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Jumping the Shark Podcast #173

By on May 15, 2013 with 6 Comments

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Painters and roofers and estimates from hell – oh my! That’s not this week’s Jumping the Shark, that’s my excuse for posting this on Wednesday.  But yes, you people who don’t use iTunes or another subscriptions service (for shame!), we did a show. It featured Bill, Brandon, and Me and, like a fine wine, it was frigg’n awesome and stuffs. This week Bill talks Conquistador happenings and their latest reach out to people ideas, including a kick-ass proposal for doing a video boardgame show. Very cool. Brandon and I talk Star Command and why he saved me hours of frustration looking for diamonds in what is an entirely lump of coal experience. Then we team-up against Bill and the rest of the world to explain why Prometheus is a better movie than you think it is. We’re right. You’re wrong. That’s just something you’ll have to live with.

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #172

By on May 6, 2013 with 3 Comments

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It’s a Cackowski-Schnell and Brakke Hour of Power for Jumping the Shark’s 172nd episode. Bill misses the proceedings to go lost dog hunting and I’m not even making that up. (All pups were eventually secured.) So, along with getting caught up with the latest happenings in Game of Thrones, Brandon continues his exploits with Far Cry and I give Out of the Park Baseball 14 my own version of spring training.

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #171

By on April 29, 2013 with 1 Comment

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Jumping the Shark is back this week with our 171st episode. This week Bill shocks us all with his new gaming addiction. Yes, the man who has more than once proclaimed himself completely over the MMO genre, has himself hooked on an MMO. I’ll admit it. I don’t get it. Meanwhile, Brandon holds the keys to the gates and if you want to enter he would kindly like for you to show him your Papers, Please. He’s also got some more time with Far Cry 3 and Etrian Odyssey IV. I have about 20 minutes in Knights of the Old Republic II (with Content Restoration Mod). You can ignore me this week.

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #170 (SuperMegaSpoilery Edition!)

By on April 26, 2013 with 4 Comments

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So, Michael’s Bioshock: Infinite post stirred something in me. A little tingle in the back of my head that maybe, somewhere along the line this week, I forgot to do something. And then it hit me. The garage door was open. Dammit! Also, I never put up the podcast post. Idiot! That one’s on me. But, hey, you all subscribe to the iTunes feed or RSS or something, right? Of course you do.

But, just in case, here is the triumphant reunion of the holy trinity. That’s right, Bill, Brandon and I are all in the house for the first time in weeks. And we’ve all not only played the same game, but finished it too. This leads to a wildy spoilerific discussion of every nook and cranny of Bioshock: Infinite, the ending in particular. If you don’t want to be spoiled… who are you kidding? Of course you do. Join us!

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #169

By on April 16, 2013 with 3 Comments

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Jumping the Shark features a Cackowski-Schnell/Brakke Hour of Power as Bill missed this week to play host to a VIP of the international sort. (Curse you, Mace!) So, Brandon brings his Bioshock A-game and we talk more about its shootery bits and overall direction. It’s all set up for next week’s show when the three of us are sure to dig down spoilery-deep into the game’s conclusion. This week, however, we veer off to talk about Microsoft PR-catastrophes and racist ghosts. It’s fun for the whole family!

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #168

By on April 8, 2013 with 8 Comments

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Jumping the Shark meandered into the darkness last week, but we’re back today with the long awaited, ever-anticipated, supper jolly fun-time episode #168. Or something like that. Brandon was still lost in a broadbandless-vacuum of Internet poverty this week, but Bill and I were able to jump on Skype to talk up some Bioshock: Infinite. And we do. At great length. Whether you want us to or not.

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #167

By on March 26, 2013 with 0 Comments

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The Brakke and Cackowski-Schnell Hour of Pour returns this week with Bill playing the role of dutiful husband. It’s a shame that The Abner misses our special Abnercon re-cap episode, but if you want to hear all about World Cup, Spartacus, Mare Nostrum, and Tomorrow, I’m here for you. If you don’t, well I don’t even care. Nyah!

Filling up our video game quota, Brandon speaks ill of God of War: Ascension, casting it aside to play more Fire Emblem and do some more fishing of the ridiculous kind. We also marvel for awhile at the reported $200M budget billed to the production and marketing of Bioshock: Infinite. I mean, seriously? That’s Avengers money there. And I don’t see Infinite, however good it may be, pulling it a billion dollars worldwide. Just say’n.

All this and more coming your way in episode #167!

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #166

By on March 19, 2013 with 2 Comments

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Hey, look! It’s a new JTS for two consecutive weeks! With this kind of consistency, it’s almost like those old glorious times of, uh, early February! On tap for this week, Bill delivers a Conquistador Games and Abnercon update. (More on Abnercon from me in the next post.) I nitpick Tomb Raider some, wholly out of love I assure you, while Brandon plays the worthy defender. (And he’s right. It’s a great game.) Brandon breaks out his inner-psuedo sportsman and goes Ridiculous Fishing before hitting the links for a little Super Stickman Golf… 2! Finally, there’s more quality TV Time with Bill finally watching the Star Trek movie. All this and more in Jumping the Shark #166!

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #165

By on March 11, 2013 with 7 Comments

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Proving once again that everything in existence hinges entirely on my participation, my return to the show this week means that there was, in fact, a show this week. Yes, like being shocked that it was the butler what did it, I have been the secret linchpin to the JTS success story this entire time. You’re welcome.

Right. Podcast.

The gang is all here for episode #165 and we get down to business by properly taking EA to task for their utter contempt for gamers and their ruination of SimCity. We even give them an award. After that, Bill gives us an update into the world of Conquistador Games and the much anticipated (by me) happenings for Abnercon. Brandon and I go on an adventure with Lara Croft and conclude that with this new Tomb Raider, unlike EA, Square has delivered on exactly what they sold us. Brandon then raves and raves and raves about Fire Emblem: Awakening. Oh, and there’s some TV Time to go along with all that. Join us for the show that almost never skips a beat… except when it does.

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Jumping the Shark Podcast #163

By on February 18, 2013 with 16 Comments

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We’re all in the house for Jumping the Shark #163, which features a lengthy recrimination of Gearbox for murdering joy with their insipid release of Aliens: Colonial Marines. Bill, finally -finally- dips his toe into the cool, delightful waters of XCOM: Enemy Unknown and promptly wants to know why he can’t use a fallen squaddie’s medkit. To be fair, it’s a reasonable question. Brandon gets in bed with Sly 4, Dead Space 3, and Little Inferno. And I hop into a decrepit old starship, hoping to rebirth humanity in the recent iOS release, Shifts. All this and a little TV talk await you in this week’s thrilling episode!

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