FTG Radio, Ep 10: Cathlin "Catastrophe" Sentz (N4G, ZTGD)

For the “Ten-iversary”, Shanghai Six sits down the Cathlin “Catastrophe” Sentz, the Community Manager and Admin for the NewsBoiler Network (see also: N4G and ZTGD) to go over all the mischief she got into while she was in Los Angeles for E3 2010! Hey, if you can’t send someone from your own site, hijack someone else’s correspondent!

Also, helping with hosting duties for this week, Shanghai brings Del and Nico back on to talk about their god damn love affair with Excalibur. BAKA!

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Music bed: “Megaman 9.5″ by Rushjet1
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What the hell else?

Oh, here are all the pics Cat sent me for her podcast pic. They were all pretty solid, so I added them all right here:

: The “Spirit Hood”, apparently all the rage at the show.

: Uh…okay, Cat really liked this pic, so in the mix it goes!

: Cat trying out Fable 3.

If you weren’t aware, we’re about ready to hit our 100^th Twitter follower. Who cares, you might ask? Well, I do, apparently. I’ve been staring at that stupid Twitter follower count for a week now, willing it over the magic line. What does 100 Twitter followers mean? Do we get a check from Mr. Twitter himself, claiming us a real internet entity?

Nah, it’s just a small personal victory for the site. 100 men is almost a full company sized element in the United States military. That’s a long way in less than three months, and that’s a lot of solid followers. Give yourself a bow, damnit.

We have opened up “The Pit”, signaling what will most likely be the end of the warm and fuzzy feelings everyone has in the forums. The Pit concept is that we are opening up our forums for any and all conversations, including debates on religion and other hot button, controversial topics, which will undoubtedly lead to a whole case of bitching and moaning about people calling each other’s mothers unspeakable things.

By the way, if for those of you considering going off and running your own site, realize that as interesting as a ride as it’s been so far, it is five megatons of work to keep all the gears spinning in concert. With a staff of ten people, I’m still doing podcasts, responding to PMs and emails, talking to future guests, considering site upgrades, designing weekly graphics for the sidebars and banners, writing and editing articles, creating parody videos….you know, anything and everything involved in playing absolutely ZERO video games.

It’s like the old saying goes, “It’s the hardest job you’ll ever love.” Well, they say that about raising a kid, and I guess it’s an equivalent of pulling a website from thin air into a living breathing entity. You only get out of it what you put into it, so every minute I’m sitting on my PS3, my mind will eventually wander back to the website and things I can be doing to make the place better.

I do love the bajesus out of this whole process though. I can’t wait until next E3, not just for being able to attend as a part of the site, but I can’t even imagine what the site will look like in a year. It’s come a fairly long way, and every day, our numbers grow larger and larger. More people are coming and staying on the forums, more people are listening to the podcasts, more, more, more.

That being said, the reverse would be equally true. I can’t imagine where the hell I would be right now without it. I guess I’d be a part of another community somewhere, but it wouldn’t feel the same (obviously). But the amount of time I’d have to just do nothing would be absurd. I could even get back to raiding status as a World of Warcraft player again.

Okay, rambling now. Back to work!