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CSI: Coruscant & Blacklight Tattoos

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In the Coruscant justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Jedi, who investigate crime, and the Federation, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

Welcome back returning guest Keith Mcnally in this week’s installment of AKOP. We talk about so much stuff that we cannot even list it all in the show notes. For example: Star Wars, Turbo Grafix 16, Judge Dredd, CSI, Gilligan’s Island, Dune, etc. We also play a new game called the Metagame. What is the Metagame you ask? Well, you know what to do to find out so without wasting more time:

Let it begin… the show now!

Guest:
Keith McNally (@keithmcnally) – Keith Courage, Vinyl Countdown

What we’ve been checking out:
Keith: Elliot Hulse on Youtube
Shawn: Bayonetta, Sunset Overdrive, and Binding of Isaac
Earl: The Guest, and Birdman

Audio notes: (1hr. 16min. runtime)
0:02:10 – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars, Keith the comic book store guy, and the secret history of Lucasarts
0:14:40 – PS1 games haven’t aged well, IP mashups, blacklight tattoos, and CSI: Coruscant
0:28:05 – Blockbuster & Netflix, the Dune franchise, Gilligan’s Island game, and Chrontendo
0:41:40 – Nintendo, the WiiU, Tiger Woods 2009, controllers, RTSes on consoles, and Keith’s Korean friend
1:01:25 – Metagame – What is a sign of the apocalypse: E.T. or Coca-Cola?
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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