Pen Fights Gamepad

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Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: Donald is going to E3! Dan's a published author! Chewie with IBS, and lots of other stuff about games and movies.

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Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.

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Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.

Topics covered in this show:

J.J. Abrams Lens Flares

YouTube Video explaining it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paPT4iHUjFQ

More show notes to come soon.

Download the .mp3 Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show:

Dan once killed Bambi

Moose like getting drunk on berries

Children screaming

Twilight is about pooping

Moose mouth

Donald's injured family - skull shaping, broken ribs, a broken wrist

Poop grenade

Poop waterbottle

Farts are funny

Video Game Giveaway - To celebrate the forthcoming STAR WARS movies from Disney, we are giving away Lego Starwars The Original Trilogy for the Gamecube!

www.did-not-finish.com happenings:

Warlords - a reboot of the classic Atari video game

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation - PlayStation Vita

Call of Duty Classic

Ninja Turtles NES games

Marvel Super Hero Squad and renting video games

Epic Mickey 2 and little kids playing video games

Food Parties!

Kids asking Santa for video games

FTL the space ship video game

Letting newbies wind at video games leads them to try out for American Idol

X-men and Baseball cards

Where Ken Griffey Jr. Go?

Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the SNES

Tiger Woods

Shaq Fu for the Super Nintendo

NaNoWriMo

Dan hasn't been writing because he's been studying plot structure

Donald gives Dan his thoughts and awesome ideas on Dan's science fiction novel after his third read through

Dan explains a few things about the development of his novel

Dan has a new Anthology for sale - "Danthology." A collection of all his short stories in one place for 99 cents

eReaders, eInk, Barnes and Noble

How our wives talk in their sleep

Flashpoint the TV show

Terra Nova on Netflix - it is so bad that it is kinda good?

'Last Resort' Canceled - boo hoo

TV networks concerned about how many people watched the Felix Baumgartner jump from space

Disney bought Lucasfilm!

New STAR WARS movies? We're excited!

Thrawn Trilogy

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings book vs movies

Will the new STAR WARS movies make a spike in Science Fiction books?

Video Games making more money than Movies

Black Ops 2 made 500 million in 24 hours

The Avengers took around 5 months to hit a billion dollars

The Hulk, the only movie Dan still needs to see before finally seeing the Avengers

Good video game movies?

Windows Phone 8, iPhone, Galaxy S3, Samsumg ATIV

Mac VS Windows

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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show:

What We’ve Been Up To

Added a Facebook “Like” button to the posts of website

Dan and his wife are doing Foster Care

We’re On Stitcher! - Read Example 1 and Additional Info

Donald generously gave Dan Torchlight

Metriod Prime games

DNF - I am playing Double Dragon Neon and enjoying it?

Tokyo Jungle is amazing!

Borderlands 2 is Amazingerest

heyash.com

extralife.org

Dan is playing New Super Mario Bros with his wife and loving it!

DDTAM - “Stuffed Monster” available in audio http://everyphototells.com/2012/10/episode-99-stuffed-monster/

Movie Memories (ep 5 just went live)

Dan has a story that is going to be published in an anthology by Five Rivers Publishing

Dan is going to submit to the Inlander Short Story Contest again

Wool

Treasure Park

Things We Need to Read, Watch, or Play

Dan Added Assasin’s Creed because it’s on Steam for Mac -Donald is happy about this.

Dan finished Batman: Private Casebook - great art, writing was decent

Galaxy on Fire space game on iPod touch & iPad

New Game from Chris Roberts creator of Wing Commander

Trailer: http://www.playerattack.com/news/2012/10/10/wing-commander-creator-returns-with-star-citizen/

Kotaku Article:

http://kotaku.com/5950453/you-loved-wing-commander-now-meet-the-shiny-successor-that-will-bring-space-sims-into-the-21st-century

Kickstarter!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen

Brad Hates Games revisits Colony Wars and it reminds me of -

Freelancer - the Chris Roberts game that Dan may not know about. - 

opeing cinimatic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RsWPFUzxgRU#!

gameplay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NODc1lXn0ak#!

Privateer Intro Video Part I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9LVXvRrT0

Writing Excuses 7:33 starts at: 14:06

How Lost did it wrong from last episode with Michael and Walt

http://www.writingexcuses.com/wp-content/uploads/Writing_Excuses_7_33_Authentic_Emotion.mp3

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:

What we've been up to

DDTAM-

Stuffed Monster

http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/09/stuffed-monster.html

Novel Experiment: The Ghost of Meadowhill

http://www.dandantheartman.com/p/novel-experiment.html

Do research on Napa school

DNF-

Xbox Glold is pissing me off. PS+ is making me happy

Borderlands 2 excitement

Assassinâs Creed Revelations

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions

Double Dragon

Raptr.com

Danger Joe video game

Assasin's Creed for Kinect

Zombie Carnival

Positive reviews

Truth about Zombies

Praise

Original idea VS current Idea

We're Alive

http://zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html

Donald am now listening in real time :(

Walking Dead Episode 3

Guess what? Things got worse.

bing rewards

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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:

We have our first guest on the show! David of www.glowpuff.com games!

Introduce David of http://glowpuff.com/

Glowpuff games interview.

What we've been up to

Talk about microphones of last two episodes and laptop dying.

Did Not Finish Updates

Did Not Finish question from Dan

Dan asks if there was a game Donald wasnât looking forward to playing for Did Not Finish which surprised him and was actually pretty good.

DanDanTheArtMan.com Updates

The Truth About Zombies a reading of chapter 1

http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/08/a-reading-of-my-new-zombie-novel.html

Start this video at 1:38

Samsung loses in court

Thoughts on how this will affect the phone market.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/24/apple-vs-samsung-verdict-samsung-guilty-of-willfully-infringing-apple-patents

We're Alive audio drama fiction podcast

http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html

Rotten Tomatoes on Lord of the Rings Movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

TOMATOMETER 92% | AUDIENCE 92%

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

TOMATOMETER 96% | AUDIENCE 92%

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

TOMATOMETER 94% | AUDIENCE 83%

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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:

Batman The Dark Knight Rises

The Hobbit being made into three movies?

Star Wars Christmas Special

Dan liked King Kong by Peter Jackson? Donald did not.

Peter Jackson wants to be like Twilight and make several movies from one book?

Dan's review of the first Twilight book: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2011/06/review-of-twilight-spoilers.html

The first Underworld movie and how it was good a vampire flick

3D being overdone in movies

Dan pines for Original Star Wars trilogy, Donald has a copy on VHS

Hear Donald talk like Bane from Batman The Dark Knight Rises!

Bane and how his mouth is covered, acting, speaking

Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises

The Man of Steel trailer

Listen to the guys watch the trailer and comment then discuss:

Talk about the darker new direction that is hinted at.

Is this the “Nolaning” of the Superman franchise?

Are they trying to make Superman fit into the grittier Batman univers?

Will JLA be better as a darker more serious film?

G.I. Joe the movie

Animated movies being better than the live action, Star Wars: Clone Wars

Total Recall reboot - Dan hasn't seen the original, added to his list

Superman teaser trailer left us wondering

SNL skit of Superman where everyone knows who he is

Things We Need To Watch or Read list is visited

http://www.penfightsgamepad.com/p/things-we-need-to-watch-or-read.html

1. Dan recommends a book to Donald: John Cleaver trilogy

http://thedanwells.com/titles/ianask.html

2. Dan finished the comic The Dark Knight Returns

Making an Animated version of The Dark Knight Returns

Batman The Animated Series and their voice actors doing a trailer for the new Batman live action

Batman Arkham City Asylum game - Dan needs to play it

3. Dan saw Captain America

Tron Legacy, and Dan hasn't seen the original Tron

4: Donald is enjoying a TV show "Breakout Kings" on Netflix. World may have stopped turnning for a moment.

Dan remixed some music for a Glowpuff video game "Carnival Carnage" (the one starring Donald)

Live play the Beta build of Carnival Carnage (because I have it!)

Donald plays it live on the show

DNF update

Finished Duke Nukem Forever - I have some thoughts

Expendables 2 game - I got it for free in a strange way

Patapon 2 - Best game ever?

Dan was on The Roundtable Podcast www.roundtablepodcast.com

Dan gives a short reading from his Sci-Fi novel of the scene where Quickstar leaves his Captain dead or alive.

See more by this artist Zzenya Thompson here: http://zzenkinsein.deviantart.com/

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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:

- We talk taking young children to theme parks.

- Donald went to a local theme park called Silverwood with his family

  - Tiny Toot Train

- Dan talks about his recent trip taking his family to Disneyland

- Water World stage show, Kevin Costner's fish wig, the movie Open Range

- Vegas TV show

- We talk about all the Reboots going on like Fantastic Four

- Donald saw The Amazing Spider-Man movie in 3D, he liked it

- Dan watched Iron Man 1 & Iron Man 2, he liked them

- Tech in Iron Man vs what is available today

- Dan saw The Expendables and really liked it

- X-Men First class

- Dan read more of Donald's graphic novel The Death of Don Hat

- Dan's blog post on writing a prequel novel and writing the back story of a character and why Donald thinks it's a bad idea

- Rogue archetype character breakdown, examples Han Solo, Aragorn

- A Pen Fights Gamepad drinking game which we don't recommend you play

- Firefly

- Why Dan hates when cool looking animated characters are ruined by high pitched voices and why Mickey Mouse's gloves may be white

- Breaking down the universe of Mickey Mouse and the speculative technology behind Mickey Mouse's helper character Tootles

- Donald brought over his Playstation Vita and Dan finally plays Gravity Rush

- How playing games, reading books, watching movies has been revolutionized with the ability to consume in bite size chunks whenever you have spare time

- Donald talks about his PS Vita

- Steam summer sale on video games

- The Secret of Monkey Island (video game)

- The Hitman games

- Mission Impossible for the N64

- Hitman: Blood Money cheap on Steam and awesome

- The Crisis Collection (unique first person shooter)

- Independant games like Terraria, Jamestown on steam

- Indie musicians, authors, and how it's all been revolutionized from the days of the big publishers

- Building and managing our website, web analytics

- Wordpress VS Blogger

- This is episode 5! Celebrate with us by sending us an audio recording, we'll play it on the show!

- Why some people were gamers as kids, mostly females, but are no longer interested in video games but will still play old console games

Website for this podcast:

http://www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Dan's Websites:

http://www.DanDanTheArtMan.com

http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan

Donald's Website:

http://www.did-not-finish.com

http://www.twitter.com/ConManEd

Download the .mp3

Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.

Topics covered in this show:

- We're back! And now we have a dot com! Our website is now www.PenFightsGamepad.com

- We got featured on the ComixBox for our latest talk on comic books and superheroes. Link: http://paper.li/comicbox/1339621754

Things Dan Needs To Watch or Read

- Dan finished Kick Ass

- Dan is over halfway through The Dark Knight Returns

- GlowPuff games is making a new game starring our very own Donald Conrad! www.glowpuff.com

- Donald watched the movie Transformers Dark of the Moon and hated it.

- Donald watched the movie Chronicle and loved it.

- Creatives making better stuff with restraints like a small budget

- Star Wars original trilogy VS newer trilogy.

- Darth Vader being a Jack Ass. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPm2rIQO_c

- The Notebook re-cut as a Horror movie trailer (There are many, YouTube it)

- Flashpoint (One of Dan's favorite shows on Netflix)

- 24 the TV show, and Jack Bauer

- Donald is playing Duke Nukem Forever and he's not happy about it

- Donald updates us on Did Not Finish - Call of Duty Classic

- Ouya game system and their Kickstarter

link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console

- Email received from James - "Why do you talk about writing? Shouldn’t you talk more about games on the podcast?” The hosts respond.

- Hosts talk about Dan’s novel and recent blog post about it: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/07/my-first-show-my-first-novel.html

- David Farland and his "Daily Kick" writing advice, www.davidfarland.net

- Donald sticks it to Dan with some great feedback on his novel, and questions about why certain scenes are characters are they way they are

- Dan shares some advice from Stephen King's book "On Writing" and how he should use the advice himself

- Donald shares more ideas for improving Dan's book

- Dan's web comic www.dyingwishcomic.blogspot.com

- www.DanDanTheArtMan.com has published works by Dan available in audio and eBooks most for free

- Donald’s Graphic Novel

- Dan recommends an epic fantasy trilogy of novels by Michael J. Sullivan - Theft of Swords http://www.riyria.com/

- Game of Thrones Show and Books

Website for this podcast: http://www.PenFightsGamepad.com

Dan's Websites:

http://www.DanDanTheArtMan.com

http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan

Donald's Website:

http://www.did-not-finish.com

http://www.twitter.com/ConManEd

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