For All Intents and Purposes

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Week in Geek: Andrew starts watching the latest entry in the CW’s shared universe, The Flash, while Dan starts reading She Walks in Shadows, a collection of Lovecraftian fiction all written by women. Check it out here.

Armello: Dan pointed Andrew toward what is basically a clever, fun board game on the PS4 called Armello. Click here for the Giant Bomb “Unfinished” look at the game that got Dan interested in the game in the first place.

Who Wants To Live Forever?: Andrew and Dan tackle immortality as it presents itself in nerdy fiction. It turns out to be much more complicated than originally anticipated.

Next Week: Be prepared for a Shortcast as we lay low for Thanksgiving. 

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“A Realm Reborn” by Michael Allen & Lisa Gerrard (from Armello)

-“Princes of the Universe” & “Who Wants to Live Forever” by Queen

 

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Week in Geek: Andrew watches Bond 24, also known as Spectre, and has thoughts about it! Dan talks about a series of videos Polygon has been making of game developers making levels in Super Mario Maker.

Bethesda, Bethesda Never Changes: Dan and Andrew briefly talk about the wobbly––but successful––release of Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4.

Warcraft Hopes: Andrew and Dan use the recent trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming fantasy, video game film, Warcraft, to reintroduce the topic of video game movies.

Next Sunday AD: Many nerds rejoice as Joel Hodgson announced a Kickstarter campaign to make more Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Dan and Andrew discuss the viability of such a plan––can we look beyond pure nostalgia?

Next Week: Immortality! Never-ending life is a popular aspect of nerd fiction that deserves much investigation as only two over-educated, co-dependent nerds can bring you.

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Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Atom Bomb Baby” by The Five Stars

-“I’m A Medieval Man” from Warcraft II

-“Love Theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000” by Joel Hodgson & Josh Weinstein

-“Toothless People” by “Weird Al” Yankovic

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SPOILER ALERT: This week’s episode thoroughly discuss the endings of the Mass Effect series, Red Dead Redemption, and Braid. Listen at your own risk.

Week in Geek: Andrew starts playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain while a piece of fanart Dan drew for Crimson Peak went mildly viral for the first time in his life and it freaked him out a little. 

Metroid – The Sky Calls: Dan and Andrew talk about the recently released short film by Rainfall Films and how it works not only as a fan film, but as a Metroid story.

Game Over: Andrew and Dan sit down to ponder the nature of endings in video games. What are they for? What do gamers deserve? How do they serve the gameplay and/or the story?

Braid: Dan and Andrew sit down to discuss a really controversial, poignant, and impactful ending in recent history, that of Jonathan Blow’s Braid.

Next Week: Video Game Movies. Are there any good video game movies? What are the worst of the worst? Let us know! 

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Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Brinstar (from Metroid)” by Isac Saleh (from Game Themes Cover Mix Vol. 1)

-“The End (Reprise)” by Jack Wall & Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect)

-“Downstream” by Shira Kammen (from Braid)

-“It’s All Over Now” by Willie Dixon

-“A One-Winged Angel” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII).

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It’s time for the great Spookytober Celebration! For your own safety, listen with the lights on.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays the ludomodular board game, 504, while Dan wraps up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Cthulhu Called, No One’s Home: In the interest of Spookytober, Dan and Andrew return to famed horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, and one of his most revered (and culturally important) stories, “The Call of Cthulhu,” as well as discuss the really fun silent film version made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

The Horror Returns: Andrew and Dan discuss what is likely the scariest of all horror movies: the not-very-good-but-hey-at-least-they-tried-something-different sequel! WARNING: contains discussion of Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

The Doctor is IN: In light of the news that David Tennant would be returning to the role of the Doctor in audio form with Big Finish, Dan and Andrew discuss the interesting implications.

Next Week: THE END! Video game endings, that is. Good ones, bad ones, weird ones, lack-of-ones. Endings are all over the place and, with games especially, carry a lot of emotional and narrative baggage with them so that it’s nearly impossibly to please everybody.

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Help spread the word of the show by leaving a review on iTunes.

For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Cthulhu Clock” by D. Bethel

-“Triangles” by Reber Clark

-“Halloween Theme – Main Title” by John Carpenter

-“I Am the Doctor” by Jon Pertwee

-“Halloweenhead” by Ryan Adams

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Spookytober is halted, briefly and partially, to address the time-traveling elephant in the room: October 21, 2015! Er, I mean, Back to the Future Day!

Week in Geek: Andrew got a Playstation 4 and played Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and shot a lot of dudes while Dan saw Crimson Peak.

BttFP2: To introduce Back to the Future Day, Dan and Andrew spend some time to talk about the overall legacy of Back to the Future, Part II.

Predicting the Future: Andrew and Dan, in honor of the moment, spend some time talking about science-fiction predicting not only the far future, but the near future and what that tells us about…us.

Dead By Dawn: Because it’s Spookytober, Dan and Andrew discuss the first two films of the venerated Evil Dead franchise because, basically, they’re the same movie told through two very different lenses. And that’s weird.

Next week we bring Spookytober to a close, so tune in for scary stuff, no doubt.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Main Title” & “End Titles” by Alan Silvestri (from Back to the Future Part II)

-“Back in Time” by Huey Lewis and the News

-“March of the Dead” by Danny Elfman (from Army of Darkness)

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Spookytober kicks off with Episode 68! Grab your grimoire and your notebook and let’s find some demons to fight!

Week in Geek: In a twist, Dan talks about Transformers plans with “Titans Return” while Andrew plays Super Meat Boy.

Feel the Hurt: It was announced that acclaimed actor, John Hurt, would be reprising his role as The War Doctor from his appearance on Doctor Who in licensed Big Finish audio dramas. While Andrew and Dan talk about how cool this idea is itself, they also ponder what this could mean for the future of Big Finish Audio.

Paranormal Investigation: Dan and Andrew dig into the implications, origins, and general coolness that is paranormal/supernatural investigative fiction.

The Last Laugh: It was recently made public that Warner Bros. is totally cool with the upcoming animated adaptation of the DC comics Batman/Joker story, The Killing Joke, being Rated R. What does this mean?!

Next week: Since the future has been foretold by the gospel of Back to the Future, Part II, we’ll be talking about the reality versus the fiction of October 21, 2015.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“I am the Doctor” by Jon Pertwee

-“X-Files: Theme from X-Files” by Mark Snow (as performed by Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra)

-“Batdance” by Prince

-“Fringe Main Title Theme” by J.J. Abrams

-“Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas