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Podcast Episode 40 part 1

Tonight we continue with our new format. We read Chance's email and we go through the week's news in the news dump. We will continue with the new format until we either get bored or decide to do something else. We did get a little feedback on the new format. It was mostly positive, so there you go.

In his abbreviated email Chance, has several things to say after we give him his weekly snarkectomy. He sides with us on the Wonder Woman/Ironman fight. He brings up some excellent Xbox games, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. Both games have excellent stories and are quite enjoyable. He brings up that you can buy used copies of games for only a few dollars more than is being charged to rent them on the Playstation Now. He says that he is disappointed with Titanfall and says that paying a $1 to get kicked in the nuts is preferable to paying for Mech Assault Online. He also gets us back on the VR helmet discussion. Both Sony and Valve are working on VR helmets. With all the development, we still don't think that VR headsets are going to be mainstream for a while.

On the news dump tonight we talk about the controller for Amazon's theoretical console. We talked about the NSA spying on everyone. We talked about how Stalin would have endorsed the Xbone and then kept a PS4 at home. Nvideo stopping support of DirectX 10. The Xbone controller works on PC. The Last of Us won 5 baftas. Epic and Mozilla demo Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox, rather exciting gaming news. Chinese gaming console in the works. 22 year old Chimp plays better than kindergartners, and more.

That is the podcast for tonight. Let us know what you think and tune in midway through next week to get part 2.

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The Distracted Gamers Podcast Episode 40 part 1

Podcast Episode 39 part 2

We continue with our new format on the podcast tonight. On the program we have the topics that are of interest to us, the hosts of the show. Plus, we have the next round in our Legendary Battle of the Legendary Legends.

Rhett starts us out with the Walking Dead. He has been both watching the show and reading the comics that the show is based on. He makes the observation that this is a zombie apocalypse scenario and is doomed to end badly as per the formula. In this type of scenario where civilization has ended due to the rise of zombies things really only have one way to go, down. Before anything can improve you have to find a way to exterminate every zombie and exterminate the method for zombie propagation. He also points out some of the divergences between the TV show and the source material.

Jason again brings up the topic of VR headsets. He found an article about a new VR headset being offered by Valve. It seems that everyone is jumping on the headset bandwagon these days. And while we would like to experience the new technology we are hesitant to jump on the bandwagon ourselves. Right now the headsets are expensive, require cutting-edge computers to run, and can only accommodate one user. Altogether, not points in their favor. Right now if you buy a VR headset you are buying a very expensive peripheral. If the price becomes more reasonable, then we might endorse them, but not yet.

In the next round of our epic battle royale we pit Ironman against Wonder Woman. Ironman is Tony Stark's superhero persona and is gifted with inventiveness, intelligence, money, increased strength, speed, repulsor blasts, flight, and other energy and projectile based weaponry. Wonder Woman is an Amazon warrior. She has super speed, super strength, durability, accelerated healing, superior combat skills, flight, magic sword, lasso, tiara, braclets. We pick our winner. Let us know who you picked.

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The Distracted Gamers Podcast Episode 39 part 2

Podcast Episode 39 part 1

Tonight on the podcast we are experimenting with a new format. We are dividing our podcast into two parts. The first part, which will be posted tonight, will cover our fan email, our news dump, and any discussion on those topics. The second part will be released later in the week and will cover our personal topics of interest and the next round in the battle royale tournament. Let's see how it works and if we like it.

In our email tonight, Chance rags on Rhett for letting Captain Marvel lose. He then praises Rhett for reading heavy material for fun. He blasts Apple for their handling of the man who's mother left him her iPad in her will. The woman died of cancer and left the iPad to her son. The problem being that the device is locked and no one has the code. Understandably the man went to Apple, but they require written permission from the dead woman before they will help her son. Let me reiterate the operative words there, the dead woman. Chance also tells us that he would wear a VR headset, but would much rather have the full blown holo-deck. Rhett points out the obvious problem with the holo-deck, no man would ever leave his holo-deck, ever. He touches on the death of net neutrality and points out that our hope is now in the consumer, which means we are screwed. Chance also sent us an image that does us proud, take a look

On the news dump tonight, we talk about Naughty Dog fired the writer of Uncharted and got tons of grief. Disney is fire a bunch of people. They bought Playdom and now they are ditching it because it isn't profitable. Titanfall will not be released in South Africa because they don't have the internet bandwidth to support it. So much for the always on Xbone. Comcast is still trying to screw over the consumer with their purchase of Time Warner. Verizon and Netflicks are negotiating for bandwidth, just like Netflicks did with Comcast. They are definitely going to pass the savings on to the consumer after these deals go through. The CEO of Sony Entertainment America, Jack Trenton, is stepping down. And much more.

That is the podcast for tonight. Let us know what you think and tune in midway through next week to get part 2.

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The Distracted Gamers Podcast Episode 39 part 1

Podcast Episode 38

Tonight we have a treat for you: Our Longest Podcast Ever! That's right, we go for the record. We hope that you can stand us long enough to listen to the podcast. Partially we have quite a bit to say about the Doctor Strange versus Captain Marvel fight.

We start out with our emails. We have two tonight, one from Chance and one from Vaughn, one vote for Captain Marvel and one for Doctor Strange. Yet another reason that we go the distance. Chance fills us in on the Xbone price drop wiht the addition of Titanfall, Sony's VR headset, and the Harvard Business Professor's opinion that game developers should develop preexisting IPs rather than develop new ones.

Rhett brings us tonight's news dump. We talk about Bioshock Infinite again. Ken Levine wants people to stop making porn of Elizabeth. He's forgotten internet rule 34. Netflicks is paying Comcast to be able to stream videos, which we've talked about before. However, Comcast is also talking about billing Cogent as well. Cogent is the company that handles the streaming for Netflicks. Expect your bill to go up if you use Netflicks. This runs smack against Net Neutrality and highlights why we should have it. Listen to the podcast for the rest.

We finish the console section with the final three: WII U, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. WII U is the console to get if you like party games, playing without the television, and unique games. If you don't want an expensive, under powered, system, that is bulky and drains the battery skip it. The Playstation 4 has the best hardware of the bunch, it is cheaper than the Xbox One, they improved the controller, you can stream to your TV with the PS Vita. However, there really isn't a huge draw to move away from your current system, at least not yet. In a plus/minus kind of situation there's a huge library of games available with the instant collection, but you have to pay for Playstation Plus. Xbox One on the other hand has Titanfall, it is an all-in-one media system, and it has HDMI passthrough. However, it has the inferior hardware and is more expensive, again not much reason to move away from current gen yet, it requires that you have the Kinect, and to do anything more that just basic system operations you have to pay for a Gold membership. Call us crazy, but we feel that we are already paying for the games, the system, and the internet connection, why are you making us pay again?

Then we get into Rhett's true feelings about coop games. Shocker, he doesn't like them for some very specific reasons. They tend to be competitive and unbalanced. He points to Borderlands 2 as an example. As much fun as we had playing the game, it really isn't structured well for coop. Experience is not shared and loot drops can be stolen. The game is structured to inject a false competitive element into what should be a cooperative experience.

Tonight in this round of the Battle Royale we have determined that this is the end. One contestant will succeed. We will not let this situation continue. We have an exhaustive discussion of the merits of Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange. Jason perhaps simplifying his position too much and relying on a couple of Doctor Strange's more powerful abilities rather and jumping straight to the conclusion rather than putting together a more coherent argument. Rhett arguing that the powers of Captain Marvel making him the equal of the gods whose powers he uses and therefore the winner of the this round. In the end we discover some interesting information about the two characters and finally declare a winner. Next week on the podcast we have Ironman versus Wonder Woman.

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The Distracted Gamers Podcast Episode 38