From PsyHelp

This is a transcription of Ben's Jan 9, 2006 broadcast

see also: Broadcasting.

First Words

Alrighty, here I am. I almost forgot about this. I was gonna head off to my friend Jesse's house. He and his roommate have Star Wars Risk, and we were gonna play and I called Katie to ask if she wanted to play, too, but she reminded me, "Hey, don't you have a Psypets broadcast?" So, fortunately, I didn't run away before she had a chance to get home and remind me.

So, here I am, and I barely had time to get music working. Hold on, just a sec. [brief silence] Alrighty, like I said on the city hall, I want to go over a couple older email. I was talking to my mom. She listened to the mp3's and she agreed that some of these needed going over again.

Psfarrow

The first was from the very first week. Psfarrow was asking if I could play a couple specific songs, and I'm picky about music, so I was like, "Hahaha no," and then I was like, "But people can suggest music." It wasn't very nice of me. So I'm definitely not going to take requests for music anymore for various reasons. One, because I'll probably make fun of people if they request a song I don't wanna hear. And the other reason is I'm not supposed to --I don't know how much of an issue this is but-- legally I'm not supposed to like have an advanced playlist. People aren't supposed to know what's going to come up just for a radio streaming broadcast like this. So, rather than being mean to people, and the legal thing probably isn't as much of an issue, but I'm just not going to deal with music requests. I'll just pick the songs and if people don't want to listen to them, then they can, you know, start listening at 7, not earlier, so that's good enough.

Queen of Hearts

The other thing was from Queen of Hearts, last week. She was having problems with her mom not liking Psypets, saying that it was messing up the computer. I had talked to her before about it, so I wasn't too concerned about responding to it online, but I realized that this could be a problem with other people, and I also realized it was a good chance to educate people on what happens with computers and feel like I've done a good service or something like that. People are always paranoid when it comes to computers. I notice all the time that like, if something goes wrong, one of the first assumptions is, oh, it must be a virus, because viruses do bad things, and therefore they must be the fault of anything that's going wrong. Typically, computers start acting funny because you've installed and uninstalled so many programs over the course of three years, and every time your computer says "I want to check the disk because you didn't shut down properly," people say "No, skip that." That building up over years screws over computers much more than viruses striking. I mean, if you have Norton Antivirus installed, and you keep it updated, you won't catch anything, because if you so much as click on a file, it scans it, and if there's a virus it instantly says "no, you can't touch that."