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Announcement: The Gamer Theory Forums

Jeff Rivera — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:37:38 +0000

As development toward launching Gamer Theory creeps along, we’ve got the forum system up and running. Plenty of features and tweaks are still being added to the boards, so if you join now you’ll have to put up with some dust, but we’d be happy to have you join up and get posting. This weekend is the official launch of the forums.

If you want to register and start checking them out, head over to http://www.forums.gamertheory.com and post.

Some podcast statistics

Jeff Rivera — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:25:38 +0000

A few people have emailed me and asked me why we bother doing the podcast. They can see that we have no sponsors, our audio quality is well behind our contemporaries, and we’re sporadic with our releases. Well, the answer is simple…people are listening to them!

Next episode is going to be episode 40, so I figured I’d dig around and see what kind of history we’ve had. For any interested, here are some statistics.

Average Listeners Per Show: ?243.4
Most Downloaded Episode: Episode #25 – Used for a Small Discount
Least Downloaded Episode: Episode #28 – PS3 the “next” GameCube?
Number of Subscribers (iTunes/RSS): 97
Average Show Length: 44 minutes 12 seconds

So if we can get three more subscribers (tell your mom!) we’ll hit 100. I guess that would be cool or something. But seriously, thanks for listening and for the emails of both support and criticism. I will get back to reading them on the show as several of them have been really good and insightful.

Stupid Gamer on vacation

Jeff Rivera — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:22:09 +0000

I’ll be gone all this week traveling to Colorado for a much needed vacation. Look for updates when I get back.

Comments fixed

Jeff Rivera — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:46:53 +0000

Well, I thought you people just didn’t like me. It seems that commenting was messed up for a while here on the blog, but it’s fixed now. So yeah, get back to posting your comments and we’ll all be happy.

Oh, and E3 summaries for days 2 and 3 will be up shortly. There will also be a post-E3 podcast as well, hopefully in the next couple of days.

Ok, I get it…updates have been slow!

Jeff Rivera — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:12:35 +0000

I don’t get an enormous amount of feedback outside of commenting on the site, but lately I’ve been getting some direct emails (thanks!) from people asking when the next podcast is going up and when I’m going to get back to updating the site. I’ve been wrapped up with a handful of things, including a trip to California, some sickness, a root canal, late work nights, and STREET FIGHTER IV!

I’ll get back to normal posting real soon, including a strategy guide for Street Fighter IV, which will cover basics for newcomers to the series or to those that are just rusty because they haven’t played Street Fighter since the ’90s. I apologize for the gap between podcast releases, and we even had a plan to podcast today but I absolutely crashed when I got home from work. Five nosebleeds in one day will do that to you, you know.

No podcast this week, intermittent downtime explained

Jeff Rivera — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:03:41 +0000

First of all, there won’t be a podcast this week because I’ve not been able to sleep the past 4 nights due to a terrible toothache (broken tooth, now infected), and I’m barely getting through my work days, let alone having the time to put together a show. Sorry to both of you listeners out there.

Secondly, some of you have probably noticed that the site has been going down for 10-20 minute periods lately, with some lasting up to an hour or two. Well, it appears that our site is outgrowing it’s humble hosting environment and we’ll probably have to find a more robust and reliable option soon. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that we’re obviously getting a lot more readers, but it’s bad because it’s obviously going to cost us more, and we don’t make enough on ads to offset that cost. Heck, we don’t make anything on ads, they just look cool over there. So until these downtimes become more of an issue, we’ll just deal with them, but we’re aware we’ll need to make a move eventually.

Thanks, for the continued support, and look for a new podcast next week. For now, I suggest catching RebelFM and the Giant Bombcast.

No podcast this week

Jeff Rivera — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:18:29 +0000

Sorry, listener(s), but there won’t be a podcast this week. After undergoing the upgrading of phone, cable TV, and Internet services last night in the Stupid Gamer offices (my basement), we had some technical issues that prevented me from being able to record. We’ll be back next week, sexier than ever.

Kind of.

No podcast tonight.

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:40:55 +0000

Sorry guys, Jeff is at the EA Black Box event right now and I am unable recruit a co-host to replace him, so the podcast will not happen tonight. But fear not, for I remain committed to bringing you fine people a podcast once every week. So instead of just cancelling the podcast it is delayed till Wednesday so you can either expect it that night or Thursday morning, depending on how Jeff feels. Once again I am sorry for the delay.

Back from the dead, suckers!

Jeff Rivera — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:29:02 +0000

You may have noticed that posts stopped abruptly for a while on the blog, but I’ve worked out all the technical issues that were keeping me from accessing my site’s backend. I’ll admit it, I’m no programmer, so when I’m being told to check this or re-write that, it takes me some time to figure out. Anyway, after some editing of php, some database tweaking, replacing some corrupt files, and nearly peeing my pants with fear on every overwrite and deletion, I’ve managed to get this baby back off of life support. I think I’m totally going to celebrate with a cookie.

Dang. I don’t have any cookies.

Vacation time!

Jeff Rivera — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:02:30 +0000

Hey everybody, I’ll be out of town and away from the Internet until August 18th. Where am I going? I can’t say.

I’ll be in Alaska, catching some poor and defenseless fishies.