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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clyde L. Rhoer" data-source="post: 4451159" data-attributes="member: 76525">Hey folks,    Thanks so much for listening to my show. I just wanted to address a few things.    On Magic the Gathering  My point in bringing up Magic the Gathering was to point at how 4E seems to be focused more on team creation, than individual creation. It was an allusion which to my ear is how Mike took it. You can still make your unique snowflake I think, but effectiveness is no longer bound up in the individual in 4E. In my mind this is good for a game that has always focused on the players as a team.    On transcripts  I haven't checked since early this year, but if memory serves the cheapest transcription service I could find would charge somewhere around $60 to $100 to  transcribe this episode. I'm just a janitor, and have already sunk several grand in equipment, with more costs to come as I seek to improve on my hobby. Not to mention the careful saving i do to go to conventions... but I'd do that podcast or no podcast. I can't afford transcripts. I release my podcasts under a creative commons, share alike 3.0 license, so if any individual or group wants to foot the cost you are free to do so. Send me a link, so I can link to it. This might sound snarky, but it isn't. I use that license because I hoped people would find other uses for my stuff.    On my shoddy-ness  Folks complaining about my preparedness are absolutely right. I apologize, I've been sliding and frankly it's great to hear so many folks call me on it. I'll make sure to do it the old way in the future, where I have a clipboard with my reminders.  To give you an idea where I was at.... If I sleep four hours per 24 hour period at a con I'm doing well. This interview was on Saturday I believe, and I hadn't had four hours sleep since Tuesday. I just finished my ashcan which I was bringing to the Ashcan Front booth, on Monday, which means I was lacking sleep the weekend before. I was about ready to experience <a href="http://www.evilhat.com/home/?page_id=101" target="_blank">the Mad City</a> I think. As an additional problem internet access at my hotel was $10 a day, so I had to spend $10 to pull up the questions I had got from <a href="http://rob-donoghue.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">Rob Donahue</a>.    So what I'm trying to say is I dropped the ball, but I'm just a game-fan, like you, so hopefully you'll cut me some slack.    On lack of editing  I don't edit the content from the point I choose to drop the listener in the conversation. This is an aesthetic and practical decision. The practical part is that editing this would add, based on previous experience, at least four hours, which would bring editing time up to 6 or 8 hours. This is in addition to the 8 hours I've put into planning the show, including email coming up with questions, etc.  The aesthetic side is even more important to me. I personally hate the cleanliness of our media, especially radio, and I'm not seeking to emulate that. I could edit to try to make myself sound smarter or better prepared, but I'm not interested in doing so. I want to hear real conversations, flaws and all. I want the equivalent to a punk show where the microphone might be giving feedback, but the show goes on because we've got a stage to dive off of, or invisible ninjas to fight, or a circle to run around in. Ugly, loud, but honest. I'm wanting to bring you a moment with all it's flaws, because I think that has more integrity. That's what I'm shooting for.  It's cool if you disagree.  I'll try to peek back in, I wanted to wait until the thread seemed to be winding down, as I wanted to see what people honestly thought. Thanks again. (Sorry, I can't get this to keep my spacing... I'm unsure of why but have spent too much time on it. Edit2: Strange this site loses my carriage returns when I use Linux, and Firefox but not OS X, and Safari.)</blockquote>

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