Bijan is MIA for this week's podcast, but no worries, George, Andrew, and myself are all here for your listening pleasure! We've decided to experiment with the run-time, so bear with us in this transition period please! We'll be doing multiple podcasts during the week now, but each episode will only focus on one subject and will run around 20-30 minutes in length. In today's episode, we discuss what games we've been playing lately! I hope you enjoy it! Listen to it here!

Discuss the podcast episode here!


 

What the hell are you doing reading this news post? What the hell am I doing writing this news post?! StarCraft II is out! 

Hey everybody! George here to make an official announcement regarding the site. As you may have noticed, we've recently put real ads on the website, which is going to help us pay for hosting fees and allow us to put more money into our projects.

However, since the ads are new, not all the bugs have been worked out. For one, there are ads on the website that make sounds. I always hated these ads, because for many it's a total intrusion in our lives. Most, if not all things on the internet, require an interaction before you'll hear sounds. Sadly, this isn't true for these annoying ads. So while you are browsing the site, looking for the latest Out of Service, or Optical Overload, one of these stupid ads will make you jump out of your seat saying "YOU WON!" and wake up your parents/girlfriend/dog and make them hate you a little bit more, than they already do.

So in short, we will be fixing the problem and removing these particular ads from our site. If you visit our site at any time, and get an annoying ad that makes sound, or an ad that is inappropriate for a general audience, or if you experience any problems whatsoever on the site....Please, email me personally at George@dotswoof.com

In other news, Bijan is going to be out of commission for a few days, as he's just had dental surgery and is currently as high as a kite on pain medication. I on the other hand, will be out of commission for a few days because StarCraft II is coming out tomorrow. So I hope you don't miss us all that much, and please, give all your DotSwoof love to Sean while me and Bijan are gone.

 

In today's Optical Overload comic, the voice of Peter Mathis and our good friend, Patrick Bean, finally enters the fray! We've talked about bringing him into the comic for awhile now around the Swoof office, so it's great to finally see him in there mingling with the gang; if that's what you wanna call it. Me? I prefer to call it torturing, yes, he's definitely torturing George in today's comic, but call it what you will! Either way, it's great to finally see you in the comic, Patrick! Check the comic out here! 

I don't typically update on the weekend, it's just something I've told myself that I shouldn't have to do. I still post on the forums and I still frequent my own website, but updating it? Nahhhhhh! But for this, I must. It's the full-length version of the DC Universe Online trailer that George posted a few days ago and my god is it good!

 

Welcome to a brand new weekly feature on the website, the DotSwoof Spotlight! We have a lot of things on the site that people may or may not know about and people that work on the site that people may be unaware of, so that's where this segment comes in. Down the line, we may end up doing the segment in video format, but we've got nothing set in stone as of today. This will hit every Friday, so make sure to check it out every week! Anyway, let's jump right into this!

On the DotSwoof forums, whenever you post you're getting closer and closer to raking in an award. George, Bijan, and myself read just about every post on the forums, albeit some times not as quickly as we would like, but whenever we see something that catches our eye, we award the poster with an, uh, award! We have a slew of them made up on the site and we add new ones periodically when necessary. You may have seen people on the forums with little icons under their names when they post, those are awards. If you haven't seen them yet, well, hell, here they are in all their glory!



Welp, that's all of them! Pretty neat, huh? I've made it so that when you roll-over the images, their names pop up, and when you click them you're taken to their respective pages that explain what they actually are. If you guys want to know, I'll go into further detail on this all, but for now I hope that clears up some confusion and answers some questions!

UPDATE!: I added a new award, "Paper Bag Head", to the group so make sure to check it out! You'll end getting it if you do something too embarrassing to forget, like posting "FIRST!!" on a thread that already has ten posts, for example. 


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