For All Intents and Purposes

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We’re back after a few weeks of Shortcasts and this week it’s all about space, keeping all of the recent NASA news in mind.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays and ponders the mechanics and morals of Endeavor while Dan geeks out over The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Boast of Bethel: With the new images of Pluto, Dan wonders how HP Lovecraft, a devoted amateur astronomer who was writing when Pluto was first discovered, would process these high-definition images. Then he laments the divide between science and creativity.

The Influence of Space: With everybody looking up again, Andrew and Dan discuss how humanity’s reach into the great unknown has influenced our use of it in fiction.

Browncoat: Dan finally gets Andrew to sit down and watch the pilot to the short lived, but deified, sci-fi western television show, Firefly. 

Question of the Geek:

What was your “gateway to geekdom”?

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Uncertainty” by Reber Clark (from At the Mountains of Madness – Sketches for the H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast)

-“Firefly [Main Title]” by Sonny Rhodes

-“Victory” by Ben Prunty (from FTL: Faster Than Light)

-Excerpt from “The Whisperer in the Darkness” read by Dudley Knight for KPKV Radio

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Week in Geek: Andrew watches the classic Italian film with tenuous ties to the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Sacco y Vanzetti while Dan can’t drive in Batman: Arkham Knight.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: With this week’s theme being about death, they watch antoher TNG episode titled “Tapestry” where Captain Picard…dies?!?!

Death (and Defeat) in Gaming: An extension from last week’s topic about violence in gaming, this week Dan and Andrew examine how death is used––and how it has changed––in gaming.

The Death of Optimus Prime: Looking away from gaming for a bit (while staying on topic), Andrew and Dan discuss a prominent nerd death from the 1986 classic, The Transformers: The Movie.

Question of the Geek:

What has been the most impactful fictional death for you and why?

Leave your answer as a comment on the page for this episode at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to join in on the conversations happening at the official Facebook and Google+ pages. You may also e-mail us any questions, comments, or concerns at forallpod [at] gmail.com. If you subscribe to your podcast on iTunes, be sure to leave a review to help spread the show to new potential listeners.

We won’t be posting full episodes for a few weeks as we take a summer break, but we will have Shortcasts going up in our absence, so keep checking the feed!

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Star Trek: The Next Generation – End Credits” by Ron Jones

-“Rogue Legacy (Main Theme)” by Tettix

-“Death of Optimus Prime” by Vince DiCola (from The Transformers: The Movie)

-“Dare” by Stan Bush (from The Transformers: The Movie)

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Week in Geek: Andrew dines on Alton Brown’s Good Eats while Dan supports Dan-culture as he watches a kind of bad/kind of awesome movie titled Bad Asses on the Bayou.

James Horner: Dan and Andrew talk a little bit about the revered film composer who, sadly, died this week in a plane crash.

Violence in Gaming: Tackling what is, in some circles, a taboo subject this week, Andrew and Dan don’t dive into the cultural impact of violence in gaming; rather, they discuss how it manifests in gaming (both tabletop and video games).

Dan Hibiki: Dan and Andrew discuss one of the most mercurial and interesting fighting game characters, detailing his history and ever-changing ability as a street fighter.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite fighting game (not series, but specific game)?

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Bishop’s Countdown” by James Horner (from Aliens)

-“Fight 1” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV)

-“Dan’s Theme” by Hideyuki Fukasawa (from Street Fighter IV)

-“Clamato Fever (Menu)” by AE & Prozax from OC ReMix: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack)

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Week in Geek: Andrew addresses the Steam Sale as well as a horrible Dragonlance animated film. Dan shares his continuing Rogue Legacy woes.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Prequel: A big gaming announcement at this week’s E3 conference was that Square-Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy VII remake. Fans around the world collectively melted. What about the remake do Dan and Andrew expect and look forward to?

The Cost of Gaming: From DLC to Freemium pay-walls to retail prices, the cost of gaming is a variable notion today. Andrew and Dan examine this idea from a variety of angles to try and figure out why it’s so open to interpretation and exploitation.

Shenmue III: Another big announcement at E3 this year was the Kickstarter campaign for Shenmue III, the long suffering Sega franchise that could have possibly sunk the Dreamcast. The announcement broke Kickstarter, broke records for funding, and revealed possibly shady backroom dealings that make this a much more complicated topic than it seems.

Question of the Geek:

What has been your favorite DLC to date? Why?

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Red XIII’s Theme” by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII)

-“Starving in the Belly of a Whale” by Tom Waits

-“Surprise Hotel” by Fool’s Gold

-“A Cerebus Plot” by Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect 3)

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Week in Geek: Andrew plays more Free-to-Play games while Dan travels back in time to a previous Week in Geek for Andrew and plays the infuriating Rogue Legacy.

NTG: To kick off the discussion about time travel, Dan and Andrew decide to watch “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” their first foray into Star Trek: The Next Generation on the show! What happens when two Enterprises pass in the night? Explosions.

Time Travel: Andrew and Dan investigate the use and implications of time travel in popular fiction.

Time Paradox: Since they’re talking about time travel, Dan and Andrew also talk about what happens when time travel breaks time.

Question of the Geek:

What is yoru favorite fictional use of time travel?

and/or

What is your favorite instance of a paradox in fiction?

Leave your answers as a comment on the page for this episode at forall.libsyn.com. Be sure to join the conversations happening at our official Facebook and Google+ pages. E-mail any questions, comments, or concerns to the show at forallpod@gmail.com. If you subscribe to the show on iTunes, be sure to leave a review to help reach new listeners.

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“Star Trek: The Next Generation – End Credits” by Ron Jones

-“(The Majestic Tale of) an Idiot With a Box” by Murray Gold (from Doctor Who – Series 8 Original Television Soundtrack)

-“Main Title (Terminator 2 Theme)” by Brad Fiedel

-“Faith of the Heart” by Russell Watson (from Star Trek: Enterprise)

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Week in Geek: Andrew binge re-watches The X-Files on Netflix and sees a lot of new things he hadn’t seen before while Dan binge-plays The Last of Us Remastered and loses hope in humanity while gaining hope in gaming.

New Games: Dan and Andrew discuss the trailers released for two hotly anticipated games: Fallout 4 and XCom 2.

Binge-Watching: Andrew and Dan discuss binge-watching television in general: what it means for television, what it means for the future of television, and how it is changing our habits as television watchers.

Boast of Bethel: Dan discusses language used in reviews of Netflix’s Daredevil when it was released and how binge-watching is changing the way we talk about television.

Question of the Geek:

What are your favorite opening credits from a television show? Why?

Leave your answers as comments at forall.libsyn.com. Join in on the conversations happening at the official Facebook and Google+ pages. You may also e-mail us any questions, comments, or concerns at forallpod [at] gmail.com. 

If you subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, be sure to rate us so that the podcast can be spread to even more potential listeners.

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

Featured Music:

-“Stayin’ in Black” by Wax Audio

-“It’s All Over But the Crying” by The Ink Spots

-“All Day Sucker” by Stevie Wonder

-“Main Title” by John Paesano & Braden Kimball (from DAREDEVIL: Music from the Original Series)