We’re reviewing Lethal Company tonight! 5pm ET!
GeekNights is going live with The Murderbot Diaries shortly! www.youtube.com/watch
Mastering Game Mechanics: Worker Placement. Our talk from #PAX Unplugged 2023!
GeekNights is reviewing Ahoy LIVE tonight ~5:30pm ET!
GeekNights is going live in about five minutes talking about LAYOFFS!
(no, neither of us got laid off).
We will be live reviewing Cobalt Core ~5:15pm ET today!
At the start village for the NYC Marathon!
I’ll be sharingg my location for the day! Here’s hoping for about four hours!
It’s Marathon day!
I’m running the NYC Marathon tomorrow!
Race number 36368 in wave 3!
ph33r.
GeekNights is LIVE! youtube.com/live/G79R…
GeekNights Monday will be live ~5:30ET today!
GeekNights should be back tonight!
I’m running in the New York Marathon!
community.frontrowcrew.com/t/rym-is-…
Scott is launching the new GeekNights web site as we speak!
You may see the site as down while this process is completed.
“Moderate” is just a coward’s way of saying “regressive conservative.”
Moderate positions would be left of the Democrats.
Tonight on GeekNights, we review the Warwick Applefest. If we can review a concert or a convention, we can review a small town apple festival. In the news, America has yet another political crisis as Republicans oust their own Speaker of the House while engaging in extreme pettiness, and there is a "crisis" in ticket reselling arbitrage after people aren't that interested in seeing Travis Scott live for some reason.
We are reviewing the Warwick Applefest (no joke) live on GeekNights shortly!
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Counter-Strike 2. We have been playing some form of Counter-Strike since 2000... We reviewed Counter-Strike in 2006 and Counter-Strike GO in 2012. In news that is as little as it is late, Unity backs down on much of their new monetization model, Epic lays off 16% of its staff, and Scott GeekBites Heretic's Fork.
We are reviewing Counter-Strike 2 shortly!
Excerpts from our Games You Can’t Play panel at PAX West!
Democrats shouldn’t vote to help McCarthy stay in power. Their condition should be Republicans allowing Hakeem Jeffries to take the speakership.
Force a tiny handful of GOP reps to defect. That’s the compromise to require in exchange for Democratic help.
Tonight on GeekNights, we review The Janelle Monáe Age of Pleasure Tour which we saw at Radio City Music Hall. It's a hell of a show and you must go to it if you can. In the news, "Detroit Pizza Kitchen" is a lie, the Nikon Z f cometh, the WGA lifts its strike with a huge victory, and the evil companies lose their bid to block a minimum wage for delivery workers in New York.
GeekNights is going live imminently youtube.com/live/joWr…
Tonight we’re reviewing the Janelle Monáe Age of Pleasure Tour!
The word “enshittification” is a very useful and important word.
It gives name to the evil that stalks us.
We are in the orchestra pit for Janelle Monáe at Radio City ;)
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the current state of search engines and why Google increasingly doesn't work anymore. In the news, iOS has multiple zero-day zero-interaction vulnerabilities (update your devices immediately) and Reddit is trying to embrace the worst parts of phpBB. 12 years ago we gave two short talks about how game mechanics (and UX design) literally make the communities that use them.
GeekNights will be live shortly with why Search Engines are terrible now!
Back from Michigan to the boy!
Tonight on GeekNights, we review and discuss PAX West 2023. The new venue is fantastic and it felt a lot like PAXes from the golden age of PAX. In the news, Scott suffered Airport Adventures yet made it to Chicaco, Steam (and our Steam accounts) are 20 years old, and the Unity game engine destroys itself with an actively hostile monetization model that is somehow worse than we expected from their 2022 merger with evil.
Video of “Games You Can’t Play” from #PAX West is on youtube! Full video plus slides!
We are presenting ‘Games You Can’t Play’ at PAX West 2023!
Sun, Sep 3, 2023 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Blue Morpho Theatre
Biden and the Democrats are using what little power they have in the face of extreme Republican stonewalling to get things done.
Tonight on GeekNights, in light of Twitter's dying husk removing the ability to block people, we consider the concept of "blocking" in social platforms. The root problem is, as always, the twin evils of advertising and capitalism. In the news, the inability to warn the residents of Maui to the rapidly escalating wildfires requires significant government technology investment, and Dolby Atmos FlexConnect might prove interesting for home theatre setups.
GeekNights will be live tonight ~5:30pm ET talking about blocking people on things.
Tonight on GeekNights, having somehow never talked about Quake (except for Quake Live in 2009, we discuss Quake 2 and the Quake 2 Remaster. In the news, the Atari 7800 is back legit, Charles Martinet is moving on, and Marvel Snap is paying people to watch Twitch streams with .pngs in their app.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) ~5:30pm ET we’ll be talking about the Quake 2 remaster live on GeekNights!
Climate Change is an existential crisis.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the concept of Halls of Fame. In the news, the ravages of climate change have caused an ongoing crisis in Hawaii, and the fascists lost an election in Ohio,
Tonight on GeekNights, we review PitchCar (1995). It's a flicking game. It's a sport. It's pretty fun. In the news, a livestreamer guy caused a riot in New York for which he is facing charges, Gen Con continues to live up to its reputation with a disaster over unmanaged Lorcana lines (remember Lorcana is the subject of a lawsuit from Upper Deck) and some extremely identifiable nerds who stole $300k worth of collectible cards from the floor.
GeekNights will be live Tuesday ~5:40pm ET talking about PitchCar!
Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we discuss This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's short and worth a read, but it's not going to blow your mind like some people on the Internet are saying (unless you haven't read much science fiction). A little Singularity, a little Instrumentality, and a story told partially as an epistolary.
We’ll be reviewing “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone on the GeekNights Book Club this week!
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss when, how, and if you should upgrade your technology. From phones to cameras to TVs to skis, it comes mostly down to what problem you're trying to solve. In the news, Web Environment Integrity is a potentially worrying but not yet apocalyptic threat to the World Wide Web, the BBC has launched its own journalism Mastodon, and the US has a new nuclear reactor.
Live tomorrow ~5:30pm ET with ‘Upgrading Your Tech’
Tonight on GeekNights, we review two games by the legendary Sid Sackson: Can't Stop (1980) and All My Diamonds (1969). They're both worth playing, but for different reasons. In the news, Overwatch League is in deep trouble along with much of the global esports ecosystem.
Cryptocurrency is going to go down in history as the stupidest thing to happen in a century of capital markets.
It’s going to be right there next to Tulips.
GeekNights is back baby! Tonight’s the night!
X eh?
lol
Winter 2022-2023 photo gallery!
RIP to a legend. Just a ghost in the wires.
In the movie, a Prigozhin body double assassinates a Putin body double. And then nobody believes the real ones are still alive. Hijinks ensue.
It’s basically the inverse of Dave (1993). Armando Iannucci directs.
Get me the number to Hollywood.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the surprising challenges of throttling and rate limiting. In the news, Twitter rate-limiting reading twitter and broke Tweetdeck while also blocking non-logged-in views , Norway has 100 years of phosphate rock deposits, and the US Supreme Court is wholly illegitimate.
GeekNights is starting soon!
Rate limiting and throttling!
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss worker placement as a game mechanic. We intend to turn this into a series of shows and panels following on from Mastering Game Mechanics as presented at PAX East 2013. In the news, Marvel Snap's Conquest mode is fantastic, and Valve is dropping Battle Passes for Dota 2 because "nobody buys them."
Tomorrow (Tuesday) ~5:30pm ET: Worker Placement as a Game Mechanic
Rising fascism, minoritarian rule, COVID, the average American being sicker and poorer now than they were even five years ago, the return of the Cold War…. And then some billionaires LITERALLY die on the Titanic?
America isn’t OK. The unprecedented public disdain here reveals a deeper unease.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the food that is served on airplanes and in airports. You're trapped there, and they know it. In the news, Donald Trump is arrested again, and the Boomers are dying out but somehow Henry Kissinger is still alive.
At the bike march!
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It might be the best cinematic animation ever made. It's the longest animated film every produced by an American studio at 140 minutes. It's a classic for all time. Everyone should watch it immediately. You will never see Rym and Scott this giddy about anything. That aberration alone warrants that you must watch this film as soon as possible.
In the news, the American northeast is a dangerous hellscape currently, Hayao Miyazaki's "How Do You Live" hits theaters July 14th and there will be no trailer, and Image Comics leaves Diamond Distributors.
Going live about Spiderman in a few minutes!
Tonight on GeekNights, we briefly consider when and why to adopt a new technology. In the news, Apple WWDC 2023 brings a $3,500 AR/VR headset in 2024 (we've talked about AR (Augmented Reality) before), and Reddit is pulling a Twitter and possibly destroying the best third party app it has.
Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we discuss Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Steeped in allegory and endlessly interpreted, it is a fantastic book that is well worth your read.
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.
Don’t expire your users’ passwords.
Don’t require a bunch of arbitrary nonsense in their passwords.
In two days, two elderly white guys shot strangers for zero reason other than their own fear and xenophobia.
Ban guns.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider lore in games. You know, all that text you didn't read in the tooltips of the inventory. Or what characters told you in Half Life while you tried to clip out of the room. In the news, the Rangers begin their first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a real game, SGDQ 2023 is imminent, and Ingress is getting a Monster Hunter skin.
How about them Leafs
Republicans are unhinged fascists.
Literally perfect running weather today in Queens!
We are at the last regular season game ;)
Republicans are threatening the Manhattan DA. This is a violent and worrying trend.
Louisville was the 146th mass shooting so far this year. That’s 1.46 mass shootings per DAY on average in America.
If our constitution prevents us from stopping this, our constitution has no value. The 2nd amendment has been “interpreted” in bad faith and is literally killing us.
This will be in the history books as an early turning point. One way or the other.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider computer fonts. In the news, the world lost a legend with the passing of Al Jaffee, why "trucks" have taken over America, and Mac sales are down 40%.
GeekNights will be live talking about fonts at 6pm ET TODAY GOGOGOGOGOGO!
Another masa shooting. Louisville this time.
Ban guns. Fuck gun owners and the second amendment. Seize them all.
The US Supreme Court is wholly illegitimate until Clarence Thomas is removed from it. Every ruling he’s ever made must be re-reviewed.
You new GeekNights panel dropped!
At what point do you accept that the Republicans are absolutely going to commit genocide?
There are no “moderate” Republicans.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider Colosseums, Stadiums, and Arenas. In the news, the NHL Playoffs are imminent, Republicans in the state of Tennessee are going mask-off fascist in the (breaking) expulsion of Democrats from the chamber. Rep. Pearson had poignant words that you should watch and listen to.
In at least some lighter news, there are actually a lot of good movies coming up. Some that we might even go see.
What Republicans just did in Tennessee is a relic of Slavery and Jim Crow. This is a dangerous and open-loop fascist step toward a new civil war.
You don’t get to be polite to your “otherwise nice” Republican relatives. This is exactly what it looks like.
Going live in a few minutes with “Colosseum, Stadiums, and Arenas”
Republicans could start a Civil War by doing this. www.npr.org/2023/04/0…
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Muneyuki Yokouchi's fantastic Cat in the Box. This is an S-tier trick taking game. A must-own. It takes about two minutes to teach (three if the player is unfamiliar with trick taking games) and we've had a blast with it so far.
In the news, the world is safer today as Finland formally joins NATO, a Florida man is indicted for fraud, Klaus Teuber, the designer of the timeless classic Settlers of Catan, has passed away at age 70, and the new D&D movie might be good.
Many happy returns for Indictment Day!
May this be the first of many!
Tomorrow could be a wild day in Manhattan. The nutjobs protesting in favor of the former guy are not large in number, but I worry there are some True Believers among them.
All advertising should be opt-in.
A constitution or charter that permanently protects the interests of bad faith actors is worthless.
The US constitution is worthless if nothing can ever be done about guns because of it.
The UN Charter is worthless if it can not expel Russia.
Ban the AR-15 and seize every single one owned by anyone in America.
To do less is despicable. Fuck the second amendment.
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the immense challenge of archiving the Internet. This is a critical era of human history, and historians centuries from now will be desperate to know things we all think are "common knowledge" today. In the news, the Internet Archive flew too close to the sun, the emerging geopolitical blocs will likely end TikTok in America, and Nvidia (correctly) says cryptocurrencies do not "bring anything useful for society"
It’s amazing that people think LA drivers are the worst drivers knowing that Boston exists.
General Strikes work!
GeekNights will be live this evening at 5:15pm ET to talk about Archiving the Internet!
Another day in America, another horrific mass shooting.
The UN must take whatever action is necessary to suspend Russia from the Security Council.
This is the exact behavior and threat the UN was created to prevent. Bad faith actors can’t be allowed to weaponize “debate.”
What is Griefing?
Death in Shadowgate.
“Don’t Shit Your Pants” - A Survival Horror Game.
Republicans voted overwhelmingly yesterday to ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
I can not stress enough how dangerous it is to tolerate Republicans in your social circles. They are a direct and material danger to the United States.
Rym wins ‘Cat in the Box’ in a close game! #paxscore
PAX put us in a pretty big panel room!
I am at #PAX East!
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Stacklands (2022). In the news, Counter-Strike 2 is likely coming, Disco Elysium gets a collage mode, and DPReview falls victim to Amazon layoffs and capitalism.
Scott hates Philly: news at 11
Whenever anyone complains that the “algorithm” on some social media site reduced their “reach” or “engagement” remember that most people don’t want ads and other promotional content in their feeds AT ALL. The algo suppresses these because people don’t want to see them.
Steven Universe vs Anodic Dance Music
Anodic Dance Music is Human Music.
Wyoming has become another state I will never visit again.
Electing Democrats makes things better. Not perfect. But better.
Griefing and Trolling are not the same thing.
Russia’s invasion and annexation of Ukraine is literally the specific thing the UN was founded to prevent. Russia no longer deserves its permanent seat on the Security Council. Amend the charter if you have to. Do whatever it takes to expel bad actors.
It is way past time for NATO to initiate a No Fly Zone over the Black Sea and Ukraine. The UN should vote on it, but when Russia vetoes NATO should act unilaterally.
Tonight on GeekNights we review the 2023 animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The animation and style are fantastic, and if you have or know kids this is a show for them! In the news, Rym bought a new wallet, don't watch any more Made in Abyss, the NHL did a cool telemetry-driven hockey broadcast, and Ghibli Fest 2023 is on!
We will be live momentarily with our review of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur!
The rapidity with which every single tech company on Earth is cramming early generative AI into their products without much thought or care for the user experience implies they are DESPERATE for new sources of revenue.
That’s not a good sign. Just generally. About anything.
Direct Action gets the goods. Support Unions. Support Labor.
Rolling Stock is a game about stock and company trading. Players are investors buying private companies in auctions, which they may later use for an IPO (to turn them into corporations) or sell to other corporations as subsidiaries. #TabletopGames
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what to do about E-Waste and worthless old technology. Old cables, old smartphones, 500MB hard drives, and the like. It's OK to get rid of it (and you probably should), but don't just throw it in the garbage unless you're a bad person. In the news, new open gangway subway cars debut on the A train in New York, and Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
We’re back baby! GeekNights will be live with E-Waste and Obsolete Tech at 5:30pm ET today!
Permanent Daylight Saving Time or bust!
We have entered The Good Time. Make our sacrifice of that hour worth it. Never return to Standard Time!
I’m back from London!
London
No GeekNights this week. I’m going to London!
This is how it started in Weimar Germany.
If you keep Nazis in your circles you are a Nazi. See also: Republicans. This isn’t politics. This is a straight line to mass murder if they seize power.
Opening DJ before Parov Stelar comes out
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the technology and ramifications of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) and autoregressive language models in general. We further explore other similar machine learning tools and their short and long-term ramifications for humans. In the news, Discord Stages have low bitrate limits, the US Department of Energy concludes with low confidence that COVID-19 emerged from a lab leak in China, the UK wasn't content with ruining its economy with Brexit and is also considering ruining its technology with the Online Safety Bill, and a terrifying toxic new Dust Bowl is descending on Utah.
GeekNights will be live at 5:30pm ET tonight with GPT-3 and Autoregressive Language Models!
Gentle reminder that it is directly against the terms of service of all GeekNights sites to use them if you are a Republican. We consider the Republican Party to be a hate group.
Biden and the Democrats did everything they could to forgive America’s crushing student loan debt.
It’s at the mercy of a Republican-controlled Supreme Court now. If they kill it, Democrats have zero power and zero recourse.
If you voted against Clinton in 2016 this is on you.
That most sublime moment. The goalie goal. -chef kiss-
Photos from our ski trip to Colorado! Photo Album
Here’s a two hour podcast Emily and I recorded about our 481 mile cycling trip across New York State last year! Biking Across New York
The overlap between Christian fundamentalist “revivals” and anti-vaccination sentiment has caused a measles outbreak in Kentucky…
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss gamer furniture of the non-chair variety. In the news, Nintendo adds Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games to Switch Online, Microsoft adds Call of Duty to Nintendo, and Magic: The Gathering adds Lord of the Rings. We also streamed this show live on the Discord Stage in the official GeekNights Discord!
Talking live about gaming furniture on GeekNights in about 10 minutes!
Republicans are going to ban abortion, contraception, even childless marriage if they ever get federal power back. This is American extremism.
We’ll be talking about the new Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Wednesday (tomorrow!) ~5:30pm ET on GeekNights!
GeekNights the podcast has been running so long this is an actual photo of making an episode.
Ban guns. Overturn the second amendment and ban guns in America. There really is no other option.
We have a redemtion arc right here. #MarvelSnap
If you didn’t know that JK Rowling is virulently bigoted and the new Harry Potter game is deeply troubling, I don’t know what to say. Don’t play the game: spread the word.
Leftover pizza and biryani. Brunch of champions!
Republicans are attacking abortion rights in the courts because blue states moved very fast to protect them. Their goal is a total national ban: nothing less.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
Republicans are going to ban most abortions nationally with a corrupt Trump-appointed judge.
This is a crisis. This is the direct result of the dipshits who wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton and didn’t care about the Supreme Court.
Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we discuss G. Willow Wilson's Alif the Unseen. A magical realism cyberpunk thriller set in the Middle East, it'd definitely worth your read! We enjoyed it, and there's significant interesting allegory about what it means to see (or not see) things, places, and people.
The GeekNights Book Club will be talking about Alif the Unseen imminently! Live!
This is a fascinating and crystal clear explanation of today’s “over the air” NERFs in Marvel Snap. I encourage all game designers to share these kinds of thoughts when you can.
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss games that are not fully dead, but are mostly dead. Dance Dance Revolution (at home), the resurrected Netrunner, The Realm, Steel Battalion, and whatever game you're mad we didn't include in this short list just now. In the news, The Last Rockstars have debuted, Rym has a high opinion of the L-TEK EX PRO 2 DDR pad, the Nintendo Direct is tomorrow, and the Nintendo Switch is the third best-selling console of all time.
GeekNights is going live in the next 10 minutes! Mostly Dead Games!
Another Republican extremist tried to attack the US Power Grid.
“she allegedly references Hitler, as well as Unabomber Ted Kaczynski”
“Timeline of balloon’s journey” is a headline where, in each of these years, everyone would know exactly what it was talking about without even reading the article.
1783 1937 1948 1983 1999 2009 2023
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Seeing even one ad is enough for me to be willing to defererate with an entire instance.
We got GA tickets to The Last Rockstars’ debut tour last minute and went!
The Rabbit is being particularly charming tonight.
Geeknights will be Live at PAX East 2023!
Can Competitive and Casual Coexist? Thursday Mar 23 @ 2:30pm ET Bumblebee Theatre
Marvel Snap.
Can games be balanced? Sort of.
Balancing games is deceptively difficult. Even worse, there are subtle reasons why even if a game is perfectly, mathematically, demonstrably balanced, players will likely have even LESS fun. From #PAX South 2018!
We also did a “Final Thoughts” on Trigun in 2007. Full spoilers and assuming you’ve seen the original show! I expect we’ll review the new Trigun for a compare & contrast before too long. Trigun Final Thoughts
If you’re watching the new Trigun, know that the original Trigun was one of the first anime we reviewed on GeekNights back in 2006! Trigun Review
Tonight on GeekNights, we review the 1993 anime movie Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama. It's long, and there are fighter jets. YMMV on this one, but if you enjoy Dynasty Warriors it might be for you. Also Hanuman is OP. In the news, the live-action sequel to Whisper of the Heart will be in theaters February 3. Shin Ultraman is exactly what you'd expect.
GeekNights will be live this evening ~5:30pm ET we will be reviewing the Ramayana anime from 1993! Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
Disco Elysium isn’t just living rent-free in my head. I built it an apartment and I’m paying it to stay there.
Tonight on GeekNights, Rym is back from his ski trip, so we resume our regularly scheduled shows with a review of online advertising and adtech. In the news, the Department of Justice is seeking to break up Google in some trust busting over online advertising and tech layoffs foretell difficult times ahead.
David DePape is the true face of the modern Republican Party. With the mask off, they are nothing more than election-denying fascists.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
GeekNights will be back from hiatus and talking about adtech tomorrow (Monday) ~5:30pm ET!
There have been 6 mass shootings in California alone in the last 13 days. Fuck the Second Amendment.
Vail is a hell of a place to ski. Over five days I got 88 runs across 141 miles descending 124k feet.
Ph33r.
Still skiing ;)
Another day another mass shooting with what looks to be yet again an AR-15.
Ban guns. Seize them. Repeal the second amendment.
The French know how to Organize
Talk about an artifact from an ancient time! #Ubercon was where I discovered #BurningWheel! GeekNights was still in its infancy. This was the last of the “North Jersey Gaming Cons” we’d attend long long ago.
The attacks on Democratic officals' homes were by a Republican who lost his election. He hired four accomplices. This is terrorism plain and simple.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/br…
Pour one out for a legend. 13 years of hard dancing.
What a sunset to return to!
I always enjoy my time in Frankfurt, rain and cold nonwithstanding. But it will be good to be home!
I now return from Frankfurt!
George Santos must resign from Congress. Even the GOP is demanding his resignation. When even the fascists are embarassed by your scam… www.youtube.com/watch
No GeekNights this week, as I am in Frankfurt for work ;)
There is no such thing as a “moderate” Republican. They all want the same thing: fascism. They will tell different stories about why they want it and what the specifics are. But they’re all fascists. Treat them as such.
The Republicans have caused a constitutional crisis. Our congress is paralyzed by their dysfunction. www.cnn.com/politics/…
Never in my life have the Republicans UNDER-performed my expectations. This Speaker vote is a bona fide constitutional crisis. We are in dangerous and uncharted territory not seen since the buildup to the Civil War.
Like, I expected a clown show and arrived to find a dead clown
This absolute shitshow is what every Republican Voter voted for.
Tonight on GeekNights, we review BRZRKR from Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, and Bill Crabtree. It might hit you like a truck. Also Reaves is really into Wolverine. In the news, the United States House of Representatives is frozen as the Republicans repeatedly fail to elect a Speaker (something so unthinkable it literally hasn't happened in a century), Eurobeat is confirmed for MF Ghost, and Cartoon Saloon is moving forward with Julián!
GeekNights is going live with a review of Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, Ron Garney, and Bill Crabtree between 5:30 and 5:40pm ET tonight!
Kevin McCarthy faces open GOP revolt as House fails to elect speaker
A Speaker election has not gone to a second ballot in nearly a century and has taken multiple ballots only 14 times, with 13 of those occurring before the Civil War.
Today the GOP just learned that you can’t play chicken with fascist dipshits. They’ll just ram straight into you.
Republicans are now on both sides of this meme.
Republicans are fascists. Don’t mince words. Every single member of that party is an open fascist.
McCarthy fails to secure necessary votes to become speaker
Republicans in disarray.
The Republicans are having trouble electing a Speaker of the House because their Dipshit Caucus of right wing extremists will only accept an open loop white supremacist as Speaker.
Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about everybody's favorite operating system: Microsoft Windows. In the news, Youtube contracts NFL Sunday Ticket, America is subsidizing a road at $1 Billion per mile, and it's 2023.
For reference, the entire GeekNights episode archive, since 2005, is 681GB.
The complete 2022 GeekNights episode archive is 44.2GB.
GeekNights is going live at 6:15pm ET with our first episode of 2023! On Microsoft Windows!
First run of 2023! strava.app.link/lqUZ2L2Gg…
People stopped using RSS because web sites increasingly didn’t put their content in their RSS feeds (if they even had them). The feeds beame just vestigal links back to the site and lost most of their aggregation value.
RSS readers never died. Google “killing” them when Google Reader shut down is a weird myth. What died was most sites putting CONTENT in RSS.
To everyone who reads these words, I’m glad you’re still here through the last few years of -waves hands-.
Things aren’t perfect at the end of 2022. But they’re better. And they’ll get better.
