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2023 was a year of experimentation across our various podcasts. We moved from Spreaker to Spotify as our primary podcast host, we expanded coverage of video games on Beware of Spoilers, we put the YouTube channel on hiatus and then brought it back with a new format, and we launched
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Dumb Money is an entertaining account of the GameStop short squeeze that works better as a character study than as systemic analysis.
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Within the last few weeks, there was a news story saying that someone at Sega made a comment about how the pixel art style for video games did not have long-term potential and naturally Sonic would have to evolve past that. Since that comment was made, Sabotage Games released
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for Bottoms follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/3skGuOE3ku0K0NsamtGdsP This has been a very strong year for the return of the R-rated comedy with movies like No Hard Feelings and Joy Ride making a strong theatrical presence. Each time one of these
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for The Equalizer 3 follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mjY6q0GBpf3XzchRoLZht In a weird way, all three of the movies in the trilogy for The Equalizer seem somewhat at odds with itself. There is a baseline story in all three entries that is
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Continuing the trend of boneheaded decision-making out of Warner Brothers in the face of their merger with Discovery and the ongoing SAG and WGA strikes, it was announced today that they would be following through on their threats and shifting certain parts of their release slate into 2024. The
Video Game Review
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1sWfV2LAjb9KCLWaDbYrX1 Tons of indie games come out every day, and it feels like a good amount of them end up on Game Pass. This is not a knock on the new way that games are distributed, in fact this is a great thing because games
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for Puppy Love follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/371vgQogT9vPbUK8rsoDS0 Now I'm not 100% certain how it works specifically but I know for certain that every person with an Amazon Prime has access to Freevee. Considering the service is ad supported,
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for Landscape With Invisible Hand follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gGko2QfPYZzMqDZl3tk3k When I walked into Landscape with Invisible Hand, I knew nothing about it besides the trailer I had seen before two previous movies. After watching it, I found out it was
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for Blue Beetle follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LG9ywim4hLVWsnOo81YJg DC has now released three movies so far in 2023: Shazam! Fury of the Gods in March, The Flash in June, and now Blue Beetle. It may surprise readers to know that not
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for Gran Turismo follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/5K8TysBGZPqSIhbb9WMmL4 Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think that the video game adaptation will fill the role of the comic book movie in the later part of the 2020s into the
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***As the title would suggest, full spoilers for The Pod Generation follow*** https://open.spotify.com/episode/4REegy7hZykQ6jGyU7BTI2 Science fiction as a genre works best when it takes a current issue, pushes it to the end of the slippery slope, and shows what could happen with the world at that