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Weekly Ramblecast 023: Below the Water Table

This week we're ramblin' about everything from Vinny's adventures with power tools to Alex's adventures with open houses, plus all sorts of random thoughts on asteroid mining, Martian bacteria, backups of backups of backups, Mass Effect's worldbuilding, and nature's hatred of vacuums--and love of crabs.

CHAPTERS

00:00:07 Intro
00:01:05 Impression time
00:03:27 Building shelves and breaking tools
00:08:40 How to store previous generation games
00:12:00 ...

Schedule for the Week of 11/15/2021

Happy Monday! We had a fun stream today, checking out the Xbox 20th Anniversary Stream and then playing some Halo Infinite! Thanks again to David Ellis for joining us near the end of that one. Alex and I are going to jump back into some Guardians this week, Brad is puzzling things out in RE7, and we’ll be getting together for another Friday Fun Stream. We’ll also have the podcast and Ramblecast of course!

--Vinny

All times Eastern

Catch the live stuff here: 2021-11-15 22:33:06 +0000 UTC View Post

The Week That Was: 11/08 - 11/12/2021

Greetings Nextlanders! Hope you all had a solid week, and are having a solid weekend. Speaking of ends, this week was a week of conclusions for us, as we wrapped up multiple long-term plays of a few different games. This means we'll be changing some things up in the near future, but we'll still have plenty of new content coming down the pipes. In the meantime, here's everything we done posted in the last week!

2021-11-13 20:18:09 +0000 UTC View Post

The Nextlander Podcast 023: A Five-Dog Spread

This week's jumbo-sized episode features chatter about everything from our time with the Elden Ring network test to the Horizon festival's gentrification of the world, a full spoilercast on Inscryption, our guesses about the next Mass Effect, musings on open-world Mario (and open-world Sonic), an interview with Jett: The Far Shore developer Craig Adams, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:10 Intro
00:02:06 Alex shares a moment with the kitten
00:03:31 The big dog is in...

Weekly Ramblecast 022: Give it Some Give

Sometimes we roll into this podcast and just kind of free-associate it, you know? Roll some stuff around in our heads, see where we end up? How about: Kilts! Flecktarn! Proton packs! Nixie tubes! Potato chips! Daylight savings! School lunch! Erotic cakes! What won't they ramble about?

CHAPTERS

00:00:07 Intro
00:01:09 How have the everyday kilts done the last few years?
00:04:17 What's next on the clothing horizon?
00:07:45 Today we learned Fleckt...

Schedule for the Week of 11/08/2021

If you missed our Extra Life 2021 stream the archive is up now! You can still donate (http://tinyurl.com/nxlel) and a big thanks to everyone for joining us. This week is Forza, GTA, and we’ll have some Elden Ring impressions coming soon as well. Don’t worry, we’ve got more Hitman, RE7, and House of Ashes to go in addition! Thanks again and see ya soon!  

--Vinny   

All times Eastern 2021-11-08 19:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post

The Week That Was: 10/31 - 11/05/2021

Greetings, Nextlanders! Hope your weekend is thus far a relaxing and enjoyable one. We had a very productive week over at Nextlander, and here's the proof! 

Nextlander Scream Team: Alien: Isolation -- Part 04 

The Halloween season has officially ended, but that doesn't mean the s...

The Nextlander Podcast 022: Big Kahuna Bunger

This week, we find Unpacking delightfully earnest and Inscryption delightfully bizarre, get into more on Guardians of the Galaxy and Darkest Dungeon II, talk through another of our trademark Blizzard Blocks, say the words "NFT" and "metaverse" more than anyone needs to hear, speculate about a Quake reboot, think longingly about bugsnax of immense size, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:09 Intro
00:00:35 Key-Gens and Greets to the VinDog
00:03:04 Who's down with that ...

Weekly Ramblecast 021: Garfield, the Bourgeoisie Cat

You know, when you do a podcast about rambling, you never know what you'll get. This week it's a surprising amount of chatter about New York politics, some tentative attempts to get back out into the world, public transit technology, the current and future James Bond, the mythical birthday month, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:07 Intro
00:00:38 Never not a good time to celebrate Alex
00:01:33 Birthday months?
00:04:39 Hide your birthday so others can discover i...

Monthly Planorama 006: November 2021

It's here, the hottest month for game releases on the calendar, November! Listen to us plan for all the biggest new games of the holiday. If you like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, buckle up! Skyrim fans, rejoice! Call of Duty? Battlefield? Forza Horizon? Yep, we've got those too. Video games!

CHAPTERS

00:00:01 Intro
00:03:37 Unpacking [Switch, PC] Nov 2
00:05:03 Bloodshore [PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Switch, Mobile] Nov 3
00:07:25 Just Dance 2022 [PlayStation,...

Schedule for the Week of 11/01/2021

October is behind us and November is upon us! We’ve wrapped up our Scream Team antics and you can check those out now. We’ve got more Hitman racing, Brad gritting his teeth in RE7 VR, and a return to House of Ashes this week. We’re also looking to jump into some Extra Life this Friday and help raise some money alongside the GB team. Come join us, for the kids!

--Vinny

All times Eastern

Catch the live stuff here: twitch.tv/nextlander
Watch the archives here: yout...

The Week That Was: 10/24 - 10/29/2021

Hey everyone, and a happy Halloweekend to you all! Hope you are enjoying some good horror movies/shows/games, or absent that, just going ripshit on some cheap post-Halloween candy come Monday. If you're looking for more Halloween-ish stuff to watch this weekend, why not partake of some of this past week's Nextlander shows? It ain't all Halloweeny, but it's all good! And that's what really matters, right?

2021-10-30 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

The Nextlander Podcast 021: Ready to Flark Scrat Up

This week! Guardians of the Galaxy makes a surprise positive showing, Age of Empires IV gives us strong History Channel vibes, spoilers for Inscryption and Metroid Dread fly left and right, Warner Bros. makes a Smash Bros., the Switch's N64 games leave something to be desired, "Wu-Tang Clan RPG in the works at Microsoft" is a phrase said aloud, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:10 Intro
00:00:46 Creepy kids or creepy demons?
00:02:53 Halloween Costumes
00:10:29 Gu...

Weekly Ramblecast 020: The Mythical Full-Size Candy Bar

Look, this whole podcast is vaguely Halloween-themed and has a bunch of chat about various horror movies and books we love, a ranking of the masters of horror, and stuff like that, but it really just devolves into an argument about the best and worst candies out there. Who knew sweets could be so contentious?

CHAPTERS

00:00:04 Intro
00:01:29 What happened to October?
00:01:44 Annual Treehouse of Horror triage
00:08:00 Child's Play can't be back if it neve...

The Monthly Friday Thank You: October 2021

Like some grim spectral horror slinking away into the mist, the spookiest month of Extremely-Frightening-tober is about to leave us once again. But before it departs, it shall wreak upon us one final, grisly affront: our monthly stream thank-you to our patrons!

Below are the sinister offerings from which you may choose, for a stream which will bear uncanny runes naming our most stalwart supporters. Let us vanquish this evil for good! Let your blood-curdling screams be heard!

Schedule for the Week of 10/25/2021

Hello! We’re in the final week of October already. That means we’ll have our Patron Choice stream, we'll talk some Guardians of the Galaxy (the game)  on the podcast, and have some more spooky-themed business all week. That business includes more of VR Brad in RE7, Abby and I playing more Alien Isolation, and Alex continuing to hunt ghosts! Join us!  

--Vinny  

All times Eastern   

Catch the live stuff here: 2021-10-25 18:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post

The Week That Was: 10/18 - 10/22/2021

Hello, Nextlanders! Y'all like content? Well then you're gonna love this past week, because we put out a whole bunch of content! Good content, even. The best kind of content! 

Here's that content:

The Nextlander Scream Team: Alien: Isolation -- Part 02 

More Abby in the VR ...

Patron Q&A 004: October 2021

Spooky month, spooky Q&A! In our latest Discord Stage chat, we field questions about what first got us thinking critically about video games, the musical instruments we own (and wish we owned), our signature dishes, a rundown of every review Vinny ever wrote, monitoring audio while home streaming, what you miss out on by skipping consoles and only owning a PC, and more!

The Nextlander Podcast 020: The Worst West

Indie games rule the roost around here this week, with Inscryption clutching us in its sinister grip, and The Riftbreaker, Into the Pit, and The Good Life filling out the roster. Also: more Metroid Dread, Kratos on Steam, Nintendo's Expansion Pack, Rocksteady's Suicide Squad reveal, the current whereabouts of Maurice Rocca and Samuel Fisher, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:10 Intro
00:02:01 You're just getting more screen for your green!
00:07:33 Ranking of Nuts 2021-10-20 22:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Weekly Ramblecast 019: Not the Most Ethical Nut

Week by week, our rambling net grows ever wider: this time around, we find ourselves discussing peanut butter strategies, our time with high school sports, the great American pastime of watching NASCAR, a surprising amount of detail about our family histories and genealogy, and more!

CHAPTERS

00:00:06 Intro
00:00:30 Is it peanut butter jelly time?
00:01:37 Invert your PB axis
00:09:01 How to relax with some emotional draining TV
00:11:06 Yes, yes but i...

Schedule for the Week of 10/18/2021

Hello Hello! We’re deep into October now and we’ve got more spooooookiness on the way. If you haven’t checked it out yet Abby and I posted our second adventure into Alien Isolation. This week will have Brad playing some RE7 in VR (he’s very nervous) and then we’ll return to the world of Shadowgate on the NES. We’ll also have more Hitman, the NXL podcast, the Ramblecast, and a Q&A at the end of the week!  

--Vinny  

Catch the live stuff here: 2021-10-18 18:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post

(Uncut) The Nextlander Scream Team: Alien Isolation - Part 02

Here's an unlisted bonus version of Episode 2 of Scream Team which should be posting on YT shortly! I'm not going to say you're missing too much if you watch the public one instead, but this version does technically contain 15 mintues-ish more of us trying to get past that room. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing who am I to judge? (Well, I did cut it out so there's that I guess). Hope it's fun to see at least WHY it was cut!

Thanks for watching,
Vinny

The Week That Was: 10/10 - 10/15/2021

Hi everyone! It's the weekend! And what are weekends for? That's right, catching up on all the Nextlander stuff you might've missed over the past week! That's the only thing they're for. Everyone knows this.

And now, without further ado, the stuff!

The Nextlander Scream Team: Alien: Isolation -- Part 0...