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.

Battledome Booth Episode 10: Nevermind Interviewed

I was recently interviewed by Proto Dude of the Classic Game Guys. This interview serves as episode 10 of the Battledome Booth.

Stuff that was talked about:

• Mostly DFW stuff, such as favorite fights, episodes, how it all got started, etc.
• A smattering of fiction-talk related to the show (such as quality series, etc.)
• Some OBD Wiki stuff.

 

Battledome Booth Episode 9: Here We Go Again

In this delayed Sunday episode of the Battledome Booth, Nevermind discusses, primarily, the latest death of the OBD Wiki, and where the community can go from there. Other topics include:

• The Luke vs Othinus controversy, and ToAru in general
• The liveliness (or lack thereof) of the community
• The Media Club, Muv-Luv, Applocale, and why Freezing is terrible

Battledome Booth Episode 8: Chaotic Theories

ChaosTheory123 joins Nevermind on the Battledome Booth. The topics of discussion include:

• Current events in the OBD
• Calcs (duh)
• Answering a lot of questions
• Baseball
• General shooting of the shit.

Battledome Booth Episode 7: January in Review

After a week's hiatus, the Battledome Booth is back. On this episode, Nevermind goes over the first month of 2014, mentioning:

• Five Star Threads & Big Koumei Pump
• A message to lurkers
• The Godzillafan430 incident (mistook 430 for "420" but who cares)
• The MAPSK event
• The community taking precedence over debate
• The OBD Media Club
• The results of the Royal Rumble and the happenings in the WWE
• Announcement of next week's guest: ChaosTheory123

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Battledome Booth Episode 6: Canon, Calcs, & Clubs

On this week's episode, Nevermind talks about:

• The recently announced change in Star Wars canon, and its implications for the OBD
• The week's couple of threads questioning pixel scaling, and why calcs work
• The past controversy between the Outskirts Battledome and Moviecodec
• The newly-launched OBD Media Club
• Blue Gender
• The shooting of episodes 27 and 28 of Deadliest Fictional Warrior
• Lone Survivor, shouting out his review

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Battledome Booth Episode 5: Testosterone, Petals & Claymores

A short episode discussing the following things:

• The first week in the OBD of 2014, including Big Koumei Pump, and a fantastic thread. Is there a comeback in place?
• The new OBD Media Club.
• Claymore chapter 146
• The break of the Season 3 hiatus of Deadliest Fictional Warrior. Episode 27 was shot on Thursday.
• Hey Arnold!

If you have question's for next week's show, don't hesitate to ask.

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Battledome Booth Episode 4: A Night in the Darth

Darth Nihilus joins Nevermind on this week's episode of the Battledome Booth. Some of the topics they discuss include:

• An extensive history of the OBD, including reminiscing of past trolls
• The OBD in the past year and the Awards of 2013
• Star Wars
• WWE
• General plain hilarity!

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