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2014 in Review

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Well folks, it’s finally here: the final episode… OF THE YEAR. We decided to give you one final AKOP before we take a break, and what an episode it is! We take a look back at the last 12 months and make some arbitrary power rankings for our favourite films, games, worst things, and best discoveries. Shawn also provides a quick In Memoriam for his beloved series at the tail-end. What did we pick as our favourites? There’s only way to find out… Listen to this episode!

Let it end… the year now!

Audio notes: (1hr. 28min. runtime)
0:00:00 – Cold open, Jurassic Park theme, and intro to power rankings
0:07:15 – Arbitrary Top Films List: #10 to #6
0:29:55 – Arbitrary Top Films List: #5 to #1
0:54:45 – Our Top 5 Board/Video Games
1:08:05 – Our 5 Worst Things and Our 5 Best Discoveries
1:20:45 – In Memoriam and final notes

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The Last of Us

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This episode of All Kinds of Philler is all about The Last of Us: a tense, bloody, emotional, and morally complex video game. In other words, it’s the feel-good hit of the summer! Earl bands together with Brent and newcomer Stephen to discuss the critically-acclaimed survival horror game, the theme of partnerships, violence, enemy AI, and executing post-apocalyptic tropes. They also end up talking about Tomb Raider, and why Ellie looks a lot like Ellen Page. (Spoilers on the entire game.)

Guests:
Brent Peckham
Stephen

Supplementary Notes:
Story Trailer

Audio notes: (1hr. 8min. runtime)
00:30 – Intro to The Last of Us
01:40 – The prologue, Sarah, Joel’s morality, and evoking post-apocalyptic fiction
07:45 – Partnerships, Ishmael, Bill, Tess, Sam & Henry, and Joel & Ellie
17:25 – Realism, AI and level design, Uncharted, and game mechanics
29:20 – Emotional weight to each kill, Joel’s brutality, and the killcams
34:06 – The four seasons as chapters, and the Utah scene
38:10 – “It’s not a fun game!”, emotional drain, The Walking Dead, and cannibalism
42:55 – Threat of sexual violence, lack of female enemies or child clickers, and David
48:35 – The Firefly battle, dissonance between player & Joel, and the final scene
58:35 – Graphics, glitches, voice acting, and Ellen Page
61:20 – Comparisons to Tomb Raider
66:00 – Stephen and Brent’s playlists

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