Open Forum Radio – Episode 336 OFR Season 8 (Episode 10) – OFR FANtastic Films Tuesday, January 24th 2017 – 9:30 EST   (Feedback at [email protected]) What is your take on Fan Films? 12 incredible fan films that put Hollywood to shame, from Darth Maul to Power Rangers. These mini-blockbusters are even better than the

Open Forum Radio - Episode 336

OFR Season 8 (Episode 10) - OFR FANtastic Films

Tuesday, January 24th 2017 - 9:30 EST  

(Feedback at [email protected])

What is your take on Fan Films? 12 incredible fan films that put Hollywood to shame, from Darth Maul to Power Rangers. These mini-blockbusters are even better than the real thing.

Star Trek

Fan film legal news:  Axanar has settled its lawsuit with Paramount over its Star Trek fan film

Prelude to Axanar

 

Star Wars

Star Wars news: Episode VIII will be titled The Last Jedi

TK-436: A Stormtrooper Story (FULL DIRECTOR’S CUT)

Han Solo: A Smuggler's Trade

The Last Padawan: A Short Star Wars Story - Fan Film

This game is going to be awesome

Here is some actual gameplay of Ghost Recon Wildlands

Mass Effect Andromeda will have a 10-hour EA Access trial on March 16

Silliness Anne Hathaway controls a giant monster in the trailer for Colossal

Cutting the Cheese the rezort     how did i grate it ?                                                                                                                                                                                                    

           Cheese factor scale 1) stinky bishop 2) limberger 3) munster 4) epoisses 5) teleggio  just trying to help people shredd thru their netflix Q one stinker at a time . depending on feedback and how it goes, we will see who cuts the cheese next time .  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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Best & Worst of the week (Try to stick to 1 Best thing and 1 Worst thing)

Best: xXx: Return of Zander Cage Free Worst: Big left toe injury

Best/Worst: Kangaroo Kick & 1008 hours Worst: Rain

Best: got all my tax info ready to file best: found out my hot tub has a waterfall after a year and a half

Best: Spending the day Saturday with my son   Best: Sat. night out with friends bar hopping/live music

Our World (Top 3 Things you saw, heard or played)  

Batman TellTale, Gotham, TitanFall2   Gear of War 4, Mortal Kombat XL,

Open Forum Radio - Episode 335

OFR Season 8 (Episode 9) - OFR Half Angry Half Machine

Tuesday, January 17th 2017 - 9:57 EST  

Introduction & Roll Call: Color Key: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Jason, Anthony, Bubba

Main Topics/Group Discussion: (Feedback at [email protected])

Welcome AA & Bubba

     

Have we lost our minds? Ethical dilemma  Robot Rights Movement

Should robots be given legal status as 'electronic persons' and must be fitted with 'kill switches' to prevent a Terminator-style rise of the machines, warn EU MEPs

MEPs (Member of European Parliament) passed a resolution urging Brussels to take action on automaton ethics, Members want an EU agency specialised in dealing with artificial intelligence. Ray Kurzweil … The Singularity. Agenda 21

Insurance claims for driverless car accidents, robots paying union dues paying union dues, robot marriage, Crimes against robots (Hitchbot - Death of a hitch-hiking robot), Robots: Do they deserve civil rights ?

This might be the best trailer for remake movie this year ‘CHiPs’

A Mass Effect Tempest and Nomad Briefing

Awesome prize - Giant Cup Noodles

Nintendo Switch

The Games: Switch launch lineup of games

Cool things

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild,  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Has Been Heroes, Super Mario Odyssey (but not out until Holiday 2017… too far away) $300 why?

Silly things

Let's Play 1-2-SWITCH • Quick Draw ★ Nintendo Switch

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Best & Worst of the week (Try to stick to 1 Best thing and 1 Worst thing)

Best:  Jerry Seinfeld Show Best/Worst:  Unexpected 2 mile Cardio

Best: Emma Worst: Losing

Open Forum Radio – Episode 335 OFR Season 8 (Episode 9) – OFR Half Angry Half Machine Tuesday, January 17th 2017 – 9:57 EST   Introduction & Roll Call: Color Key: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Jason, Anthony, Bubba Main Topics/Group Discussion: (Feedback at [email protected]) Welcome AA & Bubba       Have we lost our minds?

Open Forum Radio - Episode 335

OFR Season 8 (Episode 9) - OFR Half Angry Half Machine

Tuesday, January 17th 2017 - 9:57 EST  

Introduction & Roll Call: Color Key: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Jason, Anthony, Bubba

Main Topics/Group Discussion: (Feedback at [email protected])

Welcome AA & Bubba

     

Have we lost our minds? Ethical dilemma  Robot Rights Movement

Should robots be given legal status as 'electronic persons' and must be fitted with 'kill switches' to prevent a Terminator-style rise of the machines, warn EU MEPs

MEPs (Member of European Parliament) passed a resolution urging Brussels to take action on automaton ethics, Members want an EU agency specialised in dealing with artificial intelligence. Ray Kurzweil … The Singularity. Agenda 21

Insurance claims for driverless car accidents, robots paying union dues paying union dues, robot marriage, Crimes against robots (Hitchbot - Death of a hitch-hiking robot), Robots: Do they deserve civil rights ?

This might be the best trailer for remake movie this year ‘CHiPs’

A Mass Effect Tempest and Nomad Briefing

Awesome prize - Giant Cup Noodles

Nintendo Switch

The Games: Switch launch lineup of games

Cool things

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild,  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Has Been Heroes, Super Mario Odyssey (but not out until Holiday 2017… too far away) $300 why?

Silly things

Let's Play 1-2-SWITCH • Quick Draw ★ Nintendo Switch

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Best & Worst of the week (Try to stick to 1 Best thing and 1 Worst thing)

Best:  Jerry Seinfeld Show Best/Worst:  Unexpected 2 mile Cardio

Best: Emma Worst: Losing

Open Forum Radio - Episode 334

OFR Season 8 (Episode 8) - OFR Gives Us Gas

Tuesday, January 10th 2017 - 9:45 EST  

Introduction & Roll Call: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Chaufie

Feedback at [email protected]

Something Derek tweeted about the other day…. BOOK by Cadillac A car subscription service $1500 a month

Cadillac gives you the pimp experience. Businesses that need to pick up clients or provide company cars, or if you are a rock star or athlete or something this totally makes sense. It would be great if you ended up with something though.. All that money and no car at the end?  Thought it was fitting with all the subscriptions in our lives . not much different than a lease . i'd like a tv subscription lol.

Gaming gives me GaaS! Gaming as a Service (GaaS) solution (Nvidia pimping time on its video cards) The NVIDIA GRID  If you spend a lot of time PC gaming, this probably isn’t the best alternative to buying your own rig. But to fill in the gaps between when you can be in front of your home or main gaming system…. I LOVE this idea.

 

No gaming PC no problem Is GeForce Now the next BIG advancement in gaming?  The downsides that I see: You’ll need one of the dozen or so routers that support it, your bandwidth will have to be good to get low latency (ms) and quality. My first test said I was good for 1080p & 60 fps, 2nd time it was 720p & 60 fps, 3rd time back to 1080p & 60 fps 4th test said "Your current ISP may not be able to stream GeForce Now...." - so it my connect seems to inconsistent.    Plus there are about 50 games you can play but sort of like Netflix it appears that they’ll be a rotation with new games arriving and older games leaving. Which is okay I guess unless you want to play that older game or horde games  like I do. It would be better if it would connect somehow to your Steam library. In fact they might be giving Steam a model to provide this to their customers. I’d be more inclined to give this a try if it somehow could read my library I think.

Mass Effect Andromeda - March 21st CES 2017 Gameplay Trailer

Does that scare anyone that they aren’t giving more of a peek at what we should expect from Andromeda so close to launch?

Multiplayer & PC Specs will probably be revealed in Feb, about a month before launch.

Another Star Trek device has come to pass. The Tri-corder The Changhong H2 - uses the SCIO scanning technology

Are you ready? Univ of Leicester (England… south of Nottingham) paper finds The zombie apocalypse won't take long.

Do you have a plan if things go sideways? Or have you never given it any thought? If you haven’t thought about some scenario like this you’re crazy, but I don’t have a formal plan

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Open Forum Radio – Episode 334 OFR Season 8 (Episode 8) – OFR Gives Us Gas Tuesday, January 10th 2017 – 9:45 EST   Introduction & Roll Call: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Chaufie Feedback at [email protected] Something Derek tweeted about the other day…. BOOK by Cadillac A car subscription service $1500 a month Cadillac gives you the

Open Forum Radio - Episode 334

OFR Season 8 (Episode 8) - OFR Gives Us Gas

Tuesday, January 10th 2017 - 9:45 EST  

Introduction & Roll Call: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Chaufie

Feedback at [email protected]

Something Derek tweeted about the other day…. BOOK by Cadillac A car subscription service $1500 a month

Cadillac gives you the pimp experience. Businesses that need to pick up clients or provide company cars, or if you are a rock star or athlete or something this totally makes sense. It would be great if you ended up with something though.. All that money and no car at the end?  Thought it was fitting with all the subscriptions in our lives . not much different than a lease . i'd like a tv subscription lol.

Gaming gives me GaaS! Gaming as a Service (GaaS) solution (Nvidia pimping time on its video cards) The NVIDIA GRID  If you spend a lot of time PC gaming, this probably isn’t the best alternative to buying your own rig. But to fill in the gaps between when you can be in front of your home or main gaming system…. I LOVE this idea.

 

No gaming PC no problem Is GeForce Now the next BIG advancement in gaming?  The downsides that I see: You’ll need one of the dozen or so routers that support it, your bandwidth will have to be good to get low latency (ms) and quality. My first test said I was good for 1080p & 60 fps, 2nd time it was 720p & 60 fps, 3rd time back to 1080p & 60 fps 4th test said "Your current ISP may not be able to stream GeForce Now...." - so it my connect seems to inconsistent.    Plus there are about 50 games you can play but sort of like Netflix it appears that they’ll be a rotation with new games arriving and older games leaving. Which is okay I guess unless you want to play that older game or horde games  like I do. It would be better if it would connect somehow to your Steam library. In fact they might be giving Steam a model to provide this to their customers. I’d be more inclined to give this a try if it somehow could read my library I think.

Mass Effect Andromeda - March 21st CES 2017 Gameplay Trailer

Does that scare anyone that they aren’t giving more of a peek at what we should expect from Andromeda so close to launch?

Multiplayer & PC Specs will probably be revealed in Feb, about a month before launch.

Another Star Trek device has come to pass. The Tri-corder The Changhong H2 - uses the SCIO scanning technology

Are you ready? Univ of Leicester (England… south of Nottingham) paper finds The zombie apocalypse won't take long.

Do you have a plan if things go sideways? Or have you never given it any thought? If you haven’t thought about some scenario like this you’re crazy, but I don’t have a formal plan

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Open Forum Radio - Episode 333

OFR Season 8 (Episode 7) - OFR Only Half Evil Technology

Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 - 9:30 EST  

Introduction & Roll Call: Color Key: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Jason

Main Topics/Group Discussion: (Feedback at [email protected])

Welcome to 2017 - CES starts this week and we are pretty excited about what we might see

* I am SO hyped for HoloLens and that 3rd parties Lenovo, ASUS and ACER are making them. And the cost $300!!!  Story on slashgear.com

I will buy a hololens for many reasons but this is right up there. HoloLens could help you find your keys

Home of CES

Welcome to the future of the technology that will either be awesome or initiate Skynet and be the undoing of mankind. What does 2017 have in store for us CES 2017 predictions

What to expect at the massive Las Vegas tech show

4K HDR vs 4K Dolby Vision/HDR TVs (1000 nits vs 4000 nits capability)

Phones (more than just phone really right?)

T-Mobile is teasing a January 5 announcement, revealing "What's Next" in its continued efforts to shake up the industry. CEO John Legere promises this is a big one, so stay tuned.  

Crazy expensive laptop

Self Driving cars, VR, Drones, wearable tech, wireless everything,  the internet of things, robots and more

In the near future, I expect that we’ll see more viable external GPU docking stations that’ll allow a run-of-the-mill laptop to become your gaming mega-beast.  

PS4 can sure make a cool hype video To celebrate the New Year, Sony today released a new sizzle reel that shows off some of the "unmissable" games coming to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR in 2017.

We usually save football for later, but come on man! - it is the Playoffs now!!

Is your team in?  Lmao barely but by the grace of luck by washington sucking lol sorry glovebox Texans back to Brock DAMN!!! Chiefs got the #2 seed, let’s see if they do anything with it

Best memes on the Dallas back-ups vs Philly starters game Poking fun at Mark Sanchez & Philly

Mega cool deal if you like Assassins Creed - the AC Humble Bundle

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Open Forum Radio – Episode 333 OFR Season 8 (Episode 7) – OFR Only Half Evil Technology Tuesday, January 3rd 2017 – 9:30 EST   Introduction & Roll Call: Color Key: Tmo, Vladz, Derek, Jason Main Topics/Group Discussion: (Feedback at [email protected]) Welcome to 2017 – CES starts this week and we are pretty excited about