Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of: <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/News-ID514350.asp" target="_blank"><b>LP Column: 1/1/71 Laughing Place Podcast</b></a> XXX
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ...are we talking 1971? Or 2071? Either way, I can't wait to listen...I think...
Originally Posted By schnebs I can already picture the beginning of the 2071 podcast: With a flash of light, a DeLorean appears on the street in front of Doobie and Rebekah's house. FanBoy, wearing a lab coat and sporting wild white hair, steps out and says, "Guys, you've got to come with me - Gideon and the website are fine, but it's your grandkids, we've got to do something about your grandkids!"
Originally Posted By Doobie This topic got auto posted a little too soon before I had put in the date and the description. Consider it a Doobie Edit. But it's the LPP, so I'll let it through.
Originally Posted By schnebs Good podcast as always, guys - don't forget to read the listeners "hit or miss" movie lists when Donny reads his bold predictions, though. You've discovered MST3K? Excellent! I became a MSTie after getting out of the Navy, and I still miss the show. You're right about the movies on the show, Doobie - some of them were so awful that even the best riffing by Joel/Mike and the Bots couldn't save them.
Originally Posted By SteamboatPhillie Huzzah, new episode! One I feel compelled to respond to. First up, about my name. It IS Steamboat Phillie, but in the 2012 Bold Predictions episode and in the 2012 Wrap-up Rebekah and Doobie respectively called me Steamboat Pete. Hence my self-negating prediction. As for The Orange Box, I wasn't sure if that would need an explanation or not. If you want a detailed look, just go to Wikipedia and search 'The Orange Box.' But a general summary, if you don't want to do that: there is a video game company called Valve, and they created a game called Half-Life that was very popular, both commercially and critically. A sequel was a guarantee, but development dragged for 5 years before Half-Life 2 was released (for Windows). A couple years later Valve announced Half-Life 2 would be packaged with 2 new expansion packs, Team Fortress 2 (the sequel to a multiplayer first-person shooter) and Portal, a physics-based puzzle game. All five games would be released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 under the title The Orange Box. It was both a way to bring Half-Life 2 to the-then next generation consoles and (supposedly) as a way to apologize to fans for the wait for Half-Life 2. The funny thing about all this is that Portal, which was little more than a stocking stuffer (as one critic called it) ended up becoming vastly more popular than Half-Life 2, and ended up on countless "Best of the Decade" lists and spawning several memes (ie. The cake is a lie). At this point I should mention that I'm actually not a gamer, I don't follow the video game industry, and what I've just said I've gleaned from a review of Portal 2 and Wikipedia. I may very well have gotten some details wrong, but for the sake of my prediction/hope for a Wreck-It Ralph Orange Box-style compilation, the salient point is that The Orange Box was a bundle of several games on one disc. Since I don't think Fix-It Felix Jr., Hero's Duty or Sugar Rush provide much potential for full-scale games in their own rights (maybe Sugar Rush, if they can come up with enough tracks to race on), I think an economical decision would be to package all three games as one. But I don't actually think this will happen, which frustrates me. How do you make a movie about video games and not try to create actual, for-sale games based on those in the movie? I know the Wreck-It Ralph site has versions of the three games, but I'd like to see proper adaptations of them. Also, for the record, I'm 31. Probably younger than you guys and gal at the LPP, but not significantly so. As I said, I'm not really a gamer, I just enjoy specific video game franchises (like Kingdom Hearts, which is Disney-centric and thus warranted a prediction here; because really, we've been waiting long enough for Kingdom Hearts 3 to come out). And as for MST3K/Rifftrax, have you not been able to watch the riffs of The Room or Birdemic: Shock and Terror? They're horrible movies, but classic riffs.
Originally Posted By Doobie <<< Good podcast as always, guys - don't forget to read the listeners "hit or miss" movie lists when Donny reads his bold predictions, though. >>> Already recorded the next one and forgot. So sorry, we will take care of it on the next one.
