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Something About Werewolves

4 September 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 1 comment

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew watches the recent Netflix-made video game documentary series, High Score, and gets inspired to finally check out the very strange––and controversial?––game, Night Trap. D. Bethel finds serenity as the ferryman of the dead while playing Thunder Lotus Games’ Spiritfarer, a game that is a far cry from their previous games.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Gillespie, Daniel. “New Mutants Weekend Box Office Is Biggest Since U.S. Theaters Reopened.” ScreenRant. 31 August 2020.
Ponder, Stacie. “25 Years Later, ‘Disgusting’ Night Trap Is Incredibly Tame.” Kotaku. G/O Media, 15 August 2017.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Episode 107 – Spock’s Screams” (23 September 2016): Where D. Bethel discusses playing Thunder Lotus Games’ first game, Jøtun.
“Shortcast 28 – Linguistic Bravado” (11 August 2017): Where D. Bethel discusses his time with Thunder Lotus Games’ second game (to which he contributed through Kickstarter), Sundered.
In two of the “Dan & Rusty Video Game Power Hour” shows, D. Bethel plays a bit of Jøtun:

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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The Cutting Edge

29 May 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew and D. Bethel let you in on the newest in modern entertainment. Andrew takes a dip into Nickelodeon’s 2005 animated show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, while Dan finds himself charmed by the 2015 RPG by CD Projekt Red, The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Hall, Charlie. “The Witcher Author and CD Projekt End Royalties Dispute with Licensing Agreement.” Polygon. Vox Media, 20 Dec. 2019.
Lovett, Jamie. “Henry Cavill Returning as Superman for Future DC Comics.” Comic Book. 28 May 2020.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Shortcast 76 – “A Sense of Place” (30 Nov. 2020): Where D. Bethel mentions Red Dead Redemption 2 in a conversation with Andrew (who uses Fallout 76 as his example) to talk about world-building in video games and how they can be subtle with giving information to players to draw them in.
“Playing the Menu” (20 March 2020): Where Andrew picks up The Witcher 3 after being inspired to do so by watching the Netflix show.
“A Casualty of the Rhyme” (22 May 2020): Where Taylor Katcher shows up to talk to the hosts about the Snyder Cut being released on HBO Max.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Feed the Fish God

24 April 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, after giving a brief update on the announcement of IMDb TV’s revival of Leverage, Andrew talks about his experience playing Coldwild Games‘ delightful trading simulation game, Merchant of the Skies while D. Bethel finally got around to watching Netflix’s The Witcher.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 31 – “Post-Op Dan” (09 Jan. 2015): Where Andrew discusses his impressions of John Rogers’ post-Leverage show, The Librarians.
Episode 36 – “Dan & Andy’s Quality Audio” (13 Feb. 2015): Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the pilot episode for Leverage.
“Dicksisms” (06 Sept. 2019): Where Andrew reflects on his time looking at indie video games at the Seattle Indie Expo.
“Starting By Starting” (03 Jan. 2020): Where Andrew talks about his initial impressions of Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher.
“Playing the Menu” (20 Mar. 2020): Where Andrew, inspired by the Netflix series, picks up The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt and gives it another shot.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Playing the Menu

20 March 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, our hosts push through the shelter at home monotony by playing video games albeit old video games. First, Andrew steps back into 2015’s The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt now that he has more context after watching the hit Netflix show, while D. Bethel is intrigued at how hard the narrative payoff will fail in the otherwise really fun Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 69 – “Two Matching Ties” (23 October 2015): Where Andrew discusses his time with International Murder Simulator––er, I mean, Uncharted.
Episode 76 – “Beepop” (18 December 2015): Where Andrew first dicsussed playing the very good 2D Assassin’s Creed spinoff, Assassin’s Creed Chronicle: China.
Shortcast 65 – “Find a Cheap Show” (03 August 2018): Where D. Bethel talks about his experience playing Uncharted: Lost Legacy as well as the first Uncharted game in the series.
“Starting By Starting” (03 January 2020): Where Andrew shares his experience with the first few episodes of Netflix’s The Witcher.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Plante, Chris. “Shadow of the Tomb Raider‘s ‘Immersion Mode’ is a Big Missed Opportunity.” Polygon. Vox Media, 19 Sept. 2018.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Starting By Starting

3 January 2020 Invisible Editor Comments 2 comments

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew and D. Bethel start the new year with some things they have only light knowledge of and experience with. Andrew starts watching Netflix’s The Witcher and only briefly plays Haemimont Games’ Surviving Mars. D. Bethel has fun playing detective in the disgusting Lovecraftian world of Frogwares’ The Sinking City.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Bethel, D. “2019: Eulogy for the X-Men.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 30 Dec. 2019.
Comtois, James. “The Mandalorian Dethrones Stranger Things Most-Watched Streaming Series.” SyFy. 25 Nov. 2019.
Dzurillay, Julia. “Are Fans Really Cancelling Disney+ Now That The Mandalorian is Over?” Showbiz CheatSheet. 01 Jan. 2020.
La Roche, André. “2019: Blue Dick, Blue Team, Blue, Navy.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 01 Jan. 2019.
Silva, Kyrun. “2019: Reigniting Geekdom.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 31 Dec. 2019.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Episode 44 – Man Band” (10 April 2015): Where Andrew shared his experiences with another, more terrestrial-focused, city simulation game, Cities: Skylines.
“Episode 89 – High-Five Forever” (25 March 2017): Where D. Bethel talked about other Lovecraftian revisionist literature with Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom.
“Robot Monsters From the Future ” (27 Dec. 2019): Where D. Bethel talked about intending to play The Sinking City.

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Episode image source: Frogwares

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Our Secrets on Record

19 July 2019 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

STILL STRANGE: This week, Andrew and D. Bethel examine what impressed––and what impressed less––them about the recently released season 3 of the Netflix hit, Stranger Things.

RELEVANT LINKS:

“Hopper, P.I.” (edited by Eddie Spuhghetti) The greatest meme to come out of Stranger Things, season 3:

Andreeva, Nellie. “Feeling The Churn: Why Netflix Cancels Shows After A Couple Of Seasons & Why They Can’t Move To New Homes.” Deadline. Penske Business Media, 18 March 2019.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 31 – Post-Op Dan (09 Jan. 2015): Where Andrew opines about the post-Leverage John Rogers show, The Librarians.
Episode 36 – Dan & Andy’s Quality Audio (13 Feb. 2015): Where Andrew made D. watch the pilot episode of John Rogers’ Leverage and they talk about it.
Episode 102 – An Existential Poem (12 Aug. 2016): Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the first season of Stranger Things.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Google Saccharin

12 April 2019 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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CONSOLE WARS II: THE NEW CHALLENGERS: Things got shaken up in the world of video games––maybe––as Google announced its streaming-forward gaming platform––maybe––called Stadia while Apple announced its gaming-focused subscription platform––maybe––called Apple Arcade. Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the merits of these announcements and how they either apply, predict, or completely misread the gaming landscape.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 16 – Of Underwear Models & Wayward Sons: When D. Bethel and Andrew first talked about the hit CW show, Supernatural.
Episode 27 – Super Sleep Mode: D. Bethel talks about starting to read Blake J. Harris’ Console Wars––a book he’s still reading in 2019.
Plants Having Sex (05 April 2019): When Andrew and D. had a kind-of-fight about news coverage of games.

RELEVANT LINKS:

McWhertor, Michael. “Google Stadia is the New Streaming Gaming Platform from Google.” Polygon. Vox Media, 19 Mar. 2019.
Marks, Tom. “Valve Admits Artifact Has ‘Deep-Rooted Issues,’ Commits to Fixing It.” IGN. Ziff Davis, 29 Mar. 2019.
Walton, Mark. “The Fabled SNES-Playstation Prototype Has Been Turned On and Disassembled.” Ars Technica. Condé Nast, 09 Nov. 2015.
Warren, Tom. “Apple Arcade is a New Game Subscription Service for iOS, Mac, and Apple TV.” The Verge. Vox Media, 25 Mar. 2019.
Webster, Andrew. “Apple Arcade has Game Developers Excited, But Quetsions Remain.” The Verge. Vox Media, 26 Mar. 2019.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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25 January 2019 – Slapdash Hot Mess

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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew takes dives into season three of Netflix’s The Travelers and ponders how it continually plays with time travel in interesting ways while D. Bethel gets educated and affected by the Netflix documentary, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski––a documentary about artist Stanisław Szukalski and his time trying to create a national artistic identity for Poland, his brush with nationalism, his loss of everything due to Nazi occupation, and his rediscovery by a bunch of scraggly Los Angeles underground comix makers.

Here’s the trailer for Travelers, season 3:

And here’s the trailer for Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 49 – Muting the Ambulance (15 May 2015): When Andrew talked about another Netflix original, Grace and Frankie.
Episode 121 – Almost an Andrew Sandwich (27 Jan. 2017): Where Andrew reflected on the first season of Travelers.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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18 January 2019 – Sandwich Poets

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Image Source: Chooseco. Art by Paul Granger.

NERD LAW, 2019: Two unrelated but intriguingly similar trademark cases have made the rounds in the news this last week. Chooseco, the owner of the Choose Your Own Adventure franchise has brought a lawsuit to Netflix over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and the tenuous if not honorific connections that movie has to the classic children’s book series. In the world of video games, the Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations has sued Take Two––owners of Rockstar Games––for the apparent vilification of the company in the developer’s highly successful late-2018 release, Red Dead Redemption 2. Andrew and D. Bethel sound the Nerd Law alarm and discuss these two cases in depth.

Dan will be tabling at Stocktoncon Winter this Sunday, January 20, with Kyrun Silva of Taurus Comics yet again (which hints at a return of the Con Artists limited podcast series)! If you’re in the area, please stop by. For more information, read this post at Long John or go straight to the source at Stocktoncon.com. Hope to see you there!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Shortcast 03 – Interview with André La Roche (31 Dec. 2014): A talk Andrew has with fellow lawyer and nerd to talk about writing for tabletop RPGs.
Episode 150 – Comivention (15 Dec. 2017): A Nerd Law episode where Andrew examines Epic Games’ suing of players cheating in Fortnite.
Episode 156 – River City Rampage (17 Aug 2018): A smorgasbord episode of Nerd Law as Andrew discusses the acquisition of Fox properties by Disney and Nintendo’s drop of the hammer on emulation sites.
Episode 158 – Bluster and Impotence (05 Oct. 2018): A Nerd Law discussion about ComicsGate’s Richard Meyer suing Mark Waid for “tortious interference with a contract.”
Shortcast 76 – A Sense of Place (30 Nov. 2018): Where D. Bethel discussed his early time with Red Dead Redemption 2.
11 January 2019 – Close the Loop: Where Andrew talked about his experience with Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.

LINKS:

The Pinkerton Detective Agency was a job; it was not a requirement to be a hero as this tweet from JoeWV testifies:

Pinkertons put a Gatling gun on the railroad car and shot at my great grandparents living in tents while on strike at Paint creek, wv. They absolutely were hired thugs

— JoeWV (@JOEWV) January 16, 2019

Despair, Inc.’s first and only installment of the “Lose Your Own Adventure” series of books.

Asplund, Andrew. “Nerd Law 101: Intellectual Property Basics.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 22 Mar. 2017.
Doctorow, Cory. “Games Workshop Trademark Bullying Goes Thermonuclear: Now They Say You Can’t Use ‘Space Marine’ in Science Fiction.” Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, 06 Feb. 2013.
Goslin, Austen. “Netflix Hit With a Choose Your Own Adventure Lawsuit Over Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.” Polygon. Vox Media, 11 Jan. 2019.
Robertson, Adi. “Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Pinkerton Agents Are at the Center of a Lawsuit.” The Verge. Vox Media, 14 Jan. 2019.
Wales, Matt. “Gearbox Boss Randy Pitchford Accused of Taking Secret $12m Bonus, More During Legal Tussle With Studio’s Former Lawyer.” Eurogamer. Gamer Network, 11 Jan. 2019.

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04 January 2019 – Increasingly Without a Difference

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LOOKING FORWARD: With 2018 behind them, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss what they’re looking forward to in 2019. Andrew is interested in the upcoming premium Disney streaming service, Disney+, as well as to Bethesda Game Studios adding more content to Fallout 76, while D. Bethel can’t wait for It, Chapter 2 to hit theaters as well as playing the new game from Firewatch‘s Campo Santo, In the Valley of the Gods.

What are you looking forward to in 2019? Let us know in the comments!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 84 – Your Cursor is My Prisoner (19 Feb. 2016): Where D. Bethel discussed his time with Campo Santo’s Firewatch.
Shortcast 17 – YouChoob (08 July 2016): Where Andrew discusses his experience playing Gone Home.
Shortcast 31 – The Secret Was the Clap (29 Sep. 2017): Where D. Bethel enjoyed the first installment of the new It movie.
Shortcast 54 – Cameo Train (11 May 2018): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss Avengers: Infinity War.
Shortcast 76 – A Sense of Place (30 Nov. 2018): Where Andrew talks in depth about playing Fallout 76.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Fienberg, Daniel. “The Duffer Brothers Talk Stranger Things Influences, It Dreams, and Netflix Phase 2.” The Hollywood Reporter. 01 Aug. 2016.

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