{"id":5432,"date":"2019-03-14T23:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T17:08:38","slug":"two-titans-and-a-hunter-my-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/two-titans-and-a-hunter-my-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Titans and a Hunter &#8211; My Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/dqzir-a9bda0&amp;?from=site&amp;skin=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;auto=0&amp;download=1&amp;share=1&amp;version=1&amp;btn-skin=113\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p>I have been playing Destiny since September 13, 2014 and poured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedondestiny.com\/1_4611686018431753036\">1518 hours<\/a> into it. I have played Destiny 2 since September 6, 2017 and have poured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedondestiny.com\/1_4611686018431753036\">1063 hours<\/a> into it so far. I say so far because I continue to play it almost daily. From a 15 minute dip into the pool to an almost 14 hour gaming session where 5 hours 55 minutes of that was our <a href=\"https:\/\/destinytracker.com\/d2\/pgcr\/678428560\">first attempt at the raid<\/a>, a 6-player team-based activity.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, people in the community have made apps and web sites where I can look up all this information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/destiny-is-a-lifestyle\/\">Destiny is a lifestyle.<\/a> It&#8217;s the only game I spend much time on. It&#8217;s where I went into battle with a real-life friend and have made so many more in the years I&#8217;ve spent chatting and shooting with them. I count my friends reaching from my home near Washington DC to the UK, Canada, Australia and those are the ones I can list off-hand.<\/p>\n<p>For a couple of months, we thought about doing something with Destiny. None of us are good enough to be streamers. We&#8217;ve not Youtube stars. Nor do we aspire to be. We love playing the game and talking about it. So that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been doing since early last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twotitansandahunter.podbean.com\/\">Two Titans and a Hunter<\/a><\/strong> is my Destiny 2 podcast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twotitansandahunter.podbean.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5435 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo-1024x575.jpg?resize=629%2C353\" alt=\"Two Titans and a Hunter logo\" width=\"629\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?resize=788%2C443&amp;ssl=1 788w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?w=1397&amp;ssl=1 1397w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/podcast-logo.jpg?w=1258&amp;ssl=1 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was Nitedemon&#8217;s idea to start it. He was talking about it and I was interested. No1RespawnsinRL was excited about it too. Together, we make a good trio of opinions, styles of play and what we want to get out of the game. We released our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/share\/pb-9dzbm-a6f33b\">first episode on Feb 6th<\/a> and have kept up a weekly pace. With an extra bonus episode mid-week once since we had a great conversation that didn&#8217;t really fit into the episode so we released it on its own. After 7 episodes and 320 downloads it&#8217;s been a blast to do and I look forward to it every week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fun challenge trying to work around life and schedules and a 5-hour time difference between the east coast of the US and the UK. That&#8217;s been an interesting challenge running with my clanmates from across the world as well. Trying to remember what time it is in Australia when I am online. Am I catching a buddy at the start of his day or as he&#8217;s struggling to stay awake choosing to exchange game time for rest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a niche podcast for sure. And as I tell people I&#8217;m podcasting, they ask what about, then their eyes roll as I say it&#8217;s about the video game that I play. But that&#8217;s OK. It&#8217;s not for everyone, nor should it be. We are not gaming professionals. We&#8217;re three guys talking about a video game (with occasional guests from the <a href=\"http:\/\/join.fr0zen.party\/\">Fr0zen Clan<\/a>. Motto: &#8220;We tried to win, but we let it go.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twotitansandahunter.podbean.com\/\">audio podcast<\/a>, we release a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC2mspQkcPhjzJqXCggbS64Q\">video version on Youtube<\/a> where I take the show and put some gaming footage I&#8217;ve collected that week behind it. It&#8217;s more interesting than the static image we had up for the for few shows and since we don&#8217;t record with webcams, it would be a very dull video watching Skype icons light up when we talk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Titans And A Hunter Ep.5 - The Reckoning\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HtaKoPhqRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am a very amateur video &#8220;editor&#8221; and I have all the respect in the world for the folks who do this professionally in the gaming realm, television and on the web. It&#8217;s a ton of work! A lot fewer kids would want to grow up to be Youtube stars if they knew the hours of work behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Each week we put out 60-90 minutes of show. During the week, I try to record 5-6 hours of footage that&#8217;s clean. Games where I don&#8217;t open my menu and switch armor and weapons too much. Complete matches where the game hasn&#8217;t errored out. I&#8217;m always looking for fun little moments to bookend the show with. A clip of a buddy and I using the same special attach at the same time. A couple of people dancing or doing the same emote in a group. An absolutely epic failure where I lunge off a cliff to my death. I try to find a little Easter egg for someone in the clan each episode or something that makes me laugh (or cry).<\/p>\n<p>After I collect the footage, I open it up and review it, seeing how much unbroken game play I can string together. I review the footage, usually playing it at double speed or more to look for any glitches or things I don&#8217;t want to make the audience sit through. Then I split the clips together with natural cuts in the action, usually fading to black between them since it&#8217;s the transition I&#8217;ve figured out and works reliably.<\/p>\n<p>Then after putting it all together, I rend out the video file which went from 6 hours on my first try down to just under an hour once I better understood what I was doing. Then it&#8217;s time to upload to Youtube. That&#8217;s an adventure in itself. I have no idea how long it will ever take to upload. Sometimes it&#8217;s an hour. Other times it&#8217;s multiple hours. It loves to sit at 95% for a seemingly random amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s up there, it&#8217;s time to name it, add in the show notes from the podcast page, tag it as a podcast, add it&#8217;s gaming footage with the hopes it&#8217;ll catch someone&#8217;s eye or get picked up in a search and then go to sleep since it&#8217;s usually between 1 and 2am when I do this. I try to get the show up on Youtube as close as I can to when the podcast gets released.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve stuck with me this far. This is all to say, I am doing a Destiny podcast. It&#8217;s a lot of fun. It&#8217;s made me appreciate the game and my friendship with my co-hosts all the more. I look forward to sitting down to talk with them every week and I hope at least some of that comes across in the show. As much grief as Nitedemon (the suave British voice of reason) and No1RespawnsinRL (guaranteed to be angrier on a random Tuesday than you ever will be in your entire life) give each other. We love this show and playing together.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested at all, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/twotitansandahunter.podbean.com\">find our show on Podbean<\/a>. It will give you the <a href=\"https:\/\/twotitansandahunter.podbean.com\/feed.xml\">RSS feed<\/a> to put into your podcatcher. We&#8217;re on iTunes, PocketCasts, Overcast, Spotify, and Youtube. Search for &#8220;Two Titans and a Hunter&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find us in your audio purveyor of choice.<\/p>\n<p>Most of you will roll your eyes or skip this post entirely because who cares about a gaming podcast to a game you don&#8217;t play. It&#8217;s OK. I fully expect most of you to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/F240#t=3257\">Merlin Mann to my John Siracusa<\/a>. And that&#8217;s OK. Because we don&#8217;t all have to like the same things. This is my little thing and it&#8217;s been a ton of fun to make.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing Destiny since September 13, 2014 and poured 1518 hours into it. I have played Destiny 2 since September 6, 2017 and have poured 1063 hours into it so far. I say so far because I continue to play it almost daily. 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