Episode #70 - "Jesus vs. George Bailey" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "Festivus If They Don't Know" or "House Puke Christmas" or "Electic Cis" or "Miracle at the Port Authority Bus Terminal"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• New opening dissertation fails on launch.
• Recap of new FaceSpace fans and the FREE STUFF they got tipped about.
• How long are Culture Vultures shows? 
• The results of the Hayley Jane Kickstarter.
• Justin Lin (director of Fast & Furious movies 3-6) to direct Star Trek 3, releasing July 8, 2016.
• Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter split after 13 years of non-marriage and two kids.
• Joe Cocker RIP.  
• Correction: While Three Dog Night performed "You Can Leave Your Hat On" before Cocker, it was originally recorded by its author, Randy Newman!
  
• The Teletubbies Demon Sun Baby revealed!
• Discussion of what made the good movies good and the bad movies suck in 2014.
• SO HAWT!!!
  
• The money shot in Godzilla which some people are giving a pass to the whole movie for.
• Netflix to release the next Pee-Wee Herman movie.
• Dirk's music artist of the year in especially freaky style:
  
• Much discussion of the year's best television happenings.
• The Sentinel who kept the show on schedule:
  
• Hermione asks what our favorite Christmas movie is, prompting appraisals of various versions of A Christmas Carol.
  Dirk's favorite:
  
Otto's favorite:
• Why Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas.
• Android Police - the best site for Android news and whatnot.
• The positive aspects of the repeated exposure of the corrupt and biased media from #GamerGate to UVA gang rape to Lena Dunham to Ferguson.
• The credits and our Christmas wishes and hopes for 2015.
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Episode #69 - "Bestbyterians" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "Bodily Fluids of New York" or "Worst Best Man Ever"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• New opening dissertation fails on launch.
• Recap of new FaceSpace fans and the FREE STUFF they got tipped about.
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• The book about writing the movie about Jessica Savitch:
  
• How Dirk names his computers. NERD!!!!!! An example of Quake 3's Quad Damage gameplay (the blue Quake logo and glow with pumped up sound) is here.
• Discussion of the rapidly escalating Sony hacking story:
• Alex Trebek threatened to quit Jeopardy.
• Sorry, can't find the 50 Cent thing.
• J.Law was underpaid for American Hustle.
• The meltdown over The Interview spiraled as James Franco and Seth Rogen stopped doing press, theater chains refused to show it, and finally Sony pulled the movie, leads to a provocative discussion over whether the movie should've been made in the first place.
• The episode where we discussed the Hollywood double standards keeping Mel Gibson unemployed: Episode #41 Grindhouse Jesus.
• How Dirk names his home theaters (PimpVision®) and computers (NEEERRRRRDDDD!!!!!) and the deal he scored on this Sony receiver.
• The bizarre debate over whether Taylor Swift is hot or not? Really.
  
• The Jennifer Aniston picture referenced after the break:
  
• The Hilary Swank conundrum:
  
• Otto reports at epic length on the New York Walker Stalker Con and general Big Apple tourism tips.
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  (Actually was super easy to find!)
  
  (When Dirk is Emperor of the Universe, people who post YouTube vidyas shot off TVs will be thrown into volcanoes.)
• The $8M Monet (pronounced mow-net) that got punched:
  
• The acceptance speech Dirk would give if he won an Best Screenplay Oscar (it could happen!) and how writers are dumped on.
• The LA Weekly piece decrying the pulling of The Interview.
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• Fun facts about costume contact lens.
• Discussion of the 2015 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees.
• Otto was right about the line in this ad:
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• A flashback from Otto's DJ days:
  
• The Russo Bros reportedly to direct Avengers: Infinity Wars.
• Viola Davis is Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad.
• AMC testing MoviePass (all the movies you want, one per day, for a month for $35-$45) and changing movie habits.
• Dirk reviews Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Wolf of Wall Street.
• The Gamespot GTA V 1st-person mode commentary on violence.
• Closing the loops for points made in the #GamerGate portion of Episode #68 about media veracity failure.
• One of the greatest videos of all time. Even Kanye can't dispute this!
  
• OnePlus teams with Waves for MAXX AUDIO and announces a matching power pack.
• Ford Sync 3 coming on 2016 models.
• PS4 20th Anniversary model in original PS1 paint scheme and you now get a free game.
• How to hack Keurig 2.0 makers with an old lid.
• Gawker suffers seven-figure losses due to GamerGate, but still 30% up in revenue.
• Kathy Griffin to take over for Joan Rivers on Fashion Police.
• “Gangham Style” breaks YouTube’s counter.
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Episode #68 - "Kryptonite Butt Plug" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "Anal Sneaker Fiends" or "Muppet Tampon" or "Porn Doesn't Judge Me"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• The heat is off in the Fortress of Dirkitude.
• Recapping the free goodies our FaceSpace fans. Go give us a Like to get in on the goodie opportunities!
• Dirk buys a new gaming mouse. What he had; what he bought first; what he ended up with. (And possibly a way to clean the old "broken" one!) Also: New video card!
• A failtastic edition of "How Much Did Dirk Pay?"
• Krysten Ritter officially cast in Marvel’s AKA Jessica Jones.
• Bernadette Cumberbund is Doctor Strange which naturally leads into a deep discussion of VeggieTales. Wait, what?
• Anti-violence ads and how we look to celebrities to guide us in our lives.
• SyFy's Krypton series by David Goyer about Superman’s grandfather is announced and sounds like a bad idea, so we discuss Caprica and Battlestar Galactica instead and how the latter is based on Mormonism. Wait, what?!?
• Continuum renewed for a final six-episode season to prep it for Netflix posterity. 
• The condo from Orphan Black in Toronto:
  
• Dueling covers!
  
  
• Roberto Orci isn't directing the next Star Trek movie. Try to be strong.
• "The Dinker" in action!
  
• Dirk read a book!
  
• High school teachers with corduroy jackets and the fashions of the Seventies.
• Ugh. Christopher Nolan reportedly offered Ready Player One - really fun book...
  
  ...and how terrible an idea that is.
• The Terminator Genisys trailer...
  
  ...and Nike reran the original sneakers from the first one. ADD LINK
• Coulson's Thor line is the button of this ad:
  
• A very good explication of why Jackie Chan's Asian movies are better than his American films:
  
  The referenced gag reel credits:
  
  
• Dirk's growing boredom at the aggressive stupidity of action films especially the "Romeo and Juliet laws" aspect of Transformers: Marky Mark Goes To China.
• The Reebok "Alien Fighter Shoes" from Aliens:
  
• The Back to the Future II fundraising Nikes.
• Michael J. Fox's career because why not? 
• The Hottie Terminator scene referenced:
  
• Claire Holt of The Originals tests for the Supergirl series (unlikely to get it) and why they can crank out hours and hours of comic book TV stories compared to the movies.
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• HBO’s standalone service coming in April maybe.
• The Pirate Bay - pretty much the populizers of casual piracy - is down after being raided, possibly for good.
• Dirk reviews Captain Phillips and Snowpiercer.
• #GamerGate recap block:
• FTC clarifies rules about ad links.
• Milo Yiannopoulos about how anti-GG blocklist labels Kentucky Fried Chicken a "harasser"; the damage it did to the reputation of the Independent Game Developers Association; Newsweak's (deliberate typo) whitewashing and usual lying about it and how Reddit's Kotaku In Action sub dealt with it.
• Dirk gets censored and banned from The Mary Sue for attempting to bring truth to the hugbox of otherkin lies. The deleted posts here were his. 
• Milo's EPIC takedown of Bloomberg's hagiographic wet kiss of a profile of Prom Queen Sarkeesian. A MUST READ!
• Angela Bassett in Strange Days:
  
• Anti-GG calls for punishing a female dev for supporting GG. KiA reax.
• The dev who wanted to deny Steam keys to his customers of they supported GG.
• Internet Aristocrat packs it in prompting responses from Mundane Matt and Sargon.
• #FullMcIntosh's self-hating beta men group babble in 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male (not embedding video because we can't afford to replace punched monitors) and the great point by point reply from TG gamer calling out BS.
• BOOM!!!
  
• The Entertainment Weekly story...
  
  ...and the Kotaku In Action thread discussing it.
• The story of "Unchained Melody" - FACT CHECK: Bing Crosby turned the song down.
  
• Grand Theft Auto V is banned from Target and Kmart in Australia. Take-Two's CEO's reaction.
• The collapse of Lena Dunham's and Rolling Stone's rape stories. (There will be more on this in the next episode.)
• Stuff & Nonsense: Avril LaVigne health issues; RIP Ken Weatherwax (Pugsly from The Addams Family); Happy 38th Anniversary to Dirk's cousin. 

Episode #67 - "No No No No No No No!" - Show Notes

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Alternate Titles: "Lady Bitchface" or "Spielbergius Rex" or "A Solid Black Rectangle" or "Regretting Dating Coldplay" 

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Jim Beam with a splash of Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• Dirk his kitteh klaw problems.
• Recapping the free goodies our FaceSpace fans. Go give us a Like to get in on the goodie opportunities!
• Satori Circus crashed the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  
• Hayley Jane's Kickstarter hit its goal, but there's still time to chip in until Dec. 19.
• An interview has been taped with Shelley & Nici Porter - #MomDaughter from this season's run of The Amazing Race - and will hopefully run next week.
• A super-mega-ultra-uber episode of "What Did Dirk Pay For Blu-Rays?" and tales of Amazon shopping. (Correction: Total should've been $2 less because Dirk got Live Die Repeat for that difference after logging it.)
• Why owning physical disc is better than streaming services.
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• Additional Black Friday shopping tales.
• The Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer!
  
  
• The differences between the Clone Troopers helmets in Attack of the Clones (top) and Revenge of the Sith (bottom):
  
  
• Dirk's review of Attack the Block.
• Nerd boner or fanboy goosh?
• Erik Kain's thoughts and cool fan art posters.
• Discussion of the Jurassic World trailer:
  
  The melodica version:
  
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• Discussion of the casting announcement of Suicide Squad.
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• The lunch order part referenced starts at 3:37:
  
• Harrison Ford to appear in Blade Runner 2.
• Oscar Issac to play Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse.
• Ksenia Solo - Kenzi from Lost Girl - joins the cast of Orphan Black S3. Here's a tweet of her with Tatiana Maslany:
  
• Michelle MacLaren to direct the Wonder Woman.
• Pacific Rim 2 is guaranteed to suck even harder than the original.
• Sony Pictures gets hacked. It's really bad.
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• The complete original Cosmos series:
  
• Thoughts on watching Guardians of the Galaxy at home and 22 Jump Street.
• Extensive discussion of the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead and Season 5 overall compared to the comics.
• Not the exact picture reference, but close:
  
• Amazon is dumping the Fire Phone for $199 off-contract and it's still not worth it.
• Ubisoft kills off the Season Pass for the badly defective Assassin's Creed: Unity and offering free games and DayZ plays cheap games with prices and sales.
• Jim Stirling leaves The Escapist to start his own site. (We were going to post a link to his Patreon, but next week we'll explain why he's found himself against gamers. Whoops.)
• Dirk reviews the Amazon Fire TV Stick.
  
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• We preview the #GamerGate topics we had to push until next week's show due to time constraints.
• Guy takes pictures of a bear; gets eaten. Darwin works if you let him.
• Pomplamoose writes an article about how much money they lost on a tour, outraging musicians who know how to turn a profit.
• How the new credits for the 40th season of Saturday Night Live were created.
• J.Law regrets dating Mr. Coldplay, joining the rest of the world on this count.
• U2 has guest singers for a Times Square concert.
• Shia TheBeef claims he was raped during a performance art thing, but never said...
  
  (/facepalm)
• Some helpful hacks for Netflix. 
• Snooki got married. It’s safe to come out now.

Episode #66 - "Daddy's Wheat Thins" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Constantly Pumping & Pushing" 

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Cinnamon Kentucky Ballslap (Otto).
• Cheap beer in Ohio and birthday presents for Otto.
• The free stuff given to our FaceSpace fans. Go give us a Like to get in on the goodie opportunities!
• #GamerGate Mop-Up:
• CBC reporter admits he has no interest in balance in reporting.
• From /r/KotakuInAction - "The Funeral of My Feminism"
• Milo Yiannopoulos - "The Authoritarian Left Was on Course to Win the Culture Wars... then Along Came #GamerGate" 
• "GamerGate Exposed: A Peek Inside and How I Went Native"
• About the liberal political ad contest that had the rules changed when an anti-liberal entry was the overwhelming leader.
• How BuzzFeed is bashing Uber while omitting that they're backed by owners of Uber competitor Lyft.
• Otto got a new TV; Dirk got his Fire TV Stick and a new tablet.
• A digression of whether shopping at Big Food Store (aka Costco) actual saves money.
• This episode's music available here:
  
• #ShirtGate
• The Verge's typical hysterical idiocy - "I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing"
• BOOM!!!
  
• Uptight conservative reaction from Jonah Goldberg ("'Shirtgate' and Common Decency") and Rich Lowry ("Can Science Survive A Garish Shirt?")
• Julie Bindel - "Feminism is in danger of becoming toxic." (Too late! It has already!)
• Breitbart - "'Sexist' Space Shirt Sales Soar After Feminist Frenzy" and this site's similar shirt is totally sold out and the next run is likely spoken for.
• A detour into American Hustle. (DirkFlix review.)
• Rev3Games folds. (Read the comment at the 2nd link.) 
• The shenanigans around the Assassin's Creed Unity review embargoes and the Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor review contracts. (The latter is published by Warner Bros., not EA as we guessed.) One recap about the latter:
  
• Fun Facts: According to this Census data Excel spreadsheet the percentage of homes with a PC rose from 8.2% in 1984 to 61.8% in 2003, the last year data is available for. (Yeesh, for the money we're paying in taxes, you'd think they could've asked again in the past decade.)
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is now on Netflix.
• Dichen Lachman:
  
• Mike Nichols RIP. The Vanity Fair article about Nichols and May.
• Diane Sawyer or Katie Couric?
• The science of why Chris Hemsworth is People's Sexiest Man Alive.
• Daniel Bruhl (Nikki Lauda in Rush, which should've been called Race Through The Fire) cast in Captain America: Civil War.
• Dirk reviews Interstellar and wants Christopher Nolan's career sent to a black hole, especially after he defends the BS sound mix.
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• Detroit musician (Broadzilla) and writer Rachel May downsized from the Free Press after 17 years of being an ink-stained wretch.
• Hayley Jane (hear her great appearance here) is doing a Kickstarter for her next album (thru Dec. 19, 2014) and Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls and Violent Femmes will be playing on it. Nice!
• YouTube Music Key launches.
• Don't forget to check your fake chainsaw when flying.
• SNL's Cecily Strong to host the White House Correspondents Dinner.
• LIKE A BOSS!
  
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• Oh, Bill Cosby. Meme fail. NPR dodging.

Episode #65B - "Mad Respect or Absolute Terror?" - Show Notes

NOTE: This is an abridged version of Episode #65 - "Prom Queens of #GamerGate" - with the 3-1/4 hours of #GamerGate material removed for those disinterested in that topic. (We'd obviously prefer folks listen to full show, but wish to accommodate those who just want the bookends.)

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Alternate Title: "Fanboy Groovy"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Lager (Dirk); Jim Beam & Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• Explaining the B-versions of this and last week's shows.
• Keira Knightley stands up for all the misunderstood skinny beautiful people by humblebragging her wet topless body. Right. Her Photoshopped King Arthur poster:
  

Episode #65 - "Prom Queens of #GamerGate" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "#GamerGate Is Interested In You"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Lager (Dirk); Jim Beam & Diet Mountain Dew (Otto).
• Explaining the B-versions of this and last week's shows.
• Keira Knightley stands up for all the misunderstood skinny beautiful people by humblebragging her wet topless body. Right. Her Photoshopped King Arthur poster:
  
• Jamie Lee Curtis' photo referenced:
  
• J.Law don't tweet/FaceSpace/Instawhut and has some near-wardrobe malfunction saggy gappage (sorta NSFW)
• Bruce Campbell to star in Sam Raimi-produced Ash vs. Evil Dead series and a Walking Dead spinoff is announced leading to a zombie history lesson.
• Rumor Watch: Suicide Squad casting; a movie about Spider-Man's Aunt May; Dr. Doom gets a radical revamp for the  Fantastic Four reboot?
• Another Bourne movie with Matt Damon. Yay.
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• >>> #GAMERGATE STUFF <<<
• Calling out VE3D's sexist comments about Ubisoft game developer Jade Raymond. producer of the first two Assassin's Creed games, Watch Dogs, and Splinter Cell: Blacklist (seen below):
  
  (She looks like she's thinking, "I've actually accomplished something; making games people have played, enjoyed and sold mass quantities of them. While others complain, I create.")
• Repeatedly smeared Stardock CEO Brad Wardell is starting to get apologies and retractions thanks to #GamerGate. 
• Man-hating feminist (yes, redundant) wants her own games industry.
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• Erik Kain of Forbe's "#GamerGate Isn't A Hate Group, It's A Consumer Movement."
• Serial liar and hysteric T.C. Sottek in action. (Warning: Ipecac-like action at link.)
• Topsy Twitter analytics. (Note: This is a rolling 30-day tally and will become more inaccurate over time. Numbers mentioned on show ran from Oct. 5 - Nov. 4. - GG 1.85M (ave 60k/day); Stop 155K (after 1st 5 days, nada); 1989 327K) 
• Anita Sarkeesian's death threats in Utah and the video with the text of threatening letter:
  
• Sarkeesian gets another prom queen tiara from the NY Times, pushing the phony anti-#GamerGate narrative into the ignorant sheeple mainstream. The Guardian's parroting of the NYT piece.
• The loathsome letter from Polygon's editor-in-chief which escalated the gaming press' jihad against their readers.
• The Verge's masturbating hippie's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review.
• Wired's nasty and dishonest screed against #GamerGate.
• The faked threats piece and the 5-hour Hangout mentioned in Dirk's Wired comment.
• Beta "male" Matt Binder's shrill and dishonest Christophobic screeching at Boing Boing which led to this epic beatdown:
  
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• Breitbart's Milo Yiannopolous - "Incredibly, GamerGate Is Winning - But You Won't Read That Anywhere In The Terrified Liberal Media."
• Breitbart's Noah Dulles - "Supporting GamerGate Does Not Make You A Bully."
• PopeHate - "Gamer Gate (sic): Three Stages To Obit" (aka "GamerGate is Kulturkampf.)
• Robert Stacy McCain's "The GamerGate White Knight Syndrome."
• BASED MOM!
  
• Felicia Day's Tumblr post about #GamerGate; the predictably slanted Guardian report of her doxxing; and The Ralph Retort's unwarranted attack on her. (Warning: Site and a hefty chunk of their readers veer close to fulfilling the worst anti-GG stereotypes.)
• Taylor Swift gets stalked, too.
• Arthur Chu's emo piece about meeting Felicia Day which is erased by this pitiful display. (Count how many times he invokes Zoe Quinn appropos of nothing):
  
  Sargon from the top rope!
   
• Newsweek's slanted “Is GamerGate About Media Ethics or Harassing Women? Harassment, the Data Shows” and Daily Dot's laughably tilted "The data behind Gamergate reveals its ugly truth (sic)." (Note the misspelled GamerGate and improper capitalization.)
• Breitbart - "WHILE THE MEDIA SLANDERS GAMERS AS ‘TERRORISTS,’ GAMERGATE IS HUNTING TROLLS AND ABUSERS."
• "GamerGate, the Players and the Played" - a feminist smacks at it. 
• Some scary revelations of "mainstream" news media bias from Sharyl Attkisson's book.
• Sarko blames school shooting on "toxic masculinity":
  
• Live version of "Superboy":
  
• The Verge beclowning itself - "GamerGate is Dead."
• Daily Dot's Aja Romano cranks up the lie machine to over 9000 - "Anita Sarkeesian's 'Colbert' segment brought out Gamergate's worst." (Because pointing out her lies is RAPE!)
• Thunderf00t's hat trick of FLAWLESS VICTORY about Sarko's Colbert appearance:
  
  
  
  BONUS! The day after taping, he dug into her Master's thesis:
  
  
• Videos from 2012 exploring Sarko's shenanigans:
  
  
  
  
• Movie Bob's piece sucking off the first Tropes vs. Women video from March 2013.
• Cliffy B's embarrassing suck job for the same thing.
• Liana K's tweets about Sarko being prom queen and her lengthy response to the Ralph Retort's hit piece on her. (Note: There's a lot of nasty accusations on TRR about Liana K. We haven't gone through them all and don't know how accurate they are, but judging from how he distorted Felicia Day's post and then attacked Dirk for his comment, a giant salt lick may be required for his assertions.)
• Total Biscuit's audio rebuttal to the YouTube guy's slanted piece and his response to a rabidly anti-conservative wannabe fascist. Also his appearance on David Pakman's show:
   
• Slate - "How to end GamerGate" which starts biased, then gets sane; stick with it.
• One Angry Gamer's article about how the CBC didn't run a pro-GG female dev's interview while running three anti-GG hit pieces, a bias the reporter confirmed in tweets discovered after we'd taped.
• Sept. 2011 Atlantic article about corruption in “enthusiast press.” 
• Clearing The Spindle/Additional Items Unused On Shows:
• Boing Boing - "GamerGate colors are a rape joke." (Oh please.)
• Movie Bob gives an incomplete Jack Thompson history lesson to shield Sarko.
• A female photographer who does Suicide Girls-type work posted a photo of her with Zoe Quinn and shared the horror story of working with her and a screenshot of scary emails from her.
• Female developer Kelly Rued's thoughts on "The Gaming Inquinnsition."
• Washington Post piece about a female politician running on a GG platform. 
• Salon bashing Milo and peddling the lie that real corruption is passed over for “anti-feminism.”
• Amazon's Echo gets its trailer dubbed. Heh.
  
• Disney Movies Anywhere is now on Android. (For a limited time, they're giving Wreck-It Ralph just for signing up.)
• Dirk quickly reviews The Book of Life and Neighbors. (Full reviews at DirkFlix.)
• Hedy Lamarr's 100th birthday and scientific contributions. The CorelDraw 8 box:
  
• Netflix page for the craptastic H2O: Just Add Water. How much can you withstand.
• Weird Al's UHF is available on Blu-ray now! SO WANT!
  
• Andy Dick gets pinched for grand theft.

Episode #64B - "Hail To The Conquering Mouse" - Show Notes

NOTE: This is an abridged version of Episode #64 - "To The #GamerGate Of Hell" - with the 3 hours of #GamerGate material removed for those disinterested in that topic. (We'd obviously prefer folks listen to full show, but wish to accommodate those who just want the bookends.)

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Alternate Titles: "I'm A Nerd Slut"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Lager (Dirk); Kentucky Ballslap (Otto).
• We're back on a same-week recording/podcasting schedule now. Subscribe to get the show a week before it airs.
• Mopping up last week's Van Halen shows, Letterman's Top 10 List, The Flash, the Guardians of the Galaxy TV series, and J.Law's back on the market.
• Title announced: Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Talk among yourself.
• Discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe announcements.
• The comparo photo of Natalie Dormer and Captain Marvel:
  
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  Howard Stark is played by Dominic Cooper.
• Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) returns to health and working.
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• Dirk's friends lost on The Amazing Race. An interview with them and we're going to try and talk to them.
• The Mort Drucker-drawn album cover for the first album by The Bears:
  
• Video shot at the show Dirk referenced:
  
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• BONUS! A complete concert! You're welcome!
  
• [Where 3 hours of #GamerGate stuff stuff was]
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• Taylor Swift's 1989 sells 1.287M records and pulls her back catalog off Spotify (because money) which prompts this twit to attack Spotify for wanting to better serve their customers. (Snob.) This guy got a better deal for buying the CD from Amazon and, despite the title, this guy admits vinyl is inferior. Fortunately there's help for this:
  
• Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is canceled. Try and be strong, America.
• Some people finally noticed that Lena Dunham wrote about her sexually molesting her sister in her autobiography, Weighing My Privilege. (Actual title probably different.) She threatens to sue sites for quoting WHAT SHE WROTE; "apologized" and got the support of the victim whom she'd dressed up as a "Hell's Angel sex property" when she was 5-years-old (the sister, not Lena); was criticized by both conservative-leaning sites and rabid man-hating radical feminist Samantha Allen (yes, the misandrist from earlier in the show); canceled book tour dates and was reminded that suing won't get her off the hook.
• AC/DC's drummer charged with procuring murder, but shortly after the show taping, the charges were dropped.
• Amazon Prime unlimited photo storage in cloud, is sitting on $83M of Fire phones (but still developing 2nd gen), and introduced the Fire TV Stick, a competitor to Chromecast and Roku Stick.
• Android Lollipop pushed to AOSP, but updates for older Nexuses delayed until 11/12. A good overview Lollipop review at Engadget.
• Nexus 9 disappointing in reviews and the Nexus 6 keeps selling out instantly.
• OnePlus One has sold 500K phones, but only makes $10 profit on each according to this Forbes piece.
• Next-gen (PC/PS4/XBone) Grand Theft Auto V will have a first-person mode! Look how shiny and rad this looks:
  
  
• "The Crazy Journey to Save Grim Fandango" (written by Nathan Grayson!)
• We close with some cool Google Now voice commands including Bacon Numbers.
• The Kirsten Dunst picture we were looking at:
  

Episode #64 - "To The #GamerGate Of Hell" - Show Notes

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• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Lager (Dirk); Kentucky Ballslap (Otto).
• We're back on a same-week recording/podcasting schedule now. Subscribe to get the show a week before it airs.
• Mopping up last week's Van Halen shows, Letterman's Top 10 List, The Flash, the Guardians of the Galaxy TV series, and J.Law's back on the market.
• Title announced: Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Talk among yourself.
• Discussion of the Marvel Cinematic Universe announcements.
• The comparo photo of Natalie Dormer and Captain Marvel:
  
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  Howard Stark is played by Dominic Cooper.
• Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) returns to health and working.
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• Dirk's friends lost on The Amazing Race. An interview with them and we're going to try and talk to them.
• The Mort Drucker-drawn album cover for the first album by The Bears:
  
• Video shot at the show Dirk referenced:
  
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• BONUS! A complete concert! You're welcome!
  
• >>> #GamerGate Stuff <<<
• Previous discussions can be found in these three episodes. Cherkemert, please.
• The Reason.com articles that really helped organize our discussions: Cathy Young's Sex, Lies and Gender Games, Videogames Meet Feminism, and Misandry in GamerGate.
• Know Your Meme's chronology of GamerGate. Links for what we read off are there.
• Some background about who we are to set the table.
• Interview with Fine Young Capitalists over Zoe Quinn’s antics.
• One Angry Gamer - Zoe Quinn didn’t doxx TFYC (or did she just retweet it?) 
• Dirk epic failing at DiRT 3:
  
  
  
• Daily Dot - How to End GamerGate by Dennis Scimeca.
• Samantha Allen's manifesto of misandry.
• "PIV is always rape, OK?" (Warning: Insanity at link.) How the Twitterverse reacted. (Warning: LOLs at link.)
• Meet Leigh Alexander, the bullying guru of the anti-gamer gaming hacks. A snip that we didn't read on the show, but read the whole article:
  

  But as bad as the ethical failings of many games journalists have been, they were largely acts of stupidity and greed. Leigh Alexander’s agenda however, is rooted in something far uglier: she actually hates gamers, despite being a journalist principally concerned with video games. 

  In other words, she hates her own audience.

  Take a look at that "Gamers are over" article: "Games culture is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online 'wars' about social justice or 'game journalism ethics,' straight-faced.." 

  She laughs about the stereotype of shy and reserved gamers, but how funny is it to mock people who play games by calling them names? Sure, some gamers enjoy gaming because because it provides a space where refined social skills aren’t necessary, but that doesn’t make their complaints about crusading journalists any less valid. In her world, the reticence of gamers to swallow her Weltanschauung can only be caused by a neural development disorder.   

  Alexander also thinks that the current target audience for games developers needs to change. She asserts that this presumed group of disabled cavemen have been pandered to for too long and they need to have their toys taken away: "This is hard for people who’ve drank the kool aid about how their identity depends on the ageing cultural signposts of a rapidly-evolving, increasingly broad and complex medium. It's hard for them to hear they don't own anything, anymore, that they aren’t the world’s most special-est consumer demographic, that they have to share."

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• Some YouTubers to check out for GG vidyas: Sargon of Akkad; Thunderf00t; MundaneMatt; InternetAristrocrat; jordanowen42.
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• Devin Wilson’s “Guide To Ending Gamers.”
• Once again, the must-read explanation of Kafkatrapping. Read it.
• Yahtzee's review of Spec Ops: The Line:
  
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• Correct joke wording: "If I want to look at a ridiculous caricature of manhood, I'll look in a mirror."
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• NY Times Op-Ed “Can Video Games Survive? The Disheartening GamerGate Campaign.”
• This. Never. Gets. Old. Never.
  
• The tweets by a female game dev protesting the deification of "prom queen" Anita Sarkeesian.
• Dirk's spoiler-free review of Gone Home.
• The Verge's lie-packed rage about Intel pulling advertising.
• Amanda Marcotte's Intel lies at Slate.
• Aja Romano at Daily Dot lies about Intel.
• Daily Caller - "Gawker: Our Advertisers Are Scum, Who Needs Them Anyway?"
• Adland - "Gawker is toxic to brands who partner with them."
• Daily Dot - "The one analogy you need to understand #GamerGate." (Warning: Manure about 'mantle and core' at link.)
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• The newest supposed victim - Brianna Wu - takes the field; gets rage-filled posts of support from sci-fi author John Scalzi; gets totally uncritical praise from The Mary Sue for her TV appearances which Sargon aptly shreds into confetti:
  
  Then she gets savagely beaten by a guy in a wheelchair:
The despicably uses the murder of a mother of four young children to claim more faux victimhood: Which made MundaneMatt's support of her reward seem regrettable.
• The SNL "Sexual Harassment and You" sketch with Tom Brady.
• The best source of news for advanced Android users: Android Police.
• Otto's wife the Commie.
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• Taylor Swift's 1989 sells 1.287M records and pulls her back catalog off Spotify (because money) which prompts this twit to attack Spotify for wanting to better serve their customers. (Snob.) This guy got a better deal for buying the CD from Amazon and, despite the title, this guy admits vinyl is inferior. Fortunately there's help for this:
  
• Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is canceled. Try and be strong, America.
• Some people finally noticed that Lena Dunham wrote about her sexually molesting her sister in her autobiography, Weighing My Privilege. (Actual title probably different.) She threatens to sue sites for quoting WHAT SHE WROTE; "apologized" and got the support of the victim whom she'd dressed up as a "Hell's Angel sex property" when she was 5-years-old (the sister, not Lena); was criticized by both conservative-leaning sites and rabid man-hating radical feminist Samantha Allen (yes, the misandrist from earlier in the show); canceled book tour dates and was reminded that suing won't get her off the hook.
• AC/DC's drummer charged with procuring murder, but shortly after the show taping, the charges were dropped.
• Amazon Prime unlimited photo storage in cloud, is sitting on $83M of Fire phones (but still developing 2nd gen), and introduced the Fire TV Stick, a competitor to Chromecast and Roku Stick.
• Android Lollipop pushed to AOSP, but updates for older Nexuses delayed until 11/12. A good overview Lollipop review at Engadget.
• Nexus 9 disappointing in reviews and the Nexus 6 keeps selling out instantly.
• OnePlus One has sold 500K phones, but only makes $10 profit on each according to this Forbes piece.
• Next-gen (PC/PS4/XBone) Grand Theft Auto V will have a first-person mode! Look how shiny and rad this looks:
  
  
• "The Crazy Journey to Save Grim Fandango" (written by Nathan Grayson!)
• We close with some cool Google Now voice commands including Bacon Numbers.
• The Kirsten Dunst picture we were looking at: