TIC TEK TOE

This is episode 027 of TIC TEK TOE, your light-hearted look at whatever comes into your hosts' heads. In today's episode, Evan and Marcel discuss slowly getting back out into the (hopefully increasingly) post pandemic world and what it feels like to travel right now. Evan heads east into Quebec and Marcel heads into Niagara Falls for an overnight stay. They discuss wine, feel-good television as a pandemic salve, fear, Jon Stewart's new show, fear, Ted Lasso and sportsball shows, fear, autism in movies and television, fear, aphantasia, a condition whereby a person has no 'inner eye' to visualize, fear, and what we did during the summer break (SPOILER: Marcel started making games in Unity). 

Fear not, and enjoy!

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 26! Marcel and Evan discuss why neither owns a Che Guevara poster, hard to find centrists, progressophobia, why you really should not feed the trolls, platforming and deplatforming, empathy, moral panics, the future of work, the coming collaps of the commercial real estate market, Zoom, real live people, embracing avatars, Yoda (not baby Yoda), and dark circles. In short, the boys cover a lot of ground and, as usual, have trouble staying on topic. Heck, I can't even remember what the topic was. Enjoy!

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 25! Woo Hoo!  Marcel and Evan discuss the ethics of killing NPCs in video games, simulation theory wars, and why an otherwise respectable university would sabotage its standing in the Linux community. That last bit is juxtaposed with Evan making a blasphemous presentation at the Toronto Linux User Group, GTALUG. The boys also cover running graphical Linux apps in Windows, old style book printing and publishing, turtles, dwarves, giants, and tardigrades. Today's episode features the quintessential Canadian story, and yes, it involves a beaver. Or two. Now that we have drones on Mars, can Amazon deliveries on the Red Planet be far behind? 

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 024, the episode they said we would never do. Marcel and Evan discuss cheese, because . . . well . . . CHEESE! The boys discuss their favourite types, chat about declining attendance in US churches and synagogues and whether Trump has anything to do with it. Because NFTs are a thing now, Marcel and Evan find ways to make fun of them, while decrying the insane price of graphics cards (assuming you can even get them), and whether this whole crypto thing just needs to go away. Then, there's that thing about RMS returning to the FSF which brings up the question of whether the FSF is even still relevant. The boys also discuss the man who should have been the 46th President of the US but will probably become mayor of the city that never sleeps, Andrew Yang. 

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This is episode 023 of TIC TEK TOE, and we're calling this one "The Evil Episode" because it's all about evil, specifically who is evil, who isn't, and just what constitutes evil these days. Once upon a time, especially to those in the Free and Open Source Software (aka FOSS) world, it was Microsoft. These days, however, there's Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon (aka GAFA) fighting it out for the crown of ultimate evil. And Microsoft? They're starting to look like one of the good guys. The boys also discuss the banning and/or cancelling of Dr. Seuss, the de-sexing of Mr and Mrs Potato head, the Mars lander and what wind sounds like on Mars. Oh, and Marcel used the wrong microphone source in recording so his audio is kind of subpar. 

This is episode 022 of TIC TEK TOE. Marcel and Evan discuss cracking open a cold one, in this case fizzy water, renovation porn, the stock market along with the latest sort-selling GameStop madness, the awesome power of Reddit, the possibly even more awesome power of Elon Musk, Signal, MeWe, Animaniacs, and PSYCH. Oh, and Schitt's Creek, too!

Links from the Show

Sodastream discussion, spawned from me cracking open a cold one (PC fizzy water).

Fusion Flavours (where Evan buys his mad scientist fizzy water supplies)

Renovation porn subreddit

Note: ANYONE WHO TAKES FINANCIAL ADVICE FROM MARCEL AND EVAN ARE IDIOTS!

Wall Street, GameStop, etc. Some background.

The wallstreetbets subreddit (Marcel called it wallstreetwatch on the show; he was wrong)

Leverage "The rich and powerful, they take what they want"

Elon Musk and Signal

Mewe.com

Animaniacs

PSYCH

In this final episode of 2020, number 21, Marcel and Evan ask what the big deal is with one day changes of date while really wanting to see the back end of this particular year. They then meander down the path of picking up new skills, video games, ad blockers, virtual reality (again), exploding rocket ships, and why Elon Musk is the perfect Bond Villain. 

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 020.  Today, Marcel and Evan discuss why televisions are so cheap, even those huge things that you struggle to find space for on your wall, the awesome comedy, "Superstore", a wrap for season 2 of "The BOYS", Google's cloud gaming platform, Stadia, the cost of modern video games, where concerts have gone during the pandemic, the quest for an open Metaverse, and whether it's okay to kill virtual beings, even if they are zombies and other versions of the undead. 

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 019. Marcel and Evan start out discussing cheese and its precursor, milk, move on to meat, including the plant based alternatives, Incredible Burger and Beyond Meat, after which Evan does his best to alienate GMO's foes. Moving on to a discussion of ultra-violence on TV with shows like Preacher and The Boys, the two slip into anime and video games. From there, it's VR, the end of business travel as we know it, including conference SWAG, open source virtual reality, and a teaser about an upcoming discussion where Marcel will point out why Evan just does not even begin to understand how intelligent technology is supposed to work. On, and Marcel coins a new word, "Ostimates", a combination of "Optimistic" and "Estimates." Make sure you use it everywhere! Finally, please support our little podcast by telling others about it and leaving us a rating wherever you find your podcasts. Thanks for listening!

Links From The Show

PREACHER and ultra violence, The BOYS, Watchmen, Pulp Fiction, etc. 

One Punch Man, the Anime series, including the video game.

The Oculus Quest 2 has arrived

Spatial, vSpatial, Immersed, and Facebook's own version/vision

The Logitech VR supported keyboard (no, we aren't being paid by Logitech, unless that is, they want to pay us).

Vircadia, an open source VR metaverse

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 018, where Marcel and Evan discuss whether anyone is real but you, dear listener, are presumably and hopefully really who you are. In today's show, Marcel and Evan discover that there musical tastes may not be entirely discerning, Evan foists some really bizarre music on Marcel as Marcel backs away slowly, Marcel suggests that perhaps we need a kind of Internet ID card, Evan expresses his distrust for "in home listening devices", and the pair discuss artificial and virtual beings.