A whole new world!

Greetings podcasterites.  You may have noticed we haven't posted in a while, and there is a reason for that.  We're making some moves, and those moves are being made manifest.  You can catch our podcast over at www.weplayrpgs.com from this point forward.

Episode 28: Giant Luminescent Big Daddy

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• The movies and TV shows we watch.
• DC and their attempts to make more movies.  God damn it, Zack Snyder.
• PAX East:  Chris went and we speak of the thing.
• SCIENCE!
• NASA's new spacesuit.
• The galaxy M87 is flinging clusters of stars at 2 million miles per hour.  Somehow this won't kill us all.
• The USGS has found that Mt. St. Helens is charging up for another round.  Rad.
• Some insects drink tears.  Tasty, tasty tears.

Programming Note:

In the coming weeks we will be changing our format to an RPG only podcast.  As such, we will be re-branding and changing things up.  Stay tuned.

Episode 27: Re-Cap

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• We talk about Captain America: The Winter Soldier, at length.  No seriously, it's very long and full of spoilers.
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and its tie-ins with Winter Soldier.
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe from best to worst, in our opinion.
• How comics have changed since we started reading them.

Episode 26: Supermans

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• Super Power Beatdowns - Get ready folks, this is a long one.
• Movies - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their weird faces, Lucy and 100% of her brain, and Transcendence, or How I Learned to Stop Being Johnny Depp and Become A Computer.  Also, gief Neuromancer movie, Hollywood plox.
• STUFF!
• Someone caught the Chupacabra, or it might be a raccoon with mange.
• Dark Matter at the center of our galaxy.
• Lake Superior ain't got sh*t on Encaladeus, one of Saturn's moons.  Lots of liquid water.
• Microbes have killed more life on Earth than anything else, possibly ever.

Episode 25: WORDS!

In this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• Marvel shows off their concept art for Phase 2 and 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  Fox shows off....something that is supposed to be the X-Men.  Also, Amazing Spider-Man trailer shows off some of the Sinister Six.
• In 2012 a coronal mass ejection nearly wiped out a lot of electronics on Earth.
• Gravity Wave Theory!  The Big Bang!
• NASA models what may be the end of civilization.
• Project Morpheus gives us moar virtual reality.
• The U.S. government releases the shackles on root domain access for top tier domains.

As a note, you might have noticed a lapse in the podcasts these last two weeks.  Multiple members of the team were very sick, and we needed time to recover.  We apologize for the delay, and are back on track.

We Play RPG's Episode 9: The Bottom of Thisletop

On this episode of We Play RPG's:

LISTEN HERE

• Mud proves that you don't have to be smart to be perceptive.
• Harry drinks things he finds in thousand year old dungeons.
• We meet Nualia.
• Lero gets frightened by dogs.
• More robbery!
• Cautious gold placement.
• The worst monster yet.
• Shadow bad-touchery.
• We learn about giant, aquatic, sea vermin.

We Play RPG's Episode 8: Interface Zero One Shot

On this episode of We Play RPG's:

**This episode is being presented uncensored.  It contains adult language and adult content.**

LISTEN HERE

This special one shot of We Play RPG's is a Savage Worlds game we played using the Interface Zero 2.0 setting by Gun Metal Games.  The explanation at the front of the podcast will give most of the pertinents and such.  I cannot recommend this setting enough if you are a fan of Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2027, or games like Android Netrunner.  Enjoy the little outtake at the end as well.

Episode 24: Son of Giant Monster Bros.

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• The Eternal Question:  Would you rather/What if?  We explore this question in the most bizarre manner possible, and even give some of the rules of this wondrous time passing device.
• Godzilla!:  A new trailer was recently released and shows quite a bit more of the upcoming reboot.  Including more of Brian Cranston and Ken Watanabe, the possibility of the existence of the Island of Giant Monsters, Rodan, and more!
• The Voynich Manuscript - A cryptic 600 year old text found in 1912, long believe to be a hoax, but a professor in the U.K. has claimed he has cracked a little bit of the code.
• Apparently, 13% of U.S. adults don't use the Internet.
• The Boeing Black, a suicidal smartphone.  James Bond would be proud.
• The Kepler Telescope find 715 new planets.  The biggest batch yet.  Some of them are even in the proper area to support life.
• A supernova in a nearby galaxy is acting very strangely.
• IBM harnesses the power of 2000 suns!
• Hitachi has stolen tech from Superman, and can store lots of data in quartz crystal.
• The Oscars are this weekend, which means we get to see Leonardo DiCaprio lose another chance at a statue.  Also, 12 Years A Slave becomes curriculum in U.S. high schools, and Marvel will be showing a new special on ABC, as well as previewing the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer during Captain America: Winter Soldier.

Episode 23: Ooga Chuka!

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• The Guardians of the Galaxy!  Marvel's newest introduction to the cinematic universe.  A talking raccoon, a giant tree man, a hulking angry alien hybrid, and Zoe Saldana, this time in green!  Also, these people.
• Vidya Games!
• Steam is tracking your browser history.  Gaben wants to know your porn habits.  Oh yeaaaaah.
• Irrational Studios - Those guys that made Bioshock close their doors and pull up their stakes.  What does this mean for the game industry.
• Flappy Bird - What happens when a game gets too big for one indie developer to handle, even for 50k a day in ad revenue.  Also, the game I was talking about is Gone Home, not Welcome Home.  Those are different things.
• SCIENCE!
• We dodged another bullet.  This time it was called 2000 EM26.  And it was real close.  In galactic terms.
• The moon gets awesome internets.  662 MBit/sec internet, which is fast enough to stream a 4K resolution movie, in about 7 seconds.  WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS!
• Net Neutrality.  We were right.
• Cancer.  F**k cancer.  Leukemia specifically.  Living virus, represent!

We Play RPG's Episode 7: Thisletop

On this episode of We Play RPG's:

LISTEN HERE

• Our party goes deep into the Goblins hole and pounds them hard.
• We meet a creepy stalker, with daddy issues and a book full of demonic porn.
• Harry is the firestarter.
• A dinner conversation, Goblin wives, an everburning torch, and lots of bird feet.
• Adventurers are dicks to Goblins *bing*

We Play RPG's Episode 6, Part 2: Sandpoint Shuffle

On this episode of We Play RPG's:

LISTEN HERE

• Sandpoint: Nice people, nice bandits.  It's like the Canada of Varisia.
• Mud's Tips on Tipping.
• Harry learns how to fireworks.
• Dwarves hate Goblins, Goblins hate the written word.
• A town guard that isn't completely inept.

We Play RPG's Episode 6, Part 1: The Road to Sandpoint

On this episode of We Play RPG's.

Listen Here

• Harry lies to a priestess of Pharasma.
• Mud always knows when dinner is.
• We meet Harry's parents, sort of.
• Rudeness to Halflings.
• A lesson on bandit morality.

Episode 22: Mirror Universe Rules

On this episode of  We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE!

• The logistics of Rule 63: Out of all the rules of the internet, the gender swapped rule is one of the more appropriate ones to have a conversation about.  So we did.
• DC, because it never gets old: DC Comics Harley Quinn title pushes the boundary of the Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn relationship just a bit further past the friendzone.  How long will that last?
• MOVIES!: I, Frankenstein and the Dark Tower.
• SCIENCE!: 3D printers that can make a house!  ICE VOLCANOES! F YEAH!

Bonus Video: Angry Girl Gamers, as spoken of.

Episode 21: Birds are Weird

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:

LISTEN HERE

• Marvel Phase 2: Ant-Man and Doctor Strange.  A bit of actor jockeying on Marvel's Phase 2 projects.
• Magic: The Gathering Movie:  Apparently this is a thing.  Also, D&D movies are terrible.
• Net Neutrality:  Also known as a huge step backward for consumer rights.
• The DURR:  A horribly named time perception device.  Or as I call it, a "non-watch".
• Most Influential Burgers: TIME magazine takes a break from real news to make a list 'bout burgers.
• ESP: The sixth sense, no not the movie, but the actual sixth sense.
• Birds: Yep, birds are weird, and apparently masters of aerodynamics.

Episode 20: Banned from Dove's Facebook

On this episode of We Talk To Ourselves:
Listen Here!

• Has DC Comics done something stupid today?
• Doctor Who? Peter Capaldi, that's who.
• The Science of Gingers.
• The Intel Edison, a micro-computer that's as big as an SD card.
• China Pulls back the Steel Curtain and lets the console games in.
• The Great Body Image War. Pushing past the Photoshop, and into reality.

We Play RPG's: Episode 5, Part 2

As promised (though a bit late) episode 5, part 2 of We Play RPG's, in which our heroes:

Click here to listen!

• Learn that sometimes reading hurts.
• Try and loot a swarm of cockroaches.
• Learn that flying heads can be hard to punch.
• Realize that Harry is a magnet for magical darkness.