Battledome Booth Episode 17: Year End Series Reviews (2014)

On this final podcast of 2014, Nevermind reviews the series he read or saw this year, which includes the following:

Wicked City
Lone Survivor
Blue Gender
Deus Vitae
Intelligence
Ghost in the Shell ARISE (Ghost Tears & Ghost Stands Alone)
24: Live Another Day
Golden Boy (manga & OVA)
Sharpe (movies)
Feng Shen Ji (ongoing)
Falling Skies season 4
Claymore
Waterloo
Dominion: Tank Police
By the Sword Divided season 1

Battledome Booth Episode 16: The Changing of the Seasons

Nevermind does a solo episode of the Battledome Booth, marking the major changes afoot. The major theme of this episode is increasing the OBD's "curb appeal." Topics discussed include:

- Ultimate Deathsaurer (Agent Washington) getting modded (:44)
- The OBD Conference Room (1:19)
- The most important things that need to be done (2:33)
- The prospect of newbies (5:09)
- Calcs (6:00)
- Low tier threads (7:40)
- A low tier tournament? (9:30)
- Claymore's end (10:32)
- Naruto's end (12:09)
- The Media Club (15:07)
- Dominon: Tank Police (15:32)
- Low tier series again (17:14)
- Diablo II (18:35)
- Games as social events (20:12)
- Tournaments and mafias (20:40)
- Answering questions from Bernkastel (regarding this link with Wikispaces) and Ringabel (21:43)

Battledome Booth Episode 15: A Galaxy Nearby

Es joins Nevermind on the Battledome Booth

Topics of discussion include:

- Es' history in the OBD, including his present ban
- Star Wars
- Various other fictions
- Viewer questions
- Lightning round


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Battledome Booth Episode 14: Decline, Power, & Lifestyle

Guest GiveRobert20Dollars comes into the Battledome Booth to discuss various topics:

- Intro, the OBD in 2012 vs its current state 2013 and 2014
- The ages of the older members, and not having enough time for hobbies like the OBD (2:10)
- The old trolls and how the old OBD was extremely confrontational, OBD needing its trolls (5:30)
- MattTheblack12 and Blade (7:20)
- Blade and Dandy, Dandy's return (8:30)
- The old regulars needing to be unbanned to revive the section (9:30)
- The median age of the cancerdomers vs the regulars (11:45)
- Fluttershy and Dastan/Indian Race Trolls, loldartg (12:37)
- Mod priorities (16:30)
- Calcs in isolation killing debate (17:25)
- The perfect storm killing the OBD (22:29)
- What induced Robert to join (23:41)
- The OBD community (25:08)
- Dandy and Blade, differing promo styles (27:00)
- Sharpe (28:30)
- Person of Interest (31:20)
- College and social capital (35:04)
- Feng Shen Ji (36:14)
- Calm, powerful characters who read their Machiavelli and 48 Laws of Power (38:47)
- A historical example of power (42:09)
- Cancer Manigoldo (44:15)
- Never's first article on Showdown about World War I (46:3)
- Questions (includes tangents about working out, The Rock's Hercules routine, Cancerdomer life improvement, Obama's workout fail, Michelle Obama's masculinity, Zhui Betaman's love for Bai Cai, ToAru wiki) (47:22)
- More Cancerdomer life improvement (1:11:11)
- Pet peeves regarding series that cause you to want to drop it (1:15:31)
- Fan service mangas being a sign of low Japanese fertility (1:21:02)
- Bronies and societal degeneration (1:22:41)
- Lightning round (1:23:30)
- Closing (1:36:29)

This was probably the most insult-laden podcast ever.



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Battledome Booth Episode 13: Marauding Through the Night

The Battledome Booth returns from hiatus! Featured as a guest on this episode is Raidou Kuzunoha.

Topics of discussion include:

- Intro and Central Park/NYC stories
- The wonders of phone
- Announcement regarding the OBD Wiki HTML uploader tool
- More wiki talk
- The deadness of the OBD and the slow convos
- The wonders of Zhui Betaman
- Why Raidou joined the OBD
- The benefits of the OBD
- Bastard!!
- Japanese reserve mentality toward their characters
- Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal
- Claymore
- Feng Shen Ji
- Professor Steiner instructs Freezing, Negima, and Fairy Tail
- 2012 and before compared to now
- Calculations in debates
- Back to Feng Shen Ji
- How Raidou and Never experience series
- Hunter x Hunter
- Questions from
- Pimping his upcoming article about World War I
- Lightning round
- Cancerdome and closing


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Note that the time bar on this cast seems to be slightly messed up.

Battledome Booth Episode 12: The Rumble in the Jungle

On this episode Nevermind discusses:

- The OBD Wiki situation and its new social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter.
- The OBD'er Royal Rumble.
- Answering questions from Es and butcher50
- His NEW Forum.
- Endless Mike's latest blog post.
- The OBD Media Club for March and other stuff.

Battledome Booth Episode 11: Welcome to the Wasteland?

On this episode of the Battledome Booth, Nevermind ponders whether or not the OBD in 2014 will be a wasteland, as the drop-off in activity since the new rules were rolled out and the archiving seems to imply. Other topics include:

• The OBD Wiki, and the Calc Master List.
• The presence of some old faces like Abigail, Endless Mike, and the Immortal Watchdog.
• Greed's conduct.
• The failed attempt to revive the OBD Mafia and the Mafia Section.
• The Media club, including Deus Vitae, and how the latter did not live up to the hype.
• Calcs and why you should do them.
• Various other topics.