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  • PS2J 25 - New Year 2016
    The new year starts out… uhh, not strong. But it starts.
    We talk about the great year we had.
    And what we look forward to with next year
    Not watching our channel? Why not?
    http://www.youtube.com/ps2jshow
    Mikes Master Chief Write Up
    http://www.ps2jshow.com/chief-write-up/
    Josh’s Goofy Destiny Video
    https://youtu.be/rIe8uK4Wg_g
    The Picasso CaH Thing
    https://picasso.eightsensiblegifts.com/
    PS2J has a Patreon
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    And happy holidays!
    52 min
  • BSD20 3 - Rebels Without A Clue
    Our adventure starts with Monedo, a sage in need of heroes to save the village of Wolford. Belai the Malign is attacking it.
    Veronica plays a human ranger, followed by her trusty Minotaur, Minnie.
    Mike is a dwarf paladin, that praises the King Under The Mountain.
    Josh is the pixie necromancer, that likes to ride his subjects.
    They have to see past their differences to overcome the battle ahead.
    Can they defeat the Ork in the Shiny armour?
    Spoiler: They kinda do?
    1 hr 2 min
  • PS2J 23 - Rentals, Memory Cards, Simpler Times
    Josh fumbles a shout out to Kevin MacLeod. He makes all the music that Josh uses for the show, sans intro jingle. Check out his info below.
    It’s the 19th! … Not really.
    And Josh is wrong, his wife bought the CAH Hanukkah subscription for him.
    Josh takes you through the experience of opening his Night One letter.
    At the time of editing the podcast, he has also received Night Three, which was more socks.
    And Night Three’s letter was about commitment.
    Alan isn’t jealous of Josh’s stump gloves.
    Josh talks about the biggest secret behind Five Nights At Freddys.
    Alan and Josh like FNAF, to watch but not play.
    Mike likes other survival horrors.
    Josh is looking forward to working with Ryan again!
    And we want to play games with you too Ryan!
    Josh apparently knows very little about Heroes of the Storm
    Alan saw some LoL fails.
    Josh didn’t see the holiday traffic he wanted when he want to WEM.
    Mike had a visit with robots or something.
    Alan tells us there is a hoverboad battery recall.
    We ooze into Fallout talk.
    Josh talks about his Dad playing New Vegas for the first time.
    Mike finds the NPC’s from that game spawn at stupid times.
    Josh does not want to see any new Futurama, enough is enough.
    And Josh tries to segway to Hot Topic opening in WEM, wherever its opening, he can’t remember.
    Mike bought himself a foam dart Needler.
    Alan talks about Nerf shooting balls.
    Then Josh talks about foam dart archery, that whistles.
    He isn’t crazy, Mike knows what he’s talking about.
    Josh tells tale of a YouTube video of a kid getting picked up by cops, for being stupid.
    Mike tells Josh there is a foam archery place near Edmonton.
    Josh cannot stand hardcore paintballers, he finds them silly.
    He had a lot of bad experiences with those kind of people.
    There is a rubber ball option that sounds like a terrible paintball alternative.
    Jason, friend of the podcast?, told Mike a HORRIBLE paintball story.
    Josh follows up with another safety shenanigan.
    He then talks about his first time getting hit by a paintball, and couldn’t go out.
    007 Golden Eye paintball mode!
    Josh makes a failed comparison and Alan catches him with a net of bullshit.
    And we may play awful games for the YouTube channel.
    Alan talks about the killer chamber pot from Skyrim.
    Josh brings up his new favourite thing, Reverse Animal Rescue GIF’s.
    And he talks more stories of stuff he saw on Reddit.
    Josh still laments selling Looney Tunes Sheep Raider.
    Can PS3 play PS1?
    And hopefully we will be able to play Steel Battalion for original Xbox.
    Alan had a bad time renting that game.
    We share more disappointing rental stories.
    Mike says Buck Bumble was one, so the intro music plays at the very end.
    Josh messed up as a kid and rented the 2 most boring Mario games for SNES.
    And he tells his infamous “After The Dentist” gaming experience.
    Mike retells playing Dino Crisis 2 and never getting to save.
    And we all share stories of not having memory cards.
    Josh recaps and admits he is a Nintendo whale.
    Find Kevin online
    Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/kmacleod
    Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/kmmusic
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/kmacleod
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kmacleodmusic
    Website - www.incompetech.com
    Check out Ryan and Josh’s, Shante and the Pirate’s Curse play through.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJMf1Ve0OUc
    The Subreddit Josh was talking about
    https://www.reddit.com/r/reverseanimalrescue
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    59 min
  • PS2J 24 - Press Start To Join The Holidays
    Why not start out a holiday episode by scolding Josh.
    Put Christ in Christmas… Twice! Have a Christy ChristmasChrist.
    Mike steps in on the war on Christmas.
    Josh fails on a 30 Rock quote. Party foul.
    Then he destroys it. Wow, get it together.
    Mikes favourite Christmas but not Christmasy movie is Die Hard.
    Josh may be confused with Batman Returns. That is defiantly during Christmas.
    Conversation turns in a Schwarzenegger talk.
    Alan likes references that stand on their own, but serve as a treat to fans.
    Josh like Gremlins as a not Christmasy movie.
    We discover that Alan has no memory of movies with Christmas.
    Josh goes on about reverse animal rescues again.
    Mike has a fun fact about computer names in Evangelion.
    Alan hits a sore spot with Josh on the topic of Tim Horton holiday cups.
    And nobody cares as much as he does. Or ever should.
    Mike seems to be really unobservant.
    For Josh, all design mistakes seem to drive him crazy.
    For some kind of Christmas theming, Josh reads Wikipedia for some Christmas info.
    Alan defiantly calls him out on it.
    After drawing some parallels, Josh tries to talk about Krampus.
    Then he explains how stories move across continents by goat lovers.
    And PS2J knows a hot Krampus, go figure.
    And Josh goes on about a helper of Saint Nicholas, Black Pete.
    Josh read an online comic one, Alan knows it, and it a butt about it.
    Check out Scandinavia and the World, link in the description.
    Fairly awfully, Josh struggles through the story of Black Pete.
    And he seems to mix up the Krampus and Black Peter.
    Germanic cultures don’t mess around with stories of discipline.
    Josh knows of a short Brothers Grimm story, and tells it through a Josh lens.
    You are about to hear an iteration of The Slaughter Game.
    Fairly Grimm? lol jk
    Don’t leave knife in children.
    Archer reference.
    And we talk about working the YouTube Page.
    Ryan, how you do YouTube. It hard.
    Mike bought himself a Needler for Christmas.
    Josh bought wave 2 of Animal Crossing Amiibo and a Mega Yarn Yoshi.
    Alan Got himself a portable hard drive for his XBone.
    Soylent 2.0! We still talking bout 'cha Solent, sponsor us?
    Josh talks about sponsors complaining about the advertiser doing their thang.
    And he randomly fires in coupons he is familiar with.
    Josh wish he had time to play Sunset Overdrive again.
    Alan asks us about Destiny’s pay to level platform.
    And Destiny is planning to sequel?
    Mike feels its more about money than game making.
    Alan and Josh talk about the subtle art of Chao training, which is hitting it with the correct character.
    Josh reads a message from Ken that JonTron’s Starcade had a good finale.
    Bring it on back to Christmas with Dr. Who.
    But Mike has too much TV.
    Alan explains the DC TV show stuff.
    Josh is pissed they got rid of the Great Saiyaman’s helmet.
    And he explains, about his woking and DBZ watchin.
    Our secret of ignoring people and planning bit in our head.
    We plug JonTron.
    And more importantly, our Patreon!
    Also, check out Mikes write up on his Master Chief armour.
    PS2J has a Patreon
    http://www.patreon.com/ps2jshow
    Mike’s Halo Write Up
    http://www.ps2jshow.com/chief-write-up/
    Looking for Lylia?
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    The comic strip Josh was talking about
    http://satwcomic.com/black-pete
    And finally JonTron’s Starcade
    https://goo.gl/TX5DFn
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    And happy holidays!
    55 min
  • PS2J 22 - Kylo Ren Can’t Melt Steel Beams w/ Rolland
    Josh fumbles the intro. And we talk about our Pulp Fiction-esque episode.
    Josh opens up with asking, most Disappointing movie remake.
    Disney owns Star Wars, which will make for great video game and other crossovers.
    Roland enjoys the Disney Infinity line of toys.
    Roland tells us a story of his son at ECEE 2015, seeing some hardcore Buzz and Woody cosplayers.
    Alan informs Roland of the ‘Everything Is Canon’ theory.
    Roland tells us of the old super hero shows, Batman, Captain America, Spider-Man and more.
    He is also happy with the current state and future of super hero movies and shows.
    Josh is mighty perturbed that Batman vs Superman has a Batman backstory.
    Rolland believes in Ben Affleck’s Batman, the Batfleck.
    Can anything stand in the shadow of Star Wars? Or nerd movies in general.
    Movies are just a bigger business.
    Josh got excited by a 360 degree music video ad.
    What if BB-88 is droid Hitler?
    Rolland speculates on what character Andy Serkis, is playing in the Force Awakens.
    He tells us about the Sith lord Darth Plagueis.
    Josh talks light saber colours.
    And Rolland has strong feelings against Grey Jedi.
    And we get into the new theory that Jar Jar was supposed to be a Sith Lord.
    Rolland thinks these theories are fun, but to not get caught up in it.
    Mike explains his frustration about The Game Theorist, providing a reason that Halo Spartans dies when they get hit in the back.
    Rolland taks about the silly way kids play.
    Josh tells the story of him shouting in Star Wars Episode 3. If you know him, its exactly why you think.
    We wrap up with talking about things people like within the Star Wars universe.
    Find Rolland on the internet!
    Twitter @rollandjadeonar
    Instagram @cdnjedi
    Follow Saber Guild Echo Base
    Twitter @SGTemplePrime
    Facebook facebook.com/SaberguildEchoBase
    Looking to join Echobase?
    You can email Rolland yourself!
    SGEchobaseTemple@gmail (dot) com
    And talk to us in the comments!
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    52 min
  • PS2J 21 - Cosplay For Good w/ Rolland
    We start off chatting about History channel and shortly get to our guest.
    Today we welcome Rolland, as he is referred in most circles, he is a cool guy, dad and Jedi.
    When did Facebook becomes so serious?
    Josh ruins a plug, Alan saves the day.
    Then Josh slowly tries to follow Rolland on Twitter.
    We complain about how Facebook filters content.
    Rolland is part of Saber Guild, a Disney and Lucasfilm Ltd., recognized Star Wars group.
    And Echo Base is the Canadian division that Rolland is a director of.
    They do choreographed lightsaber demonstrations for charity and other events.
    If you are interested in joining, they have high standards, and are always looking for people interested to join.
    Rolland started his adventure with his own Ultrasaber and started up the GELG, Greater Edmonton Lightsaber Guild.
    We talk lightsaber forms, extensions of personality but just wack-wack for choreography.
    FloWarrior, a performance artist(s), have a few really cool lightsaber tricks, you can find them on Facebook.
    Alan brings up, and Josh explains the contact juggling from Labyrinth.
    Artists are never done creating, and they all understand that your current work is the best and you are never done.
    Josh asks what kind of reference does he pull his costume ideas from.
    Rolland calls BS on Jedi being able to fight in their baggy clothes.
    And he tries to avoid people crossing the fandoms.
    Rolland would like to attempt a battle-fatige look that Luke had while fighting with the Rebels.
    Mike brings up that even in the movies, the actors had problems with the Jedi clothing.
    Josh claims Obi-Wan showed the only sober move you can preform in Jedi robs.
    Then brings up that it was an actual special move in the Episode 3 game, in the bonus games.
    Josh wonders if Rolland is offend by people showing up as stormtroopers and attracting as much attention as the Jedi cosplayers.
    Mike brings up that many cosplay groups have entry requirements.
    Rolland wants to make clear, that these cosplay groups are very approachable, and if you want to join you will find encouragement and support on getting to their standards.
    Mike talks about the group he is in the 405, a Halo cosplay group. And relates to a cosplay group gaining standards and becoming larger.
    Josh brings up the poor Boba Fett, 501st cosplayer. He had his car stolen, and his costume was inside.
    Rolland has done his fair share of charitable events at the Ronald McDonald house.
    Rolland went with his father to see Star Wars, and is excited to take his own son to The Force Awakens.
    In the end, Rolland would’t trade his hobby for anything, and he is happy to do it.
    And in regular PS2J fashion, the conversation derails and burns down at the end.
    It’s because we get into talking about those shoes that look like bare feet for runners.
    Find Rolland on the internet!
    Twitter @rollandjadeonar
    Instagram @cdnjedi
    Follow Saber Guild Echo Base
    Twitter @SGTemplePrime
    Facebook facebook.com/SaberguildEchoBase
    Looking to join Echobase?
    You can email Rolland yourself!
    SGEchobaseTemple@gmail (dot) com
    And talk to us in the comments!
    Or...
    Twitter and Instagram @ps2jshow
    Facebook Facebook.com/ps2jshow
    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    48 min
  • PS2J 20 - What Are You Watching
    We got nothing. So what is everyone watching?
    Alan is watching Supergirl!
    And he was on and off with Arrow.
    Then we talk about some of the thing that were different in The Martian, comparing movie and book.
    We complain a bit about the Hobbit being 3 movies. With added stuff from other books or completely new content all together.
    Mike then explains the importance of Gimli and Legolas’ friendship.
    He also liked Daredevil and is looking forward to more.
    Also on Netflix, Mike and Alan are enjoying Sense 8.
    Josh is a comedy guy, and other than that he only like the 2 most acclaimed television dramas to date.
    Alan explains why Full Metal Alchemist is inferior to Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
    Josh talks about his favourite comedies on Netflix (Canadian), starting with Black Books.
    He also recommends, Come Fly With Me, a documentary style comedy by the guys that brought you Little Britain.
    Dr. Who comes up. Josh is slowly watching it with his wife, and Alan is unsatisfied with the last episode he saw.
    Josh talks about his time without internet, and how he watched 30 Rock again.
    Then he complains the his Kinect is stupid pretty often.
    Alan says the Adventure Time tangent, Stakes, is great.
    And Mike and Alan are really enjoying One Punch Man.
    If you don’t know, we talk about how hilarious it is.
    Josh ties a One Punch Man scene to old Namek saga Dragon Ball Z.
    And we will all watch Dragonball Super, once it is fully dubbed.
    Josh has a moment and confuses Big Gete with Bene Gesserit.
    Josh has a little Dune/Fallout fun fact.
    So we end up talking about Dune for a bit.
    Josh introduces everyone to Dick Harding, host of ButtCast.
    And you should google Dune Donkey Stomping Comic. Its on a webcomic called Steak Smoothie.
    And mike breaks that Firefly is getting a Netflix mini series.
    Josh is not a fan of the Firefly.
    Han Solo… but Goofy.
    Advent Children, swords and zippers, no chocolate.
    CLOUD IN SMASH!
    Josh has a Christmas spoiler for his sister.
    He is also not responsible with the money.
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    43 min
  • PS2J 19 - What A Pain In The GUI
    Josh has a problem with a variety of user interfaces on various platforms.
    First of all Xbox One, the New Experience is garbage.
    Josh does like ONE thing with the new layout.
    Mike is ostracized for trying to talk on games by other players.
    Alan says that PS4 isn’t any better.
    Josh and Alan download all the free games that are given to them.
    Assassins Creed Black Flag best on the WiiU?
    New 3DS XL are cheaper now its close to the holidays.
    Alan hasn’t charged his 3DS and Mike knows that would happen to any handheld he buys.
    Josh brings up Alan’s old complaint about any website with a log in.
    We blend into talking about being old. Oh brother.
    I am making a conscious decision to not post those video links. Live in mystery!
    Then Josh talks about YouTube UI.
    Alan bring up the pain of editing yourself gaming.
    Josh seems to have a lot of problems with YouTube, 1st world problems.
    And YouTube seemingly fixed some of his problems already.
    Alan talks about Apple making their apps look like Android on Android, and Google making apps looking like Android on iOS.
    Josh asks iPhone users about their phone experience.
    Alan really likes the upgrade iPhone has recently with the 3D touch.
    Mikes iPhone got a bit of a bend to it.
    Alan talks about testers abusing an iPhone 6.
    Josh learns what radio lines are.
    Then he gives props to Nova Launcher for making his Android experience great.
    Alan uses it on his work phone, which is a droid.
    Mike jumped iPhones from 3GS to a 6.
    Alan tells us about the insane resolution on the new iPad.
    Alan thinks his Apple watch does what he needs it to do.
    Josh talks about his future smart watch.
    Our technologies are listening to us!
    Josh is quite happy about the consistent release schedule.
    Alan is shocked how much advertising on Daring Fireball is.
    Then Josh brings up Game Grumps, then it comes around to Egoraptors old work.
    And Josh brings it back around to the UI of the old peer-to-peer sharing program called WinMX.
    Downloading music used to be so risky.
    And talk to us in the comments!
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    41 min
  • PS2J 18 - Homoerotic Robots w/ Jen
    Jen is still around, so we are talking with him!
    Pachinko starts off the podcast, then Alan tells us a bit of how he acted while he visited Japan.
    He used the technique called Gaijin Smash.
    Josh talks about his obsession with AK-Bingo.
    Alan talks about the horrible Arkham Knight update to PC.
    Josh doesn’t know what voxel is and calls it vexel. And thinks its pixels.
    That sparks a whole pixel conversation.
    Alan brings up that Candy Crush was bought for billions of dollars.
    Then we discuss whales, and why mobile games hunt them.
    Josh talks about a free game he downloaded. Pay wall killed it for him.
    Then he talks about Idle Games.
    Jen thought he meant Idol Games. Like pop groups.
    Then Jen talks about someone making a physical Hearthstone deck, and research shows he meant to say it was someone in China that made it.
    Then Jen bring up Yu-Gi-Oh, and Josh gets mad and tells a story.
    Alan shares some silly things about the Magic the Gathering TCG.
    And it falls into a Yu-Gi-Oh filled episode.
    And it seems Jen and the guys both can’t stand the pro elite card game duelists.
    Then we talk about how crazy the ‘Season 0’ really is.
    With strange anime based on games, we talk about Beyblade.
    And good ol’ Dragonball Z takes the spotlight.
    Gundam Wing recycles scenes to make more content.
    Mike watched a different variety of anime than what we watched on YTV.
    Es…ca...flow...neeEEE!
    And we talk about all the mecha anime.
    Josh asks if anyone has a favourite Manga that made a terrible Anime.
    Josh is sad they dropped the ball on Hyper Police.
    Mike brings us that european dubs can be far worse.
    Alan brings it back to DBZ.
    Josh tells a story of Dragonball GT, maybe its true?
    Frieza has a cool metal song written about him.
    Josh tells about other cool metal songs in DBZ dubs, with Mike’s help.
    Then Josh continues into talking about Baybymetal.
    The we all talk about random stuff leading into a discussion about Japanese customs.
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    56 min
  • PS2J 17 - Monkey See, Monkey Brains w/ Jen
    We sit down with Jen.
    FYI: After the 50 minute mark it bits a bit dark.
    If you listened to the Live Halo 5 episode, he was on near the end. And he came back for more microphone action.
    He won the Elite controller. It’s dang expensive.
    The guys talk pro gaming strategies.
    Divian, the organizer for the Halo 5 event, still hasn’t added us on Xbox live.
    Josh is lazy and yells at his Xbox to make it play the Netflix.
    Jen is trying to form a team of Rocket Leaguers, or whatever they’re called.
    Mike tells us how his Chief armour disintegrated during the Halo 5 event.
    The cosplayers of jealous of the cosplayers with workshops.
    Jen makes his cosplay with foam. He’s a part of the Knights of Cos.
    He and Mike, highly recommend the books on foam armour by Bill Doran.
    And he’s looking into making an armour dummy.
    The guys hatch a plan inspired by Home Alone for Mike to do.
    And then it will destroy Geralds life.
    Josh talks One Punch Man with Jen.
    The mole men seemed to be Saitama’s only challenge.
    Then Josh gives an explanation of this crazy show.
    Jen asks the guy’s, if we had our own finishing move, what would it be?
    Instead of answering, Josh tries to coyote ugly the question.
    They stick Josh with the Horrible Segway finishing move.
    Jen started his cosplay adventure with an Attack on Titan costume.
    Then he and Mike talk the hours of working with foam.
    Then he plugs the youtube video of a Raiden cosplayer we met at CCEE.
    We share tales of silly cosplayers.
    Josh is wrong about the flash movie he is talking about.
    He means Spazkid. Sparked has the video called Egorapture. And that is what he is talking about.
    Then he tells the tale of Newgrounds. A magical place.
    Then we talk about new YouTube algorithms.
    Seemingly mandatory Star Wars talk.
    Briefly about The Force Awakens.
    Then Alan goes through the theory of Jar Jar Binks being the Phantom Menace.
    Then Jen asks some Star Wars universe questions.
    Which we are all nerdy enough to answer.
    Halo talk gets blended into Star Wars through a Mass Effect segway.
    So much sic-fi.
    Josh ruins it with instagram.
    Mike’s finishing move is Halo Talk. Talking people to death.
    Alan’s is a blunt I Don’t Care about this.
    Josh gets a bit of Gundam Battle Assault 2 into it.
    Josh was sick of Heero’s lame catchphrase.
    The suit Jen may be talking about is Acguy. An amphibious mobile suit.
    Mike would run out of ammo as Heavy Arms.
    And the guys get all explainey about the Gundams.
    Josh remembers the name of Gundam: Encounters in Space.
    Jen loves him some Ape Escape.
    Josh is sad he missed out of the franchise.
    We mention Yokai Watch, a franchise that beat out Pokemon.
    And talk about how some American franchises are really big in Japan. Like Mickey Mouse and Peanuts.
    Then Alan talks about the things he noticed while visiting Japan.
    Walking and drinking is considered rude.
    CORN WATER.
    Jen talks about how at home in Malaysia, they eat every/anything.
    Torpedo soup.
    Then Josh gets dark.
    And the whole podcast gets a bit nasty.
    And Jen talks about monkey brain.
    Mike says his puns are a syndrome.
    Based on a guy getting brain surgery and spinning sick puns.
    Jen is got sucked by the false ending.
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    57 min

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