Something Something Joystick

This week, it's really late, we've been away all week, and I'm sick, but we still manage to put out a podcast! We talk about impressions of each other, dominance, shortbread, the history of the earth (and the last few days), Adelaide, my future juice wife, The Walking Dead, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Assassin's Creed III, and Slayer.

In SSST: Nintendo announces Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, Sony ceases production of the PlayStation 2 (so we take a look back at the console's greatest hits and misses), and Namco announce their plans to open a high-end gaming restaurant. Also we get lots of yelling done.

In Ask SSJ: We discuss console lifespans and the future of this console generation, before taking some questions from the net... and to be honest, there were too many to count this week, and I am lazy. :D I think I remember singing a bunch of Clash and Queen songs towards the end?

SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan

Look Back: 2NRO8OT / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Trick and/or Treat (the candy raid is on!): Nordloef / CC BY-NC 3.0

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MOOMOO IS SICK... SHE NEEDS LOTS OF BERRIES.

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FREE ADVICE: Don't try and drink Adelaide water. There's a reason they have such good beer and wine - their water is undrinkable.

Spotted in Adelaide: a philosophy we live our lives by.

This week, we welcome 'drinks bitch' and background-giggler Ree Mansell to share the delight of our 2nd annual Game Of The Year Edition! We celebrate the new year with our year-end lists - but first, we discuss Auld Lang Syne, SSJ action figures, crackling, the year 2022, truck driving, plinths, Half-Life 3, the Nintendo 4DS, Haley Joel Osment, VB, Wreck-It Ralph, Skrillex, the Spruce Goose, a Pretty English Girl, and dub Tom "the Batman of masturbating in public". We also wrap up the year in console releases, the Kickstarter revolution, and some titles which just missed out on our best-of lists. Then we really kick it into gear, with our lists for: Best Podcast Discoveries of 2012 Best Visuals Best Sound & Music Best Gameplay. Then we tease you just a little longer by answering some viewer mail in a segment we like to call Ask SSJ! Then it's finally time for our grand List Of All Lists: Best Games of 2012! Huge congratulations, love and respect to all the award-winners of this year. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Hare Versus Tortoise: Sycamore Drive / CC BY-ND 3.0 You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes Theme: Reggie Watts* The Book Was Better Theme: Jessica McLeod Helix Nebula: Anamanaguchi / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Adventure: Disasterpeace *Used without permission. If this poses a legal problem, uh.. oops. We'll remove it. Sorry :S CLICK HERE to download! NEW YEAR'S DAY... NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME TO MAKE YOUR REGULAR ANNUAL GOOD RESOLUTIONS. NEXT WEEK YOU CAN BEGIN PAVING HELL WITH THEM AS USUAL. Keep an eye out for Ree's upcoming YouTube show! It's gonna be a thing. For real. Until then, check her out on Twitter! Add Sandsky on XBL and PSN: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN and XBL: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Be more like Cool Guy. Have more Chill Days.

This week, we don our Xmas sweater/s and share mirth, good cheer, and some good ol' fashioned family fun! We talk about gifts, Jesus, PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, Dishonored, The Unfinished Swan, Christmas drugs, a cameo appearance from Papa Sanderson, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, friend of the podcast Luke Milton, Gravity Rush, gifts (again), ex-girlfriends, and the Electric Light Orchestra. In SSST: THQ files for bankruptcy. More Earthbound on the horizon. Minecraft: The Story of Mojang comes out soon. In Ask SSJ: we stage a radio nativity play, drink eggnog for the first time, and discuss Aladdin 3, dinosaurs and ice cream, Batman vs Genghis Khan, Santa as an RPG character, penis fingers, teachers, punk rock, vending machines, Neil Armstrong, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War Of The Worlds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and then a patented SSJ Actually Serious Ethical Discussion about killing animals, respect for death, and hypocrisy; Santa's judgmental criteria, and Axe Cop (my memory is terrible). MUSIC USED: SSJ Xmas Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan silent night: Nullsleep / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 the first blip blop noel: dma-sc / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 CLICK HERE to download! Check out The Book Was Better podcast! Find out what all the fuss is about. Add Sandsky on PSN and XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN and XBL: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Y'know what, I feel like "NOG. NOG. NOG. NOG. NOG." is just as relevant as ever. Happy Chrimbus, y'all!

This week, we welcome very special guest Jake Innes from the Gaming Cult Podcast! He's a real neato guy. We talk about the Game Boy Australia Summer Tour, education, kisses, Gaming Cult, Jake's brother Zac, PAX Australia, Skrillex, Tom's revelatory PS3 ambitions, PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, Max Skelton, mic technique, Holland, PlayStation Plus (which, by the way, costs $69.95 per year), murder, Bert Newtown, our favourite fighting games, Epic Mickey: Power Of Illusion, short games, poo, my new PlayStation 2, the HD-DVD, and projectile vomiting. In SSST: Bioshock Infinite is delayed again, and won't come with the original Bioshock outside of the US. Journey's soundtrack is nominated for a Grammy. Capcom announce Mega Man X Street Fighter. Dark Souls 2 is coming. Square Enix are teasing something spacey-lookin'. Steam celebrate their new Big Picture mode with a big sale (mothafucka what you know?). Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 is being used in military thingies. In Ask SSJ: we talk about Tom's breasts, our 'sexual bucket list', Space Jam, Flubber, warning labels, awful things we've done for money, VB, the complexities of gender (and genital-cupping), impressive skills, freezing time, some particularly horrific Would You Rathers, MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Hardcore Band: Ten Thousand Free Men & Their Families / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Without Me (Kid Sample Remix): Kid Sample Bacon Pancakes (Dubstep/Hardstyle Remix) - TheNoxicus CLICK HERE to download! "Needs more heroin." - Tom Sanderson, 9/12/2012. Check out the Gaming Cult Podcast! It's real real good! Honest! Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Don't change the channel. Don't touch that dial. We got it all on UHF.

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.

Gather round, friends. Today we celebrate one glorious year of Something Something Joystick! I'm not gonna knock you out with a big ol' description this week, because I think most of it speaks for itself. This week we talk about some of the great times we've had over the past year: the history of the podcast, and some of our favourite moments, as well as some of the things you can look forward to seeing in the near future. So sit back and celebrate with us as we semi-self-indulgently remember why we've been doing this thing for a whole year! Oh, and also ghost romances, party blowers, The Flinstones, Borderlands 2, scripted podcasts, and Nintendicks. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Higher & Higher: Born Ruffians Towards The Hollow Sound: Nathan Meunier / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 CLICK HERE to download! BACON PANCAKES, MAKIN' BACON PANCAKES. TAKE SOME BACON AND I'LL PUT IT IN A PANCAKE. BACON PANCAKES, THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA MAKE, BACON PANCAAAAKES! Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn

This week, we discuss Gustavo Almadovar, adjectives, theme music, Gaming Cult Podcast, pizza nightmares, the birds and the bees, karaoke, Ja Rule, Harvest festival, Wil Anderson, prophetic dreams, Steve Cannane, Lindsay McDougall, Tom's mysterious new finacé, Borderlands, Portal 2, Goof Troop, and GTA IV. In SSST: we talk about the Australian government's latest investment into game development, PlayStation Plus on Vita, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale's free DLC, Call of Duty: Black Ops II's massive sales, Xbox Live's 10th anniversary, and the Wii's new YouTube app. In Ask SSJ: we discuss divorce, happiness, Wreck-It Ralph, Altered Beast, superpowers, George Watsky, Facebook's post promotion grift, bad gifts, lasers, awkward sex, post-neo-irony, Molly Ringwald, circumcision, peeing standing up, spelling, off-brand products, the origins of toothpaste, offensive one-liners, and our drinks of choice. Then I make a brilliant pun to commemorate the passing of Thomas Filbert Sanderson (1993-2012). PASTA WAY?! I MEAN COME ON! MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Pocket Monster: Henry Homesweet / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Acid Bubblebeam: Love Through Cannibalism Most Everyone's Mad Here: Occasional Octopus CLICK HERE to download! TRAIN SIMULATOR BITCH MOTHERFUCKER WHAT YOU KNOW? TRAIN SIMULATOR BITCH WATCH THAT TRAIN GO! Check out Blouse Klaus and Train Simulator Bitch because we're just gonna keep mentioning this shit and if you're not on board you're gonna miss out. Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: SMOKE COAL EV REE DAY

This week, to celebrate our Metrically Significant Occasion, we invite as many guests as possible back onto the show for a Podcast Party! So, with Ruby Giles, Zac Innes, Max Skelton, and Alexei Toliopoulos in tow, we launch into our 50th episode. In SSST: we unveil the full details of Grand Theft Auto V, the Wii U's need for updates (and bringing your consoles Into The Internet Age), The Last Guardian's uncertain future, three delays from THQ, Metal Gear Solid 4's new special edition, Peter Molyneux's final game, and Sony's plan to launch the PS3 in China. In Ask SSJ: we discuss peeping Toms, unsafe neighbourhoods, hauntings, molestation, forest fires, infidelity, Kirk Van Houten, adult baby porn, gigantic misshapen hearts, bluebottles, the (sigh) 'utili-kilt', our favourite words, butt shaving, communicating with animals, our celebrity sex lists, and fictional objects we wish existed. Also featuring phone-in guests, a live performance of 'Ruby Eating An Apple',  background noise, technical difficulties, and unexpected visitors, as well as discussions of PAX, politics, prostitution, and chicken monsters. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Hummingbird: Born Ruffians monopackung: Dragan Espenschied / CC BY-NC 3.0 Brenda: Pablo J & the Lobsterettes CLICK HERE to download! Check out Ruby on Twitter, and her quarterlyish magazine Ghostly! Check out Zac's podcast Gaming Cult, as well as his tumblr Women Eating Yoghurt! Check out Max's podcast Out To Dinner, as well as his now-defunct radio show Agents Of R.A.D.I.O! Check out Alexei on Twitter, as well as Mila Kunis. She's real purdy. Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Don't underestimate Metapod. He has a powerful soul.

This week, we talk about David Hicks, mic technique, our visit to the Wii U Tour, the Curse of the 49th Episode, Disney's purchase of LucasArts, John Carter, Tom's love life, my 'funk' (DISCLAIMER: Please don't worry about me. I am doing fine. Thank you. I love you. Thanks for listening), Taylor Swift and the objectivity of taste, Forza: Horizon, Fez, Trials Evolution, Borderlands, and road safety. In SSST: we discuss Orbis dev kits, the Wii U tour, Portal 2's new motion control pack, and bad marketing vs good marketing: a showdown between Halo 4: King Of The Hill and American Express' new Card Sync promotion. In Ask SSJ: we jump into the future and skip a few suburbs to Sandsky's house to discuss counting, Skylanders, great analogies, the Ten Commandments, Tom's dog Hunter, the dirty lying Internet, our hatred of passive-aggression (followed by some pure passive-aggression on our part), helpful animals, religious tolerance, bad dates, sexy redheaded ladies, chafing, embarrassing injuries, wacky orgasm noises, and dancing. Also, hipsters and Harold Pinter, Jim Ryan, sharing music with strangers, wind, politeness, whistling, and 'dick socks'. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Circles: Cloud Four Small Minds: Edema Ruh Set Your Soul: Pablo J & The Lobsterettes CLICK HERE to download! Check out Game Grumps on YouTube. They funny. Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Don't openly admit to your stupid emotional problems on a podcast! No one wants to hear that shit! "If you listen closely, you can hear a kid playing guitar." -YouTube commenter Sam Helios

This week, we talk about David Hicks, mic technique, our visit to the Wii U Tour, the Curse of the 49th Episode, Disney's purchase of LucasArts, John Carter, Tom's love life, my 'funk' (DISCLAIMER: Please don't worry about me. I am doing fine. Thank you. I love you. Thanks for listening), Taylor Swift and the objectivity of taste, Forza: Horizon, Fez, Trials Evolution, Borderlands, and road safety. In SSST: we discuss Orbis dev kits, the Wii U tour, Portal 2's new motion control pack, and bad marketing vs good marketing: a showdown between Halo 4: King Of The Hill and American Express' new Card Sync promotion. In Ask SSJ: we jump into the future and skip a few suburbs to Sandsky's house to discuss counting, Skylanders, great analogies, the Ten Commandments, Tom's dog Hunter, the dirty lying Internet, our hatred of passive-aggression (followed by some pure passive-aggression on our part), helpful animals, religious tolerance, bad dates, sexy redheaded ladies, chafing, embarrassing injuries, wacky orgasm noises, and dancing. Also, hipsters and Harold Pinter, Jim Ryan, sharing music with strangers, wind, politeness, whistling, and 'dick socks'. MUSIC USED: SSJ Theme 2: Xavier Rubetzki Noonan Circles: Cloud Four Small Minds: Edema Ruh Set Your Soul: Pablo J & The Lobsterettes CLICK HERE to download! Check out Game Grumps on YouTube. They funny. Add Sandsky on XBL: colourfast Add Xavier on PSN: xavierrn FREE ADVICE: Don't openly admit to your stupid emotional problems on a podcast! No one wants to hear that shit! "If you listen closely, you can hear a kid playing guitar." -YouTube commenter Sam Helios