ModCast #1: The Personification of Evil

[Locutus]

We're not necessarily aiming at the same audience as PolyCast. There are plenty of hardcore modders out there to tailor the show to them (just not on Apolyton unfortunately). If you only have a very passing interest in playing mods I agree that I'm not sure a bi-weekly podcast would offer you much. That's not to say we wouldn't want to attract a more general audience as well (in fact since we review a few mods a fortnight makes ModCast an excellent introduction to the otherwise somewhat intimidating world of mods and scenarios), but our focus will be on the modding community.

Of course, a lot depends on listener feedback. If you guys give us a lot of feedback that we should be more focused on this or that then we'll go in that direction (assuming we don't object to that ourselves of course), and if it turns out nobody can be bothered to listen at all then maybe we will indeed rethink the entire show. But I'm not going into this assuming we'll fail, that tends to be a self-fulfilling prophecy

[LordShiva]

When I read "ModCast" I was looking forward to a podcast of Ming, rah, etc., complaining about spam, Asher, Lancer, etc.

[Lancer]

[Ball Lightning]

Fantastic, listening to it now..

[Ball Lightning]

Could there be a section about mods which are still in development?

[Ecthy]

Dito LS. This staff comes up with some incredibly pointless stuff

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Ball Lightning
Could there be a section about mods which are still in development?

Such mods can be talked about within the News segment.

Originally posted by Ecthy
Dito LS. This staff comes up with some incredibly pointless stuff

So you don't like modding, understand modding, don't like podcasts or possibly a combination of all three -- ultimately something that makes this pointless for you. Fair enough: we certainly don't expect this (or PolyCast) to be to everyone's interests. But as this is of interest to some, you probably aren't be comfortable in threads that talk about it such as this one.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by DanQ
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I love your words of encouragement, Dan. You're so GOOD with them.

Edit: quote edited out because ... it was removed from originating post.

[Lancer]

Yup, very encouraging. Instead of just ignoring a comment like that DQ talks down to the person... 'run along now' like Etchy is a child to be dismissed.

DQ is far from the worst offender in this here at Poly.

People don't like being talked down to. It causes them to lose respect for the talker, and to vote with their feet, by that I mean leave. So if Etchy ever does take an interest in modding, it may well be elsewhere.

[Dale]

Originally posted by Lancer
Yup, very encouraging. Instead of just ignoring a comment like that DQ talks down to the person... 'run along now' like Etchy is a child to be dismissed.

DQ is far from the worst offender in this here at Poly.

People don't like being talked down to. It causes them to lose respect for the talker, and to vote with their feet, by that I mean leave. So if Etchy ever does take an interest in modding, it may well be elsewhere.

The fact that Etchy is talking down to me as both staff AND a modder is obviously lost on you.

If Etchy is so dissappointed with the way "This staff comes up with some incredibly pointless stuff" then maybe Etchy should suggest what non-incredibly pointless stuff we should come up with.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Lancer
Yup, very encouraging. Instead of just ignoring a comment like that DQ talks down to the person... 'run along now' like Etchy is a child to be dismissed.

DQ is far from the worst offender in this here at Poly.

People don't like being talked down to. It causes them to lose respect for the talker, and to vote with their feet, by that I mean leave. So if Etchy ever does take an interest in modding, it may well be elsewhere.

Why post just to say you think a feature is "incredibly pointless" though? Ever heard of constructive criticism?

If the feature fails (no one listens to it) then it'll be cut, but not because random people post saying they don't like it and thats it. Babies

[ZEE]

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[Blake]

I really suspect this is more impersonating evil than the personification of evil.

[KMadeleine]

pshaw Blake, what do you know about mods? you probably know a lot about evil tho i'm guessing...

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Dito LS. This staff comes up with some incredibly pointless stuff

This is not talking down, this is voicing an opinion. Maquiladora is correct, it's not terribly constructive, but so what? I missed the rule that said all opinion must be constructive.

The talking down should stop, and that is constructive critisism. It should be appreciated, and screw getting the wagons in a circle around DQ. DQ should eat his pride and come to terms. He has the strength, I've seen him do it before. Or, it's not that big a deal, and Etchy hasn't voiced an objection. Just learn from it and move on. Remember that each of us is an individual with good days and bad, all striving and suffering failings and great personal victories. People, that's all we are. I hope nobody does 'run along now' because we as a 'community' will be the lesser for it.

"after all we are all here because we WANT to be not because we are in some hierarchal social order with the quest to be the "best" of this or that. Yes i have grown older and more mature, just like Apolyton and the PodCasts."-AAHZ



I don't mean to threadjack, sorry. I really like PolyCast and when I figure out how to play ModCast without loading Music Jutebox I'm sure I'll enjoy that too.