This week on Patreon – October 14, 2016

This week’s ‘This week on Patreon‘ does, in fact, cover the past couple of weeks, but rest assured that these bulletins will become a regular weekly thing, in the hope that by tweaking back the curtain a little you might like to join us on the other side (the other side meaning joining our Patreon, to support the ridiculous things we do and earn our enduring love).

Livestreams

The livestreams are great, especially the ones with me, and if you can’t catch them live then they’re archived for anyone pledging $15 or more. On October 6 we had the first of the new, improved VG Versus where Colm, Sam, and Tom played FIFA 17 against one another. In honor of this being the centenary year of the 1916 Easter Rising, Colm organised them into an IRL V ENG match. Typical Colm.

The following week saw a second VG Versus featuring the trio playing a multiplayer racer called Mantis Burn Racing. I myself didn’t see any of this one, because I was out of the office, but I assume energy levels were veritably through the roof for the entire proceedings. Actually I’m just skipping through it to check it right now and it seems alright.

Colm and I were harangued into playing Outlast for the new Live Let’s Play series, a Two Cowards classic that apparently we will have to play every week until we either finish the game or the Patreon backers get bored with it, and we move on to another. The second case doesn’t seem too likely, because in this first episode we do a lot of shrieking and at one point early on Colm yells “GOAN F*** OFF!” which people have been telling me is one of their favourite moments.

Podcasts

First up for our revamped Patreon Podcasts was the Extended Podcast 182. Patreons supporting us at $5 or more not only get the regular podcast a day before anyone else, but they get some extra chat at the end as well. For 182 this included how watching cooking shows make us hungry, reality TV shows (including Colm’s inexhaustive knowledge of Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! and Dave’s enjoyment of Shelby the Swamp Man and his dog Piss Willy). Sam also regails us of the story of a scary man from the North who touches muscles.

Moving along, on Friday 7 October we had the Patreon Podcast Episode 1, the first of our new fortnightly Patreon exclusive podcasts for the $10 plus backers. In this I, Alice, grilled Colm and Sam for an hour to reveal more of their personalities with questions such as ‘Who do you pick to play as in Mario Kart?’, ‘Which animal would you choose as your steed to ride into battle?’ and ‘What do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre?’ in order to discover which of the boys is the Best Boy. This is essential listening if you want to know why Colm would have a tea-dispensing faucet instead of a finger.

Finally we had the Extended Podcast 182, and in the Patreon exclusive extra minutes we talked about the most pathetic brushes we’ve had with the police (no prizes for guessing whose is the funniest, and involves incidental taking glasses from a pub). There’s also a discussion about technology being great, or possibly not, although obviously it is.

Patreon videos

If you support us for $10 a month you’ll get at least one video a week extra, just for you (and also anyone else who backs us at that tier). Continuing the theme of members of staff playing frightening games, we had not one, but two videos of Rush of Blood, the Until Dawn VR tie in. Dave and Tom both strapped on the headsets. As you can imagine one of them had a more visceral reaction than the other.

I also spent an unjustifiable amount of time trying to make a game AI fall in love and/or want to get busy with me. I used all my best lines, or at least lines that other people probably think are their best lines. It kind of worked. Kind of. It was a slightly excruciating process, which was recorded for posterity and I’m sure I will regret that in the future.

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