Hi! This week, Chris, Jinny and Ross sat down to discuss things that you may enjoy listening to. These things include Nintendo releasing a crazy amount of good games this week, whether or not World of Warcraft is work, if Portal may lose it’s funny and how to keep on gaming during a financial crunch. What is this I hear about a PAX-themed contest? Oh hey! Neat. Look, there’s a lot of things discussed this week. We just sort of have a conversation and it’s an interesting conversation. That’s what we do . In addition, you guys sent a ridiculous amount of mails this week for mailbag, so we read them all. Including the death threats. Yeah. Neat.
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The New AdulthoodFrom: weeklygeekshow.com
Post Date: 2008-09-11 10:25:54
This discussion probably requires tons more academic research and thinking than my anectodal mind is capable of, but this is something that’s been on my mind as of late. I am not an adult. I freely admit this. I am not a child, either. I’ve been called a man-child before, but that description has more of a negative connotation than my lifestyle indicates. I have a pretty good job, I pay my bills, and I’ve accomplished quite a lot in the short time I’ve had on Earth so...
more Force FeedbackFrom: weeklygeekshow.com
Post Date: 2008-09-10 09:00:00
It used to be that hammering out a paper was just that, a tactile bout between man and machine. Each hammer fall a satisfying CHUNK as part of either a slow paper tattoo or furious ink-spraying staccato. I’d play the part of the blacksmith bent over my typewriter forge, pouring sweat across corded wrist muscles that whimpered for a mercy they wouldn’t see until the required number of pages were beaten to submission. Progress was ripped from rubber rollers to be tempered in cool ai...
more The Ravenous Bibliophage: The Southern Vampire Series - Charlaine HarrisFrom: weeklygeekshow.com
Post Date: 2008-09-09 11:11:19
HBO’s new series True Blood is up and running: a campy, raunchy, unexpectedly hilarious look at vampires in rural Louisiana. I’m not an HBO series watcher in general, but when I found out this particular show was based on the Southern Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris, I became curious. So in preparation, I decided to have a look at the written series first, the better to point out flaws such as bad casting and altered storylines (one of my snobbier traits, born out of Book ...
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