Batwoman.
  • "Milkbloods" (09 April 2021): When Andrew and D. Bethel first discussed the strange culture of NFTs.

INFO:

  • Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode.
  • Join our Facebook page
  • Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram
  • Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram
  • Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
  • Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify.

FEATURED MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
  • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Direct download: Episode20211022.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 12:00am PST
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Fri, 22 October 2021
Meat Pops

NEWS CRUISE: Andrew and D. Bethel cover a lot of different news stories this week, including the acceptance of NFTs in video games by Steam and the Epic Games Store; the workers of tabletop game developer, Paizo, form a union; developers who worked on Metroid Dread not seeing their names in the credits; Ruby Rose speaking up about their treatment on the set of Batwoman's first season; and some announcements made by DC during the DC Fandome event.

UPDATE: Venerated Metroid fansite, Shinesparkers, reached out to Metroid Dread developers, MercurySteam, for clarification on what qualified for crediting in the game, specifically with regard to what constitutes the "25% game dev time" and "significant creative contributions," stating:

"A significant contribution might mean A LOT of things: from designing a playable character, writing dialogues, lore.. anything substantially important to the game. On the 25% this is something based on our experience. Of course it can be seen differently elsewhere."

FURTHER UPDATE: Union issues with Paizo and its workers came to an agreement on Thursday, October 21, with Paizo officially recognizing the workers' union.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Craddock, Ryan. "Metroid Dread Staff Say They've Been Left Out of Game's Credits, MercurySteam Responds." NintendoLife, NLife Media, 14 October 2021.
  • D'Anastasio, Cecilia. "Tabletop RPG Workers Say Their Jobs Are No Fantasy." Wired, Condé Nast, 19 October 2021.
  • Darren. "We Spoke to MercurySteam on Developer Credit in Metroid Dread." Shinesparkers, 15 October 2021.
  • "Day 8: Critical Success!" United Paizo Workers, 21 October 2021.
  • Newton, Casey. "How NFTs Are Creating a Generational Divide Between Platforms." The Verge, Vox Media, 20 October 2021.
  • Patches, Matt. "Ruby Rose Details Batwoman Set's Abusive Conditions, Severe Injuries." Polygon, Vox Media, 20 October 2021.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Business Exempt" (19 October 2018): Where D. Bethel and Andrew talk about the first major attempt to unionize video game workers.
  • "A Casualty of the Rhyme" (22 May 2020): Where our hosts, along with Taylor, talk about Ruby Rose's sudden departure from Batwoman.
  • "Milkbloods" (09 April 2021): When Andrew and D. Bethel first discussed the strange culture of NFTs.

INFO:

  • Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode.
  • Join our Facebook page
  • Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram
  • Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram
  • Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
  • Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify.

FEATURED MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
  • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Direct download: Episode20211022.mp3
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Fri, 15 October 2021
Ghost Games

BETTER DREAD THAN DEAD: D. Bethel shares some initial thoughts on the newest 2D Metroid game, Metroid 5 aka Metroid Dread.

EMULATE YOU WANT IT, THAT'S THE WAY YOU NEED IT: Kotaku got in a bit of heat when they reported a story about how people were able to get Metroid Dread up and running on emulators in a smooth 60 frames per second at 4K resolution. The problem is that, in the original story, readers felt that Kotaku was, in fact, recommending people pirate Dread instead of buying it because of the emulator's stronger performance. This lead to another round of discussion about emulation, piracy, and game preservation. Andrew and D. Bethel do their best to weigh in on these issues.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Phillips, Tom. "Game Dev Tycoon Forces Those Who Pirate the Game to Unwittingly Fail from Piracy." Eurogamer, Gamer Network Limited, 17 October 2017.
  • Zweizen, Zack. "Metroid Dread is Already Running on Switch Emulators." Kotaku, G/O Media, 11 October 2021.
  • "Metroid Dread - Announcement Trailer - Nintendo | E3 2021." uploaded by Nintendo, 15 June 2021.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "The Eye of Agamemnon" (18 November 2016): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the storied history of old episodes of Doctor Who erased from existence by the BBC.
  • "River City Rampage" (17 August 2018): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the value and importance (and danger) of video game emulation.
  • "I Am the State" (26 February 2021): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss whether the Metroid series is being neglected by Nintendo.

INFO:

  • Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode.
  • Join our Facebook page
  • Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram
  • Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram
  • Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
  • Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify.

FEATURED MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
  • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Direct download: Episode20211015.mp3
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Fri, 8 October 2021
Crypto ATM

PACHINKO IS CRYPTO: Our hosts walk a snake-like path this week as they discuss everything from recent trends in the sketch cryptocurrency/NFT market to the news that Konami may be getting out of pachinko and back into making video games again. It's quite a conversation, in other words.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Heart Law, Article 9" (03 July 2014): Where our hosts discuss why Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is an important game (by their metric, at least).
  • "Recorded Entirely in Esperanto" (01 May 2015): Where our hosts discuss the fall of "the final domino" on Konami's game-developing existence.
  • "Milkbloods" (09 April 2021): Where our hosts first discuss the shady business of NFTs.

INFO:

  • Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode.
  • Join our Facebook page
  • Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram
  • Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram
  • Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
  • Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify.

FEATURED MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
    • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
  • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Direct download: Episode20211008.mp3
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Fri, 1 October 2021
Halloween Still

RTD2: With the next series of Doctor Who wrapping up the tenures of both the star, Jodie Whittaker, and its showrunner, Chris Chibnall, it was announced that the 2023 series will herald the return of the showrunner who brought the show back from the wilderness in 2005, Russell T Davies. Our hosts discuss the possibilities––and drawbacks––of this announcement.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • "The Lost Trophy." The Diana Jones Award, The Diana Jones Award Committee.
  • "Russell T Davies to Return as Doctor Who Showrunner." Doctor Who.tv, BBC Studios, 24 September 2021.
  • Where Cascina Caradonna, face model for the character of "Dina" in The Last of Us, Part 2, sees her face for the first time in her playthrough of the game:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Teasing the Difference" (05 June 2015): Where D. Bethel discusses playing The Last of Us, the game that came with his purchase of this Playstation 4.

INFO:

  • Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode.
  • Join our Facebook page
  • Social: Andrew - Twitter & Instagram, D. Bethel - Twitter & Instagram
  • Find Taylor on Twitter and Instagram
  • Subscribe to our YouTube channel.
  • Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store or on Spotify.

Direct download: episode20211001.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 12:00am PST
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