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Shortcast LXIX – Ain’t No Rules

14 September 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew takes some dungeon mastering advice from Mike Shea aka “Sly Flourish” and his The Lazy Dungeon Master book while Dan becomes smitten by the new Marvel’s Spider-Man game by Insomniac Games.

RELEVANT LINKS:

D. Bethel’s Good Day Sacramento appearance in support of CrockerCon:

Also, the completed drawing D. Bethel did for the Good Day Sacramento appearance:

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-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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Shortcast 68 – Swinging Gates

31 August 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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art by Darwyn Cooke, from *DC: The New Frontier.* Image courtesy DC Comics

STOP BEING MEAN: Of the many “-Gates” that exist in the nerd world right now, some ticks in the “good” column happened recently in the fight called “ComicsGate”, an online harrassment campaign against diversity and representation in both the fiction and creation of mainstream comic books (meaning, mainly, books made by DC and Marvel).

The full panel from *DC: The New Frontier*. Art by Darwyn Cooke. Image courtesy DC Comics

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 15 – Yes and Yes and No and No, Episode 63 – Just a Quel, Episode 106 – Super Legit, and Episode 146 – Bad Games Make Precedent: Episodes discussing that year’s PAX West event.
Episode 91 – Trying to Keep Sharp, Episode 138 – An Accident of Role-Play, Shortcast 55 – Occam’s Complexifier: Episodes discussing various “-Gates.”

RELEVANT LINKS:

Bethel, Dan. “Sketch Fridays #24 – After Darwyn Cooke.” Long John. 20 May 2016. – Where D. Bethel eulogizes the death of Darwyn Cooke.
Johnston, Rich. “Marsha Cooke, Ethan Van Sciver, ComicsGate, and Darwyn Cooke’s Legacy.” BleedingCool. 25 Aug. 2018.
Sarkeesian, Anita. “We Must Be Critical of the Art We Love.” Time. Time Inc, 11 Sep. 2015.
Stone, Sam. “Jeff Lemire On ComicsGate: ‘The Time Is Now To Speak Up.'” Comic Book Resources. CBR, 28 Aug. 2018.

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Shortcast 67 – Baguettevania

24 August 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: It’s an indie game kind of week as Andrew reports on the Zelda-like shop sim, Moonlighter, by Digital Sun while D. Bethel starts a conversation about everybody’s current favorite rogue-like platformer (kind of a Metroidvania, kind of not; definitely not a “roguevania”), Dead Cells, by Motion Twin.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 27 – Super Sleep Mode: Where Andrew first discussed Rogue Legacy.
Episode 53 – With Space Hands, Episode 54 – Noun the Adjective, and Shortcast 10 – Roll for Dark Meat: Chronicling D. Bethel’s time with Rogue Legacy.
Shortcast 62 – Not the Episode Title: Where D. Bethel discusses his first impressions of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, another game pulling influence from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (though it’s actually much more a pastiche on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse).

RELEVANT LINKS:

Buy the Dead Cells soundtrack directly from the composer, Yoann Laulan, via Bandcamp

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Shortcast 66 – Trusty Rusty

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew finally plays Asmadi’s One Deck Dungeon by playing Handelabra’s One Deck Dungeon, a rogue-like solo/co-op card game that has been adapted into a video game version while D. Bethel follows Laura Kinney’s continuing post-Wolverine adventures in X-23 by Mariko Tamaki and Juann Cabal.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 94 – The Garbleflangers: Where Andrew and D. previously discussed board games that had since been adapted into video game versions.
Shortcast 47 – The Finest in Lottery Scratcher Technology: Where D. Bethel talked about Laura Kinney’s last solo series, All-New Wolverine.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Asplund, Andrew. “Board Game Review: Le Havre.” Tales From the Gamer Viceroy. 04 Jul. 2012.

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Shortcast 65 – Find a Cheap Show

3 August 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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GOING BACK: Having played Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, D. Bethel has since gone back and played the first game in the Uncharted series and was rather frustrated by it. This experience got our hosts thinking about entering series (of games, movies, tv shows, etc.) mid-stream––what’s the value of going back to the start?

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 69 – Two Matching Ties: Where Andrew first talked about playing Uncharted.

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Shortcast 64 – The Humming Incident

27 July 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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IT’S A PANDEMIC PARTY: Andrew and D. Bethel bring on friend-of-the-show and all-star contributor to the site, Taylor Katcher, to discuss Andrew and Taylor’s full playthrough of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 87 – Thunder and Lightning: Where Jesse Megagame talked about Pandemic Legacy with Andrew and D.
Shortcast 43 – The # Age: Where Andrew talked about playing the Legacy-like Gloomhaven and framed it against the very different Pandemic Legacy games.
Shortcast 47 – The Finest in Lottery Scratcher Technology: Where Andrew reflected on the beginning of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2.
Guestcast 02 – Ready Taylor One: Where Taylor guest-hosted with Andrew and talked about the film adaptation of Ready Player One.

RELATED LINKS:

Taylor’s article, “Spotlight: The Marvel Minimum: The Five Movies to See Before Avengers: Infinity War” from this very website.
Walt Disney World News Today, the Disney-focused podcast Taylor co-hosts.
Wil Wheaton and friends play through the Pandemic base game on the Geek and Sundry show, Tabletop:

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Shortcast 63 – Editing is Magic

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A BOOK CLUB [ , ] FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES: In a rare moment where Andrew and Dan’s reading habits align, they spend this episode discussing Chris Kohler‘s addition to the Boss Fight Books line, focusing on Square Enix’s (simply Squaresoft at the time of the game’s initial publication) Final Fantasy V. The first half has the hosts discussing the game itself, while the second half talks about the BFB line and written gaming criticism.

RELATED LINKS:

“The Week – 04 May 2018”: Where D. Bethel (on his webcomic’s site) discussed his experience reading Final Fantasy V.
Episode 125 – Hot Sauce Box: Where D. Bethel discusses a different book by Chris Kohler, Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life.
Episode 117 – Five Minutes to Funny: Where D. Bethe discusses reading a previous Boss Fight Books’ entry, Metal Gear Solid by Ashly & Anthony Burch.
“Week in Geek: Metal Gear Solid by Ashly & Anthony Burch“: Where D. Bethel elaborates on his thoughts about that book.

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Shortcast 62 – Not the Episode Title

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew finds fitness inspiration in the modular experience of Zombies, Run! while D. Bethel can’t stop thinking about Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon.

Watch D. Bethel play (with the aid of his dog, Rusty) through the opening levels of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon:

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Shortcast 61 – All-New, All-Same

29 June 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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OBI-WAN KE-NOPE-Y: It was made known that Lucasfilm has put its anthology series, subtitled A Star Wars Story, on hold after the lower box office of The Last Jedi and, most recently, Solo. While the cause hasn’t been confirmed, there are a few factors to look at, one of which could be the box office performance of these films. Another, more sinister, reason has to do with the cultural backlash to Rogue One, The Last Jedi, and Solo. A segment on the internet is convinced that Lucasfilm has a political agenda it wants to push and it’s using the Star Wars series to do so. These dissenters have responded in a few interesting ways: some have banded together and made an official decree to “destroy” Lucasfilm, others have started a crowdfunding/social media campaign in order to remake The Last Jedi. Either way, it’s a complicated issue that Andrew and D. Bethel try to find the knots of.

WORKS CITED/REFERENCED:

Bacon, Thomas. “Solo: A Star Wars Story Can Beat the Hate.” ScreenRant, 09 Apr. 2018.
Verhoeven, Beatric. “Alt-Right: We ‘Rigged’ Last Jedi Low Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score.” The Wrap, 21 Dec. 2017.
Weintraub, Steve. “Exclusive: Future ‘A Star Wars Story’ Spinoffs on Hold at Lucasfilm.” Collider, Complex Media, 20 Jun. 2018.

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Shortcast 60 – Turn Up This Hotness

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew sees the latest Star Wars Story, Solo, while D. Bethel gushes about the recent God of War reboot.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 96 – Applejacks. Hot Dogs. Thursday. Fire Truck.: Where D. Bethel throws some shade on Jurassic World.
Episode 120 – Where the Hands Touch: Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the last Star Wars Story, Rogue One.
Episode 131 – A Magical Failure: Where D. Bethel talks about playing God of War III, and some of the troubles that came from streaming that game.

RELEVANT LINKS:

God of War‘s Kratos voice actor, Christopher Judge, telling dad jokes:

D. talks about his experience buying and listening to Bear McCreary’s God of War score long before ever actually playing the game.
Dan & his dog, Rusty, play a bit of God of War III:

Taylor playing Fallout 4 with Andrew heckling:

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