Where in the world is the No Prisoners, No Mercy Team?
Where in the world is the No Prisoners, No Mercy Team?
Opening Scene:
It is early twilight. In the corner of a room is a bed, lit only by the light of a nearby computer monitor. On the bed, a mound of quilts stirs. The shape underneath, roughly human in shape, spasms briefly, accompanied by what sounds eerily like a seal barking. Silence. Then the shape stirs again, moans and slowly drags itself over to the source of the light…and begins typing this post.
Some few of you may have noticed the peculiar absence of articles for the last five days. A few of you, not knowing we did an early release of our show before it was posted to Virgin Worlds, had assumed we podfaded and said so. Those of you who did know about the early release of our show (see the link at right to Podbean) can thank listeners such as Token who threatened to launch a revolt if we did not release shows early. Another enjoinder to action was Saylah from Mystic Worlds who said she was a “sad panda” when a week passes without a release of a show.
The reason for the lack of articles is, in a word (ok four words), that the No Prisoners, No Mercy team has been sicker than a dog for the last five days – a turn of phrase I am sure our dogs would take exception to, especially our guard dog who is particularly healthy. All the same, when a member of the team comes down with a respiratory infection, and once queried on the subject of contagion, responds that she is “more contagious than a bad attitude” it is best to take her seriously. Instead, however, Sister Frances threw caution (and her health) to the wind, and the rest, as the old adage goes, “is history”.
The Rest of the Story…
With a small salute to Paul Harvey who’s works always ended with the above phrase, some of you have written to us and noticed a second No Prisoners, No Mercy feed on Itunes. So time to answer a few questions on the matter:
1.) Yes, we know there are two Itunes feeds – working as intended.
2.) No, the new Itunes feed isn’t a pretender, that’s us as well.
3.) Yes we are still part of the Virgin Worlds Collective, and proudly so…read on.
Many of you may have noticed the increased presence of professionals from the game development industry on our show of late – this is to facilitate the one of the main purposes of the show, other than entertainment (one “No Prize” to anyone who can guess what that is). That is, to say the least, not an easy task, and certainly due in no small part to our “guy who knows a guy” (You know who you are and a big “thank you” as well as a heaping helping of good karma goes out to you for all that you do). As wonderful as this is, it creates a condition where some of the information is very time sensitive. This condition is exacerbated by the fact that our shows often have an lead in time. Alot of time goes in to editing believe you me. Now this lead in time could, of course, be cut down to a tiny sliver if we were willing to compromise the audio quality of the shows. We did, in fact, consider that. However, upon consulting with our “guy who knows a guy” it was recommended that we keep up the audio quality of the show…and when our “guy who knows a guy” speaks, we listen (he didn’t get to be where he is because he is in any way uninformed). The upshot of all this is that we felt we needed an itunes account for our podcast of which we had full control. This will enable us to get shows out to you quicker. The show thread with the graphic at right is ours, the other belongs to Virgin Worlds - basically we think of it like syndication. Make no mistake, we love being part of the Virgin Worlds collective, we just wanted to have full control over all of our content so gaming industry professionals know they can count on us to get the information they share with us out in a timely manner. The link to Itunes we control is here - updates coming when the entire team is able to crawl out of their respective sick beds.
Yes but…
Yes, I know I have left one question a few of you (a very few) have asked about and that is the musical segues. Those of you who are astute listeners will have noted that the segues are never just taken directly from a song. They are taken from beginning, middle, and end. The order is then changed and sometimes (especially with show intros) a “mash-up” is done. Our shows do tend to have segues that run in themes, and the latest, of course, is singers in the genre of people like Joe Cocker, Tom Waits with a bit of Janis Joplin. Yes we know that some of you may not like the works of “scat master” Waits (our title not his). On the other hand, there are those of you who didn’t like our hip-hop phase. So if you don’t like the segues, think of them like the weather…wait long enough and it will change.
See you online,
Julie Whitefeather