After a brief matrimonial hang this weekend, we're back to ramble about Stephen King's obsession with possessed machinery and icky goo, the many peculiarities of our physical reality, pat downs at the airport, and more.
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:26) Doing stuff! In real life!
(00:05:32) Jet lag is... a thing to be interested in, sure
(00:09:20) Vinny's reading Night Shift!
(00:20:06) The Stephen King cinematic roadmap (we swe...
2023-11-08 01:51:21 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, Nextlanders! It is I, Alex, bursting in here a little later than usual to give you the rundown on what we have in store for our Watchcast listeners this month. As you may have guessed by there being no show this week (or if you heard the announcement on last week's episode), we took this week off, as I was out in the Bay Area visiting some friends and family. But fret not! We've still got three films for ya this month, and for the glorious month of my birth, we are celebrating one ...
2023-11-07 17:36:12 +0000 UTC
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I’ll tell you what, I just got back from traveling and seeing a bunch of dear friends at a beautiful wedding and the thing I can’t stop thinking about is getting back into Astroneer! That’s right, after booting up Astroneer again last week Brad and I are going back in to finish (maybe) the job of getting him a hoverboard! You can join us on our quest this Monday. By Thursday, Alex will be back in town to join us for a Grab Bag, and we’re still mulling over our steam on Friday so that ...
2023-11-06 18:45:36 +0000 UTC
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We're pretty busy having our minds blown by Alan Wake II this week, but we also find time for a mini-Spider-spoilercast, news like the layoffs at Bungie, Atari's purchase of Digital Eclipse, updates on Remedy's other projects, Xbox's lockout of third-party accessories, and more.
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2023-11-01 19:44:35 +0000 UTC
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When you're recording on All Hallow's Eve, what else do you talk about but horrifying subjects such as Brad's weekend horror movie rotation, the long history of poisoned candy, the prodigious output of Stephen King, and the ins and outs of Hellraiser's puzzle box?
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:22) BOO!
(00:02:12) Candy preparations of the nefarious kind
(00:08:49) Pork is NOT the other white meat??
(00:12:58) Brad's horror movie ...
2023-11-01 00:36:10 +0000 UTC
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When you're recording on All Hallow's Eve, what else do you talk about but horrifying subjects such as Brad's weekend horror movie rotation, the long history of poisoned candy, the prodigious output of Stephen King, and the ins and outs of Hellraiser's puzzle box?
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:22) BOO!
(00:02:12) Candy preparations of the nefarious kind
(00:08:49) Pork is NOT the other white meat??
(00:12:58) Brad's horror movie rotation
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2023-10-31 23:23:20 +0000 UTC
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For our final film of our spooky October, we're traveling to South Korea, where a zombie outbreak has caused a number of train delays (and violent deaths) in Train to Busan!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 66: Train to Busan (2016)
(00:00:27) - Intro.
(00:03:02) - Our film for this week: Train to Busan! Leading off with our histories and general feelings on ...
2023-10-30 22:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Happy Halloween! We’re wrapping up our Watchcast Spooky Movie month with Train to Busan, which should be available on the Patreon later today (Monday). We’ll also be getting eerily close to finishing Remnant 2… maybe, I’m actually not quite sure. Alex will be doing some traveling this week so Brad and I will be holding down the Thursday and Friday streams. Over on the podcast we’ll be talking about some video games, like Alan Wake II, and then of course we’ll have The Ramblecast g...
2023-10-30 17:29:25 +0000 UTC
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On the show this week, we dig into the fifth? sixth? Super Mario Bros. game (y'know, Wonder), discuss the later parts of Spider-Man 2, cover news like the Animal Crossing-ish island builder in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and the first look at the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, think of ways to make video game consoles worse, and more.
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2023-10-25 23:26:24 +0000 UTC
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You'll never catch any of us on a cruise (well, maybe one of us), but you might find us on a train, or leaving cats at home alone, or digging cross-country tunnels, or contemplating a historic haircut, or just rambling about these and other subjects!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:52) KRON 4 is a real SF institution
(00:06:47) Cats get by just fine
(00:09:24) The TSA has blessed the application
(00:16:51) Cruises for some of us, n...
2023-10-25 00:01:21 +0000 UTC
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You'll never catch any of us on a cruise (well, maybe one of us), but you might find us on a train, or leaving cats at home alone, or digging cross-country tunnels, or contemplating a historic haircut, or just rambling about these and other subjects!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:52) KRON 4 is a real SF institution
(00:06:47) Cats get by just fine
(00:09:24) The TSA has blessed the application
(00:16:51) Cruises for some of us, not for other...
2023-10-25 00:00:25 +0000 UTC
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Another October draws to a close, the spirits are gathering, fell beasts have stirred, and now a seance must convene to seek the wisdom of the netherworld in choosing what patron's choice stream will visit its blood-curdling horror on one and all this Thursday. Vote as if your life depends on it!
- The tenth (?!) Jackbox is here, which means we're getting a crew together (Abby Russell and Rich Gallup) to see what's new in this edition and play some old favorites!
- The MiSTer...
2023-10-23 22:11:27 +0000 UTC
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We're trading terror for bafflement on this week's Watchcast, as we move to Japan and one of the most genuinely off-the-wall movies ever made in 1977's House!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 65: House (1977)
(00:01:20) - Intro.
(00:03:36) - Our film this week: House! The Japanese one. Not the US one.
(00:06:40) - What did we know about this movie going in....
2023-10-23 22:01:25 +0000 UTC
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Hello to you and to November! I finished up my platinum trophy in Spider-Man 2 (thank you again Sony-First-Party-Achievable-Platinums) so now I’m thinking about switching back to Assassin’s Creed and trying to wrap that one up as well. It’s also nice to have something like Mario Wonder to jump into here and there but doesn’t feel like I need to know how that narrative concludes ASAP. I’m still circling around in Act 3 of Baldur’s Gate to see what’s going on with future updates. ...
2023-10-23 17:43:12 +0000 UTC
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Questions were put to us this month about installing a garage-to-basement tunnel, holiday Mortal Kombat characters, Human Head's cancelled Prey 2, quiche, Viva Piñata, wrestling, and a bunch of other stuff, and we did our best to answer!
2023-10-19 20:53:50 +0000 UTC
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Spider-Man 2 is here, and hey, it's extremely good! That's pretty much all we played this week, but also the Microsoft/Activision deal closed (and Bobby Kotick is on the way out), the other shoe has dropped for Bandcamp as it leaves Epic, one whole Wii U sold in September, we're awash in skincare tips, and more!
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2023-10-18 23:30:14 +0000 UTC
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On this ramble: we're skincare experts now, the world of baseball is upside down, some sitcoms are better left in the past, Vinny rebuilt his whole home video setup, they're letting CG dance on the TV, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:48) We're skincare experts now
(00:07:29) We could all use a few more tentacles...
(00:11:53) Sometimes biometrics backfire on you
(00:16:31) Look, just don't mess with baseball
(00:20:...
2023-10-18 00:01:27 +0000 UTC
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On this ramble: we're skincare experts now, the world of baseball is upside down, some sitcoms are better left in the past, Vinny rebuilt his whole home video setup, they're letting CG dance on the TV, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:48) We're skincare experts now
(00:07:29) We could all use a few more tentacles...
(00:11:53) Sometimes biometrics backfire on you
(00:16:31) Look, just don't mess with baseball
(00:20:40) Nobody is t...
2023-10-17 23:59:08 +0000 UTC
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Our journey through international horror takes us out of English-speaking territory and into English-dubbed territory, as we cross the border into Italy for Dario Argento's supernatural classic, Suspiria!
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 64: Suspiria (1977)
(00:00:32) - Intro.
(00:03:45) - Initial impressions of our film this week: Suspiria! A...
2023-10-16 22:10:22 +0000 UTC
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All the major players are here this week. We’ve got Sony with Spider-Man 2, Nintendo with Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Microsoft just bought itself an Activision/Blizzard. We’ll be getting all of that this week with streams of Spidey and Wonder towards the end of the week, and we’ll cover the known details of the MS and Activision deal on the podcast. On Monday the Remnent 2 Crew continues its dark business of mostly driving Alex bananas with our gear lust. The Watchcast this week chec...
2023-10-16 17:46:17 +0000 UTC
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Austin Walker and Jeff Bakalar join us to talk about lemons, high school, and matching wits against six year olds.
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00:00:06 Intro
00:03:14 The old office
00:06:21 Overlapping with Bakalar's dad...?
00:08:59 How much of school can we remember?
00:12:50 The old lemon trick
00:19:07 Trying to manage everything, everywhere, all at once
00:30:46 Curb Your Enthusiasm as a time capsule
00:34:09 Social phone pressures
2023-10-13 16:04:37 +0000 UTC
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This week we ended up doing an impromptu dive into the past/present/future of Assassin's Creed in the wake of Mirage's release, talked (?) at length (??) about a new Robocop game (???), dabbled with Payday 3, considered the new PS5 design's place in the pantheon of PlayStations, pondered an AI Guitar hero and Disney's Electronic Arts, and more!
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2023-10-12 00:13:59 +0000 UTC
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This week we ramble in a way that is definitely not advice about how not to get electrocuted (or at least not your heart), safety deposit boxes, fireproof safes, fingerprints, DNA evidence, injections, and the sandwich that is too much sandwich.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:15) Get your shots! (You don't have to like it)
(00:06:37) How safe IS the safety deposit box?
(00:11:24) Don't mess around with government registrations
(00...
2023-10-10 23:48:04 +0000 UTC
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This week we ramble in a way that is definitely not advice about how not to get electrocuted (or at least not your heart), safety deposit boxes, fireproof safes, fingerprints, DNA evidence, injections, and the sandwich that is too much sandwich.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:15) Get your shots! (You don't have to like it)
(00:06:37) How safe IS the safety deposit box?
(00:11:24) Don't mess around with government registrations
(00:15...
2023-10-10 23:45:08 +0000 UTC
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We continue our venture into international horror waters this week with an Australian entry in Jennifer Kent's The Babadook! Join us as we discuss frazzled mothers, bad vibes kids, and what the real monster is: grief, or, uh, a literal monster.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 63: The Babadook (2014)
(00:00:34) - Intro.
(00:02:33) - The Babado...
2023-10-09 21:56:55 +0000 UTC
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Hello Hello! I’ve been putting some more time into Assassin’s Creed Mirage and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Hopefully, by the time this week’s podcast comes around I’ll have gotten past just collecting every icon on the map… There’s a Steam Next Fest going on this week, so for the Grab Bag we’ll probably be poking around in some of those demos which is always fun! We’ve also been wanting to try out Payday 3, which seems to be getting some… mixed reactions out here so ...
2023-10-09 17:55:39 +0000 UTC
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The rubber has met the road, literally and figuratively, with games releasing left and right. Listen in as we plan about everything from Forza and Spider-Man to Alan Wake, Star Trek 4x, a new damn Super Mario Bros., and a bunch of other stuff. October: It's the new November!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:58) Warhammer 40,000: Darktide [Xbox Series X|S] on Oct 04, 2023
(00:03:48) The Lamplighters League [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] on Oc...
2023-10-06 22:08:29 +0000 UTC
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The rubber has met the road, literally and figuratively, with games releasing left and right. Listen in as we plan about everything from Forza and Spider-Man to Alan Wake, Star Trek 4x, a new damn Super Mario Bros., and a bunch of other stuff. October: It's the new November!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:58) Warhammer 40,000: Darktide [Xbox Series X|S] on Oct 04, 2023
(00:03:48) The Lamplighters League [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] on Oct 03, ...
2023-10-06 22:06:31 +0000 UTC
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We're in it now, with games releasing fast and furious, and this week we get wrapped up in Cocoon, hit the track in the new Forza Motorsport, and head to Baghdad in Assassin's Creed Mirage. Also: Jim Ryan's Sony exit, mass layoffs at Epic, the end of 3DS and Wii U online, and more.
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2023-10-04 23:49:17 +0000 UTC
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This week Vinny's awash in hard drives, Alex is awash in leaves, Brad is awash in... being able to walk 10 minutes to all kinds of cool stuff as we ramble once again for your enjoyment!
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(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:58) The data you own ends up owning you
(00:09:46) Clinging to Windows 10 for dear life
(00:14:05) HDR is like catnip for your eyes at this point
(00:19:40) Alex needs a yard tutorial
(00:27:45) Is New York an o...
2023-10-04 00:19:45 +0000 UTC
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