Some of you may have heard or may not have heard, but I wanted to post my last word about something that has happened with Barry over at the CEP. For what its worth I wanted everyone to know our take on this... im not sure what to call it... ummm misunderstanding.... I guess.

From what we can gather there was a "perceived" favoritism on our part towards groups that I guess are his... ummm enemies... non-friendlies...whatever you want to call them... that is solely in the mind of king Barry. And I highlight perceived.

I guess during these "wars", if you will, he thought that the podcast was showing favoritism because we had some of his opponents on our show, and that we hadn't invited CEP on the show.

Now he also stated he repeatedly requested to be on the show. Unless he was using the wrong email address I haven't received any correspondence, email or PMs, from Barry since the last time he was on the show. Im not that hard to get in touch with. Even when Im not on Instant Messenger you can leave messages for me on it. So Im not buying that part.

So my last word is that we had no ill will towards anyone. That would be counter productive for us. As listeners you all know we welcome whomever comes to us to be on the show. And we have pursued every suggestion that came our way as well. The facts are that (im sure some will disagree) with the release of Dragon Age and the migration of a lot of builders, and I say a lot not all, to that tool set, we have found it hard to find people for the show.

Now we have had the CEP on the show several times, as well as the Annakolia DMs. And maybe there was some neglect on our part in not staying up with what WAS going on in the community even though there hasn't been that much. For that we apologize. But to come out publicly and accuse us of some conspiracy to tear down the CEP is rather insane. And quite rude I might add as well.

Dave and myself have tried to explain this to king Barry but he seems to be so stubborn as to not believe us. Its really sad.

Thanks for listening.

This is the link to CEP forums... you be the judge...
http://cep.veiled-in-mists.org/forums/v ... ?f=5&t=455

Another accusation is that we have had nothing about the CEP in our news for over a year and half.

The CEP beta 2.3 was in the news for Episode 118, in Nov 2009.
http://www.nwnpodcast.com/nwnp/index.ph ... -to-avlis/

And CEP model Orcus in Episode 113: http://www.nwnpodcast.com/nwnp/index.ph ... en-realms/

We have not been hounding people like we used to get them on the show, and instead letting them come to us. Also in that time I mainly relied on the news that listeners came and posted in my forum, rarely cruising for it, like I used to. So that is some of it too.

I always thought groups and people would jump at creating sound bites or bumper ads for us, but sadly hardly anyone ever has. I often grew weary of asking. Thank you for the ones that did!! like spool32, superfly, ffbj to name a few.

I would have to agree totally with Ashercon, here. The NWN/2 community ignored us just about totally before we went to the NWN Podcast to get an interview on the show. Ashercon was very welcoming and even had us on 4 episodes over 6 months ( Eps: 110, 122, 123, and 124 ).

Yeah... I never understood people saying, "I don't have a microphone.. " .. the built in microphone is just fine.. heck.. you could use your speakers as microphones... I think the real thing is that people think they sound stupid when they hear themselves.. they don't.. but people think they do...

Now.. I KNOW that I sound stupid... but that's just me.. I'm ok with that.