The Geek Down

Jonny was first to get his hands on a Nintendo Switch, and gave us the full nitty gritty only the personal experience could offer. To be real, I feel he rubbed it in our faces a little. Sure enough however, as JM and Dale Stones couldn't stop salivating over the system even while we were MID-REVIEW, it's safe to say it was a well-deserved positive impression. ...Okay, that's a complete understatement, I'm pretty sure you could see Jonny's nerd-boner from space. Ultimately we really like this thing and feel you probably will to. The in-depth details as to WHY lay within.

Jordan Peele's "Get Out" teaches a hard lesson about dippin' into that chocolate, the Academy Awards demonstrate the importance of proofreading, the game really is over as we say a fond farewell to Bill Paxton, and the crew from Bad Captain Games drops by to give us the latest on Zero Sum and their plan for PAX.

We lay in to what was good, gregarious, and downright grimy at the 89th annual Academy Awards ceremony. The 89th Oscar ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2016. Who got saluted and who got snubbed? We discuss it all

Remembering one of our favorite actors, Bill Paxton. A noted and celebrated actor and director, Paxton brought us some of the most memorable supporting roles in cinema over the past 30+ years. some of his biggest films include The Terminator, Weird Science, Aliens, Predator 2, True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, and Titanic. He passed away at age 61 from complications following heart surgery. We discuss in detail how his roles affected us and what we'll miss due to his passing.

Adam, Jonny, and JM's got out to the early screening of Jordan Peele's directorial debut horror thriller "Get Out" and they drop the knowledge! A young black man visits his caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate. Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose (Allison Williams) are at the "meet-the-parents" milestone of dating, and she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Tom and Frost from Bad Captain Games stopped by to give us the "Mysterious Past" that led to their flagship game Zero Sum! It's a strategy card game set in a futuristic galaxy where players shape the fate of humanity by retrieving ancient technology from the ruins of a lost civilization. Representing powerful corporations, players take on the roles of agents, commanding soldiers, scientists and spies in overcoming challenging conditions on inhospitable planets. With SO many opportunities for heroism and/or villainy... definitely our kind of game.

We check out "Super Sons" from DC comics and see if the bat and the bird boy are chips off the old block, discuss the live-action nominated shorts vying for the Oscar, explore the PewDiePie scandal and delve a little into what constitutes "too far" with humor, the game Ghost 1.0 (surprisingly with NO erection/resurrection puns), and dissect Katsucon from the most Kawaii to the most Kowai!

Youtube celebrity PewDiePie comes under fire for supposedly racist comments. Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie came under a backlash recently about the content of some of his videos possibly being racist and anti-semitic. A recent Wall Street Journal investigation into his YouTube channel found a total of nine videos posted since August 2016 that featured Nazi imagery or anti-Semitic humor. As a result of the Journal’s investigation, PewDiePie has lost partnerships (most notably with the Disney-owned Maker Studios) and accrued negative press. It's also spawned a tidal wave of support from other internet celebs, and a new arguement about pushing the envelope.

Pat had a refreshed reaction to DC's "Super Sons." The sons of Batman and Superman have graduated to their own monthly comic. But if they want to survive, they’re going to have to share it. Looking at the lives of Robin and Superboy and their destiny to follow in their fathers’ footsteps, while we meet a new villain whose ascension parallels the boys’ own understanding of their powers - except that his comes with a murderous superiority complex. Where many comics get WAAAAY into the dark realm as of late, SUper Sons seems to be keeping it lighter and more 'general audience' friendly. Appropriately vivid artwork and an entertaining, relatively fast paced story make this one worth checking out.

Adam gives a rundown of the live action Oscar nominated short films of 2017. The five films in this category ranged from super serious to super silly. A mix of films messaging about tolerance, empathy, and kindness to whimsical pseudo-musicals, the spectrum was fully covered. Nominees were Sing, Ennemis Interieurs, Silent Nights, Time Code, and La Femme et la TGV.