Tonight on GeekNights, we review The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It's one of the best pieces of entertainment software ever made. 11/10. S-Tier. A case study in good game design. Just go play it if you aren't already. In the news, Overwatch 2 is banning 5,000 cheaters a week, Street Fighter 6's control modes are looking pretty good, and Wizards of the Coast called the Pinkertons on a youtuber.
GeekNights is back baby! After our unplanned hiatus, we’re back with talk of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ~5:30pm ET today!
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Makoto Shinkai's 2022 film Suzume (すずめの戸締まり). It's a road trip movie about shared and distant trauma. And a chair. In the news, The Owl House stuck the landing and Shin Kamen Rider is screening in the US!
The #adpocalypse we’ve been talking about forever on GeekNights is actually low-key starting to happen.
Noted fascist propagandist Tucker Carlson is literally “moving his show to Twitter video” so let that guide your decision to continue using Twitter long-term.
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the noise that computers make. It used to be a lot worse, but most of you are probably too young to have experienced this era. In the news, Rym went to a Star Trek convention, Google supports passkeys, actually read this article and not just the headline, and Rym is running in the New York Marathon in November!
Take your fucking turn!
For what it’s worth, I’m just crankin' these out with Adobe Express.
Mastering Game Mechanics from #PAX East 2013!
Ethics in videogames eh? I kind of want to dissect what we had to say a decade ago on this topic. Where were we right? Where were we wrong? What ridiculous ideas did we have?
More new thumbnails for old talks!
Oh hey I’m making new thumbnails for ancient GeekNights lectures from #PAX and #MAGFest.
We’re talking like 2011-2016 era panels.
Today (Tuesday) at 7pm ET our new panel from #PAX East 2023 will premiere on youtube!
Instead of a show, tonight GeekNights will premiere the video of our panel from PAX East 2023!
“Can Competitive and Casual Coexist?” 7pm ET
A side effect of this pipeline (particularly the “exciter”) is that lost high-frequency harmonics are synthesized and added to what was previously dead audio.
It brings the sound “to life” and masks the artifacts of heavy repair processes nicely.
The lav audio from our most recent talk at #PAX East was overcooked and clipping. Here’s a peek at the effects pipeline I used to clean it up.
Another mass shooting. Again and again it’s an AR-15.
Ban the AR-15 and any gun like it. Treat anyone who owns and AR-15 as a dangerous person.
That weapon is about identity, not “self defense”
Tonight on GeekNights we talk about GeekNights. Particularly, GeekNights Wednesdays. It's the odd duck of the show, focused not just entirely on the passive consumption of media, but constrained to specific types of media. A meta show! In the news, the Venture Brothers Movie is coming, the original Ken Sugimori Pokemon artwork is on the Internet, Makoto Shinkai's Suzume is in theaters, and there is some important meta information about this movie.
GeekNights is going live around 5:15pm ET tonight. And we’re talking about retooling Wednesday GeekNights entirely! We’re looking for your thoughts!
Time for an evening of Blades.
No GeekNights tonight.
It’s Advance Wars Time
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider Magic and illusions. In the news, Rangers, and America's openly fascist "news" network FOX admits they lied about voter fraud.
We are at war with the Dimmer Sisters. Rouis is here.
Bluecoats showed up at the door. They were prepared to deal with ghosts. It was all part of a plot to liberate our captive Dimmer Sister. We got punked and barely escaped in our boat with the Heart. We might have killed a bunch of Bluecoats.
Gull has become some form of god or demon?
The Dimmer Sisters mansion is gone.
Going to Prison.
Quick. Stack rank Castlevania games.
Just do it. Don’t think too hard on it. Gut feeling.
GeekNights will be live soon talking about Magic and Magicians.