<p>On the upside, the podcast is proving to be really popular. On the downside, we seem to be slipping on our production of Spoiler Warning videos. Oops.</p>
<p>Show notes:</p>
<p><span id="more-19246"></span><strong>00:30</strong> <em>What’s everyone playing?</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.chocolatehammer.org/">Rutskarn</a> is playing BioShock Infinite.</p>
<p><a href="http://bluescreenofawesome.com/">Jarenth</a> is playing BioShock Infinite and <a href="http://bluescreenofawesome.com/2013/04/01/indie-wonderland-anodyne/">Anodyne</a>.</p>
<p>Chris is playing BioShock Infinite.</p>
<p>Josh is recovering from surgery where <span class="spoiler">nope it’s too gross for me to type you’ll have to listen and hear for yourself</span>. The “shattering ribcage” joke was a reference to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2XkTIYhQC8">Surgery Simulator 2013</a>, which is probably the greatest misappropriation of the word “simulator” in the history of games.</p>
<p>Shamus was playing BioShock Infinite and BioShock Infinite.</p>
<p><strong>12:00</strong> Horrible SimCity news this week: <a href="http://imgur.com/a/gW7F9">Here is the max happiness, max density city with no public services, no jobs, no goods, no resources, no government, no electricity, no hospitals, no crime, no homelessness, and no police</a>. Here is the <a href="?p=11135" title="Cities XL 2011">Something is Wrong With The Offices</a> post that Josh referenced. Here is the video of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ytk1agmcXhU#!" title="SimCity TrackMania City">broken roads in SimCity</a>. But don’t get worked up, because <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fjohngaudiosi%2F2013%2F03%2F24%2Famerican-mcgee-not-impressed-with-sony-ps4-and-believes-simcity-gamers-need-to-relax%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFIkRW1TSPVc4gZyZL8NBpQ16TVWw">American McGee thinks everyone needs to calm down</a>.</p>
<p><strong>21:00</strong> <em>Our giant unplanned tangent on piracy. </em></p>
<p><strong>28:00</strong> <em>Retro City Rampage</em>. Chris was talking about the WiiWare Game. I was talking about ROM City Rampage, which is a theoretical port of the game to <del datetime="2013-04-03T03:26:00+00:00">N64</del> <strong>NES</strong> hardware. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4xXhZMrU">Here is the video where he describes doing the port</a>. It’s amazing.</p>
<p><strong>31:00</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APB:_All_Points_Bulletin">Remember APB</a>? $100 million to make a crappy, laggy, mechanically boring PvP GTA MMO that closed its doors in 90 days. Then they got an infusion of cash to get the servers back on. And now… now they’re doing <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reloadedprod/all-points-bulletin-apb-vendetta">a Kickstarter</a>. For a sequel.</p>
<p>The discussion morphs into a conversation about Kickstarter in general. Then it’s a conversation about business start-ups. Note that when I said, “Nobody wants to live in a small town” what I really mean is, “EXTROVERTS don’t want to live in a small town.” I strongly suspect the habit of gathering in massive expensive super-cities is a side-effect of 75% of us being extroverts.</p>
<p><strong>54:00</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1Nq2Zvv0Y">Activision’s Tech Demo</a>. Here is the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UaDvIPpQnQ">duck demo</a> from a few years back.</p>
