Episode 23: Ooga Chuka!

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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:

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• 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.

We Play RPG's Episode 5, Part 1: Explore All The Things!

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Episode 5, Part 1

• We learn of Ancient Thassilon and Iron Cobras.
• Fighting Lustspawn will sometimes result in sickness.
• Half-plate does not protect against acid.
• Skull Spiders suck at biting.
• And more.

Part 2 will go up next week, so until then enjoy your holiday!

Episode 19: The Emperor of Lego

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Episode 19

• Paul Dini confirms what we suspected about DC Comics executives and their aversion to female fans.
• The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug: Thoughts on the movie as a film, also thoughts on the adaptation from the book.
• Ant-Man - The Edgar Wright directed Marvel film that introduces one of the most important characters in the Marvel Universe and what it means for the cinematic universe.
• This Week in Geek:
• Super-luminous supernovae from 10 billion light years away.
• Air powered LEGO car: Enterprising Australians make a full size LEGO car.  We also talk about the life of the Emperor of LEGO.
• Cloaking technology.  Today, radio waves.  Tomorrow, the visible light spectrum.
• Spiders eat pollen, not just bugs.  Still nope.  Nope, nope, nope.
• Yellowstone Park is a supervolcano, and it has a massive lava chamber below it.  Did I mention nope?
• Language experiments on the 1500's to try and figure out what language people spoke before there was language.  Ethics weren't a thing then.