A Podcast [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes

We've got a new Week in Geek Shortcast this week. First, Andrew played an app-assisted board game called  Alchemists  as well as pondered the implications of an Escapist article about A.I.-created  Magic: The Gathering  cards . Dan finally gets 100% on  Batman: Arkham Knight , and also decided to give the 2001 animated sci-fi flick,  Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within , another chance. We'll be bac...

  Andrew talks to former guests Jake Waltier and Jonathan Adler as they discuss board game company Fantasy Flight Games  and their license to publish tabletop games based on content created by Games Workshop , including the settings of iconic games like Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 settings. Also, Jonathan admits his feelings about Kit Kats! kitkatfast.tumblr.com Featured Music: -"Reign of the S...

The first of our shortcasts for the summer break. Today, it's all about our week in geek. Andrew discusses Blizzard's foray into the MOBA world with Heroes of the Storm , while Dan talks about  Batman: Arkham Knight some more before discussing the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, Conan the Barbarian.

Week in Geek: Andrew watches the classic Italian film with tenuous ties to the  Metal Gear Solid franchise,  Sacco y Vanzetti while Dan can't drive in  Batman: Arkham Knight. Star Trek: The Next Generation:  With this week's theme being about death, they watch antoher TNG episode titled "Tapestry" where Captain Picard...dies?!?! Death (and Defeat) in Gaming:  An extension from last week's topic ab...

Week in Geek: Andrew dines on Alton Brown's  Good Eats  while Dan supports Dan-culture as he watches a kind of bad/kind of awesome movie titled  Bad Asses on the Bayou . James Horner:  Dan and Andrew talk a little bit about the revered film composer who, sadly, died this week in a plane crash. Violence in Gaming: Tackling what is, in some circles, a taboo subject this week, Andrew and Dan don't di...

Week in Geek: Andrew addresses the Steam Sale as well as a horrible  Dragonlance animated film. Dan shares his continuing  Rogue Legacy  woes. Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Prequel:  A big gaming announcement at this week's E3 conference was that Square-Enix will be releasing  Final Fantasy VII  remake. Fans around the world collectively melted. What about the remake do Dan and Andrew expect a...

Week in Geek: Andrew plays more Free-to-Play games while Dan travels back in time to a previous Week in Geek for Andrew and plays the infuriating Rogue Legacy . NTG:  To kick off the discussion about time travel, Dan and Andrew decide to watch "Yesterday's Enterprise," their first foray into  Star Trek: The Next Generation on the show! What happens when two Enterprises pass in the night? Explosion...

Week in Geek: Andrew binge re-watches  The X-Files on Netflix and sees a lot of new things he hadn't seen before while Dan binge-plays  The Last of Us Remastered and loses hope in humanity while gaining hope in gaming. New Games:  Dan and Andrew discuss the trailers released for two hotly anticipated games:  Fallout 4 and  XCom 2 . Binge-Watching:  Andrew and Dan discuss binge-watching television...

Even though we hit a huge milestone with Episode 50 last week, Episode 51 carries even more emotional baggage as it is being released on the exact 1-year anniversary of the launch of  For All Intents and Purposes . We made it! Week in Geek: It was a bit of shared purposes this week as both guys played old, old games. Andrew obsessively played the  Final Fantasy VI  iteration that was released for...

Welcome to  EPISODE 50!  This week it's all about nostalgia with a dash of navel-gazing. Week in Geek: Andrew finally watches a Hayao Miyazaki film,  Castle in the Sky , while Dan geeks out over  Mad Max: Fury Road . #WheresNatasha: Revisiting an earlier topic, a recent e-mail leak revealed studio heads discussing why a female-led superhero movie won't work based on terrible (in every sense of the...

Week in Geek: Andrew watched a heavily promoted Netflix-original,  Grace and Frankie , while Dan reads the recently re-collected  The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past comic work, as commissioned by Nintendo Power , and written & drawn by the legendary Shotaro Ishinomori. Don't Play:  Dan and Andrew come at you with another game they do  not recommend; and let's reinforce this aspect: DO NOT PLA...

WARNING: This week's episode is about the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Avengers: Age of Ultron ; while spoilers are earnestly avoided, no guarantees can be made. Proceed with caution.   Week in Geek: Well, they both saw Avengers: Age of Ultron , so they can't talk about that. Andrew watched the documentaries Get Lamp and Atari: Game Over (again) while Dan played the recently released nostalgia-sh...

Week in Geek: Andrew sets up a new  13th Age campaign and watches the hell out of some Iron Chef: America while Dan preps to be an exhibitor at his local comic shop's Free Comic Book Day Mini-Con (May 2nd at 9am, Empire's Comics Vault - 1120 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA) and started playing  Bioshock: Infinite because he got it for free from Microsoft. Hold Power Button to Save:  Dan and Andrew take...

Week in Geek: Andrew (and Dan, as well) watch the documentary,  Atari: Game Over , about the search to find the buried copies of  E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Atari game, while Dan plays a game he's played handfuls of times before on a tiny handeld system. Final Fantasy IV:  With  Final Fantasy Record Keeper still digging its way into both Dan and Andrew's respective brains, they dive back into the...

As promised, here is the extended interview D. Bethel had with Jason Tudor, about his new webcomic, Vorpal, that was featured in a truncated version in Episode 45.  Here you'll find many more topics and extended discussions on topics than were featured on the episode. We hope you enjoy the extended interview! For all intents and purposes, that was an extended interview!

Week in Geek: Andrew (and Dan) get caught up in the latest nostalgia-driven mobile free-to-play game,  Final Fantasy Record Keeper while Dan watches yet another Hayao Miyazaki movie (this time, it's  Porco Rosso ). Vorpal, Shoot Between Heartbeats:  Dan sits down with previous guest, Jason Tudor, to talk about Jason's new sci-fi, espionage webcomic,  Vorpal , creative goals, inspirations, and phil...

Welcome to a mega-sized, special episode all in celebration of International Tabletop Day! In the interest of full disclosure, Andrew (as a representative of For All Intents and Purposes) will be hosting , along with Luke Turpeinen and Nicole Jekich (from  AcrossTheBoardGames.net ), an event at the Raygun Lounge  in Seattle, Washington at 12pm on Saturday, 11 April for International Tabletop Day ....

Week in Geek:  Andrew heads to the Emerald City Comic Con at his base of operations in Seattle while Dan watches, for the first time,  First Blood , and was pleasantly surprised. Sympathetic Villainy:  Noticing the trend over the last few decades of villains in popular culture becoming rather humanized, flawed, and tragic characters, Dan and Andrew investigate this movement and what it says about...

This week was a podcast made on the run! With both hosts getting sick at different intervals and one host going out of town, it's a wonder that such quality audio comes together at all. With that in mind, please forgive us for any inconsistencies in quality. Week in Geek: Andrew buys a dictator simulator on a Steam sale while Dan accidentally preorders a book twice and laments the amount of Gamecu...

This week, the guys dive deep into the existential dilemma that comes with being a nerd, but they do so with a little bit of help! Week in Geek:  An old blog post about the Open Gaming License  that Andrew wrote ago suddenly courted new traffic, while Dan rediscovered a snippet from his youth  that he thought was lost to time. King of the Nerds:  Recently crowned King of the Nerds, Jonathan Adler...

Episode 40! An arbitrary milestone! Let's be self-reflective! Instead of that, however, a regular episode of For All Intents and Purposes has been recorded for your listening pleasure. Week in Geek: Dan read the first issue of the new Image Comics series,  Descender (by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen) while Andrew plays the  Sons of Anarchy board game. Ancient Sequels: Andrew and Dan discuss the st...

It's a solemn week as Dan and Andrew mourn the loss of nerdy legend, Leonard Nimoy. Week in Geek:  Dan talks about the update to his western webcomic, Long John, while also praising the new  music album by John Carpenter,  Lost Themes . Andrew plays  Pokemon Y while also reading a zombie choose-your-own-adventure book on his Kindle,  Zombocalypse Now by Matt Youngmark . NEWSBLAST: Before getting t...

This week's podcast is based all on the roll of a die! Not really, but most of it is spent dicussing a seminal topic: Role-Playing Games. Week in Geek:  Andrew creates cards for a prototype card game while Dan irresponsibly purchases classic  Doctor Who (out of vanity). The Forgotten Fantasy: To kick off the dicussion of RPGs, Dan and Andrew talk about the least-talked-about entry in the  Final Fa...

Things get tense and uncomfortable as Dan and Andrew tread upon  verboten territory: nerds and politics. Week in Geek: Andrew bought and fiddled around with the Adobe-killer Affinity Designer by Serf while Dan plays the demo of the unfinished game,  Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today . So Long, Jon: Dan and Andrew spend some time to discuss the announcement that Jon Stewart––host of  The Dai...

Week in Geek: Andrew plays  Civilization V and  Blood Bowl: Team Manager  while Dan is busy creating characters for Chapter 2 of his webcomic,  Long John . Spider-Man Shared Custody: With the news that Sony Pictures is giving a modicum of control of Spider-Man to Marvel Studios, Dan and Andrew discuss the implications of this deal. DCTV vs. MCUTV: With the recently released trailer for Marvel's Ne...