This month’s topics include:
- Off-Topic Beginning!
- But first, Ben and Jones discuss the DC Extended Universe! And what they expect to see from Wonder Woman.
- Ben complains about Rogue One yet again. Does the rebel who rebels for the rebellion actually rebel at any point in the film?
- Our ideas for Admiral Ackbar Begins: And Origin Story. Plus does Rule 34 apply to his race?
- Core Wars! AMD vs Intel, and ATI vs NVIDIA!
- Jones has used the same CPU since 2010 – how?
- Are PC upgrades slowing down? Whatever happened to Moore’s Law?
- Whatever happened to Tiger Direct?
- Are desktop computers a dying species? Thin clients taking over?
- Overwatch!
- Jones and Parker discuss Overwatch and Ben falls asleep.
- Ben and Jones discuss HDR and 4K Blu-Rays.
- And of course more movie talk…
- Discussing Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
- Jones finally sees Logan!
- Is Summer 2017 going to be a major movie box office bust?
- Split / Unbreakable 2: The Breakening
Enjoy!
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I recently used an ancient Sony Mavica disk camera to document Bay Area Maker Faire 2017.
Check out the photos at this link!
Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
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- DICE’s Battlefront 2 and Star Wars in general
- Why Ben and Jones didn’t care for Battlefront (2015), and why Parker likes it.
- Movie release schedules – is Spring the new Summer?
- Parker once again tells us that he liked Duke Nukem Forever.
- Is DLC splitting the community and killing games off too soon? And it is a side effect of games being to cheap?
- Jones plays the Nintendo Switch!
- He forgot to taste the cartridge!
- Parker calls “Breath of the Wild” the worst 3D Zelda ever?
- We all talk about portable game systems for a while.
- Why did Nintendo kill off the NES Classic so early? Don’t they like money?
- Marvel: The Taco Bell of Filmmaking?
- Why is this sort of bland corporate profit-making better than McDonald’s or Wal-Mart?
- Is Disney not going to bother with original content like Pirates of the Caribbean in the future?
- Jones complains about aliens in Star Wars.
- Abandoned movie sets such as The Fugitive’s Train Wreck.
- Why movies love CGI and don’t use many practical effects.
- The Governments / Armies / First Order in The Force Awakens Don’t Make Any Sense.
- We spend the last 15 minutes of the podcast complaining about this 🙂
- What Wonder Woman Battlefield 1 content would be like and why it should be made!
Enjoy!
We finally made it to 100 episodes, and have a super-sized episode to celebrate!
Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
- Are R-rated movies coming back?
- John Wick and Logan do well, while PG-13 Ghost in the Shell flops.
- Are people finally tired of PG-13?
- The lack of finality in modern movies, and why this is emotionally bad.
- How does the Galactic Senate work in Star Wars? Were the Gungans properly represented?
- Nintendo Switch Impressions Now That It’s Out
- Right analog stick is awful – why?
- Load times are worse on cartridge than SD card – huh?
- Parker gives his impressions of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- The first Zelda game with DLC?
- Difficult games – old school fun or a waste of time in a busy world?
- Open World Gaming – What Is it?
- Jones and Parker discuss World and Warcraft and Ben falls asleep.
- PS4 Pro / 4K gaming
- Is it worth it?
- Jones gets an OLED TV!
- Console Gaming is becoming more like PC gaming – our thoughts!
- Why Ben and Jones won’t play old games.
- Parker and Jones discuss why they didn’t buy Mass Effect Andromeda.
- Movie Talk!
- Ben complains about theater projection.
- Is the theater becoming an exclusive event experience instead of cheap entertainment?
- What movies should Disney make live-action remakes of next? (They’ll do them all, but in what order?”
- Is anyone going to care about Avatar 2 when it eventually comes out?
Enjoy!
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I’m now taking offers on the Xbox One S Laptop we built on the Ben Heck Show last fall.
Size: 17″ x 9.5″ x 1.75″
Weight: Appx. 6 pounds.
Display: 15.9″ 1080p
Storage: 1TB
Power: 110VAC (no battery)
Includes: Power cable, LCD remote (provides additional functions) and Xbox 1 S Controller
Email offers to benjamin.heckendorn@gmail.com, thanks!
Original episode covering its construction here:
Xbox One S teardown video:
Almost to 100! It only took us 11 years… Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
- Bill Paxton Tribute
- His early days. Parker likes him because he’s a Texan.
- Greatest hits! Our best Bill Paxton impressions!
- Some of his lesser-known movies, like Traveller and Next of Kin, includes how to spell Traveller.
- Ben keeps talking about Indian Summer for some reason, and calls Paxton “a progenitor of an archetype”.
- Battlefield 1 – Best Battlefield since Bad Company 2?
- Real locations, instead of tunnels and gas factories. Cities feel like actual places, not just corridors.
- Meaningful destruction and more squad focus.
- Fewer overpowered vehicles, more infantry action.
- Satisfying guns in all classes, but game takes about 20 hours of play to become fun. Don’t give up!
- Ben’s Never Played Mass Effect – Jones / Parker react!
- Can they convince him to give it a try?
- How Jones/Parker feel about the original trilogy.
- Choice Matters, plus great story and characters.
- Andromeda? Is it Road House in space?
- Nintendo Switch Week!
- Is it just a Zelda adapter?
- Can Nintendo survive another generation without 3rd party?
- What if Microsoft bought Nintendo?
Enjoy!
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We decided to see what would happen if we had NO TOPICS WHATSOEVER! Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
And here’s what happened:
- What exactly were the Cider House Rules?
- Worst Videogame Movies?
- Super Mario Bros.
- Street Fighter The Movie
- Is Mario’s hat… ALIVE???
- Didn’t Zelda have a living hat once too?
- Did Link and Zelda ever get it on? Will they in “Breath of the Wild”? Is Link in the friend zone?
- Is being a Jedi an STD?
- ROAD HOUSE!
- Why the hell does Ben think Back to the Future should be remade?
- A teen from 2017 in 1985 would be FAR more out of place than a teen from 1985 in 1955.
- “Time Boy”
- Logan’s Run would also be a good movie to remake because the theme has become more relevant with time.
- Ben also wants a Rocketeer remake, but who could replace Jennifer Connelly?
- Ben Affleck no longer directing “The Batman” – but WHY?
- Which of our friends could or could not fight each other based off our mother’s names.
- A long tangent about Diane Lane Amy Adams Shared Universe
- We try out www.oracleofbacon.org
- The Nintendo Switch, which has nothing to do with Diane Lane (unless she pre-ordered one)
- Arms: The Sequel to Lips.
- Cargo pants VS Parachute pants.
- Does Charlie Sheen have enough money to beat AIDS?
- Ben’s idea for a TV show called “Death Race”.
- New podcasting software Zencastr
- All new websites have “E’s” missing.
- What are “Gray Jedis”?
- Why do Stormtroopers even wear armor?
- Captain Phasma sucks!
- Will they digitally bring back Carrie Fisher?
Enjoy!
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