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Herpes & Super Virgin Book Club

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Welcome back. Now that Halloween is officially over Shawn and Earl take some time out to get real. How real? SUPER FUCKING REAL! Our hosts get into herpes, feminism and gamergate. It’s not all serious though as our intrepid two-fer also talks upcoming JRPG Persona 5, Nintendo and and sex (but not really sex). Please join us for another exciting episode of ALL KINDS OF PHILLER-but who knows, it may be our last.
Spoilers…it’s not.
Let it begin…the show now!

What we’ve been checking out:
Shawn: Nightbreed, Halloween Loot Crate, disappointment
Earl: Homeland season 4, and Brooklyn 9-9 season 2

Audio notes: (1hr. 19min. runtime)
0:05:25 – Persona 4 talk, headphones & iPods, real-life social links, and “phoning a friend”
0:19:00 – Herpes!, girls we had crushes on in high school, and what happened to Gamer Earl?
0:28:00 – Earl’s favourite game genre, game times, Super Virgin Book Club, and bad analogies
0:38:45 – Contra, the Hatred game, Gamergate, and wanting different kings of games
0:49:55 – Stanley Parable v. Gone Home, Bastion & Transistor, and voices
1:01:25 – Spending a lot of money on games, The Evil Within, and PS4 games
1:09:55 – What’s everyone checking out?

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Storytelling, Ghosts, & Pop Culture Wormholes

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On this episode, Earl and Shawn hang out with Keith McNally before he ships out for the Maritimes! They fall down the pop culture rabbit hole of ’80s TV shows, cancelled series, movie novelizations, and Keith was up to in ye olden days of the internet. They also get into storytelling, how it works in video games, branching storylines, and rag on Bioshock Infinite a lot. And along the way, Keith reveals his wrestling magazine knowledge, Shawn wants to start a Josie and the Pussycats tumblr, and Earl invokes the vengeful spirit of Roger Ebert.

Guest:
Keith McNally (@keithmcnally) – Host of The Vinyl Countdown

What we’ve been checking out:
Keith: High Maintenance (Webseries)
Shawn: Summer Games Done Quick (Speedrun videos)
Earl: Rectify (TV)

Audio notes: (1hr. 16min. runtime)
0:00:50 – Introducing Keith, olden days of the internet, Roger Ebert, and movie novelizations
0:09:50 – Firefly, cancelled shows, Quantum Leap, Sliders, The A-Team, and TV finales
0:18:35 – Books on games, Worlds of Power, working at a comic book shop, travelling, and stories in games
0:29:00 – Mass Effect, GTA, multiple endings, branching stories, and voices in Stanley Parable & Gone Home
0:41:05 – Bioshock series, travelling through space and time, comparing to The Last of Us, and Ghost of the Year
0:54:25 – Kentucky Route Zero, David Cage & Heavy Rain, playing hard games, and indie games
1:09:55 – What’s everyone checking out?

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Growing Up Gaming

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Our first guest on the new format, Curtis Roberts, joins Earl and Shawn to talk about growing up gaming! They get into their favourite RPGs, accidentally breaking consoles, blocky controllers, switching to PCs, and their thoughts on RPGs these days. They also discuss Final Fantasy, Curtis’ ignorance of Aeris’ death and gender, Mass Effect, the Sopranos finale, getting a Nintendo on the holidays, and c-notes.

Guest:
Curtis Roberts

Supplementary notes:
Team Teamwork- The Ocarina of Rhyme (Jay-Z meets Legend of Zelda)
Youtube – Crash Course
Death From Above 1979 – Trainwreck 1979

Audio notes: (1hr. 9min. runtime)
00:10 – Introducing Curtis, gaming degrees, consoles & c-notes, and breaking a PS2
11:50 – Moving away from consoles, modding, XCOM, and Final Fantasy
26:35 – Favourite RPGs, Nintendo, JRPG vs. Western, and LAN parties
38:50 – Current RPGs, Mass Effect, The Sopranos ending, The Witcher, and game choices
55:10 – Anticipated games, and what we’re checking out

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Star Wars, Canon, Remakes, & Retcons

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This week, Shawn Lotte and Spencer Sterritt return to tackle the recent news on the Star Wars Expanded Universe being non-canon and discuss continuity, remakes, and retcons! We also delve into Star Trek’s reboot films, the Evil Dead, X-Men, Shadow of the Colossus, and Better Call Saul. And somehow, they establish Mortal Kombat as the benchmark of storytelling.

Guests:
Shawn Lotte – “And then I move on”
Spencer Sterritt – Editor-in-chief for We Eat Films

Supplementary notes:
Shadow of the Colossus: Connections to Ico
Dark Souls II Lore and Speculation
Zelda Timeline

Audio notes: (1hr. 1min. runtime)
01:35 – Star Wars, the Expanded Universe, and defining what is canon
08:35 – Star Trek, time travel, Enterprise, and returning to Star Wars
13:50 – Superman, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Predator, Living Dead, and Evil Dead series
28:00 – X-Men, shoehorning all the films, Sentinels, and Wolverine
34:10 – Mortal Kombat, branching storylines, Bioshock series, and canonizing Bioshock 2
46:30 – Shadow of the Colossus & Ico, Dark Souls series, and sorting out Legend of Zelda
54:40 – Remaking films to shows: Bates Motel, Hannibal, Fargo, From Dusk til Dawn, and Better Call Saul

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