After I move we’ll record the last two episodes of the show. Just wanted to give you all a heads up.

Thank you,
Sir Michael

What are all these games the kids are into!?! Back in my day we had a stick and a ball. AND WE WERE HAPPY!

Seeing that these Vidja games are the wave of the future, Sir Michael went and made the official Villainy INC Steam group. For those of you who don’t know, Steam is what happens when Video Gaming, iTunes, and Facebook have an incredibly hot baby. It’s an app that allows you to buy games, keep them updated, and play them with friends. It runs on both PC and Mac.

You can join our steam group here. Also the URL: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/VillainyInc

Here’s some games that Sir Michael and I enjoy playing that we think you guys would love too. Also leave some comments on games you think we would like and we’ll try them out.

• Team Fortess 2 (or the Super Smash Bros of first person shooters as I like to call it)
• Left 4 Dead 2 (shoot zombies with friends and have a blast)
• Alien Swarm (great top down shooter. Did I mention it’s FREE!?!)
• Civilization IV (Sir Michael loves this one. I just dotter around the map as every nation on earth pilages me from every conceivable angle.)
• Dogfighter (incredibly cheap Star Fox-espe flying game)

Also some multiplayer games I have but never play.

• Counter Strike Source (I’ve only played like 20 min of this one, but I hear it’s fun.)
• Day of Defeat Source (same problem as Counter Strike)
• Half Life 2: Deathmatch (never tried it. Truth be told I don’t know how it ended up in my library.)

Sir Michael I command you to update this post if I forgot any games! MY WILL COMMANDS YOU!

While this show was a snap to make back in college, it has become much more difficult now that I have a job. In college I had an entire week to edit, trimming dialogue and adding background music. Now I have a weekend to get the show put together. The only days we can record are on the weekend. You see our dilemma?

However having the episodes go out on Monday’s gives me the entire weekend to record and slap it together. This takes almost all the stress out of currently making the show, and allows us to be more topical (episodes will go out a day after they were recorded).

Some of you will be dismayed by this news. Some of you will approach our gates with torches and pitchforks, demanding that our voices go out on Fridays. However, believe it or not, I have a scientifically proven method of giving you what you want. You see our show is a mp3 file that is downloaded or streamed to your computer. The file is always there, it doesn’t delete itself or disappear. So theoretically you could download the show on Monday, but save for Friday. I’M INGENIOUS!

Anyway the long short of it is I’m pretty sure with about 99.9999991% accuracy that our release schedule will be shifting from Friday to some other day, most likely Mondays. While I love making the show, recording during the week is impossible with 2/3 of our crew in America, and frankly M and I just don’t feel like recording when we get home from work.

However on the weekends we’re all Chatty Kathys. So in order to keep doing the show and to lower stress levels, new episode will probably be going out on Mondays from now on. It’s probably going to be the easiest for all of us to have the entire weekend to record, then have it go out at the start of the week.

Well at least we’re the top result in Google. Wait…

None of you know this but I’ve secretly been at war with a Maryland Public Television Educational website. And by war I mean that I search “villainy inc” in google and shake my fist when I see their website listed as the top result instead of ours. You can find their educational bullcrap here.

Today the war is over. After 3 years of toiling on the internet, we’re the top search result if you just type villainy inc. See kids, hard work pays off. I think I’ll celebrate this victory by counting all the money we’ve made over the years. Wait…

If you’ve been listening to Villainy INC for a while now, you know that for some odd reason summers are murder on this show. We usually go on hiatus, audio quality takes a massive hit, and I resort to drinking to dull the pain.

Well worry not our faithful listeners because it looks like the worst is behind us. I’ve just recorded a couple episodes with M and I’m going to try and schedule recordings with WK and SM (I’m far too lazy to type the full names) soon. I’ve also got my mixing board and microphone here, so I don’t have to use the “ghetto” setup of having a crappy logitech mic and turning the sensitivity up all the way.

Also the booze finally ran out so I’m finally sober enough to edit.

I don’t want to give a definant date, but they’ll most likly start airing next Friday. If not, the next Friday.

While finding a job and getting my paperwork in order really contributed to our absence, listed here are the real culprits behind the massive delay in episodes:

1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. Final Fantasy XIII
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Transformers: War for Cybertron
6. Sin and Punishment: Star Succusor
7. Resident Evil 4

Shame on you vidja games! Especially you Final Fantasy XIII! You took me 2 months to beat. That could have been 2 months of editing podcasts!

I don’t want to unintentionally scare anyone but Villainy INC’s future might not look so hot. Every year the podcast and website loss money as I pay hosting, equipment, and miscellaneous fees. I’ve never minded this because I love making the podcast. However this year I’m graduating college and I’ll have to worry about jobs and money. I’ve always hoped our ad boxes would help the site break even, but as you can see from the ads we usually get it’s people only bidding a cent (or less).

However if we could get traffic up on the site, the value of the ad boxes would go up and the site would break even. If we could get the price of just one ad box up to 30 cents, it would cover hosting fees and other costs for the entire year.

The best way I’ve found to do this stumbleupon.com. In case you didn’t know, Stumbleupon is a website where you randomly visit sites that match your interests. It’s great (I use it often) and Villainy INC is listed in their directory. However because we don’t have any reviews or thumbs up yet we don’t get stumbled. That’s where you all come in.

PLEASE WRITE OUR WEBSITE A REVIEW AND GIVE US A THUMBS UP ON STUMBLEUPON. All you have to do is click the thumbs up button in your browser when you visit our site. It’s that easy. Also it wouldn’t even need to be a long review. You could just type the word “great” or “derp” and it would help us! If you’ve enjoyed the work we’ve put into making this show week after week, then please help us out by giving us a thumbs up in Stumbleupon. Here’s the link to our Stumbleupon page: http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.villainyinc.com/

If there was ever I time we need your guy’s help it’s now. I’m doing behind the scenes stuff to help raise traffic, but we still need your help. I’d also like to add that if the total price of our add boxes reached 60 cents, we could have another video game giveway and still have enough left over to do something else for you guys. Just throwing that out there.

]]> http://www.villainyinc.com/2010/03/villainy-inc-needs-your-help-stumble-our-website-and-podcasts/feed/ 6 http://www.villainyinc.com/2010/03/podcast-player-fixed-thanks-ojii/ http://www.villainyinc.com/2010/03/podcast-player-fixed-thanks-ojii/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:14:00 +0000 Dr. Disaster http://www.villainyinc.com/?p=932

A couple months ago the podcast player started acting strangely. It stayed out late, came home smelling of booze, got belligerent you asked where it was. Eventually it would start throwing things at your head and then break down in tears 30 minutes later. We were sad to see the Podcast Player lose its mind, that is until Ojii rehabilitated it. (Technically Ojii is the player’s father. Wait why didnt’ I just use that analogy?)

The glitch where it displayed every episode is now fixed, you can now pause the episodes again, and he even added an option where you can now download the episodes to your computer. What a swell guy!