Monday, February 18, 2013

Honcast Podcast: The Best 1.5 Hours of Sleep You'll Ever Get

If there is one thing I miss most about Honcast, it's being on the podcast. And I don't want this to come across as arrogance, but man... the podcast sucks now that I'm not on it. Now with Tralf gone, I fear it will be even worse. Tralf didn't mind giving his real opinion on matters, but now with him gone we have:

Breaky - The host of the show. Breaky is fine in the podcast, he has a good grasp about what is going on. He brings up topics and isn't afraid to play devils advocate from time to time. He also doesn't dodge serious questions.

Milkfat - S2's Director of eSports. Milkfat is a good source of knowledge as far as what is going on with HoN Tour and other eSports stuff at S2. The problem is he doesn't really ever offer any opinions or insight on topics.

Beefpotpie - The new xanderK of the podcast. It's a 50/50 shot at whether or not whatever Beef says will make sense. On the positive side, Beef knows more about what actually happened the previous week in HoN Tour/Sound Blaster Heroes League than everyone else on the podcast combined.

Emperor - The newest guy to the podcast. I can't really say anything negative about him except that thus far he hasn't really shown much personality. But he's also new to what he's been doing as a caster recently so I'll chalk this up to nerves/not knowing the limits for the time being.


Where is the attitude?! Frankly, I blame it mostly on the fact that Honcast is looking for a permanent co-caster for Breaky and I'm pretty sure both Emperor and Beef are interested. This means they aren't going to be stepping out and calling people shitcans anytime soon, if at all. I'm not saying it has to be like that, or that people need to be bad mannered. I'm saying someone there needs to bring the real talk. The obvious "solution" is for me to start my own podcast since Swindlemelonzz apparently doesn't have time to keep doing Real Talkin, but the truth is I'm way too lazy. Unfortunately, I don't know if or when this trend of sleepy podcasts is gonna end, but I hope it does.

22 comments:

  1. I agree With tralfamadore Gone it's going to be boring, He wasnt scared to say the true even if it wasnt let say friendly.

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  2. beef is a maincaster, I really dont see breaky and beef casting together and isnt he already contracted with col?

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  3. How the fuck would beef and breaky cast together? it would just be a shitfest of Breaky trying to figure out what the fuck beef is trying to say... i agree with "It's a 50/50 shot at whether or not whatever Beef says will make sense.". his cast is like a fucking monty python sketch

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  4. I remember back in the days when you guys launched Honcast, I would never watch any casts you were in Phil. You're just a brat, being 30 years old and acting like a preteen girl. Boring and annoying. People have never liked you, and you're the joke of Hon. Everyone jokes about what a loser you are. Also, I remember back in beta I think it was, or shortly after when there was this screenshot of a email convo with you and an underage girl that implied you were a pedophile. What a stand up guy you are, Phil.

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    1. And yet you're here, reading his blog.

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    2. That wasn't Phil, lol.

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    3. That was Hunter not Phil.

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    4. i agree with the girly part, after s2 fired his ass he has been bragging a l o o o o o t

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  5. I disagree. I think the 'new' podcast is much more entertaining. The old 4 hour long ones with you and xanderk were just boring for average viewer. Maybe for ~200 people really close to the scene they were more informative but I like new format more.

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    1. I'm not talking about the format. I'm talking about the presenters. They should just call the segment "This Week in HoN" instead of the Honcast Podcast, because pretty much no one has an opinion on anything. I understand people are going to agree on certain points at times, but I just feel like there's nothing "edgy" about the podcast, and no one "edgy" in the podcast, and because of that it will lose its popularity quickly.

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    2. the podcast basically was 1 hour acerjr talking about how many things he will do and how awesome everything is going to be. You know, the kind of stuff you usually just dont read because you stopped in believing everything people say, especially online

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  6. Beef and Milkfat should be replaced i agree on that :p
    Milkfat should only be put on to make big announcements as a guest!

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  7. Yo Phil make a potcast please.

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  8. I disagree with this post. I loved last podcast, dog bkid and new community manager rap + wza dancing in the back were the most hilarious things I ever saw on Honcast Podcasts. I laughed a lot last Friday.

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    1. thats basically what you got on the hon reddit in just about 4 minutes

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  9. When you realize that this is just a video game and that 99,99% of the players don't fucking care about all this HoN Drama, then maybe, maybe, you gonna have a happy life. You seem a very sad person to be honest. I wish the best for you, I dont hate people.

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    1. IDK man, he still gets readers. In addition, i think he understands it's a video game, no man would ever get seriously into video games, without being absolutely sure about it, and i don't think your the one to judge who is a sad person, for some people playing music on the street is whole their life, it makes them happy, even though some people think it's miserable. I suggest you understand not all things make people equally happy/unhappy and try to look from a different person's perspective, not your own. Doing what you love is much more important, than striving for what the general society associates with as a "happy life".

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  10. I'm impressed how much time you spend writing about video game drama.
    How old are you? Im addicted to video games too, I've always been, but this is too much bro...

    All the best anyway.

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    1. Generally speaking the people who think that a paragraph or two is "so much time writing" are dumbfucks.

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  11. who better tralf swindle

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  12. who better testie moon

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