Interview with ACTFur

[rickgriffin]

http://www.actfuronair.com/ep13.html

They're based in Australia, it was crazy to get this arranged.

[Dylan]

The interview starts at 19:00

[rickgriffin]

Man I sound like a doofus

[Dylan]

Man I sound like a doofus

Its not that bad really.

[Buckdida]

*Snnnnnneeeerrrrrrrkkkkkk*

I had already added this to the info thread...about...what, a week ago?

DOES ANYONE CHECK THAT THING?!?!?

AUGH

(Anyway, ACTFur On Air is a Furry/Anthro talkshow/podcast based in the Australian Capital Territory (or ACT for short). Has mature themes at times, so you might want to just skip straight to the interview if you're easily offended.)

[rickgriffin]

Someone could have told me! They said they'd tell me when it was up but didn't get around to it apparently *Giggles*

[GameCobra]

Man I sound like a doofus

i find recordings tend to do that. i sound totally different to myself as well when listening to myself @_@

But your not as bad as you think in interviews, though i can tell interviewing isn't your thing when i heard it. listening to your interview though, i'm really hoping you do succeed after school in the art business somewhere with the comic.

On another note, i must ask if you ever got the chance to try Battletoads (NES), Mystical Ninja (SNES) and anything Final Fantasy related from around the time you started getting interested in Pokemon?

[rickgriffin]

I've never played Mystical Ninja, and Battletoads, as everyone knows, is excellent only for the first two levels.

Final Fantasy Games I have played:
I (completed on PS1 easy mode)
II (have not completed)
III (had barely started)
IV (ALMOST completed hardtype then game was erased)
V (completed)
VI-X (have not completed, though close with X)
XII (also have not completed)

[GameCobra]

Battletoads is one of the games that probably had many people pull their hair out when doing the rat race <_< >_>

Although i retired from playing Final Fantasy there days, i also would highly recommend if you ever get the chance to finish FF6 (3 in their respective US names). Best storyline of all the final fantasy games i find and always will be when growing up

Mystical Ninja is humorous. it's an action game with japanese culture in it, but humorous in how the mini-games itself are more interesting than the actual gameplay itself, and yet you feel like that was what the game's design was. would recommend giving it a peek just to see what i mean. you could even Youtube it!

[Missingo]

Battletoads

*Shivers*

Although i retired from playing Final Fantasy there days, i also would highly recommend if you ever get the chance to finish FF6 (3 in their respective US names). Best storyline of all the final fantasy games i find and always will be when growing up

FFVI was the best BY FAR. I don't know what all these crazy "7 is better" fanatics are talking about. But yeah, it's definitely worth a play through. It's one of the greatest games ever made, IMHO.

Now a little more back on topic: It wasn't bad, Rick (errr... or whoever you are)! It was a nice little interview with some neat little tidbits of information. And you don't sound bad, you just sound a little differently than what you're accustomed to (which isn't help by the fact that your voice is distorted by the low sound quality of the phone).

[Teh Brawler]

Wait. "Rick Griffin" isn't your real name?
AND OH MY FREAKING GOODNESS POKEMON I LOVE YOU ALL THE MORE FOR THAT ONE SECTION OF THE INTERVIEW "RICK"

[Ebly]

Anyway, ACTFur On Air is a Furry/Anthro talkshow/podcast based in the Australian Capital Territory

you know
i was genuinely not expecting that


SIDE NOTE:
United States — Area: 9,161,923 SQ KM
Australia — Area: 7,617,930 SQ KM

AUSTRALIA'S A VERY BIG PLACE TOO |< we're only one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand, nine hundred and ninety-three square kilometers smaller than you guys. The UK isn't even 250k. :x
but then again they were from ACT so i'm not surprised if they have, like, no sense of space

[Buckdida]

you know
i was genuinely not expecting that

I'll bite.
What were you not expecting?
Or were you being sarcastic?

But yeah, I've been listening to the show for about...2-3 months? Trying to listen to all the episodes in order (I'm meticulous like that sometimes) and I can't multitask for crap, so I have to set aside the 1+1/2 hour to listen to it. I think I'm on ep. 9.5 or something at this point, but they keep adding more! AUGH! It's entertaining to me, though.

[Ebly]

you know
i was genuinely not expecting that

I'll bite.
What were you not expecting?
Or were you being sarcastic?

But yeah, I've been listening to the show for about...2-3 months? Trying to listen to all the episodes in order (I'm meticulous like that sometimes) and I can't multitask for crap, so I have to set aside the 1+1/2 hour to listen to it. I think I'm on ep. 9.5 or something at this point, but they keep adding more! AUGH! It's entertaining to me, though.

at least you understand it. slippy keeps going ARGH YOU Bicycle Repair Man AUSTRALIANS while i can understand it perfectly o xo

I was not expecting a group called ACTFur to actually, well, be from the ACT. That was surprising for me.

[Slippery-Q]

HEY! Not MY fault I can barely understand them! I can understand Mexicans and Germans. Any other accent I cannot figure out what they are saying. :/

[Buckdida]

@Ebly:...Actually, only two of them live in ACT. One did live in ACT, and then had to move to the U.S. for post-grad. One's in Tasmania, and one's in NSW. And the last two are in the US.

However, the original show had three co-hosts living in ACT: Kell, Kraden, and Jeneara. Hence the name, "ACTfur."

These days, the total cast is seven; three co-hosts and four "residents."

Before you call me a stalker, this is all on the hosts page on their website.

@Slippy: Eh, I have no problem understanding the Australian accent. I can even tell Jeneara and Carni apart (although I have to listen carefully). It became particularly easy to understand after conditioning...by which I mean watching a lot of "Zero Punctuation."

[Ebly]

@Ebly:...Actually, only two of them live in ACT. One did live in ACT, and then had to move to the U.S. for post-grad. One's in Tasmania, and one's in NSW. And the last two are in the US.

However, the original show had three co-hosts living in ACT: Kell, Kraden, and Jeneara. Hence the name, "ACTfur."

These days, the total cast is seven; three co-hosts and four "residents."

Before you call me a stalker, this is all on the hosts page on their website.

Nevertheless; they all have australian accents and the show itself is -based- (repeating for emphasis: based) in the ACT. And that surprised me. NO MATTER WHAT IT WILL SURPRISE ME BECAUSE I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING TO DO WITH EITHER DRAMATIC ACTING OR POLITICAL ACTION.