We’re back after missing a month in November 🙁 To make up for this, this final podcast of 2016 is extra-long and has a guest star Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
You can check out Parker’s own podcast by clicking here .
Our extra-rambling podcast topics today are:
Star Wars: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Jones and Parker liked it a lot, Ben didn’t. We argue about the movie’s flaws and merits.
What did they change with the reshoots?
Would the Empire actually put a data center on a tropical paradise planet? What Star Wars planet might be a better choice?
Thoughts on the Movie Going Experience
Regular theaters VS Alamo Drafthouse
Movie reel splicing.
Are the prices too insane for families?
Home TV keep getting better and cheaper – how is this affecting theater attendance?
Will there ever be new-release movies streamed straight to the home?
New services can destroy old ones (Uber)
Jones’ family owned a Betamax player – never before heard story!
Do Texans really carry guns everywhere?
Discussing the Nintendo Switch with a Nintendo fan
Jones and Ben are well-known Nintendo critics. For an outside perspective, we discuss the Switch with Parker, who still likes Nintendo.
Can it succeed? Will 3rd parties port to it?
Should Nintendo just go 3rd party themselves?
What videogames could make good movies? (Apparently not Assassin’s Creed…)
Jones and Parker try to convince Ben to buy the Mass Effect Trilogy.
Enjoy!
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We’re once again taking orders for the new and improved XB1 accessibility controllers!
Visit this page to find out more.
Thanks for your patience! We hope to have a PS4 version soon.
I’m getting over a cold, so please excuse my weak voice and any coughing I couldn’t quite edit out.
Juicy topics includes:
The Nintendo Switch Reveal
Our thoughts on the reveal trailer.
Do 6 star hotels exist?
We try to remember the name of the Wisconsin city “Kenosha”
Who is this product for? xWill 3rd parties support it?
What the system needs to do in order to have a chance.
Microsoft Surface Products and new Apple Macbooks
MS is going for the markets Apple has traditionally held.
Why Microsoft should concentrate on enterprise customers.
Could a Surface Phone ever exist?
Is Apple screwing their most loyal customers? Do they even care?
How do you pronounce “Wacom”?
Bethesda’s new Game Review policy
They are no longer giving out advance review copies.
Only available to critics one day before launch.
Why are they doing this? We discuss reaons beyond knee-jerk reactions.
Ben finally sees the Ghostbuster remake!
( Trigger warning: I kind of liked it)Jones discusses how it compares to Paul Feig’s previous movies (which I have not seen)
How the original Ghostbusters painted itself into a corner in such a way that made sequels difficult and remakes easier.
Jones has noticed Tom Cruise has had a lot of recent movies with strong female leads.
How other recent movies have given women strong roles without just doing a “gender swap”.
Then Jones and I go completely off topic and discuss Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Rocketeer.
Enjoy!
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The framed Mad Magazine comic I mention during the podcast.
A bit late this month, but here we are! Topics include:
Looking back on Bioshock
Why there are so many “remasters” of last-gen games.
Our thoughts on Bioshock 1, 2 and Infinite.
The problems with Bioshock Infinite, muddled message.
Rapture VS Columbia.
What we’d like to see in a new Bioshock game – our “Moontopia” pitch.
BTW the Bioshock-related word we couldn’t think of was “objectivism”.
Movie budgets
Why are they so high? Who are greenlighting these dumb concepts?
Type of cheaper movies they could be making.
Spreading out risk by taking more risks.
More complaints about Marvel movies drifing too far from reality.
Video card specs and prices
Prices are high for the best stuff – is it worth it?
Forza Horizon 3 on Windows 10 requires DirectX12 – why?
Consoles vs PC.
Why are PC’s lasting longer these days between upgrades.
Ben talks about his ancient keyboards.
Enjoy!
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We have parts on order that will help with the reliability of our single handed controllers. We expect to resume taking orders by the end of October 2016, hopefully in time for the holiday season.
We’re also working on a PS4 version, so stay tuned for that as well.
Thanks for your patience!
The moment 150 people have been waiting for – the release of AMH’s biggest update yet! Version 23… nearly 9 months in the making.
Head over to the AMH Update Page to download all the files you need to bring your pinball machine up to the most recent version! Includes a change list of all the new features.
Enjoy!
AMH Update Page – link
We ramble more than usual this month! Topics include:
No Man’s Sky / planet math
We learn some new number types as we discuss the alleged number of No Man’s Sky planets.
Why it would take insane amounts of server space to actually save all 18 quintillion possible planets & custom names.
If Ben and Jones ran for president / vice president
Pot.
A long, boring, discussion about the age of candidates.
Our proposed “Irony / Coincidence Mis-use Tax”
More PS4 / PS4K Neo news
Console market trying to become like cel phones
Will it go down in history as a watershed “stupid” idea, like 32X, 5200 and Atari Jaguar?
Movie stuff!
Sony’s crappy early 90’s movies, like Hudson Hawk & Hook.
Our idea for a crappy network comedy.
Ben watches some movie remakes! Why are things called remakes when they aren’t.
Jones saw Suicide Squad, and didn’t commit suicide like some reviewers did.
Tom Cruise: The Last Movie Star / Samurai Who Will Fight a Mummy
GI Joe AKA Live Action Team America
Stranger Things, the Right Kind of Reboot
A long, boring story about my noise-canceling headphones.
What we didn’t like about Super 8.
Why people like it more than all the remakes/reboots
Emily Blunt & NBC Comedy Action Terrorist Fighters
Enjoy!
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