Dream: Marques is my News Source

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As we know from a few of my previous dreams, the "celebrities" I follow aren't exactly mainstream. This dream continues the trend.

At the beginning of the dream I was watching a video by +Marques Brownlee about a road trip that he was going on for Ultimate, apparently in the Twin Cities. One of the scenes in the video was in front of a restaurant; I saw my parents in his video coming out of the restaurant as he was going in. I asked my parents if they remembered that happening, and how long ago it was. Their answer wasn't very helpful.

Next in the video he talked about how bad he feels for the people on "the ferry" but I had no idea what he was talking about. I asked my parents about it and they told me that there was a ferry going across the Mississippi that got stuck for some reason. A bunch of people were stranded, and apparently someone had died. I felt really bad that I hadn't heard the news until a Youtuber mentioned it.

I went down to the river bank just in time for the rescue ferries to come in. A bunch of people disembarked, including +Liv Klemek, +Katie Reddemann, and +Amber Whittemore (I think they represent all of my Morris friends who I haven't seen since the end of the semester). I hugged them fiercely and asked them how long they had been stuck on the boat. "Since Thursday" they replied, which meant that they had been there for a few days because it was a Sunday in the dream. Then they walked off like they had somewhere important to be.

A New Era of Journalism

As anyone who will listen to me for more than five seconds knows, I have a podcast. Inspired by +Ryan Rampersad and +Matthew Petschl's show At The Nexus +Ian Decker and I hatched the idea to start a weekly video game show. And so Eight Bit was born.

We recorded our first episode almost exactly six months ago, and so far we haven't missed a week. We've also managed to have guests on the show for most of the episodes. All of the guests to date have been friends of ours, and we usually brought them on to review games that neither of us had played.

Imagine our surprise when we get this email:

Hi! I was told I should get in touch with you about potentially talking about our new project, Net Gain: Corporate Espionage.
If you'd like to check up on it, you can see our popular Kickstarter here: http://kck.st/ZK6OR3

Thank you!

~John Gosling

 My initial reaction was "There is no way this is real. No way a real developer heard about us. Did one of our listeners tell them about us? No way."
But lo, the Kickstarter looks legitimate, and his email address is in the @levelzerogames.com domain. They even have a few games that they have already made! So I had to come to terms with the fact that a real Indy developer wanted to be on our show. Now how did he hear about us?

I started snooping around the Kickstarter page, and after determining that the game sounds worth it, I backed it. Then I looked at the list of other backers. One profile picture jumped out at me. +Chris Thompson was one of the backers! Chris is one of the hosts of Control Structure, the Computer Science-themed show on the network.

Long story short, Chris had contacted John about being on Control Structure, and John found out about our show. Since ours is the gaming show he wants to be on our show to talk about the game, and he will also be on Control Structure to talk about some other topic.

I am super excited about this opportunity, and I am still a little flabbergasted that it just fell into our lap the way it did. John is scheduled to appear on our show on March 17th, so look for that episode on the website right after St. Patrick's Day.

My Podcast!

I am really excited to announce that Ian Decker and I have officially started our show about gaming news, reviews, and whatever else we feel like talking about. It is called Eight Bit, and you can find it over at the-nexus.tv.

We had a ton of fun recording it, and we are looking forward to next week. Oh, and we are always looking for guests, so if you would like to be on the show, just let me know.