{"id":3836,"date":"2013-10-29T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:14:29","slug":"pew-pew-pews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"Pew pew pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasts are not a thing I typically do. It&#8217;s hard for me to justify spending up to an hour and a half just listening to people ramble on about stuff, and it&#8217;s nearly impossible to really absorb the content of a podcast while doing something else. At least, that&#8217;s how it is for me. I have found that work is a great time to\u00a0listen to podcasts, because my job is mostly numbers, and it&#8217;s easy to listen to what the people are saying in my ear while I muck around on my spreadsheets or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the bus rides to and from work are a great time for this as well.<\/p>\n<p>I have made a point to listen to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronauts.com\/\">Retronauts<\/a> every week, because I really like the three regular hosts, and I think they do a very good job of covering a lot of video game-related topics that I&#8217;m already pretty interested in, or will interest me enough to hear people ramble about them for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s episode was about fan translations, and while I&#8217;ve already played a few of the games that they highlighted on the show, I did take it upon myself to try out a few that I hadn&#8217;t already touched. I&#8217;m not trying to hock video games today, though. What was really important about this show was the guest stars: Chris Antista and Brett Elston<\/p>\n<p>These dudes run another podcast called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasertimepodcast.com\/podcast\/\">Laser Time<\/a>\u00a0(well, Brett guests on Laser Time, and hosts VGMpire), which I decided to look into for no real reason at all other than I was kinda interested in listening to another podcast. I hit the damn jackpot here too, because I ended up loving Laser Time.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a lot of people involved work in the video game industry, but the podcast isn&#8217;t about video games all the time. Or even most of the time maybe? I&#8217;ve listened to five episodes so far, and four of those have been about movies. In fact, I&#8217;d wager to say that it&#8217;s more about retro stuff and pop-culture in general\u00a0than video games. This is the X-Entertainment podcast that never existed.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that it&#8217;s also pretty consistently funny. And when it&#8217;s not funny, it&#8217;s educational in a pop-culture sort of way. I love it, and I&#8217;m fairly sure that I&#8217;m going to have burned through all the back episodes by the end of the year if I keep listening to them at the rate I have been.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like your kind of thing, maybe go check that out. I&#8217;ve already provided a link to the main podcast page, but if you poke around on the website a bit, you&#8217;ll notice that there are a few other podcasts hosted there. Maybe one of those will resonate with you if Laser Time doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasts are not a thing I typically do. It&#8217;s hard for me to justify spending up to an hour and a half just listening to people ramble on about stuff, and it&#8217;s nearly impossible to really absorb the content of a podcast while doing something else. At least, that&#8217;s how it is for me. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=3836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pew pew pews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}