2007 October

RSBANDBUpdate! 123 - Brad Joins Us In Spirit

This week Brad’s new microphone has still not arrived. It will for certain be here by next week… if it’s not then well we shall cross that bridge when we come to it. Anyways… some of you may remember episode 59 with something Brad said. Let me just say that it ties into a topic we covered this week.

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Hosts: Shane, Mike, Warren
Duration: 1:26:00

  • Halloween Event
  • Updated the woodcutting and fishing sounds as well as attack styles for 2H swords.
  • New Runescape front page.
  • Poll: Player-submitted poll #6
  • Listener questions!
  • GMail gets IMAP!
  • Strong Halo 3 launch helps Microsoft gaming to first profit in years.
  • Leopard day!
  • Rants!
  • Contest winners
  • New SKOTM skill is Firemaking.
  • What have we been doing?

By Shane on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 122 - Finish The Series

Finish the series Jagex… please just finish them. We had quite an interesting discussion about all the loose ends left open on the various quests. We even went to the point of saying that leaving loose ends of an arc untied or poorly planned arcs in general could kill the game for many people…

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Hosts: Shane, Jeff, Trekkie
Duration: 1:04:58

  • LootShare system
  • Ring of Life update
  • Three bug fixes
  • Magic tree sound effect adjusted
  • When a player is killed by a monster, the drops will be invisible for one minute.
  • Poll: A fine piece of duellery
  • Listener questions!
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is shipping October 26th.
  • Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon released.
  • Vista Service Pack 1 and XP Service Pack 3 due Q1 2008.
  • Comcast blocks some Internet traffic.
  • Rants: “I want to know my birthday!” and “Finish quest storylines!”
  • Contest winners will be announced next week.
  • What we’ve been doing

By Shane on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 121 - The Un-informed 3%

This week was a rather interesting show for a number of reasons. Most notable were the fact that we started the show without pressing record and that about 3% of people voting in the weekly Runescape poll do not know about certain website features.

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Hosts: Shane, Mike, Jeff
Duration: 1:17:15

  • Back to Roots Quest
  • Baba Yaga now stocks uncharged battle staves.
  • Arhein is doing the same for pineapples and seaweed.
  • Rock crabs now drop noted seasweed.
  • Bug Bag
  • Players Gallery 13
  • Polls: Postie Pete asks…
  • Listener questions including two audio questions!
  • Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard finalized and ready for release.
  • AT&T relents on controversial Terms of Service and announces changes.
  • Rants!
  • Want to be on the show? Take 5 pictures of you doing skills on RuneScape. 1 of the pictures must be Farming, another must be Fishing. You are free to pick the other 3. Points will be awarded on originality and how well the picture shows that you’re doing it for RSBANDBUpdate! Please PM entries to Brad or Shane.
  • What have we been doing?

By Shane on October 13, 2007 | No Comments »

Questions for 121

It’s been a while since I posted questions here so… why not. This weeks topic is: wildcard. Ask us anything as long as it doesn’t violate national security.

Please read the FAQ before posting.

Do not answer any questions seen in this topic!

By Shane on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »

RSBANDBUpdate! 120 - Cutting Edge(ville)

This week we see Jagex’s pun making ability with the title “Cutting Edge(ville).” Those are even worse than mine…

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Hosts: Shane, Brad
Duration: 1:04:55

By Shane on October 5, 2007 | No Comments »