Multiple Nerdgasm

Luke and Matt have just flown back from PAX Australia and boy, are their arms tired. You know, from all the gaming and stuff… They can’t… fly.

Topics discussed

• PAX Aus new venue impressions
• Gearbox panel: Borderlands Pre-Sequel & Battleborn
• Homeworld Remastered panel
• Star Citizen panel (Chris Roberts)
• Penny Arcade panels & PAX diversity discussion
• Indie games showcase & Xbox indie policy
• Dragon Age Inquisition miss, Halo MCC & Sunset Overdrive
• Ubisoft booth: The Crew, AC Unity & Far Cry 4
• League of Legends esports pavilion
• Nintendo booth: Smash Bros, Stealth Inc 2 & Captain Toad
• Xbox tournament connectivity issues
• Australian STEM Video Game Challenge
• Cards Against Humanity Australian edition
• Tabletop games: King of New York & Thornwatch
• Halloween cosplay & PAX scheduling concerns

For some reason, possibly owing to the absence of Dave, this episode is filled with celebrity news. A lot of people went nuts this week, both on the internet and in the outside world where non fictional reality shows are filmed. This week also sees the return of Pornographic Parodies and the start of the “Cyberbully Matt” initiative where you, the listener, can abuse him on twitter at @MNerdgasm using the hashtag #Make

Matt

Crack.

Topics discussed

• "Before meth" anti-drug ad joke
• 73-year-old teacher fired over 1960s erotica films
• Nicholas Brendon arrest news
• Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf song video
• Shia LaBeouf stalking Alec Baldwin
• Christian Bale/Von Trier "in character" excuses
• Paranoid Activity dev death threat to Gabe Newell
• Monica Lewinsky Twitter cyberbullying
• Cyberbully Matt segment launch
• Storage Wars Dave Hester lawsuit
• Superheroes documentary & Doomsday Preppers
• Taylor Swift "8 Seconds of Static" iTunes No. 1
• Rob Dougan Furious Angels iTunes pricing glitch
• Porn Parodies segment

Rife with terrifying themes like summoning the dead (to ask stupid questions), survival horror games, zombie films, haunted houses that may actually kill you and the latest Shia LeBeouf news, this week’s episode is just in time for Halloween.

Topics discussed

• iSummon Kickstarter success & Steve Jobs Ouija update
• Halloween traditions & extreme haunted houses
• Sydney zombie survival game event
• Night of the Living Dead prequel Kickstarter
• The Evil Within impressions
• Raiders of the Lost Ark black & white re-edit
• Indiana Jones 5 rumors
• The Room (Tommy Wiseau) screening review
• Paris butt plug sculpture vandalism
• Red Bull "Gives You Wings" lawsuit
• Hatred video game controversy
• Shia LaBeouf Cabaret arrest story (Kimmel retelling)

We’re back this week with a heap of video game news from EB Expo, reviews of films that are at least twenty years old and a titillating new game from Matt.

Topics discussed

• iPhone 6 Size Debate Recap
• Alien: Isolation Preview
• The Evil Within Preview
• The Witcher 3 Preview
• Far Cry 4 & Assassin's Creed Previews
• Forza Horizon 2 & Steering Wheel Saga
• Captain Toad & Smash Bros Previews
• Indie Games Roundup (One More Line, Metricide, Little Reaper)
• Slender Man Cosplayer Ejected from Convention
• Man With Uncontrollable Orgasms Story
• Woman's Third Breast Surgery Story
• University Marvel Movies Course
• Shia LaBeouf Self-Harm on Fury Set
• Batman (1989) & Batman Returns Review
• Mark Hamill / Alec Guinness Age Comparison
• Lawrence of Arabia Review
• Porn Parody Title Guessing Game

Grab your new Fleshlight Launch

PAD, call Dave on 04XX XXX XXX and prepare yourself for another episode. However, if you haven’t donated to our iSummon kickstarter by now, you probably don’t deserve to get any alone time with any of us. We don’t work for free, you know.

Topics discussed

• Steve Jobs Kickstarter funding status update
• Shia LaBeouf Cabaret ejection & stalker news
• Neal Stephenson's CLANG Kickstarter failure
• Fleshlight Launchpad product news
• Microsoft buys Minecraft/Mojang
• Destiny multiplayer & endgame impressions
• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For review
• Dan Aykroyd's Ghostbusters universe comments
• Predestination recommendation
• Space Station 76 review
• iPhone 6 vs Android debate
• Creepazoids horror-movie guessing game
• Jeremy Irons same-sex marriage comments

You may or may not notice something missing from this episode. Spoilers: it’s Dave. But that’s okay because he didn’t go to Oz Comic-Con anyway. If you are sensitive to the general discussion of trigger warnings, you should sit this one out.

Topics discussed

• Oz Comic-Con: Buffy panel (Brendon & Caulfield)
• Oz Comic-Con: William Shatner panel
• Jack the Ripper DNA shawl claim
• Clickbait & Saved You a Click rant
• Trigger warnings debate
• The Fappening celebrity photo hack
• iPhone 6 & 6 Plus size complaints
• Steve Jobs Ouija board Kickstarter update
• Destiny full release impressions
• Hitman HD Trilogy & retro game controls
• Godzilla 2014 review
• Man of Steel / superhero destruction fatigue
• Batman v Superman Batmobile reveal
• 1966 Batman movie rewatch
• Hollywoodland recommendation
• Sesame Street Star Wars parody
• Star Wars anthology films (Obi-Wan & Boba Fett)
• Star Wars Episode VII set photo drone controversy

We’re back and we’ve brought our Kickstarter campaign with us! If you’re enjoying the show and you’d like to get involved then please head on over and contribute. We’ll love you forever, or at least until tomorrow morning.

Topics discussed

• Robin Williams death tribute
• Mrs. Doubtfire plot critique
• Robin Williams favorite films & encounters
• Michael Jackson posthumous forgiveness tangent
• Robin Williams video game memorials
• Mars One fatwa news
• Adam Corolla podcast patent lawsuit
• Multiple Nerdgasm merch store launch
• Steve Jobs Kickstarter status update
• Ohio morgue necrophilia case
• Dirty Bird logo controversy
• Phil Fish quits game industry
• Locke film review
• Neighbors film review
• Insidious review
• Guardians of the Galaxy review
• Amazing Spider-Man 2 review
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier review
• X-Men: Days of Future Past review
• Ghostbusters trivia & Nostalgia Critic anecdote
• Ghostbusters all-female reboot news

This episode was supposed to come with a Kickstarter campaign, but we’re still waiting on approval from Kickstarter. Rest assured that as soon as it becomes available (IF it becomes available) we will let you know! We’re sure they’re just busy cursing themselves for not thinking of this idea themselves.

Topics discussed

• Kickstarter squatter game-dev drama
• Potato Salad Kickstarter viral success
• Own-podcast Kickstarter joke pitch
• Apple Macintosh naming / Get Smart theory
• Steve Jobs Ouija board Kickstarter
• Ebola outbreak: first US case
• Opera Bar restaurant review
• Destiny beta impressions
• PS4 & PlayStation Plus impressions
• Watch Dogs on PS4/Vita
• Killzone: Shadow Fall impressions
• Batman: Arkham Origins impressions
• Guardians of the Galaxy review
• Comixology backup & bundle changes
• Detective Comics #27 (first Batman comic)
• Emily Dickinson poetry

If you’ve ever backed something on Kickstarter and have it blow up in your face (and we think everyone probably has by now) then this is the episode for you! We also Xboner news, Doom 4, Watch Doge, Dark Souls, Planet of the Apes and a whole lot more.

Topics discussed

• Yogscast Yogventures Kickstarter collapse
• Yog Discovery sponsored-video revenue scheme
• Manuel Noriega suing over Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
• Watch Dogs impressions
• Diablo III console impressions
• Xbox One Kinect-less SKU test
• Kindle Unlimited, Spotify & Press Pause Play
• Doom 4 reveal
• Destiny beta impressions
• Dark Souls frustration
• FTL: Faster Than Light
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review
• Transcendence review
• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
• Silicon Valley (HBO) recommendation
• TV catch-up: Game of Thrones, Vikings, Rome & The Tudors
• Caligula film discussion
• Marvel: black Captain America & female Thor news
• Star Wars Tagalongs merchandise

Dan went to China, Steam had a sale, Muppets were wanted mostly and a name change led to some unintended yet comical consequences! All that and more on this weeks hilarious* episode of Multiple Nerdgasm!

Topics discussed

• China trip: Great Wall & culture stories
• Weird Chinese t-shirts & odd rules
• Selfie sticks, dragons & internet censorship in China
• Sasquatch DNA hair sample study
• Steam Summer Sale game purchases
• The Wolf Among Us & Walking Dead talk
• Shadow Run iPad save corruption
• Sometimes You Die iOS game
• Han Solo legal name change denied passport
• Harrison Ford Millennium Falcon injury update
• Billie Lourd Star Wars casting rumor
• Rian Johnson directing Star Wars 8 & 9
• Muppets Most Wanted review
• Robotech Kickstarter campaign
• Luke's tattoo update
• Helter Skelter / Manson murders book
• No Country for Old Men book
• First Blood (Rambo novel)
• Fahrenheit 451 & The Martian Chronicles