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Episode 57 – Avengers, Assemble!

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Television

What we’ve been watching: Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra

News:

Books

What we’ve been reading: Soon I will be Invincible – Austin Grossman

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Popcap bundle, Trials Evolution, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Legend of Grimrock, WoW TCG

News:

  • EA’s “Indie Bundle”
  • Kickstarter bringing classic games out of the woodwork (Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Carmogeddon, etc)
  • Subsidised Xbox360 available
  • Kinect Internet Explorer
  • Amazing Alex next Angry Birds game

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Avengers

News:

  • New piracy warning screens on DVD and Blurays
  • Tom Wilson’s “Biff Tannen” card


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Posted by on May 15, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 56 – TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

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Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show:  Hadouken Shot

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 oz Blue Curacao
  • 3/4 oz Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
  • Splash of Bacardi 151
Mix Curacao and Fireball in a shot glass.  Put a little 151 on top and light it on fire.  Cover the shot to extinguish and drink!  (We didn’t do the 151/fire part)

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 4
  • Tev: 4
  • Joe: 4

Topic: TV Shows You May Have Overlooked

Shows: Ray Bradberry Theater, New Outer Limits, Chuck, Black Books, Traveler, Peep Show, Duckman, Huff, Spaced, Farscape, Lexx, Jericho, Supernatural, Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Television

What we’ve been watching: Hollywood Treasure, Archer

News:

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman  (From the Dust Returned, Ray Bradbury)

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Legend of Grimrock, Triple Town

News:


Movies

What we’ve been watching:  Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Buckaroo Banzai, High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music

News:


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Posted by on May 8, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 55 – Stupid Video Game Tropes

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Topic: Stupid video game tropes

Rescuing the princess, lives and continues, amnesia, crates and barrels, inventory management, health packs, cover health recovery, world war II, boss fights, pure evil enemies, jumping physics, inappropriate item drops, arbitrary boundaries, locked doors, sexy women armor, cheap shop keepers, save points, black and white characters

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Law & Order: SVU, My First Sale

Books

What we’ve been reading: Alone, Richard Byrd

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Pinball Arcade, Fez

News:

New Releases This Week

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Brick

News:

Last Weeks Box Office

New Releases This Week

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jem, GI Joe, Transformers

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Posted by on May 1, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 54 – Prometheus, Avengers and Looper, oh my!

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Guest(s): Joseph Rousseau

Drink of the Show: Russian Kamikaze

Ingredients:

  • 1tsp Chambord
  • 2oz Vodka

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 3
  • Tev: 3
  • Joe: 2

Topic: Upcoming Sci-fi / Fantasy Movies

  • The Sound of My Voice
  • The Raven
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  • The Avengers
  • Dark Shadows
  • Battleship
  • Men in Black 3
  • Snow White and the Huntsman
  • Prometheus
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  • Brave
  • Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
  • G.I. Joe: Retaliation
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Ted
  • The Dark Knight Rises
  • Neighborhood Watch
  • Total Recall
  • The Odd Life of Timothy Green
  • ParaNorman
  • 7500

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Justified, Breaking Bad, Star Trek the Next Generation

News:

  • Game of Thrones Renewed for Third Season (duh)

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect (original), Fez, Wizorb, Hero Clicks, Magic the Gathering, Skylanders

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching: The Fall


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Posted by on April 24, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 53 – PAX East!

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Guest(s): Rick Woolford

Topic of the Week: PAX East

Assassins Creed 3, Lollipop Chainsaw, Borderlands 2, Spell Tower, Girls love robots, Tribes Ascension, Ogre, Castleon, Star Command, King of Diamonds Pinball

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones, Community, 30 Rock, Justified, Deadwood, Storage Wars, Top Shot

News:

  • Dr Horrible 2

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Pinball Arcade, Draw Something

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Dive, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Muppets, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo


Break Music:

  • ? – Protomen

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Posted by on April 17, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 52 – Bagels, Pennies, and Implied Rape

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Guest(s): Sarah, Krista

Drink of the Show: Asari

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 oz Bacardi Torched Cherry Rum
  • 1/2 oz Blue Curosau

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 2
  • Tev: 3
  • Sarah: 2
  • Krista: 2

Television

What we’ve been watching: Game of Thrones

News:

  • Game of Thrones Season 2!
  • also, Bones

Books

What we’ve been reading: Modoc (Ralph Helfer), My Seinfeld Year (Fred Stoller), Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick)

News:

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Hunger Games Game, Angry Birds Space, Mass Effect 3

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Hunger Games

News:

 

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Posted by on April 4, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 51 – Minisode

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Just Tev, a mini episode

Drink of the Show: Chocolate Corvette

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz dark rum
  • 1/2 oz dark creme de cacao
  • 4 oz hot chocolate
  • 2 oz heavy cream

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Tev: 4

Equipment

  • Zoom R24 mixer
  • Zoom H1 portable recorder
  • AT2020 mics
  • iPad app: Resounder
  • Editing: Garageband

Some Comics

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Posted by on March 27, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 50 – The Big Five-Oh

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Krista, Dave

Drink of the Show: Krogan Piss

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 oz Akavit
  • 1/2 oz Gin
  • 1/4 oz Fireball
  • pour in a shot glass
  • drink

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 2
  • Tev: 2
  • Krista: 2

A look back at our top 5s

Memories…

Television

What we’ve been watching:  Mongrels, Restaurant Stakeout, Dog the Bounty Hunter

Books

What we’ve been reading: Wise Man’s Fear

News:

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing:  Mass Effect 3

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching:

News:

  • Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows

Netflix Watch Instantly: TED Talks


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Posted by on March 20, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 49 – Disturbing Moments in Kids’ Movies

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Guest(s): Joe

Drink of the Show:  Double Racist Grandma on the rocks

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz whiskey
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • 2 oz seltzer
  • 2 dashes of bitters

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 2 of 5
  • Tev: 2
  • Joe: 2

Topic: Disturbing Moments in Children’s Films

Timebandits, Brave Little Toaster, Secret of Nimh, Riki Tiki Tavi, Dark Crystal, Transformers: The Movie, Howard the Duck, Pinocchio, Tarzan, Bambi, Black Cauldron, Watership Down, Plaugedogs, Roger Rabbit, Willy Wonka, Beastmaster, Robocop, Leprechaun

Television

What we’ve been watching: Mongrels, Breaking Bad, 30 Rock

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Mass Effect 3, Mari0, Not Tetris, Draw Something

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Fellowship of the Ring (extended, Bluray)

 

Netflix Watch Instantly: Jeepers Creepers, Atlas Shrugged Part 1

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Posted by on March 13, 2012 in Episodes

 

Episode 48 – Windows 8 Preview

SHOW NOTES

Guest(s): Krista Rancourt, Sarah Bodah, Dave Brossa

Drink of the Show: Russian Boilermaker (U-Boot)

Food Etiquette (consumerist)

Ingredients:

  • VODKA!
  • BEER!
  • DRINK AND STFU!

Drink Rating (out of 5)

  • Adam: 3
  • Krista: 5
  • Sarah: 5
  • Tev: 4

Windows 8

Adam gives his impressions of Windows 8.

Television

What we’ve been watching: Castle, American Idle, Shark Tank

News:

Books

What we’ve been reading: The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle Day One) Patrick Rothfuss

Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing:  Deus Ex, Sly Cooper

News:

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Being Elmo, The Juniper Tree, Eric the Viking

News:

Netflix Watch Instantly: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Adventures of Tin Tin, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, Pi

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Posted by on March 6, 2012 in Episodes