Escapist Podcast: 059: Puffins & Gaming in Relationships

[Team Hollywood]

059: Puffins & Gaming in Relationships

This week, we talk about gaming in a relationship and when it's and isn't acceptable for spouses to ask you to give up aspects of geekdom. We also discuss how puffins taste and the film work of Hugo Weaving.

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[Vie]

Live Podcast?

Dear god, you'll have to get reader's questions via Skype - provided you pre-screen them first of course.

[edit] Damn, live as in live recorded. Wait before posting!

 

[Eric the Orange]

Well I liked it.

Especially Mikes "condiment smile"

 

[shiajun]

OMG, I'm really starting to get concerned for Mike's nutrition. The list of things he doesn't eat just keeps getting longer and longer. It's just very disconcerting.

 

[Muspelheim]

One suggestion for the "Comicbook are for children, and you're too old to read them"-problem, if it really just is an issue of perception; make sure to be caught reading something like...

http://troybelford.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/iwtwott.jpg

It's not really that strange that many people see comics as something ment for children. You can be completely forgiven for only knowing of stuff like Garfield or Donald Duck or silly superheroes. The best way to demonstrate that it's more to the medium than that is to give an example.

But one thing to keep in mind when it comes to arguements in relationships is that if the reason seems petty or unimportant, it's almost always something more important lying underneath that is causing it. Like the example was in the podcast; it might not just simply be the comics and cartoons being childish, it might be that you're not pulling your weight as an adult, or something like that. Petty things often works like manifestations for the actual problems underneath.

I don't know how many times I've got to say that until I realize that myself. :<

And one final note; I might be very mistaken or just projecting here, but I imagine that there's people who see dating as something more akin to prospecting. "Oh, he'll be perfect once I'm done changing him", et cetera. Probably projecting, but it's worth to keep in mind. Does the person love -you-, or does the person love the potential you? Take this advice with a grain of salt, of course... It's exceptionally hypothetical.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

Really nice podcast today everyone. I so want to go to the Escapist Expo! Seeing this live, for me, would be like you all getting to see Mike drinking mustard!

I hope the first E2 does well so I can go to a later one. Good luck, and have some extra fun for me!

 

[GamerLuck]

I will defend Mike on the Mayonnaise thing. Mayo is just plain disgusting.

 

[thewanderer41]

I present to you, the villain of Space Muffins! King Julep on his throne of cocktail swords!

http://qkme.me/3qpxk9

Okay, so there's no throne, but you get the idea.

 

[PuffinBox]

Mike how could you eat those poor puffins.

Great podcast actually

 

[yunabomb]

When I read "Puffin" in the description I thought you were going to talk about the cereal.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Mike how could you eat those poor puffins.

Great podcast actually

Actually, that was evil Justin nomming on puffins. We've never really forgiven him.

 

[the abyss gazes also]

From the Wolverine Origin typing attack schtick: Suspension of disbelief is a fragile thing. I can accept that your world have magic, mutants, psychics, ghosts, whatever but if you haven't told me that physics or mechanics works differently in this fictional world then if someone does something stupid like cock a shotgun before firing it... it breaks the suspension of disbelief.

There are better examples... but my brain is tired.

 

[Dondonalien44]

What was the transition music this time? I dig it.
It is unreasonable to hold a piece of fiction to the standards of another. It is not unreasonable to expect a story to be internally consistent as far as logic and tone. That's why I take such issue with The Dark Knight Rises' silly plot devices and failed fan shout-outs, because they contrast the serious tone Nolan had established in the first two movies.
Some people just get satisfaction from picking movies apart. And that's okay. It's a different way to enjoy them, and it doesn't make yours less legitimate.
As for relationships, geeky or no, listen to EG Kight:
"It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all."
Works in whatever combination of genders that may apply

 

[grandhammer]

Awesome podcast. I like when ya'll don't have a super-specific topic and just kinda hang out and chat. Missed Steve though and what about updating us on the space muffin shirt?

 

[Daedrin]

Margarine....and...butter..."virtually interchangeable". You, dear Susan, will be getting an angry letter when I am less preparing a D&D session.

 

[Mike Kayatta]

OMG, I'm really starting to get concerned for Mike's nutrition. The list of things he doesn't eat just keeps getting longer and longer. It's just very disconcerting.

I agree - it is a tad disconcerting - but I would worry more about any nutritionist who thought mayonnaise and blueberry pie were actually required dietary staples.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Margarine....and...butter..."virtually interchangeable". You, dear Susan, will be getting an angry letter when I am less preparing a D&D session.

What? For baking, you can substitute margarine for butter one to one. I don't - as I said, I only use butter. But it can be done.

 

[Daedrin]

Margarine....and...butter..."virtually interchangeable". You, dear Susan, will be getting an angry letter when I am less preparing a D&D session.

What? For baking, you can substitute margarine for butter one to one. I don't - as I said, I only use butter. But it can be done.

Most margarine, at least around these parts, are meant to be a spread. thus they are made with higher air/water content and are highly unsuitable for baking in any way. Yes, there are special baking margarines and some recipes call either acceptable....but...they're definitely not something you really should change willy nilly.

 

[Varya]

Blrgh, I hate myself for throwing myself into this, but I gotta comment on the LOTR stuff, fanboy that I am.
Ok, so the Elrond thing. Yes, Elrond knew the ring was evil, but this was like, 5 minutes after Saurons death, and he had ben in possesion of it the whle time, so I don't think there were any ring-experts around to say exactly what the consequences would be. Murdering his ally might be a bit of a quick escalation, sure, in hindsight it might have been the right choice, but right now, it's simply Isildur making a stupid decision. What Elrond might have known about the ring of power is to not mess with it's weilder. Sure, Frodo and Gollum only used it to turn invisible, but Isildur is the King of Gondor, to start a fight with him on top of a volcano might not be the best idea.
Right, I had a rant about the technology stagnation too, but I've worked of my nerd-rage now, so Imma stop.
Awesome podcast. Thank you.

 

[yngi]

Juste a litte tip puffins are not as comes in Iceland as you think, I'm frome Iceland so I soulde know.
But a good podcast