https://soundcloud.com/wvi/botcast-1-puke7-mootbooxle

We talk about the origins of BotB and Winter Chip IX. Puke's microphone clips a lot.

Ask questions for future podcasts in this thread:
http://battleofthebits.com/academy/GroupThread/7796/Questions+you%27d+like+to+ask+guests+on+BotB+podcasts/

If you would like to be in the podcast, say nothing about wanting to be in the podcast.

Comments! Questions! Criticisms! Suggestions! POST 'EM!

Great editing work Tilde. The Metroid section was especially LOL.

Puke, bring back Channel F.

amazing

Uhh, isn't "Fire of Shibuya" by brightentayle and not by raphaelgoulart :o

Sorry...this is great! I love the botcast :D

Yes~! Big apologies, for some reason I always get those two confused. Thank you for letting me know, and I'll make sure to issue a correction in the next ep.

Beghast is a word!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beghast

Also, it was fun and you did a good jorb! Can't wait to listen to more.

nice listen!

good work, hope you keep doing these!

maybe it would have been nice if all your little incidental music stuff was by the interviewees

this is very good.

Thanks for all the comments, everyone.

ChipChampion, that's actually the case!:
- Act 1 begins with a showcase song by Guest A.
- Act 2 begins with a showcase song by Guest B.
- Act 3 in this case opens with the BotCast theme, "Brothers in Harm", but will be different songs later on.
- The podcast ends with a BotB song that I just happen to like. (in this case, falling leaves by maxvdub)

just wanted to comment one one of the things discussed: Pixel formats: 16 color, 256 color, 8 color, monochrome, 16x16/32x32/64x64, etc sprites, system compliant color palette, etc... something to think about?

haha i didnt recognize the first 2

@sketchman i think one pixel format is plenty but hey lets not get sidetracked

If it were up to me, I'd make a pixel major in which the different entries are based around subjects or concepts rather than formats. I think something like that would be pretty rad.

people always complain about lofi vs blockbuster pixar hollywood rendering entries. Sort of allgear vs mario paint.

Maybe we are past that point nowadays! Incidently, that's why I like stuff like channelf, mario paint, vic20, c64, pokey, tia, etc. But maybe we are past that point! gotta love the underdogs<3

Continue these, it was actually quite phenomenal. We need more singing so that in the future that's sampled on compos :D:D

I got the joke after a few posts, Tilde, I just didn't think it was funny, so I stopped caring, sorry.

rainwarrior, I have nothing but genuine love for you. Let's not fight, baby.

Yes, I did make fun of you a bit, but that is how I treat my loves. A lot of people got made fun of in the cast, including my two guests! rather repeatedly!

Fight?

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

we need a KICKSTARTER for making a premium soundcloud account because as you see one botbcast takes away over 60% of our beloved tilde's precious quota

I think the bandcamp funds could pay for that.

knox, if you are seriously suggesting funneling the bandcamp funds into a soundcloud account for the podcast, let's talk. Let's you and me have dinner. Do you like chicken, knox? Let me get you this lovely dish, you can't really get it anywhere else. Ah, let me get you some wine, this is from 1703.

Knox, let me ask you something. Do you believe in weakness? I used to. I believed that we exist in various states of capability, and that we had to work the grind to give ourselves more power. How silly I was. You're here, so surely you've realized: There is no weakness, only failure. Failure to take what we like. Some of us are simply better, and it's so liberating to realize it. I'm delighted to have you as the newest member of our society.

Oh, thank you, Garçon. Knox, this is the super-veal cutlet with fried broccoli. Only Monégasque royals can get it. I have people. Please, dig in.

Look at them. They're not like us, Baron Knoxburry. People like you and me, well, they all signed a contract like this one. They did a little favor for a friend, put some money in a box somewhere. Where? I don't know, it doesn't matter.

All you gotta do is sign, knoxburry. All you gotta do is sign.

I, the signed, agree to bequeath upon Tilde White the appropriate funds for a year's worth of a Soundcloud Premium Account, taken directly from sales revenue from battleofthebits.bandcamp.com

. Mr. White takes no responsibility for the misuse of these funds, nor for any demonic intervention that takes place as a result.

x ____________________

Sign with blood.

Do not forget a date :oooooo

Also:
"They are not like us. They'll never understand these things the way we do. Velocity. Freedom!"

over 60% of our beloved tilde's precious quota

the bandcamp funds are like $5 and i was under the impression that was used exclusively for beard trimming expenses

Contract? ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼

the revenue is actually $26.50 for the past two months and i spent it all on ebay...

...I'll be paying/setting this up very soon

Expenses:

- New Soundcloud account (T.White Podcasts)
- @battleofthebits.com email address to associate with Soundcloud account
- 60 years of Soundcloud Premium
- Commissioned avatar of Tilde sitting on a throne surrounded by gold and bitches (both sexes)
- Gold and bitches (both sexes) to paint from
- 60 years' worth of food to keep me alive
- 60 years' worth of whiskey to keep me alive
- Xanax (partially paid for by romneycare)

Subtotal: http://bit.ly/1ly0G9G

I was just going to call it Battle of the Bits and repost your first podcast. I can set anyone up with a @botb.org email if they want it.

I can't abuse that, though.

gotta take a botb mail... *drools and sniffs*

botb mail: right through your front window!

Question: Can botb t-shirts actually happen? I would love to have a good-looking one. I'd pimp it everywhere.

It needs a design similar to this: http://shop.cyberdog.net/harder-faster-t-dress/p689

t-shirt design ohb

spoiler:::: i did shibuya on fire and brightentayle is my alt ;))))

You're quick at getting both accounts on level 15, wow! Nice job.

!!??

Did I hear that right? Yikes! Not what I expected.

hahaha you did read that right, it was a [lame] joke tho - because tilde thought that fire of shibuya was mine, and not tayle's ;)
plus he said "shibuya on fire" and not fire of shibuya and i referenced that as well
if you want to listen to that its around the 1hr mark
i really liked this podcast tho! haha i just wished my english hearing would help me moar D:
whens the next podcast gonna be? :D

Ah guys great podcast! If I would be more empathic I'd be...

,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_ThiS_iS_so_sw33t_Im_crYin_R8_now!!!!!😭😭-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸

you are quite a buch of schizos, so it's just actually 8 ppl, me, and the rest is chinese bots? ;p

Seriously, it's so nice to hear a good talk about the love of making a nice community site, chipsounds, that good stuff doesn't pop up overnight but that euh good wine takes time. And that you guys have your problems too with trackers. "oh you wanna make music, use goattracker, it's fantastic!!" euh yeah, but a bit too steep of a learning curve. I really like the ohb concept and mistreat it a bit to learn stuff. So far so good! Having good fun. Just not too keen on spending time in a chat room, sorry.

And I won't mind donating a few b00nz for Tildes Soundcloud ;)

As I recall, I was poised to make and pay for a soundcloud pro account and give Tilde login credentials so he could add more podcasts. Tilde responded, saying that it was too much pressure to use such a soundcloud account. Then he suggested I pay for a soundcloud with some arbitrary name where he could put future podcasts and that would be the official soundcloud of BotB not named anything BotB. Suffice to say, we never came to an agreement and I lost interest.

Yeah, of course. I wasn't comfortable putting the podcast on something just called "Battle of the Bits"(uploaded along with various botb tracks, just to be clear), totally divorced from myself, essentially making it your property. It didn't sit right with me. So I asked you if you would rather run a joint Soundcloud with me to have as a sort of arm of the community.

Either way's fine. I'll just figure out a regular-ass podcast account, no worries.

Like, let me be totally clear, because your phrasing's pretty deceptive and while it's totally irrelevant to everyone, I feel like I'm being misunderstood, which is a huge turnoff for me(don't worry, n00bz, there is no drama here for you to pull out the popcorn for)

You hinted at paying for a Soundcloud Pro account for me. I thought it was Christmas. Like literally, I thought the idea was just that you were being incredibly charitable and I'd have a channel for the podcasts. The details of it only came once we spoke personally.

Now, I didn't say the soundcloud account was too much pressure. The pressure came from the fact that what I was actually uploading to would be the Official Battle of the Bits Soundcloud Account. It would be a place for you to upload notable BotB entries, and I'd be using it as hosting space. Which is fine! It's free hosting! But there's a lot of problems that come up with that for me, and I have alternatives if that's the case. The short of it is, I didn't want it not to be mine.

puke7 and I are wearing two different hats on this one. They are both fine hats, and he is just as stylish as I for wearing his.

puke7's hat: The Branding Hat. botcast is one of many fine audio features that botb has to offer. It is botb's premiere podcast, and a nice backstage to some of the stuff that goes on around here. It would be available, as is all of botb's content, on the botb nexus.

tilde's hat: The Project Hat. In the same way The Naked Gun is not just Police Squad: The Movie, our joint Soundcloud account (the only [abrupt] alternative I could come up with at the time that could stem from puke's original proposal, but it doesn't appeal to him because of the aforementioned hat) would be a project tangential to yet still of botb. Every project is different to me, not necessarily interlinked into the same brand, which in this case is puke7's. botcast is, rather than a feature of botb, a t.white podcast celebrating and analyzing the website, similar to how a podcast that talks about video games (check out the t.white podcasts channel very soon!!!!) isn't a feature by the company that owns the video game.

I love you, puke7, you are great. Hopefully you understand where I was coming from, I didn't mean to make it all mysterious.

[20:16:18] s1r meta night: cant you just reblog them to Tilde White Podcasts or whatevs
[20:16:30] s1r meta night: hell if you want i can upload them
[20:16:35] tilde: yes, but I didn't think of that okay.

Oh Christ if I don't change the subject now, everyone's going to submit a string of serious or ironic posts with what I'm sure are very contemplative opinions on the non-matter. I can feel it.

So hey! There hasn't been a podcast since...podcast #1. That was quite a while ago! What's the deal?? Well part of it is my psyche falling apart again, but also many of the much-beloved members of this website have very difficult schedules, and I've gotten too committed to certain pairings to allow myself to record a session until I get them together. So, I've decided to fuck with it, I'll shuffle things around a bit to make everything easier. Hopefully we can shotgun those tapes like I've been meaning to do! Should be easier with my personal obligations getting thrown out the window.

I have no idea how many actual tracks would make it onto a BotB soundcloud account. I would think only winners of majors and maybe the best of all OHBs for the week? Someone else would have to curate all that. I understand your stance and think you detailed both of our hats quite elegantly.

Well, I did finish my popcorn and I get the idea this whole soundlcoud pro stuff is perhaps taken a bit too serious atm? It's just having more space to host (ir)regular botcasts and the-best-off-botb tracks right? All legal shit stays with the botb site?

If you want I don't mind opening a soundcloud pro account and dumb stuff on (phun intended ;p). As I'm European, it's cheaper too. As for the regularity of a botcast: it's quite a shitload of work, so I don't think anyone expects you to poop out all too often. And there's not enough botbers to interview anywayz, you've just had the first 30% ;p

edit: re-read the whole stuff again as I felt I still didn;t get it. It is not the soundcloud account right. It's the matter whether the botcast is a tilde thing for fun or a serious botb product, part of more on an offical soundcloud?

n00b, yes that is pretty much it. If we were going to be hosting podcasts that average an hour in length we'd need a pro premium account which is $135/year. It has unlimited hosting while the normal pro account at $55/year only gives you 4 hours of sound. When you combine this with my annual $140 for hosting BotB (this is a grey area as I host many sites, but BotB is by far the largest), I don't believe that the donations add up to $275/year. I don't mind paying the offset balance for these things, but I would like to keep the focus on BotB should the soundcloud/money thing happen.

maybe soundcloud just isn't the best option for this? i know this is popular as heck but surely there's some solution that's better-tailored for podcasts.

tilde - hope you're well. totally understand.

I think jangler has a point: why soundcloud? Seeing some people submitting whole episodes of pieces of music for WCIX and the mass amount in total: won't the botb hosting be sufficient to host botcasts? I'm thinking of somekind of "experimental corner".
And perhaps bring the best-of in the footlight by a specific view, instead of re-hosting it again on another site?

Just throwing in some thoughts, that's all. Really appreciate all your good work! <3

Guys, I've got this -<-