Episode 61 – Professor Biggs
Posted on | March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
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Special Guest, Professor Steven Biggs joins us on the couch for reviews of The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer, Replay by Ken Grimwood, The West Wing on DVD, Audiosurf for the PC and Guillotine card game by Wizards of the Coast. Also, Skwinkles. | ||||||||
Tags: audiosurf > books > brad meltzer > comics > dvd > geek culture > guillotine > ken grimwood > movies > pop culture > replay > special guest > squiggles > steve biggs > the book of lies > the west wing > video games > Wizards of the Coast
Episode 60 – Prince of Quirkiness
March 1, 2010 | No Comments
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Features reviews of Joe Schreiber’s Star Wars: Deathtroopers, Richard Wiseman’s Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness on DVD, Sunshine on DVD and Blu-ray, D3 Publisher’s Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, Dejobaan Games’ AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, ItBGames’ Kino One, Sandlot Games’ Tradewinds Odyssey, Hidden Path Entertainment’s Defense Grid: The Awakening and Talisman from Fantasy Flight Games. | ||||||||
Episode 59 – Fraktastic Plane Hats
February 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
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Features reviews of Kalypso Media’s Tropico 3, Brüno on DVD and Blu-ray, 1C Company’s King’s Bounty: Armored Princess, Marvel Comics’ 1985, Fantasy Flight Games’ Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game and Good Old Games (www.gog.com) direct-download service. | ||||||||
Celebrity Interview: Mike Sacks
February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Famous Paul interviews Mike Sacks, author of And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft
Mike Sacks has written for Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, McSweeney’s, Radar, MAD, New York Observer, Premiere, Believer, Vice, Maxim, Women’s Health, and Salon. He has worked at The Washington Post, and is currently on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair. Check out his website at www.mikesacks.com
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- Chris Elliot as Brando:
- Chris Elliot as guy under the seats:
- KEXP FM Seattle
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- Over the Edge
- “Strongman” documentary:
CouchCast 42: He-Man Walks Into a Bar…March 10, 2010 | No Comments 
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Fail: Star Trek OnlineMarch 4, 2010 | 2 Comments 
“If you do not learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.” I first heard those words when I complained of being bored in history class in middle school. Being a child of such fortunate circumstance to have been blessed with sharp wits at an early age, those words sunk in and I passed that class with an A. I have always tried to learn the easy way, allowing those that came before to learn through toil and trial and pass on their hard won knowledge to me so that I would not have to waste time and effort doing it. This is an obvious and effective means of education; the concept that we do not have to keep reinventing the wheel with every passing generation. Yet it seems that some game developers cannot learn from the past. Games that are rushed have problems. Content that is rushed will be buggy and untested. And gamers, as a whole, are not stupid. I point to the brutally obvious example of Star Wars Galaxies to illustrate this point. Even developers of that game have come forward to admit mistakes were made on an epic scale. There are numerous blogs and news articles detailing why that game failed so miserably. Their words, apparently, have fallen on deaf ears. |
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