Nerd Heresy

We discuss a couple of superheroes that were very important to us as kids, Blankman and The Meteor Man. These are fun movies that we saw regularly when growing up, and decided to re-watch. Given the recent glut of superhero films that fall flat for us, we wondered if these hadn't aged well, but instead we found they were pretty fun, even now.

Strategy RPGs, like Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea, are the kind of things we've loved for a while, though we don't really care for the latter. We go over our history with the games, with a detour into names for various kinds of mecha.

El Aura is Bielinsky's second film, this time about a taxidermist with a disability who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime. He died a year after it came out. This film is beautiful, intricate, and forbidding, and we absolutely adore it.

Nueve Reinas is an amazingly well-constructed heist film. It concerns street criminals and low-level cons. We save the last part for Heist Spoilers, just in case someone wants to watch the movie fresh without the reveal. Watch this movie. You won't regret it.

Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine is a fantastic character study Lupin's Irene Adler, and it gets pretty damn dark in places. We've sectioned this episode into spoilers so you can stop it and watch the show at any point. It starts getting darkest about halfway through, so if you want to stop at that point, it's a good plan. CW: child abuse, suicide.

Turn-A Gundam is a fantnastic show that gives us both what we love about Gundam: the consideration of human life annd everyday people. We discuss the first 25 episodes, loving the whole damn thing so far.

We finished Fate/Apocrypha, and it dropped the ball not only theologically, which is sad given how well-researched Fate usually is, but also in resolution and fights. It doesn't go well from here.

The Cat Returns was adorable when we saw it. We chat about last year's Ghibli fest, and what we're looking forward to this year.

Breaking In is a passable film about a mother saving her children in a reverse Panic Room situation, though we've mostly got a few issues with the Mexican in the movie.

Cage is fantastic in this film about a corrupt cop that gets everything he's worked for, a fantastic indictment of police, that only serves to show how other cop shows and films work.

Eega is a Telugu language romantic comedy about a man who is reincarnated into a fly to protect the woman who loved him. It is fantastic and hilarious, and we gush about it for an hour.

In the times before Homestuck's massive... whatever Homestuck is, webcomics were a more staid, newspapery medium that still had some of the mainstays of today. We discuss those, and some of what's held on. Also Kid Radd, the best sprite comic ever made.

The nerds discuss their experiences with the Ultima franchise, Richard Garriott, and the new Shroud of the Avatar. It's going to eat Andre's life soon enough. If you can find him in game, you are guaranteed a fish!

We watched the first season of Fate/Apocrypha, and we're interested in seeing where it goes, but we have our problems with it so far. We'd just rather not ever interact with anything to do with Jack the Ripper again.

The three movies of the original Mobile Suit Gundam are fantastic, and even though their pacing is weird, they give you a good grounding in the Universal Century. We adore all three together as a whole. This is the first in our Gundam Series.

In the year 3025, stompy mech robots walk multiple earths. We go through a quick history of Battletech, with quick overviews of the factions from our point of view. There's also a bit of time spent on the real-world development of the game, which has hit dozens of snags at every possible turn.

We take a moment to mourn Erin Popovich at the beginning and the end, may she rest in peace. Other than that, we discuss the Spurs, and how they're totally going to be eaten alive by the Warriors, and also Andre's awful playoff bracket.

Into the Breach is a difficult and fun puzzle game masquerading as a strategy-game. We love it.

Cyberpunk's a genre that's been coming back into fashion given our disappointing cyberpunk present, full of megacorporations and sketchy internet deals. 

Thanks to the women of Transmediacrity, Andre was finally drawn into Fate: Grand Order. Then Lupe was drawn in. Then more, and more. And now no night is complete without the sound of crit stars being gathered.

A D-rank movie at best, the nerds take issue with inconsistency and the political silliness of Star Wars. 

Avalon (2001), directed by Mamoru Oshii. - The nerds discuss what may still be the best film about video games and the nature of reality.

A Wrinkle in Time is a pretty good kids' movie with some messages that don't quite add up for us, which we discuss in length. If we were judging purely on the Leguizamo-Peña scale though, it'd be an S.

We were worried about this movie being too happy about child soldiers. We were right to be worried. Fun robot action if you can get past that, though.  

We discuss this year's installment of NBA 2K, which we've been playing since 2k16. It's good, especially if you want to learn more about basketball. We used it for a lot of fantasy basketball, ourselves.

When The Last Sword is Drawn is a newer samurai film (2003) than what we've been watching, about the Shinsengumi. It's pretty interesting, but it's got some issues. Swordfights are beautiful, though.  

Just a couple of nerds talking about Shadow of the Colossus, and remembering it. Both of us haven't played it in a while, but we heard the new one was coming out, so we decided to have a chat about it.   Our Patreon. (Recorded 11/2/2018)

Proud Mary was really fun from a family drama standpoint, and it only manages to not get an S rank because she didn't use the real sweet-lookin' rifle she had in her arsenal.  

We discuss the failings of Firefly, now that we've got a decade and a half of distance from it. We also compare it to Cowboy Bebop, and ruminate on what Joss Whedon probably thinks is cool.  

We discuss the Oscars a bit, and my sister's project, which allowed us the opportunity to have a reason to sit around and watch a lot of classic movies. The Oscars and highest grossing from year to year are hit-or-miss, and we've seen a lot, which lets us put things in context.  

Watching Hideo Gosha's works reminded us that we love movies, and love them enough to comment on them. Here, we talk about Hideo Gosha's early works, Goyokin, Tenchu, Three Outlaw Samurai, and Sword of the Beast.

Our first recorded episode! It has a few bumps, but we talk about The Shape of Water, which we absolutely loved.  

The nerds talk about the Stellaris expansion, and about how fanatical purifiers have to die.   

We're in agreement, it's an S-rank film, but it'd be better without Spy Bilbo.  

Recorded: Feb 15, 2018.We start by talking about the podcast itself, and what we're doing here. But this is primarily a stress-test. What happens when we actually don't have anything to talk about?