For this episode of Voip Life, we did a little experiment and spent uh, way too much time rating the entire Abnormal Mapping back catalog according to the official gamespot review scale. The process was interesting but it's also a lot of us listing numbers for about two hours. So, y'know, we understand if that isn't your speed.
If it is, 2018-11-08 21:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
i hear the doms echoing tonight
but she hears only whispers in her quiet relaxation
she's somewhere on her ship in flight
while i walk among the people i will lead towards salvation
i helped an old man along the way
hoping to find some long forgotten ending to these tragedies
he died and turned to me to say, "hurry boy, it's waiting there for you!"
it's gonna take ...
2018-11-06 22:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The promised time has come. Em and Jackson have watched Evangelion and they have talked about it into microphones for two whole hours. It's the episode that god himself tried to prevent. Third Impact is finally here.
2018-11-01 22:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post
In which we are rendered speechless by having all our Gundam dreams answered. For now.
Episode 60: The Bestest Boy
2018-10-31 19:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! It's my birthday, so forgive me if I don't have a huge prelude or anything today. If I'm allowed to be brief, it's on today of all days. So let's get right to it.
The rerelease of Rondo and Symphony came out this past week, proving that Konami does in fact make video games (kind of) for another few months. There's some talk about SotN using the PSP translation (it's fine but I perso...
2018-10-27 16:22:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back for another adventure in nonsense as we talk candy and video games and pyramid schemes that purport to be video games!
2018-10-25 21:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's hard looking back to remember when we believed in the justness of the world, a time when we truly thought the good guys would win and that the law will protect us. Some of us never get that, but for many of us it is a second womb we one day emerge from, a birth into the horrors of the world as it *is*—not as the way we are lied about. That child state is a thing some of us can barely rememb...
2018-10-23 20:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Em here again after several weeks off due to ... well, a whole mess of stuff. I'll be taking over the Patreon letters for the next 3 weeks I think, so please look forward to all the stuff I've had lying around half finishing in the dustbin of my brain for the last month or so as life got in the way.
Today? Today we're talking some anime.
SEROUS SPOILERS AHEAD FOR BOTH ...
2018-10-20 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Long ago, there was a show called "Mobile Suit Gundam," in which war was hell and the deaths were tragic and the gundam stood victorious every week. Since those ancient times, we have moved away from such base themes into something far more complicated and interesting. Yet what we seek to ask this week is simple: what if that show still existed? And what if a group of far more well adjusted childr...
2018-10-16 22:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Jackson here! Again! I’m doing the patreon letter three weeks in a row because misfortune has befell Em, their family’s only car was in a wreck and they’ve been left without transport and are unsure how much this is going to cost so I offered to step in and take a little load off their back.
What I did not do, however, was prepare anything to write about over t...
2018-10-15 02:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back for another edition of our secret favourite podcast, where we talk about bullshit with no concern for structure and form and by sheer luck release a listenable mp3 every two weeks. Today we chat to you about Mega Man 11, when games were released, and a certain website's best anime list.
2018-10-12 19:32:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Before Char's Counter Attack we have Tomino's personal attack on us as we finally get the scene we've been asking for for as long as we've been watching Gundam. People are talking, clearly everything will resolve itself neatly now, and thus we come to the beginning of the end of Mobile Suit Gundam in this, the 22nd and 23rd episode of the third Gundam show. It's been a shorter road than people mad...
2018-10-10 02:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends, Jackson here with a patreon letter! Em was up this week but my weeks are about to get even busier next week with all we have on our plate so I offered to take it this time and they’ll be back next time with a letter about Devilman, probably. I’m just guessing, tho. As I am wont to do.
Which means I need to think of something to write about, and if you’ve been talking ...
2018-10-08 02:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The weather is changing but there's still time for one quick summer adventure as we head down to the beach house for a double feature of college misadventure. Please enjoy this glimpse into our rose-colored campus life, may it be better than all the others.
If you are listening to this and don't subscribe, please consider donating to our Patreon for a mere $1 a month! You'll get weekly Gundam po...
2018-10-04 22:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you do when it has been too long since a woman tragically died in space in Gundam but you fucked up and made long term character arcs for all the women on the show? That's right. You invent a new one and make her the purest and most scared and naive of them all.
I'm sure she'll be fine. It's going to all be fine.
Episode 56: Gone But Not For Gottn
2018-10-03 01:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
It's Jackson here with the patreon letter! I haven't done much other than the usual podcast prep this week (side note: Tatami Galaxy is incredible, we're recording the Beach House tomorrow and you absolutely owe it to yourself to watch that show), but I did watch a whole movie. Which was fun. Movies are good, I should get back into them.
I watched the Best Picture winner 2018...
2018-09-29 16:20:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Mobile suits $200
Dummy asteroids $150
Apples $800
An endless summer despite needing to grow food traditionally $3,600
Castle maintenance $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my asteroid base is dying
The Great Gundam Project 55: Hair That Must Be Unburdened From Earth's Gravity
2018-09-25 19:49:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk about the implosion of TellTale Games, Hobbit Day, how cool Angel is when it's being extremely bad, Jackson's quest to watch only the goofiest prestige TV, and more. Nonstop TV and movie talk when the video games are over!
2018-09-24 22:21:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Em here today with your Patreon letter. Please excuse my brevity this week, it's been a rough time for me and I don't want to just mope at you all for paragraphs, so instead I have something different for you.
The following is a piece of short fiction I wrote for another place that didn't end up getting picked up, but I liked a lot. So hopefully you enjoy this short Final Fantasy VI...
2018-09-22 14:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for purchasing your new Anaheim Electronics Gravi-Tidy Wash Basin! We hope you enjoy your space-bound cleanliness experience, confident that you have chosen the first and foremost in low gravity washing apparatuses. To ensure the safety of yourself and others, please follow these simple rules:
Yet another fortnight passes and the life of the Voip continues apace. Today we complain about some video games, enjoy some manga, and as is our tradition we listen to some absolutely baffling music.
2018-09-17 18:37:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
Jackson here with another Patreon Letter! Been a weird week for me, my friend came down and stayed with me so I was busy in a whole different way than the usual boatload of internet related work. Which was nice! The plan was to write about Spider-Man being kinda bad in the same way that every big AAA video game is kinda bad but I've written that piece like sixteen thousand times...
2018-09-16 22:53:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Last Report of the Machine Catl
from Lieutenant Veranda Moon, UC 23
It's easy to pin all of our accomplishments on the mobile suit. It is grander than any we have ever seen, able to seat whole teams in its cockpit and with guns that spit the doom of entire colonies. With it we could storm the frontiers of this new stellar community and demand other colonies bend knee to us. We could be th...
2018-09-12 01:07:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone, Em here with a letter for you all today! I've been in a real funk lately due to personal circumstances, but hopefully you can bear with me as some stuff slips a bit as I work my way out of the hole. These letters should really be out on Saturdays, for one!
Also, this letter is going to talk really frankly about the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, so if you haven't rea...
2018-09-09 18:12:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back on the beach for this late summer adventure as we revisit the girls of Muse as they prep to actually for real serious pinky swear compete in the Love Live this time. Adventures, holidays, bad diet episodes, and the incredible sadness of time pulling friends apart make up this very special season, and the movie that follows! How do we find the end of Honoka & Friends? Find out within...
2018-09-07 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
To all of my knights: please remember that as the missionaries of the new peoples of space it falls upon you to show those people trapped in Earth's gravity that the rumors of Axis are not true. Where they expect aggression, show regard. Where they expect barbarism, show refinement. Where they expect ruthlessness, show mercy. We have already won space, it now only falls upon these addled victims o...
2018-09-05 03:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
It's Jackson here with another Patreon Letter, I hope you have all had a good week, I hope you're enjoying the long weekend. I don't have a long weekend, partially because I'm in the UK and partially because I'm on disability and don't have a day job. But it's been a fairly busy week for me with prep for the podcasts so I took an extra day again so the Letter is dropping on a Monday rat...
2018-09-03 22:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back for another life of the Voip variety, we catch up and talk about just what we've been up to that hasn't been decided by our podcast commitments, which mostly means we talk about Frasier and Gilmore Girls. Television!
2018-09-01 18:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A new generation dawns. The old guard retires by fate or force, and the children rise up from obscurity to take to the stars. Welcome to the New Type of Gundam, where everyone has a Core Fighter and nobody remembers life before the One Year War. Who's got special powers? Probably everyone, who can say?! This is what it means to be living a Double Zeta at a time.
Episode 51: My Favorite Gundam Pr...
2018-08-28 23:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Jackson here! I’m back! I have finished University! Well, I hope so. I could have failed and end up needing to pay out of pocket to retake things but uh let’s not think about that. I would have needed to do really badly to slide under that bar. I do have a topic today but I’m gonna ramble about this for a moment: did you know I got an 85% in my TV Writing assignment?...
2018-08-27 01:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post