Monday Crew

I've been having difficulties writing my radio shows lately, as the program I have to follow changed and it's wrecking my face in.
Abbridged version: I gotta jump from 5 minutes total talk time to OVER 20.
remember FNWER? remember how I can't make a vlog over 2 minutes ever
yeah.

I've gone through some radical ideas, most crazy a plan where I contemplated just voicing PTE posts on air.
Unfortunently, though PTE passes the 'no swearing' rule, it is too context-less for air. Thus, no PTE posts to air. (yay?)

I'll still be working out ideas, but sorry in advance from here if next weeks show is messy. WE GOING EXPERIMENTAL just like some blog you know...

In other news, a quick follow up to the last post: Yes I withheld from posting for a week to try to give maximum time for voting. The poll never closes! But this post will be the last to refer to it, at least for a little while. (PTE research shows making every post about the same thing doesn't fair well comment-wise. But it's not all about the comments. maybe.)
So far, Most people have chosen staying at home, which I can definitely understand. Theoretically that is the decision I should have made in 2011, as moving certainly led to every downside each other plan describes happening to me. That said, moving also led to meeting a certain someone, as well as learning many things about the real world, information so invaluable I have a hard time remembering how I lived without it.
Ultimately, there is no right answer. Just a question of BUT WHICH CHALLENGE DO YOU CHOOSE?

I've also found that every Monday a group of fellow broadcasters + LL + another mutual friend has been slowly growing in size. In contrast to my high school days, (and to my Hometown days..) I find this kind of amazing, how we're all sort of connecting and stuff.
I'm being a weirdo yeah i get it but c'mon it's like the reverse of what I'm used to.
WOO MONDAY CREW
I'll try not saying those words too much don't wanna seem a loser.

Next post I'll discuss my next year courses maybe

New City Vs. Hometown

If you thought this was going to be a post where I contemplate moving back to Hometown you are horribly mistaken.
I may make terrible decisions but c'mon even I know that that one at this time doesn't even make SENSE

Radio things. Yeah that.

Anyway, this post is about a certain someone I know trying to decide on plans for next year. She is still applying for post secondary school but she is uncertain on where to choose, especially if all schools accept her.
Thus, here at PTE we give the best life advice (see: Riccy Rules), so we are a natural choice for advice.
That said, this post is not about the advice I, Eric Riccy, have to give, but rather what advice you, the PTErs, have.
Below is a straw-poll of some potential Year 5 options. A vote is all that is asked, but if you have more advice to give, comment sections open as always too.

Also some context on the options:
Stay at Home means financial safety. It also means not experiencing any other city and also means living with parents. Also means not having significant other in person.
Move in with significant other means moving in with them and their family, which includes parents. The significant other is theoretically tied to this option.
Move in to a new city means any city (within region). New city means experience somewhere different, but financial strains and homesickness may occur. Also may or may not mean not having significant other in person.
Move in Hometown means staying in the same city but moving out of parents. The experience is not as extensive and financial strains may occur but it is a more fail-safe option. Also means not having significant other in person.

Also if the poll doesnt show up correctly see it here.

Maaaaan

You ever get that feeling like

You're listening to a song and you're like 'man I'd like to put this to air.'

'I mean, yeah ok it has "mother fucker" in it like 30 times.'

'But man I'd really like to put this to air.'

Radio Free Riccy: Not Banned Yet!

Ps before u worry no I'm not actually planning on putting sweary songs to air hopefully you read this in time welp theres the comment

So Remember how I was worried about copyrights with the original Radio project

If you're gonna ask for playbacks ever know that I tried once and got 17 copyright claims
in ONLY ONE HOUR OF MUSIC

long story short either catch it saturday or catch it never

I was upset but at this point I think it's hilarious

RADIO FREE RICCY EVERYBODY

Are The Jenny Games Sexist?

To begin this post, I'd like to mention some context.

Enter class last week: The class is commercial writing. I'm attempting to write a PSA geared towards youth on distracted driving.
I decide to make an ad based off a happenstance that my cousin claims he saw on the way to work. This happenstance is a daily fender bender at a certain street corner that always seemed to be caused by a distracted female driver.

I make an ad about it. The Prof makes her way around the classroom, checking on people's work to see what ideas are being relayed. (And to make sure plagiarism isn't occurring.) Upon reading mine, she gets uppity and asks why mine specifically has a female driver as the one causing the accident. I try to explain my basis with zero avail.
I rewrite the ad to make the person who caused the accident neutral in gender, because I do agree that it unintentionally contained sexism.

This event got me questioning how sexist my ideals are. Which led to the question of how sexist my creative works are.

If your mind is like mine, you probably immediately jumped to Jenny's Show.

Jenny's Show is an 'Interactive' flash movie about a girl named Jenny who strips for the viewer. She begins by saying she'll be 'your entertainment tonight, if you know what I mean', then proceeds to remove her top. She continues by removing her bra, but before her breasts are shown, Ric Olzow pops up and blocks them, asking what's going on. Then the screen changes to 'LOL', and goes back to main menu.

In my opinion (so you know you can stop reading here if you want to), There is no context on why Jenny is stripping. She simply states she'll be your entertainment, which could imply she's made the decision to strip herself. She then proceeds to strip herself, with no outside pressures telling her to. She never appears upset or distraught about losing clothes.

She does however get blocked before her breasts are exposed. If not for that occurrence being used as a punchline, this could be seen as body shaming.
As well, when tied to the male author, it could be seen that Jenny is the author's (that's how I'm referring to me k) puppet and he's forcing her to strip for the audience.
The subject matter can be argued as 'using female sexual stripping to gain viewers'. All these reasons tie into sexist ideals.

Whether the movie is sexist or not ultimately comes down to how it is perceived. It has a punchline, therefore it can be seen as a joke about expections of seeing girls strip purely for sexual pleasure.Whether that translates through however depends on the viewer.

If you've called Jenny's Show sexist, you've likely pointed a finger at Jenny's game as well.

A simple "dress-up" game, you can change Jenny's appearance, such as make up and hair colour. However, when attempting to alter her clothes, she gets upset and throws a GameCube at the viewer.
As you continue to mess with her clothing, she gets more upset, until she actually 'kills' the viewer. (Implied to be Ric Olzow by the face on the game over screen)

The content is again perception based. The point of the game seems to be getting killed for trying to strip Jenny. It is a less risque game, but the content still uses sexuality of a woman as it's basis, thus could still be classified as sexist. However, it again pokes at perceived expectations, which instead shines a light on sexism in society. Therefore, underlying messages could be classified as not making the game sexist, and instead, actually presenting a case about a societal construct.

Since we're on a roll with the Jenny games, the third and final (at this point) jenny game to question is the infamous Jenny's Quiz.

The formula changes, instead of the game being about Jenny and her sexuality, it claims Jenny to be a master of quizzes.

She is antagonized in this game, which could either be perceived as misogynistic since she's seen as an enemy, or can be perceived as empowering as the 'Final Boss' role is often claimed in games by male characters. The final boss is often seen as the 'toughest, strongest, most difficult' which again could be said to compliment Jenny positively. One could also classify however that having her being 'most difficult' could be alluding to the stereotype of females being "difficult."
(However that's a far stretching generalization that is more likely to be classified as sexist, so in this case would not add to the argument about Jenny being final boss as sexist.)

In the final bit of the game (spoilers warning I warned you k), the joke of Jenny showing her breasts returns, in allusion to the previous games. Again it point to sexist ideals, however as done before, Jenny is blocked at the last second by Ric Olzow again. It therefore is equal to Jenny's Show in being classifiable as sexist. (Which means it is again whether a joke translates to the viewer correctly.)

In conclusion, though not done in a particularly clear way, the Jenny Games seem to attempt to gain awareness on sexism and sexist ideologies, as opposed to condoning them.

Refined Radio Free Riccy

Despite being last minute (and me being sort of annoyed about being left in the dark about it..), things went through and
Radio Free Riccy will indeed now be on Saturdays From 6pm to 8pm.

I've updated the page with all the info now, so it's essentially complete. The first weekend of shifts happens to be optional due to Thanksgiving, however Radio Free Riccy is planned to have it's first show regardless. (Expect PTE level quality. I warned you k)

Also if you see on the site that it still says 4pm-6pm for RFR, know that I will be getting that fixed soon.

Cya on Saturday maybe!

RFR and the Troublesome Stomach

In regards to Radio Free Riccy, absolutely nothing is being done on a time swap thing so abridged version I've posted my original time slot and am sticking with it unless something actually happens. The Radio page has been updated. Also I may post chunks of my show on PTE for those who miss it (would be 15-30 minutes and probably the 'best' 15-30 minutes.)

More on that later.

In other news, It's hard to call this news because it's such a frequent event. My stomach has been giving me trouble as always, especially more than usual lately. In response to this, my ill states(sssssss) have inspired me to create a silly knockoff of the 'Advice Dog/Courage Wolf' meme.

It's made in MS Paint, so you know it's quality.

Anyway, for todays picture, The TROUBLESOME STOMACH:

 And if it so inspires you, here's the template of the highest quality drawn stomach in the world:

brb, need to recover