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It's like the Eighties... but BETTER.

The OSMcast goes forth once more as Basil, Kevin, and special guest commentator JP grapple the numerous and awesome 8-bit modern games that comprise one of the best DS titles to come out in years: known only as Retro Game Challenge!

Protip: So okay I said that it’s the 31st when it actually released on the 30th. Whoops.

OSMnotes

WHY HAVEN’T YOU BOUGHT THIS GAME YET. There are people at XSEED who could be bringing us the sequel but instead are DYING because they cannot feed themselves and their families due to the rest of you NOT BUYING THIS GAME. /hyperbole

(Here is a link to amazon.com so you can buy this game. Or go to a Best Buy or Gamestop or whatever you have to do!)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Incidentally guys and gals, MadWorld is also mad fun. There is nothing more visceral on the Wii than yanking on the Wii Remote and Nunchuck and watching my enemies be ripped in twain. I literally have not had so much fun on this system since Mario Galaxy. They need to take this engine and gameplay and give me a Fist of the North Star varient. Good stuff. Very fun.

Sadly what wasn’t fun was that as I was talking during this recording I could feel my throat dying. Lo and behold this past week it turned for the worse as I’ve had a monsterously bad throat infection. So what do I do when I get sick? I watch seasons of anime!  And for this purpose I downloaded obtained two series: Library War and all of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Well the main 110 episodes). Of course I haven’t watched ALL of the show yet, but I’ll get through them eventually. It is now only a matter of time.

Yeah, it's kinda like that...

Speaking of only and matter of time and anime, this weekend is MTAC! I (Basil, aka the guy who writes all these crazy posts and “show notes” ) will be on at least two panels at MTAC. I’ll be a part of the Podcast Roundtable Panel which is being held Friday night at 7:00 PM in the Fan Panel room. Then on Sunday at 1 in Panel Room 2 I’ll be the “token male” in the Shojo Mojo Panel: Feminism in Anime. I could be in some risky waters here!

Thankfully, I’m pretty sure they never listened to Weeadicks…

(I hope.)

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More like Street Fighter: The Legend of CRAP-Li HUR HUR HUR

A coworker asked me over this past week: “So what happened to the Survivor Horror in Resident Evil 5?”

I told him: “It’s now called sitting through Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.”

I know this, because I have sat through this movie.

This episode is pretty much just a PSA to the world that no one ever should go see Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.EVER. But you all probably knew that. We went to go make sure, because sometimes you have to stand, even when it’s hard to stand.

And now our horrors have been shared and brought to you.

Please do not go see this film. Do not rent this film. This isn’t a bad-good. This is just poor. Do not say that we did not warn you.

Also, we have a forum now. Please go post in it!

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I wonder if this is a spoiler?

Deep within the underground (and also echo-y) OSMbunker, keeping the awesome alive, we decided to talk not about the movie adaption of  Watchmen, the amazing graphic novel by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, but the graphic novel itself.

Promo: Dead Workers Party Network! We are actually a part of this network, but we have never really talked about it. They are a collective of a bunch of awesome guys with a ton of various podcasts for your listening enjoyment. WoW, Warhammer, Team Fortress 2, other video games, and even more are topics these podcasts may cover. So check them out, or else.

OSMnotes

The Watchmen graphic novel is incredibly easy to find. Just go walk into a book store or comic book store, they’ll have a copy.

Or you could just use Amazon… I guess.

This is the good stuff.

Cave Story is also easy to find… On the Internet, anyway. Here’s a fansite that has links to download the game and the patch to make it readable via the English Language.  And here’s the official WiiWare version’s site, if you are like me and want to play it on a TV easily and give Pixel (the creator) money. You could also play Peggle, which is way too addictive, seriously. I’m now wondering if I shouldn’t have talked about it. Maybe you all should not download and play this game. This is the kind of game that ruins lives. Do you want your life ruined by happiness? I mean, really.

Have we mentioned MTAC? MTAC MTAC MTAC.

…

This is the addictive stuff.

(MTAC.)

Nah, we probably haven’t.

Okay what we haven’t mentioned before is that the Dead Worker guys have set us up our own forum! There is actually a whole slew of forums covering all sorts of subjects as well. This is nothing really in our forum… yet. You could help change that!

But if super easy way of joining the totally awesome forum isn’t your speed, here are some other equally easy-peasy options!

SUPER OBAMA! … Really?

• Leave us a comment in this very post! Or another post, if you really want.
• Call us at the OSMline (206) 202-0071, and if you ask us a question, we’ll answer it for you in the following OSMcast!
• Or just send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com! (You can also ask questions here, too.)

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Full Metal Panic!

We had made plans. Awesome plans. But then those plans were dashed! So we made new ones. BETTER ONES. Then those were dashed and we said NAY SIR and to prove it we did a podcast on the anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic! by GONZO.

Protip: This may be one of the few times we actually say something good about a show that GONZO has touched. I was amazed too.

Promo: Robotronic Dynamite! These gamer guys are pretty great (and also elegant). For example, they have us listed as one of their Super Friends. Secondly, they just nabbed the voice actor for Fei Long to talk about Street Fighter IV with them. Did I mention they were elegant? Also mighty.  So please check them out.

OSMnotes

Pluto is freaking sweet

Okay so it turns out this show is more expensive than I thought. I thought it would be closer to $30, but it turns out it’s closer to $50-60. Then again this is 26 episodes we are talking about here, so I guess it’s not such a bad deal.

I noticed when I was working up the update today (the 8th), the OSMcast is one year old! WOW. I was never sure if we’d last a year, yet now I can’t see how I couldn’t. The OSMcast is one of the most fun and rewarding things to do ever, and it’s because of Listeners Like You that we are still around.

Star Ocean 4 is very pretty

So thank you, and here’s to another year of awesome!

And to follow up my thank you, I must now apologize. You see, our CONTEST is over and we have a WINNER.

… We just forgot to talk about it. Sorry dear listeners! You will discover the winner next week. However if you’d like to talk to us, we are ALL ABOUT THAT. IN CAPS. You can leave a comment in the comments section. Or send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com. Oooooor, as always, the OSMline is open to be called up and what not. The number for that is (206) 202-0071.

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Slayers Revolution

In this episode of the OSMcast! we decided to throw down with the latest adventures of Lina and the gang by talking about Slayers Revolution!

OSMnotes

Right now Slayers Revolution is kind of hard to get to at the moment. When the series started up a small while back, you could find fansubs of it. But with a quickness Funimation grabbed up the rights to both it and Slayers Evolution-R. Fansubs dried up  really quick (because if anyone knows where to look for places to throw some cease and desist orders, it’s Funimation.).

Not that this is a bad thing! Especially since they’ve promised us streaming versions of Slayers officially subtitled soon. How soon, I have no clue.

I’m sure that we’ll talk about in a future World of OSM when it happens.

Baccano! It's pretty darn awesome.

Speaking of streaming and Funimation, they also have Baccano! You can actually watched the first episode on their site, although it is dubbed. We talked about Baccano! in Show #10, although it is spoileriffic and me might have missed a fact there or two. If you would rather have a less spoiler-filled podcast, Daryl Surat of the AWO recently covered it. Or you could just buy it. Trust me, this was the best show of 2007 this side of Gurren Lagann. You will not be disappointed. 

Just to remind everyone who might be going to MTAC, so are we! Infact we’ll be on the podcasting panel, where there will be special secret prizes. What will these be? I don’t know I’m not handling it! But I hear that there will be some. And I’ll be there to run my mouth off in person. I see no reason why this is a bad thing, really. Maybe we can try that whole taking photos thing again, the cosplay kids seemed to like that.

MTAC: It's where it's AT, come April 3rd-5th anyway!

We mentioned that the nerdcore anime hip hop group The Band of Seven will be there to run MTAC’s dance off. I asked them for a link so that you all could check them out and what do they do? They sent us three. These guys have their stuff together way more than we do, with our measly one URL. To wit: They are planning to release their second album at MTAC, that is said to be produced while on a spaceship. If this is true, I want to know where one can find one of these things. I’m in the Rocket City and so far, no dice. 

Spaceships are the best.

How do these guys do it? I know not, but if you do, let us know! Or how this podcast was, a question you’d like answered, or maybe you were trying to conatct someone else but found is instead! So if you would like to contact us, fret not! There are many, many ways one can acconplish this. And by many, I mean three. Way Number One: Leave a comment in this very post! Way Number Two: Email us at osmcast@gmail.com! Way Number Three: Send us a voice mail at 206-202-0071! It is fact, that easy.