HomeStation Presents: The Upload, Episode #4
Oh yeah, it’s time!
It’s well-reasoned. It’s intellectual. It’s uproarious. It’s Home’s equivalent of Firing Line. It’s the podcast that makes you think.
It’s The Upload, and it’s back — ready to reach once more into your gray matter and tickle it with a feather.
Except that this time…we invited DarthGranny.
Dear lord, what were we thinking.
Once, long ago, in a reality far, far away…
DarthGranny was a retired college professor and consultant to several different governments. Her writings could be purchased off Amazon. She wore shoulder pads the size of your car.
Then she discovered Home, and fell to the dark side.
Only now is her evil plan taking shape: she is secretly using all her resources to convince Sony to develop a My Little Pony Sith Academy. And there, she will train a legion of technicolor terrors.
And if that wasn’t enough to convince you to listen to this episode of The Upload, you’ve gotta hear Mike and Norse try their hand at being rap stars.
Yes, you read that correctly. Jersquall and Cubes are still in shock. We’re convinced it’s a Mind Trick of some sort. Move along. Move along.
The Four Upload Hosts
Mass-marketing appeal: 00:00
Introductions: 02:00
Cubehouse and Hellfire Games: 04:59
Fan Mail: 09:52
The Sunset Yacht, and the re-definition of personal estates: 12:40
The Glitching Debate: 21:15
Role-playing in Home, and social responsibility: 35:30
The Sunset Yacht, Lockwood Gift Machine and the Heavy Strike Cannon: 46:00
Acknowledgements: 48:30
Outtakes: 52:50
The Upload, Episode #4!
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March 5th, 2011 by NorseGamer | 7 comments
NorseGamer is the product manager for LOOT Entertainment at Sony Pictures, as well as the founder and publisher of HomeStation Magazine. Born and raised in Silicon Valley, he holds a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and presently lives in Los Angeles. All opinions expressed in HSM are solely his and do not necessarily reflect the views of Sony DADC.
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Excellent listen guys!! Loved it! So glad you used Granny finally, she is always such a hoot! Thanks for expanding on my article about the glitching debate. I hope that it gets people thinking. Great job and we need to continue to bring out this quality material to the masses in Home!
Glitching. It’s like the equivalent of climbing a mountain.
A glitching space would be cool, but the rewards should be developed as the glitches are exploited. After all, it is a puzzle, finding and exploiting glitches, so to created the rewards ahead of time for prefabricated glitches would make no sense, since glitches are not created by the developer as a challenge to Glitchers… or are they? dun dun dunnnnn….
Never understood the appeal of role play. And TOTALLY AGREED, CUBES! — Trust. That is the line. Love it when users come up to Homelings and say to us, “ur not rely alians u no!!1″ … who are we to argue?
You guys should post links to the stuffs you mention in the show
Great job! Granny is a perfect add to the crew. I hope to hear more.
One reason that males use female avatars,out of many reasons,is that they want to bait other males into a verbal version of a swordfight.They know how males will act around a scantily clad female and use that as a draw for a verbal fight.They know that if a male avatar makes another male avatar look foolish then it will usually be a short arguement but if a female makes a male look foolish the male,usually,will stick around much longer.There are different reasons for this but the result usually provides the male in female avatar with countless hours of”entertainment”.Great podcast btw.
The Podcast was BEGGING to have Darth Granny in there!
I was glad to finally listen to u guys!
Great podcast, guys! I hope you keep Keara as a regular guest star. Nothing says “We’re here for the older gamer” like, well, an older gamer!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE GRANNY!!!!