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  • PS2J 16 - Hype Ain't So Hip
    We feel that Star Wars trailers just look like all other Star Wars trailer.
    Then we speculate on what happened at the end of SW Episode VI to lead up to The Force Awakens.
    We delve way too far into the arms race of Star Wars space ships.
    Its interesting how Lego has a a lock down of Star Wars leaks.
    We talk about different types of lightsabers there are.
    A Bad Boys remake of Star Wars would be great.
    Too many funny Martins.
    We try to talk about the hype train again.
    And immediately derail into the topic of how Playboy has moved away from pornography.
    Open innovation to get sponsored by Apple.
    Fun fact for an Apple employee screening this for content, recorded on a MacBook Pro. Edited on an Mac.
    How much does Bill Gates needs to see on the ground to pick it up?
    Answer, a lot.
    Apple store employee that stole a LOT of gift cards.
    Mike continues on how he dislikes Black Widow and Hawkeye.
    Alan compares each Avenger to their powers.
    Mike brings up the Honest Trailers review of Avengers 2: Age of Big Bad.
    Alan feels like Ultron could still exist on some network.
    Josh brings in that the movie is, and mode to be a blockbuster, when he has brought other expectations that the movie doesn’t promise to bring.
    Maybe if you feel the same as Mike, Alan and Josh agree that you should just see The Martian.
    Mike is high maintenance when it comes to entertainment.
    Josh has a TON of movies, while Alan’s movie shelves contain mostly games.
    Mike can confirm.
    Josh admits to having a butt ton of junk.
    Mad Catz. The controller for when guests are over.
    Then we practice some unprofessionalism and do some planning while recording.
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    37 min
  • LIVE 1 - Halo 5 Launch Party
    We got to hang out with a bunch of cool people.
    It all starts when our first guest sits down, Kendall, and Josh explains the REQ System for unlocking content.
    Then we put Tyler in the podcast. Thats right, we did.
    Hannah talks to Alan about the table set up, and brings up the Skyrim launch she was at.
    Brock joins the podcast to talk about this Halo game. He’s looking forward to multiplayer, mainly Warzone. And he had to get himself the Legendary edition.
    Someone, presumably without a name, joins briefly and they get a rundown on what we are about.
    Diviyan makes the first announcement, then Extra Life raps about their charity and then Josh talks.
    Hannah talks about a lack of good female characters, and moves on to Cortana’s looks. Alan counters with the fact, no character in game cares what she looks like.
    Josh sits in for Alan, and pester’s Hannah’s fiance, Cole. Hannah looks forward to ladies fighting front lines.
    And then she runs the show with Ken.
    Cody and Merissa hang out with us. Cody plugs his MLP podcast, Pony Tonite.
    Aron finds us. Another guy looking forward to Halo? What, eerie. And he had a Xbox eat discs.
    Hannah talks about the relationship problems being your boyfriend at Halo brings. Alan talks about Force Awakens being on Canadian Netflix first! And another loud raffle happens. Alan talks about a neat Best Buy deal with the Halo 5 controllers. Alan and Aron talk about Destiny. Alan talks about when the night started and there were a lot of shoppers in the store.
    Micheal joins Alan and Aron at the table. Micheal is drawing people in Halo armour for extra life. Another raffle goes on. Alan asks what their favourite Halo moment is. Josh returns from the nether. Alan and Josh talk about fun custom game types they played at a bachelor party. Listener asks another listener about drawing on the Surface. Alan talks about the introduction of Microsoft Stores, and how people thought they were ripping off Apple.
    We welcome Jen to the table! He’s interested in armour, and is willing to play the game. Jen talks about the aiming down sights, Alan says a review is not as bad as it was in the beta. Talk about ground poundin’. Carts of games and controllers roll out. Alan talks about Mike’s hardcore Halo gaming past. Eagle Claw… More Elite controller talk, the box is the carry case? 30 minute announcement for release. Elite controller give away announcement. Bunch of jerks drumroll on a table with microphones. Then, Jen wins the Elite controller!
    Bye Mike! He was hurting and checked out. Also, we talked to Jen a long time. Listen to the extended cut to hear it all!
    Josh tells Jen what platforms he can hear PS2J on with his Android.
    Alan and Josh finally get to sit and chat with Diviyan. Neat, we can all add Div360 now.
    Thank you all, and good night.
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    1 hr 59 min
  • PS2J 15 - Halo and HaLOLZ
    Needless to say, spoilers?
    We will eventually talk about Halo 5.
    But we start off talking about Lucas Lee from Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
    He solve Darkseids, Anti Life Equation.
    Halo is like 14 years old!
    Then we talk about owning/not owning original Xbox.
    Wort wort wooort.
    Josh talks about the bad shooters his Dad plays.
    Mike talks about old Halo, getting to hack it and such.
    Why no split screen Halo 5? Why?
    We gripe a bit about AI companions.
    Josh talks about the old Prince of Persia movie, Alan argues (for?) ostrich races.
    Then Josh talks about the Evil Dead remake, its pretty good.
    Alan talks about the new YouTube Red.
    Mike gives some Halo history, from the books.
    He read all the books.
    Josh misses the birthday confetti explosion.
    Mike talks easter eggs. The Halo ones.
    And the origin of game types, mostly from Halo 2.
    We all agree that Reach was the best :3
    And Mike gives a Bungie/343 history lesson.
    Then we delve into Destiny.
    And Eris Morn is dull. Incredibly dull.
    Alan and Mike recall old Penny Arcade comics.
    And there is a new season on Venture Bros?
    Halo 5 Warzone game type seem promising.
    Warren adds NPC enemies to multiplayer battle.
    Transcribed is still the word of the month!
    We plug our Halo 5 Midnight Launch that we are hosting!
    Check it out at www.ps2jshow.com/halo5
    We end the podcast by saying you should see The Martian.
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    41 min
  • PS2J 14 - Reservoir Gamers w/Ryan
    We have Ryan again, and he is defiantly talking.
    Alan has trained Mike to break easily.
    Ryan tells us about his play through of Sonic Adventure 2.
    And his laptop has stabbed him in the BACK!
    We talk about our broken Little Big Planet game play.
    Then we talk about abusing Chao’s to make them good.
    And the word Josh was looking for was Transcript.
    But still comment if you want one of those things. We are totally serious.
    Then we help Ryan with the automation service we use.
    And we talk business.
    Mike asks why chaos were a thing?
    He gets answers!
    Mike feels chaos are worse than how people had to EV train Pokemon.
    Josh shares his lament about trading in Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider.
    Ryan has no such regrets.
    We explain the Battletoads joke. We thought everyone knew?
    And Mike and Josh, have a secret buddy that has also preordered Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon.
    Ryan decides Destiny is not his MMO, Wildstar is.
    Destiny is a lot like Halo jokes.
    Not playing Warhammer is a fiscally responsibly decision!
    Katbox.net, used to be exclusive. Now its less.
    Wow. We make a lot of Dad jokes. Sorry, not sorry.
    Mike hear fire bad. Fire good. Buy fire.
    Josh talks about what he uses Deviant Art for.
    Its for art!
    Mike does armour, armour, armour, armour.
    Ryan did armour! Sounds neat. He was Dave. From the Homestuck.
    And Homestuck is the longest comic ever?
    And the cartoon destroyed servers, and Mike lost interest.
    The Josh asks, Is Naruto done?
    Answer, is kinda. It has a sequel.
    We talk YouTube and Nintendo shenanigans.
    Then Josh gives a micro review for Hello Kitty: Seasons.
    And he also 100% a Barbie game.
    And PS2J doesn’t have an up converter for GameCube because… lazy.
    And Mike has Oni, we should play it right?
    It killed divisions of Bungie and Rockstar. Allegedly.
    Josh also needs to play Mike’s copy of Firewarrior.
    Ryan re-rails us, and tells us to play good games.
    And then Ryan tells the guys about Freedom Planet.
    It’s a Sonic tribute game that evolved into something great.
    Then Ryan talks about how tough the last boss on Freedom Planet is.
    And Mike tells about how frustrating the last boss on South Park 64 was.
    And we complain about games that pull the main character out for a boss battle when you have never levelled them up.
    Alan gives his strategy on beating Wiegraf in Final Fantasy Tactics.
    And Seath the Scaleless is a sonnavabitch.
    Josh’s triumph is from beating Gundam: Encounters in Space.
    Then Ryan asks if we can play anything other than awful games.
    We probably should. Keep than in mind for the future.
    Double Thumbs Up Microphone.
    Then the Tarantino style wrap up.
    We were happy to have him and do be afraid to contact us and be on yourself!
    Find Ryan!
    deviantArt - Kuurion.deviantart.com
    twitter - @kuurion
    Youtube search for Kuuribro
    Our World comic
    http://ourworld.katbox.net/
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    58 min
  • PS2J 13 - Kuuribro In Attack Mode w/Ryan
    We settle in and have a varied chat, as we usually do.
    He gives us the secret of his cool name.
    And learns us up about his web comic Our World.
    Ryan also tells us he has a Patreon for it and does commissions for money.
    We go on a tangent about The Onion Router and the dark net.
    Alan weaves the tale of how the creator of the Silk Road was discovered.
    Then we bring up stories of people trying to pull things off the internet.
    We get into his work as a 3D modeller.
    And how he got his education for it.
    Unfortunately he did NOT get to work on Farming Simulator 2015.
    Then Mike and Ryan share stories of 3D schooling.
    We also get into Ryan’s Youtube gaming channel.
    Josh and Ryan (mostly Ryan), talk about how cool Shantae is.
    Everyone talks about games past that we wished we played.
    We have an interesting chat about copywriter? If thats possible.
    Mike almost dies.
    Josh finally got to watch The Invention Of Lying.
    And then he goes on about Sir Patrick Stewart.
    There is talk about MMO’s and delves into WoW stories.
    We were happy to have him and do be afraid to contact us and be on yourself!
    Find Ryan!
    deviantArt - Kuurion.deviantart.com
    twitter - @kuurion
    Youtube search for Kuuribro
    Our World comic
    http://ourworld.katbox.net/
    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 12 - ECEE Wrap Up
    Forgive Josh, he had heatstroke?
    Alan bought the Portal: Cake Acquisition game.
    Josh picked up Legendary Encounters: Predator.
    Alan and Mike explain the creation of the red lightsaber crystal.
    Mike talks about a continuing beef with a convention volunteer.
    And he explains the restrictions volunteers have at Expo.
    Mikes Friday, had a lot of people avoiding his Agent 47 cosplay.
    And he had a good meet up with the Edmonton Cosplay group.
    Saturday Mike got to meet up with other Halo cosplayers.
    And we met a great Warlock cosplay from Destiny. Great job Chris!
    We got contact with a great sith cosplay. Find him at facebook.com/k14cosplay
    Alan’s Mario Maker Level, Collapsed Castle- BD48-0000-0070-B816
    Mike got a lot of exposure with his suit. Met with video production and other guys.
    He also points out the differences of a human ODST and a Spartan.
    And he picked up oven mitts and and a graphic novel.
    Josh brings up the painful story of Mike’s 2nd degree burns.
    And has him share it.
    Josh agrees that pain is better than cleaning up 2 things.
    “Marvel has it’s on DC” - Josh 2015
    Alan and Josh ran into an old friend at the Table Top Cafe booth.
    Shout out to Leah.
    Mike had a quieter Sunday.
    Josh disagrees with cosplay accuracy vs cosplay comfort.
    Mike and a Spartan cosplayer played with some really sweet lightsabers.
    And they are crazy awesome. http://genesiscustomsabers.com/
    Then Mike and Josh end up talking about the new ships to the X Wing minis game.
    New ships from The Force Awakens.
    And Josh feels it will break everything that came out previously.
    Then we all reminisce about Calgary Comic Con from years past.
    We got to see Rob Paulson, Maurice LaMarsh and Jess Harnell.
    We ran into a awesome cosplayer for the second time!
    Looking at you
    Mik’s helmat keeps cutting his head.
    CON STORIES! From you’s.
    Roland:
    Performed for a huge crowd on Saturday, with his Saber Guild Echo Base Temple.
    -Sorry we missed it.
    Kid Remington:
    As the Joker, in all seriousness. The volunteers were great, the layout’s great, the lemonades were great, the costumers did what the costumers do.
    -We agree. After deliberation, it was better once you got it.
    Coleen
    Meeting new friends and all the celebs were beyond amazing
    -We hope we’re you friends! Lol jk, we are weird.
    END OF CON STORIES
    Alan and Josh had a tough job giving away rare amiibos.
    Thanks Kuurion! kuurion.deviantart.com
    And we didn’t hammer the other two for info.
    Didn’t want to come off scammy.
    And we shall continue Random Acts of Amiibo!
    Let’s wrap this thing up.
    Twitter/Instagram @ps2jshow
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    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    53 min
  • PS2J 11 - Knights of The Machete Order
    Ken joins us again!
    Indie games and Ken is on the table for topic.
    Risk of Rain, a new rouge like game that has some risky rain...
    Josh talks about his unhealthy obsession with the puzzle/dating sim called HuinePop.
    Then we talk about Harvey Birdman. An awesome show which you should see!
    And Alan and Josh reminisce about their laziest phase ever.
    And everything on the internet is free, don’t ‘cha know.
    Cool car charging roads!
    And Kickstarters to make solar roads.
    In Japan, they have crazy musical road ways and highly specialized Tokyo cab drivers.
    Ken is still enjoying Knights of the Old Republic 2, and gets us back up to speed on it.
    Alan shares the issues he had with the game.
    Then the guys remember the first one was the best one.
    Ken tells us about an interesting game, Factorio.
    Its like the Minecraft Tekkie mod, but its played top down.
    And Josh talks about a game he can’t remember the name of. Turns out its called “Big Pharma” by Twice Circled.
    Then Josh talks about the game “Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme”, that Steam is trying to sell him.
    Alan is left in the cold because Mike and Josh never got back to him about Neverwinter Nights.
    Row row. Fight the powah!
    Also, Neon Genesis Evangelion does not equal Gurren Lagann.
    Josh has his base knowledge of Neon Genesis from a Puzzle And Dragons collaboration.
    And Josh shows off his PaD creatures in his awful PaD Talk.
    Alan saw tournament machines for PaD, while he was in Japan.
    And they talk about crazy Japanese arcade machines.
    The video in question —> WINNING THE MEGA JACKPOT!!! - JAPAN ARCADE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OnmhhFk9g
    Cooking with cans of beer! Recipes and the defiantly do not’s of cooking with beer.
    We plan to play Crawl with Ken, look forward to that!
    Rick and Morty, we love it, and if you don’t… that’s ok.
    We really enjoy the after credit sequences.
    Funny and or crazy.
    Sommersby Cider. Delicious and Josh isn’t a heavy drinker.
    And don’t forget, Soylent!
    Recipe 2.0 is premixed in 400 calorie bottles.
    Then Alan is reminded of Repo! The Genetic Opera.
    Josh has a huff and want’s alan to watch The Muppets. Mostly the reboot stuff.
    Alan suggests that Mike introduces Veronica to the Star Wars franchise in Machete order.
    Machete order is 4,5,2,3,6.
    And we sign off with a clip from the YouTube video we talked about.
    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    49 min
  • PS2J 10 - Not that Terrariable With Ken
    We welcome our guest Ken!
    He’s a guy that likes things.
    He likes a game called Terraria, and we want him to explain it to us.
    He worked on a MOD for it! Which is neat.
    It’s got more fighting to do with it, and that makes it fun.
    Except when people refer to Tumblr. Leave it to the professionals.
    Hi Corey! … again.
    And why The Last Airbender 2?
    Shambalam, Shamawow, M Night Camelean.
    Also, Homestuck and Smuppets, I guess.
    Mike likes Terraria for guns and werewolves.
    And Ken likes making villages for NPC’s.
    Mike tells tales of an old game of Dwarf Fortress.
    Ken drops a truth bomb of the origins of cat’s from dwarf beards.
    Josh wants you to subscribe to Buttcast. No. 1 Butt-cast.
    Then he talks about podcasts he listen’s to and how some are cited as news.
    Prostitute facts! last living things on earth.
    Ken jokes and Josh fumbles a Simpsons reference.
    Ken also shares in his love of Betrayal at House On The Hill.
    And we want a Risk Legacy board, you can totally send us one if you’d like!
    We argue about the song Happy Birthday. Thats quality listening.
    Then they tell of harder times. World of Warcraft from long, long ago.
    We break down boob dynamics, super mature.
    Then it becomes a decision about how loud Josh is.
    That leads into super powered complaints.
    Josh opens up on how he was hit with credit fraud.
    And it must be story time, because they then share their plane stories.
    And we end by talking about Terraria again, and then Starbound.
    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    45 min
  • PS2J 9 - Bored Gaming with Veronica
    Veronica’s PS2J with Kermit, Kermit and Alan.
    Tanto Cuore, the maid deck building games.
    And Josh was prepared?!
    And Alan vouches for Josh reading a book. PROOF! It happened.
    Book talk in the board game podcast!
    Bear with us as we talk about the Road.
    Veronica likes Lords of Waterdeep, a worker placement game.
    It looks intimidating to start with the amount of pieces involved.
    She also enjoys to screw over her friends recommends The Resistance.
    Then we reminisce on a past game of The Resistance that the 4 of us participated in.
    To continue her friendship destroying game list, Diplomacy.
    The long drawn out bargaining game to win WW1.
    Josh wishes that PS2J could get its own Risk Legacy board.
    Alan enjoys board game easter eggs, such as the Cards Against Humanity Bigger Blacker Box.
    Then Josh asks about HeroClix.
    We delve into all kinds of Clix, ActionClix, Halo, Star Trek.
    Mike talks tournament rewards for Star Trek Attack Wing and X-Wing.
    And Veronica’s last favourite game, Betrayal At House On The Hill.
    Then stories are shared on how Josh was destroyed and other BAHOTH tales.
    Party game chat! Because some people have lots of friends.
    And the all important talk of when is it appropriate to be a dick.
    We then talk about hard board games. We’re looking at you Legendary Encounters: Alien.
    Then an awful outro that you have all come to love.
    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    45 min
  • PS2J 8 - Veronica and the X Men
    We welcome our first guest to the new format, Veronica!
    You be be just as cool as her! Get on the show with us!
    Twitter us, Facebook, comment, you can even email us ps2jshow at gmail.com.
    We spit out about the X Men. And all things X.
    Who thinks Wolverine is all that? Apparently everyone.
    Josh relishes in his prediction of Fantastic 4 being garbage.
    Bad movies make hilarious references.
    And then great Mythbuster episodes.
    Apoc-A-Lypse.
    Mike knows the next X Men movie won’t go as far as he has read in comics.
    Alan brings up the interesting series Old Man Logan.
    Josh questions how Wolverine has never crushed any of his lovers with his adamantium skeleton.
    Veronica talks about how awesome Prof. X is. And how character duality is the most interesting to her.
    Mike likes Cable, because he is like Matrix from Reboot.
    Josh determines that Wolverine’s claws would make great spear tips, which Alan relates to a sword from the Souls games.
    Josh also adds that Magneto is his favourite.
    Alan’s X-Men bro sauce is all over the Gambit.
    And why not some Thor history.
    And we do our usual thing to bring the episode to a close with Veronica.
    And, as always, thanks for listening.
    36 min

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