Weekend Catchup: Games, Work, and Geek News

Hey, this is Steve blue and you are listening

to the geek cast radio network Hi, this is Pat

Rayleigh purveyor of duck do be in felony boy,

and you're watching altered deep And welcome

to Altered Geek Unlimited, episode 43. I'm your

host, Steve Megatron Phillips, and joining me

this week is... TF2 and Mike. And Mike Powers.

Yo. Yo. Hello. Yeah, you might be wondering why

it says episode 43 and not 42, well... 42 has

become the lost episode. It will be sprinkled

in after the credits of episode 43. Yeah So what

have you guys been doing lately I've spent the

last week Playing some games and downloading

slash buying more games that I probably won't

play What I've been meaning to ask you, what

is your deal with your funk on video games? You

keep buying them yet. You won't play them right

away. What's going on with you? You all right?

You know, I don't know what Okay, here's what

I think it is. I used to work two days a week.

Mm -hmm And it was that way for All since 2009

So basically I worked a hundred and four days

out of the year So I needed to find ways to spend

my time. So I played a lot of games And that's

what I did and then I got a second job Which

I've been working at since just before the PlayStation

4 came out and It all of a sudden I'm working

65 ish hours a week between two jobs, so it came

down to Now I have now I have very little time

and it was how do I want to spend that time?

Then there was this drought of For video games

that occurred after like December and it never

really it This it never really redeemed itself

until March when Titanfall and infamous second

son came out which I own both And I, you know,

I enjoy Titanfall. I enjoy it so much that I

actually bought Danner an Xbox one and a copy

of Titanfall just so I can play with him. Which

we've done very little of since I bought that.

And then and then. Something really interesting

happened when I was playing Infamous. I love

the Infamous games. They're really good. superhero

games and love them, love them, love them. And

second son, I was really excited for and I get

it and I'm playing it. And I'm not I don't really

consider myself a trophy whore or an achievement

whore. Like, very rarely will I ever go out of

my way to grab a trophy that I can't get just

by playing the game. however there was something

really weird happen with the trophy sinking for

second son where halfway through my playthrough

as like you know playing going down the good

path the trophies stopped sinking and i ended

up beating the game and it robbed me of some

like i don't know 10 to 15 trophies that i That

I just I did not get and the only way to get

them is to play through The campaign as good

again. Oh jeez, and I'm like, you know what?

I Really? Yeah, I have no desire to do that.

And so I was like, okay Well, I'll try playing

it on the bad side because I'll just go through

on bad and I'll grab the because some of the

trophies are Like good bad agnostic. They're

just you know, do so many things while you're

playing the game And so I could get them while

I was playing on the bad side, but at the same

time, the experience of the game was already

tarnished by the fact that it had broken. And

so I'm like, I was like, I don't even I don't

feel like playing this anymore. Like, I'm really

irritated with this game. So I just stopped playing

it and. That was that was March. All of April

went by and didn't play a single game. most of

May went by before Watch Dogs hit, which has

been heralded as the first true next -gen game.

I kind of disagree with that considering that

it's on PS3 and 360 as well, which means it was

kind of designed to scale across multiple platforms

rather than being geared towards one set of specs.

And I mean, I'm enjoying that game. But I've

maybe played for, I don't know, maybe 10 hours

in the last week, and I've only done four story

missions. Wow. The rest of the time, I'm just

walking around Chicago hacking people's phones

and wiping out their bank accounts. Wow. And.

It's it was just really interesting. I don't

know. I don't know what it is. I'm I'm gonna

play more like I'm like I said I'm having fun.

I'm enjoying it. It's it's really pretty It's

not probably the best next the best ps4 game

I've seen like I think the the Tomb Raider ultimate

edition Looks better. I think infamous looks

better But I've had I've had a lot of fun with

it like we were doing Danner and Sean Z and I

we did We got online with Watch Dogs and we're

just kind of comparing the character stats and

they were like, how much money do you have? How

much? You know, we're talking about how much

money all of us have collected while playing

the game. And they're all like, oh, I have fifty

thousand. I've got, you know, I've got just under

one hundred thousand. I was like, I have over

three hundred thousand dollars because all I

do in the game is just walk around hacking people,

which is just fun and therapeutic. And every

once in a while, someone You'll see you'll come

across someone getting mugged And then I'll run

after the mugger and I'll club them over the

head with my with my little nightstick That makes

me that makes you feel really special the one

thing I did do I can't really understand because

it it's one of those games where you kind of

play it the way you want you can be nonviolent

and Hack everything and be non confrontational

or you can go in guns blazing And the way I've

been playing it is non -confrontational. I've

been hacking cameras, which then you can move

to another camera so you get different viewpoints

and you can see where all the guys are. And I

went into a gun shop and one of the sniper rifles

they have in the game is a Barrett .50 cal. I

was like, because that's necessary. So what did

I do? I mean, that's my favorite sniper rifle.

Granted, I've never shot one in real life. I

don't think I ever could, but that's my favorite

sniper rifle because I think it looks freaking

awesome. And so I was like, I'll just go ahead

and grab that because I have nothing else to

spend my money on. So I bought it and I went

up on an overpass and I just fired at some random

civilian's car. It took three shots and the car

came to like a dead stop in the middle of the

road and some. Chick next to me on the bridge

started calling 9 -1 -1 Saying shots were fired.

So I just ran after her grabbed her phone and

threw it on the ground and said you stop that

The stories like the stories kind of contrived

it's like I guess your niece died because of

something that you did and now you're trying

to get revenge on the people that You know, it's

killed her. So it's your basic average kind of

grand theft auto story a little bit Kind of I

mean not more Punisher esque than Grand Theft

Auto And I I was kind of bummed that that was

like the story that they were going with I mean,

I knew that it was something like that. Actually,

I thought it was your I thought it was a straight

-up Punisher story where your wife and kid died

But no, it's your niece that died and then so

you go after the people that you know Killed

your niece and I'm just like I found that out

the other day and I was kind of like, you know

What all of a sudden I really don't care About

the character so I've kind of been playing it

the way that you know The the TV show person

of interest is set up where I'm just walking

around trying to do the good do the right thing

by just keeping an eye on everybody that I see

and So that's that's pretty much it and then

I I also downloaded pixel junk shooter because

that was out and it was free Although I really

wanted to pay for it because I like that game,

but I haven't played it since I downloaded it

Don't know you remind me of our other buddy Michael

Wilson who is a huge transformers nut He will

buy transformers toys at certain times of the

year and he will just not even open them Just

throw them in his closet I Don't know what it

is and I'm looking at like I'm sure everything

will change next week because next week is e3

mm -hmm, but Just from what I know that's coming

out this fall like Everything's getting moved

to 2015. And I there are now just two more games

that I can think of for the rest of the year.

And I'm pretty sure after next week, all of that

will change because be very surprised if we don't

get like some kind of Grand Theft Auto announcement

for the next gen consoles, even if it's just

a port of GTA five. That's all I friggin want.

Dang it. You know, ever since you showed me like

the first couple of missions on there, And, you

know, I've been a Grand Theft Auto fan since

about San Andreas, and it's like, I understand

that the company wants to be able to make their

money with the console versions, but how, what

has it been, a year since that game's been out,

or so? A year or two? This fall will be a year.

Okay, so it's almost been a year. They haven't

made their money back on that game yet, as popular

as that franchise is. Oh no, they've more than

made their money back on that game. Can't hand

over fists. I just think that they don't want

they still don't want people to be able to steal

it But see here's the thing I'm willing to pay

for the damn thing on my computer Give it to

me now you are but the PC gamer in general probably

isn't And they care more about that then you

know the people like you that are willing to

pay for it Yeah, there's just two games for the

rest of you that are on my list because As we

all know Arkham Knight got delayed did not see

that one coming. I didn't either I was kind of

surprised especially after like a date was announced

and it was like their date they just kind of

upped and moved it but I Don't know. It's from

what I've heard. October now has like there are

16 triple -a releases in October alone Wow, I

can't list all of them off the top my head but

Won't be the case in the next couple like in

the next couple months. They'll get they'll get

pushed to like January February March Because

that's just that's insane and then you have November

which will also have more AAA games released

in them as well What about you Steve, what have

you been up to? Well, I started doing that new

position this week Not as difficult as I thought

but it is busier than I thought yeah, well we

have ten essentially rental cars for service

and body shop and whatever and I've got seven

of them out at this point out of the ten which

is I mean it doesn't seem like a lot but Then

they're gonna throw ten more on me by the end

of the month, so I'm learning that job and getting

more time to actually do my other part and actually

get to look halfway decent and not have to wash

cars anymore, which is nice. And then we are

working on our stairs, getting ready to, I just

painted all the backboards about an hour and

a half ago. And then we're gonna... Stain and

clear clear coat them this weekend. So we'll

have hardwood floor on the stairs and Tuesday

We actually get the carpet for the living room

in the basement and I get set that up. Yay And

and then of course as you can hear I have cable

internet. Yes I'm arguing with Comcast again,

but that's an entirely different story That's

a whole other episode. Arguments with cable companies.

It seems like a love hate situation. I love the

cable, but I hate them. I wish I could have a

bad experience with them. I always have a bad

experience. I really wish I could, because I

always get what I want out of them. I never do.

I just I don't know. I really don't know what

it is. I don't know if it's because I. Walk that

fine line between knowing what I'm talking about

or knowing what I'm asking for and And basically

asking for them to and at the same time Asking

for them to be To go easy on me like, you know,

I really I really want this but I really don't

know if you like have it because remember when

I switched from AT &T to Comcast I was I jumped

ship because Well, first of all, I love you verse

I think the internet is great from you verse

and I had a I had a pretty good deal going with

them and I was like two weeks from my promotion

being up and I called them I said listen I just

want to know I just want to talk to somebody

about you know the possibility of extending my

promotion or You know, like how how does the

you know when it's up, you know? What is it gonna

be blah blah blah blah and the lady flat -out

told me on the phone This is after I'd been like

a subscriber for like two years. She's like,

oh you're currently in a promotion We can't discuss

anything with you until the promotions over I

was like, oh Fine. Bye. So I called up Comcast

and I said listen, this is what I've got with

AT &T and I really want your you know, I really

want the 50 meg internet that you guys have but

it's not It's not really like there And the price

isn't where I want it. And the guy came back

and goes, well, I can do I can do 30 meg internet

for 35 for $35 a month. And that was both cheaper

and faster than what AT &T was offering me. I

was like, oh, well, yeah, sure, I'll take that.

And then a month later, I got it bumped to 50

for 35. So I called them back about a promotion

that I had and I was still under their 30 day

guarantee. But I just called them back recently

to get like their fastest tier internet And I

ended up getting their fastest internet with

hd and tv and hbo for like 100 bucks for 12 months

Not bad and just their 100 meg internet by itself

is like 105 dollars So yeah, i'm trying to go

the route of uh, I tried it with cable, but unfortunately

If you're trying to stay under the $50 price

package It's damn near impossible if you're trying

to so like the cable channels that I would get

was like 2 through 20 and the 25 meg internet,

but I managed to get it dropped down to just

the 25 meg internet without the TV Because I

have another method that I'm going to be able

to get TV without paying for it. Yeah, we have

the TV, but I don't use it at all. Like, we've

never used it. Well, they have these magic tuners

that, you know, if said person has antenna on

house. Oh, yeah, I have that. So I never use

it. But I'm going to use that with a digital

tuner and media player. But hey, I'll get those.

Over the Air HD is the best HD you can get. Know

so and I'll have it soon But I got my internet

dropped down to Twenton 1999 for six months cool

So with the rental I'm paying like 30 bucks Starting

next month this month. They they racked it up

for For whatever reason the current bill is kind

of foobard online but they've added all these

credits because they started charging me for

these two $20 install fees of lines for the TV

and the internet and plus the $40 technician

fee and then they added my bill on top of it

and I'm like um hold it what the hell are these

for I says I didn't know what was going to be

charged for these and I'm paying for that linebacker

so Yeah, I like when I called to switch to the

their fastest here internet they the lady on

the phone was like here it's I'm looking at it

and it says that your modem doesn't support the

Support this fastest fastest here. I told her

I said I'm looking on your website right now

and it says that it does So let's do this. How

about you activate it on my account and I'll

go restart my modem and then I'll do a speed

test And sure enough, I did it. She did it. And

then I did mine. And sure enough, it's compatible

with it. And she goes, but before we had gotten

to that step, she was like, well, this is what

we'll do. I'll send you out the router, but I'll

send you out the router that actually says that

it works just in case yours doesn't. But what

I'll do is I'll credit your account the rental

fee for the 12 months. So I wasn't going to have

to pay anything for the rental. I was like, and

I didn't ask for that. I didn't ask for it at

all. Nice. So I I don't know I don't know what

it's just gotta be the way that I talked to them

or something like they're like like they're human

beings and I'm not you don't but I'm just like

I don't know because it's I've been like I've

had I've got an AT &T to turn the tethering on

on my on my iPhones when I had the unlimited

data plans which they don't do which they're

not supposed to do And then gave me back my unlimited

data Which you know, they weren't supposed to

be able to do like I got them to do that for

me. So I Don't know it's just it's just my luck

like I wish I could have a bad experience Just

so I could know what it's like, but I always

seem to get what I want out of them one way or

the other well Two days ago I got Yeah, was it

two days ago? Yeah, it was two days ago because

I was trying to download all the rest of a beware

the Batman The season because they have all the

rest of it on torn mm -hmm So I did that and

then It kept my Internet connection kept dropping

down to like nothing So I checked I did a speed

test and it was showing I was getting two megabyte

download speeds Like capital and lowercase be

yeah So I was pretty pissed of course so More

or less sent them a message saying What the hell?

And I reset everything, reset my modem. Then

I disconnected from the connection, reconnected.

I was getting 18. And then for whatever reason

that one night it was like all goofy. But I think

I've talked to more customer service people than

I care to in the last three days for them. Plus

the modem. Their wireless modems turn on this

thing called Xfinity Wi -Fi It's like a free

Wi -Fi that piggybacks off your internet connection,

okay and bandwidth Even though they claim it

doesn't I did some digging and it does So that

they can have oh, you know as long as you're

a Comcast subscriber You can go pretty much anywhere

where one of these are and you can piggyback

off any internet connection. So Which kind of

pissed me off and then I'm trying to log into

it on the Xfinity account and it comes up says

we're sorry There's a problem encountered right

here. Try again later and it won't let you deactivate

it So like I'm arguing with them over that now

because I'm like, I don't want somebody just

sitting on my internet connection Yeah, so there's

no you can't get into the router settings. I

can but they don't that's not a They have to

turn it off from directly at Comcast and you

have to call the Wi -Fi department. How about

turning off the Wi -Fi and using your own wireless

router? I could do that, but it would still do

the Xfinity one. The Xfinity one I have no control

over through the router. It's something that

they turn on from their end. It won't even let

you see it and in the router the only reason

I know it's theirs because it gives me the option

to connect to it Oh now I'm definitely glad I

didn't use their stuff Because it it like I said

it pissed me off. I didn't have that problem

before when I had it the last time But I don't

know if it's something new they're doing Who

knows I Don't know they're right bastards. That's

all I know Speaking of cable issues. I'm Since,

was it May? Yeah. May 30th and about two days

ago. Two outages in my area by the same telephone

pole or cable pole or what, same pole. So somebody's

messing with the thing outside that isn't supposed

to be messing with it. So between the end of

May and now I've had two days where I've had

no service for 16 plus hours. And I know Steve

went through a whole month and a half of no internet,

but he knows that because I live my life online,

he knows that if I'm five minutes without internet,

I start going crazy. Oh no, I can totally understand

that. I don't know what we would do in my house

if the internet actually went down. I really...

Well, that's one of the things that I actually

liked about AT &T, about U -verse, is that when

the power went out, we still had internet access.

And I don't, obviously, that's... I don't know

if that would be the case with cable. Maybe?

No, no, it's not. I can tell you it's not well

not not with time Warner and time Warner got

bought out by Comcast So Comcast will eventually

come down. Okay. Here's the thing I let me rephrase

that I still had internet with AT &T because

one it kind of comes over their phone lines But

it also well piggybacks off their phone line

to a point But I also had a battery backup for

the router The modem and the router were on a

battery backup in my house So i'm actually wondering

if I had a battery backup in my house for my

modem and router now If the power went out if

I'd still have cable or sub internet probably

not though because i'm pretty sure that the It's

cable is fundamentally different than You know

a lot of phone connection because like phones

are supposed to work even when the power is out

Yeah traditional if you have a battery backup

and you or you have it hooked up to a generator

It will still work the cable will Yeah, I'm totally

gonna go buy one Because my my dad I think had

his plugged in so that he could at least use

it when we had those ice storms And he lost power

which means that you lose your home phone if

you have it through comcast comcast so he got

the power kicked back on through his generator

and Still had everything but he's got a battery

back up to next to his computer. So it gives

him The ability to run everything although i'm

totally going to invest in one of those this

year Because I just I could not uh I I don't

know Everything that's one of the reasons I pay

for the internet that I have is because everything

in my house runs on the internet And I cannot

bear for one thing to suffer Because of another

because of another like I want to be able to

watch two streams of hd netflix And run a torrent

as well as be able to play on or as well as being

able to game online Without noticing that any

one of those things is happening And luckily

I have not So As far as what I've been up to

I'm a podcasting fool last month. I put out 13

pullback episodes celebrating 75 years of Batman

Well, that's just psycho there. Yes. Well, you

would know Joker Let's see, I've gotten two,

three interviews recently. One with the Turtles

editor at IDW publishing Bobby Kernow, the other

with Brian Ward from Shout Factory. I've been

playing old Super Nintendo games recently. Let's

see, what else? Currently watching Transformers

Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. Not too pleased

about that, but at least Armada is nice because

it has Gary Chalk and David Kaye as Megatron

and Optimus. Got the Transformers Animated Complete

Series set. We finally have Season 3 on DVD,

so that's awesome, no matter what Optimus Solo

says. Let's see, what else have I been doing?

Exploring and giving and showing people on Facebook

the new features of the GeekCast Radio Network's

new website. I pointed out the random button

to several people and they're like, oh, I'll

have to try that. I think Mike was entertained

with it for about a half an hour while he was

talking to me the other day. Half an hour? Are

you kidding me? I'll sit there on the main page

and just keep clicking and I'll spend hours and

hours and hours. Well, that's just sad. I was

trying to save you the humiliation of sitting

there for that long. Hey, you know Let's see

what else I've got the the M wire thin man spotlight

kind of going on now. That's a three -part episode

arc reviewing the old William Powell Myrna Loy

thin man movies Constantly constantly aggravated

by half the people that live around me thankfully

supposedly the people upstairs across from me

moved out so that'll take care of half the Happy

or Twitter feed half the drug problems that are

plaguing this area Let's see what else You know

just keeping stuff going for geek cast radio

pretty much is what I've been up to I was beating

my head against a brick wall the other day. I

couldn't get the damn icons and the fonts to

show up right in IE or Firefox. They work great

in Chrome. And the sad thing is the beta versions

of the site I was playing off of to keep settings

correct. Everything showed up fine on all browsers.

Did this one want to play nice? No. And then,

because of some weird plugin that you had to

disable to find out what the heck was going on

with the fonts, none of us could edit any of

the posts. Well, the first problem was the commenting

system. You couldn't read anything. It made the

text the same color as the background. So I had

to go in, and I removed the plugin, and I re

-added the plugin, and I did some other stuff.

Still didn't matter. It was goofed up. So there

was something else that was causing that. somehow

fix that and then Ended up with the font and

icon thing which turned out. I just had to directly

because this the CSS was pulling from Like one

of those it does one of those dynamic pulls from

the location on the server And I had actually

directly linked to the files And then once I

did that everything showed up fine, so I did

that and then You guys were like, I can't see

anything in the post. And I'm like, I can see

everything. And then the next morning I'm like,

I can't see everything. So I went in and I figured

out it was one of the plugins I turned off trying

to fix the other issue. But there is more stuff

planned, though. There's going to be a login

system for everyone using social media and having

to actually register if they don't want to. I

mean, you can, but you don't have to register

either. But it's just for... For written reviews

or if people write certain things and want the

ability to have the listener vote on it as well,

like the topic, not necessarily their article,

but just whatever, if it's a film or a comic

or something, you can turn on this feature so

that they can actually vote right on the page

in the bottom of the post. Something I'm working

on there's there's some other We also finished

the we also finally after how many months of

people reporting about the the the jpeg We finally

The Justin Bieber bug finally figured out what

the Justin Bieber bug was because every now and

then and it never happened to me until one night

We all got on Skype to record. We're doing a

meeting. Yeah. Yeah, we were doing we were doing

the year -end meeting last year and I'm like

It's happening to me now. What had happened was

if I refresh the site, it would do an auto redirect

and then it had this some sort of weird embed

link of Justin Bieber playing basketball, of

all things. But Steve, you fixed that. Yeah,

I had to wait for enough people to have the same

issue and it's related to a source of where you

get a plug -in. Yeah, that's all I'm saying here.

But I found out it was a code inside it and you

had to scan it with a separate program and it

would say like, hello, here we go. So I removed

that code because I had it pop up on me like

four times on the new site and I'm like, okay,

I know it's not the theme now. I'm like, it's

something else. And so I did some digging and

found it. Yeah, it was surprising to say the

least. I find myself in finality mode. And no,

this has nothing to do with Mortal Kombat. What's

fatality? Fatality. Yeah, I know. This year we

have six podcasts that will be coming to grand

endings. Beyond the Night, Legends of the Dark

Knight, The first out of the four episode for

the Pog series, Tales of Eternia, Mass Mayhem,

From the Command Center, and All Things Transformers

will all be ending at some point in 2014. So

I'm, you know, Steve and I are really, really

pumped what we're doing with All Things Transformers.

Same thing with Legends of the Dark Knight where,

you know, stoked to be talking about Batman Beyond.

It seems like Skeletor constantly beats Optimus

Solo and I up because we just can't get episodes

recorded. We're working on it. Same thing with

Mass Mayhem. Miles Mayhem stole our microphones.

And Command Center, you know, the Power Rangers

show, I'm not trying to, you know. The mic's

burned out. Shut up, damn it. Let me explain

it eloquently. You don't say. I'm not trying

to alienate the fan base for that podcast, but

I think at this point it's run its course and

I personally Have absolutely zero interest in

Power Rangers right now Yeah, so that's what

I've been up to I bought some Legos I still have

some I bought About the ecto one. Oh, did you?

Yep. Oh, that's nice I bought that and I bought

the DeLorean from back to the future Actually

my wife and I we went down to Somerset Which

for those that don't know is a high -end mall

in Michigan. Yes, we do have them. Yep but they

have a Lego store down there and It you know,

the set came out on June 1st and it was June

1st and we were down there and I decided to buy

five of them About one for myself to build and

display and then I bought one to keep in the

box Unopened until it's like worth something

and then I'll try and sell it I bought one to

sell at the geek sale this this Saturday Which

I want to try and get 60 bucks for because it's

a $50 set and if you order it from Lego It ends

up being like $60 for this shipping So I figured

trying to get 60 bucks for it considering I had

to drive down to Somerset and then bring it over

to Grand Rapids is fair And then I bought a set

for Joe and and Danner for them to put together

The the ecto one as as one would imagine is actually

kind of cool But the DeLorean leaves as far as

a Lego set goes, it leaves a lot to be desired

to be desired. Yeah, it's not as. It's not as

detailed as I would have liked. You can't put

the guys, you can't put the people in the DeLorean

and close the door. Oh, which I mean, you can

put them in there and leave the door like the

Gullwing door open. It does do the really cool

thing where it flips into hover mode so you can

the kit actually includes Pieces to do the DeLorean

from all three movies But I left it in back to

the future too because let's face it the flying

DeLorean is the best one But then it comes with

Marty McFly and Doc and but the Ghostbusters

one I think is my favorite It you know, it comes

with all four all four Ghostbusters and it comes

with like proton You know you make their proton

packs and slap them on the back of them and stuff

like that They actually all all four of them

actually do fit in the ecto one Which is you

know, that's just night and day compared to the

DeLorean so But I built them and I took some

I took a lot of photos and actually I took Like

step -by -step photos with my camera while I

was building them Every it was like every like

two or three steps in the instruction manual

or whenever a big change happened I snapped a

pic of it and I posted it in two separate photo

albums on Facebook So yeah, they're they're really

neat definitely definitely for display like I

don't intend to ever play with them I just basically

built them and threw them on top of my entertainment

center with my other Legos but For me, what's

you know, sometimes that gets me really excited.

I think it was the last year. Yeah, it was It

was last year that the that Top Gun had a re

-release in theaters, right? It was last. Yep

September last set. Yeah last September and I

was like Oh Top Gun in theaters because obviously

I was six years old when that movie came out

and I didn't see it then I saw it on VHS like

two or three years later But so I went and saw

that, and I'm really all for theatrical re -releases

of classic and older films. Just recently, my

local theater that I normally go to had a midnight

showing at the Breakfast Club. If it wasn't at

midnight, I would have loved to have seen that

on the big screen. But in preparation for 30th

anniversary, That this is actually in the center

around the 30th anniversary for Ghostbusters.

They're here re -releasing the original film

the theaters August 9th 29th I suppose it was

this week instead of August. Yes actual 30th

Yeah anniversary, but that would have made more

sense. Yeah, I'm more excited for the blu -rays

that are coming. I I don't really have a desire

to see it I mean, I'll probably I don't it's

only coming to 700 theaters. I'm curious to see

which ones will get it. Yeah If one of the theaters

nears me near near me gets it I'll probably go

and check it out. But I Don't know. I'm excited

to be able to pick it up on blu -ray once and

for all So I'm just hoping it comes with special

features because it's the one thing that's kept

me from picking up I mean, this will be the third

time Mm -hmm, and I don't think either of the

first two have special features attached to them,

which is just a travesty So it does say in the

article that I linked you guys to First time

1989 sequel has been released on blu -ray and

special features include a new converse new conversations

with director Ivan Reitman and Ackroyd as well

as deleted scenes from the sequel Ghostbusters

is still one of the studios most beloved franchises

blah blah blah I don't know what other features

are gonna be on it, but it does say new conversations

with Reitman and Ackroyd But I think that's for

the second film. I know everybody really some

some I'm a big proponent of Ghostbusters 2 I

love that movie. I don't care where anybody says

shut up. I know some people don't like it But

I like the first one as well, and I'm I'm really

interested to see what this new release is gonna

be all about I don't know, I just like the idea

of the, like I said a second ago, older films

being re -released, whether it's just to promote

a new Blu -ray set or not, I still enjoy having

that option. What about Forrest Gump coming to

IMAX? Do we really need to see the box of chocolates

in IMAX? Are you serious? Why? I don't know,

because they can? But what's the point in putting

it in IMAX? It wasn't even shot in IMAX. I know,

right? Lots of things weren't shot in IMAX that

are in IMAX. True. Almost everything outside

of Transformers, was it the second Transformers,

and The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises

were, you know, outside of those movies. Everything

else is pretty much like upscaled for IMAX. I

know a lot of people don't like watching movies

on cable with commercials and all that stuff,

but honestly, I've seen Forrest Gump so many

times on TV between TNT, TBS, and all those other

networks. That's not a movie. As much as I like

and would like to see more classic film theatrical

re -releases, that's not one of them. Life ain't

a box of chocolates. I know, I own that movie

on Blu -ray. I don't think I've ever watched

it. That's one of those ones that's still shrimp

wrapped for me. I have very few of those movies

left. Alright, I'm gonna have to get going here

soon. I don't know if you guys want to keep talking

or not, but I gotta bow out. I think we'll...

We've kind of ended it anyway. We've kind of

talked about other stuff. Plus, we've got part

of last week that I'm going to slap on the end.

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are back and because we didn't mention this the

very beginning of the show since we're closing

it out here This has been a altered geek geek

cast radio crossover Altered geek I believe it's

episode 43 42 42 This is Altered Geek episode

42, and this is Geekcaster Radio episode 64.

My idea behind this was Steve and I would just

do a straight, cold opening, not do any real

introductions, and just have a discussion. And

for GCR, it's going to be Random Fandom Part

1, because I'm going to be doing multiple episodes

of this for GCR at some point in the future.

So yeah, now we go to the Altered Geek feedback,

because we need to bring up the feedback from

last week's Altered Geek episode, so dig it away.

So, last week anyway, we were talking about TV

shows, cable, season finales, everything else

along those lines, so we have a couple questions.

One comes from Justin Washington saying, So what

do you guys do when the shows end for the summer

and we get into repeats? Any under the radar

show you can recommend to get into during the

summer? That's kind of what I was alluding to

earlier in this episode. I don't notice a lot

of repeats because I don't watch the big networks

as much as I used to, like say... 15 years ago

with all the cable stuff that's going on right

now. It's almost like there are no repeats because

cable networks just There'll be a random episode

of let's say Rizzoli and aisles or white collar

or breaking bad or something like that There'll

be a random episode of that, but they usually

just start new shows I like AMC has like three

or four new shows starting this summer I think

FX has at least four or five new shows starting

this summer I'm not watching anything that's

right now going on during the summer so there's

not much I can recommend. The only one I'm really

watching is Continuum because it started like

a couple months ago. I guess I'm like episode

9 or episode 8 or something like that for the

season. I watch I watch whose line which is kind

of in there and out there. It's it's random,

but it's it's been going on part of the time

anyway And truthfully, there's not really that

much different than any other episode when you

watch it, but I I just I enjoy it I Have every

season downloaded because they don't want to

put them on on DVD Just crap because I like getting

the blooper reels and I have the one DVD that

came out a while back but But I mean that's that's

pretty much the only show I watch I don't really

have a lot of the cable channels Usually when

for whatever reason Comcast for the one of the

lower cable packages comes with 20 some odd channels

25 megabit internet and HBO for two years. I

have not really cared for anything I've seen

on HBO. I don't really watch it. I've tried watching

some of the shows on it. I've watched some of

the movies occasionally, but it depends on how

many times they play them. Think when I had HBO

before because they played the movie so many

times. I saw now you see me probably 50 times

And there were a couple other movies that were

like that that I saw What was the other one it

was the other magic one that had Steve Carell

in it The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. I think

I saw that just as many times I Could almost

quote the movie. I've seen this many times So

I mean it's it's not bad it's just they don't

seem to play anything new And I don't really

watch TV shows off of those because I just Call

it what you will call it poor taste call it just

personal preference. I just I don't care for

any of it that's on there it's I don't really

go towards the medieval or the you know for like

If they had things like Game of Thrones or whatever,

I don't get into that kind of stuff. That's stuff

that my wife gets into more than I. I don't really

watch any of that. And then I've tried watching

Silicon Valley. It's interesting, but I found

it very boring. Again, that's just my personal

opinion. I watched a few episodes of it. I don't

really like dry humor And right office space

was an exception Yeah But I I just I for some

reason it just it doesn't resonate with me so

I think one of the only times, one of the few

times I've gotten into like medieval kind of

stuff was... I know you hate this movie. A Knight's

Tale. I love that movie. I hate it. I just...

You just don't think there should be rock music

in the Middle Ages? No, I don't even hate that.

I just don't care. Yeah. It's... I'm not real

big into that era. No. What else we got for feedback?

Well, there was the comment about oversaturation

in news and marketing. And which everybody kind

of jumped all around. Yeah, it's various answers.

Yes, some of them not to certain people's liking

Go read the comments on the latest AGU episode

people Yeah, that's all I'm good. I'm not retreading

that discussion yeah, but um But I I did like

Brian Jackson's comment about He really sees

both sides and agrees that it's easy to avoid

the hype, but there's just so much of it anymore,

which I totally agree. And then, of course, he

says, people are so worried about content not

giving legitimate opinions, which you can never

worry about us not giving our opinion here on

Geekcast Radio Network. Exactly. because we're

always full of our opinions. Even if you don't

like them, we've got them. We've all been bashed

for it at one point, but again, it's an opinion.

And I mean, for the most part, we try and back

them up with reasons at least. And then he says

not to brown nose, but that's why I like GeekCast

Radio Network, because recently it appears It's

more about the people less about the opinions

And then just empty news Love giving all the

sides and different takes too often sites are

just robots and spew the same opinion over and

over and over which We do tend to evolve over

time with our opinions. We don't like as you

know, you've seen with this show it's We went

batshit crazy when Affleck was cast as Batman

and then we were fine with it and then you know

For instance now, there's the the rumor that

Joker might be in the film, which I think is

a huge mistake but if they do it they do it I

Think it's too soon. I Mean if they're gonna

do the Legion of Doom, he wasn't in that anyway,

so it doesn't matter So but you know again what

they're gonna do what they're gonna do and hopefully

it works out for the best but I just I It's one

of those kind of scenarios, you know, you kind

of know where everybody's gonna get on their

soapbox and you know, you know, whether it's

gonna be good or it's gonna be bad, so. And see,

that's the thing. Lately, like I said earlier

in this episode, I have been holding... That's

usually why I sometimes will bring up stuff that

you and Booth have already talked about because

I may not have been on that episode of Altered

Geek on the Altered Geek side, but... I have

been holding my tongue on a lot of my opinions

on a lot of the stuff. Now are you holding it

because you don't want to get bashed or because

you're waiting to see more legitimate information

before making an opinion? I want more. You know,

the bad suit is the bad suit. I honestly want

to see, I mean I like the new bad suit. I honestly

want to see like a full God no, I don't want

to see I was gonna say full frontal, but no I

want to see like I had I Want to see like a headshot

or a you know? That's what she said, too How

long is this Proceed I want to see like headshot

photo of Affleck in in the suit or something

like I want to be able to see him and the image

we've seen so far is basically just him looking

down like I said Batman like you know yeah but

you know I keep I guess it's not more so that

I want to hold my tongue in fear of me getting

bashed for just putting out just putting an opinion

out there or it's not so much as me waiting for

more information it's me waiting to see what

other people say and then form my own opinion

once I see whatever it may you know if it's Man

of Steel 2 or if it's you know, whatever. If

it's X -Men 7 or 8 or whatever the hell number

they're up to now, I'm more so holding my tongue

because I want to see if, number one, I want

to see the, whatever it is, film, TV show, I

want to see it and make my own opinion, but I

want to see what other people are saying first

at this point. It's kind of like if you were

in an office and you're the last guy at the water

cooler, And you just hear the remnants of everybody

else's conversation. That's kind of what I've

turned into. Oh God, I just realized I'm almost

becoming a Milton. Oh God. I'll put strychnine

in the guacamole. I believe you have my stapler.

Yes, I believe you have my stapler. If you could

do that, that would be great. Yeah, don't forget

those TPS reports What else we got for feedback

Yeah, Jared Kessler says backing up Brian that

uh He says, I was getting to the point with all

the crazy hype and over marketing was driving

me buggy. I cut the cord as much as possible.

Did some serious Facebook and Twitter trimming,

which I do defending. I usually just put filters

so I don't have to see certain comments about

certain things, you know, like whenever Beaver

pops up in the news and, you know, get glue or

points. That's another thing. I never have to

see those again. Yeah. Well, now that Get Glue

has become TV tag, I find myself using it less

and less. Not that I dislike the new direction,

but it's not as addicting as it used to be because

they alienated a lot of their user base when

they cut out a lot of different things that you

could check into. Every now and then you'll see

me checking in to get a sticker for a TV show

I might be watching or something like that, but

like right now there are no TV shows that I'm

watching that I have the absolute need to check

into. So I have almost stopped using TVTAC altogether.

What else? Well, going through some more. Justin

Washington also says, I don't see Batman vs Superman

becoming a header for each movie like The Hunger

Games or Twilight. That's normal for book adaptations

to do, but I assume the title will be different

for the Justice League films. At least I hope

so, otherwise you'll have Batman and Superman

fighting every movie. Yeah, you know... I can

see it. Yeah, Batman vs Superman. I think they're

just doing that for this coming -up film in 2016.

Because here's the thing. What if Batman vs Superman

The Dawn of Justice is the first Justice League

movie? It's what you and I have been saying.

Well, I've been saying that since day one, but

especially with the casting of other people calling

it what it is, people. Also, I think DC is trying

to go in a different direction I think some of

those characters are gonna get their own films

like obviously Batman at some point the rest

of them It's kind of up in the air depending

on their popularity in the combined films, but

I think that DC is going to jump Instead of doing

all these individual films and then leading up

to a big film I think they're just gonna do a

bunch of big films. I Think they're gonna do

like Star Trek. They're gonna have you know,

they're six big films right in a row of the Justice

League, and then they're, you know, they may

sprinkle one in between here or there, but they're

not gonna do like Iron Man 1, Iron Man 2, Captain

America, Thor, blah blah blah, Justice, you know,

and then Avengers, and then 50 other films, and

then Avengers 2, and it's, I think it's gonna

be all one. You know, it's gonna be a six part

film or it's gonna be a four part film or depending

on whatever They decide to adapt and honestly,

they should have called this film world's finest

Yeah, other than Batman versus Superman that

just it sounds so I'm trying to find the right

word, but it sounds so dumb compared to it because

It's a giant superhero fight tease is what it

is if you're gonna have Batman for Superman it

almost sounds like Freddy vs. Jason Yeah, or

Alien vs. Predator. Let's see those films were

crap But crap because they had the verses in

there Yeah, so I can kind of see that there,

you know, that's why they had to add the subtitle

Dawn of Justice But it should have been world's

finest Dawn of Justice. Yeah. You know what I

want out of Justice League movies? I want them

to just do straight adaptations like what they're

doing with the animated films. Like, honestly,

I would love to see a live -action New Frontier

adaptation. I know it probably will never happen

because it needs to be in... You know today's

you know to keep the audience of the the mainstream

audience of today It needs to be some sort of

today kind of thing I would love to see them

do a live -action adaptation of year one or Well

year one's not technically a Justice League movie.

Well, they already did that No, I know baby begins.

Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm trying to think of Justice

League stuff doom I would love to see a live,

you know, adaptation of Doom. See, and that could

work as a Justice League film being that, you

know, it could be one of the Justice League films.

Right, right. You could have war be the end,

like be one of them, and you could have Doom

be one of them, I mean, or completely original

stories. But it's yeah. I don't know how we keep

getting on that soapbox, but. It's so easy to

do. I know, I know. But, you know, most of the

GCR listeners haven't heard that before, so there

you go. True. And then beyond humor, which made

a, you know, humorous part of it, it says, are

people really calling Frozen a masterpiece? I

know people like it and let it go is everywhere,

but I haven't heard anyone call it a masterpiece.

And then I... Couldn't help myself. You said

you said I've heard several of my Facebook friends

call it that and then I said I wish people would

in terms of frozen let it go away and Bring me

another Pixar film already Yeah, you know I've

heard a lot of people throw the word masterpiece

around when it comes to frozen Frozen is by no

means at all in my top 20 Disney films of all

time in my personal top 20 if I was gonna make

it top 20 right now frozen would be like 21 22

it wouldn't even make the list I just even after

me getting over everybody being so excited about

it and talking about let it go and just people

saying online drop everything go see this film

now it's the best thing ever I waited I waited

a long ass time I saw it The whole time I was

more sympathetic towards the younger sister and

liked her and her character development better

than the older sister and other than that I Just

didn't care for the movie at all. I came I saw

I decided to leave the theater At what point

Beginning middle or end. I didn't go see it in

theater. I don't think okay. No, I didn't okay

You know I just Don't see why I don't see in

that film what everyone else sees apparently

as far as them calling in a masterpiece and apparently

now it's like Fifth of all time box office or

some story. Yeah, they wouldn't let it leave

the box office. I know It's like, you know, we

can't miss it if it never leaves Yeah, really

it's like that bad relative that just won't go

home Get your ass out of my house oh my god that

reminds me of the bob rivers group the comedy

christmas comedy group oh god that's so awesome

yeah anyway um anything else because i really

need to get to bed honestly no i i was done anyhow

i gotta edit yay edit i will say this Geek cast

radio Will be new soon Very new bright shiny

and new absolutely. It's gonna be spanking new

Yep, brand spanking new geek cast radio. We are

shattering the glass on it everything ladies

and gentlemen Yeah, up is down down is up left

is right right is left Diagonal is squared Oh,

I thought you were going to pull a Robin from

Young Justice Diagonal is just agonal. It's kind

of like, why is everybody underwhelmed or overwhelmed?

Why can't anybody just be whelmed? Why do people

have to be whelmed? Yes. To borrow a tagline

from one of the original Spider -Man movies,

the GCRN world is going to be turned upside down.

So you know, black is white and white is black.

Blue is red and blue and red together are purple

and Decepticons rule the universe. Yeah. So if

you could do that, that would be great. At least

the geek in you, we will catch you next time.