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xero podcast with brandan aka qmau aka seven (30 comments)

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Posted by Demiurge @ 13:19 CST, 11 December 2017 - iMsg

Our beloved ESports observers and professional gamers, you shall be delighted to know that the most important community pro has been interviewed by a ProMode enthusiast, web casting sportscaster and twitch star, xeroslayer.

The original platform twitch is not great for podcast, and quality is pretty bad due to volume differences, but I compressed, EQed and filtered the audio, so the end file a whooping 2h30m of wisdom.

https://soundcloud.com/nistley/xero-podcast-5-with-brandan

Highlights:
9:40 - is zero4 a nice guy
13:00 - xero thinks quake can have 100k players
13-22 - mean behavior in games
27:00 - xeros recipe for quake success
31:00 - Quake Champions problems
35:00 - brandan on quakelive
44:40 - brandan: syncerror and steve nix are like hillary clinton
47:00 - but syncerror is very nice
52:10 - brandan dates himself
1h10m - brandan enjoys zoots
1h20m - brandan suggests fat white guys are not culturally relevant
1h32m - xero wants casters to dress nice
1h38m - makaveli picking meat off the game
1h40m - id is victim blaming players for not playing the shitty game
1h51m - xero doesn't think quake is deep, but deep enough
2h03m - xero and brandan disagree on what the [id] flagship property is
2h06m - xero disrespects makaveli with respect
2h10-15m - game design by comittie
2h15m - rapid fire questions

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/208423521?t=01h43m53s

Edited by Demiurge at 16:02 CST, 11 December 2017 - 17045 Hits

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<< Comment #2 @ 14:04 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Anonymous (72.204.250.137)

you're doing god's work, son.

<< Comment #1 @ 13:28 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

By

xero- '

Thank you :)

<< Comment #3 @ 15:38 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

By

Fizzle

nico work my friends!!!!!
it would be an honour to be a guest on tat show

<< Comment #4 @ 15:43 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

By

lolograde ' - Reply to #3

You should start your own podcast where you get high while talking about Quake. You can call it: "Gettin blunted with fizzle =]<o~~~"

Edited by lolograde at 15:44 CST, 11 December 2017

<< Comment #5 @ 15:49 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Fizzle - Reply to #4

- shouout to lolograde -
bouta start a podcast =]<o~~~
*hits tha blunt*
peace (Y)
-fizzle

<< Comment #6 @ 16:02 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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alb '

Bookmarked. Brandan alone is worth listening 2:30 hours to.

Edited by Alborz at 16:05 CST, 11 December 2017

<< Comment #7 @ 20:04 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

By

megaman3

53 mins in. omg this is so good

<< Comment #8 @ 20:51 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge '

There was an interesting discussion about design of the QC. I think some many good points were maid about what the wrong approach to designing the game is, such as not designing by committee and firing someone. Or that makaveli hasn't really been playing the game, and that's why hes not the best expert.

Another relevant point was the hiring of incompetent people, that was probably the closest to truth of the matter. The truth of the matter is that a designer with a proven track record of designing fun, but balanced, competitive game is not in charge.

If you look at CS:GO, or just CS, didn't they hire the creators of CS? How long has Blizzard been tweaking StarCraft? Somehow, they also have a proven track record.

arQon seems like the closest [id] have come to hiring someone with relevant expertise to multiplayer design. Q3 was team effort, but that was when McGee, Paul Steed( was it ?) Carmack, and other major experienced talent were on the project.

Yeah, someone should get fired, but someone with relevant development experience should be making the key decisions, not just a progamer, or a club of progamers.

<< Comment #9 @ 22:13 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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megaman3 - Reply to #8

And certainly not two mappers (not programmers) with zero game design experience: Tim and Sync.

<< Comment #10 @ 23:00 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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palatka

oh my gosh swjs cant deal with some shit talk so lets just change everybody instead

tens of thousand playing dota at high level???????????? the top ranked idk 1000 players are complaining that their games are trash when matched with with lower ranks. games undergone some massive changes to help trash in recent years. wtf u talking about not hard did u elarn how to lasthit in practice mode and decided ur legit oh my gosh im triggered

Edited by palatka at 23:04 CST, 11 December 2017

<< Comment #11 @ 23:06 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge ' - Reply to #10

some1 pz transleet

Edited by Demiurge at 23:06 CST, 11 December 2017

<< Comment #12 @ 23:14 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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palatka - Reply to #11

are u criticising my writing becaus ethat really hurts my feelings so u shouldnt have a platform to speak . . .

<< Comment #13 @ 23:23 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge ' - Reply to #12

no, i'm literally asking for decoding so i can undstant

<< Comment #14 @ 23:25 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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palatka - Reply to #13

all of it specific parts? cuz thats in the range of 100 words id say

<< Comment #15 @ 23:42 CST, 11 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge ' - Reply to #14

am not able to distinguish parts, must be all

Edited by Demiurge at 23:43 CST, 11 December 2017

<< Comment #16 @ 00:04 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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palatka - Reply to #15

comments nature is in a direct response to what xerosawyers saying during the podcast. they were commenting on toxicity in games where xerosawyer proposed the idea of de-platforming or muting or whatever for being mean. i think the idea behind it was to change the way people interact with others.

2nd part of the comment is really pointless to get into unless u've some understanding the mechanics of dota. he said dota is an easy game where there are tens of thousands of high-level players. whether he thinks dota is easy is kinda subjective, but i dare say he's wrong on both accounts due to just ignorance.

i hope this helps u understand so that i can go back to rolling my face across the keyboard and make indistinguishable !!

<< Comment #19 @ 08:47 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge ' - Reply to #16

Yes that helps. I think xero is vastly underestimating the 'depth' of quake, mistakingly suggesting quake can be made as appealing as dota, which I think is nonsense.

<< Comment #20 @ 12:14 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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palatka - Reply to #19

i know it helps, toxicity in dota dropped by 35% across the board when they implemented communication bans. still dont like it ???

yeah i dont think quake can because dota can be played at garbage tier with a good degree of immersion and at pro level where its a lot less immersive and much more about numbers !!

oh right i see what u were referring to when saying that helps heheeh

Edited by palatka at 21:31 CST, 12 December 2017

<< Comment #28 @ 20:19 CST, 18 December 2017 >>

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ggnore - Reply to #12

<< Comment #17 @ 00:49 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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palatka

buy a $20 mic and step out of the shower. i don't think that's asking a lot. you don't want to give people a shitty reason to tune out.

Edited by palatka at 01:01 CST, 12 December 2017

<< Comment #18 @ 02:19 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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peterg

Great podcast, probably the best on AFPS I've heard (not that there have been many). Are any of the earlier episodes around or worth listening to?

EDIT: See the others on twitch too. Any chance for uploads to sound cloud or a more podcast friendly site? Triggers me listening to podcasts on twitch cause I'm using an insane amount of bandwidth for no reason and they also have music parts blocked?

Hope you keep them up and keep doing non-promode guests as well. I know Thorin also does AFPS Quake podcasts but honestly I enjoyed this much more because it was more free. Thorin is too focused on competitive stuff while the Quake community has so much more to it.

Edited by peterg at 02:56 CST, 12 December 2017

<< Comment #21 @ 16:09 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

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xero- '

I didn't say Quake can be as big as dota nor that it could have 100k players.

<< Comment #22 @ 16:13 CST, 12 December 2017 >>

By

Demiurge ' - Reply to #21

xero eats a bag of dick

True Fact

<< Comment #23 @ 04:04 CST, 17 December 2017 >>

By

garz

you guys seriously need to major things like this! this is content that wants to be seen...

<< Comment #24 @ 10:06 CST, 17 December 2017 >>

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Anonymous (207.244.66.70)

04:05:00 Jamerio and kdawg

<< Comment #25 @ 19:18 CST, 18 December 2017 >>

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Anonymous (72.204.250.137)

hey, for anybody who listened, xero and i speculated about whether or not makaveli is working with the QC team. for anybody who was wondering whether or not he is, the man himself spoke up in another thread to point out that he isn't.

No, I am not affiliated with id software, not hired by them, not paid by them. In any way shape or form. No, I have zero input on game development and tournament structure. Zero input. I have no idea where you get these ideas from. I'm just playing the game like everybody else.

<< Comment #27 @ 19:43 CST, 18 December 2017 >>

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Demiurge ' - Reply to #25

way to deflate the fun

<< Comment #26 @ 19:27 CST, 18 December 2017 >>

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son1dow

Quake could have 300k players. Stacraft 2 was shit from a product design POV, yet it still got this many players this many years after original release. Whereas all deathmatch games have been complete messes in terms of product design. So if a game wasn't a mess... It could be decently sized. Not moba sized... But decently big.

<< Comment #29 @ 14:08 CST, 19 December 2017 >>

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Fizzle

you should have asked brandan if he hits tha blunt?
thanks for the shoutout xeroswayer =]<o~~~

Edited by Fizzle at 14:11 CST, 19 December 2017

<< Comment #30 @ 08:52 CST, 27 December 2017 >>

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Anonymous (70.178.201.64)

demiurge was kind enough to prepare an audio stream of the second podcast xero and i did together. you can do something with it here

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