CAGcast #219: Arse to Gob

Great show as always! I'm here for the A2M and poop discussion!!

I used to piss in the shower every morning but dunno why I stopped. Now every morning I do exactly what Cheapy ridiculed- piss, flush, then shower. I'm ashamed of myself and will start pissing in the shower again!

2. Wombat- congratz on the Hyundai! A thing to consider about the free XM trial is to never activate it! I never got around to calling Sirius to activate my free trial so I just got the 15 or so stations that were on 'demo' mode for the dealerships. I guess XM starts the 3 month counter once you call them in, but if you never call in, they just assume the car is not sold yet. I got an entire year out of the dealer demo XM! Sure it's only 15 stations, but it had 15 great stations, including Playboy Radio for all my A2M needs!

Eventually they caught on or something and the demo stopped working.. that's when I called in and got my free 3 months of full XM. So if you didn't activate it that's a protip!

Also congratz on the new toilet and your faster bowel movements. That's a good feeling.
 
Great show, guys! I must admit, I, too, pee in the shower. Wombat, man up and pee in the shower! It's not that bad, it actually feels pretty damn liberating!

Also, for the next show could you guys talk about everyone going crazy over the fact that Kinect cost around 54 bucks to make? Thanks! Keep up the great show!
 
[quote name='BigBizzee']Edit: OH, and as for peeing in the shower (again) - its disgusting that you're standing in your own piss. Who gives a shit if it saves water???? Do you brush your teeth in the toilet just so you don't use water in the sink???? Come on guys...[/QUOTE]

I don't pee enough to fill up my shower, and I don't take baths to where it's floating in my face.

If you keep your toilet extremely clean, there's no problem with brushing your teeth with toilet water. But it'd be a big waste since you'd have to flush that stuff. Unless you brush your teeth before a bowel movement.

I had no idea what A2M meant. It was pretty funny that both Cheapy and Wombat had no idea what it was, considering endless poo and toilet conversations.
 
Congratulations - a Google search for "arse to gob" now brings up CAG as the 3rd search result. Nice to see the CAG social media train hard at work!
 
Thanks a lot guys. My wife heard this podcast and yelled at me for peeing in the shower. I can't help myself, it's just so easy with all of that water rushing around the place.
 
I don't see how threatening to ban steam games is stupid, the point is not "inconvenience customers" but simply to discourage developers to use steam for DRM.(well most PC users like steam we don't like steam being used in games that don't benefit from it(civ 5,fallout new vegas ect...)). Retail sales still make up a majority of PC sales and I don't think a developer wants the potential loss of sales shelf space. While I doubt those retailers have enough sales to have considerable pull, they are risking little in a threat and in add in addition to what ever pressure there threat does put on the developer it could serve as a rallying call to other retailers if they are of the same opinion.

Also that whole graphics are the most important part of an FPS statement is stupid. If you look at the most successful FPS's the have never been about the graphics, infact FPS's that featured their graphics tend not to do well. Also Since you guys don't even play PC games harping on graphics is rather hypocritical.
 
So Wombat pees in the backyard and acts all British about peeing in the shower? What are ya, the Queen?

Same pipes dummy!
 
This show was a great one, really excited fir next weeks deals discussion...I'll tell you that when you shower with dudes or share a shower oeeing on your feet prevents athletes foot >_>
 
Congratulations guys on causing another weeks worth of peeing in the shower feedback in this discussion thread. You've really outdone yourselves this time.

Also, checking this out via the new mobile site. It's quite nice and easy to navigate. Tell Super Programmer John that he did a great job.
 
[quote name='collipop']Sorry guys but I don't find the shit, piss and toilet discussions funny or entertaining. It seems its all your capable of doing, It can be funny once in a while but you do it every week extensively.

Its literally the same shit every week, wombats some old jokes cheapys new fancy purchase and shipwreck being super dull. I used to be a huge fan and would never miss the show but recently I struggle to listen to the whole thing.

Your at episode 216 and I think you need to mix it up a bit. Some new features and segments to the show would go a long way I think.[/QUOTE]

sorry to hear that you're being forced to listen
 
i can't believe wombat and cheapy (especially cheapy since he talks about new porn sites he has discovered in the past) didn't know about ass to mouth.
 
[quote name='Z_meista']i can't believe wombat and cheapy (especially cheapy since he talks about new porn sites he has discovered in the past) didn't know about ass to mouth.[/QUOTE]

Lol, as soon as I got here I was just hearing that part on the cagcast. fuckin' hilarious. I also couldn't believe he had no idea what it was.

...watch out Misses Cheapy!

Anyway about Harmonix...

I was talking about this topic in the Rock Band forum and mentioned that one of Rock Band's problems is their marketing. All they do is bring up the keyboard in their TV spots and even then it's a small bit at the end. The ad itself just seems to be more of an announcement for a 3rd game; it doesn't show any game play and really only alludes to the fact that Bohemian Rhapsody is more than likely in the game (because it's the song being sung in the commercial).

I feel like more of their market dollars need to go towards showing that there is a keyboard, vocal harmonies, that they offer up new DLC every week and that it is easy to access, and that all in all it is the BETTER game. Instead though people just see it as another music game that isn't Guitar Hero which the brand that has a foothold on the minds of the casual.

I feel like the lone ad they run is total garbage as far as advertising goes. They put so much into the game and all they show off in the commercial is the fact that a new game is out. That kind of marketing I think only appeal to current fans; they need to put some shit in the commercial that makes people say, "Man Guitar Hero is cool* and all, but this Rock Band 3 looks tight as shit!"

As far as them losing money, what did Harmonix make in the past years while just putting out DLC and smaller releases? Maybe overtime they'll recoup their losses with the DLC after losing money putting out a new title? I don't know.

*Guitar Hero is actually total garbage in my eyes. Total. Garbage.
 
The Horny Smurf answer that Cheapy gave was hilarious. I laughed so loud at my desk at work I had a few people ask me what I was listening to.
 
Haven't posted in many moons but this was one funny ass CAGcast!! Cheapy...I can't believe you went into full description for ATM...those early pubescent boys got their imaginations going ..."ATM...what?!?!?" Just like being on the school bus!! Oh what the little girls will be hearing on the playground. Great job sir! LOL. Other things learned on this CAGcast, Wombat...not good with the facts and Shipwreck is like the Cliff Clavin of the bunch...knows a buttload of useless information. Every thing from Cuban political history to hardcore sex acts...BRILLIANT!!! Here here to the 3 Stooges of videogaming!!
 
The sad thing about Harmonix's situation is that a whole line of plastic horn instruments/controllers may never come to be. No rocking out (or the brass section version thereof) to Goody Two Shoes.
 
[quote name='RichMeisterMan']Anyway about Harmonix...

stuff
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Companies do market research prior developing advertisements to determine how to deliver the message. Unless an ad campaign is complete trash (i.e. PS3 baby), it's unlikely that a change in messaging would make a huge impact on sales.

As far as Harmonix's results (source):

2008 - $678MM sales, $87MM loss
2009 - $362MM sales, $24MM loss

With overall music sales down 69% through September (source),a $65MM loss in Q3 (source) and a $260MM writeoff, 2010 probably looks something like this:

2010 - $110MM sales, $65MM+ loss, $260MM writeoff
 
A2ATM: When you pull it out of the ass, and then stick it into an ATM.
(try not to think about that next time you need to get cash)
 
Cheapy, I was disappointed that you didn't know what A2M meant. You were the guy that recommended UPorn, Red Tube, and other various sites that have categories, and A2M is definitely a category. Pay attention to what you are wathing. :)
 
Ship was a bit hard on the Kinect. As he pointed out, set-up is easy, you don't need the controller for the menus IF you are in the Kinect menus. Motion control and voice only work for the Kinect dashboard, expecting it to work on the rest of the dash is silly.

Changing players on the fly works extremely well, stand in front of the camera, wait to be scanned, new player acknowledged. The Wii and Move do not have this ability, right? Makes it great for parties.
 
I don't get the whole "standing in your own pee" complaint of pissing in the shower. Doesn't everyone who pees in the shower aim for the drain?
 
Wombat I don't think I've heard you mention the new Avengers cartoon on the cagcast yet. Have you checked it out? It's been surprisingly good imo. They're really setting up for a lot of the classic Avengers storylines.
 
[quote name='BlueSwim']I don't get the whole "standing in your own pee" complaint of pissing in the shower. Doesn't everyone who pees in the shower aim for the drain?[/QUOTE]

i think its safe to say you'd be surprised
 
Am I the only one who is entirely sick of the bathroom talk that seems to control this podcast? I've had to fast forward a lot recently. I don't find it particularly entertaining and it's not part of a video game podcast...
 
[quote name='TehSovietMudkip']i think its safe to say you'd be surprised[/QUOTE]:shock:

Okay now *THAT'S* lazy. If someones gonna pee in the shower, they should at least aim for the drain.
 
I have a question. When you all offer your opinions on things like games and consoles, and they are less than flattering, do you hear any feed back from the developers or anyone else associated with these products. For instance, does Microsoft contact you guys after Shipwreck says kinect isn't good, to find out ways to improve it, or just for general feedback?
 
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