Three Moves Ahead 32: Episode 32

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2009

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

So what do you do when your guest doesn't show and your schedule for the rest of the week is shot to hell? You go ahead, press record and make it up as you go along.A beloved friend of the show is on his deathbed and no doctor is in sight to save it. Tom calls Section 8 "the shooter from the Kohan guys" and fights with Julian over whether or not the game is very good or just good.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:07.3	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two-thirds of my regular panelists, freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:14.7	Hello, hello, hello.
0:16.0	Although I'm not sure what I'm freelancing for anymore now.
0:21.4	I'm sure somebody pays you to write stuff, right?
0:24.8	Yeah, but who's left with games?
0:26.6	I mean, what they played, IGN. Come on.
0:29.2	Oh, so I got to fire you.
0:30.7	Okay.
0:31.5	Yeah, you have to fire me.
0:32.6	Well, either either or just never pay me, you're safe.
0:36.8	Not going to be a problem.
0:39.7	And freelance writer, Tom Chick, who is still getting paid.
0:43.5	Hello, everyone. Julian, can I get you a consolation coffee now that you can no longer write for what they play?
0:51.2	As long as you don't let me pay you for it, he'll be fine.
0:55.2	So we should tell.
0:56.3	So Julian apparently had a hand in killing a website, or not killing it, getting it sold to IGN.
1:02.8	No, I had nothing to do with it other than the fact that they were finally going to start
1:06.0	publishing stuff that I'd written for them, and so therefore they disappeared, essentially,
1:11.5	which happens every time I write for anybody which is why you're on this GDC panel right exactly on why
1:18.6	games journalism is dying in print because apparently I can kill any of it no so for whom do you
1:24.8	freelance these days where do we see Julian Murdoch's byline?
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