A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, it's a dive into the Fall tv shows that both our hosts were excited to see as Andrew watches the first episode of Alton Brown's Good Eats: Reloaded while D. Bethel reacts to the first three episodes of the second season of The Gifted. GAMES WORKERS UNITE: In the wake of massive layoffs by developers like Telltale Games and Riot Games, The Vulture published an article under...

HALLOWED HALLOWEEN: The Spookytober topic for this week is the forty-years later direct sequel to John Carpenter's breakthrough––and culturally important––hit, Hallowee n . This new movie, Halloween , sees the return of Jamie Lee Curtis to her role as Laurie Strode but instead of being the prey of Michael Meyers, it is he who becomes the hunted. Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the series and what the...

MEYERED IN CONTROVERSY: Richard Meyer and his "Diversity and Comics" YouTube Channel have been no stranger on this podcast with his leading the charge of the abhorrent ComicsGate dissention among comic book fandom. After gaining notoriety with his "Dark Roast" YouTube video (since deleted) that accused various popular industry creatives of committing sexual, devious, and illegal acts to get their...

WEEK IN GEEK:  It's a week of adventure as Andrew literally leaves the state while D. Bethel brings a journey to a close. Along the way, Andrew talks about playing  Final Fantasy V on iOS while also dipping his toe into the meta-craziness that is  The Stanley Parable while D. Bethel is actually having fun (?!) with season 2 of Netflix & Marvel's Jessica Jones. RELEVANT LINKS: The final page of Cha...

In the final episode of this initial experimental run of Con Artists , the second and final day of StocktonCon has come to a close and rather than have an exhausted (which they were) drive home, Kyrun Silva of Taurus Comics and D. Bethel again probe into different aspects of reading, making, and selling comics. They probe the circumstances that would have to occur to go pro, the processes of writi...

FALL (TV IS) BACK: With the summer doldrums of tv coming to a close, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the Fall tv they're looking forward to, including the debut of a new Doctor (and production team) with series 11 of Doctor Who , Andrew's circumspect approach to the reboot Magnum and quizzical anticipation for Alton Brown's Good Eats Reloaded , D. Bethel's blind eagerness for the new season of The Gi...

With the first day of StocktonCon completed, Kyrun and D. Bethel begin the second day by getting in the car and driving down the 99 to Stockton. It's early, they're tired, they're going wherever the conversation takes them. While this morning conversation doesn't touch on conventions or marketing strategies, they dive deep into a major aspect of comics culture: continuity. It's at the heart of a l...

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew takes some dungeon mastering advice from Mike Shea aka "Sly Flourish" and his The Lazy Dungeon Master book while Dan becomes smitten by the new Marvel's Spider-Man game by Insomniac Games. RELEVANT LINKS: D. Bethel's Good Day Sacramento appearance in support of CrockerCon. INFO: Visit our website at  forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page...

Welcome to the only briefly previously announced, limited series, side-podcast called Con Artists. Hosted by D. Bethel, what you'll hear over the next three weeks––posting on Tuesdays––is a conversation between D. and Kyrun Silva, another independent comic creator based in Sacramento known for founding the imprint, Big Tree Comics , before leaving and starting a more focused venture with Taurus Co...

GAMES AT PAX WEST: We sent our man on the scene, Andrew, to PAX West while our Man in California, D. Bethel, watched on the internet. Now, they talk about the games they saw. Andrew muses over gameplay quirks in Stone Story RPG and Aground , while D. reacts to the strong sprites ethic in Get in the Car, Loser! and Star Renegades . Also, Andrew reflects on a series of panels he saw at the event, al...

STOP BEING MEAN: Of the many "-Gates" that exist in the nerd world right now, some ticks in the "good" column happened recently in the fight called "ComicsGate", an online harrassment campaign against diversity and representation in both the fiction and creation of mainstream comic books (meaning, mainly, books made by DC and Marvel). RELATED EPISODES: Episode 15 - Yes and Yes and No and No , Epis...

WEEK IN GEEK: It's an indie game kind of week as Andrew reports on the Zelda-like shop sim, Moonlighter , by Digital Sun while D. Bethel starts a conversation about everybody's current favorite rogue-like platformer (kind of a Metroidvania, kind of not; definitely not a "roguevania"), Dead Cells , by Motion Twin. RELATED EPISODES: Episode 27 - Super Sleep Mode : Where Andrew first discussed Rogue...

It's the return of NERD LAW! A MARVELOUS MONSTER: After a long gestation and some delays, Disney has officially acquired 20th Century Fox assets, comprising of Fox's film and tv properties. This means everything from the Alien franchise to Bob's Burgers and even The Simpsons are now owned by Disney. Of course, for comic book fans and fans of comic book movies, the biggest part of this deal means t...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew finally plays Asmadi's One Deck Dungeon by playing Handelabra's One Deck Dungeon , a rogue-like solo/co-op card game that has been adapted into a video game version while D. Bethel follows Laura Kinney's continuing post-Wolverine adventures in X-23 by Mariko Tamaki and Juann Cabal. RELATED EPISODES: Episode 94 - The Garbleflangers : Where Andrew and D. previously discussed boa...

GOING BACK: Having played Uncharted: The Lost Legacy , D. Bethel has since gone back and played the first game in the Uncharted series and was rather frustrated by it. This experience got our hosts thinking about entering series (of games, movies, tv shows, etc.) mid-stream––what's the value of going back to the start? RELATED EPISODES: Episode 69 - Two Matching Ties : Where Andrew first talked ab...

IT'S A PANDEMIC PARTY: Andrew and D. Bethel bring on friend-of-the-show and all-star contributor to the site, Taylor Katcher , to discuss Andrew and Taylor's full playthrough of Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 RELATED EPISODES: Episode 87 - Thunder and Lightning : Where Jesse Megagame talked about Pandemic Legacy with Andrew and D. Shortcast 43 - The # Age : Where Andrew talked about playing the Legacy-...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew braved populated movie theaters to see Ant-Man and the Wasp while D. Bethel eagerly went to the theaters to see Incredibles II . DISNEY FLOOD: This summer was a packed house in terms of big-budget blockbuster-intended films with Avengers: Infinity War , Solo: A Star Wars Story , Ant-Man and the Wasp , and Incredibles II . But with Solo and Ant-Man and the Wasp underperforming,...

A BOOK CLUB [ , ] FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES: In a rare moment where Andrew and Dan's reading habits align, they spend this episode discussing Chris Kohler 's addition to the Boss Fight Books line, focusing on Square Enix's (simply Squaresoft at the time of the game's initial publication) Final Fantasy V . The first half has the hosts discussing the game itself , while the second half talks abou...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew finds fitness inspiration in the modular experience of Zombies, Run ! while D. Bethel can't stop thinking about Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon . Watch D. Bethel play (with the aid of his dog, Rusty) through the opening levels of Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. INFO: Visit our website at  forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode . Joi...

OBI-WAN KE-NOPE-Y: It was made known that Lucasfilm has put its anthology series, subtitled A Star Wars Story , on hold after the lower box office of The Last Jedi and, most recently, Solo . While the cause hasn't been confirmed, there are a few factors to look at, one of which could be the box office performance of these films. Another, more sinister, reason has to do with the cultural backlash t...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew sees the latest Star Wars Story, Solo , while D. Bethel gushes about the recent God of War reboot. RELATED EPISODES: Episode 96 - Applejacks. Hot Dogs. Thursday. Fire Truck. : Where D. Bethel throws some shade on Jurassic World. Episode 120 - Where the Hands Touch : Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about the last Star Wars Story , Rogue One . Episode 131 - A Magical Failure : W...

E3 2018: This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo has wrapped up and has brought a lot of conversation around the games announced and/or shown at the show. Andrew and D. talk about E3 as an expo/convention and the target it seems to be aiming at for the future as well as games they saw and were intrigued or excited by (including Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Cyberpunk 2077, and, yes, Fallou...

AN OPEN WORLD: With Bethesda's surprise announcement of the still ephemeral Fallout 76 , video game-focused documentarians, NoClip, announced that they will be doing a series covering the development of this new game. They started, however, with a comprehensive look at the history of Bethesda studios . After watching the documentary (embedded below), both D. and Andrew realized how far the studio...

WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew goes back to his undergraduate roots and dives into programming with the Unity engine via the online programming courses taught through Udemy while D. Bethel updates his nostalgia with the Super NES as he plays around with Analogue's Super Nt system. RELATED EPISODES: Episode 01 - We Don't Know $#!& : With the show passing its 4-year anniversary, why not post here the very fir...

THUNDERCATTY: Cartoon Network announced it was working on a new ThunderCats show, titled ThunderCats Roar , which looks and sounds quite a bit different from the ThunderCats from 1985. It got a lot of people upset and they let the internet know the depths of their disdain for the new look. Andrew and D. look at reboots (again), nostalgia, and the sense of ownership and entitlement a lot of fans ha...