Episode 47 - Worst Superpowers [ 1:50:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (523)

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Drink of the Show: Tev’s Basement Brew: Oatmeal Stout

Ingredients:

• Oatmeal Beer Kit

Drink Rating (out of 5)

• Adam: 3 of 5
• Tev: 4 of 5

Top 5: Worst Super Powers

You can see our detailed Top 5 list at the bottom. Warning: spoilers!

Television

What we’ve been watching: American Horror Story, Sherlock, Walking Dead, The Colony, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

News:

• Half of internet-enabled TVs are never connected to internet
• Comcast releases it’s own Netflix: Streampix
• Lucy Lawless becomes law-less and boards drilling ship with greenpeace members 

Books

What we’ve been reading: A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs – Barsoom book 1)

Tech

News:

• Man survives two months trapped without food
• Surveillance drones coming to a backyard near you?
• When stealing copper from a power substation, do not pee on it
• Apache 2.4 Launched
• Reversible USB Port
• Scientist who discovered Hepatitis C creates vaccine for it
• Apple antenna-gate settlement
• Multi-billion-dollar laser-cannon plane retired
• Nevada approves self-driving cars
• FCC predicts slower, more expensive wireless networks
• Google HUD glasses?

Video Games

What we’re playing: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Saints Row The Third, Double Fine Happy Action Theater

News:

• Fake Pokemon game rises to number 3 in the iTunes app charts
• Mojam and others create game in 60 hours
• Taco Bell says Vita contest problems were “technical issues”
• Mass Effect 3 has reversible cover for FemShep
• Sega Game Gear games coming to 3DS
• What happened to Last Guardian?

Movies

What we’ve been watching:  The Secret World of Arrietty, My Neighbor Totoro

News:

• WB planning live action Bleach and Death Note movies

Netflix Watch Instantly: Being Elmo

Break Music:

• Supercar (Leather Uppers)

End Music:

• Karl Marx and the Reds (Isaac Graham)

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Episode 46 - Time Travel Movies [ 1:28:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (506)

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Top 5: Time Travel Movies

You can see our detailed Top 5 list at the bottom. Warning: spoilers!

Television

What we’ve been watching: Nothing new

Books

What we’ve been reading: Fuzzy Nation (John Scalzi)

Tech

News:

• Dean Kamen slams FDA
• How much gold is there in the world and what’s it worth?
• Man gets 20k in ticked for “No-Tags” custom plate
• Google uses Facebook (not plus) to promote product launch
• Earliest cave paintings ever discovered
• Steve Jobs wins Grammy award
• Twitter reports news an hour before the AP
• How Target… targets you

Video Games

What we’re playing: Saints Row the Third, Minecraft, The Hacker (iPhone), Magic the Gathering (actual cards)

News:

• Vita is out… yay?
• PaxEast in Boston until 2023
• McDonald’s in Japan gets exclusive 3DS game distribution
• Hasbro + Blizzard = World of Warcraft Monopoly and Starcraft Risk
• Taco Bell Vita giveaway seems somewhat dodgy
• Lego Minecraft officially announced

Movies

What we’ve been watching: Source Code

News:

• Study shows piracy doesn’t decrease box office but release delays do
• The man with no pulse
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon gets top award for product placement

Break Music:

• Back to the Future – Heavy Metal version, russfuckingallen

End Music:

• Coin and Cost – John Russel Band

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Episode 45 - Strong Women and Dating Advice [ 1:26:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (553)

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News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Saints Row the Third, Minecraft, Half-minute Hero (PSP), Eye of Judgement (PS3), Orions 2 (iPhone)

News:

• Sony changing name of PSN service to Sony Entertainment Network
• Zynga stealing ideas from small game devs, but it’s legal
• Double Fine breaks Kickstarter funding record – Link to Kickstarter Page
• Oklahoma trying to tax violent video games
• Using a bot-farming service to increase your games visibility is a no-no
• Official Valve Skyrim mod puts Space core in Skyrim & High res texture pack and mod tools released
• Arkham City shipped 6 million copies in 2011
• Over 10 Million Skyrim players, avg 75hrs game time
• Bioware fixing mistakes in Mass Effect: Deception novel… patch coming soon?

Movies

• Trouble (Find Me) – Unwoman
• Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor – Flight of the Conchords

End Music:

• Shane – Orca Team

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Episode 44 - 8-bit Music! [ 2:08:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (574)

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Tech

News:

Video Games

What we’re playing: Minecraft, Gitaroo Man

News:

• California to play 950k to ESA
• Possible New Xbox Specs
• THQ gets stock delisting notice
• Ex THQ staff member whines About losing job
• Netflix no longer planning to carry video games
• Minecraft coming as Legos
• Mass Effect: Comparing Voice Actors
• Paul McCartney making music for upcoming game
• Lego Universe goes dark

Movies

• Born to be Bone (Gitaroo Man)

End Music:

• End Theme (Gitaroo Man)

Top 5

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Episode 43 - Street Fighter versus Barbarian, Fight! [ 1:17:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (629)

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Episode 42 - Life, the Universe, and Everything [ 1:43:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (696)

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The usual ramblings of two idiots.

Episode 41 - Looking Forward [ 1:25:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (570)

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Joe brings Portal Shots, we talk about Doctor Who-themed sex toys.

Episode 40 - What Does the Future Hold? [ 1:26:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (678)

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Skype acts up a little, Adam may be a bit robotic in parts of this podcast.

Episode 39 - Best of 2011 [ 1:27:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (684)

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Episode 38 - A Very Netflix Christmas [ 53:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (686)

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!