Monthly Archives: May 2014

Episode 9: Casshern Sins

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Originally Posted: 2/26/12

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Because you demanded it! A crossover between the Five Point Podcast and Yerocha’s Shades of Grey manga review! Be sure to check out his website at http://shadesofgreymanga.wordpress.com/ and http://www.shonenbeam.com.

In this episode, Bobcat, Burkion and Yerocha tackle Casshern sins. Set in a post apocalyptic future, one amnesiac man must try to figure out why armies of robots want to eat him. Was the series in working order, or did it need a quick tune up?

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Episode 8: Spice and Wolf

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Originally Posted: 2/19/12

In the eighth episode of the Five Point Podcast, Bobcat and Burkion delve into the popular series Spice and Wolf. How much will they love a show about medieval merchants?

Well, there’s only one way to find out! … but since they keep their phone numbers private, the next best option is to watch the episode.

Episode 7: Origin: Spirits of the Past

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Originally Posted: 2/12/2012

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This week, Bobcat and Burkion look at Origin: Spirits of the Past, a requested review from friend of the show Flaktrap.

In a post apocalyptic future, it’s technology versus a biological hivemind for the future of the planet. Only one unlikely hero, chosen as the representative of the hivemind, can defeat the coming technological genocide.

… I know what you’re thinking, but this came out years before James Cameron’s Avatar.

Episode 6: Squid Girl

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Originally Posted: 2/4/2012

In this episode, Bobcat and Burkion look at the show Squid Girl (also known as Invasion Squid Girl, depending on which localization you look at). Squid Girl is the story of a young girl with a squid on her head and her goal of subjugating the human race. Did we have a taste for calamari, or did we toss it back?

The Business of Video Hosting

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Bobcat here. Welp, looks like we got axed. Blip.tv sent us a lovely little e-mail message today informing us that after two and a half years of membership, they’re terminating our account. This is a shame, as we were actually fairly close to actually getting an ad payout for the first time ever, but whatever. My understanding is that they’ve been bought out by someone and they really wanted to weed out the small fry, and we’ve definitely always been small fry.

What does this mean for the viewers? Surprisingly little, and it may actually make life better. You see, this wasn’t Blip’s first brush with being uncool. While we were on hiatus, they stopped uploading videos automatically to iTunes and shut down our access to the RSS feed while I wasn’t paying attention, which means that the 51 episodes out there are pretty much orphans with no way to touch them. Now this lights a fire under me to get a new iTunes Podcast page set up since, unless I miss my guess, when the blip Five Point Podcast page goes dark on September 1st, the now locked down RSS feed vanishes too. I’d already been in the process of uploading all of our old videos to YouTube and now Dailymotion.

Why does this make life better? Because in my experience, Blip has been consistently bad at being available on mobile platforms- I’ve had several smartphones and I’ve never been able to view Blip vids on any of them. I’d even been considering having the ad-free YouTube vids underneath the Blip vids on the new website just to give poor mobile viewers a chance. Now, however, I have no excuse to keep using Blip, so now you’ll see Dailymotion vids on our website.

The one really annoying thing is that we had formerly distributed our wares far and wide on pages like That Guy with the Glasses and other sites for aspiring reviewers. I’m going to have to track down those episodes and update them with whatever we upload. Joy of joys; it’s been slow going getting this site up and running and resetting the YouTube page as it was.

Ah well. Onward we go, for the snark must flow.