Metareality Podcast has returned to the airwaves … well it returned in March but I’ve only just noticed! The third episode in the return was released on April 11th. The good news here is that now we can get an Anchorman style fight between Metareality Podcast and The Drax Files, although as Metareality Podcast has a three person team they won’t be allowed to use William Reed Seal-Foss whom I strongly suspect is really Dr Octopus, which would make the fight unfair anyway!
Also they possibly should do transfers between the presenters. Drax has been on Metareality before, so maybe Jo Yardley could go on Metareality and Qarl could do a guest spot on The Drax Files. Reed would have to stay on Metareality, as I’ve already explained, being Dr Octopus comes with complications.
There’s certainly room in the market for both of these podcasts, particularly as they cover different subjects, obviously they also cover similar subjects but the styles of the two shows are different enough to mean that listening to them both covers enough different ground for them to be worthwhile.
One of the interesting discussions in the latest Metareality podcast is a discussion about the character creation in Black Dragon Online :
This does look quite interesting and character creation is an issue for virtual worlds, but I’ve always found too much choice to be a pain too, sometimes you just want to get on with it.
They also mention a HBO show called Silicon Valley, which being as it’s a HBO show ends up in the UK on SKY Atlantic, which is an absurdly restrictive channel that isn’t available on Cable. I mean come on, this business model needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history. Game Of Thrones gets the same treatment too, meaning many people in the UK simply can’t view it. Why in this day and age HBO won’t just allow people to buy their content in the UK on any platform I do not know, the technology certainly exists to enable this.
There’s also a very interesting Q&A in the last part of the show where Qarl clears up his view on Second Life, saying that he loves Second Life, but isn’t so keen on Linden Lab, however he would love to go back to Second Life.
There’s more, much more and if you have time it’s certainly worth a listen. I don’t like covering everything about a show like this in a blog post for a few reasons, one being that the post would be of epic proportions but mostly because they have published their content on their production and that’s the best place to appreciate their content.
I’m glad to see that the show is back, I hope it stays around for a while too.