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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
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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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-“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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Shortcast 71 – Someone Was Alone

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WEEK IN GEEK: It’s a week of adventure as Andrew literally leaves the state while D. Bethel brings a journey to a close. Along the way, Andrew talks about playing Final Fantasy V on iOS while also dipping his toe into the meta-craziness that is The Stanley Parable while D. Bethel is actually having fun (?!) with season 2 of Netflix & Marvel’s Jessica Jones.

RELEVANT LINKS:

The final page of Chapter 3 of Long John. Or, start from the beginning of Chapter 3. Or from the beginning of the comic!

RELEVANT EPISODES:

Episode 02 – The Clap: Where D. Bethel talked about starting Long John up.
Episode 04 – Premature Clapulation: Where D. Bethel hypes the launch of Long John.
Episode 05 – Remembers the Poops: Where D. Bethel talks about the difficulty of choice when it comes to making comics. This is reprinted as an essay in the first volume of Long John.
Episode 95 – Rural Judicial Sriracha: Where Andrew and D. talk about the first season of Netflix & Marvel’s Jessica Jones.
Episode 83 – The F-14 in the Backyard: Where Andrew talked about playing Thomas Was Alone.
Shortcast 63 – Editing is Magic: Where Andrew and D. talk about Chris Kohler’s book about Final Fantasy V, published by Boss Fight Books.
Con Artists #03

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FEATURED MUSIC:

-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“Main Theme” by Sylvester Levay (Theme song from Airwolf).
-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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Shortcast 51 – Disco Buttons

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READY PLAYER NOONE: Steven Spielberg said recently that movies made by internet-first companies like Netflix “deserve an Emmy, not an Oscar.” Where is the line between tv and film anymore? Is the line even there? Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the malleability of the filmic medium, be it cinema or television.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 16 – Of Underwear Models & Wayward Sons: Where D. and Andrew talk about the rise of serialized television and its relationship with the more traditional episodic format.

WORKS CITED:

Hart, Hugh. “Christopher Nolan Fights to Keep Film Alive.” DGA Quarterly. DGA, 2015.
Nyren, Erin. “Steven Spielberg Doesn’t Think Netflix Movies Deserve Oscars.” Variety. Variety Media, 25 Mar. 2018.

RELATED LINKS:

Because, for some reason, D. Bethel mentioned the three-season Ferris Bueller pastiche, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose:

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-“District Four” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
-“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)*
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Shortcast 50 – The 2Day Show

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WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew dives into “the German Stranger Things” as he watches the first three episodes of the Netflix series, Dark, while D. Bethel gets lost in an RPG-tinged clicker game called Almost a Hero by Bee Square Games.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Bethel, D. “Spotlight: ‘Masterpieces’ Are Better With Flaws.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 04 Apr. 2018.

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Shortcast 42 – Atlantis Is Full of Dead People

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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

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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 36 – Caca Fats

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THE STATE OF SUPERHERO CINEMA (AND TV): With so much superheroic media out there right now, and with Marvel, DC, and Fox swinging wildly on both the large and small screens, Andrew and D. Bethel take a look at how things are sorting out, how they’ve changed over the last year or so, and where things might go.

RELATED EPISODES:

Episode 27 – “Super Sleep Mode”: The first Thanksgiving episode where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss post-apocalyptic fiction.
Shortcast 10 – “Roll for Dark Meat”: The second Thanksgiving episode wherein a Shortcast was recorded.
Shortcast 19 – “What Was Town?”: The third Thanksgiving episode which is yet another Shortcast.

LINKS:

Alexander, Julia. “Ben Affleck’s Batman Uncertainty Brings the Justice League’s Future Into Question.” Polygon. 14 Nov. 2017.
Matadeen, Renaldo. “The Gifted Is a Better Introduction to Marvel’s Mutants than Fox’s Movies.” Comic Book Resources. 12 Nov. 2017.

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