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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, our hosts push through the shelter at home monotony by playing video games albeit old video games. First, Andrew steps back into 2015's The Witcher III: The Wild Hunt now that he has more context after watching the hit Netflix show, while D. Bethel is intrigued at how hard the narrative payoff will fail in the otherwise really fun Shadow of the Tomb Raider . RELEVANT EPISO...

CORONA, I HARDLY KNEW YA: The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the nerd world with––since the last episode––the postponement of Emerald City Comic Con, the cancellation of this year's E3 and other cultural events like SXSW. Andrew & D. Bethel cover the COVID-19-related news since the last episode. WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew falls in love with Scratchpad Publishing's new RPG, Spectacula...

DON'T DIE: With the rising threat of the coronavirus and its impact on nerd conventions––especially Emerald City Comic Con and the Game Developer's Conference––Andrew and D. Bethel investigate all the ways this pandemic can impact not only fans of nerdy things but makers of nerdy things. RELEVANT EPISODES: Episode 63 - Just a Quel (04 Sept. 2015): Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the state (a...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dives into the CBS All Access archives to get caught up on the surprisingly good––and suprisingly different––remake of the '80s action show, MacGyver , while D. Bethel dives into the surprisingly compelling Zelda clone/shopkeep simulator by Digital Sun, Moonlighter . RELEVANT LINKS: Klepek, Patrick. " The Creator of Gaming's Famous 'Konami Code' Has Died ." Vice . V...

GOTTA GO FAST: Sonic the Hedgehog destroys box office expectations Valentine's Day weekend. Andrew and Dan discuss the surprise success of this cinematic adaptation of the beloved video game franchise. BIRDS OF PREY: OR, THE REINSTATEMENT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED SEXISM AGAINST WOMAN-LED SUPERHERO FILMS: Birds of Prey released last week and its box office performance left some upset. D. Bethel and And...

CRISIS ON INFINITE TAYLORS: With another, even bigger crossover of the DC/CW shows, we had to have friend-of-the-show and Senior Optimist Reporter, Taylor Katcher, come onto the show to talk with Andrew and D. Bethel about the glorious mess that was "Crisis on Infinite Earths" that saw Arrow , The Flash , Batwoman , Supergirl , and DC's Legends of Tomorrow fight to save the multiverse. RELEVANT LI...

THE PROBLEM WITH LOVECRAFT: A lot of controversy was had (mostly on Twitter) over the last few weeks with the release of Evil Hat Productions' Fate of Cthulhu , a new table-top RPG integrating the systems of Evil Hat's Fate Core and the Lovecraft mythos. Evil Hat proudly declared that it was bucking tropes of other Lovecraft-inspired games––mainly how it addresses Lovecraft's prejudices head-on an...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew talks about becoming enraptured by the first episode of the new CBS All Access series, Star Trek: Picard while D. Bethel enjoys the poignant but strange end to a creative team's long run on Batman with the DC Comics' Black Label series, Batman: Last Knight on Earth by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. INFO: Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dives in to Hello Games' No Man's Sky after another patch while D. Bethel relays his experience going to see Kevin Smith present his newest film–– Jay and Silent Bob Reboot ––as part of a traveling tour for the movie when it came to Sacramento. RELEVANT EPISODES: Episode 120 - "Where the Hands Touch" (13 January 2017): Where D. Bethel first talked about the YouTube...

NEW WHO: Series 12 of Doctor Who started up on New Year's Day. With three weeks gone and now three episodes in, our Who -loving hosts sit down to talk about it (mostly just the first two episodes SPOILER WARNING for "Spyfall, Part 1" and "Spyfall, Part 2"). RELEVANT LINKS: Littleinamit. " The Witcher on Netflix Prompts Hundreds of Thousands of Fans to Return to The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. " Play...

IS THE FORCE STILL WITH US? : This week, Andrew and D. Bethel talk not about Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (although there are things that amount to SPOILERS for both The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian in this episode, so be warned). Instead, they talk about what comes next. An article from NME , it was reported that the next Star Wars saga will be set during the "High Republi...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew and D. Bethel start the new year with some things they have only light knowledge of and experience with. Andrew starts watching Netflix's The Witcher and only briefly plays Haemimont Games' Surviving Mars . D. Bethel has fun playing detective in the disgusting Lovecraftian world of Frogwares' The Sunking City . RELEVANT LINKS: Bethel, D. " 2019: Eulogy for the X-Men...

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: As 2019 hurries to a close, our hosts kick up their feet and just chat about the things they're doing to occupy their time until the new year rolls around. They talk about everything from the winter Steam sale, to finishing Outer Wilds (no spoilers!), to Lovecraftian tabletop games ( Fate of Cthulhu ), video games ( The Sinking City ), and novels ( Winter Tide ), to developing...

EXPECTING THE EXPECTED: On the day this podcast episode releases, so too does the newest cinematic installment of the main Star Wars series with Star Wars - Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker . But Andrew and D. aren't here to talk about the movie––they haven't seen it yet. Instead, they're here to talk about the talk about the movie, specifically the rather surprising amount of negative reviews co...

WEEK IN GEEK (kind of): It turned out to be an accidental Week in Geek episode as D. Bethel talks about his disappointment with Valve Corporation's sidelining of Campo Santo's Firewatch followup, In the Valley of Gods . On the opposite side of breaking news, Andrew finally gets around to watching Star Trek: Discovery and kind of unabashedly loves it. RELEVANT LINKS: Bethel, D. " Week In Geek: Sacr...

TRAILER SEASON: With the year coming to an end, it's all about looking forward for nerdy and geeky entertainment. Lately, it seems a lot of trailers for new movies and television events have been dropping that are getting people talking. This week, Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the new trailers for Black Widow , No Time to Die , Crisis on Infinite Earths , and Doctor Who: Series 12 . INFO: Visit...

HAPPY GEEKSGIVING: Disguising a perfectly good Week in Geek episode, our hosts discuss the recent nerdy things in their lives that, like American Thanksgiving, seem to be all about bringing people together––directly or indirectly. Andrew relates his time with Hideo Kojima's recent game, Death Stranding while D. Bethel has spent the last half-year taking up the challenge of finding out whether he's...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, our humble hosts are back playing games of all sorts. Andrew heads to the tile-covered table and is reasonably impressed playing yet another Legacy-branded game–– Betrayal Legacy by Avalon Hill a multi-session version of the popular semi-cooperative horror game, Betrayal on Haunted Hill . D. Bethel finally had some time to step into the digital realm and got lost in the cl...

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE MANDALORIAN : A brief check-in to the release of Disney+ this week as Andrew reacts to the first episode of their original, Star Wars show, The Mandalorian . He is surprised more at how much it pulls from Westerns than Star Wars . A LONG TIME AGO, WE USED TO BE FRIENDS: Veronica Mars was always a show that hovered just below wide popularity, but its fans were devoted and sup...

NEW TV NOT ON TV: Some interesting tv has not only been announced but is starting to get reviewed, but what makes it interesting is that a lot of this tv is not on "regular" tv. With services like Disney+ and Apple TV+ bringing some high profile shows to the scene, other services and broadcast tv is also starting to step up their offerings as well. RELEVANT EPISODES: Shortcast 70 - Mr. Moustache (...

THE LAST FIRST: Fallout 76 continues to accidentally grab headlines or, at least, grabs headlines it doesn't want. After a year of toiling in player complaints, bugs, and marketing schemes gone awry, the game seemed to have found a balance for those still enjoying the experience. Then Bethesda announced (and released) "Fallout First", a premium subscription for players that would get them a whole...

WEEK IN GEEK: Taking a break from the news, Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the things that have been interesting to them over the last week or so. First, Andrew goes back to finish Unknown Worlds Entertainment's Subnautica . Then D. Bethel finds much to appreciate––and much to make him uncomfortable––in the recent film, Joker . Then, to round things out, Andrew also gets underwhelmed but intrigue...

TO ME, MY LITIGATORS: Eyebrows raised recently when a Florida man sued Marvel, Fox, Saban Entertainment, and many other production companies saying that the generation-defining theme song of the '90s X-Men animated show actually plagiarized a strikingly similar theme of a popular Hungarian tv show from the 1980s. Nerd Law man, Andrew, and X-Men fanatic, D. Bethel, put their heads together to see i...

A BLIZZARD OF CONTROVERSY: Activision Blizzard––makers of such hit games as World of Warcraft , Overwatch , and Hearthstone ––have hit a geo-political wall as they take a stance over controversial statements made by the winner of a Hearthstone tournament about the protests in Hong Kong against the People's Republic of China. Andrew and D. Bethel investigate the complicated relationship between pop...

NOT FAR FROM HOME: It was announced that Sony and Disney/Marvel had once again struck a deal that will keep Tom Holland's Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, much to the joy of fans and to the benefit of both companies' bank accounts. Having discussed the initial breakup back when it happened in August , Andrew and D. Bethel have a surprisingly heated discussion of this generally happy ne...