The Pixel Response

With Nathan finishing up his linguistics course this week (crunch time and whatnot), Paul takes a different approach to the podcast and records a conversation with one of his longest-running friendships to date about movies and breaking into a haunted hospital. Enjoy!

This week, Nathan is unavailable so we get a little “Awful” with Pan1cKnife and EnoMetzo and talk a whole lot of Borderlands 2 and spark a conversation over the silly Wall Street Journal review. Paul gets excited over Torchlight II and ensures that both Pan1c and Eno will purchase it while the three discuss their thoughts on the Nintendo Wii U. Also, The Awful Gamer guys have a very important anno...

This week, Pan1cKnife from The Awful Gamer joins in to talk about some indie games, nerd out with Paul on MMO stuff, discuss the finer points of politics with Nathan and share in the apathy regards Apple’s new iPhone 5 announcement earlier today. Paul has been watching a whole bunch of Mega64 greatness in between Work Time Fun sessions with enough time to watch the unremarkable Liam Neeson flick A...

Apologies for the late upload. This week Paul and Nathan spend 26 hours in a car together, meet some cool people, play a handful of great indie games and pull a stupid prank on their friend, all at the Penny Arcade Expo! Also, Nathan sees that bike courier movie (Premium Rush) and Paul streams They Bleed Pixels while the creator watches him fail.

It’s the week of PAX so Paul and Nathan discuss some of their convention plans and recap some thoughts on the Expendables 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and a live-stream of Renegade Ops, Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing and Binary Domain they did. On a more separate level, Paul starts on some Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and finds some new talent for the site while Nathan watched Para...

To avoid any possible copyright and name issues, we’ve dropped the Media Monks name. This week, Nathan and Paul talk some indie horror games they streamed this weekend including Hide, SCP-087, Which, Slender, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and The Binding of Isaac. Nathan is bored by The Bourne Legacy and the two talk some David Cage and Heavy Rain. Also, Nathan worries about Paul’s health and Paul rec...

Nathan and Paul have spent some time with Slender, neat little indie game based on the Slender Man stories) along with a bunch of random horror indie games like Paranormal and SCP-087 while also finding time for Renegade Ops. Nathan saw The Campaign and finally got to Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt while Paul finished the marine campaign in Alien vs. Predator and is enjoying some more time w...

So due to formatting my computer and reinstalling my recording program right before recording, the audio quality is a little strange on this episode. My apologies ahead of time but this is what happens when I rush to get things done I guess. On the plus side, we talk about some interesting stuff this time around. Hope you enjoy it! -Paul This week. Paul built a new gaming PC and in turn has played...

This week, Nathan has been logging some time into Steam playing The Binding of Isaac, Bit. Trip. Runner, Skyrim and The Walking Dead (which we spoil pretty thoroughly, so be warned) while Paul has been doing up some S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. Besides games, Nathan has been keeping up with Newsroom and finally watches some Adventure Time which he...

PLEASE NOTE: We discuss some major spoilers for The Dark Knight Rises. If at this time you still haven’t seen it it’s likely you won’t care anyways but you have been warned! Nathan has been busy watching some movies and talks Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Batman & Robin, The Bourne Supremacy and Suburban Commando. Hey, never said they were good movies. Of course with the release of The Dark...

Better late than never! Maybe? This week, Nathan and Paul got a little too into the Steam Summer Sale and spent probably too much money nickel-and-diming themselves broke. Nathan talks a bit about some TV he’s been watching which includes Breaking Bad, Newsroom and Eastbound and Down and discusses a day at The Calgary Stampede. Paul has been playing Killing Floor and was re-introduced into the sli...

This week, the heat’s been up and has gotten Paul in a strange talkative mood (for better or worse). We talk some spiders as Nathan has been watching Arachnophobia, Eight-Legged Freaks and The Amazing Spider-Man while Paul has been playing Resident Evil: Revelations (they all fit into the spider talk somehow). With Nathan’s Xbox suffering from the Red Ring of Death, he and Paul played some Spelunk...

Guest Marc (or md7 as some people may know from the Tale of 4 Idiots videos) and introduce their new intro theme, compliments due to Naveen of Retros Finest. Paul hasn’t really done much but go to work and sleep so it’s up to Nathan to take it away with the media consumption and ends up talking more about Skyrim for awhile. Luckily, he was able to pull away from Tamriel long enough to go out and s...

This week, Paul hasn’t watched a single movie due to spending all his time trying to catch up on Naruto (34 episodes down, only 451 to go…) and Legend of Korra. Nathan spits the film talk after doing a “second-run double feature” of The Five Year Engagement/The Raven and Cronenberg’s newest serving Cosmopolis. Between anime and movies, both the monks have been gaming quite a bit as Nathan finally...

SPOILER ALERT: We talk some in-depth Prometheus between 1:18:40 – 1:36:16 with spoilers riddled throughout. If you haven’t seen it yet, you have been warned… Nathan’s back from E3 (although to you, he never left) and brings with him a full hour of E3 talk to start us off. Then, Paul is catching up on some Breaking Bad, the finale of Parks and Recreation and reliving his childhood watching some Are...

We gotta be completely honest with you, not much happened this week! Nathan’s been planning his trip to E3 and in doing so was only able to watch Dinner for Schmucks between playing a whole lot of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and starting with earlier games of the series after completing it. Paul hasn’t done much better, only watching The Grey while playing some indie games he wasn’t too fond,...

**SPOILER ALERT: We ruin the only “spoilery” type thing in Men in Black 3 between 00:47:00 to 00:48:20. You have been warned. This week, Paul finally starts his quest to catch up on Game of Thrones and knocks down four episodes while also finishing off season 3 of Community. Nathan agrees with the New York Times about Game of Thrones’ lacking in draw lately and tries some Lilyhammer on Netflix whi...

This week, a yearly convention named Otafest hits town so Paul and Nathan recount their differing experiences with that including awkward Fleshlight situations, over-sexualized 14 year olds and a random guy masturbating in the bathroom. Nathan watched Blues Brothers again for the first time in years and goes to see The Dictator while Paul catches Men in Black II on television in preparation for Mi...

This week, Paul’s been doing almost nothing but work on stuff so due to his incompetence The Media Monks welcome back guest Eno Metzo of The Awful Gamer to banter and keep things going… to successful and failed outcomes. Nathan, disappointed still with The Avengers decides to hit up X-Men: First Class to see how well that holds up with his new realization of not liking most comic book movies. Eno...

Earlier in this week, our Avengers/Indie Game: The Movie podcast was released so we’re sure to steer away from that here. Instead, Paul’s been watching some more 2 Broke Girls, Community and The Legend of Korra. We discuss some Walking Dead Episode 1: A New Day game by Telltale and Nathan brings up some ghosts from the past by watching The Talented Mr. Ripley.  Also, Bad Santa is pretty good....

***SPOILER ALERT!*** We get heavy into major spoilers for Cabin in the Woods and recommend if you haven’t seen it to skip 00:56:20 to 01:04:20. You have been warned! Despite some rocky moments (which Paul elaborates on in detail), the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo 2012 Edition was a rollicking success, so sit back and here some tales pertaining to Star Trek, Undergrads, Futurama and, best o...

Nathan’s back with stories from his road trip to Coachella and we talk about the finer points of music, road trips and of course bringing the dead back to life. April 20th (or “4/20”) happened which sparks some conversation about marijuana, Hitler and that stupid KONY2012 “Cover The Night” campaign… all while we show how ignorant we are of the *ahem* “holiday’s” origin. Paul neglects watching Game...

In Nathan’s absence this week, I’ve asked three friends to join me on discussing some things. All three friends, besides being fortunate awesome enough to know me, are video content producers of varying stages on Youtube. First is David Selig (aka “HebrewLantern”), a new start in the world of Let’s Play videos with little over a month in experience. Next is co-founder of The Awful Gamer and subseq...

Some technical issues this week. About an hour in Paul’s connection completely dropped out and there was a good hour-and-a-half of time between the initial recording and the ending. This week, Nathan is leaving for a couple of days to drive down to the United States of America for some small thing called Coachella or something to listen to some rap music. We get talking a bit about some of the ban...

It’s been 6 long months and in that time Paul and Nathan have changed a lot. Let’s be honest; while movies and television are fantastic subject matter for discussion, they’re not the only interests to talk about! Although movies and television will always be at the forefront, there are times when more pressing matters are burning in our minds and thus the show will from here on out be known as the...