Smalltalk with James Robertson

This makes our day:

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We are very pleased to see this in the "Games and Hobbies" section of iTunes:

Thanks to everyone who subscribes! In answer to a question on our Facebook group, you can subscribe using:

• The AAC Feed
• The MP3 Feed

To subscribe in iTunes without using the feed from the iTunes podcast section, just pull down the "Advanced" menu, and use the "Subscribe to Podcast..." option. While we don't have a feed for OGG files, each post contains a link to that format - and if you check the Thu'umcast Page, you'll find all of those download links. Thanks Again!

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At least financially speaking:

Modern Warfare 3 racks up $1 billion in sales in less time than James Cameron's megabucks 3D film.

Personally, I am much, much more engaged in the games I like than in any movie or TV show...

I had a brain cramp in the editing process for episode 4 - I've reposted all three audio files.

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I'm playing Skyrim on both my XBox and my Mac (using Parallels), so my progress in both games is running about the same - I can't play on the XBox while I'm in Texas, and I mostly play the XBox when I'm home. On the PC game, I've been doing the mage college quest, looking for the Staff of Magnus - and I've gotten to this room in Labyrinthian:

I spent about 20 minutes (at an absurdly late hour last night) staring at that room and at the map, trying to figure out where to go. I guess the name has meaning :)

Most engaging game ever, by the way - listen to our podcast, and go buy it!

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The iTunes feed may show episode 1 as being absurdly long; it's not. The actual duration is just over 36 minutes; when I posted the show, I managed to paste the file size (in bytes) into the show length field in my tool, and iTunes took that as a seconds count. I've since repaired the feed, but there's no telling when iTunes will notice. Sorry about that!

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Our iTunes feed has been approved

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We enjoyed bringing you "That Podcast" - and soon, we'll be doing another podcast: Thu'umcast: A Skyrim Gameplay Diary. We'll have an iTunes feed, and a Facebook group, probably a Google + setup as well. Stay tuned - once the game launches, we'll start recording!

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I downloaded Parallels 7 last night, and immediately tried out two games: Deus Ex: Human Revolution (which I've been playing in 6) and Fallout: New Vegas (which I played extensively in 6). Deus Ex was laggy in Parallels 6, and while it's not perfect in 7, it's much better. The real change was in FNV.

As I documented here, you had to muck around to get FNV to play at all in Parallels 6. In 7, you don't. If you did muck around, you need to remove the d3d9.dll file you tossed in for it to work in 6. The graphics look a lot better after that, too. So far, so good - I think Skyrim will be the big test though :)

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