Idle News Podblast - 03/09/09: Countdown to Tears

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🗓️ 9 March 2009

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Five years ago, prophecies by Steven Spielberg and EALA's Neil Young charted a course of new, untold emotional resonance, and the future of video games was irrevocably changed. As Game Developers Conference 2009 approaches, the clock ticks ever closer to the video game singularity: Prepare for the countdown to tears. Games discussed: Steven Spielberg, Neil Young, the crying game.

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0:00.0	This is actually the culmination of five years of idle thumbs.
0:03.2	Yes, welcome to week one of the countdown to tears.
0:06.9	This is the idle news podblast for March 9th 2009.
0:15.0	I'm Jake Rodkin.
0:17.0	And I'm Chris Remo.
0:18.0	And Steve is here.
0:19.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:21.0	Yeah, Nick isn't here because we're recording this at a weird time.
0:23.6	That was when Nick was dead.
0:26.6	It was when Nick had a problem and I am talking about its problem.
0:30.2	It was news.
0:32.2	His problem got all better and then I could go away again
0:34.9	Can't wait for that to occur once more. Oh snap all right anyway. Yeah
0:40.1	I'm the worst part about this podcast.
0:43.0	Yeah, we are coming up on GDC in a couple weeks, three weeks I think, and that marks a very exciting time in Ethelthumb's history.
0:53.0	And of the history of the video game industry as an artistic medium.
0:57.0	Five years ago at GDC, E.
1:00.0	E.L. Thumbs was actually founded in 2004 2004 shortly before E3 of that year and a couple weeks before that at GDC or a couple months before that at GDC
1:09.5	When we were sort of ramping up to putting out of thumbs live there was a quote in the
1:15.1	geec. booklet from Steve Young I'm sorry Neil Young. Bob Young, Joe Young.
1:21.2	It was it was E. A L A's Neil Young. Yeah, an VP at that studio who
1:26.7	predicted that in five years a game might make you cry. His quote was, a computer game still hasn't made you cry. I think we'll
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