Season (Nintendo Sixty) Fooooooooour!

Season (Nintendo Sixty) Fooooooooour!

It's crazy that we've been doing this podcast for *three years* now, but more than that, it's AWESOME! We love all you guys who've stuck with us over the years during all of our technical problems and boring episodes, you're the reason we do this show and you're the reason we're going to keep doing the show for a long time to come. Thank you, all of you, for sticking with us and listening to (as well as hopefully enjoying) our podcast.

On a technical note, we're supposed to be doing video episodes now, but that's currently on hold until I get another computer. We mentioned it briefly on #126 Part two, but if you want to know a little bit more about what's going on, here's the scoop: YouTube has a ten minute length limit for their video uploads, unless it's a much older video, which is why the videos you've seen so far have been on Google Video. No problem, except that our final video file sizes for each episode tend to be between one and two *gigs*, depending on the quality I go with.

Google's website only lets you upload videos smaller than 100MB, but they provide a desktop application for larger file sizes. No problem, except every single time I've tried to use it on my Mac, it's crapped out. Every time. I had a virtual XP machine that I was using for doing our logo rendering, and I was able to use that to upload one of the videos, but this machine managed to disappear while I was moving files back and forth between my laptop and our Mac Mini. My only other option is to upload the files while I'm at work, and while I do have a lenient job, I'm not about to use that kind of upstream on their payroll, it's out of the question.

So, a friend of mine from work is building me a PC from spare parts he has at home, and once I have that, I will use it as a dedicated rendering box and uploading box. The video episodes are coming, make no mistake about that, but it might take us another week or so before everything is ironed out and ready to go. At that point though, as we mentioned on the show, we will be using *three* computers for the production of each show. My laptop records our audio, a Mac Mini records the video (which I sync up later on) and my new(ish?) PC will upload the final video files.

There you go. Again, thanks to all of you for sticking with us, and we hope to continue to put on good, entertaining video game discussion for a long time to come.

-Phil