www.bit-socket.com - not as good as Consolevania but we'll keep trying. • Gaming • General Gaming • Eurogamer.net

JoeGBallad 21 Mar 2011 14:55:01 476 posts
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Hi folks, sorry if this is annoying. A few months ago me and my pal Scott (who goes by the name OldTrusty on EG) started making video reviews and other sketches about videogames, under the guise of Bit Socket.

We've been going for a few months now but have been too afraid/ashamed to try any sort of promotion.

So, if you get tired of the rampant negativity of some video shows online (cough Zero Punctuation) and yous can understand a Glaswegian accent, maybe you can check out our website?

The most recent review is MVC3, but we'll be sticking our Yakuza 4 review on this week.

Thanks,

Joe
Bit Socket
/please don't kill me

mrpon 21 Mar 2011 14:56:11 37,366 posts
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Perhaps a link might help things along

modo_komodo 21 Mar 2011 14:56:24 1,197 posts
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You had me at Glaswegian.

Deleted user 21 March 2011 14:58:59

mrpon wrote:
Perhaps a link might help things along

What about the one in the title?

JoeGBallad 21 Mar 2011 15:00:28 476 posts
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haha sorry got carried away there. As you can tell I'm shite at the internet.

The website is www.bit-socket.com

Just now it's just a placeholder that links to our Youtube channel, but I'm designing the site just now. Hopefully it'll go live (is that what they say) in the next week or so.

mrpon 21 Mar 2011 15:01:45 37,366 posts
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Boab wrote:

mrpon wrote:
Perhaps a link might help things along

What about the one in the title?

Shit.

Deleted user 21 March 2011 15:01:57

http://www.bit-socket.com/

JoeGBallad 21 Mar 2011 15:03:28 476 posts
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JoeGBallad 21 Mar 2011 15:54:29 476 posts
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*sigh* naebody's interested.

Lotos8ter 21 Mar 2011 16:00:58 3,156 posts
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JoeGBallad wrote:
*sigh* naebody's interested.

Set phasers to malky ;D

pinebear 21 Mar 2011 16:33:25 8,571 posts
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Any chance of putting an RSS feed in the new website, JG?

thestjohn 21 Mar 2011 16:37:41 1 posts
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I'll have a look. the mad world one made me chuckle off the bat.

Deleted user 21 March 2011 16:45:23

JoeGBallad wrote:
*sigh* naebody's interested.

It's because us Eurogamers are a hard working bunch and couldn't possibly find time to look at websites in the course of our working day.

JoeGBallad 21 Mar 2011 16:45:47 476 posts
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Pinebear, we've just signed up for a Tumblr account, which we'll be using through feedburner as an RSS feed. We've already got a feed at feedburner which we used for our old 'test' blog, but we found that it was hard to do regular updates. Tumblr has an iPhone app that me and Scott will be able to update from wherever we are, so we can spout whatever rubbish comes to our mind, and if you subscribe to it, you won't be able to avoid it.

Lucky you eh?

Rob the Hermit - I'm at work too, but we're going through what you might call a 'dry spell'.

JoeGBallad 5 Apr 2011 08:28:57 476 posts
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Yakuza 4 review now online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhUA0hoxHp8

evilashchris 5 Apr 2011 09:36:02 7,785 posts
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Good stuff, I enjoyed that

Deleted user 5 April 2011 09:57:53

Joe - what's the Tumblr address?

JoeGBallad 5 Apr 2011 12:40:49 476 posts
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We don't have anything on the Tumblr yet, but soon, when I've finished making the proper site, we'll embed the Tumblr feed there.

oldtrusty 8 Apr 2011 21:13:20 32 posts
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Letting the side down.

What do you call a social networking site crossed with a regular house-hold object?

A Tumblr-dryer!

I'll get my coat.

JoeGBallad 5 May 2011 12:06:38 476 posts
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Hey folks! New fully tumblr-ised website now online at

Bit Socket

And our review of Portal 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpcib-SKS-c

oldtrusty 6 May 2011 07:40:49 32 posts
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And over the next month we'll be bringing reviews for LA Noire, Brink and Dirt 3. Hopefully.

Deleted user 6 May 2011 07:54:27

If you're concerned about people making comparisons to Consolevania, why not put on stupid East Coast/teuchter accents?

I once walked past some neds in St. Andrew's, one of whom said in a delightfully sing-song accent, 'I'll jump on your heid.'

He did not jump on my head.

Well done btw.

oldtrusty 6 May 2011 08:28:26 32 posts
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If we used East Coast accents we'd have to wear monocles and thick moustaches in every video.

Which might be an improvement.

Deleted user 6 May 2011 08:30:25

oldtrusty wrote:
If we used East Coast accents we'd have to wear monocles and thick moustaches in every video.

Which might be an improvement.

Just accompany every review with salt and sauce.

oldtrusty 6 May 2011 08:46:00 32 posts
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We could send out wee sachets in the post. Folk are all about condiments these days.

Deleted user 6 May 2011 08:58:37

I know an oddball that wanted to make a digital map of chippers that you could get salt and sauce in. He gave up, presumably because continuing would have led to a gripper from all the fried food.

I do like it on the chips I must say.

PS What a shitehouse Bathgate is.