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We’re trying something new this week. We recorded ourselves playing a game called “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes,” where only one of us (Jason) can see a bomb on his screen, and Mike and Will try to help him defuse it by using a bomb defusal manual.

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Sorry for the long layoff (“producer” issues), but we finally posted a new episode! Here’s what we discussed:

No follow-up!

Video Games

Fallout 4 impressions (or not)

Bethesda’s random name database

Star Wars Battlefront

Nintendo Direct

Twilight Princess HD for Wii U

Hyrule Warriors

Linkle, the female version of Link

Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow available on the Nintendo eShop

Super Smash Bros. gets Cloud from Final Fantasy

Sonos TruePlay

Ghostbusters P.K.E. Meter

TAG Heuer Connected smartwatch

“Connected to Eternity” trade-in program

Alienware Steam machine

More like “Steam”-ing pile of crap

iPad Pro impressions

Is it a laptop replacement?

Yao Ming-Verne Troyer commercial

Pencil impressions

On this week’s episode:

No follow-up!

Video games

Halo 5

Xbox One Elite controller

Halo 5 drops split-screen support

Online multiplayer vs. same-room multiplayer

New Xbox One Experience

Xbox Games with Gold doubles number of free games

Problems with existing Xbox One experience

Fallout 4

Amazon’s terrible pre-order policy for digital games

Playstation 4 vs. Xbox One

Fallout: New Vegas

Polygon review

Mike remembers he already pre-ordered the game

Apple TV

Apple TV is a radical rethinking of your relationship with the hardware and games you own

Would this help on consoles?

Our favorite Apple TV apps

Impressions and complaints

Cord-cutting

CEC support

Master of None

Steve Jobs movie

Flops in box office

Apple

iPad Pro available on Wednesday

Surface Book

Mike has lost interest due to reports of hardware crashes

Normal “Bear” Questions

Overcast app has changed Will’s life

Favorite podcasts

Will can count (confirmed)

Our workspaces

Standing desks

We have a producer!?

On this week’s episode, which was actually recorded two weeks ago:

Will visits NYC!

Doughnut Plant

Follow-up

Apple’s policy on in-app purchase pricing

New Apple products

4K and 5K iMacs

“Magic” accessories

Magic Trackpad 2 tap-to-click woes

Magic Keyboard’s lack of travel

Magic Mouse 2 charging port gripes

Anil Dash’s article

iPhone “Chipgate”

Windows Hello

Surface Book

Apple TV preorders

Steven Levy’s “The Inside Story of Apple’s New iMacs”

Phil Schiller on Apple’s continuum of products

Is Microsoft’s philosophy really any different?

Nintendo NX

WSJ: NX will be a console and a handheld

Is it enough for the NX to be “on par” with current consoles?

Cross-buying potential

YouTube Gaming allows for streaming of mobile games

Dropbox Paper

Will’s “Normal Guy” questions

Cloud storage

New Star Wars trailer

J.J. Abrams apologizes for overusing lens flare

Halo 5!

We had to skip a week because one of us was living it up in Hawaii (hint: it wasn’t Mike or me):

Follow-up

Netflix is making more Black Mirror

iPhone 6S Plus impressions

3D Touch

Keyboard highlighting

Thanks, Harbs!

Live Photos

Congrats, Ja!

Low light performance

Touch ID – too fast?

Why Some Left-Handed People Are Having Big Problems With the iPhone

Waterproof testing

TiVo Bolt

Commercial skipping

Quick Mode

Overcast and Smart Speed

Chairigami standing desk

Amazon to stop selling Apple TV and Chromecast

How to possibly save 20% off your Netflix account

Apple TV and iPad Pro rumored release window

Disney animators try the iPad Pro

Microsoft event

Hololens

Microsoft Band

Lumia phones

Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book

Windows Hello vs. Touch ID

Comparison to iPad Pro

Does any of this even matter?

Will’s normal person questions

How do you use Apple Pay without looking like a jackass?

A “teaser” of next week’s question

The worst movie trailer ever

On this week’s episode, we discuss everything from iPhone pre-orders, Amazon’s 6-pack of tablets, how to take photos that don’t suck, and even some Destiny:

Follow-up

Our iPhone 6s pre-order experience

On pace to beat last year’s launch

Discover Card’s ridiculous cashback bonus for using Apple Pay

Our Discover Card referral link (you should really click this link)

Apple’s iPhone upgrade program terms and conditions

iOS 9’s content blockers

Marco Arment pulls his ‘Peace’ app from the App Store

AT&T turns on VoLTE in NYC

Still no wifi calling

 Amazon’s 6-pack of tablets for $250

Fire phone + 1 year Amazon Prime for $125

Marco’s inconvenience of being rich

Amazon Fire TV vs. Apple TV

Will’s “normal person” questions

How to take photos that don’t suck

Destiny

The Taken King expansion

Mike and Will try to convince Jason to jump back in

Two weeks in a row!? This week’s episode is all about the recent Apple event:

Apple Event

Cringeworthy moments?

Apple Watch

Gold and Rose Gold Sport watches

Hermes partnership

New Sport band colors

watchOS 2

ElevationLab Night Stand for Apple Watch

iPad Pro

Smart Keyboard

Comparison to Surface Pro keyboard

Apple Pencil

No way 

Pricing

OS limitations

Smart Connector

Apple TV

Pricing

No persistent storage

Apple’s infuriating base storage decisions

New remote

Updated UI with Siri integration

CEC compatibility for controlling TV’s directly

Universal search

App Store

TV through apps

MLB.TV demo

iPhone 6S/6S Plus

Improved specs

Still 1gb RAM? (Update: 2gb confirmed)

3D Touch

Too confusing?

Renamed Force Touch

Camera improvements

Selfie flash!

Live Photos

4K video

Second generation Touch ID

Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Plan

 Apple’s future plans

After a short break, we’re back with Season 2! We didn’t even know there was a Season 1, but we’re back, and that’s all that matters. On this week’s episode:

Our favorite annual Apple event

WWDC or iPhone event

iOS 9 and El Capitan betas

Off-topic: Mike rediscovers Cap’n Crunch OOPS! All Berries

Apple’s September event

Are all the leaks ruining Apple events?

Think Secret

iPhone 6S/6S Plus

Force Touch

Improved cameras

12MP iSight camera w/ 4K video

5MP FaceTime camera w/ “flash”

John Gruber on future iPhone camera improvements

Animated wallpapers

Switch to OLED screens?

Rose gold color option

16gb base model sticking around for at least another year

Which model are we getting?

Our plans for our existing phones

Apple TV

October release for $149

Tough sell given competition?

Universal search

Our overly complicated media setups

Will Siri work like Alexa to control the home?

Updated UI

iPad Pro

Will Mike’s OneNote dreams come true?

Force Touch stylus, stereo speakers, and USB port?

Could it replace a laptop?

iPad Pro vs. Retina MacBook

Our ideal setups

Video Games/Television

Fallout Shelter and its new update

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Mr. Robot

Dan Benjamin’s new ‘Bingeworthy’ podcast

Sense8

Narcos

Vox: Netflix’s Narcos is like a bland guy reading you the Wikipedia entry on Pablo Escobar

Food

McDonald’s finally serving breakfast all day

McDonald’s rejects BK’s McWhopper proposal

BK will not be denied!

Video Game Streaming

Mike on Twitch

Will on Twitch

Jason on Twitch

YouTube Gaming launches

PS4 support on the way

Does YouTube have a chance against Twitch?

More Gaming

Destiny: The Taken King

Metal Gear Solid V

Apple held its annual WWDC keynote this past Monday! We wanted to get our impressions out as quickly as possible, so we’re posting this episode a bit out of order. The previously recorded episodes will still be released shortly! Until then, here’s what we talked about:

Apple’s WWDC keynote

iOS 8.3 gripes

The Verge: The 10 most important announcements from Apple WWDC 2015

OS X El Capitan

OT: Our favorite cereals

El Capitan Crunch

OOPS! All Berries

Safari improvements

Pinned tabs

Audio tab indicator

Natural language searches for Spotlight

No Siri on Mac?

Improved window management

Metal for improved GPU processing

Beta

Jason’s MacBook update

iOS 9

Jason’s early impressions using iOS 9 beta 1 on the iPad

Multitasking on iPad Air 2

Picture-in-picture video

QuickType keyboard improvements

Proactive Siri

Apple’s response to Google Now

Can Apple’s service ever be as good as Google’s?

Search API and deep-linking

The End of Apps As We Know Them

Maps improvements

Public transit directions (finally!)

Making the switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps

Apple News

Apple’s version of Flipboard or Facebook Instant Articles

watchOS 2

Native apps

New watch faces

Time Travel

Third-party complications

HomeKit

Nest vs. ecobee3

No new announcements at WWDC?

Siri and Apple Watch support

Philips Hue lights

Apple Music

Super awkward presentation

Hand-crafted playlists

Apple aiming to include entire iTunes catalog

Beats 1 Radio

What Apple should have done instead

Connect feature (Ping 2.0)

Possible Sonos compatibility (pretty please?)

Android/Windows compatibility a good sign?

Apple Music vs. Spotify

Apple Music family plan

E3 2015

Mike’s going!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Our schedules have been a bit hectic, but we promise to try to release episodes more regularly!

Follow-up

LG website claims Apple will release an 8K iMac this year

Amazon Echo now supports WeMo and Hue

Mike has NO RAGRETS!

Siri API coming soon?

TV

Arrested Development is coming back for another season!

Netflix model of releasing entire seasons at once

Game of Thrones is back (this was recorded a while ago) 

First four episodes leak on the internet

Mike discusses watching leaked episodes in the past (SOME RAGRETS)

Tracking piraters through watermarks

Tech

Push notification strategies

Apple Watch lacks granular notification settings

Periscope abusers

Highball app for mixed drink recipes

est use of QR codes ever?

Neat Ice Kit

Tovolo King Ice Cube Tray

Apple Watch

Our preorder experience

Our try-on appointment experience

Jason struggles with watch terminology