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Alternate Titles: "Mass-Produced Cookie Cutter Killing Machines" or "Get Some Mangoes or A Tiger By The Tail"
- Tonight's Beverages: Diet Mountain Dew, water (Dirk); Diet Mountain Dew and Jim Beam (Otto).
- Getting burned by pre-taping and the hopes it doesn't matter this week.
- The Amazon Fire Phone is a failure (just as Dirk predicted), but FINALLY Amazon Instant Video is available on Android (thus denying Dirk one of his longest-running rant items)!
- The seemingly weekly terrible weather report.
- Dally in the Alley recap.
- Dirk makes a claim about Victor Hugo and copyright lengths which can't be substantiated at the moment, so best not to believe it.
- Reader-suggested cheap TV brand names.
- The shared experiences from when there were only three channels - re: Mork on Happy Days - and Dirk doesn't think Modern Family is funny.
- The Apple iDog&iPonyiShow (introducing Apple's Samsung copycat iPhones) is slapped around.
- The great J.Law Apple Pay tweet. (Can't get it to embed here.)
- U2 is giving its new album, Songs of Innocence, away FREE on iTunes (thru Oct. 16, 2014).
- Music from Dear Mr. President - "Fatal Desire."
- Lena Headey can get naked in Croatia. Crisis averted!
- The Rock is playing Black Adam in a Shazam movie. Otto explains what this means.
- The Rock in Be Cool (inexplicably, they left the drumstick scene out):
- Discovering a "missing" episode of Don't Trust The B- In Apt. 23.
- Dirk finished the first season of The Clone Wars and discusses an outstanding episode. (Watch on Netflix here.)
- Dirk's Aayla Secura figure...
...and her death in Revenge of the Sith (@ 1:10)...
...and an interview with the "actress." (She's never performed in anything but her two cameos in the Star Wars films.)
- Dirk reviews HBO's True Detective.
- Music from The Botswanas - "She's My Rival" (The whole album is at link. Dig it.)
- An EXTENSIVE continuation of last week's discussion of leaked photos, sex tapes, Zoe Quinn/#GamerGate and Anita Sarkeesian's serial lies.
- Why are celebrity boobs more in need of protection than civilian boobs?
- Digression into the Ray Rice case of domestic abuse.
- Uploading nude photos is stupid.
- The liberal double-standard for privacy.
- Gawker's double-standard between a Hulk Hogan sex tape and J.Law's photos.
- Washington Post profile of 4chan.
- The "short" (i.e. still extremely long) version of the Zoe Quinn kerfuffle saga.
- Escapist article on 4chan/Quinn chat logs.
- The Reddit comment about the risible nature of "victims" of "microagressions."
- Dirk's notorious "lost review" of Top Gun replaced ADD IGN LINK
- The Terrible "Misogyny" In The Game Industry.
- The Jack Thompson book Dirk reviewed and discusses:
- Just how many "gamers" are actually harassing Anita Sarkeesian?
- The incestuous and corrupt connections between the players in the GamerGate cabal:
- Sarkeesian's blatant lies about Hitman: Absolution:
- The brilliant takedown of Joss Whedon's blind support for Sarkeesian when he is literally "guilty" of doing what is supposedly totally evil (and it doesn't even include Dollhouse!):
- The back half of this video (link starts @ 11:15) explores how crazy militant feminism poisons the very cause it claims to support.
- GamerGate: Why Gaming Journalists Keep Dragging Zoe Quinn's Sex Life Into The Spotlight.
- How are gamers responsible for sexism in the gaming industry?
- Brad Wardel of Stardock Software's rebuttal to Rock, Paper, Shotgun's self-service demurral of complicity in GamerGate.
- The call for censorship by the angry TG ex-Mormon militant snowflake.
- "Kafkatrapping" - the rhetorical dirty tricks SJWs use to bully people into accepting their nonsense. MUST READ!
- Blacklisted indie game dev Paul Hubans' Twitter. (He linked a video explanation, but it's not set to public, so we're not going to presume to share it here; go find it there around Sept. 4)
- How media groupthink ill-serves the public/readers/customers regardless of politics.
- Unmentioned during show: Sane feminist Christina Hoff Summers' is attacked by Gawker editor over her mild comments; post from 2012 about how the Independent Game Festival is pretty shady; popular YouTuber Total Biscuit - The Cynical Brit's take on things.
- Dirk review The Imposter, a documentary about a French con man who pretended to be a missing Texas teenager and how the family accepted him.
- Neil Patrick Harris got married, but at least he didn't marry the guy who claims to have invented "email" like Fran Drescher did.
- Former Microsoft CEO (and new LA Clippers owner) Steve Ballmer wrote the BSOD screen in Windows 3.1 and his signature moment:
- Twitpic killed by Twitter.
- The final DLC pack for Battlefield 4 teases a bridge to the time of Battlefield 2142:
- The 15th Anniversary of Sega Dreamcast's US launch on 9/9/99.
- Wil Wheaton continues to be a dick and insulted a Twitter user with cerebral palsy.
- RIP the bassist for Downtown Brown's mother and Pixiboo of the Hater Kitty Rescue Army:
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