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Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin: Psychonauts

I was pretty happy with this week’s HAWP when I uploaded it, but I was also a little bit worried: the jokes made me laugh and everything, but would people resent a Papa Burch origin story? Was his hatred for Ash one of those fun, mysterious little things that you don’t ever want explained, or is it so random and silly that it never even feels like something that can be necessarily ruined?

Given the Metal Gear finale from last year, do people feel like we’re building canon, or are we being so consistently ludicrous and inconsistent that you can take each episode on its own merits without spending every subsequent Papa B episode thinking, “well, this is less interesting because I know he’s just trying to get back at some chick named Martha from his childhood?”

I mean, obviously that’s not the only reason the character hates Ash — given the way she acts, it’d be hard not to hate her — but I was worried that this episode might be a little to much like the Master hearing drums as a child, or something. Unneeded explanation, even though it’s all obviously in the service of the episode’s punchline.

Luckily, everyone seems to like it and I was worrying over nothing. Woo!

Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’: Rock Band

This week’s episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’ is about Rock Band. Sort of. I don’t think Ash and I have ever played Rock Band together, come to think of it.

A lot of people also seem to get some sort of incestuous vibe from this episode, which really isn’t intended. Just throwing that out there.

It used to be three times as long, but I cut out everything except for the jokes I especially liked. On the one hand, it’s much tighter than it would have been otherwise and, to me, considerably better. On the other hand, a lot of people seem to inexplicably love episodes I don’t (Trauma Center), so maybe I’m cutting out good stuff. I dunno.

Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’: Shadow Complex

Image by munnyman5.

Anyway, the new episode is up, and — surprisingly — people really seem to like it. As I said at PAX, we really have no idea which episodes people are going to enjoy and which they aren’t. Given how dialogue-heavy and visually unspectacular the episode is (not to mention how its poorly hidden pro-gay rights agenda), I fully expected the GameTrailers crowd to meet it with hostility or indifference.

I’m glad to be proven wrong.

Stuff we learned making HAWP: The Most Dangerous Game

Fact 1: A fair number of people seemed to enjoy our most recent episode of Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’.

Fact 2: I need to get more than one post up on this site so it doesn’t look like it just went live two days ago.

Fact 3: This site just went live two days ago.

Hit the goddamn jump, already.

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