Week in Geek: Andrew discusses his participation in a recent Seattle Megagames event while Dan gushes about the Wayforward Technologies remake of A Boy and His Blob.

Regeneration: Doctor Who showrunner since 2010, Steven Moffat announces his plans to leave the show after series 10 in 2017. Furthermore, his replacement has been revealed to be Chris Chibnall, an accomplished writer in his own right. But is this a big deal? Dan and Andrew discuss the implications.

I Vant to Roll Your Die: Andrew and Dan investigate why Dungeons & Dragons' return to Ravenloft, in a new adventure titled, "Curse of Strahd," is a big deal, or, at least, why it's interestign.

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Links:

-An excellent and candid podcast interview with Chris Chibnall from 2014 about Torchwood and Broadchurch with the Nerdist Writers Panel.

-"D&D's Ravenloft Returns with the Help of its Original Creators" by Charlie Hall via Polygon.

-"Sketch Fridays #15 - A Boy and His Blob" by D. Bethel. The "Sketch Friday" post about A Boy and His Blob Dan refers to during the Week in Geek.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"I am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee

-"Theme of D (Entrance)" by Tetsuya Komuro (from Vampire Hunter D)

-"Circle of Life" by Carmen Twilie & Lebo M (from The Lion King

*Quote taken from Army of Darkness.

Week in Geek: Andrew goes back to playing Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China, while Dan goes way back into the past by playing the Nintendo DS release of the Super Famicom classic, Front Mission.

Also, friends of the show, Jason Tudor and Keith Houin's sci-fi webcomic, Vorpal, now has a print version available for purchase. Check it out at Headshrinker's Press.

Archiving Legacies: Dan and Andrew discuss how video games are being preserved and/or reintroduced to modern players and how the process isn't as straightforward as it seems like it should be.

A +1 Parting of the Ways: Wizards of the Coast announces that it will not be holding an official presence at this year's Gen Con, which is strange since Dungeons & Dragons creator, Gary Gygax, actually founded the show. What does this mean for WotC and Gen Con?

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Links:

-"The New Tech Making Game Preservation More Authentic and Future-Proof" by Kyle Orland, discusses Digital Eclipse Software, the studio that made Mega Man Legacy Collection.

-"No WotC at Gen Con This Year?" An EnWorld thread surrounding WotC's decision to not officially have Dungeons & Dragons at Gen Con this year.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Mega Man 3 - Selection Theme" by Yasuaki Fujita (aka Bunbun)

-"Wave Myself Goodbye" by Rory Gallagher

-"Free" by Suprkidz

Week in Geek: Andrew nearly swims between the polar ends of Final Fantasy by watching Final Fantasy X HD Remaster and playing for himself Final Fantasy for iOS. Dan, on the other hand, has been playing The Swindle on PS4.

Dungeon Master's Guild: Dan and Andrew discuss a few of the facets involved with Wizards of the Coast's and Dungeon & Dragon's news about the newly opened "Dungeon Master's Guild" whereby user-created DnD content can be sold without worry of legal repercussion.

Starman: Andrew and Dan spend some time to talk about the death of David Bowie, despite the fact that their exposure to his work was tangential and limited at best. However, it must be said that his work and impact was hard to ignore.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Changes" by David Bowie

-"The Man Who Sold the World" by Midge Ure

-"Magic Dance (Single Version)" by David Bowie

Week in Geek: Inspired by last week, Andrew starts watching Cowboy Bebop while Dan checks out the new sketchbook by one of his favorite working artists, Giannis Milonogiannis, called Never Be Game Over.

Sub Vs. Dub: Dan and Andrew tackle what is possibly a moot issue in the world of digital home video and media, but they still find the issues underpinning the perennial debate over which is a better experience: subtitled anime versus English dubbed versions.

Toshiro Mifune: Despite being a bit of older news, Andrew and Dan discuss the importance of Hollywood recognizing the contributions of Toshiro Mifune to not only Japanese cinema but American (and worldwide) cinema as well.

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Links:

-Giannis Milonogiannis: http://www.milonogiannis.com/

-Giannis' 2015 Sketchbook, Never Be Game Over: https://gumroad.com/l/azxsu

-Ted Woolsey & Translating Final Fantasy III (VI): http://www.playeronepodcast.com

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Let's Fighting Love" by Trey Parker (from South Park episode 8.1, "Good Times With Weapons")

-"Titles" by Masaru Satoh & His Orchestra (from Yojimbo)

-"Cyborg Mermaid" by Kaori Akima (from Gunnm [Battle Angel] OVA)

SPOILER ALERT: Dan and Andrew go into detail about the plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in this episode. So, if you haven't seen it, please refrain from listening. You have been notified.

The new year is brought in an...interesting...fashion. Base humor and extended conversations are but a small step into 2016!

Week in Geek: The boys play some catch up as Andrew plays Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Dan watches Cowboy Bebop.

The Force Awakens A Lot of Opinions: The movie that caught the world's imagination is under the lens this week, though both Dan and Andrew come to Star Wars: The Force Awakens from very different places with very different attitudes. It is a movie that has been universally praised but severely dissected among the fandom. Andrew and Dan dissect the schism as well as offer bits of their own insights into this, overall, fun movie.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Main Title and the Attack on the Jakku Village" by John Williams (from Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

-"The Jedi Steps and Finale" by John Williams (from Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

The boys bring in the holidays with some Week in Geek talk.

Andrew plays a game of Dread whereby his life hangs in the balance (and his ability to play Jenga) while Dan plays Transformers: Devastation and ponders the applicability of nostalgia in modern media.

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

Come back next week for Episode 77 as For All Intents and Purposes ring in the new year (and probably have some Star Wars talk, as well).

Featured Music:

-"Thunder Busters" by Wax Audio

As you wait in line for your viewing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, listen to two over-educated nerds talk about things tangentially related to the biggest release this year.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays a bunch of new games, including Bastion, Rollers of the Realm, and Assassin's Creed Chronicle: China on the PlayStation 4 while Dan reads Ian Bogost's new book, How to Talk About Video Games.

Trio of Trailers: Dan and Andrew discuss the ups and downs of exciting new sequels awaiting release: Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out From the Shadows, and Independence Day: Resurgence.

Hutt-Killer: Andrew and Dan weave through the controversy surrounding Disney's decision to pull all "Slave Leia" content from store shelves, and Andrew goes on a bit of a Lego rant.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme (from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle)

-"Ewok Celebration and Finale" by John Williams (from Return of the Jedi)

-"Yoda" by "Weird Al" Yankvoic

SPOILER WARNING: Details from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and other video games are discussed in this episode and can be considered spoilers. Keep that in mind before you proceed.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Dragon Quest for iOS while Dan watches Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown on Blu-Ray.

Games With Feels: Based on a specific experience Andrew had while playing through Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Dan and Andrew discuss video games that have created in them strong emotional responses based on more than just a cutscene and plot point, but when actually playing the game elicits emotional reactions and why that is an important development of the medium.

The article about Tomb Raider Dan mentions can be found at knowngriefers.com.

A Sad Game About Nuclear Disarmament: Andrew and Dan discuss a hidden cutscene found in the files of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's (that were confirmed by Konami) that will only play if, in the online portion of the game, players decide to lay down their nuclear weapons and employ a digital peace. Based around this Ars Technica article by Kyle Orland, this seems to be the culmination of Hideo Kojima's goals with the Metal Gear Solid series.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Sins of the Father" by Donna Burke (from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)

-"A Phantom Pain" by Ludvig Forssell (from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)

-"When Doves Cry" by Prince

It's a bit of a ramshackle affair this week as the boys (mostly Dan) were plagued by technical issues, but they wouldn't let that stop them from bringing you a new episode!

Week in Geek: Andrew watches Ronin again and gets some spicy behind-the-scenes details while Dan plays dress-up in Batman: Arkham Knight.

Cards Against Black Friday: Dan and Andrew detail the questionable history the cynically dark Cards Against Humanity has with the equally cynical (but different) Black Friday shopping event.

Howard No More: With the announcement at the most recent World Fantasy Convention that they would no longer be distributing a bust of H.P. Lovecraft as an award due to the author's public and well-known racist and elitist views, different portions of fandom exploded with either outrage or victory (both sides have legitimate angles). Andrew and Dan discuss why this may be a good thing or a bad thing (mostly good).

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits

-"Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan

-"Everything is Broken" by The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

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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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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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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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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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).

It's time for the great Spookytober Celebration! For your own safety, listen with the lights on.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays the ludomodular board game, 504, while Dan wraps up Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Cthulhu Called, No One's Home: In the interest of Spookytober, Dan and Andrew return to famed horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, and one of his most revered (and culturally important) stories, "The Call of Cthulhu," as well as discuss the really fun silent film version made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

The Horror Returns: Andrew and Dan discuss what is likely the scariest of all horror movies: the not-very-good-but-hey-at-least-they-tried-something-different sequel! WARNING: contains discussion of Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

The Doctor is IN: In light of the news that David Tennant would be returning to the role of the Doctor in audio form with Big Finish, Dan and Andrew discuss the interesting implications.

Next Week: THE END! Video game endings, that is. Good ones, bad ones, weird ones, lack-of-ones. Endings are all over the place and, with games especially, carry a lot of emotional and narrative baggage with them so that it's nearly impossibly to please everybody.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Cthulhu Clock" by D. Bethel

-"Triangles" by Reber Clark

-"Halloween Theme - Main Title" by John Carpenter

-"I Am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee

-"Halloweenhead" by Ryan Adams

Spookytober is halted, briefly and partially, to address the time-traveling elephant in the room: October 21, 2015! Er, I mean, Back to the Future Day!

Week in Geek: Andrew got a Playstation 4 and played Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and shot a lot of dudes while Dan saw Crimson Peak.

BttFP2: To introduce Back to the Future Day, Dan and Andrew spend some time to talk about the overall legacy of Back to the Future, Part II.

Predicting the Future: Andrew and Dan, in honor of the moment, spend some time talking about science-fiction predicting not only the far future, but the near future and what that tells us about...us.

Dead By Dawn: Because it's Spookytober, Dan and Andrew discuss the first two films of the venerated Evil Dead franchise because, basically, they're the same movie told through two very different lenses. And that's weird.

Next week we bring Spookytober to a close, so tune in for scary stuff, no doubt.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Main Title" & "End Titles" by Alan Silvestri (from Back to the Future Part II)

-"Back in Time" by Huey Lewis and the News

-"March of the Dead" by Danny Elfman (from Army of Darkness)

Spookytober kicks off with Episode 68! Grab your grimoire and your notebook and let's find some demons to fight!

Week in Geek: In a twist, Dan talks about Transformers plans with "Titans Return" while Andrew plays Super Meat Boy.

Feel the Hurt: It was announced that acclaimed actor, John Hurt, would be reprising his role as The War Doctor from his appearance on Doctor Who in licensed Big Finish audio dramas. While Andrew and Dan talk about how cool this idea is itself, they also ponder what this could mean for the future of Big Finish Audio.

Paranormal Investigation: Dan and Andrew dig into the implications, origins, and general coolness that is paranormal/supernatural investigative fiction.

The Last Laugh: It was recently made public that Warner Bros. is totally cool with the upcoming animated adaptation of the DC comics Batman/Joker story, The Killing Joke, being Rated R. What does this mean?!

Next week: Since the future has been foretold by the gospel of Back to the Future, Part II, we'll be talking about the reality versus the fiction of October 21, 2015.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"I am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee

-"X-Files: Theme from X-Files" by Mark Snow (as performed by Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra)

-"Batdance" by Prince

-"Fringe Main Title Theme" by J.J. Abrams

-"Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas

Life got in the way of the normal recording schedule. The previously scheduled full episode will be pushed until next week. However, the guys at FAIAP don't want to leave you in the lurch, so they bring you an emergency Shortcast.

Week in Geek: Andrew watches Heroes Reborn while Dan nerds out over recently discovered Caravaggio paintings and drawings. 

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Thunder Busters" by Wax Audio

Even though this show is about spoilers and how nerd culture responds to them, there are no spoilers in this episode whatsoever.

Week in Geek: Andrew played Breath of Fire IV and ponders the choices of this rather forgotten series while Dan started playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and wonders how the hell it even exists.

The Dimensions of Lego: Dan and Andrew discuss the recently released toy-to-life game, Lego Dimensions; one of them is rather excited about it, another is, um, not.

SPOILERS (no spoilers): Andrew and Dan disagree a lot as they wend their way through a discussion on spoiler culture, its origins, our reactions, and how studios use them as marketing tools.

RIP PS VITA: According to this Kotaku article, Sony honcho, Shuhei Yoshida, makes a bold argument as to why the PS Vita hasn't fared so well in the market––pointing fingers (some justified, some not) at everyone but Sony itself.

Geeking Forward: Next week we'll be discussion supernatural/paranormal investigative fiction and how rad it is––all in the name of introducing Scarytober! 

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Everything is Awesome" by Tegan & Sara (feat. The Lonely Island) (from The Lego Movie)

-"Main Theme" by John Ottman (from The Usual Suspects)

-"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" by William Elliot Whitmore

-"Fanfare" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI)

As was warned last week, this new episode is mostly about the Series 9 premier of Doctor Who. Be warned discussion of the episode will result in SPOILERS, so turn away from the podcast (take off your headphones first) if you want to avoid such discussion.

Week in Geek: The boys were playing video games this week as Andrew finished playing Suikoden on his PS Vita while Dan wrapped up Mad Max and ponders open-world console games in the process.

The Redemption of Bill Finger: By the end of the recently started second season of Fox's Gotham as well as in the credits for the upcoming Superman v. Batman: Dawn of Justice it has been announced that Bill Finger will be co-credited, along with Bob Kane, as the creator of Batman. Dan and Andrew discuss the relevance of this announcement.

The Magician's Apprentice: SPOILER WARNING Andrew and Dan discuss––in frightening depth, the series 9 premier of Doctor Who. 

Let's Kill Hitler: At the heart of "The Magician's Apprentice" is a long-standing thought experiment, of which Dan and Andrew dive into its history and use in fiction (and its cultural relevance). *features audio taken from Doctor Who, "Genesis of the Daleks"

Next Week: We'll be discussing Spoiler culture––why do we like spoilers and why are we so afraid of them? That and more in episode 67.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Doctor Who Theme (Series 8)" by Murray Gold

-"Jeeves and Wooster" by Anne Dudley

-"How's It Gonna End" by Tom Waits

Week in Geek: Andrew finally plays a WiiU with the Nintendo title, Super Mario 3D World, while Dan discusses his time at this year's Crocker-Con at the Crocker Art Museum.

Group Gaming: Before the internet connected people worldwide, the solitary world of video gaming was often perforated by moments of playing a single game with a group of people. Dan and Andrew discuss this nostalgic (and still present) method of playing games with people in the room rather than online.

Game & Watch: With the rise of televised (or streamed) eSports and the success of things like Twitch Plays or Let's Plays, gaming is more connected than ever. However, with the addition of a passive gaming experience does bring up interesting questions and ideas to what gaming is and how it's changing.

Doctor Who Series 9 Prologue: If you haven't seen it, watch it here. Once that's done, listen to Andrew and Dan talk about Doctor Who if only to prepare for a full episode about Doctor Who next week.

Question of the Geek:

To celebrate the return of Doctor Who, what are your thoughts about the show, what questions do you have about the show, and (if necessary) why don't you like the show? Looking outward, what is other British Sci-Fi that you feel deserves more attention?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Comradeship" by Norihiko Hibino (from Metal Gear Solid 2: The Other Side)

-"Watch It Die" by Bad Religion

-"(The Majestic Tale of) An Idiot With a Box" by Murray Gold (from Doctor Who: Series 8)

-"The Candy Man Can" by Aubrey Woods (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)

This week the boys investigate a topic very near and dear to many sci-fi nerds' hearts: Battlestar Galactica. 

Week in Geek: Andrew finally plays Shadows of Brimstone while Dan eagerly plays Mad Max.

Wes Craven: Wherein Dan and Andrew discuss the death of horror master, Wes Craven.

BSG: Though Battlestar Galactica has a long lineage over multiple series, Andrew and Dan decide to focus on the 2005 Ronald D. Moore-helmed reboot that ran on the Sci Fi Channel. There's so much to talk about that they only scrape the surface, but what's there is pretty fun!

AppleTV New.0: Apple had a big reveal this week, and though a lot of interesting things were covered, Andrew was particularly excited about the new AppleTV.

Question of the Geek:

With the popularity of Let's Plays, eSports, etc., we want to know what the draw is about watching people play games? Do you watch? What do you watch? How do you watch?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Nightmare Overhaul" by Tops and Bottoms

-"All Along the Watchtower" by Bear McCreary (from Battlestar Galactica)

-"Waiting Room" by Philippe Lachance (from Spaceteam)

-"Space: 1999 Main Titles" by Barry Gray

This week we talk about last week's PAX Prime event! We even had a man in the field. His name is Andrew.

Week in Geek: Andrew hosts trivia with the 12th source for all nerdy and geeky news and discussion podcast, Nerdhole (check out their website for some terrific PAX Prime 2015 coverage), while Dan gets emotional and nostalgic as he watched a father play through the Oculus Rift Apollo Moon Landing demo.

PAX Prime 2015 News: Some announcements were made and news was had at this year's event. Dan and Andrew go through the things that piqued their interests.

PAX and Nerd Conventions: Andrew and Dan go over how PAX fits into the convention circuit that dominates the nerd world right now, what conventions mean––how those meanings have changed over time––and what it means for nerds in the future.

PAX Megagames: Andrew gets a chance to hop the velvet rope and actually work for a megagame at PAX, and they discuss the differences due to his role, where it took place, and how the game played.

Question of the Geek:

Did you like the 2005 Battlestar Galactica reboot? If so, how did it get its hooks into you? If not, why did you dislike it?

We also talked about the financial returns of the great Atari E.T. dig, and Dan will be at Sacramento's Art Mix | Crocker-Con event on September 10th. Get details (and tickets) here.

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Slow Brood" by Andrew Hale & Simon Hale (from L.A. Noire)

-"Orion" by The Scorched Earth Orchestra (Metallica cover)

-"Mega Man 3 - Selection Theme" by Yasuaki Fujita (aka Bunbun)

-"Watch the Skies" by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

The boys recede into the shadows to talk about Ninjas and Superspies for all intents and purposes.

Week in Geek: Andrew finally watches Mad Max: Fury Road while Dan finally watches The Imitation Game.

MGSVTPP: On the precipice of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's release, they have the gall to ask, "Who is the is game for?"

Ninja(s) and Superspies: Dan and Andrew look into the differences––and similarities––between these two classic archetypes of nerd fiction.

Hattori Hanzo: Launching off of a listener's answer to last week's question, Andrew and Dan wonder why the heck historical figure, Hattori Hanzo, is all over ninja fiction.

Question of the Geek:

PAX Prime 2015 is upon us! We want to know what you're looking forward to or, alternatively, what was the most exciting stuff to come out of this year's event?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Here's To You" by Joan Baez & Ennio Morricone

-"Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers

-"Stage of Hanzo" by Yasuo Yamata (aka Tate Norio) (from Samurai Shodown III: Blades of Blood)

-"Secret Agent" by Rory Gallagher

Week in Geek: Andrew buys a Playstation Vita to play the 20 year-old game, Suikoden, but only so he can play Suikoden II, eventually. Dan gets mad after watching the documentary, GTFO.

Wild Arms 3: Before getting to the topic of the influence of westerns, Dan and Andrew look at a very specific––and, perhaps, out of the blue––instance of this with the 2002 JRPG, Wild Arms 3.

The Western Evolution: Rather than simply talking about the Western as a genre of storytelling, Andrew and Dan instead discuss how the western persists past its cultural prime and, despite seeming like a withering genre overall, is more alive than ever.

Listeners on the Range: To help flesh out the conversation, Dan and Andrew turned to the listeners and asked what westerns or western-influenced media deserves a closer look, with great response!

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite use of ninja(s) or superspies (in any medium)? Which do you feel have been particularly influential? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Finish Today, Then..." by Michiko Naruke (from Wild Arms: Advanced 3rd Original Soundtrack)

-"A Fistful of Dollars" by Ennio Morricone

-"When I Was a Cowboy" by Leadbelly

-"Shadow" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI)

-"Fanfare" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII)

Week in Geek: Andrew plays a megagame while Dan breaks down watching Jon Stewart's last episode of The Daily Show and ponders what, exactly, Stewart was to a generation of viewers.

Meta-Listeners: Our listeners chime in on meta-texts that really piqued their interests while Dan and Andrew chime in on those suggestions.

Meta-Fiction: Andrew and Dan delve deep into the world of stories about stories, movies about movies, tv shows about tv shows, and games about games and ask what the heck do meta-narratives do?

Hercules/Xena Meta-Episodes: Dan and Andrew spend the better part of an hour (or not) discussing a few episodes of these classic tv fantasy shows' use of meta-fiction for some fun one-off episodes...or not.

Question of the Geek: 

Next week, we'll be discussing how despite the fact that the genre of the Western is relatively dead, it has been repurposed in nearly every other genre of fiction. So, with that in mind:

What is your favorite Western-themed fiction (in any genre and in any medium)? Why? Or what is a western that you think has been particularly influential and needs more attention? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"This Song's Just (Six Words Long)" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

-"Hook" by Blues Traveler

-clip of "Guantanamo By the Bay" from Boston Legal 3.22.

-"Main Title" by Joseph LoDuca (from Xena: Warrior Princess)

-"Animaniacs Theme" by Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, and Jess Harnell (written by Richard Stone & Tom Ruegger)

-"Before the Storm" by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

Week in Geek: Andrew watches John Carpenter's They Live to honor the life of Rowdy Roddy Piper while Dan listens to the podcast, Top Score with Emily Reese, discuss the ludomusicology of Final Fantasy VI.

BTAS: Dan and Andrew wrangle a new television show to talk about, Batman: The Animated Series. They use the classic episode, "Perchance to Dream", as a way to kick off the discussion about dreams and dreaming in nerd ficiton.

Dreams and Dreaming: Andrew and Dan weave through a variety of media as they discuss how (and why) dreams are used as a narrative tool (or crutch, in some cases).

Listener Dreams (and Star Trek): Some listener responses brought up great uses of dreams in fiction while Andrew uses the opportunity to discuss a fantastic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Phantasms", which features Data having nightmares.

Question of the Geek:

What are effective instances of meta-narrative––when a text is acutely aware of the fact that it is a text and brings the reader in on the joke?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Batman: The Animated Series (Main Title)" by Danny Elfman (arranged by Shirley Walker)

-"Dreaming in Dortmund" by Ewan Dobson

-"Dreamland" by Hirokazu Ando (from Super Smash Bros.)

We start a (slightly) new form of the podcast this week, and we kick it off with the theme of "Gateways to Geekdom."

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Commander (aka Elder Dragon Highlander) with a custom 30 Rock deck while Dan plays Journey which was recently released for the Playstation 4.

Listener Gateways: Thanks to listener input, Dan and Andrew discuss the classic gateways to geekdom that are Star Wars and the Atari 2600.

Gateways to Geekdom: Thanks to a listener suggestion from an earlier episode, Andrew and Dan discuss the various gateways to geekdom have been as well as the impact those gateways had on geeks and nerd in general.

The Farpoint Gateway: Dan and Andrew discuss a gateway to geekdom that was especially important to Andrew, the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, "Encounter at Farpoint."

Question of Geek:

What do you think is an effective use of dreams or dreaming in a fiction (in any medium)?

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Main Title" adapted from John Williams' "Main Theme" from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (from the Atari 2600 game, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by Atari)

-"Iron Man 3" by Brian Tyler

-"Star Trek: The Next Generation - End Credit" by Ron Jones

-"Come On, Come Over" by Jaco Pastorius

We're back after a few weeks of Shortcasts and this week it's all about space, keeping all of the recent NASA news in mind.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays and ponders the mechanics and morals of Endeavor while Dan geeks out over The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Boast of Bethel: With the new images of Pluto, Dan wonders how HP Lovecraft, a devoted amateur astronomer who was writing when Pluto was first discovered, would process these high-definition images. Then he laments the divide between science and creativity.

The Influence of Space: With everybody looking up again, Andrew and Dan discuss how humanity's reach into the great unknown has influenced our use of it in fiction.

Browncoat: Dan finally gets Andrew to sit down and watch the pilot to the short lived, but deified, sci-fi western television show, Firefly. 

Question of the Geek:

What was your "gateway to geekdom"?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Uncertainty" by Reber Clark (from At the Mountains of Madness - Sketches for the H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast)

-"Firefly [Main Title]" by Sonny Rhodes

-"Victory" by Ben Prunty (from FTL: Faster Than Light)

-Excerpt from "The Whisperer in the Darkness" read by Dudley Knight for KPKV Radio

Our last Shortcast of the break covers San Diego Comic Con 2015. We look at the big reveals and some news that was released (mostly movie and TV-related) before asking ourselves, now that it's all over: what is SDCC now?

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We're back next week with Episode 57! Thanks for your patience!

For all intents and purposes, that was a Shortcast recap.

Featured Music:

-"Thunderbusters" by Wax Audio

We've got a new Week in Geek Shortcast this week.

First, Andrew played an app-assisted board game called Alchemists as well as pondered the implications of an Escapist article about A.I.-created Magic: The Gathering cards. Dan finally gets 100% on Batman: Arkham Knight, and also decided to give the 2001 animated sci-fi flick, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, another chance.

We'll be back with one more Shortcast about the recent San Diego Comic Con before returning next week with Episode 57!

For all intents and purposes, that was a Shortcast.

Featured Music:

-"Thunderbusters" by Wax Audio

Andrew talks to former guests Jake Waltier and Jonathan Adler as they discuss board game company Fantasy Flight Games and their license to publish tabletop games based on content created by Games Workshop, including the settings of iconic games like Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 settings. Also, Jonathan admits his feelings about Kit Kats! kitkatfast.tumblr.com

Featured Music:

-"Reign of the Septims" by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

-"Thunderbusters" by Wax Audio

The first of our shortcasts for the summer break. Today, it's all about our week in geek. Andrew discusses Blizzard's foray into the MOBA world with Heroes of the Storm, while Dan talks about Batman: Arkham Knight some more before discussing the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, Conan the Barbarian.

Week in Geek: Andrew watches the classic Italian film with tenuous ties to the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Sacco y Vanzetti while Dan can't drive in Batman: Arkham Knight.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: With this week's theme being about death, they watch antoher TNG episode titled "Tapestry" where Captain Picard...dies?!?!

Death (and Defeat) in Gaming: An extension from last week's topic about violence in gaming, this week Dan and Andrew examine how death is used––and how it has changed––in gaming.

The Death of Optimus Prime: Looking away from gaming for a bit (while staying on topic), Andrew and Dan discuss a prominent nerd death from the 1986 classic, The Transformers: The Movie.

Question of the Geek:

What has been the most impactful fictional death for you and why?

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We won't be posting full episodes for a few weeks as we take a summer break, but we will have Shortcasts going up in our absence, so keep checking the feed!

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Star Trek: The Next Generation - End Credits" by Ron Jones

-"Rogue Legacy (Main Theme)" by Tettix

-"Death of Optimus Prime" by Vince DiCola (from The Transformers: The Movie)

-"Dare" by Stan Bush (from The Transformers: The Movie)

Week in Geek: Andrew dines on Alton Brown's Good Eats while Dan supports Dan-culture as he watches a kind of bad/kind of awesome movie titled Bad Asses on the Bayou.

James Horner: Dan and Andrew talk a little bit about the revered film composer who, sadly, died this week in a plane crash.

Violence in Gaming: Tackling what is, in some circles, a taboo subject this week, Andrew and Dan don't dive into the cultural impact of violence in gaming; rather, they discuss how it manifests in gaming (both tabletop and video games).

Dan Hibiki: Dan and Andrew discuss one of the most mercurial and interesting fighting game characters, detailing his history and ever-changing ability as a street fighter.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite fighting game (not series, but specific game)?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Bishop's Countdown" by James Horner (from Aliens)

-"Fight 1" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV)

-"Dan's Theme" by Hideyuki Fukasawa (from Street Fighter IV)

-"Clamato Fever (Menu)" by AE & Prozax from OC ReMix: Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix Official Soundtrack)

Week in Geek: Andrew addresses the Steam Sale as well as a horrible Dragonlance animated film. Dan shares his continuing Rogue Legacy woes.

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Prequel: A big gaming announcement at this week's E3 conference was that Square-Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy VII remake. Fans around the world collectively melted. What about the remake do Dan and Andrew expect and look forward to?

The Cost of Gaming: From DLC to Freemium pay-walls to retail prices, the cost of gaming is a variable notion today. Andrew and Dan examine this idea from a variety of angles to try and figure out why it's so open to interpretation and exploitation.

Shenmue III: Another big announcement at E3 this year was the Kickstarter campaign for Shenmue III, the long suffering Sega franchise that could have possibly sunk the Dreamcast. The announcement broke Kickstarter, broke records for funding, and revealed possibly shady backroom dealings that make this a much more complicated topic than it seems.

Question of the Geek:

What has been your favorite DLC to date? Why?

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Red XIII's Theme" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VII)

-"Starving in the Belly of a Whale" by Tom Waits

-"Surprise Hotel" by Fool's Gold

-"A Cerebus Plot" by Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect 3)

Week in Geek: Andrew plays more Free-to-Play games while Dan travels back in time to a previous Week in Geek for Andrew and plays the infuriating Rogue Legacy.

NTG: To kick off the discussion about time travel, Dan and Andrew decide to watch "Yesterday's Enterprise," their first foray into Star Trek: The Next Generation on the show! What happens when two Enterprises pass in the night? Explosions.

Time Travel: Andrew and Dan investigate the use and implications of time travel in popular fiction.

Time Paradox: Since they're talking about time travel, Dan and Andrew also talk about what happens when time travel breaks time.

Question of the Geek:

What is yoru favorite fictional use of time travel?

and/or

What is your favorite instance of a paradox in fiction?

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Star Trek: The Next Generation - End Credits" by Ron Jones

-"(The Majestic Tale of) an Idiot With a Box" by Murray Gold (from Doctor Who - Series 8 Original Television Soundtrack)

-"Main Title (Terminator 2 Theme)" by Brad Fiedel

-"Faith of the Heart" by Russell Watson (from Star Trek: Enterprise)

Week in Geek: Andrew binge re-watches The X-Files on Netflix and sees a lot of new things he hadn't seen before while Dan binge-plays The Last of Us Remastered and loses hope in humanity while gaining hope in gaming.

New Games: Dan and Andrew discuss the trailers released for two hotly anticipated games: Fallout 4 and XCom 2.

Binge-Watching: Andrew and Dan discuss binge-watching television in general: what it means for television, what it means for the future of television, and how it is changing our habits as television watchers.

Boast of Bethel: Dan discusses language used in reviews of Netflix's Daredevil when it was released and how binge-watching is changing the way we talk about television.

Question of the Geek:

What are your favorite opening credits from a television show? Why?

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"It's All Over But the Crying" by The Ink Spots

-"All Day Sucker" by Stevie Wonder

-"Main Title" by John Paesano & Braden Kimball (from DAREDEVIL: Music from the Original Series)

Even though we hit a huge milestone with Episode 50 last week, Episode 51 carries even more emotional baggage as it is being released on the exact 1-year anniversary of the launch of For All Intents and Purposes. We made it!

Week in Geek: It was a bit of shared purposes this week as both guys played old, old games. Andrew obsessively played the Final Fantasy VI iteration that was released for the Game Boy Advance while Dan played the recently HD remastered released of the Lucasarts' classic, Grim Fandango.

Year in Geek: Dan and Andrew take a minute to look back at the year that was, indeed, for all intents and purposes.

The Rashomon Effect: This week, Andrew and Dan decided to discuss the increasing and prevalent phenomenon in television that takes its unique storytelling framework from the 1950 Akira Kurosawa film, Rashomon, where one story is told from multiple perspectives.

The Rashomon Job: If you haven't been exposed too much to Rashomon-type stories, Dan and Andrew recommend checking out the standalone Leverage episode, "The Rashomon Job." It's a nice introduction to both the show itself (little context is needed) and to the idea of The Rashomon Effect.

Question of the Geek:

What topic(s) would you like the show to revisit or discuss?

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For all intents and purposes that was a year!

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Back in Time" by Huey Lewis and the News

-"Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall

-"Leverage Main Theme" by Joe LoDuca

-"My Time to Be a Star" by Reba West (from Robotech Perfect Soundtrack Album)

-"Look Up! The Sky is Falling" by Michael Bradley (from Robotech Perfect Soundtrack Album)

Welcome to EPISODE 50! This week it's all about nostalgia with a dash of navel-gazing.

Week in Geek: Andrew finally watches a Hayao Miyazaki film, Castle in the Sky, while Dan geeks out over Mad Max: Fury Road.

#WheresNatasha: Revisiting an earlier topic, a recent e-mail leak revealed studio heads discussing why a female-led superhero movie won't work based on terrible (in every sense of the word) evidence. Dan and Andrew discuss the implications of this information.

Doctor Who Nostalgia: In the interest of nostalgia, Andrew and Dan discuss how Doctor Who has appreciated itself (that sounded better in my head) over the years, specifically with its anniversary specials. Plus, Dan and Andrew come up with a great idea for the next one.

Final Fantasy V: If this is an episode about nostalgia, you had better believe Andrew and Dan are going to talk about Final Fantasy. This time they cover the final 16-bit game (which they haven't yet covered), the fifth one.

Question of the Geek:

What piece of nerd culture are you most nostalgic for?

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For all intents and purposes, that was a fiftieth episode recap.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"The Princes of the Universe" by Queen

-"One Chance" by Eric Clapton

-"I Am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee

-"Dear Friends" by Nobuo Uematsu with the Royal Stockholm Orchestra (from Distant Worlds II: More Music from Final Fantasy)

-"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters

-"I'll Make a Man Out of You" by Donny Osmond (from Mulan)

Week in Geek: Andrew watched a heavily promoted Netflix-original, Grace and Frankie, while Dan reads the recently re-collected The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past comic work, as commissioned by Nintendo Power, and written & drawn by the legendary Shotaro Ishinomori.

Don't Play: Dan and Andrew come at you with another game they do not recommend; and let's reinforce this aspect: DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. This time, they discuss the absolute question mark that is Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi. *shudder*

The Forced Evolution of Characters: In the wake of recently released images of fan-favorite character, Yoshimitsu, from Tekken 7, Andrew and Dan look back at characters from games, tv, and comics have changed so much over time and analyze why this happens, with both positive and negative intentions.

Ownership Roundabout: Recently, famed comics writer and artist, Gerry Conway, posted a scathing review of his situation with DC Comics regarding royalties and ownership of character he created while in their employ. DC's brilliant but shady workaround paying or even crediting creators deserved a closer look from Dan and Andrew.

Question of the Geek:

Who (or what) is your favorite fighting game character? Why?

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

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Star Wars Main Title/A Galaxy Divided" by Kevin Kiner (from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, based on themes by John Williams)

-"Cantina Band #2" by John Williams (from Star Wars: A New Hope)

-"I Want It All" by Queen

-"Phoenix Wright - Objection!" by Noriyuki Iwadare (from Ace Attorney Meets Jazz Soul)

WARNING: This week's episode is about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Avengers: Age of Ultron; while spoilers are earnestly avoided, no guarantees can be made. Proceed with caution.

Week in Geek: Well, they both saw Avengers: Age of Ultron, so they can't talk about that. Andrew watched the documentaries Get Lamp and Atari: Game Over (again) while Dan played the recently released nostalgia-show, Strider.

Watching Order: Dan and Andrew give you the rundown of what you need to see before you see Avengers: Age of Ultron; just the bare necesseties.

Age of Ultron: Andrew and Dan don't review the new movie, per se. Instead they talk about what it does right, what it does not as right, and what it's doing that is interesting.

Agents of SHIELD: Dan and Andrew discuss how well Marvel is using their tv show, Agents of SHIELD, but then wonder if the payoff is worth it in the long-run.

Question of the Geek:

What has been your favorite entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"The Invincible Iron Man Theme", "The Marvel Super Heroes Have Arrived", and "The Mighty Thor Theme" (from The Marvel Super Heroes) by Jacques Urbont

-"Boston Legal Theme" by Danny Lux

Week in Geek: Andrew sets up a new 13th Age campaign and watches the hell out of some Iron Chef: America while Dan preps to be an exhibitor at his local comic shop's Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con (May 2nd at 9am, Empire's Comics Vault - 1120 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA) and started playing Bioshock: Infinite because he got it for free from Microsoft.

Hold Power Button to Save: Dan and Andrew take some time to discuss the floundering genre that is the Video Game Movie––why does it never work? Can it ever work?

Konami: The Final Domino: With the announcement that the Hideo Kojima & Guillermo Del Toro-helmed Silent Hill reboot, Silent Hills, announced as being cancelled by Konami due, likely, to the departure of Kojima from the company, Andrew and Dan examine what, in hindsight, seems to be the steady decline of the Japanese console video game industry since its height in the '80s through the '90s.

Silent Hill: Since it was brought up in the previous two segments, Dan and Andrew look back at the series and reflect on what really separated it from the otherwise oversaturated survival-horror pack.

Question of the Geek:

Is there a video game which you think a movie adaptation should (or could) be attempted? What is it and why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen

-"Jumpin' Johnny" by Chunk Raspberry (from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)

-"Silent Hill Theme" by Akira Yamaoka (from Silent Hill)

-"Hi-Tone Fandango" by Peter McConnell (from Grim Fandango)

Week in Geek: Andrew (and Dan, as well) watch the documentary, Atari: Game Over, about the search to find the buried copies of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Atari game, while Dan plays a game he's played handfuls of times before on a tiny handeld system.

Final Fantasy IV: With Final Fantasy Record Keeper still digging its way into both Dan and Andrew's respective brains, they dive back into the Final Fantasy pool and talk about, this time, Final Fantasy IV (a.k.a., Final Fantasy II, which Dan argues may be a better title for not obvious reasons).

The Great Trailer Fiasco of 2015: Andrew and Dan probe a bit into the strange week/week-and-a-half that saw the release of high-profile trailers and how they all interacted with each other, for better or for worse.

The "Fantastic" Four: One of the high-profile trailers that dropped this last week or so was a full trailer for Fox's upcoming Fantastic Four, their reboot of their middling, two-movie series from the last decade. With Marvel on the rise and no apparent crossover with Fox's other superhero Marvel series, X-Men, Dan and Andrew wonder why Fox is betting so much on this singular property.

Question of the Geek:

What is a recent trailer (for a movie, tv series, video game, etc.) that has really gotten you excited? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Dancing Calcobrena" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV)

-"Chewbacca" by Supernova

-"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers

-"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" by Tina Turner (from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)

As promised, here is the extended interview D. Bethel had with Jason Tudor, about his new webcomic, Vorpal, that was featured in a truncated version in Episode 45. 

Here you'll find many more topics and extended discussions on topics than were featured on the episode.

We hope you enjoy the extended interview!

For all intents and purposes, that was an extended interview!

Week in Geek: Andrew (and Dan) get caught up in the latest nostalgia-driven mobile free-to-play game, Final Fantasy Record Keeper while Dan watches yet another Hayao Miyazaki movie (this time, it's Porco Rosso).

Vorpal, Shoot Between Heartbeats: Dan sits down with previous guest, Jason Tudor, to talk about Jason's new sci-fi, espionage webcomic, Vorpal, creative goals, inspirations, and philosophies. This is a very truncated version of a much longer interview, which will be uploaded on its own at a later date. 

Free to Play Games: With the previously mentioned Final Fantasy Record Keeper, Dan and Andrew talk Free-to-Play games––also known as "Freemium" games––and what their trend in gaming means to gaming and nerd culture at large.

Marvel Takes a Dare...devil: Not to ignore some major nerd news, Andrew and Dan discuss the recent Netflix Marvel TV show, Daredevil, and what it means to Marvel and TV watching in general.

Question of the Geek: 

What's been a Free-to-Play game that has gotten its hooks into you?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"There's Something in Here (theme from The Science Fiction Show)" by Aaron Kusterer

-"Freedom Isn't Free" by Trey Parker (from Team America: World Police)

-"I'd Rather Be Blind" by Freddie King

-"Right or Wrong" by Titiyo

Welcome to a mega-sized, special episode all in celebration of International Tabletop Day!

In the interest of full disclosure, Andrew (as a representative of For All Intents and Purposes) will be hosting, along with Luke Turpeinen and Nicole Jekich (from AcrossTheBoardGames.net), an event at the Raygun Lounge in Seattle, Washington at 12pm on Saturday, 11 April for International Tabletop Day. A whole host of games will be there and prizes (including a signed & sketched copy of the Long John preview book!). Be there (or see if there are any events in your area)!

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Cities: Skylines a spiritual (and functional) successor to Sim City, while Dan watches another old movie that was a pleasant surprise, Mad Max.

AcrossTheBoardGames.Net #1: Andrew discusses with previous guests, Luke and Nicole, about how to start your own game day event.

Jonathan Adler & Ethics in Gaming: Andrew sits down with Jonathan Adler (aka The King of the Nerds) and discusses how people play games, and how its not always necessarily done in the interest of winning, and what this type of gameplay says about the players.

AcrossTheBoardGames.Net #2: Andrew, Nicole, and Luke talk about what their "hot" game is at the moment: Argent: Consortium and Skulldug!

Question of the Geek:

Have you ever played a game "wrong"?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"The Mancer's Dilemma" by Darren Korb (from Bastion)

-"Main Title" by Bear McCreary (from Battlestar Galactica)

-"Kings and Centipedes" by Stepdad

-"Spikes in a Rail" by Darren Korb (from Bastion)

Week in Geek: Andrew heads to the Emerald City Comic Con at his base of operations in Seattle while Dan watches, for the first time, First Blood, and was pleasantly surprised.

Sympathetic Villainy: Noticing the trend over the last few decades of villains in popular culture becoming rather humanized, flawed, and tragic characters, Dan and Andrew investigate this movement and what it says about popular culture.

Metal Gear Solid: Andrew and Dan take a look at this series again, but specifically at how a surprising majority of its antagonists are, in fact, quite sympathetic, especially when reflected in the moral ambiguity of the various protagonists of the games (but especially the protagonist in Metal Gear Solid 3, 4, Peace Walker, V: Ground Zeroes, and the upcoming V: The Phantom Pain.

Antiheroes: Dan and Andrew take a look at the flipside (or side step?) of the sympathetic villain, the antihero.

Here's the Psychology Today article Dan read from in this segment.

Question of the Geek:

Who is your favorite sympathetic villain and/or antihero?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' In Black" by Wax Audio

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

-"'Metal Gear Solid' Main Theme (Metal Gear Solid 3 Version)" by Harry Gregson-Williams (from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)

-"Theme from Dangeresque II: This Time It's Not Dangeresque I" by The Brothers Chaps (from Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits)

-"Titles" by Masaru Satoh (from Yojimbo)

This week was a podcast made on the run! With both hosts getting sick at different intervals and one host going out of town, it's a wonder that such quality audio comes together at all. With that in mind, please forgive us for any inconsistencies in quality.

Week in Geek: Andrew buys a dictator simulator on a Steam sale while Dan accidentally preorders a book twice and laments the amount of Gamecubes seen at a local swap meet.

Ready Player One: Steven Spielberg was recently announced as the director for the film adaptation of the nerd-favorite novel. Considering the book was written by a huge fan of '70s and '80s gaming culture, can that translate to the screen and be as impactful with Speilberg at the helm?

Fans and their Fiction:  It's widely known that nerdy fans express their appreciation for their beloved stories in many different ways. This week, we examine how fans contribute to the fictions they love so much and many of the implication involved with doing that.

Douglas Adams: We couldn't ignore the fact that we're in the middle of episode 42 and not mention Douglas Adams. Conveniently, we make the argument that Mr. Adams is also the most successful fan fiction writer...of himself.

Question of the Geek:

With regard to creating original work in a pre-existing fiction, which would you like to create for?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo

-"Express Yourself" by Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

-"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" by Joby Talbot and Hilary Summers (from the soundtrack to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

-"The Doctor and I" by John Barrowman

-"Professor Oak Theme" by Junichi Masuda (from Pokemon Red/Blue)

This week, the guys dive deep into the existential dilemma that comes with being a nerd, but they do so with a little bit of help!

Week in Geek: An old blog post about the Open Gaming License that Andrew wrote ago suddenly courted new traffic, while Dan rediscovered a snippet from his youth that he thought was lost to time.

King of the Nerds: Recently crowned King of the Nerds, Jonathan Adler (mathemetician and member of the Rock Band rock band, Crystal Math), talks with Andrew about his experiences on the third season of the TBS reality show, King of the Nerds, and they dive into different issues that the show brought up along the way.

Nerds Everywhere: Building off of topics discussed in the Jonathan Adler interview, Dan and Andrew talk more about how the definition of what a nerd is has changed over time and what it means to be a nerd, for good or for ill.

Question of the Geek:

What is your nerdy specialty, if you were to boil it down to one or two?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Why Must We Fight" by Paul Williams (written by the Sherman Brothers)

-"Hail to the Chief" by American Patriotic Music Ensemble

-"Matsuri (Irodori)" by Kodo

-"It's In The Way That You Use It" by Eric Clapton

Episode 40! An arbitrary milestone! Let's be self-reflective! Instead of that, however, a regular episode of For All Intents and Purposes has been recorded for your listening pleasure.

Week in Geek: Dan read the first issue of the new Image Comics series, Descender (by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen) while Andrew plays the Sons of Anarchy board game.

Ancient Sequels: Andrew and Dan discuss the strange phenomenon of sequels that come years––nay, decades––after the most recent installment.

Rise of the Elder Gods: Dan and Andrew look at the recent trend of really good television shows being helmed by not young, pretty actors, but by veteran––ahem––mature actors and actresses and how success does not just mean another young, pretty face.

For All Mistakes and Purposes: Andrew and Dan issue a correction.

Question of the Geek:

In general, what is a specific example of an effective sequel?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor

-"Done Got Old" by Buddy Guy

-"I Feel Free" by Cream

It's a solemn week as Dan and Andrew mourn the loss of nerdy legend, Leonard Nimoy.

Week in Geek: Dan talks about the update to his western webcomic, Long John, while also praising the new music album by John Carpenter, Lost Themes. Andrew plays Pokemon Y while also reading a zombie choose-your-own-adventure book on his Kindle, Zombocalypse Now by Matt Youngmark.

NEWSBLAST: Before getting to the meat of the episode, Andrew and Dan decide to dive into some nerdy headlines that had slipped through their fingers over the last few weeks.

Beam Me Up: Dan and Andrew say goodbye to Leonard Nimoy by discussing everything from Star Trek to Transformers to Fringe. 

Needs of the Many: To continue the memorium, Andrew and Dan discuss what is arguably Nimoy's most notable work as Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Question of the Geek:

What is a Leonard Nimoy moment or character that you would to focus on or mention in his memory?

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Live long and prosper.

Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Fallen" by John Carpenter

-"Highly Illogical" by Leonard Nimoy

-"Opening Theme" by James Horner (from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

-"You Are My Best Friend" by Queen

This week's podcast is based all on the roll of a die! Not really, but most of it is spent dicussing a seminal topic: Role-Playing Games.

Week in Geek: Andrew creates cards for a prototype card game while Dan irresponsibly purchases classic Doctor Who (out of vanity).

The Forgotten Fantasy: To kick off the dicussion of RPGs, Dan and Andrew talk about the least-talked-about entry in the Final Fantasy franchise, Final Fantasy II (not IV).

Evolution of RPGS: Tabletop RPGs, Video Game RPGS, how they influenced and diverged from each other––an epic overview that covers what you know and more.

LOST: Talking about a tv show on an RPG episode? Andrew connects the dots (but leaves many more unconnected) in this segment.

Question of the Geek:

What is a memorable moment from either a tabletop or video game RPG that hit hard with you and would like to share?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Scene VII" by Nobuo Uematsu, perf. Tokyo Symphony Orchestra (from Symphonic Suite Final Fantasy)

-"Dragonborn" by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

-"The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle

-"Fight 1" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV)

Things get tense and uncomfortable as Dan and Andrew tread upon verboten territory: nerds and politics.

Week in Geek: Andrew bought and fiddled around with the Adobe-killer Affinity Designer by Serf while Dan plays the demo of the unfinished game, Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today.

So Long, Jon: Dan and Andrew spend some time to discuss the announcement that Jon Stewart––host of The Daily Show since 1999––is steping down as the show's host.

Geek Culture & Politics: Stepping lightly, Andrew and Dan investigate a relatively simple question: Does geek culture have a political agenda?

House of Cards: Dan finally watches the pilot of the Netflix hit (adaptation of a BBC show), House of Cards, and use it as a catalyst to discuss how American politics are portrayed in televised fiction.

Question of the Geek:

What kind of political fiction would you like to see told?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Dog on Fire" by They Might Be Giants

-"Why Can't We Be Friends" by WAR

-"House of Cards Main Title Theme" by Jeff Beal

-"The West Wing Opening Theme" by W. G. Snuffy Walden

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Civilization V and Blood Bowl: Team Manager while Dan is busy creating characters for Chapter 2 of his webcomic, Long John.

Spider-Man Shared Custody: With the news that Sony Pictures is giving a modicum of control of Spider-Man to Marvel Studios, Dan and Andrew discuss the implications of this deal.

DCTV vs. MCUTV: With the recently released trailer for Marvel's Netflix series, Daredevil, Andrew and Dan discuss the differences and similarities of the Big Two's approaches to televised comic-based stories.

Leverage: Andrew has long made clear his love for the John Rogers-helmed show, Leverage. This week, he gave Dan the assignment to watch the pilot, "The Nigerian Job." 

Question of the Geek:

What is an underappreciated movie that you think more nerds and geeks need to see? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Right Back" by Jonny Lang

-"Dare" by Stan Bush

-"Leverage Main Theme" by Joe LoDuca

-"Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes

-"Chop Chop Master Onion's RAP" by Masaya Matsuura with Ryu Watabe (from PaRappa the Rapper)

The boys are back and they're tuned to 440Hz because, this week, they're bringing you an episode all about music.

Week in Geek: Andrew discusses the recently released and amazing sourcebooks for the Doctor Who tabletop RPG (well, those released so far) while Dan reads mostly-academic articles about the Adult Swim show, The Venture Bros.

Once More, With Feeling: To kick off the musical discussion, Dan and Andrew thought it made the most sense to talk about one of the most famous and popular musical episodes of television, which is, of course, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's, "Once More, With Feeling."

The Evolution of Video Game Music: This week's main discussion has Andrew and Dan investigating the slow growth of video game music from short, limited––but catchy!––loops to becoming Grammy award-winning cinematic scores. 

The Music of Erich Zann: Dan brings Andrew back to H.P. Lovecraft in one of his few music-centered tales of cosmic terror. 

Question of the Geek:

What is a song, album, composition, musician (or whatever) that you find the most interesting or compelling, for any reason?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Main Title" by Nerf Herder, orchestrated by Christophe Beck & Kevin Kleisch (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode, "Once More, With Feeling")

-"Baba Yetu" by Christpher Tin & Ron Ragin (from Civilization IV)

-"Sad Violin Thing" by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (from The Proposition)

-"Bucklers and Bonnets (Armorer Interior)" by Jake Kaufman (from Shovel Knight)

-"The Ritual/Ancient Battle/2nd Kroyka" by Gerald Fried (from Star Trek episode, "Amok Time")

-"Carry On My Wayward Son" by Gwar

Music Referenced:

-"The Music of Erich Zann" by Alexey Voytenko

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Talisman on his iPad while Dan is embroiled in the middle of a Hayao Miyazaki movie marathon.

Sentinels of the Multiverse: Andrew, along with Nicole and Luke from AcrossTheBoardGames.net and mutual friend, Alex, to play a customized game of the card game that has captured Andrew's interest for the last few months. Read Luke and Nicole's writeup about this session.

Footballers of Catan: With the recent revelation that a group of Green Bay Packers players regularly play Settlers of Catan, Dan and Andrew ponder the possible mainstreaming of these previously not mainstream games.

Cones of Dumbshire: A Catan-like fake-game created for an episode of Parks and Recreation is now being Kickstarted for an absurd (?) amount. Andrew and Dan briefly examine the ups and downs of this young Kickstarter.

Question of the Geek:

What digitized tabletop game have you enjoyed playing (regardless of platform)?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"The Incredits" by Michael Giacchino (from The Incredibles)

-"Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph

-"Main Title March" by John Williams (from Superman: The Movie)

-"Parks and Recreation Theme" by Gaby Moreno and Vincent Jones

-"Song from M*A*SH (Suicide is Painless)" by Johnny Mandel

If you're under 21, you will get carded before you are able to enjoy Episode 33 of For All Intents and Purposes because this week is all about booze, but with a nerdy/geeky focus, of course.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays the pepper-based tabletop game, Scoville, while Dan dives into the Paleolithic with Simon Roy's Tiger Lung.

Beer Bad: To discuss the threat of alcohol, Dan and Andrew put themselves through the trial of watching the infamous episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they try to write a show with an anti-alcohol message, but goes completely awry.

Discussion: Andrew and Dan look into the intersection of nerds and booze, bouncing around between the topics of licensed beers, specialty beers, microbrew, and the rise of nerd bars/gaming bars.

Boston Legal: Since the episode is all about booze, why not talk about a...cancelled legal dramedy starring Captain Kirk and Ultron? Sure!

Question of the Geek:

What's your preferred alcoholic beverage for your nerdy pursuits (or your pursuits in general)?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Beer, Beer, Beer" by Rob Manuel ft. Daniele Davoli

-"Where Everybody Knows Your Name" by Gary Portnoy

-"Boston Legal Theme" by Danny Lux

-"Scarface (Push It to the Limit)" by Paul Engemann

Episode 32 is a love-letter to Marvel. Anything, at least, to keep Dan's mind off of his recent surgery and all the interesting impediment that entails.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays more Sentinels of the Multiverse by checking out their recent expansion, Wrath of the Cosmos while Dan plays a four year-old game, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. 

The Master of Magnetism: Continuing from last year a focus on a specific pop culture villain, this week Dan and Andrew discuss the long-time foe (and ally and member) of the X-Men, Magneto, and why his very existence may be in danger.

Agent of Carter: Andrew and Dan have both seen Marvel's mid-season replacement show, Agent Carter, and ruminate on a simple question––Why Agent Carter? Their answers may surprise you.

Age of Ultron: Dan and Andrew give you their thoughts on the effectiveness of the new trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Question of the Geek:

What are your thoughts about Agent Carter, and/or Marvel's current plans for the MCU?

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The boys are back for 2015 with a full-length episode, and they get right back into the swing of things:

Week in Geek: Both Andrew and Dan seem to be really into television at the start of the year, with Andrew watching the new John Rodgers-helmed TNT series, The Librarians, and Dan re-watching (for the umpteenth time) Futurama.

Andrew Objects: Andrew looks into a specific bit of information from the Sony hacks and discusses the controversy around the possible choice of successors for Daniel Craig's James Bond.

Discussion: Based on a highly-veritable article from England's The Daily Mirror, Dan and Andrew ask, "Has Doctor Who lost its way?"

Boast of Bethel: As mentioned last year, Dan is a fan of the band, Dawnbringer. With this Boast, he discusses how one of their albums, Nucleus, helped him create the first chapter of his webcomic, Long John.

Question of the Geek:

What nerdy/geeky thing/event are you most looking forward to in 2015? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Miles Edgeworth––Objection! 2011" by Noriyuki Iwadere (from Ace Attorney 2 Orchestra Arrangement)

For All Intents and Purposes is back with another Shortcast episode! Much like last week, Dan and Andrew discuss their respective weeks in geek. Specifically, Andrew plays a delightful board game that is basically a re-skin of a good board game, while Dan reads a comic and also buys a game he has bought before, but this time for his phone.

What was your week in geek like? Leave your answers as comments to the page for this Shortcast at forall.libsyn.com. You can also leave your answer––or join the conversations!––at the official Facebook and/or Google+ pages. You may also e-mail any questions, comments, or concerns to forallpod [at] gmail.com.

For all intents and purposes, that was a Shortcast recap.

Featured Music:

-"Thunderbustin'" by Wax Audio

This week's first Shortcast is an interview Andrew conducted with André La Roche, a writer for tabletop RPGs.

They discuss André's involvement writing for the Dragonlance setting, his recent work for Fate Core, and his feelings about modern RPGs (specifically Fate Core). 

Come back on Friday for another Shortcast!

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Featured Music:

-"Anvil of Crom" by Basil Poledouris (from the soundtrack to Conan The Barbarian (1982). 

"Riders of Doom" by Basil Poledouris (from the soundtrack to Conan The Barbarian (1982).

Continuing the Shortcast releases, Dan and Andrew discuss their respective weeks in geek for their second update this week.

Andrew spends money on the Steam holiday sale, playing DLC Quest and Endless Legend, while Dan discusses listening to other podcasts; specifically, Top Score a public-radio show about video game music hosted by Emily Reese.

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Since we're starting off the winter break, we're releasing the first of our "shortcasts" that will fill the void until new full episodes return after the new year.

This short, a Boast of Bethel, continues the interview Dan had with friend, painter, and comic collaborator, Josh Tobey.

If you want to see more of Josh's work, be sure to like his official fan page on Facebook.

To read his collaboration on Dan's comic, start here.

Come back Friday for another shortcast!

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It's the last full episode for 2014 and, boy, it's quite a show this week.

Week in Geek: Andrew reads the metafictional sci-fi novel, Redshirts, while Dan watches a movie nobody liked or saw...and liked it: Earth to Echo.

Boasts of Bethel: After having mentioned the Satoshi Kon manga, Opus, a few weeks ago, Dan discusses its meta-fictional qualities and how it both helps and hinders the comic.

Discussion: Sony Pictures was hacked by a mysterious, overseas group that exposed a bunch of previously classified documents. But what is the purpose––and what is the fallout––of this latest hacking endeavor?

World-Building & Storytelling: Based on a divisive article published by the Telegraph, Dan and Andrew launch into what seems to be the never-ending debate between what's most important in fantasy and/or sci-fi fiction: a highly-realized world or the stories that are told in that world?

As mentioned above, this is the last regular show for the year; however, small updates will be released from now through the new year, so you won't be without your beloved For All Intents and Purposes for long. 

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Misty Mountains" by Howard Shore (from the soundtrack to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

-"So Long Blues" by Ray Bonneville

This week brings the longest episode yet! That's only because it's full of so much great content! This week, the roundtable discusses military fiction, in any form, and it takes some thoughtful, and unexpected, turns.

Week in Geek: Andrew continues his reading streak with Ready Player One by Ernest Cline while Dan is impressed with the Disney revisionist fairy tale, Maleficent.

Interview: Dan sits down with the host of The Science Fiction Show (a great podcast to which you all should listen), Jason Tudor, as they discuss--among other things--military science fiction.

Discussion: Continuing the subject, Andrew and Dan specifically discuss the military's involvement in entertainment media throughout the years, how it has changed, and what it means for nerds and geeks.

Andrew Objects: Andrew cuts in to discuss how some aspects of Crimson Tide are, well, objectionable.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite winter and/or holiday fiction?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"There's Something in Here (Theme for The Science Fiction Show)" by Aaron Kusterer

-"Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins (from the soundtrack to Top Gun)

-"Hymn to Red October (Main Theme)" by Basil Paledouris (from the soundtrack to Hunt for Red October)

-"Godot - Fragrance of Dark Coffee" from Gyakuten Saiban meets Orchestra (artist unknown)

Apparently one of the possible intents and purposes of For All Intents and Purposes is to be socially conscious! With that in mind, they focus this week on discussion––for the most part––socially conscious gaming.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays the indie hit, Papers, Please, while Dan reads the manga, Opus, by the late, great anime director, Satoshi Kon.

The Teaser Awakens: An 88-second teaser trailer for J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit the internet this week and, because everybody was talking about it, Dan and Andrew thought it'd be smart to talk about it, too!

Discussion: Spurred by the not-so-subtle commentary found in Papers, Please, Andrew and Dan decide to take a look at socially-conscious gaming in general, though they mostly discuss video games––everything from Red Dead Redemption to Brenda Romero's experiential tabletop game, Train.

Metal Gear Lecture: With the idea of socially-conscious games on the brain, we discuss the strange place that the PS1 classic, Metal Gear Solid, occupies along that continuum.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite work of military-themed fiction?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"A Galaxy Divided" by Kevin Kiner (from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, based on original music by John Williams)

-"Cantina Band #2" by John Williams (from Star Wars: A New Hope)

-"You Dropped the Bomb on Me" by The Gap Band

-"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads

To celebrate the week of giving thanks, Andrew and Dan decide to delve into the pits of despair and discuss the world of post-apocalyptic fiction.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays Rogue Legacy while Dan reads a book titled, Console Wars.

Mild Nepotism: Dan interviews his Josh Tobey, an old friend and painter whom Dan was able to recruit to draw a short story for his webcomic, Long John. In this segment, they discuss Josh's approach to art in general––his process and his theory.

Discussion: What better way to be thankful for what you have by engaging in fiction that emphasizes what you don't have––welcome to the Post-Apocalypse. Please leave your humanity at the door.

Fantasy Post-Apocalypse: In which Dan and Andrew look at this interesting and increasingly populr sub-genre of the Post-Apocalyptic framework that examines what happens when worlds that don't exist end.

Question of the Geek:

What do you consider to be a Thanksgiving movie? Why?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' In Black" by Wax Audio

-"Control" by Broken Bells

-"Dolls' Polyphony" by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (from Akira)

-"The Final Countdown" by Europe

-"The Wild West" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI)

Things seems lightly off in this alternate/parallel reality-themed episode. However, the show must go on, evil goatee or not.

Week in Geek: Andrew peruses the lesser Star Wars movies for trivia and finds some newly poignant scenes while Dan plays Shovel Knight on his WiiU and Terra Battle on his phone.

Original the Series: Taking another look into the original Star Trek series, this week Dan and Andrew watch the classic episode, "Mirror, Mirror," to great effect. Goatees and gold sashes!

Discussion: Having watched "Mirror, Mirror," the idea of parallel or alternate realities, as they're presented in various fictions, seemed to be the right avenue for discussion this week, and they certainly go all over the place.

Breaking News: With this week's announcement of popular American tabletop game designers, Fantasy Flight Games, merging with major European tabletop distributor, Amogee, Dan asks the podcast's resident tabletop guru what this means for tabletop fans.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite use of alternate reality in a story?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Old Metal Gear" by Starry.K (from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)

-"Beat It" by Pomplamoose

-"Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Children of Bodom

For All Intents and Purposes has hit the quarter-centennial mark! That is, if by "centennial" we mean a hundred episodes rather than a hundred years. However, is it going to be a celebration...or a crisis?! To find out, you'll have to listen! Do you dare?!

Week in Geek: Andrew watches more Star Wars: Rebels while Dan buys his first Nintendo home console in what is likely over two decades.

Star Trek: Taking another dip into the Original Series, this time Dan and Andrew watch and discuss the classic "I, Mudd" featuring everybody's favorite scallywag, Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

Discussion: As if it's a big surprise, with Series 8 of Doctor Who––the first featuring Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor––having come to an end, they discuss not only the final episode (SPOILER ALERT), but Series 8 as a whole and its place in the oeuvre of Doctor Who.

The Art of the Season Finale: With the closing of Doctor Who in mind, Andrew and Dan discuss season finales in general. Specifically, they discuss what they are and what they have been and how and why they've changed over time.

Question of the Geek:

What is your favorite season finale to a television show?

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It's the first post-October episode. Instead of focusing on a month of thanks, it's just business as usual.

Week in Geek: Andrew plays some more Civilization: Beyond Earth and also finally gets his mitts on a copy of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS. Dan, on the other hand, talks about the new album from his newest favorite band, Dawnbringer, called Night of the Hammer. \m/

30 Years of Busting Ghosts: As children of the '80s, Dan and Andrew decide that this is as good a time as any to discuss why Ghostbusters is still so amazing.

Ladies Second?: Speaking of Ghostbusters, with the recent announcement of a likely all-female reboot of Ghostbusters––as well as the troubled all-female Expendables spinoff, The Expendabelles––Andrew and Dan discuss this very interesting version of the reboot––recasting nerdy franchises with a completely female cast. They discuss the pros and cons and the possibilities as well as any pitfalls that could come with such decisions.

The Master and The Mistress: As Series 8 of Doctor Who draws to a close, Dan and Andrew discuss one of the Doctor's most famous and notorious adversaries––The Master! Consider this discussion a primer for all things Master, just in case you need it.

Question of the Geek:

Who is your favorite villain, in any medium?

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Music From This Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.

-"Main Title Theme (Ghostbusters)" by Elmer Bernstein

-"I am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee

-"Master of Puppets" by The Scorched Earth Orchestra

And with Episode 23 (on Halloween, no less) we bring the month of horror to a close, in a way that only For All Intents and Purposes can.

Week in Geek: Andrew played Civilization: Beyond Earth while Dan talks about his comic but also watched Shadow of the Vampire in honor of the Halloween episode.

The Dead That Started It All: In celebration of the scariest month of the year, Dan and Andrew decided to sit down and watch the original 1968 George Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead, and they were really impressed for being the movie that basically established the genre.

Love the Craft: Dan gave Andrew homework to read what he feels is one of Lovecraft's creepier stories, "The Thing on the Doorstep."

Boasts of Bethel: The Boasts return with a rather serious contemplation of monsters both real and imaginary and how they seem to be much closer than we thought, given recent events among nerds and geeks.

Question of the Week: Since Halloween is over, they leave the horror behind and, instead, jump onto another favorite topic of theirs.

With DC and Marvel making all kinds of announcements all over the place, is there some superhero product (game, book, movie, music, etc.)––that doesn't necessarily have to do with the Big Two––that you feel deserves more attention?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"March of the Dead" by Danny Elfman (from The Army of Darkness)

-"Journey into Darkness" by Steve Henefin (from Eternal Darkness)

-"Death in the Darkness" by Jeremy Soule (from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)

-"Thriller" by Michael Jackson

It's a week before Halloween and For All Intents and Purposes does its best to help you keep your wits about you.

Week in Geek: Andrew does not buy a popular video game––which makes him sad––and Dan gets a shirt (that you should all buy at robinshirt.com) that makes everybody simultaneously happy and sad. Sorry for the feels.

I Know Those Notes: After thoroughly trashing a game this composer was involved with last week, Dan and Andrew spend a few minutes singing the praises of Nobuo Uematsu, speaking completely of his work with the Final Fantasy series.

Discussion: With the announcement and release of the Resident Evil HD and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers remakes this week (respectively), Andrew and Dan discuss HD remakes, reboots, and all the good and bad about them.

In Space No One Can Hear You Podcast: Jumping back onto the Halloween bandwagon, Dan and Andrew discuss a seminal work of sci-fi horror, Ridley Scott's Alien.

Weekly Question: 

What horror fiction (any medium) do you feel is underrepresented?

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Music Featured:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"The Lonely Man Theme" by Joe Harnell and performed by Dennis McCarthy

-"The Prelude" & "Terra's Theme" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy IV & Final Fantasy VI, respectively)

-"Alien (1979) - Main Theme" by Jerry Goldsmith

-"Main Titles (Gabriel's Theme)" by Robert Holmes (from Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers)

Kicking in the door of its third set of ten episodes but instead of blazing bold new trails, For All Intents and Purposes continues reveling in the fright and horror that comes with October.

Week in Geek:  Andrew watches new Star Wars television while Dan plays the full version of a game he has already talked about on the show. Dan also wrapped the first chapter of his western webcomic, Long John, this week, which means it'd be a great time to check it out (and to tell your friends about it if you like it)!

What's in a Villain: In a new segment, Dan and Andrew discuss the villainy of Beauty and the Beast's main antagonist, Gaston.

Discussion: Are supernatural monsters as scary now that we have a tendency to rationalize or––as Andrew and Dan say in the episode––"sciencificate" them into the realm of possibility? Why do we do that? What's the point? Can we stop?

What's in a Game: In a spinoff to the "video games people should play" segment, Dand and Andrew discuss a game that should be knocked off its pedestal in their estimation. This time, they discuss the much venerated Final Fantasy VII.

Question of the Week:

What is your favorite Halloween episode of a television show?

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Music in this Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Gaston" by The Bad Plus

-"Some Kind of Monster" by Metallica

-"Fanfare" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI: Original Sound Version)

Hitting another arbitrary benchmark, Episode 20 is celebrated with another purported naked episode (no clothes were actually removed in the recording of this episode). To celebrate, they continue into October with another Halloween-themed episode throughout.

Week in Geek: Andrew finally gets around to watching latter-day X-Men movies (when they got good again). Dan bought a new Lovecraft book.

Alone in the Dork: Dan and Andrew discuss the scariest video games they've ever played.

Discussion: With a Kickstarter going touting to be the first "officially licensed" video game based on an H. P. Lovecraft story, Andrew and Dan wonder how that's even possible considering H. P. Lovecraft's works are well-known to be in the public domain.

Hail Hydra: In a bit of a detour, Dan and Andrew try to figure out what's so bad about Marvel's HYDRA organization.

Question of the Week:

What is your favorite expression (story/movie/video game/music/etc.) of cosmic horror?

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Music in this Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Tunnel Chase" and "The Expedition (no SFX)" by Reber Clark

-"All Hail" by The Devil Makes Three

-"Doctor Gastronomy" by Murray Gold

In the interest of full disclosure, this episode is filled with the pop hits of yesteryear, so be warned. When not mining recent top 40 hits, Dan and Andrew slide into their usual avenues of nerdy and geeky conversation in episode 19.

Week in Geek: Andrew talks about the Kickstarting documentary, A Brief History of Time Travel, while Dan watches a documentar about voice acting, I Know That Voice.

Breaking News: With this week's announcement that a Tetris-based movie is going forward, Andrew regales Dan with this pitch for the flick.

Discussion: Fox recently announced that an extended "Rogue Cut" of X-Men: Days of Future Past will be released to home video––restoring footage not featured in the theatrical cut of the film––Dan and Andrew discuss the purpose, audience, and need of extended cuts/director's cuts of movies.

Conspiracy Corner: When Dan received a copy of the free "Marvel's 75th Celebration" magazine, he was surprised at the glaring omissions on the cover. Was it sly movie marketing or a case of bigotry (admittedly, against a fictional peoples)?

Question of the Week: Since October is now upon us, we turn our sights toward Halloween; so, even this early in the month, we ask:

What is your favorite genre of horror movie?

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Featured Music:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Falling Blocks (the Trance)" and "Falling Blocks (the Funk)" by Prometheus Darkened

-"Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye

-"Born This Way" by Lady Gaga

It's been a good week for nerds, what with Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D starting its second season and Gotham premiering (and that's just on tv), so Andrew and Dan decided to bolster those good vibes in this new episode.

Week in Geek: Andrew paints miniatures for Shadows of Brimstone. Dan (with his wife) finishes his second watching of the Buffy and Angel run-through.

There Can Be Only One: In which Dan and Andrew puzzle over how the Highlander franchise has lasted so long and made so many bad (with a few very good) iterations of the premise.

Discussion: Zombies. 'Nuff said.

The Silent Hero: Continuing their coverage of geeky things that they feel deserve more attention, this week Andrew and Dan discuss their love for Squaresoft's (for it was not Square-Enix at the time) groundbreaking (and seemingly forgotten?) classic, Chrono Trigger.

Question: What fiction (tv/movie/game/book/story/etc.) has your most favorite iteration or use of time travel?

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Music:
-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Princes of the Universe" by Queen

-"Robo's Theme" and "Frog's Theme" by Yasunori Mitsuda

Seventeen episodes in and For All Intents and Purposes continues to hone its stride with discussion about very recent news as well as larger topics of concern within the realm of nerds and geeks. Before we get started, we must mention here that, as of this episode, For All Intents and Purposes will be releasing on Fridays rather than Thursdays; adjust your schedule accordingly.

The Week in Geek: Dan reads a book about (and kind of by) Japanese animation guru, Hayao Miyazaki, titled Starting Point: 1979-1996. Andrew participates in Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: The Role-Playing Game event, "Rebellion Day." He also got back into playing Star Trek Online.

Breaking News: With the announcement that Microsoft purchased Minecraft studio, Mojang, for a lean $2.5 billion, Andrew and Dan examine what that means for Minecraft, what that means for Microsoft, and what that means for gaming in general.

Discussion: Despite continuously asking for comments, Dan and Andrew pick apart the phenomenon of internet commenting––specifically how it's often done under an assumed name, hinting at anonymity. But is it actually just a magnifying glass to a person's true nature? Is it a vestige of once-idealistic egalitarian goals? What does this have to do with Harry Potter?

Star Trek: In this new segment, Andrew assigned Dan to watch the Original Series episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever"––a veritable classic written by Harlan Ellison.

Question: After reviewing the previous week's listener answers, Dan and Andrew change gears completely to ask:

With the upcoming Netflix shows, the movies, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. about to start its second season, which Marvel property would you like to see added to the fold?

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Music:

-"Stayin' In Black" by Wax Audio

-"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straights

-"Star Trek (Original Series Main Title)" by Alexander Courage

-"Highly Illogical" by Leonard Nimoy

A new episode of For All Intents and Purposes is here in true episodic fashion! Though PAX may be done and no huge events seem to be around the corner, it's back to business as usual.

The Week in Geek: Andrew plays the Battlestar Galactica board game and actually keeps his friends this time, while Dan watches Academy Award-nominated animated short films––specifically, "Adam and Dog" by Minkyu Lee. Also, Dan will be an exhibitor at this year's Crocker-Con in Sacramento at the Crocker Art Museum. It happens on Thursday, 11 September, from 5-9pm. Be there! 

Boasts of Bethel: Close-reading the second episode of Doctor Who's 8th series, "Into the Dalek," Dan investigates the most prominent question on Whovians' minds: Is Clara actually a good English teacher?

Discussion: Since Dan started watching Supernatural this week, he remembers the good old days of episodic nerdy drama and he and Andrew ponder why so much television has become serialized and whether it has helped or hurt the medium.

Love the Craft: Andrew and Dan look at another story by H. P. Lovecraft. This time, it's one Andrew hasn't read before, an exciting, frightening, and...funny (?) short called, "The Hound."

Question: Hot off the presses of Apple's press conference and their announcement of the Apple Watch, Dan and Andrew wonder:

What are your thoughts on the rise of "smart", on-your-body peripherals for your phones?

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It's time for PAX coverage with Dan and Andrew (mostly Andrew)! But before we get to PAX goodness, we must first get down to business.

Week in Geek: For All Intents and Purposes now has an official Facebook page and an official Google+ page! Join them for regular updates, links, and interesting discussion. Meanwhile, Dan watches a documentary about a movie that was never made––Jodorowsky's Dune––and, guess what, Andrew goes to PAX Prime.

Andrew Interviews: Andrew interviews Luke and Nicole from both Across The Board Games.net and Nerdy Seattle.com to talk about PAX! An intriguing interview spread across two parts that has them discuss everything from video games, to tabletop games, to diversity in gaming! The interview is broken up with:

Discussion: Andrew and Dan discuss a recent study that shows that 92% of PC games purchased this year were digital. They discuss this physical-media-less trend and what it means and its benefits and deficits.

Question: After discussing what they found most intriguing about this year's PAX Prime, they prance into a more light-hearted affair to ask:

What is a cartoon/animated show you feel deserves a second look?

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Music from this Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Space Cruise (Title)" by Ben Prunty (from FTL: Faster Than Light (Official Soundtrack))

-"Into the Wilderness" by Michiko Naruke (from Wild Arms)

-"I Giorni Dell'ira (Days of Anger)" by Riz Ortolani (from Django Unchained)

-"You're the Best" by Joe Esposito (from The Karate Kid)

With a revived vigor, Dan and Andrew tackle one of the [relatively] biggest topics yet: Doctor Who. Not to worry, however, because they surround their Doctor Who talk with the usual thoughtful commentary about topics that For All Intents and Purposes envelops. 

Week in Geek: Andrew watches To Be Takei and Dan talks about working with an artist on Long John.

The Mass Effect Series: Another installment in their look at culturally and intellectually important video games, Dan and Andrew expand their breadth and discuss why the entire Mass Effect series is so important.

Discussion: As expected, Andrew and Dan watched the new episode of Doctor Who's Series 8, "Deep Breath", a bit too closely and have a lot of things to say about it, focusing on the 12th Doctor (as played by Peter Capaldi), its themes, and how it fits in to the show overall.

The Big Lebowski: Expanding their breadth even more, Dan and Andrew discuss a movie that they feel is culturally and intellectually important, hoping to expose an angle on the Coen Bros.' The Big Lebowski that you haven't really considered before.

Question: Much like Comic Con before it, another huge convention is about to happen––the Penny Arcade Expo, colloquially known as PAX (or PAX Prime). So, with that in mind we want to know,

What came out of PAX that got you excited and/or intrigued?

Since it hasn't happened yet, Andrew and Dan couldn't quite answer the question. However, we'd love to hear from you! Leave a comment at the post for this episode at forall.libsyn.com, or e-mail us at forallpod@gmail.com.

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Music from this episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Saren" by Jack Wall (from Mass Effect: Original Soundtrack)

-"New Worlds" by Jack Wall (from Mass Effect 2)

-"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.

It's the thirteenth episode as Dan and Andrew do their best to avoid any and all calamity.  

Week in Geek:  Andrew plays the new Dungeons and Dragons to...interesting results. Dan bought a book about comics theory, Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner.

Boasts of Bethel: Dan discusses why he doesn't think the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Movie isn't a complete disaster.

Discussion: Now that they have both seen Guardians of the Galaxy, they discuss its impact within the overall Marvel Cinematic Universe and how the MCU could and/or should look from this point forward.

Andrew's Cross-Examination: Andrew interviews Seattle-based indie game designer, Kai Cambra about his interesting thoughts about game design.

Nerd Question: It's almost time for Peter Capaldi's Doctor to be revealed to the world; so, with that in mind, we ask:

With the coming of the 12th Doctor, who is your favorite Doctor and/or what is your favorite Doctor Who moment?

Answer in the comments to this episode's post at forall.libsyn.com. Or feel free to e-mail your answer––and any comments or questions about the show––to forallpod@gmail.com.

For all intents and purposes, that's an episode recap.

See you next week!

Andrew and Dan keep it interesting by presenting you a very special episode of A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes.  With outside commitments preventing them from recording at their usual time, the format and structure of this episode present new and exciting ideas to your (14th!) favorite geeky and nerd discussion podcast. 

Week in Geek: Andrew buys new tabletop games––Caverna and Province––while Dan sees Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Andrew Interrogates:  Andrew sits down with Seattle tabletop guru, Jake Waltier, to discuss tabletop gaming, especially in the Seattle area.

[ , ] Original: Referencing a joke made at the end of episode 9, Dan wrote and recorded a folk rock original, "Cthulhu Clock."

Andrew Cross-Examines: Next, Andrew sits down with the founders of Across the Board Games.Net, Nicole Jekich and Luke Turpeinen.

Nerd Question: With the tabletop-heavy content this week, we ask you to tell us:

What is the tabletop game that is most intriguing and/or interesting to you right now?

Submit your answers or any questions as a comment to this episode's post at forall.libsyn.com.  You can also e-mail us at forallpod@gmail.com. 

For all intents and purposes, that's an episode recap.

Music from this Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Cthulhu Clock" by D. Bethel

-"Dinosaucers theme" by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban

Cthulhu Clock Lyrics

(written and recorded by D. Bethel)

On the road to Rhode Island to put my mind at ease,

A secluded cabin hideaway beneath the ocean's breeze.

It's just a place to settle down and rest my weary head,

and I would but for a strange cuckoo clock that was mounted above my bed.

Cthulhu clock, Cthulhu clock

It penetrates my mind.

Cthulhu clock, Cthulhu clock

I hear its ceaseless chime.

Its wretched screams are endless as they

ring out through my dreams.

And until I'm driven mad...it's not as bad as it seems.

At first, my mind was singing in the perfect solitude.

Finally, alone with all my thoughts in a bright and hopeful mood.

But as weeks wore on a creeping dread fell on me with the night

Because every hour that clock would sound filled with antediluvian fright.

Though my master remains sleeping, one day he will arise,

and amid a tenebrous cavalcade I'll gladly proselytize.

What are these thoughts surrounding me? I cannot look away.

With every toll another part of me begins to painfully fade away.

Cthulhu clock, Cthulhu clock,

I'm clawing at my eyes.

Cthulhu clock, Cthulhu clock,

All life I now despise.

My nerve-ends are exploding because 

I cannot understand:

Am I just a speck of dust in your giant, god-like hand?

With Episode 10 in the can, Andrew and Dan decide to mess with your minds with this exciting eleventh episode of For All Intents and Purposes.

Week in Geek:  Andrew starts making text adventures as Dan mourns the end of the Image Comics series, Prophet.

Love the Craft: The Lovecraft segment returns as Dan and Andrew dissect the invisible menace of "The Dunwich Horror."

Discussion:  With the avalanche of response to last week's question, Andre wand Dan decide to more fully investigate the topic of musical scores as they relate to film, video games, and television.

Andrew Objects: With movie scores in mind, Andrew objects to the Eric Serra-composed score for Pierce Brosnan's first outing as James Bond, Goldeneye.

Geek Thoughts:  This week, they keep up the musical themes by asking:

What is your favorite television theme and why?

Submit your answer––or any other comments or questions––as a comment to this episode's post at forall.libsyn.com. Or send us an e-mail at forallpod [at] gmail.com. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and leave us a rating, especially if you enjoy the show! Leaving ratings will help spread the word!

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

Music from this episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Miles Edgeworth––Objection! 2011" by Noriyuki Iwadere (from Ace Attorney 2 Orchestra Arrangement)

-"Ladies First" and "A Pleasant Drive in St. Petersburg" by Eric Serra (from the soundtrack to Goldeneye).

The podcast reaches an arbitrary milestone and our hosts celebrate in style!  They also make another podcast that falls into line with the standards set by the preceding episodes. 

The Week in Geek:  Andrew plays a video game card game based on an MMO as well as, in his words, "eating comic books."  Dan talks about his own comic, Long John.

Boasts of Bethel: Dan reminisces on his two experiences with ComicCon, and tries to figure out what the SDCC (as the REAL fans call it) is actually about.

Discussion: Since one of the biggest nerd gatherings happened this week in San Diego, Andrew and Dan decide to discuss it; but, more specifically, they try to answer the age old SDCC question: Who won––Marvel or DC?

Games That Matter: Dan and Andrew craft an argument as to why the Playstation 1 game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, is super-important and should be on everybody's roster.

Geek Thoughts:  After finally answering last week's question, they go broad with this week's, asking:

What is a movie, tv, or video game soundtrack that you hold particularly dear and why?

Submit your answer as a comment on the episode's page at forall.libsyn.com, on Facebook, Google+, or Twitter (Dan and Andrew).  Also feel free to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and be sure to leave a comment there about how much you enjoy our thoughtful investigations into things geeky and nerdy! It'll help to spread the word! Also, feel free to e-mail us at forallpod@gmail.com. You'll be glad you did.

For all intents and purposes, that was the tenth episode recap!

Music from this Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-Theme from WildC.A.T.s the Animated Series by Sheree Jeacocke and Gerry Mosby.

-"Dance of Illusions" from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night original soundtrack by Michiru Yamane

As is the case every week, when exciting news or developments happen in the nerdy & geeky world, Andrew and Dan are on top of it with sharp wits and minds.

The Week in Geek:  Andrew starts reading comics and Dan finshes video games while listening to the new Weird Al album.

Boasts of Bethel: Dan talks about the audience's role in completing that action that is "fiction."

Discussion: This week Dan and Andrew discuss the recent developments in the world of comic books––specifically, the new Thor and the new Captain America––and how the world would benefit more from these "legacy" characters.

Games that Matter: This time, Andrew and Dan go on about their love for all things Fallout 3.

Geek Thoughts: After discussing the answers to last week's questions. To that end, since I said I'd link to it, here is the historical recipes blog that commenter, Tracy Johnston, maintains, Goode Eates. This week our hosts ask a timely question:

What is exciting you or piquing your interest at this year's San Diego ComicCon?

Submit your answer as a comment at forall.libsyn.com, on Facebook, Google+, or on Twitter (Dan and Andrew).  Also, feel free to leave a review of the podcast on iTunes! Leaving reviews gets us more attention! Also, you can e-mail any questions, comments, or miscellanea to forallpod [at] gmail [dot] com.

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

Music from the Episode:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"Get Used to It" by Darren Korb, from Bastion (Original Soundtrack)

-"I Dont' Want to Set the World on Fire" by The Ink Spots

-"The Rockford Files Theme" by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter

The world can't keep up with Dan and Andrew as they tear through all things geeky and nerdy.

The Week in Geek: Before getting into individual accomplishments, they discuss the recently released trailer for Doctor Who Series 8! Andrew then discusses his preparation for UnPub in Seattle, while Dan discusses about Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and the Veronica Mars movie.

Boasts of Bethel:  In this week's boast, Dan gets psychological and ponders the connection between nerds and ironic/meta-humor and asks whether it's a good thing or not. SPOILER: He has no answers.

Discussion:  Inspired by the satirical-cum-blindingly-successful Potato Salad Kickstarter that made the rounds in this week's news cycle, Dan and Andrew examine what, exactly, Kickstarter is, could be, and should be and how it has been a benefit or detriment to geek culture.

Andrew Objects: Hot on the heels of news that Marvel's Thor will now be a woman, Andrew decides to object to...those who object.

Geek Thoughts: Big thanks to Walter Phippeny, Liz Geisser, Jason Morgan, Ruben Hanson-Rojas, and Brittney Farrand for responding to last week's question! Your answers were insightful and fun to talk about.  However, we must keep moving forward, so we ask:

What is a nerdy/geeky thing you've been doing recently that you want more people to know about?

Leave a comment on the episode's post at forall.libsyn.com, or on either Andrew's or Dan's Facebook/Google+/Twitter posts (Dan's Twitter and Andrew's Twitter).  You can also leave a comment on iTunes or e-mail us at forallpod [at] gmail.com.

Until next week, for all intents and purposes, this is an episode breakdown. 

Even in the face of a near disastrous behind the scenes technical glitch, it turns out that Andrew and Dan can't be stopped.  Again, they bring you another outstanding episode that covers a straight-up plethora of topics, including:

Week in Geek:  Andrew plays the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game while Dan watches How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Looper and also finds time to play a few hours of Metal Gear Solid 3 in the wake of last week's episode.

Boasts of Bethel: This week, Dan ruminates on how animated films are marginalized by modern American society and wonders what we can do to move it forward.

Discussion:  Nintendo guru, Shigeru Miyamoto, makes a startlingly bold claim that video games are in a state of "creative immaturity."  Andrew and Dan discuss what this means and what it may take to get out of it.

Who Cares:  Going back to the well, they discuss not an episode or story but a villain! This time they venture into the mind of Davros, the creator of the Daleks.

Geek Thoughts:  After going over last week's very debated question, this week they ask:

What is a game/movie/tv show/comic/book/album/etc. that you feel helped move its medium forward?  Why and how?

Leave a comment on the episode's post at forall.libsyn.com, or on either Andrew's or Dan's Facebook/Google+/Twitter posts. You can also leave a comment on iTunes or e-mail us at forallpod [at] gmail.com

Until next week, for all intents and purposes, that was an episode breakdown.

Here's the fanart we received this week from listener Amir S. of Andrew playing in cardboard, from Episode 5. 

For all intents and purposes, thanks Amir!

The guys are back and push it to 11!  Because Dan lives in Sacramento, and it is summer, you'll hear his floor fan humming along throughout the episode––you've been warned! In a very energetic episode, Andrew and Dan discuss the following:

Week in Geek: Andrew continues to play X-Com, but not before also playing some 13th Age.  Dan plays the demo for Valiant Hearts and nearly cries while doing so.

Andrew Objects: Breaking into our regularly scheduled Boasts of Bethel, Andrew addresses the idea that your role-playing game is better (or worse) than anybody elses...and why that might be a problem.

Nerd Debate:  Dan sees Transformers: Age of Extinction which gets the guys to ponder the role of 80s nostalgia in popular culture. Then Dan tells Michael Bay how to make Transformers movies.

Games That Matter:  Andrew and Dan discuss the importance and impact of Konami's (more appropriately, Hideo Kojima's) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

Last Call: After reviewing listener responses to last week's question, Dan and Andrew get into a semantic debate, which must be resolved by you:

Which term is most appropriate to describe our culture: nerd or geek (other?)? Why?

Leave a comment on the episode's post at forall.libsyn.com, or on either Dan or Andrew's Facebook/Google+/Twitter posts, leave a comment on iTunes, or email us at forallpod [at] gmail.com

Until next week, for all intents and purposes, this is an episode breakdown.

Comics are an inherently overlooked medium.  I don’t necessarily mean that in the sense of cultural appreciation––we have the multi-billion dollar Marvel cinematic universe to prove that isn’t true––I mean as a reader reading comics.  Being overlooked is the point, however.  A thoughtfully crafted page layout naturally guides the eye from one panel to the next, causing your brain to not even notice that the images are static and, perhaps, nonsensical when taken out of context.  Comics rely on the fact that a reader’s brain fills in the gaps between the panels––formally called gutters––with action and camera moves so that the next panel does make sense.  Part of that trick is to give the reader just enough information to get the gist and keep moving.  As you can guess, the artist can easily manipulate this to either slow down or speed up a reader, depending on what the story (or creator) demands.

As quickly as it takes to read a comic, the amount of work that goes into creating not only a book, not only a page, but a panel is painstaking (though, panel composition also involves a lot of instinct, too).  Think of it this way: in a movie, a filmmaker gets twenty-four frames per second to show the viewer a single shot.  Not to be patronizing, but that is, again, twenty-four still images in a single second of on-screen time.  That’s 1,440 still images per minute of film.  Furthermore, a shot in a movie can last a few seconds to a minute or two (or five or ten), which means thousands of still images could come together to show movement and progression of character and story.  A panel is pretty much (with exceptions, of course) the equivalent of a single shot in a film.  Again, not to patronize, but a panel is a single drawing.

What a comic artist has to do is pick the one image from the entire range of possibilities––a range that would normally be shown in film––and pick the exactly right one to do the same thing as an entire shot.  Of course, this isn’t a perfect science, but no matter the level of care or artistry, it is a thoughtful one.  No matter what, a comicker has to boil every panel down to a moment––one that best suits the goals of that panel as well as serves the needs of the page and also serves the needs of the book.  It’s a scary business if you think about it like that and expanding it to a page––trying to capture that perfect image between three and six times per page, sometimes more.  But most readers soar over panels, linking the actions and stories between them naturally and easily so that they see a fully fleshed out movie in their heads, full of foley, dialogue, and background music.  

Many comics readers are also artistically inclined and, in the age of easy and cheap internet access, it’s not uncommon for those people to try and make their own comics.  I think, however, that it’s this burden of a panel that stops many amateur or independent comics from finishing.  Some seem to stop right after they start because of the realization that each panel can’t just look cool.  Panels mean so much more than that; they involve much more thought than that.  Every artist, I believe, hits that wall when they realize that drawing a single panel is very hard work for something that they know and depend that the reader breeze right over.  If the average reader doesn’t take in a panel with a single glance, understand it, and move on, then it’s likely you’re doing it wrong, and that’s scary to accept.

I am, by no means, a professional comicker (I may not even be a good one), though I am a thoughtful one.  However, even that doesn’t mean I cheat when drawing a panel or get lazy every now and then and cook up a pose or angle I know will work or is simply easy to draw.  Most importantly, I know I’m still learning.  For some reason, I’ve decided to share that learning curve and its process with the world as my webcomic, Long John, hits the world-wide web.  

I have some confidence already––having gone through a lot of public growing pains for the six years I co-wrote and drew Eben07––but this time Long John is all me, standing up creatively for myself for the first time ever.  It’s a powerful moment, even if it ends up being a total disaster (which it won’t be––at worst it’ll be read by few readers: me and my mom).  Before this, I only created in partnerships with other talented friends.  But partnerships are ultimately temporary things as people grow and goals for creativity and life change.  Through all that, I’ve studied and learned through all the ups and downs, searching for the right moment to become the artist I want to be.  And that starts with Long John for all its strengths and flaws (of which it will have many).

However it may look, I’m not begging for readers or looking for sympathy because I think too hard about making comics or am having actualizing breakthroughs in my creative life.  All I want, with hope, is that you’ll just read each update and ask, “Where’s the next one?”––overlooking the fear, sweat, thought, and intention behind every line and between every panel.  Because that’s how comics are supposed to be.

With Dan running at about 60%, Andrew boldly steps up to the reins and wheels a new episode through to the finish line.  Under his masterly guidance, they competently discuss the following:

Week in Geek - Andrew plays X-Com again.  Dan plays Street Fighter IV for the first time.

Boasts of Bethel - Dan discusses thinking about making comics too hard.

Nerd Topics - Writer/director Rian Johnson was announced to helm episode 8 of Star Wars (and possibly episode 9), and with that news Dan and Andrew discuss the worlds of reboots and continuations and what it all means.

Who Cares (title still pending) - The guys discuss a Doctor Who event that is particularly near and dear to Andrew as he had to say goodbye to his Doctor in a particularly gruesome fashion.  They discuss Doctor Who: The Movie.

Closing Time - Before getting to the new nerdly question, fans' answers to last week's question are addressed.  But this week they ask:  

What nerd product/media do you feel represents or comments on its era? Why?

What is your answer to this question?  Leave a comment either at forall.libsyn.com, the posts on Facebook, or send an email at forallpod [at] gmail.com and your answers will be read on the next episode!

It's an exciting week!  For all intents and purposes, that's an episode recap.

We're proud to announce that D. Bethel's new western webcomic, Long John, officially goes live today. Though nothing truly exciting has happened yet in the comic (it's just setting the stage this week), TWO pages have gone up. So, start at the included link and click forward to see both pages. 

If you like what you see so far, be sure to go back Thursday for another page (regular updates will be Tuesdays and Thursdays) or subscribe to the RSS feed if you use a reader to get updates sent to you. The website is still a work in progress and if you have ideas, Dan will gladly consider them.

Otherwise, thank you for reading!

http://www.longjohncomic.com/comic/on-the-lake/

This week, Andrew and Dan return with a bevy of new and exciting topics, including:

-FTL

-Super-old Doctor Who episodes

-Long John, Dan's upcoming webcomic (June 24th at www.longjohncomic.com)

-Dan Boasts about adaptations!

-The boys discuss the return and legacy of adventure games.

-Then they talk about the greatest game ever made, Final Fantasy III/VI

-Other sundry topics!

Our question to you, however, is what neglected gaming franchise would you like to see make a comeback and why?  Leave a comment or send an e-mail to forallpod@gmail.com

Until next week, that was a podcast (for all intents and purposes).

Music in this week's episode:

-Stayin' in Black by Wax Audio

-Prelude by Nobuo Uematsu

-Fanfare by Nobuo Uematsu

This Boast is framed around Game of Thrones and does not discuss content; so, there are no spoilers contained herein.

I like the Game of Thrones tv show more than A Song of Ice and Fire––the book series its based on––for a variety of reasons.  First, each book has a page length that, at this point, can only be measured in scientific notation.  At this point in my life, I have taken a firm stance and won’t read books over three-hundred pages (though exceptions can occur)––I’ve got too much else to do and my stupid brain isn’t able to remember that much story.  Second (though related to the first), the ten episodes (at one hour each) that make up each season is the perfect amount for me to not only consume and still have time left in my day but to also remember everything that’s going on.  I have my quibbles about the show, sure, but on the whole I enjoy it quite a bit.  

But don’t tell me to read the books, especially because they’re “better.”  Of that I have no doubt.  It is a fact that tv shows are terrible books because, by definition, tv shows are not books.  However, the reverse is also true. 

Nerds’ slavish devotion to source material puts us into a strange quandary––we are super excited that our beloved stories and characters are getting adapted to other media––and, moreover, they’re super successful––but we also become obsessive hair-splitters who feel the need to declare that one version (usually the original) is superior to the other (usually the adaptation).  I had to stop doing that because I wanted to actually enjoy these adaptations––especially when they’re good.  My first major encounter with this “disappointment” was with Brian Singer’s first X-Men movie.  Namely, how characters were shifted around in terms of relationships and ages for reasons that didn’t seem to make sense.  The biggest offender in this regard was the character of Rogue who, in the comics, was the same age as most of the main cast and even had intimate relations with Magneto for awhile.  For the movie, they basically made her a mixture of Jubilee (i.e., Wolverine’s teenage apprentice) and Kitty Pride (i.e., the new student at the school who is initially wary of being a mutant). 

Though I enjoyed the movie because, in terms of general characterization, Singer got the X-Men right, I made sure to note that it differed from the comics drastically (I am proud to say that I never cared about the lack of comic-inspired costumes, however).  What turned me around was when I thought back to the X-Men cartoon from the ‘90s––another adaptation I was incredibly excited about.  The series was extraordinarily faithful to the comics despite some dodgy animation and I remember being so excited for each episode to start on Saturday mornings that I couldn’t sit still.  However, the feeling that dominates my memories of the show is mostly boredom.  I eventually stopped watching it about halfway into season 3.  It remained incredibly faithful and was even doing some direct adaptations of stories from the comics, but I just couldn’t bring myself to care.  I realized that the show was too close to the comics, that I had already consumed this content but through a different medium––so why would I want to see it on tv if I have the comics in a longbox?

Great artistic expressions are made by artists––that is, people who are adept at expressing themselves in a particular medium.  A great comic book storyteller does not necessarily make a great film director or screenwriter (re: Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit)––a great director makes a movie great.  If properties are being adapted into other media, I’d much rather see an artist of that medium approach the work so that the adaptation will mean something on its own and to not simply be “the movie version” or “the tv version.”  Such requirements diminish the importance of the source material when being adapted.  I point to things like the Hellboy movies––the second one, especially, feels right at home in Guillermo Del Toro’s oeuvre.  I point to The Walking Dead––both the tv show and Telltale’s episodic video game series.  I point to Darwyn Cooke’s Parker graphic novels.  I point to Game of Thrones.

All of these adaptations are done right––they focus on making a good example of the medium which is neither a “dumbing down” of a property to appeal to as wide an audience as possible, nor a point-for-point recreations of the originals.  They want to make a good movie, game, comic, or television show first rather than just make the source material dance like a marionette.  What makes a good book does not make a movie good.  A good adapter knows that and works with the ideas, themes, and characters of the source material to make them as viable to the new medium as they were to the original.  To do that may require changes, however, but if those changes are made out of the same desire to tell a good story––the same motivation as the original creator––then it should yield good results.  Differences don’t make things bad––that’s called bigotry.  Differences are just different, and as a fan it’s important to ask why––not just in terms of the story, but in terms of the medium.

The truth is the correlation between adaptations and their source material is more akin to alternate universes than family relationships.  They rarely feed off on one another, especially once they get going.  The choices one makes neither adversely nor, necessarily, favorably affects the other.  They are separate entities and should be viewed that way.  I’m sure the A Song of Ice and Fire novels have much more complexity and intricacy in terms of plot and character; I understand that.  Game of Thrones, for a tv show, is just as wonderfully complex and dynamic––compared to other tv shows.  And though A Song of Ice and Fire fans have been clamoring eagerly for book 6 in the series for three years––a book which will hold much more information and story than the tv show could ever muster––I’m comforted by the fact that I know I only have to wait a year for season 5.a

We're back for episode three!  This week Andrew and Dan get into trouble talking about topics such as:

-Andrew's recent decent into Bronyhood...sort of.

-Dan left his house, for once, to see a movie!

-Dan also talks about "next gen" gaming.

-Then they come back to talk about the indie game movement, spurred on by this Gamasutra article.

-To right this vehicle, they then talk about Doctor Who again, this time discussing the 2nd Doctor's exit story, The War Games.

-Yes, they know E3 is going on right now. No, they don't talk about it.

As always, they would like to hear from you about what you thought of the episode! You can do that by leaving a comment at the episode page, found at forall.libsyn.com. You can also send them an e-mail at forallpod [at] gmail.com.

For all intents and purposes, this is a blog post.

Music from this episode includes:

-Stayin' in Black by Wax Audio

-I Am the Doctor by Jon Pertwee

Console-based video game fans are in a strange state right now.  In the virtual vacuum between console generations and good games, we tend to become very loud in our uneasiness.  When Sony and Microsoft’s new consoles––the Playstation 4 and XBox One, respectively––hit the market last November, the reigning console generation––being comprised of Sony’s Playstation 3 (PS3), Microsoft’s XBox 360, and Nintendo’s Wii––had lasted eight years, the longest console cycle modern gaming had seen.  The previous generation’s viability is unprecedented, though, because amazing games that pushed unforeseen limits of these machines were being released right up to the end.  The PS3 and 360’s long lifespan consistently upended modern console gaming by setting new standards and growing despite being, ostensibly, the same hardware throughout that time.  Everything from the rise of the first-person shooter (FPS) and the open world to the necessity of on-line multiplayer, from cover systems and branching trees of “morality” to the acceptance of smaller, independent games––the definition of modern gaming kept getting re-written despite the technology staying the same.  What’s important is that this redefinition happened organically over time; certain games, for some reason, were able to pierce the walls of expectations and technological limitations and forced everybody else to jump onto that train.  Before this generation, the defining moments were limited to perhaps one or two major upheavals per console.  By virtue of the fact that this generation lasted so long is impressive in its own right, but it does set a precedent that game-changers (pun intended) need to happen often.

The console gaming culture endured so many sea changes during the previous generation that when the new consoles were announced an interesting phenomenon occurred; the community began trying to codify what “next gen” gaming was, a tendency that became amplified after their release.  This tends to center around the tired “which console is better” debate, and people who have already picked sides end up just yelling at each other.  Some of this discussion focuses around technical aspects of the new consoles––that is, what’s under the hood and how games perform in terms of frame rate and resolution.  Microsoft itself tried to define the future by incorporating a gordian-like integration with a customer’s cable tv into the XBox One.  All of this empty rhetoric feels about as respectable and respectful as a dogfight because frame rate does not make a good game, neither does resolution, or graphics, or the controller, or the manufacturer.  What’s ignored in all of this is the emotional and cultural resonance the experience of a truly revolutionary game has when it hits the community.  Think of Super Mario Bros., or Sonic the Hedgehog, or Metal Gear Solid, or Shadow of the Colossus, or Halo.  These games are among the pantheon of gaming experiences and industry turning points because they felt like they mattered.

Combine those expectations with the first round of games that the new consoles are seeing: most are just higher resolution versions of games that are also available for the previous generation; the exclusive new console games seem to be merely more powerful iterations of games that could be released on the older consoles, though, obviously, not as impressive.  Many are sequels in franchises started in the previous generation.  Aside from barely exploiting the technical advances, these games––so far––are offering nothing truly new.  But I don’t think that’s a problem.  As with any generation, innovation comes with comfort.  The new consoles are just that, and the frames needs to settle before they feel like home for developers and players.  However, the question is continually asked:  when are we going to see some next gen games?

I think that’s the wrong question, however.  It’s short-sighted and hubristic.  It’s not a matter of when they are released––it’s not like they’re being hoarded.  The question to ask is, “what are next gen games?”  The best and scariest part is that we won’t really be able to answer that question until this young generation of consoles ages and is ready to be put to pasture.  No matter how much a person can learn about the technology or study the past, the simple truth is that we don’t know what will come to define this generation of gaming because the needs of gamers change with the society that they live in.  Making predictions is just making wishes.  

The defining characteristics will come with time, out of the blue, and will change the scene around them.  It’ll do what Gears of War, Uncharted, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Assassin’s Creed, Portal, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Braid (among many, many others) did for this generation.  Trying to assert what “next gen” gaming is now is like proclaiming that a baby is going to be president.  More disturbingly, if you are trying accurately to define what next gen gaming is right now, then you are depriving yourself of the most enjoyable part of playing games: discovery. 

As gamers, we need to let ourselves be surprised again, to allow ourselves to walk into the future blind and just play games that developers want to make.  To force definitions on the industry only creates undue pressure; that’s why we get an Assassin’s Creed game and a Call of Duty game every year.  That’s why Rock Band and Guitar Hero don’t exist anymore.  They became exhausted properties because they gave us what we thought we wanted, and they thought what we wanted was not innovation and progress.  But then a LIMBO, Journey, Brothers, or The Last of Us shows up and proves that we don’t know anything.  And then, for a few brief moments, the yelling stops because we’re too busy having fun again. 

This is an expanded version of the Boast of Bethel heard in Episode 2 of A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes.

One of the questions fans of weird writer, H. P. Lovecraft, are always asking revolves around “faithful” cinematic adaptations of Lovecraft’s work. There are a few that ardent fans can get behind, such as the very literal adaptation of “Call of Cthulhu” by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society––but, then again, it was a 90-minute, black and white, silent film adaptation meant to mimic the types of films available at the time the story was published, in the late twenties.  But it is quite a literal re-telling of the famous story and, for all the nested narratives and low-budget aesthetic, it’s a pretty good time.  On the whole, specific film adaptations of Lovecraft’s work are more up to a viewer’s personal taste than cinematic quality.  It’s hard to balance what fans tend to want––a majority of which want a horror film––and what Lovecraft was trying to do––to create a sense of reflective, psychological terror.  

The thesis Lovecraft stuck to over the course of his short but prolific career focused on the idea of cosmicism––that humanity is rather small and ineffective in its place within the universe––and, through his admiration for writers like Poe, Chambers, and Blackwood, tried to alternately find the horror and the terror in such a concept.  The distinction between the two goals is that horror tries to frighten its audience either with monsters, action, gore, frightening scenarios, etc.; and terror is the sinking, hopeless, and helpless feeling generated by the content or theme of the story; that is, even if a story itself is not horrific, it can be terrifying.  Though Lovecraft is known for his tentacled monsters, overwritten prose, and not-so-subtle racism, what he excels at––and why he’s remembered––is that there is really no better place to go for a story about cosmic insignificance that’ll warp your dreams even if you don’t find his story particularly effective.

Because Lovecraft is so focused on crafting an oeuvre that explores the realm of humanity’s inefficacy––and how humanity deals with that––not a lot happens in his stories and his characters aren’t that interesting.  Lovecraft’s most famous monsters are, for lack of a better explanation, unavoidable natural disasters.  They are natural creations of the universe but on a much larger scale than humanity can even comprehend.  So, even though Cthulhu’s general image is of an overgrown destroyer of cities, Lovecraft makes it clear that it’s not out of malice, noting in “The Call of Cthulhu” that Cthulhu and his kind are “free and wild and beyond good and evil[.]”  Everything Lovecraft writes serves this theme.  In that sense, his stories are more akin to preaching than engaging fiction.  Aside from a few stories––“The Dunwich Horror,” “Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and perhaps “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” being the notable exceptions were they to have the director, writer, and budget behind them––Lovecraft’s stories work best as prose and not as literal translations into other media.  We know because it has been tried since the sixties.

Like a good sermon, however, his themes are infinitely applicable.  This is why I would argue Lovecraft is not as culturally viable as fiction which is Lovecraftian.  For what they do more than for what they are, Lovecraft can excel in other forms other than written prose only when those creators take that philosophy and do something unique and engaging with it.  Standouts include John Carpenter’s The Thing (yes, it is based on a novella by HPL contemporary, John W. Campbell, but the close connections between Campbell and HPL and of his novella “Who Goes There?” and “At the Mountains of Madness” makes for some interesting research), Ridley Scott’s Alien, Frank Darabont’s The Mist, and the Joss Whedon project of The Cabin in the Woods, but none are literal, nominal, nor ostensible adaptations of Lovecraft’s work; they are all imbued with his sense of cosmic indifference, though, which makes movies that, while often horrifying, terrify their viewers long after the credits roll.

Another worthy addition to that list of fine Lovecraftian films is Gareth Edward’s Godzilla.  The movie has been generally divisive, especially among Godzilla fans, of which I don’t necessarily consider myself a member.  But I’m not arguing about whether it’s a good Godzilla movie––though I think it is.  My Godzilla credentials are limited.  The only legitimate Godzilla film I’ve seen is the redundant American release of the 1954 original (and ignoring the 1998 Matthew Broderick vehicle).  Despite the strange narrative approach, the social commentary of the original movie is profound even sixty years later.  I don’t think it hurts to say that rubber monsters slapping each other doesn’t interest me very much––there’s a reason why most Godzilla and Godzilla-like movies are fodder for Mystery Science Theater 3000––and the original Godzilla is not that at all.  The creature is a walking metaphor, a theme on stubby legs which represents man’s hubris at playing with science it didn’t truly understand.  The creature is a lurking Japanese memory of the war, of foreign catastrophe and, perhaps, even guilt.  Despite being a man in a rubber suit, the original Godzilla is a wholly appropriate post-war statement.  One which breathes fire.

Going into Edward’s Godzilla, I secretly yearned for a Godzilla that meant something rather than just a two-hour wink-nudge to kaiju fans.  Luckily, even though this Godzilla is drastically different in story, origin, and scope from its predecessors, it is a Godzilla for the modern age.  More personally important, it makes Godzilla a Lovecraftian force of nature.

The ties between Godzilla and Cthulhu aren’t strained: a creature that sleeps at the bottom of the ocean, to surface indeterminately and cause wanton destruction is an apt description of both creatures.  More than that, however (and where this Godzilla departs from its original incarnation), is that this creature is divorced from humanity completely.  No longer is Godzilla a by-product of human ignorance; Godzilla belongs to a time before man, an earthly inhabitant arguably more native to the planet than humanity’s claim to it.  More than that––bad writing aside––Godzilla and its ilk in the new movie are unpredictable and unstoppable forces of nature; to them, humanity means nothing.  This Godzilla doesn’t pick sides because it is neither “good” nor “bad”; it is, as Lovecraft said, a “free and wild” creature which is “beyond good and evil” because it is not recognize humanity’s moral constructs––rules that we created to get a long with each other, not with nature. 

Like any Great Old One, a viewer would wonder if Godzilla even really notices the humanity it stumbles over; perhaps it sees so much change between its periods of consciousness that it just assumes buildings and elevated train tracks are this era’s forested hillsides.  That is what matters, though; we don’t know (though the movie does let us down by having Ken Watanabe correctly guess everything, which is dumb).  And in that ignorance, in that incomprehensible modus operandi, Godzilla becomes undeniably Lovecraftian because not only does humanity not seem to matter to the creature, but the movie makes it clear that there is nothing humanity can do to make it matter.  We throw militaries at it and nothing noticeable nor important happens.  It walks through skyscrapers like a horse through grass.  In the end, all humanity can do is hope it survives this unavoidable and inevitable cataclysmic natural disaster.  Call it an action movie or monster movie, but––for all it could represent in the modern political strata––one thing Godzilla can safely be called is Lovecraftian because of the creature and all of its implications:  Godzilla destroys, yes; that’s horrifying.  What’s terrifying is that Godzilla waits. 

As expected, we have created a second episode for your listening pleasure.  This week, as with last week, our topics went all over the place:

-Andrew discusses his time with the game, Sentinels of the Multiverse.

-D. Bethel discusses his new webcomic, Long John (longjohncomic.com).

-He also boasts about how Godzilla could possibly Cthulhu's second-cousin.

-Andrew gives us all we need to know about the new Dungeons & Dragons.

-In a new segment––Love the Craft––the boys discuss the H. P. Lovecraft story, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

-To close out the episode, they take a look forward and ask if they have anything exciting planned for the coming week.  (SPOILERS: No.)

Please feel free to leave your thoughts on any of the above topics and we'll read it on next week's show!  

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Thanks again for the great response to the show!  We aim to entertain!

Music from this episode includes:

-Stayin' In Black - Wax Audio

Co-creator of Eben07 announces new western webcomic, Long John

After six years of comicking, Eben07 co-creator, co-writer, and illustrator, D. Bethel, is launching his brand new long-form webcomic at the end of June with Long John. 

Long John is a story about a famous gunfighter who wakes up with nothing but his long johns, a gash in his head, and a visit from a mysterious, threatening figure called the Hellrider.

A western webcomic with a noir mystery, a revenge story, and an existential character study mixed into it, Long John.  Though it does not contain any robots, mutants, spaceships, zombies, magic, or aliens, the interesting characters, unforgiving setting, and Long John's story will keep you yearning for the next update.

While not a comedy like Eben07, fans of that comic ore of D. Bethel’s art style will not be disappointed with his new direction with Long John.  Fans of both fast action and slow character moments will find a lot to grab on to as we follow Long John Walker on his quest to find out not only what happened, but who to pay back for doing it.

Long John starts updating on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 and will update regularly twice a week with short breaks between chapters.  Head to longjohncomic.com to find out more.

In the premiere episode of A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes, we are introduced to the hosts: Andrew, a stew of nuclear engineering, lawyering, and quizomancy; and Dan, a comicker who teaches English––as they fill you in on a variety of topics, including:

-Pokemon

-Original Comic Art

-Boasts of Bethel: Dan's Statement of Nerdly Purpose

-The David Goyer/She Hulk Incident

-Doctor Who Ramble: The Leisure Hive

We're still working out the kinks and finding our feet; but we hope you enjoy it all the same, for all intents and purposes.

Music from this episode includes:

-"Stayin' in Black" by Wax Audio

-"I Am the Doctor" by Jon Pertwee