{"id":8834,"date":"2019-05-05T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2019-05-31T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T00:46:13","slug":"episode-196-farewell-mr-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/podcast\/episode-196-farewell-mr-croft\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 196: Farewell Mr Croft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly it&#8217;s our final episode with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamescroft\">James Croft<\/a>\u00a0at the helm but he&#8217;s going out with a bang flying to Melbourne and recording LIVE with regulars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/decryption\">Anthony Aguis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajdeut\">Raj Deut<\/a>\u00a0 along with very special guest, the one and only <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com.au\/peterwells\">Peter Wells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Always the professional James steadies the ship and launches the literal round-table discussion into a debate over Game of Thrones and it&#8217;s recent darkened composition followed by the figuratively darker Facebook F8 conference.<\/p>\n<p>We also look at all things VR with recent announcements from both of the big players in Oculus and Valve before putting to rest the Apple &amp; Federation Square topic once and for all in a roasting of both sides of the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Finally James, forever Mr positive, puts us all on the spot asking us each what we&#8217;ve seen and enjoyed about technology over the past five years he&#8217;s been a part of the Reckoner family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 196: Farewell Mr Croft by reckonerAU\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F615937329&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>GoT was dark AF<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2019\/05\/facebooks-f8-conference-was-a-cringe-worthy-pr-exercise-to-reclaim-privacy\/\">Facebook&#8217;s F8 conference<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2019\/04\/heritage-victoria-kills-apples-melbourne-federation-square-plans\/\">Apple &amp; Fed Square \u2014 the definitive discussion<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/2019\/05\/valve-index-it-was-the-best-of-vr-it-was-the-worst-of-vr\/\">VR from Oculus &amp; Valve<\/a><br \/>\nA curly, positive question from Mr Croft<\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadly it&#8217;s our final episode with\u00a0James Croft\u00a0at the helm but he&#8217;s going out with a bang flying to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"It's a special one to say the least \u2014Episode 196: Farewell Mr Croft","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}