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Schedule for the Week of 03/17/2025

It’s March and here in New Jersey we’re in our weather transition. My heating/electric bill has been through the roof the last few months, so I’ll be curious to see if things come down or if I’m just running too many dang computers in the house (and garage). We also have to make sure the yard, house, and garage are re...

Patron Q&A 045: March 2025

Questions that popped up on this month's Q&A address all sorts of topics, like what we'd do if we had to move on from Discord, technology and media we came to way late, buying big-ticket items at the flea market, the great divide between Mega Man X and non-, and hiding a datacenter in a storage facility.

The Nextlander Podcast 191: Pillows of Eternity

There might be an Xbox handheld launching this year (?!), plus the actual next Xbox in 2027, and we get together to talk all about that, along with the fairly unhinged new Death Stranding 2 trailer, WWE 2K25, Deliver at All Costs, returning to PUBG in 2025, top-tier comedy sketches, lighting your sardines on fire, and a bunch...

Weekly Ramblecast 196: Sbarro Breakfast

Brad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.

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Weekly Ramblecast 196: Sbarro Breakfast

Brad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.

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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 128: The Warriors (1979)

It's time to take a trip back in time to the crime-scorched hellscape of NYC circa 1979 in Walter Hill's The Warriors! Join us as we bop from the Bronx to Coney Island, taking on the many gangs of clowns and theater kids that run these New York City streets.

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Schedule for the Week of 03/10/2025

It certainly is March and though the time here in the States has gotten all funky with Daylight Saving Time it’s always the BEST time to be hanging out with Nextlander. This Monday marks the first episode of Mike and Vinny Destroy the World. That’s where Mike Mahardy is teaching me how to play Total War: Warhammer III and...

Mike and Vinny Destroy the World! - Part 01

Mike Mahardy and Vinny choose their engines of Chaos as they begin their journey through Total War: Warhammer III!

Episodes will post here every other week.

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Monthly Planorama 046: March 2025

The mythical End of Fiscal is upon us once again, so there are a bazillion end-of-quarter releases to sift through this month, but among them we encounter a wide range of notable March games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, Cataclismo, Split Fiction, the Suikoden remasters, WWE 2K25, Wanderstop, Hitman in VR, new Rain Wor...

Monthly Planorama 046: March 2025

The mythical End of Fiscal is upon us once again, so there are a bazillion end-of-quarter releases to sift through this month, but among them we encounter a wide range of notable March games, including Assassin's Creed Shadows, Cataclismo, Split Fiction, the Suikoden remasters, WWE 2K25, Wanderstop, Hitman in VR, new Rain Wor...

The Nextlander Podcast 190: Big Buccaneer Hunter

While we spend a good part of this week's show grappling with the resurrection of the Acclaim name, we also find time to discuss Split Fiction, Knights in Tight Spaces, Gears of War on PS5, buying a (cheap) record player, the whereabouts of Bam Margera, a big week for video game source code, and the Sonic Unleashed PC port wi...

Weekly Ramblecast 195: A Netflix Sub Guarantees Citizenship

This week's ramble wends its way through topics as broad as managing anger in trying times and bringing back common courtesy, building your own music library, the greatness of Sly and the Family Stone, mushrooms (you know the ones), a brain dump of our Realis session with Austin Walker, and the number of unaccounted-for Oscar...

Weekly Ramblecast 195: A Netflix Sub Guarantees Citizenship

This week's ramble wends its way through topics as broad as managing anger in trying times and bringing back common courtesy, building your own music library, the greatness of Sly and the Family Stone, mushrooms (you know the ones), a brain dump of our Realis session with Austin Walker, and the number of unaccounted-for Oscar...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 127: Brazil (1985)

We're kicking off our month of Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities with Terry Gilliam's classic satirical nightmare, Brazil! Join us as we pick apart this strange world of failing systems and bureaucratic ass-covering that holds absolutely no similarity to the real world in which we live. Heh. Heh.

2025-03-04 00:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Schedule for the Week of 03/03/2025

Here we are in March, and I talk about it on the Ramblecast this week, but it seems more important than ever to have spaces and activities that allow you to find a bit of inner peace. I’ve never been great at meditation, and exercise works but it’s, you know, still exercise. What I usually need to do is build, constru...

Watchcast Schedule for March 2025: Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities!

Greetings, Nextlanders! Once again I am here to tell you what we've got cooking for the Watchcast in the coming month, and this March we're ticking off another category that's been floating around on our big doc for ages: Weird-Ass Dystopian Cities! To be clear, this is about as loose a category theme as we've done in a while...

Never Been a Better Podcast 033: Woodpecker Intimidator

Dan Ryckert and Abby Russell are back to talk about phone etiquette during movies and meals, healthy eating and digestion, and woodpeckers in the walls.

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(00:00:06) Intro

(00:01:50) Dan's furnace and weather

(00:04:11) Heated jackets and heated beds?

(00:07:18) AND no more static electr...

The Nextlander Podcast 189: Return to the Upper Yo

This week we attempt to get back to the positive end of the yo-yo cycle by playing Monster Hunter Wilds, LAD: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, more Avowed, and some Steam Next Fest demos, plus the shocking closure of Monolith, some new Fable footage, Microsoft's games AI model, and your emails!

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The Nextlander Monthly Thank You: February 2025

We're almost there: the end of February. It's time to combine all our forces to vanquish this cold, grey mess of a month, and to do that, we'll need you to choose what we're going to stream this Friday the 28th (dawn of the final day!) by look...

Weekly Ramblecast 194: The Week of Zeke

Topics rambled about this week include the algorithms eating everyone's brains, Severance, that new "budget" iPhone, Microsoft's mysterious new phase of matter, famous people going off the deep end, and Alex's very large, one-year-old cat.

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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:03:21) The Techno...

Weekly Ramblecast 194: The Week of Zeke

Topics rambled about this week include the algorithms eating everyone's brains, Severance, that new "budget" iPhone, Microsoft's mysterious new phase of matter, famous people going off the deep end, and Alex's very large, one-year-old cat.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:03:21) The Techno...

The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 126: Parasite (2019)

We're closing out February with our second Best Picture winner in a row, this time jetting off to South Korea for Bong Joon-ho's Parasite. How does it hold up a few years removed from its hype? Very well, it turns out!

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