Call and Response: WOFF Dispatch February 2022
Added 2022-02-11 19:10:00 +0000 UTCHello! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Monday, February 13 by leaving a comment on this post.
We're looking for two kinds of things:
1. Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.
2. Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life in general... You name it.
One caveat we've given in the past: If the question is too personal or gross, we may dance around it and not give a direct answer.
We look forward to making this new kind of WOFF! episode together with you.
Comments
That was such a great listen. Angels Gone in particular really hit me. Reminded me of late 90s lofi stuff like Eric’s trip, sebadoh & the microphones
jaccob hanley
2022-02-15 21:01:50 +0000 UTCIn light of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's debut album All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling being found and subsequently put up on the band's official Bandcamp page, what currently lost media do you hope will surface someday (reasonably or otherwise)?
King of Sushi
2022-02-14 21:03:33 +0000 UTCPersonal question(s) here: I am sick of reading about the 'new normal', post COVID, etc. But I thought it might be fun for you two to talk about any changes and 'new normals' that you have noticed in yourself. For instance, before the pandemic, I would have described myself as standoffish and deeply uncomfortable in any public setting, and relied on multiple coping mechanisms. Just last week, I noticed I've basically become an annoyingly talkative doorman....what I would have considered a monster back in 2019 (and objectively still do). Have you two noticed anything different in your day-to-day, work-related, personal life, etc. that has markedly changed in the last two years?
Douglas
2022-02-14 14:40:54 +0000 UTCGary, you have probably already decided upon this, but can you please have Kole on as a guest when/if you cover Moon Knight on Days Of Future Cast?
SindrElf
2022-02-14 11:13:20 +0000 UTCTopic: Game of the year discourse. What are your thoughts on the game of the year discussions that roil the internet every year? This is influenced by your recent coverage of Returnal on BFSC. Are there any particular media outlets/channels/people you listen to more than others, or, and I'm guessing this is the case, do you ignore the discussion entirely? In previous years, have there been standouts that you remember? Has it ever helped you decide to try a game out? I've never really liked any Supergiant games before, so I ignored Hades when it came out, but decided to give it a try when it got its own game of the year buzz. Same situation as Returnal; I would not have even tried it had it not received its end-of-the-year buzz it did. I'm really happy I played them both too, but personally those are the only two where the discourse made any difference. This could be expanded into the realm of video game critique in general: Who/What do you listen to/read/engage with in this realm?
Douglas
2022-02-14 02:28:50 +0000 UTC(I asked this last month but I'll reword it to be more time/format friendly) Of the detective games you've covered on WOFF (Disco Elysium, LA Noire, Paradise Killer, The Sinking City, Professor Layton, Last Express, Thimbleweed Park etc) are the best and worst at simulating being a detective, all other aspects aside.
Andrew T
2022-02-13 17:18:14 +0000 UTCWhich is scarier, being attacked while you're naked or being attacked by someone who's naked?
Tom Healey
2022-02-12 20:02:05 +0000 UTCIn middle school, my friend Brent and I were obsessed with Star Wars Galaxies. Every day at lunch we would share cool things we had found, awesome deeds we had performed, and which Gundams we had somehow modded into the game, and instances in which we were sure we had just missed running into each other in the vastness of the galaxy far, far away. This went on most of the year until Bionicle came out and we suddenly had much more important things to worry about. However, neither I nor Brent had owned or played Star Wars Galaxies, and personally I didn't even have home internet at the time. We just happily lied at each other for several months, playing along with this weird fantasy we had created where two kids played a computer game. We never acknowledged this or brought it up again after we had moved on to other, more real and infinitely more Bioniclesiastical things. What is the most bonkers lie you've ever told or been told about a video game?
Alex Shaw
2022-02-12 19:54:38 +0000 UTCThis is a life question for Gary. I also live in Portland, moved back here about a year ago after living abroad for quite some time. Overseas I had a group of musician friends I worked and jammed with pretty regularly and really miss that. I know you’re in a band and probably have musician pals here, are there any good groups to join or meetups to be looking for to fall in with folks who need production, mixing, mastering, and synthesizer expertise? I’d love to meet some folks and get back into working with others, but I’ve been kind of a hermit since I moved back to the states.
killhamster
2022-02-12 19:53:50 +0000 UTCWhat do you guys think of pork rinds?
Gabriel Tindall
2022-02-12 18:36:47 +0000 UTCWhat is the most difficult game you think you could beat if the main character was replaced by you, with only your real-world skillset?
Mike Suskie
2022-02-12 09:40:03 +0000 UTCMEDIA: Hello Gary & Kole! Recently I finally listened to File Under Water (for the uninitiated, File Under Water is Duckfeed's limited series in which Gary & Kole analyze every REM album). I really loved the series, and was wondering: have your thoughts on any of the albums changed since the shows came out in 2017? Gary was fairly middling on 'Reveal' back then, but in a recent podcast I'm pretty sure he mentioned that it's the favored REM album in his band. And Kole, is your number one track still 'Begin The Begin'? Thank you both for helping me rediscover a band which I periodically remember is one of my all-time favourites.
James Lewis
2022-02-12 08:48:01 +0000 UTCIf you could have any ring from the Souls series in real life, relevant powers or buffs included, which would you choose?
Holland Hume
2022-02-12 00:21:04 +0000 UTCWho is one group or artist of any sort, either alive or dead, that you are hankering for more content from.
Jordan and Maya M.
2022-02-11 23:06:35 +0000 UTCThree-man Human Centipede situation. Which position would you choose and why? (P.S. I have called shotgun for the front!)
Ak1raTron
2022-02-11 22:56:10 +0000 UTCPlaying Brilliant Diamond, I realized I still hold on to this superstition that if I press the A button, at the exact right time the attack makes the sound effect, that I have a higher chance of getting a critical attack. I've been playing since Red and Blue and I've never been able to shake this thought. Are there any gaming superstitions or known misconceptions that you just refuse to disbelieve?
Andrew Hunley
2022-02-11 22:37:03 +0000 UTCRecently I decided to play Metroid Dread and quit on the last boss to watch the ending on YouTube. Looking back, I realize that I’ve noped out on a large number of games at the last boss. Returnal, Blasphemous, Bloodstained, the list goes on and on. I realized the price for mastering these fights was too high for the reward. I’m too old to care about gamer cred or git gud (Hey as a kid I beat rentals on the NES your millennial ass can’t conceive of, young straw man) but is this just me, a failure of game design? I’ve listened to your thoughts on good boss fight design, but how do you think a game should approach the balance between challenge and fun?
Doug Lief
2022-02-11 20:22:04 +0000 UTCAs a kid growing up in the 80's and a teen in the early 90's, I remember clearly there were periods when I was just bored. I didn't want to play any of my games I had already finished or given up on, couldn't get to the library to check out books, had no money to buy anything, and felt like I had seen every movie I had wanted to watch at my Mom's video store already. Fast forward to now and I can't even RECALL the last time I was bored. Yes, being a adult and working a 40 hour job is part of the reason, but there's just SO much more content being made -- games, movies, TV shows, etc. -- and it's so easy to get access to them, either older stuff thanks to emulation or what have you, or new stuff on Steam, Netflix, etc. It's a 'good' problem to have but there's so much great stuff I'm missing, I'm just scratching the surface. Do you guys have the same problem, and do you think the current volume of pleasure content for us to consume is good or is it just too much and it should slow down some so we can all catch up?
Greg Polander
2022-02-11 20:00:46 +0000 UTCThis is a great question. GB
Duckfeed.tv
2022-02-11 19:42:29 +0000 UTCLong form prompt I'd like to see is a discussion on what indie developing has become. There are constantly indie games being added to every single digital marketplace that it seems the Meatboys and Fezs of the past are now so much harder to find as these special indie games in the piles of daily new releases. For a Q&A, I was wondering. How do you guys avoid social burnout with eachother? If you do at all. I got my best friend a job with me and it has been absolutely great, but now that I see him every hour of every weekday, I find myself forcing myself to hangout after work or on days off. I have absolutely no problems with him, I just noticed I've kind of lost that desire to go places and hangout...have you guys experienced that in any form in your work partnership?
Matthew Shaffer
2022-02-11 19:35:48 +0000 UTCBecoming a minorly-successful "content creator" in the last few years, I feel like I'm burning out—not with the work, but with the audience. I get annoyed at pretty much any comment I receive, good or bad, from the honestly pretty great community that engages with my work. I feel myself having to phrase everything in anticipation of criticism, or people pointing out exceptions or misconstruing my words. But I hate that it's making me become resentful of my audience, of the internet, of everything about what is still in most ways a dream job. Any tips on dealing with these feelings, as two creators who have an intense community of people engaging with them on Slack, Twitter, and Patreon?
Andrew C
2022-02-11 19:33:49 +0000 UTCYou are crowned King of Videogames and are tasked with making the videogame industry and games themselves more ethical. What changes do you make as a whole? Quick caveat: video games must continue to exist and be fun.
Ethan Ryan
2022-02-11 19:29:13 +0000 UTCLast year I was playing Cyberpunk 2077, a notoriously buggy game. I was riding real fast on a motorcycle, didn't see a car in front of me and slammed full speed into the back of it. I was thrown from the bike but the jenky collision made the car I hit act as a ramp and I was launched hundreds of feet into the air. I soared casually over the skyscrapers and landed nice and gently in the ocean at the edge of the map. I'm not even mad, it was great. What are some of your favourite and most memorable bugs you've encountered?
Matt DiTomaso
2022-02-11 19:15:13 +0000 UTC
