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Benheck.com Podcast Episode 115

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Jones is back! In this episode we discuss:

  • Parker re-watches the Star Wars Prequels – we discuss!
  • Octopath Traveler and the Nintendo Switch.
  • What’s the deal with people watching games on YouTube more than they actually play them? Are we guilty of this?
  • Bad Company 2 memories.
  • Jones finally builds a new PC after 8 years… and gets a new smart phone after 5 years – he’s the King of Old Tech!
  • Do iPhones autocorrect differently than other phones?
  • Movie Pass – the end is near?

Enjoy!

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Benheck.com Podcast Episode 112

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This month’s episode includes:

  • What was the last good musical score in a movie?
    • Ben thinks it was Lord of the Rings. Jones think it’s every Hans Zimmer score. FIGHT!
    • Was Lion King secretly about Germany in the 1930’s?
  • Jones buys a Nintendo Switch!
    • What does Jones think of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
    • We make Jones taste a Switch cartridge LIVE ON AIR!
    • Do people use it in Docked or Portable mode?
  • Ben plays God of War 2018, the Greatest Videogame Ever Made?
    • Should Kratos be an equal-opportunity god killer?
    • We research if there’d actually be people in the Nordic area right after Kratos left Greece.
    • What the hell is BP “Before Present”?
  • MoviePass – The Future, or Flop?
    • How do they make money? DO they make money?
    • Have theaters been overbuilt?
    • Should movie ticket prices “scale” like hotel rooms do?
  •  Bring Back Movie Intermissions!
    • If movies are going to be so damn long, at least think of our bladders!
    • More concession sales + better social experience.

Enjoy!

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Benheck.com Podcast Episode 111

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Or Episode 7 in binary. This month’s super-long episode includes:

    • Software as Service
      • The end of Windows and OS’s as we know them?
      • Who actually owns your cloud data?
      • Will cloud data ever perform as fast as local solutions?
    • Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds
      • Ben finally buys the game. We discuss the online phenomenon!
      • What about Fortnite? Is it any good?
      • Why does Ben taste everything?
    • Jones wants to buy a Nintendo Switch
    • MEGAMETERS!
      • The totally real term, but why is it never used?
      • We discuss common distances in MEGAMETERS for no reason whatsoever.
    • Movie Chat!
      • Parker reviews Ready Player One.
      • Re-visiting The Last Jedi – now on home video!
      • Will super Star Wars fanboy Jones go see Han Solo: A Star Wars Story?

Enjoy!

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The flash storage company we discuss during the episode: https://www.purestorage.com/

 

 

Benheck.com Podcast Episode 101 (Or 5 in binary)

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Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!

Topics include:

    • 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!

Benheck.com Podcast Episode 100!

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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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Benheck.com Podcast Episode 96

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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.
The framed Mad Magazine comic I mention during the podcast.