Something Something Joystick

This week, I'm too drunk to remember what happened today, but needless to say, it was very sexy and very... alcohol.

HUGE thanks to everyone who wrote in and contributed to making this a brilliant and super fun 69th episode spectacular!

SSJ (CXDR XXX RMX) - Cherax Destructor

Ici la Femme (XXX Mix) - Louise Vertigo (The Lounge King) / CC BY-NC 3.0

Lose Control - Dyabolical feat. Gionni / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Sweet Somethings - Jeffrey Letterly / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

SSJ Theme 2 - Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

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NOTE: this episode is uncut and uncensored because right now i'm just too drunk to handle that shit.

This week, I'm not wearing any pants, and we talk about 5 o'clock shadow, Australia's founding fathers, Turkish baby names, The Easybeats, our plans for the 69th Episode Spectacular (inc. Patch Hutley/Cherax Destructor, Ree Mansell, and Patch Kolan!), strange emotions and dreams, comfort in the normalcy of others, Justin Timberlake, Tom's white-bread family, tardiness, Alien vs. Aliens, Identity, and Tomb Raider. In SSST: Deep Silver unveil Saints Row IV, voice actor Dred Foxx pushes for a new Parappa the Rapper game, and Capcom and Valve team up for a Resident Evil 6/Left 4 Dead 2 crossover project. In Ask SSJ: we take a question about Korea, check our iTunes reviews, and feature a very special submission from dear friend of the show, #GargoyleJuan Taylor Willoughby. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Senescence: Cherax Destructor aaf: Goto80 / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 CLICK HERE to download! I FEEL LIKE NOT ENOUGH JOKES HAVE BEEN MADE ABOUT THE NAME 'SACKBOY'. Add Sandsky on XBL and PSN: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN and XBL: xavierrn

This week, I'm not wearing any pants, and we talk about 5 o'clock shadow, Australia's founding fathers, Turkish baby names, The Easybeats, our plans for the 69th Episode Spectacular (inc. Patch Hutley/Cherax Destructor, Ree Mansell, and Patch Kolan!), strange emotions and dreams, comfort in the normalcy of others, Justin Timberlake, Tom's white-bread family, tardiness, Alien vs. Aliens, Identity, and Tomb Raider.

In SSST: Deep Silver unveil Saints Row IV, voice actor Dred Foxx pushes for a new Parappa the Rapper game, and Capcom and Valve team up for a Resident Evil 6/Left 4 Dead 2 crossover project.

In Ask SSJ: we take a question about Korea, check our iTunes reviews, and feature a very special submission from dear friend of the show, #GargoyleJuan Taylor Willoughby.

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Senescence: Cherax Destructor

aaf: Goto80 / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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I FEEL LIKE NOT ENOUGH JOKES HAVE BEEN MADE ABOUT THE NAME 'SACKBOY'.

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This week, we talk about spoken word music, lunch, the Game Boy Australia Summer Tour, a Super Famicom guitar, subliminal social experiments, pudding, Skrillex Quest, and RAGE. In SSST: Nintendo's Wii U is released in Australia, but does this mean the next generation of gaming has begun? Nintendo have revealed the Wii Mini, with a mini price tag - but will its lack of backwards compatibility and online support turn customers off this Xmas? New rumours suggest we'll be able to buy the new Xbox within the year - but are we ready? Sony have revealed a new bundle packing the PS Vita with a PS+ subscription - but will the tiny bundled memory card fit all PS+'s content? (No.) In Ask SSJ: Pearl Jam, gruesome discoveries, cows, the ethics of eating meat, giant dicks, terrible gifts,  1/3 of a goat, bucket lists, threesomes, murder, pure evil, LMFAO, PSY, and our deepest and most emotionally charged fears, and how long we want to do Something Something Joystick. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Gh00lz of Br00klyn: FB5K / CC BY-NC 3.0 Silver Spoon Set: Get Folked CLICK HERE to download! WHAT'S WITH THESE HOMIES, DISSIN' MY GIRL? WHY DO THEY GOTTA FRONT? Check out the Game Boy Australia Summer Tour! Come hang out with us! Check out Patch Kolan's Wii U review! Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn Undoctored photo of Chad Kroeger, showcasing his natural Mi Goreng hair.

This week, fan favourite Alexei Toliopoulos returns, and we talk about marketing tactics, mathematics, dogs, Hitchcock, surnames, talking landmarks, therapy, and Jaws. We sit down and talk about recent developments with my emotional/mental problems, then get derailed and talk about Elton John, marriage proposals, Bing, the movie Prime, 'slizz', Alexei's job entertaining children, One Direction, Bioshock, Devil May Cry, Crysis 3, Mass Effect, and The Walking Dead.

In SSST: we talk about The Band, the newly announced Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Kellee Santiago joining the Ouya dev team, Riot Games' new Sydney studio, the mysterious silence surrounding Star Wars 1313, impressions (including my never-before-heard impression of Sandsky), Neil Armstrong, Adele, Anne Hathaway, Sweeney Todd, and Daniel-Day Lewis.

In Ask SSJ: we field questions regarding my laziness, Witcher 2, internet culture, games we would make, video game movies we'd like to see, and Sim death. Big ups to Eoghan, William, Taylor (#GargoyleJuan) and Cameron for writing in!

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Pair Of Minutes Before Reboot: 2NRO8OT / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Needle: Born Ruffians

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I WILL DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE.

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FREE ADVICE: I'm so sick of writing all these things! Would anyone mind if I stopped? Do people even read this shit?!

This week, we discuss the outer reaches of the universe, the impact of drugs, the übermensch, the Love Boat, Rosemary's Baby, video game retailing, therapy, Datura, Sonic's backstory, Dune, a threesome with Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift, after-school care, and energy drinks.

In SSST: we're all about that PS4! We talk about the possibilities of the console and its software, analyse Sony's announce event part-by-part, and compare it to other console launches in the past and the future. Fuckin' yeah!

In Ask SSJ: we answer #GargoyleJuan's question about music in video games - what makes it memorable, and what current soundtracks will be remembered in the future?

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Rez: Sidabitball / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Happy: Gunface

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I USED TO PLAY THE GUITAR... NOW I PLAY THE BASS.

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FREE ADVICE: When your podcast has its 64th episode, try and remember to do that 'NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOUUUUUR' impression you've been working on for so many years.

my photoshop skills are unparalleled.

not pictured: a particularly relevant image

This week, we talk about Little Orphan Annie, Star Trek: The Next Generation, pop rocks, robot God,  pretty ladies, slim gyms, and Richard Nixon. We then sit down for a little bit of much-needed therapy. Then we talk about My Bloody Valentine, Ni No Kuni, unnecessary touching, Silver Linings Playbook, Datura, Sony's big 'Future of PlayStation' event, and we tease our appearance on the Gaming Cult Podcast (!), and our upcoming appearance on The Book Was Better (!!), before launching into our Peanut Gallery review of Movie 43. (!!!)

In SSST: PS4 rumours, The Last of Us delays, new boob physics in Dead Or Alive 5, Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition coming to Australia, new Arkham game coming this year, Take-Two buys the WWE license, Nintendo announce several release dates as well as new titles Mario & Luigi: Dream Team and Mario Golf World Tour, and Australian retailer David Jones plans to quit the video game-sellin' business.

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

So Long, Tadpole: Born Ruffians

Dead should dance: Sidabitball / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

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FOR THE BENEFIT OF TOM AND XAVEY WE GOTTA LET THE TRUTH BE KNOWN

Check out our appearance on the Gaming Cult Podcast! DOOO IT!

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FREE ADVICE: Check out Dragon Boy Suede's new record, Douche Minutiae. What is this, a plug section now?

This week, we talk about audible faces (and the 'upstairs perineum'), time-wasting, the worlds of professional wrestling and k-pop, Silver Linings Playbook, Dungeons & Dragons, 'the Iron Chef of taxidermists', upcoming guests, the 'Bubcast', the solar plexus, and tequila.

In What We've Been Playing: crying whilst playing PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, clever gameplay in Ni No Kuni, the joys of freemium done right with Pixel People, and the bitterness of misspent potential with Dust 541... and tequila.

In SSST: the future of the Ouya brand is revealed, we anticipate Assassin's Creed IV, Rayman Legends is delayed and will now be multi-platform, Impossible Studios disbands after just six months, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge is also no longer a Wii U exclusive, and J.J. Abrams is in talks with Valve to make a Half-Life or Portal movie.

In Ask SSJ: Dickens, UFOs, Letterman, the future of consoles and PCs, some prime examples of the drunken expulsion of toxins, gossip, sentient super-computers, and the inevitable Robot Hitler uprising.

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Foxes Mate For Life (Born Ruffians cover): Drowned In Molasses

Toxic: Fun Machine

FEATURE TRACK: Cupcake, by Cherax Destructor, from the Objects In Space EP

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"ladies, sex with me is like gun control. no matter how much we talk about it nothing happens bc we can't get it to work down south" - @nice_mustard

Check out all the podcasts we inexplicably shouted out this week: Nerd Poker, IGN AU's Pubcast, This American Life, Judge John Hodgman, and Podcast Beyond.

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FREE ADVICE: Don't try and sing along with Girls' Generation in public if you don't speak Korean.

This week, we talk about The Situation, mouth-jousting, continuity errors, the departure of Official Wife of the Podcast Maude Garrett, party pie etiquette, an update on recording women while they sleep, love on the seven seas, comic books, the Journey demo, The Walking Dead, Saints Row: The Third, Retro City Rampage, save points in real life, extra lives, Max Payne 3, Vanquish, and Red Dead Revolver.

In SSST: Atari files for bankruptcy, Sony says they'll wait for Microsoft to talk next-gen consoles first, The Walking Dead is classified for release in Australia, THQ is dissolved and we talk about the fallout, and a billion announcements from Nintendo: new Zelda, old Zelda, new Smash Bros... it's enough to make a Very Cranky Sandsky!

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Do I: Fun Machine

With Her Shadow: Born Ruffians

Backwards Party: Gunface

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CITIZENS OF GOTHAM...

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FREE ADVICE: Don't try and watch a season of Mad Men with a bottle of Canadian Club and drink every time they drink on screen. I shouldn't have to tell you why.

no photo this week. happy fucken straya day though.

this is a greeting card i spotted en route to adelaide.

This week, it's been just a few days since we last recorded, so we haven't got much to talk about. But we still manage to stretch this episode out for over 100 minutes, so there ya go. We talk about cheerful welcomes, heavy drinking, artistic nudity, Halle Berry, violent love, children's books, a Guinness lighter, teamwork, Bad News Bears, The Love Boat, Mad Men (note - slight spoilers), Assassin's Creed III, passive gameplay, and body image.

In SSST: Zip. Nada. Zilch.

In Ask SSJ: we cover a bumper crop of your delightful listener mail! We talk about body-swaps, great console design, obscure Simpsons references, sex with pavlovas, and women we'd like to marry, as well as WAY WAY WAY more. Huge thanks go to Tweeters @ReeMansell and @GrotesqueSavior (#GargoyleJuan), Official Botheree Of The Show Luke Milton, friends of the show Alexei Toliopoulos and Lee Sullivan,  and Juans such as Hugo, Clarrie, Michael, Dylan, Cameron, Katy, Ephy and Eliza!

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Cosmic Sing-a-long: Cryptacize / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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WHAT YOU CALL LOVE WAS INVENTED BY GUYS LIKE ME TO SELL NYLONS.

Check out our band, General Pants & the Privates, at that show we talked about. It'll be fun!

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FREE ADVICE: Whenever you want me, all you have to do is dream. Dream, dream dream.