Rambled about this week: the Pope, runaway histamine response, Jason Statham's one movie, Phil Tippett's Mad God, increasingly onerous travel requirements in the US, the return of Naked Gun, and making sure you perform your civic duty for your local government.
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On this week's Watchcast Brad's documentary pick is up to bat, and he's selected Jurassic Punk, a movie that both chronicles the early days of computer generated special effects at ILM, and serves as a character study of the embittered genius that is Steve 'Spaz' Williams.
2025-04-21 21:44:09 +0000 UTC
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I did it. I reached “credits” in Blue Prince. The real Blue Prince starts here? Not sure I currently have the drive to continue plugging away it, but maybe I need more time. I’ll definitely be talking more about my experiences with it on this week’s Podcast. Before that though we’re returning to Void Crew on Monday,...
2025-04-21 19:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike is fighting for survival while Vinny is trying to collect the skulls of his, increasing number, of enemies!
This week, Blue Prince has snared a couple of us (sort of), another couple of us can't seem to stop playing AC Shadows, and... Gradius III makes a surprise appearance? In the news, the BDS Xbox boycott, the Marathon reveal, Oblivion Remastered media leaks, the PS5 is getting more expensive. Plus a New Zealand slang primer, wh...
2025-04-17 00:58:35 +0000 UTC View Post
We're roaring back from our time off this week with a deep dive on Bill Murray, introducing the kids to Groundhog Day, the importance of dispensing A.1. sauce to young minds, Princess Mononoke at the IMAX, a New Jersey arcade trip report, NUT servers for everyone, and, yes, extended thoughts on the Minecraft movie.
We're roaring back from our time off this week with a deep dive on Bill Murray, introducing the kids to Groundhog Day, the importance of dispensing A.1. sauce to young minds, Princess Mononoke at the IMAX, a New Jersey arcade trip report, NUT servers for everyone, and, yes, extended thoughts on the Minecraft movie.
It's time to kick off our month of documentaries, and leading us off is one of Alex's favorite slice of life stories in cinema, American Movie! Join us as we talk through Mark and his motley film crew's attempt at making the next great American horror short film, and then review the aforementioned short film as well. That's r...
2025-04-14 21:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re back!
We’re spinning the gears back up this week after returning from our week off! You can hear us chat about our doings and goings-on during our time away on this week’s Ramblecast so make sure to check that out. We’re going to jump right back into things this Monday with a return to Helldivers 2! I’ve...
2025-04-14 18:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Nextlanders! Gonna keep this one brief as technically I'm still on vacation, and it is ILLEGAL for someone in my position to be producing anything that resembles content while maintaining vacation status. But before I am summarily arrested, I wanted to make sure you knew what we had coming up for the Watchcast once...
2025-04-10 16:31:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhile we're out this week, we bring you another blast from the Never Been a Better past, all the way back in December 2022, when Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar joined us to share tales of holiday mishaps, immortal pets, and much more!
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Our good friend Steve Lin drops by this week to bring his prodigious knowledge of classic gaming to bear, telling us about his involvement in the Video Game History Foundation and its sprawling archival library project, reducing the size of your collection, the rediscovered "NBA Jam for baseball," reverse-engineering games th...
2025-04-08 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Our good friend Steve Lin drops by this week to bring his prodigious knowledge of classic gaming to bear, telling us about his involvement in the Video Game History Foundation and its sprawling archival library project, reducing the size of your collection, the rediscovered "NBA Jam for baseball," reverse-engineering games th...
2025-04-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for us to collect skulls, gather blood, and maybe a few other random body parts, you know... for reasons.
2025-04-07 15:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to April! There's plenty to plan about in the coming month, including South of Midnight, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur, Monaco 2, a new Fatal Fury (!!), Xbox ports to PlayStation, PlayStation ports to PC, and more.
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2025-04-03 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to April! There's plenty to plan about in the coming month, including South of Midnight, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur, Monaco 2, a new Fatal Fury (!!), Xbox ports to PlayStation, PlayStation ports to PC, and more.
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It happened: They took the wraps off the Switch 2 (for real this time). Will Smith joins us to break down the price, hardware specs and features, backwards compatibility, and launch-ish games like Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and the most important launch title of all: the Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
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2025-04-02 22:52:02 +0000 UTC View Post
With Alex on vacation, Brad and Vinny get deep into the television weeds with spoiler-filled discussions of Station Eleven and both seasons of Severance, plus some spoiler-free discussion of Shogun, April Fool's exhaustion, how to sell an old TV, and more.
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With Alex on vacation, Brad and Vinny get deep into the television weeds with spoiler-filled discussions of Station Eleven and both seasons of Severance, plus some spoiler-free discussion of Shogun, April Fool's exhaustion, how to sell an old TV, and more.
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Welcome to April and welcome to finally knowing the details about the Switch 2, at least that’s the hope given that there’s a dedicated Nintendo Direct about it this week. We’ll be talking over it on Wednesday morning, so you can find out with us what is laid out and what’s not! On Monday, Brad, Will, and I will be ba...
2025-03-31 19:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar join us to talk about our morning hours, tiers of junk food, and of course, wet meat.
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(00:04:07) What's going on in Bakalar Town
(00:07:04) What counts as being awake?
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2025-03-28 15:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got one week left before the big Switch 2 reveal, so hop in the ding-dong hole for one last round of rumors and speculation, plus plenty of other chatter about Atomfall, more AC: Shadows and 33 Immortals, Revenge of the Savage Planet, Josef Fares' Willy Wonka moment, a good week for games media, the landmark release of ...
2025-03-26 23:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt's here! The moment you've all been waiting for: the end of March! What comes next? Well, I regret to inform you that it'll be... another month. And then another one after that. But before we begin this endless march of months unto infinity, we're going to run our regular thank-you stream this Friday the 28th, allowing you,...
2025-03-25 21:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, Assassin's Creed Shadows has gotten Brad to start in on Shogun, Vinny's digging into the used record shop, a Giant Bomb cutting-room-floor archival effort is underway, and we all get a little bit spiritual in our own ways.
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This week, Assassin's Creed Shadows has gotten Brad to start in on Shogun, Vinny's digging into the used record shop, a Giant Bomb cutting-room-floor archival effort is underway, and we all get a little bit spiritual in our own ways.
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We round out our month of weird dystopian cities with the darkest dystopian city of them all: the one literally called Dark City. Join us as we try to find the way to Shell Beach, and along the way finally answer the question of what makes a man: his memory, or his power level.
2025-03-24 23:21:24 +0000 UTC
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I’ve been really enjoying some video games! Between Avowed and Assassin’s Creed Shadows I’ve been eager to get back in front of the screen whenever I get some free time. I’m curious how folks are finding AC Shadows, especially if you’ve come back after an extended break. I’m about 25 hours in at this point and sti...
2025-03-24 18:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back and it's time to embrace the fashion aspects of destroying the world, like what should we put on our Cape of Skulls?
2025-03-24 18:30:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We talk for like an hour about Assassin's Creed Shadows this week, plus 33 Immortals, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (big week for 33 around here), Keita Takahashi's To a T, a $500 Switch 2, Xbox's gaming Copilot AI, the strange possibilities of an Oblivion remake, a little about GDC, and more.
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2025-03-20 00:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We rambled about everything under the sun this week, from Roman history to Kurosawa to multiple Buffetts, Vinny's home flour-milling, Brad's new (old) CRT, Alex's love of yacht rock, and a bunch of other stuff!
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