BSU Live! Spiky Balls, Online Conventions, and Sectoids!

Holy crap, we take a week off from the show, then we drop back in and shake up the nature of things by scheduling some kind of interview? What fresh Hell is this? We’re going to talk about Indie+ 2, the week-long online G+ gaming convention put on by a bunch of hoopy froods, grouse good-naturedly about the state of the world where I’m not up for election to my sixteenth term as World Dictator, then jump straight into some kind of radical talk called _Trailer Trash_ where there’s a tonne of electric awesome in movie and video game trailers just waiting to get exposed to the light.

It’s like we’re being all professional or something. I don’t know, guys, this is pretty crazy.

• +Operation BSU
• Some ground rules:
• MANDATORY: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
• FORBIDDEN: chiton, mandible, pseudopod
• http://tinyurl.com/PlusOperationBSU
• http://youtube.com/user/SquidLord

Tonight’s Spackle includes but is not limited to:

• +Chris Tregenza for 20min of behind the scenes of what it takes to pull off a successful online gaming convention.
• Indie+ 2
• http://indieplus.org/doku.php?id=start
• 6d6 Kickstarter
• http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/811348669/415324129?token=3679ad97
• An Omnipocalypse Warning!

Tonight’s Trailer Trash, however, is glorious in all the ways glorious things should be. The link:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D75AEE97286853B

And the trailers!

• Blood Bowl! (Chaos Edition is on sale for $10 this week! Jeez!)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xsSN7UEFI
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/216890/
• Ratings: Alex: +1, Eric: +1, Dawn: +1
• Tai Chi Zero
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSX_UH0F9g&hd=1
• Ratings: Alex: +5, Eric: +4, Dawn: +1, Ginevra: +3
• Alex Cross (+Dawn Jones has been waiting on this one)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O990qnemIso&hd=1
• Ratings: Alex: +2, Eric: +4, Dawn: +5 Ginevra: +2
• Until Dawn
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yQsa3uwkR8
• http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/08/14/until-dawn-new-ps-move-horror-game-announced-for-ps3/
• http://www.supermassivegames.com/index.php/games/until-dawn
• Ratings: Alex: +3, Eric: +2, Dawn: +2
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (with a possible Let’s Play announcement!)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O08TIyE9FsA&hd=1
• http://www.xcom.com/enemyunknown/
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/200510
• http://youtube.com/cynicalbrit
• Ratings: Alex: +4, Eric: +3, Dawn: 0, Ginevra: 0

As always, check out the movie trailer list before the show, straight off YouTube, and weigh in with your opinions and ratings on the Squid Lamarckian-Dillante Scale of -5 to +5, with the dreaded Zero Goose Egg and the worst possible result right in the center!

10pm Eastern, Saturday nights, they will always be ours.

BSU News and Reviews YouTube Playlist Now Live! Starring Rock 'N Ribfest @ Lawrenceville, GA!

Last weekend, The Big Leneski and I dropped in on a local food festival, the Rock 'N Ribfest, and did what we do best: make huge annoying pests of ourselves and ate entirely too much food.

But that's OK, because we came away from it with a whole pile of interviews and live food reviews shot on site, right there, as it happened! Which explains the terrible sound quality as things go on, and if you're very attentive, you'll notice that my exposed flesh gets more and more red as things go on because brilliant me forgot that going out during the day without my SPF 2000 sunblock inevitably ends badly for me.

Very badly.

On the plus side, you get to see some of our first experiments with two-camera interview shoots, which I hope to become a far more frequent pleasure in the future as I bang out some guidelines for the cameramen on who shoots what and when.

Also note that you didn't mishear, that's me out there in front of the camera, not the Big Leneski as is customary. I typically try to never, ever appear in front of a camera. Ever. It's just too horrifying to be allowed on a regular basis. But since Mike was slacking off -- the skiver -- it was in my tentacles to actually interview people.

Don't get used to it. [shudder]

There are seven interview/review segments in the lot, including the following places:

• McCray's Tavern
• Oyster Bay Seafood Cafe
• The Big Pig
• Local Republic
• Spiced Right Rib House
• 108b Events
• Texas Roadhouse

If we missed you at this year's Rock 'N Ribfest, we apologize with mighty and vast earnestness, but there was only so much room in our gullets. If you'd like us to come by your place of business, eat free food, and then talk about it in public, feel free to get in touch with us at this address and we'll try to make a special trip out to bother you where you work and give you international exposure. While I get free food.

Everybody wins!

-- Alexander "SquidLord" Williams