Leave him alone, lady. He just wants to watch television.

We recorded a new HAWPcast, and you can watch it here.

There are SPOILERS for Inception and Shutter Island.  If you’re worried about that sort of thing, just skip to the twenty minute mark and you’ll be fine. Probably. Unless I’ve forgotten something.

Which I likely have.

Either way, this episode is about Inception and great fictional villains.  Hope you enjoy it.

Hey, another HAWPcast. Our situation has changed — I’m in Texas, Ash is still in Arizona — but our own meandering, rarely interesting brand of conversation has not.

You can listen to it here. In it, we talk about the Actual Movie that Ash is going to be in, the awesomeness of Toy Story 3, and, at the very end, and for the last time in a very long while (ideally, ever), we talk about the most recent episodes of Doctor Who.

MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR TOY STORY 3

Sorry it took so long. We were busy filmin’.

This week’s episode, surprisingly enough, is full of talk about videogames. No, seriously — around 75% of the discussion is about videogames, and about 20% is about how mystery-driven shows like LOST and Battlestar Galactica are manipulative bullshit at times.

This week’s HAWPcast is about random, mostly TV-related stuff. That, and some self-analysis regarding HAWP’s style.

This week’s episode of the HAWPcast is about:

- The Passing

- Catholicism

- Kick-Ass

- Sausages

-That one thing we always talk about in every HAWPcast, but that we’ve learned to save until the very end because not everyone cares about it as much as we do

Don’t worry — the HAWPcast episode itself isn’t an unfunny Gears of War discussion. We have a discussion about an unfunny Gears of War episode.

Anyway.

You can listen to it here. We discuss Attack of the Clones, Firefly, Mass Effect, and a bunch of other, random stuff. At the very, very end, we talk about the new Doctor Who. If you’re not at all interested in Doctor Who, just stop listening near the end once we start talking about it. There’s nothing in our conversations from that point on that doesn’t include the words “Tennant” or “Moffat.”

In this episode of  Hey Ash Whatcha Playin’s official podcast, I gush about Jason Rohrer’s Sleep is Death, Ash talks about meeting Jason Schwartzman, and we determine exactly how gay I am.

I also state my intention to watch every single episode of Doctor Who, starting with the first episode in 196(EDIT:)3. Ashly is skeptical.

Enjoy.

UPDATE: This is the Scarface video Ash and I are talking about (Thanks, Otacon).

This week’s podcast is pretty random and meandering, as most episodes tend to be, but I think we threaten to get interesting once Ash and I start critiquing my game, Runner.

I figure my contribution to that discussion may come off as a self-deprecating attention grab or something, but I’d like, ideally, to be as hard on my own stuff as I am on everyone else’s. Can’t really learn anything from the stuff you’ve made unless you’re honest about it.

Runner is kind of shit in a lot of ways, but I still like it and am really glad I made it. I wish it were better, but I’d like to think its faults are a result of my essential design rather than simple laziness. That feels like a good thing, though I have no idea why.

Yesterday, I gave a talk at UC Berkeley about character development and player identity in story-driven videogames. You can listen to a full recording of the talk and subsequent Q&A session here.

The PowerPoint presentation I used can be downloaded from here, but it’s not 100% necessary. Without the PowerPoint, it’s just a one-man podcast where a group of people laugh every twenty minutes for no immediately discernible reason. Which may have its own weird charm.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the talk. I enjoyed giving it.

There we are.

Been a while since the last HAWPcast, and it’ll be more than a week until the next one, but I think this is a pretty informative episode in terms of where HAWP and OUAP are ultimately going. Which is to say, “somewhere, maybe” and “I dunno, to be honest,” respectively.

If nothing else, some neat OUAP merchandise should be coming. We’re thinking about shirts, and maybe offering a DVD/book combo pack once the season is all done.

[Image by David North.]