Digital Cowboys: Episode 114 - ROOM 101

Room 101: Gaming Pet Hates.

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This week represents the combined efforts of no less than twelve individuals. This is a guest-extravaganza like we've never had before, but we're not just doing a normal show so pay attention.

Room 101 is a fictitious place where all the misery in the world goes to die. It originated in Orwell's 1984 as a room which contained your worst fear and it inspired a British TV show where guests would come on and campaign to have things they hated put there forever. Sandals worn with socks, people who talk loudly in restaurants and lateness are the type of things that get submitted. The hosts job  is to attempt to form a counter-argument as to why that thing should stay out and free to annoy people.

We did this, with video games as the theme and guests from eight other shows. So you get...

1. Rob Borges from Gamers with Jobs
2. Cooper Hawks from Gamehounds
3. Daniel Floyd from Talking About These
4. Bobby Blackwolf from All Games Radio
5. Tim Wilsie from Gamehounds and GridCycle (Also the sorely myissed show The Widget)
6. Chris O Regan from The Superhappyfuntimeshow
7. David Turner and Michael Fox from Joypod
8. Chris and Kelly Brown from The Married Gamers

All of them came on for an interview, all of them put forward at least one loathsome aspect of video gaming to be cast into the fiery pit and we did our level best to keep them out. What it makes for is a damn good and often hilarious bumper episode. It's longer than normal so you might want to do this in two sittings, but do check out the shows noted above and  and have a listen (or a look in some cases). We wouldn't have them on if we didn't want to hear what they had to say. Many thanks to everyone involved. This was a long time coming, but it was worth it.