Daylight Savings Time Ends Today

Just reminding you that Daylight Savings Time ends today in the US, so the station has moved back one hour from -5 GMT to -6 GMT. If you don't have DST where you live, programming will be one hour later.

Daylight Savings Time Starts Today + Bryce & Tom Part 5

Just a reminder that Daylight Savings Time starts today, meaning that the station has moved forward an hour from GMT-6 to GMT-5. As such, any location not using Daylight Savings Time will have the programming on the station start one hour earlier.

Additonally, we have another part of our Tom Wayland/Bryce Papenbrook interview:

In this segment, Tom explains how having only a short delay from the Japanese version affects the way Pokemon is dubbed.

Daylight Savings Time Ends Today

Just a friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time ends today in the US. As such, all programming has been shifted back one hour from GMT-5 to GMT-6. If you don't use DST where you live, this means that programming will be an hour later than before.

Daylight Savings Time Starts Today

Daylight savings time starts today in the US. This means the station's programming has moved ahead one hour from GMT -6 to GMT-5.

Daylight Savings Time ends today + "Sky Ball" - The parody you'll never hear

Just a friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time ends today, so the station has moved back one hour from -5 GMT to -6 GMT.

In other news:

Okay, so after about three weeks of owning Pokémon X, I finally got through the main game and beat the champion, and did some of the post-game content. Overall I’d say the game was pretty good, but I do have one major complaint. So, there are these new things called Sky Battles where flying and levitating Pokémon are used. They’re not super different from regular battles, but the part of it I find truly disappointing is that to catch Pokémon for these battles there’s no Sky Ball in the game, and…I really wanted to write that Adele parody. Those of you that know me know that I like to write song parodies, and I wanted to write one for this new generation, so when I heard about Sky Battles, I started to get some ideas on what I could do for a “Skyfall” parody. Prior to the game’s release, I bought the song and started listening to it to see how I could transform the lyrics. I won’t share everything I came up with, but here’s a brief outline:

So, the original song starts with a 25-30 second instrumental passage. In a parody there needs to be some indication that this is not the original song, so rather than leave it as is, I planned on putting in a conversation between two people that goes something like, “Did you hear about the new Pokémon games?”, “No, what are they called this time?”, “X and Y”, “What, did they run out of colors?”, you know, stuff like that, then towards the end it’s, “They’ve got this new thing called ‘Sky Battles’”, “Lemme guess, is there a new Sky Ball you can use to catch Pokémon?”. That would serve as sort of the opening to the piece.

Then the actual song would start with, “There is no end. Hold your breath here comes 6^th gen.” Throughout the first verse the theme was going to be, “Here comes more Pokémon-there’s nothing you can do about it-I’ve come to dread this moment-I love it and I loathe it”, which leads into the chorus, “here’s a Sky Ball, for your trouble, we will stand tall, and catch ‘em all-together”, and so on.

The second verse was going to focus on the singer adjusting to the new game’s features and such. I didn’t have too many ideas here-“so why is Honedge weak to dark?” was one of them, but leading into the second chorus I was thinking of using something like, “here’s my charge card number, you can take my cash, ‘cuz we’ll never grow apart!” As if the singer was giving in to their love of Pokémon and buying the game.

After the second chorus, the original song goes into this mostly quiet portion for about 20-25 seconds. I was planning on using it for more exposition-most likely another conversation between the characters from the beginning. After that you have the bridge and the final chorus, and my plan there was to wrap up and have the singer express how they liked the game and how it made them feel as a Pokémon fan, but by this time I really was pretty sure there was no Sky Ball in the game and I put this parody on the back burner, and to be honest, unless the TCG bails me out with a Sky Ball card in one of the first few XY sets it’s just not going to happen.

So, that’s “Sky Ball”, a parody you’ll probably never hear. On a happier note, be sure to check out my interview with Jess Domain from last week if you haven’t already. Thanks.

Daylight savings time starts today

Daylight savings time starts today in the US, meaning that the station has moved from -6 GMT to -5 GMT. As such, if you don't use daylight savings time where you live, programming has moved one hour earlier.

Daylight Savings Time Ends Today

Just a reminder that Daylight Savings Time ended today in the US. For everyone that doesn't use that, this means that all the programming on PIRN has been pushed back an hour.

Daylight savings time starts today

Daylight savings time starts today in the US. This means that the station schedule has been moved from -6 GMT to -5 GMT. In simpler terms, if you didn't change your clocks today, everything would be an hour earlier.

Daylight Savings Time Ends Today

This is just a friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time ends today in the US. As a result, all PIRN programming has been shifted back from GMT -5 to GMT -6.

Daylight savings time ends today

Daylight savings time ended this morning, which means that the time for PIRN has moved back an hour from -5 GMT to -6 GMT. Those of you who observe daylight savings time should notice no difference (assuming I've adjusted the station correctly) but for those of you that do not, scheduled programs (such as today's Top 25) will start an hour later.