Fri, 28 February 2020
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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dives into the CBS All Access archives to get caught up on the surprisingly good––and suprisingly different––remake of the '80s action show, MacGyver, while D. Bethel dives into the surprisingly compelling Zelda clone/shopkeep simulator by Digital Sun, Moonlighter.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Klepek, Patrick. "The Creator of Gaming's Famous 'Konami Code' Has Died." Vice. Vice Media, 26 Feb. 2020.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Episode 108 - Private Reasons" (29 Sep. 2016): Were D. Bethel and Andrew discuss another successful (at the time) television reboot of a popular '80s action property, Lethal Weapon.
  • "Shortcast 67 - Baguettevania" (24 Aug. 2018): Where Andrew first talked about playing Moonlighter.

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MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
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Fri, 21 February 2020
The Transformers Paradox

GOTTA GO FAST: Sonic the Hedgehog destroys box office expectations Valentine's Day weekend. Andrew and Dan discuss the surprise success of this cinematic adaptation of the beloved video game franchise.

BIRDS OF PREY: OR, THE REINSTATEMENT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED SEXISM AGAINST WOMAN-LED SUPERHERO FILMS: Birds of Prey released last week and its box office performance left some upset. D. Bethel and Andrew talk about the relativity of box office success, how Marvel fandom may be tainting the pond, and how marketing is a strange magic.

DOOMED ANIMAL CROSSING: In a bit of light news, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Doom Eternal releasing on the same day, Twitter and Reddit have become very interesting places, and in mostly good ways.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Winslow, Jeremy. "Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing Fans Have Become Supportive Friends." GameSpot. CBSi, 19 February 2020.
  • The tweet that did the direct comparison between Ford v. Ferrari and Birds of Prey.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Episode 101 - The Black Arts of Algorithms" (05 August 2015): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss a similar discourse around the reboot of Ghostbusters and how it was deemed a failure despite earning perfectly fine box office numbers.
  • "Episode 155 - Captain Host" (20 July 2018): Where Dan and Andrew ask the question, "Were there too many superhero/nerd movies packed into a single summer?", among which Solo: A Star Wars Story was released.

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MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
    • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

Direct download: Episode20200221.mp3
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Fri, 14 February 2020
#SaveGrifter

CRISIS ON INFINITE TAYLORS: With another, even bigger crossover of the DC/CW shows, we had to have friend-of-the-show and Senior Optimist Reporter, Taylor Katcher, come onto the show to talk with Andrew and D. Bethel about the glorious mess that was "Crisis on Infinite Earths" that saw Arrow, The Flash, Batwoman, Supergirl, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow fight to save the multiverse.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • Katcher, Taylor and Taylor Cassell. "2019: Nerd Endings." A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 13 January 2020.
    • Where the Taylors wrote about watching all of the nerd stuff during 2019.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

  • "Episode 110 - A Taylor [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes" (14 October 2016): Where Taylor talked to Andrew and D. Bethel about an early DCCW crossover, "Flashpoint."
  • "Episode 152 - My Own Finger" (05 January 2018): Where D. Bethel and Andrew brought Taylor on to bring them up to speed on all things DC Comics with his first "State of the DCE-Union." It is also Dan's favorite custom show image that he ever made.

  • "Guestcast 03 - Muted Police Action" (07 December 2018): Where D. Bethel took the week off so Andrew and Taylor could talk about another DCCW crossover event, "Elseworlds."

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MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
    • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

 

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Fri, 7 February 2020
The Badger Abides

THE PROBLEM WITH LOVECRAFT: A lot of controversy was had (mostly on Twitter) over the last few weeks with the release of Evil Hat Productions' Fate of Cthulhu, a new table-top RPG integrating the systems of Evil Hat's Fate Core and the Lovecraft mythos. Evil Hat proudly declared that it was bucking tropes of other Lovecraft-inspired games––mainly how it addresses Lovecraft's prejudices head-on and it doesn't include sanity meters for its players––and that, for some reason, made a lot of people upset. Andrew talks about the subsequent furor while D. Bethel shows up as our resident Lovecraft scholar.

RELEVANT LINKS:

  • The MCU Disney+ Super Bowl Spot
  • Evil Hat Productions tweets about how Fate of Cthulhu bends the traditional Lovecraftian gaming experience.
  • Evil Hat Production's content warning included with Fate of Cthulhu:

  • The adorable video of a coyote and a badger off to go hunting together.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

 

  • Episode 02 - The Clap" (05 June 2014): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the popular Lovecraft story, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."
  • "Episode 11 - Anemic-Clap" (07 August 2014): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the influential Lovecraft story, "The Dunwich Horror."
  • "Shortcast 03 - Interview with André La Roche" (31 December 2014): Where Andrew talks with André La Roche about Fate Core.
  • "Episode 89 - High-Five Forever" (25 March 2016): Where D. Bethel discusses the Lovecraft revisionist novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle.
  • "Robot Monsters From the Future" (27 December 2019): Where Andrew talks about looking forward to play Fate of Cthulhu.
  • "Starting By Starting" (03 January 2020): Where D. Bethel talks about Frogwares' Lovecraftian adventure game, The Sinking City, which also openly addressed and push against Lovecraft's racism.

INFO:

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MUSIC:

  • "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
  • "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
    • Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)

 

Direct download: Episode20200207.mp3
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