#jon irwin

[petesdragon444]

Jonnie Irwin from the BBC show Escapoto the Country

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(via The Legend of Zelda turns 30: 5 things it brought to console games)

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Metal Gear Solid, Kojima, HAWP, Borderlands 2, and Illiterate Dads: 7 Questions with Ashly and Anthony Burch

Your videos often veer into the surreal. Hideo Kojima, director of the MGS series, is known for his outrageous storytelling. How have these games influenced your own sensibilities and creative output? Or do you find your existing personalities pushed you toward certain types of games?

Anthony: I  think we naturally share some comedic sensibilities with MGS, and always have. Kojima often breaks his own narrative rules and the fourth wall for no reason at all other than to be interesting, or funny, or surprising. Some of the best moments in the MGS series have a “let’s do this random thing because fuck it” attitude that resonated with us as children and sticks with us as adults. Our writing is definitely full of lots of shrugging “ah, what the fuck”-type gags, because it’s honestly just a lot more fun and freeing than taking yourself seriously a hundred percent of the time.

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[marcsabas]

Great talk with Jon Irwin on Streaming Music and how Rhapsody is able to generate more value per paid customer compared to other streaming sites (Pandora, Spotify, etc.). 

Jon touches upon what I think is one of the key issues for any music streaming site out there: how to add value to artists beyond paying them to stream their music. They want to engage with their fans, and engagement can be the key driver of success if managed correctly.