MMORPGS

 The last one I played was star trek online, I got about as far as the away team mission against the borg ,an early part of the game that was probably still a tutorial. After that I was done, I knew early on that my experience would be but a pale comparison to the actual star trek genre. I was already duped by star wars galaxies when I found out the promised trench run would never happen. A recent MMORPG I played was deadfrontier, which is a zombie apocalypse MMORPG. That game gets it right, despite being a game that takes place at night, à la eternal and perpetual night (redunancy alert), but it's always RAINING. No power, constant night and non stop rain on top of billions of zombies? yeah, that's a level of hell if there ever was one. Point is, mmorpgs in my opinion shouldn't be about living an entire life online, they should be about sandbox slugfest. Who wants to play a game involving the same mind numbing ,soul crushing mundane task you have to do everyday to make money to be able to play a game doing the same shit?    

geek squad vs genius bar part-2 geek squad

Best buy, we've all been there for one reason or another. hopefully you never have to experience a problem to where you need their help.Because if you do, it'll be a doozy of a ride.
I've heard a lot of things about the geek squad, not many of them good. personally, I think the basic requirements for making the geek squad is the ability to tell the RAM from the processor, that remains to be seen in and of itself, I've personally seen a geek squad call the onboard integrated graphics chip of a motherboard THE GOTDAMN CPU PROCESSOR! For all you non computer people out there, that would be like you going into subway and asking for a chicken breast but the subway guy reaches for the lettuce and tries to pass it off as the breast. Or to drive the point home, you going to the dentist's office complaining of tooth pain, but then he sticks a scope up your ass. Point is, one has totally NOTHING to do with the other. That said, let's go into some pros and cons.

Pros:
1. you wear a black tie and get to drive what's possibility the gayest car in modern history: The VW BUG!
when you look past that, you pretty much get a sense that geek squad has an air of maturity. Despite whatever you maybe off duty, on duty you're right up there with the orkin man when it comes to appearances. you generally look like someone who knows what the hell he's talking about, even if you don't (more often than not).  Who cares if the guys at apple are rocking blue jeans and hippy dresses, you actually look like the man with the knowledge to save a sinking ship! or a failing network in this case.

Cons:
1.You're in the geek squad.
while the genius bar gives prestige and dignity, geek squad just says HEY, KICK MY ASS!
What do you think of when you hear the term geek? HOLD ON, think about that for a moment before you answer........... Did you think of the guy in the basement playing tabletop RPGs wishing he could get laid while your genius bar counterpart is banging mac hotties left and right? well you would be right, You also have to understand that every one in other bestbuy departments call YOU the geek squad guy. You're right back in high school, the jocks ( guys in car audio), the preps ( home entertainment and gaming) and the geeks (you, in geek squad).

2. you work harder and more often because PCs are always having fuckin problems:
and also, people seem to love to come in with their slot 1 processor, pre-AGP, PCI graphics board shitcannable dustbunny filled PCs talking about: I don't know what's wrong with it !!!! But you're geek squad and you can't just come out and say to people LOOK GRANDPA, dump the 486 floppy disk horizontal tower and get with a new system! Or  if you don't wanna pay for a new one, follow that one guy with the 1.7 ghz machine and wait until he dumps his tower on the street. No I can't sell you  PATA cables, we don't sell that junk anymore.

In closing,
GET YOUR ASS OVER TO APPLE NOW!

Geek squad vs genius bar: part 1- apple

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ok this isn't exactly the battle of the century here. Lucky for me, I have years of computer technical repair and programming under my belt, So I'll never have a need to hit up either one of them. But for the rest of you computer laymen out there, the people that find themselves lurching into bestbuy or apple store because your itunes isn't functioning (the worst that happens when a mac decides to fuck,bias detected?).Or when your ram chip has magically fallen out of place on your PC, or worst, windows decides to do it's thang and simply commits random harddrive failure. You might even be that one guy  coming into bestbuy with an old emachine from 2001 running windows 2000 on a 478 processor wondering why you can't watch youtube on your P.O.S sdimm ram running PC struggling with it's dail up card.But this blog entry isn't about your inability or lack of willingness to jump into 2011 computing, it's about the first line of defense in the ongoing war between a computer and your sanity.These are usually the guys (in geek squad/ PC's case) who are the final step before you put your rattletrap P.O.S PC out on the curb during an over night dumping mission.

Mainly though, this blog is about where YOU should work if you find yourself with a bit of computer knowledge and lack of a job or place to practice your knowledge .

so who are these computer wiz kids are these places anyway? who's better? actually I've compiled a not so serious list of pros and cons on both the genius bar and the geek squad.

Genius bar:

pros:

1. mac knowledgeable: Mac users almost have a cult like following, when you're a mac owner, you almost feel like you're part of a subculture of smarter and richer than you artsy computer elitist.You can almost feel yourself giving a fuck about the environment, animal rights, NPR and leftist political views the moment you buy one.Aside from that, when you have a problem with mac, which I will admit is rare, you're given an answer and or solution in a timely fashion.and your solution will invariably solve your issue.                                

                                                                         

2. better fashion: If you're in your 20s and still give somewhat of a damn about fashion, or if you're the type of worker that hates having to conform to the attire of the man,  You have to feel pretty damn good about getting up and working for the genius bar at apple. There you are, everyday is casual friday, I'm not even sure if it's required for your to wash your clothes when you work for the genius bar.

3. The genius bar, a great name! The genius bar gives you dignity.You have to feel pretty darn good about that, not only do you get to wear your daily clothes, but you're also called a genius to boot.If working for apple doesn't boost your self esteem, I don't know what will.

Genius bar:

Cons:

1.You're a fuckin computing elitist! I see how you look at those PC owners, I see how you scoff and snicker when you hear of PC people having windows issues, You're the type of guy that laughs at a man having a heart attack because he didn't spend his life being a vegan and eating tofu. You're cool and everyone else ,who's PC, is just a sheeple clone sucking bill gate's scrodes, yes we know. steve jobs needs a kidney btw.

2. apple has it's own intelligence/ black ops agency: If you get caught leaking new apple technology, you'll be kidnapped and spirited away to one of apple's blacksites in silicon valley, california.

                                            

The apocalypse will fall on a show day!

yes that's right, while the rest of the world will be clogging up the freeways trying to drive out of the big cities and white separatist pull out their guns and form forts and holdouts, I'll be right here broadcasting the maldoul show. Actually, while checking my facts and vetting my sources, It turns out that doomsday will actually fall on the friday after the show. So I have a big plan for the official end of the world episode of the maldoul show.I'm thinking a huge 4 hour extravaganza. Turns out that will be the 200th episode if you count episode 26 as 25 part 2.Otherwise it will be the 201st episode. another food for though, new years day 2012 will be the sunday before the 100th episode. We like to juuuuust miss the milestone coincidences here at the m3media office.Anyway, If you haven't headed for the hills, commited mass suicide or aren't too busy stockpiling food and water, join me for the maldoul show end of the world party, it'll be a BLAST, and of course the show will be cool too!

The maldoul show: a history lession for those who may be interested.

There's a sorted history behind the maldoul show. It's taken many twist and turns, evolutions and changes. would you believe it was actually a gospel show at one time? no, neither would I. But it did start out as somewhat self help show back in 2007, A psych degree gave me the motivation to make a crack at giving people advice. But I just couldn't ignore my true calling: giving bad advice and pissing people off. Just kidding, about the bad advice anyway. After getting fired from radio at a certain san francisco university, I spent a few thousand on a home studio and gave going out on my own a shot.
I had a rough yet vast knowledge of radio, namely the politics behind it (thanks to internships at Kmel, kksf and Kyld).I learned enough to know that if I was gonna reach the top in radio, it wasn't gonna be working in corporate or even public radio. I wanted to be free from the FCC, around that time sirius was two years strong, But I knew I was NO WHERE NEAR ready for that. So I chugged along on my own, creating 3 hour podcast with bad structure and only a loose connection to the weekly format.

Fast forward 3 years, blogtalkradio is out, but the quality sucks unless you're willing to pay for a better connection, umm no! So I discovered podomatic.com.Yeah you had to pay for that too but you got better service for your money. BTR is good in it's own way too, I wouldn't totally write them off. So I hit podomatic with lionz den radio, a show featuring myself, nick (a guy related to dennis the allstate commercial man) and a girl named case. Show only lasted 5 episodes but during that time we made it to the number 2 bay area comedy slot on podomatic. However, The show wasn't going in the direction I wanted so I made plans for a bigger and better show. This show wouldn't happen over night, I had big plans for it and it would take some time to implement them, so in the meantime I killed lionz den and broadcasted a solo show called fifth of a lion.

While I did 5th of a lion, I was creating the website and building resources for the maldoul show.4 months later, I grabbed my boy eric B and started the first episode of the maldoul show.audio sucked and topics went EVERYWHERE, but it was the first show that panned out the way I had always envisioned.As time went on, I gained the support of sites like stickam and professional shows like lunatic radio and Brickhouse.And now, I'm preparing to evolve to the next level of the game, the next plateau. The show has hit a stride, a point of no return, to change anything or abandon the show at this point would have an adverse effect on my reputation and image.It's not like lionz den radio or the other forgettable shows I've appeared on, this show would actually be missed.

So there you have it, I'll be here as long as you'll have me here. failing that, I'll still be here.shows ebb and flow, peak and valley.it's the cycle of the radio biz.   

flakey guest/flakey cohost syndrome

So I'm not exactly new to the radio game, I am however new to podcasting. I've only been doing this steady for about 6 months now, and I don't know what the benchmarks are for this industry. I heard it takes about 10 to 12 episodes for people to realize you're probably going to be around for awhile.
I'm well in to my 20s on episodes, check!
But my main problem as of today is cohost and guess. I'm sure I'm not the only one but, I had a few guest promise to show only to cancel out at the last minute. Does this bug me? damn straight it does.
It's not the fact that I advertise their appearance on my social networks, then have to explain why they didn't show ( I have no problem doing this by the way, I simply tell the truth and say they cancelled), it's the fact that some of these guys don't even give me the courtesy of a "hollywood no". a hollywood no is when the person you contact (most likely a gatekeeper in hollywood) simply doesn't return your phone calls or is always too busy to get to the phone. They do this as insurance, just in case you actually make it big, they're spared the awkwardness of trying to kiss your ass for dissing you when you were struggling up the ladder.That way, they always have the excuse of saying they never got your calls or messages.

It's when you DON'T get the hollywood no, and get the straight up "no, you're a talentless POS" from a gatekeeper, that you know they have zero faith in your future. Now, I have yet to get the above mentioned said to me, thankfully. But I do think that I'm still seen as a start up and therefore aren't being taken seriously as of yet. That situation can be handled by simply making more episodes and maintaining consistency, getting more and more of a reputation as time goes on. LET'S DO THIS!

another issue however is I seem to be plagued with cohost problems, The ones I like either don't have time to do it or have time conflicts.The one's I don't like seem to have all the time in the world.The main issue I have with bad cohost are the fact that they NEVER seem to get the basic rule of discussion down: IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU, IT'S ABOUT THE LISTENER AND THE TOPIC.
I had this problem majorly with both otaku 2 (eric) and former cohost nick J. both are victims of the
tirade disease. They both like to go on and on and off track about a subject, poor eric even repeats subjects from old shows. there are episodes that will never get aired because of this problem.

am I a professional end all be all of radio and podcasting? NO, but at the same time I don't fell like tolerating stuff like that either. i could easily go back to my shock jock days and railroad certain cohost into getting back on track. but the problem with THAT is outside of this business, we're still good friends. I would hate to lose that behind this industry.So yeah, either I find a good cohost or imma have to learn how to be a damn good solo entertainer.
Btw, omegamark is pretty good so none of the above applies to him.

have a good one

need to fill up some free time.

I noticed that the best way to gauge how much freetime you have is pay attention to how much
frivolous thoughts go through your head. I find that whenever I find myself thinking about people that piss me off and even find myself plotting against them, I have too much free thinking time.It's weird and surprising that I even have freetime, seeing as to how I'm totally swamped with the podcast and record
company. I guess I need to fill up the remaining freetime. Heck, I haven't even written the format for the show today.

Blacks + samoans = sa mo niggaz

I was thinking about my uso homeboys back in san francisco when I remember my old buddy's uncle was in boo-yaa tribe. That's when I got a hold of this video, makes me think of back home.

I really like this song for some reason.

Maybe it's because
1. It takes place in a robopocalypse2
2. It has a wheeless version of the T-rex!
3. I wish I had I had a crew of robots with dance moves to hang out with!
I think I'm old enough at this point to not care about what's "real" hiphop and what's commercial,mainstream or whatever. so I can honestly enjoy this song. Will I ever buy tickets to a BEP concert, doubt it. Then again, I usually get into concerts either by press passes, VIP or invites anyway.

Millions need to die to make the internet better.

Ok, maybe not. but seriously.I'm already having a tough sunday dealing with the studio and post production, Turns out the software I use [cough] ableton live [/cough], doesn't save to mp3! Now see, this is the type of shit that really burns my taco! Just like windows 7, HOW THE FUCK are you going to make a vital function of the audio system disabled by default!?!?! News flash ,microsoft, I'm not a damn computer geek! I don't have time to twiddle and wade through your complex and perplexedly dysfunctional system just to get some simple shit done! But that's not even the worst part, when you try to go on forums for advice or better yet, an answer to your dilemma, you get some smart asred twuktard wasting time, post space and bandwidth with some high horsed comment like: are you seriously asking this? uhh duhh... or my favorite: why don't you read around the site to answer your question.

hey ASSHOLE! maybe we don't have time to poke and prod through a whole forum or website. Maybe some of us have stuff to do in the IDK OFFLINE WORLD? I swear people like this give me the urge to wanna grab a hammer and pound their heads into a fine cranial grey matter puree. I hate having my time wasted, maybe if you were really smart, you'd see that you get more respect by helping others and being a source of knowledge in a field. Instead of trying to embrace this whole highhorse bullshit that you THINK makes you look cool on the internet! Newsflash bud, YOU'RE a DICK, you're probably a bigger dick than your real one, which probably is the source behind your sickeningly passive aggressive and ultimately useless taglines passed off as post responses.

So I think that the internet would be better if many people either lost the privilege to use it or just IDK, out right died.Let's get these pointless people off the net, either that or just get them to shut up.
because believe me, I could get a lot more done faster if there were less bullshit to wade through. until then, STFU and answer a question intelligently, if you can't: STFU! simple!

It's a damn busy day in the studio

Spent nearly the entire day trying to rearrange the studio and run cable from one side of the room to the other.Plus I had to bring a computer out of retirement for the sake of the show.PLUS! I thought I edited an episode but it turns out I didn't so now I have to do THAT too!!!plus there's monday's show to prepare for.and why the hell around episodes of the show showing up in folders they're not suppose to be in on the server! I hate windows!
I hope you listeners out there appreciate what I'm doing for YOU. It's a beautiful day outside and I'm missing it being couped up in this studio working to perfect the show. The studio is always dark by the way, with very little artificial or natural night.

It's hard getting material now.

Back when I was in san francisco, there was no shortage of blog topic material. Many times I didn't even have to leave my street to find funny and weird shit to blog about. but since moving back east, I find that the closer to the middle to the country you get, the more "normal" people seem to act, or the more normal they think they are. Or you can say that it's the more people try to embrace a standard of normality.
I saw a man in tattered rags talking to himself in front of mc donalds, that would had been passe and way too easy, as they say in the wrestling business, CHEAP HEAT.

But, I see this as a challenge, I just need to dig deeper to find the daily random comedy gold.I try not to find the gold on TV, anybody can do that. That's why when rebecca black and charlie sheen were in the news, I was one of the few podcast that refused to touch those subjects.To me, a comedic topic is like a woman, do you really want one that's been passed around? JUST KIDDING, it's more like a steak, if enough people eat on it you'll eventually be left with the bone.  

anyhow, it's saturday night, off to find the funny!