A day late due to over-eating, but the boys bring you a Shortcast to tide you over until the next full episode. 

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Argent: The Consortium by Level 99 Games while Dan finally finishes playing Rogue Legacy and has some first-blush impressions of Jessica Jones, the new Marvel-Netflix show.

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For all intents and purposes, that was a shortcast recap!

Featured Music:

-"Thunder Busters" by Wax Audio

Week in Geek: Andrew starts watching the latest entry in the CW's shared universe, The Flash, while Dan starts reading She Walks in Shadows, a collection of Lovecraftian fiction all written by women. Check it out here.

Armello: Dan pointed Andrew toward what is basically a clever, fun board game on the PS4 called Armello. Click here for the Giant Bomb "Unfinished" look at the game that got Dan interested in the game in the first place.

Who Wants To Live Forever?: Andrew and Dan tackle immortality as it presents itself in nerdy fiction. It turns out to be much more complicated than originally anticipated.

Next Week: Be prepared for a Shortcast as we lay low for Thanksgiving. 

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"A Realm Reborn" by Michael Allen & Lisa Gerrard (from Armello)

-"Princes of the Universe" & "Who Wants to Live Forever" by Queen

Week in Geek: Andrew watches Bond 24, also known as Spectre, and has thoughts about it! Dan talks about a series of videos Polygon has been making of game developers making levels in Super Mario Maker.

Bethesda, Bethesda Never Changes: Dan and Andrew briefly talk about the wobbly––but successful––release of Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 4.

Warcraft Hopes: Andrew and Dan use the recent trailer for Duncan Jones' upcoming fantasy, video game film, Warcraft, to reintroduce the topic of video game movies.

Next Sunday AD: Many nerds rejoice as Joel Hodgson announced a Kickstarter campaign to make more Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. Dan and Andrew discuss the viability of such a plan––can we look beyond pure nostalgia?

Next Week: Immortality! Never-ending life is a popular aspect of nerd fiction that deserves much investigation as only two over-educated, co-dependent nerds can bring you.

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Atom Bomb Baby" by The Five Stars

-"I'm A Medieval Man" from Warcraft II

-"Love Theme from Mystery Science Theater 3000" by Joel Hodgson & Josh Weinstein

-"Toothless People" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

SPOILER ALERT: This week's episode thoroughly discuss the endings of the Mass Effect series, Red Dead Redemption, and Braid. Listen at your own risk.

Week in Geek: Andrew starts playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain while a piece of fanart Dan drew for Crimson Peak went mildly viral for the first time in his life and it freaked him out a little. 

Metroid - The Sky Calls: Dan and Andrew talk about the recently released short film by Rainfall Films and how it works not only as a fan film, but as a Metroid story.

Game Over: Andrew and Dan sit down to ponder the nature of endings in video games. What are they for? What do gamers deserve? How do they serve the gameplay and/or the story?

Braid: Dan and Andrew sit down to discuss a really controversial, poignant, and impactful ending in recent history, that of Jonathan Blow's Braid.

Next Week: Video Game Movies. Are there any good video game movies? What are the worst of the worst? Let us know! 

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For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Brinstar (from Metroid)" by Isac Saleh (from Game Themes Cover Mix Vol. 1)

-"The End (Reprise)" by Jack Wall & Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect)

-"Downstream" by Shira Kammen (from Braid)

-"It's All Over Now" by Willie Dixon

-"A One-Winged Angel" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII).