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Shortcast 49 – The Sweet Beats

30 March 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

A DIFFERENT WAY TO GAME: Andrew has been playing through Fallout 4 on a survivalist mode, which dramatically changes the way he normally plays Fallout. This got him thinking about ways people have challenged themselves to play games differently––sometimes within the scope of what developers intend and sometimes not.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 04 – Premature Clapulation: Where Andrew and D. talk about FTL: Faster Than Light.
Shortcast 15 – Your Name is Jimmy Now: Where D. Bethel first talks about playing Fallout 4.
Episode 72 – Murphy, the Pilot of Piqued: Where D. and Andrew go over Fallout 4‘s rocky launch.
Episode 84 – Your Cursor Is My Prisoner: Where D. talked about playing Firewatch.
Shortcast 30 – Shorter Than Normal: Where Andrew and D. discuss Campo Santo’s involvement in PewDiePie’s YouTube meltdown.
Episode 116 – Craftcraft: Where Andrew first talks about playing Fallout 4.
Episode 154 – The Slowest Burn: Where Andrew talks about playing the Fallout 4 DLC, “Automotron.”

WORKS CITED:

Riendeau, Danielle. “Meet the Game Dev Who Never Fires Guns in Games.” Waypoint. Vice Media, 21 Mar. 2018.

RELATED LINKS:

Bethel, D. “KGB Top 5: Bizarre Skyrim Mods.” Known Griefers. 8 Feb. 2012.
Birch, Nathan. “Zelda: Breath of the Wild Player Creates Makeshift Aircraft Then Glides Across All of Hyrule.” WWG. Comicbook.com, 05 Apr. 2017.

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Shortcast 48 – My Smokey Timbre

23 March 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE: This week, Andrew and D. discuss revisions that happen to works after they are released. From the canon-bending Star Wars re-releases from the late 1990s to the archival efforts of the Mega Man Legacy Collection, works are “preserved” in some form or another, but attention could (and should) be paid to the reasons for such preservation and re-release: is it in the interest of the creator? Of the owner? Of the audience? While they don’t generate any answers, our hosts certainly probe the topic for its diversity of impetus, goals, and cultural impact. Well, they do decide that pop culture needs some sort of library, but that’s about it.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 12 – Our Best Work: The last time Dinosaucers was mentioned.
Episode 80 – Alien Control Party: Where D. and Andrew discuss the attempts made (in their myriad forms) to archive video games.
Episode 98 – Less-Impressive-Than-You-Expected No. 7: Where D. talks about the Mega Man Legacy Collection.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Dinosaucers. ‘Nuff said.

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Shortcast 47 – The Finest in Lottery Scratcher Technology

16 March 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 3 comments

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WEEK IN GEEK: After weeks away, Andrew and D. Bethel return to talking about the geeky stuff they’ve done in the last week. Andrew plays Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 and is much surprised considering his views on the first game. D. Bethel dives into a different kind of legacy by looking at the first volume of All-New Wolverine as Laura Kinney (formerly X-23) takes the mantle of “Wolverine” from her (at the time) deceased…uh…father? Brother? Twin? Whatever. #comics

Also––a News Blast breaking story about All-New Wolverine and its cancellation announcement made this week.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 29 – Guitar Mode: Where Andrew discusses his experience reading Ernest Clinie’s debut novel, Ready Player One.
Episode 42 – Unology: Where D. and Andrew talk about the announcement of Steven Spielberg as director of the Ready Player One film adaptation.
Episode 87 – Thunder and Lightning: Where Jesse Megagame talked about Pandemic Legacy with Andrew and D.
Episode 107 – Spock’s Screams: Where D. and Andrew talked about the idea behind legacy characters and how they, generally, very much liked the idea.
Shortcast 23 – Special Sickness Edition: Where D. Bethel talked about the Wolverine solo series from the late 1980s collected in Wolverine Epic Collection: Madripoor Nights.
Episode 141 – The Unpop Culture: Where Andrew and D. talk about the first trailer for Ready Player One’s film adaptation.
Shortcast 43 – The # Age: Where Andrew talked about playing the Legacy-like Gloomhaven and framed it against the very different Pandemic Legacy games.

RELATED LINKS:

Rahman, Abid. “Ready Player One: First Reactions From the Premiere.” The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2018.
Wil Wheaton and friends play through the Pandemic base game on the Geek and Sundry show, Tabletop:

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Shortcast 46 – Wakandan Skip Fires

9 March 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 3 comments

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BLACK PANTHER: Andrew and D. have both finally seen the newest Marvel Cinematic entry, Black Panther, and dive into the aspects of the movie that stood out for them, especially with respect to nerd culture, pop culture, and culture at large. This conversation does discuss SPOILERS for the film, so consider yourself duly warned.

WORKS CITED:

Trevor Noah talks about African accents in Black Panther with Chadwick Boseman on The Daily Show (bookmarked for that specific topic, but watch the whole interview):

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show‘s “Between the Scenes” segment where he talks about Black Panther:

“Waypoint 101: Black Panther.” Waypoint. VICE Media, 28 Feb. 2018. – Podcast where the staff of VICE’s Waypoint have a thoughtful look at Black Panther. (Warning: Contains SPOILERS.)

RELATED EPISODES:

Shortcast 21 – Love the Stank: Where D. Bethel talks about listening to Trevor Noah’s autobiography, Born a Crime (starts at 16:55)

RELATED LINKS:

Ryzik, Melena. “The Afrofuturistic Designs of Black Panther.” The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 23 Feb. 2018.

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Shortcast 45 – The Cure for Canon Shift

2 March 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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THE LONG CON-TINUITY: After years of teasing the topic, Andrew and D. finally sit down to talk about continuity. It starts with the continuity issues surrounding Star Wars and Disney’s purge of their Extended Universe, before it descends into talk about its benefits, its setbacks, and why it can be used as a weapon.

RELATED LINKS:

The ending to St. Elsewhere (re: the reference to the “snow globe ending” in this episode, referring to the very end of the show, St. Elsewhere, where it was revealed that the show was actually just a fictional universe imagined by an autistic child):

Polo, Susana. “Marvel Comics Announces Line-Wide Relaunch ‘Fresh Start’ (Update).” Polygon. Vox Media, 20 Feb. 2018.

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Shortcast 44 – The Game of Life

23 February 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew plays Cellar Door Games’ follow up to their previous hit, Rogue Legacy, with a multiplayer brawleRPG, Full Metal Furies, while D. zones out––and has a lot of fun doing it––with Grey Alien Games’ new solitaire/visual novel/RPG, Shadowhand.

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.

RELATED LINKS:

Don’t Shit Your Pants by Cellar Door Games (links to the Cellar Door Games page for the game, to go directly to the game, click here)

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Shortcast 43 – The # Age

16 February 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 3 comments

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew and D. start with a little Black Panther talk––friend of the show, Kyrun Silva, went on Good Day Sacramento to talk about what the character has meant to him as an independent comic creator––before Andrew discusses the complex but fun fantasy board game, Gloomhaven, while Dan watches the short but effective AMC comic book documentary series, Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 87 – Thunder and Lightning: Where D. and Andrew talk with Seattle Megagame co-founder, Jesse Shepherd, about the board game, Pandemic Legacy.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Check out the website for Gloomhaven‘s developer, Cephalofair (the company name for Isaac Childres), and scroll down to see all the writing he has done about the process of making the game.

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Shortcast 42 – Atlantis Is Full of Dead People

9 February 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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ANNOUNCEMENEWSBLASTCAST: Instead of focusing on their respective Weeks in Geek or having an extended conversation, Andrew and D. decide to cover a lot of news that dropped this week including the trailer to season 2 of Marvel/Netflix’s Jessica Jones, 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 trailer, the reveal of the video-game-based-on-a-tabletop-game-based-on-a-tabletop-card-game, Sentinels of Freedom, the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons lorebook, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes, and the passing of John Mahoney.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 02 – The Clap: Where Andrew first mentions Sentinels of the Multiverse.
Episode 34 – The Motherbox: Where Andrew plays a customized SotM game with AcrossTheBoardGames.net‘s Luke and Nicole and they talk about the experience.
Episode 81 – Synchronized Like Color Watches: Where Andrew and D. discuss the Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft adventure, “The Curse of Strahd.”
Episode 83 – The F-14 in the Backyard: Where D. and Andrew talk about Deadpool‘s comic accuracy and what it means for superhero movies.
Episode 85 – I Hardly Even Knew Me: Where D. actually sees Deadpool and talks about it.
Episode 87 – Thunder and Lighting: Where D. plays the video game version of the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game.
Episode 95 – Rural Judicial Sriracha: Where Andrew and D. talk about Jessica Jones.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Jessica Jones season two trailer:

Deadpool 2 trailer:

Evidence for Shatterstar’s appearance in this movie:

The best/saddest tribute to John Mahoney’s death:

He was my father. I loved him. pic.twitter.com/3mGcyEMxoy

— Kelsey Grammer (@KelseyGrammer) February 7, 2018

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Shortcast 41 – An Accident of Fiction

2 February 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: D. Bethel squabbles over the storylines left underdeveloped in Netflix’s western limited series, Godless, while Andrew dabbles in the interesting RPG system found in Evil Hat Productions’ Fate Core.

RELATED EPISODES:

Shortcast 03 – Interview with André La Roche: André talks about his time working on Fate Core.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Critical Role – a popular podcast that presents real plays of Dungeons & Dragons.
Friend at the Table – another popular real play podcast that bounces between a lot of different RPG systems and stories.
Geek and Sundry’s show, Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop, plays Fate Core.

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Shortcast 40 – Shortcast Your Mom

26 January 2018 Invisible Editor Comments 2 comments

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WEEK IN GEEK – COMIC BOOK TV SHOW EDITION: Andrew tunes in to the CW’s newest superhero premiere––Black Lightning––while D. Bethel looks back at the first season of Fox’s The Gifted. SPOILER WARNING

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 147 – Whatever We Bring, We Bring It: Where D. Bethel shared his thoughts about the first episode of The Gifted.
Episode 149 – We Are Not Here: Where Andrew talks about 2017’s big DC/CW crossover event, “Crisis on Earth X.”

RELEVANT LINKS:

“Emma Dumont from Fox’s The Gifted Gets Emotional About Polaris” interview by Justin Gilbert Alba via Comicsverse.

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