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Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Three

 
 

A regular feature in which I ask you to listen to a sound file with absolutely no idea what it’s going to be. This one should be interesting - for some people one part of it is going to be very obvious, for some the other part is going to be very obvious, a few will immediately recognise both, and a few will have no idea about either.

As ever, listen before reading any comments if you don’t want it spoiled, and speculate away if you have an idea.

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ImperialCreed: (Moderator edit: maybe I should put a spoiler gap in here.)

 

 

Is that Felicia-bloody-Day!?

*swoons*

Well done Mr. Francis. Well done. Interview in next PCG?

Seniath: Where's the justice?

ImperialCreed: Sorry, I didn't realise it would be immediately visible under the play button...

Pod: Talking about The Guild feedback on youtube? How did you land this and what's it for? Or did you just ring her up for a chat? :)


ps: she's right, The guild is shit and I just wanna fuck that woman on it..


(ps: Never watched it, had to google who she was)

Pentadact: This was all the way back in January, so the interview's already run. It was in the issue with the Wolfenstein cover, I think.

Sneakily edited your post - maybe I should make the first comment, and leave it blank, to put a bit of distance between potential spoilers and the 'Play' button.

Pod: POSTSCRIPT!
I actually /have/ seen this thing before. I reconise the theme tune, and, y'know, the people.



But yeah she's shit and I just wanna "squeeb"(?!!!?!!) one out to the woman.

The_B: Yeah, the interview was in the issue I contributed to, if I remember correctly.

ImperialCreed: Oh wait I remember it now. I think I made a note to cut out and keep that one. Any chance of hearing the whole recording, or would that be improper?

And was she lovely Tom?

J-Man: Weirdly, I was sitting on the crapper today reading THAT VERY INTERVIEW...

Lack_26: I read that interview last night (I have piles of PCG around my house, so I'm constantly picking up issues, even if they're a couple of years old. I'm then disappointed to find I know most of it of by heart and find the latest issue to see when I get the new issue through my shiny letterbox).

Roadrunner: Well, so far, after listening to it roughly 1047 times, I have cunningly deduced, that it's a women.
Can I shamelessly advertise my joint-blog every time I make a post here? I want to be polite and get a loud no before I don't do it. :D

Sideath: I squee to Felicia Day.

Every night.

Doing it right now, in fact.

Vitalis: Only recognised after the 'and I wanna fuck that woman part' remember that from the printed interview haha

Sideath- 'I squee to Felicia Day.'
Please tell me that's a reference as to having read the interview and not just a creepy coincidence!

If anyone's interested I just checked which issue it's in- Sept 191 Wolfenstein cover, top 100 issue.

Roadrunner: Completely offtopic, how can you get a little play bar like that for music, on other blog things, for example wordpress?
I ask because I made a TF2 related song for my own (Joint) blog, and I wanna get it up there, so the 2-5 people who look at the blog get to hear it. :D

Meanwhile, back on topic, whos is Felicia Day and why is everybody having stereotype-fat-hot-pocket wet dreams about her?

Jason L: Ctrl-u /swf says it's the audio-player WP plugin.

Felicia Day is an actress/writer/stuff who's super Internet savvy/present - most notably in her YouTube series The Guild. So a beautiful, smart, funny woman with what some James link described as something like 'an absurdly sweet voice', who to some degree 'gets' 'us'.

Jason L: I add: to whom a vocal portion of 'us' respond via backhanded sexual objectification.

Pentadact: I think I only said that about Joy of Pink Belt Rage. I wanted to interview Felicia because she writes a sharp and incredibly popular comedy about gamers, I was curious about how hardcore PC gaming fitted into a Hollywood actor's life, and because we've actually had letters complaining that the giant headshots of previous interview subjects have made them physically retch.

Jason L: Of course you're entirely correct; I'd mentally misfiled that. Can you tell I'm way behind on my Internet media currency? If I'd actually heard both I'm sure I'd never have confused them.

Pentadact: Roadrunner, you've reminded me to get around to something I've been meaning to do for ages: let people link their own site when commenting. I've just replaced the E-mail field - because too many people thought it was compulsory - with a Website one.

True story: Robin Walker was going to comment here to clear up the Kritzkrieg spelling fiasco, but couldn't be bothered to figure out if he had to register or something. I'm happy with Matthew Perpetua and Andy Baio holding up James' wall o' celebs, though. I think there was one other, but they must have been so famous that I just assumed I dreamt it, because now I can't remember who.


Dante: Felicia Day is Miss Internet 2008 apparently. Because she's a pretty girl who plays computer games and the nerd is a predictable beast.

The_B: My favourite letter/response in PCG was still the one while I was in on work experience, about swearing with the reply "What a cunt".

J-Man: Huzzah! Website links! Thanks Tom, I thought you were just one of those guys that tries to trap people on their blogs with no outside links. Anyway, the reason Roadrunner keeps talking about his joint blog is that he shares it with me, and in a pathetic effort to boost our views, has been constantly linking to our blog everywhere. Also, can anyone hear do a decent demoman voice?

Roadrunner: You should review this song next.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=86664AJJ
(I made it muyself. :D)

Roadrunner: Completely disregard that post above, because the link and song is broken. What you really want is This one. :D
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZKRCHIH0

 
 

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    2008 In Games That Were Better Than Other Games     GTA IV Shorts: Cut Off     PC Gamer Podcast: The Future’s Dim     Thoughts On The Team Fortress 2 Christmas Changes     Dear Sir     Extra Mirror’s Edge Levels Blocky, Unrealistic     Dead Space: The Right-Hand Side Of A Good Game     So My Vesper Became Your Chariot     Fallout Girl: The Road To Tenpenny Towers     Revenge Of The Psycho Graverobber     I’m Not Making The Plan Next Time     HERO CLOSET     The Gold Ribbon Goldberg Device     Fallout Girl: Anywhere But Megaton     Bethesda Ruin America     Fallout Girl     Left 4 De-     The American Public Announce That Tom Francis Is Right     Right To Live     Far Cry 2: What I Do Like     Far Cry 2: What I’d Like     Far Cry 2: Impersonation Of A Buddy     New PC Gamer Podcast: Eau De Toilette Radioactifs     Far Cry 2 Released, Forest Fires Up 8000%     !     Deadly Toads Of Death     World Of Goo Is Coming To Steam, Gentlepersons     Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Three     Plan B Is Complete     The Fate Of The Nation And, More Importantly, My £5     Multiwinia Mathematics     A Stab At Meet The Spy     Clear Screen     Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume Two     Retro Team Fortress 2     Sounds Like The Spy Update Is Next     Status Report     Field Studies 6: The PC Gamer Sporecast     I No Longer Feel I Have To Be James Dean     Plan B Chapter One Is Complete     Field Studies 5: My Spore Review     I Read A Thirty-Eight Page Comic About Google’s Browser     Heroes Of Medicine     Red Versus White     Soviet Power     Plan B Is Live     Trust Me With Your Ears: Volume One     He Looks Truly Mortified     Lumber Yard Wallpapers     Heavy Update Thoughts So Far     Relic Announce That Tom Francis Is Right     Team Fortress 2 Goes To The Rockies     Steel Yourself     Vote Tom Francis In The Games Media Awards     Heavy Update: Sandwiches And Fresh Green Grass     Chris Livingston Stops Considering A TF2 Comic     Seriously, Buy Braid     Braid Is Out On 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