Hello hello! It’s Baldur’s Gate release week, so I’m pretty excited to jump into that at the end of the week. I feel pretty good about clearing out some of the backlog for it, though I still have a bunch of cleanup to do in Pikmin 4 and I should PROBABLY just finish up Tears of the Kingdom at this point. Later this month there’s Moving Out 2 which I’m also jazzed about. The kids and I played a whole lot of the first one. On the streaming side of things we’ll be jumping into Remnan...
2023-07-31 18:04:19 +0000 UTC
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You voted and the results are clear! It's time for Alex to setup his drums in his new basement and play like the neighbors can't hear him!
NOTE: This video will most likely be hard to view as an archive due to the songs played and the way copyright is enforced on YouTube so going to try and put it here as well.
2023-07-28 20:37:27 +0000 UTC
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This month we all attend the College of Disney Knowledge to think about how to best spring a surprise vacation on a seven-year-old, dissect our green thumb abilities and tolerance for spiciness, evangelize the magic of headlamps, think deeply about "watching" some "anime," and more.
2023-07-28 19:30:30 +0000 UTC
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It's a new podcast! about video games! and those video games include! Remnant II, Pikmin 4, The Banished Vault, Oxenfree 2, and Viewfinder, plus the news! about Tencent buying most of Techland, Ubisoft cancelling the Immortals sequel, and, uh, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart running on a Steam Deck?
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2023-07-27 00:00:32 +0000 UTC
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We're gonna try something new around these parts this month, seeing as Patreon doesn't let you paste text into the poll choices and also the character limit is way too short. (The italics will surely catch their attention and compel them to right this CMS wrong). Here are your choices for this month's patron's choice stream, presented in all their unfettered glory!
- Alex has the basement up and running, so he's gonna see if he can get his drum ki...
2023-07-26 16:44:55 +0000 UTC
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We sure did do a deep dive on bidets for like a third of this episode, plus other rambling about biblically approved bread, the perils of X, the hazards (??) of old rice, and other stuff!
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(00:01:10) Old toilet seats must go, especially creepy ones
(00:09:24) Eventually you're going to find a squat toilet
(00:11:00) As always, Jersey has some explaining to do
(00:16:48) Don't live without a bidet. Treat yourself
(00:26:54) Can't have too many k...
2023-07-26 00:45:28 +0000 UTC
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We sure did do a deep dive on bidets for like a third of this episode, plus other rambling about biblically approved bread, the perils of X, the hazards (??) of old rice, and other stuff!
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(00:01:10) Old toilet seats must go, especially creepy ones
(00:09:24) Eventually you're going to find a squat toilet
(00:11:00) As always, Jersey has some explaining to do
(00:16:48) Don't live without a bidet. Treat yourself
(00:26:54) Can't have too many k...
2023-07-26 00:41:06 +0000 UTC
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We're over the halfway point on Twin Peak's first season, and the dirty business of all the townsfolk is front and center on this week's Watchcast episodes: The One-Armed Man, and Cooper's Dreams!
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2023-07-24 22:39:43 +0000 UTC
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We’re going to kick off this week with an expedition into the world of Remnant II on our Monday stream. Alex’s internet is hopefully fixed (fingers crossed) so we should have the full crew ready to go! On Thursday we’ve got another Grab Bag, so maybe we’ll see some Double Dragon in there. This Friday is a Patron’s choice stream, so be on the lookout for a poll going up on the Patreon later this week! On the podcast side of things we’ve got our usual array of goodies, including The...
2023-07-24 17:48:03 +0000 UTC
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You could just go play Viewfinder right now instead of listening to us tell you to go play Viewfinder... but you could also listen on for chatter about Exoprimal, Oxenfree 2, new-Switch hunger, Blizzard putting their damn games on Steam, the end (?) of "Xbox Live," and more.
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2023-07-20 00:31:46 +0000 UTC
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Doing battle with the airport, corkboard basements, poor maintenance habits, starting your own ISP, underwater glass tunnels, and drinking way too much way-too-strong coffee all feature on this latest ramble!
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(00:00:41) The Jersey move is finally complete
(00:03:49) Corkboard? In MY basement?
(00:07:28) New house good, new Internet... less good
(00:12:17) Out with the old access points...
(00:20:48) Be VERY careful with the cold brew concentra...
2023-07-18 23:29:31 +0000 UTC
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Doing battle with the airport, corkboard basements, poor maintenance habits, starting your own ISP, underwater glass tunnels, and drinking way too much way-too-strong coffee all feature on this latest ramble!
CHAPTERS
(00:00:41) The Jersey move is finally complete
(00:03:49) Corkboard? In MY basement?
(00:07:28) New house good, new Internet... less good
(00:12:17) Out with the old access points...
(00:20:48) Be VERY careful with the cold brew concentra...
2023-07-18 23:29:19 +0000 UTC
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We've hit the halfway point of Twin Peaks' first season, and it's time to dig into all the things that are beginning to reveal themselves. Join us as we uncover forensic evidence, attend completely uneventful funerals, and discover just what the heck the dang Bookhouse Boys are all about.
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2023-07-17 20:15:02 +0000 UTC
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Video games and the weather. That’s what we’re here to talk about. Alex is back home finally after he had his flight canceled, like the rest of the country. He was going to stream some AEW on Monday, but Brad and I will get up to something dumb while he catches up after his red eye. Later this week Abby is going to join Alex and me as we check out the first of that new Monkey Island x Sea of Thieves content. On Friday we’ll have Pikmin 4 (a game I’m pretty excited about!) and more dur...
2023-07-17 17:41:13 +0000 UTC
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Austin Walker and Abby Russell join us to discuss 7-Eleven, weird food choices when growing up, and Rule 34.
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2023-07-14 21:35:13 +0000 UTC
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In the sweltering month of July, it's raining dinosaurs, Nobunaga's ambitions continue unabated, a new factory game is rolling off the line, the Pikmin are heading INDOORS, Guybrush sails the sea (of thieves), the gibs are more ludicrous than ever, and, uh, Remnant II looks cool. Couldn't think of anything for that one. Listen to us plan about it all!
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00:00:00 Start
00:00:06 Intro
00:01:38 The historical games of July
00:03:28 The curren...
2023-07-14 00:43:25 +0000 UTC
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In the sweltering month of July, it's raining dinosaurs, Nobunaga's ambitions continue unabated, a new factory game is rolling off the line, the Pikmin are heading INDOORS, Guybrush sails the sea (of thieves), the gibs are more ludicrous than ever, and, uh, Remnant II looks cool. Couldn't think of anything for that one. Listen to us plan about it all!
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(00:00:06) Intro
(00:01:38) The historical games of July
(00:03:29) The current games of July
(0...
2023-07-14 00:43:04 +0000 UTC
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Friend of the show Danny O'Dwyer joins us this week to talk about Noclip's new archival video project, the tricky nature of publishing old footage, and a bunch of other production reminiscing. Also, the budget F.E.A.R. action of Trepang2, Microsoft's victory over the FTC, Digital Eclipse's new interactive documentary, and more!
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2023-07-13 01:12:45 +0000 UTC
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We're back from break, during which Alex moved into the house and then promptly vacated it, Brad wistfully dug through reams of old Internet material, and we all became pretty fascinated with a certain archive of rare and high quality video game history.
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(00:00:49) Moving across town and then immediately across the country
(00:05:29) Running a physical business, way harder than a virtual one
(00:07:28) It's (not) super to be a super
(0...
2023-07-12 00:55:32 +0000 UTC
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We're back from break, during which Alex moved into the house and then promptly vacated it, Brad wistfully dug through reams of old Internet material, and we all became pretty fascinated with a certain archive of rare and high quality video game history.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:49) Moving across town and then immediately across the country
(00:05:29) Running a physical business, way harder than a virtual one
(00:07:28) It's (not) super to be a super
(00:14:29) Un...
2023-07-12 00:54:02 +0000 UTC
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We’ve returned “to the office”! How did things go during our break? Pretty well, overall, I’d say. We chat about it on the Ramblecast this week. Personally, I set out to finish Zelda and Diablo (at least the main narrative parts of them) and I think I did alright. Still working on Zelda, but significant progress! I’ll talk more about that on this week’s Podcast, for sure. For streams this week I asked Brad to fire up Trepang2 as I’m both curious about that one and also want to s...
2023-07-10 19:26:01 +0000 UTC
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After a couple of weeks away, the Nextlander Watchcast is making its triumphant return, and we're kicking off our exploration of the first season of David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks!
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2023-07-10 19:06:28 +0000 UTC
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We're out on break this week, so in lieu of our normal weekly show, we're back with another very special bonus episode, the original description of which was: We're joined by Abby Russell and Jeff Bakalar to talk all sorts of vehicles, space elevators, and the current status of Moonstruck.
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(00:00:00) We're on vacation
(00:01:00) Intro
(00:02:35) Introducing the folks (though some info might already be out of date)
(00:04:00) Closets
(00:06:43)...
2023-07-05 09:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey Folks!
The Nextlander team is on vacation this week, but just wanted to keep everyone updated as we’ve still got some stuff going on! First, there’s a new Ramblecast going up this week where you can hear about our plans for the break and anticipate just how wrong we were. We’ll also be putting another episode of Never Been a Better Podcast up on the main feed for folks. If you haven’t caught them before, they include folks from the old Giant Bomb East office and they are an...
2023-07-04 20:19:27 +0000 UTC
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We recorded this episode a couple weeks before we went on break, wherein we predict what we're (maybe) up to right now, talk about Alex's forthcoming fast Internet and giant speakers, observe a momentous occasion, and more.
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(00:00:37) No substitute for a good soft mute
(00:03:23) Alex is doing the most house staycation possible
(00:06:06) Internet access: what a racket
(00:09:11) Ain't got time to haggle
(00:21:54) Cut the cord! (or don't)
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2023-07-04 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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We recorded this episode a couple weeks before we went on break, wherein we predict what we're (maybe) up to right now, talk about Alex's forthcoming fast Internet and giant speakers, observe a momentous occasion, and more.
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(00:00:37) No substitute for a good soft mute
(00:03:23) Alex is doing the most house staycation possible
(00:06:06) Internet access: what a racket
(00:09:11) Ain't got time to haggle
(00:21:54) Cut the cord! (or don't)
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2023-07-04 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The All-Elite Wrestling game is finally out and Alex has spent a bunch of time with it, Sludge Life 2 has oozed onto the scene, we're still playing Diablo and Final Fantasy, a ton of juicy details have emerged from the Microsoft/Activision FTC hearings, and Nintendo has pledged the unthinkable: carrying your online account over to their next console. Sounds like a video game podcast to me!
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2023-06-29 00:18:26 +0000 UTC
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This month you asked us questions about our desert island Nicolas Cages, advice for flying for the very first time, some of our other favorite podcasts, what's up with those MinnMax wigs, some thoughts on our mix of audio and video content, and more!
2023-06-28 00:52:26 +0000 UTC
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Sure is a lot of news happening lately, and we don't just mean Alex's move. This week we ramble about dodgy submersibles, military insurrections, billionaire cage matches, the uselessness of our modern phone system, running away from fame, and more.
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(00:01:12) Time is stretching or compressing or both?
(00:06:36) FILTH OUT
(00:10:09) House internet is happening (among other things)
(00:20:05) Don't dox Alex pls
(00:22:02) Our phone...
2023-06-28 00:48:39 +0000 UTC
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Sure is a lot of news happening lately, and we don't just mean Alex's move. This week we ramble about dodgy submersibles, military insurrections, billionaire cage matches, the uselessness of our modern phone system, running away from fame, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:01:12) Time is stretching or compressing or both?
(00:06:36) FILTH OUT
(00:10:09) House internet is happening (among other things)
(00:20:05) Don't dox Alex pls
(00:22:02) Our phone system is c...
2023-06-28 00:47:13 +0000 UTC
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