Comments on: Episode 31 – Breakin’ the Bank http://podmafia.com/2008/01/episode-31-breakin-the-bank/ With Gomem Desoto, Stuart Warf and Yxes Delacroix Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:42:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sougent Harrop http://podmafia.com/2008/01/episode-31-breakin-the-bank/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Sougent Harrop Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:36:38 +0000 http://podmafia.com/?p=55#comment-27 Well, that was kind of a bland show, what I could hear of it, the volumes on Yxes and Gomem were so low even with the volume on my iPod cranked to max I missed most of what Gomem said (Gomem is always the hardest to hear, you need to crank up your volume) Ok, enough of the complaining...... ;) A few comments on the show, I whole heartedly agree with the comments about the models for male clothing, sometimes it's a real leap of faith to buy some stuff not knowing what it's really going to look like on. My other beef against mens clothing in general is that the styles are geared toward teenagers or something, it can be a challenge finding clothing representative of a relatively conservative guy in his mid-30's which is age that I think my avatar looks like. In reference to Babbler, though I couldn't make out a lot of what was said, it does work well enough to make someone speaking another language understandable, and it doesn't require them to have Babbler themselves, you tell your copy who to translate and from what language, and you can set yourself to translate to a single language and specify a channel upon which to send the text to translate. I've found it very useful at times, just wish it were built in to the viewer. On the mentor program, Radar did a good show on that with Rocky a week or so ago, wish I had the time to do it. When I went through Orientation Island, there was a part of the appearance section which told briefly how to take photos and send postcards but it never occurred to me either to take photos while going through the process. Well, that was kind of a bland show, what I could hear of it, the volumes on Yxes and Gomem were so low even with the volume on my iPod cranked to max I missed most of what Gomem said (Gomem is always the hardest to hear, you need to crank up your volume)

Ok, enough of the complaining…… ;)

A few comments on the show, I whole heartedly agree with the comments about the models for male clothing, sometimes it’s a real leap of faith to buy some stuff not knowing what it’s really going to look like on. My other beef against mens clothing in general is that the styles are geared toward teenagers or something, it can be a challenge finding clothing representative of a relatively conservative guy in his mid-30’s which is age that I think my avatar looks like.

In reference to Babbler, though I couldn’t make out a lot of what was said, it does work well enough to make someone speaking another language understandable, and it doesn’t require them to have Babbler themselves, you tell your copy who to translate and from what language, and you can set yourself to translate to a single language and specify a channel upon which to send the text to translate. I’ve found it very useful at times, just wish it were built in to the viewer.

On the mentor program, Radar did a good show on that with Rocky a week or so ago, wish I had the time to do it. When I went through Orientation Island, there was a part of the appearance section which told briefly how to take photos and send postcards but it never occurred to me either to take photos while going through the process.

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