Pen Fights Gamepad: Recent Episodes
Dan Absalonson & Donald Conrad
Donald Conrad is still cranking out content over at his amazing video game website: www.Did-Not-Finish.com
and
Dan Absalonson is still cranking out content over at his website:www.DanDanTheArtMan.com
but alas they are simply too busy with so many little kids and other creative things they're trying to accomplish to continue this incredibly fun but incredibly time sinking podcast. It was REALLY fun while it lasted. Check out what they have going on at their websites, and thanks for listening everybody.
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Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com
Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: Donald is going to E3! Dan's a published author! Chewie with IBS, and lots of other stuff about games and movies.
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Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com
Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.
Topics covered in this show:
J.J. Abrams Lens Flares
YouTube Video explaining it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paPT4iHUjFQ
More show notes to come soon.
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show:
Dan once killed Bambi
Moose like getting drunk on berries
Children screaming
Twilight is about pooping
Moose mouth
Donald's injured family - skull shaping, broken ribs, a broken wrist
Poop grenade
Poop waterbottle
Farts are funny
Video Game Giveaway - To celebrate the forthcoming STAR WARS movies from Disney, we are giving away Lego Starwars The Original Trilogy for the Gamecube!
www.did-not-finish.com happenings:
Warlords - a reboot of the classic Atari video game
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation - PlayStation Vita
Call of Duty Classic
Ninja Turtles NES games
Marvel Super Hero Squad and renting video games
Epic Mickey 2 and little kids playing video games
Food Parties!
Kids asking Santa for video games
FTL the space ship video game
Letting newbies wind at video games leads them to try out for American Idol
X-men and Baseball cards
Where Ken Griffey Jr. Go?
Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the SNES
Tiger Woods
Shaq Fu for the Super Nintendo
NaNoWriMo
Dan hasn't been writing because he's been studying plot structure
Donald gives Dan his thoughts and awesome ideas on Dan's science fiction novel after his third read through
Dan explains a few things about the development of his novel
Dan has a new Anthology for sale - "Danthology." A collection of all his short stories in one place for 99 cents
eReaders, eInk, Barnes and Noble
How our wives talk in their sleep
Flashpoint the TV show
Terra Nova on Netflix - it is so bad that it is kinda good?
'Last Resort' Canceled - boo hoo
TV networks concerned about how many people watched the Felix Baumgartner jump from space
Disney bought Lucasfilm!
New STAR WARS movies? We're excited!
Thrawn Trilogy
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings book vs movies
Will the new STAR WARS movies make a spike in Science Fiction books?
Video Games making more money than Movies
Black Ops 2 made 500 million in 24 hours
The Avengers took around 5 months to hit a billion dollars
The Hulk, the only movie Dan still needs to see before finally seeing the Avengers
Good video game movies?
Windows Phone 8, iPhone, Galaxy S3, Samsumg ATIV
Mac VS Windows
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show:
What We’ve Been Up To
Added a Facebook “Like” button to the posts of website
Dan and his wife are doing Foster Care
We’re On Stitcher! - Read Example 1 and Additional Info
Donald generously gave Dan Torchlight
Metriod Prime games
DNF - I am playing Double Dragon Neon and enjoying it?
Tokyo Jungle is amazing!
Borderlands 2 is Amazingerest
heyash.com
extralife.org
Dan is playing New Super Mario Bros with his wife and loving it!
DDTAM - “Stuffed Monster” available in audio http://everyphototells.com/2012/10/episode-99-stuffed-monster/
Movie Memories (ep 5 just went live)
Dan has a story that is going to be published in an anthology by Five Rivers Publishing
Dan is going to submit to the Inlander Short Story Contest again
Wool
Treasure Park
Things We Need to Read, Watch, or Play
Dan Added Assasin’s Creed because it’s on Steam for Mac -Donald is happy about this.
Dan finished Batman: Private Casebook - great art, writing was decent
Galaxy on Fire space game on iPod touch & iPad
New Game from Chris Roberts creator of Wing Commander
Trailer: http://www.playerattack.com/news/2012/10/10/wing-commander-creator-returns-with-star-citizen/
Kotaku Article:
http://kotaku.com/5950453/you-loved-wing-commander-now-meet-the-shiny-successor-that-will-bring-space-sims-into-the-21st-century
Kickstarter!!!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen
Brad Hates Games revisits Colony Wars and it reminds me of -
Freelancer - the Chris Roberts game that Dan may not know about. -
opeing cinimatic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RsWPFUzxgRU#!
gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NODc1lXn0ak#!
Privateer Intro Video Part I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9LVXvRrT0
Writing Excuses 7:33 starts at: 14:06
How Lost did it wrong from last episode with Michael and Walt
http://www.writingexcuses.com/wp-content/uploads/Writing_Excuses_7_33_Authentic_Emotion.mp3
Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:
What we've been up to
DDTAM-
Stuffed Monster
http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/09/stuffed-monster.html
Novel Experiment: The Ghost of Meadowhill
http://www.dandantheartman.com/p/novel-experiment.html
Do research on Napa school
DNF-
Xbox Glold is pissing me off. PS+ is making me happy
Borderlands 2 excitement
Assassinâs Creed Revelations
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Double Dragon
Raptr.com
Danger Joe video game
Assasin's Creed for Kinect
Zombie Carnival
Positive reviews
Truth about Zombies
Praise
Original idea VS current Idea
We're Alive
http://zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html
Donald am now listening in real time :(
Walking Dead Episode 3
Guess what? Things got worse.
bing rewards
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:
We have our first guest on the show! David of www.glowpuff.com games!
Introduce David of http://glowpuff.com/
Glowpuff games interview.
What we've been up to
Talk about microphones of last two episodes and laptop dying.
Did Not Finish Updates
Did Not Finish question from Dan
Dan asks if there was a game Donald wasnât looking forward to playing for Did Not Finish which surprised him and was actually pretty good.
DanDanTheArtMan.com Updates
The Truth About Zombies a reading of chapter 1
http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/08/a-reading-of-my-new-zombie-novel.html
Start this video at 1:38
Samsung loses in court
Thoughts on how this will affect the phone market.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/24/apple-vs-samsung-verdict-samsung-guilty-of-willfully-infringing-apple-patents
We're Alive audio drama fiction podcast
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html
Rotten Tomatoes on Lord of the Rings Movies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
TOMATOMETER 92% | AUDIENCE 92%
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
TOMATOMETER 96% | AUDIENCE 92%
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
TOMATOMETER 94% | AUDIENCE 83%
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:
Batman The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit being made into three movies?
Star Wars Christmas Special
Dan liked King Kong by Peter Jackson? Donald did not.
Peter Jackson wants to be like Twilight and make several movies from one book?
Dan's review of the first Twilight book: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2011/06/review-of-twilight-spoilers.html
The first Underworld movie and how it was good a vampire flick
3D being overdone in movies
Dan pines for Original Star Wars trilogy, Donald has a copy on VHS
Hear Donald talk like Bane from Batman The Dark Knight Rises!
Bane and how his mouth is covered, acting, speaking
Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
The Man of Steel trailer
Listen to the guys watch the trailer and comment then discuss:
Talk about the darker new direction that is hinted at.
Is this the “Nolaning” of the Superman franchise?
Are they trying to make Superman fit into the grittier Batman univers?
Will JLA be better as a darker more serious film?
G.I. Joe the movie
Animated movies being better than the live action, Star Wars: Clone Wars
Total Recall reboot - Dan hasn't seen the original, added to his list
Superman teaser trailer left us wondering
SNL skit of Superman where everyone knows who he is
Things We Need To Watch or Read list is visited
http://www.penfightsgamepad.com/p/things-we-need-to-watch-or-read.html
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Dan recommends a book to Donald: John Cleaver trilogy
http://thedanwells.com/titles/ianask.html -
Dan finished the comic The Dark Knight Returns
Making an Animated version of The Dark Knight Returns
Batman The Animated Series and their voice actors doing a trailer for the new Batman live action
Batman Arkham City Asylum game - Dan needs to play it
- Dan saw Captain America
Tron Legacy, and Dan hasn't seen the original Tron
4: Donald is enjoying a TV show "Breakout Kings" on Netflix. World may have stopped turnning for a moment.
Dan remixed some music for a Glowpuff video game "Carnival Carnage" (the one starring Donald)
Live play the Beta build of Carnival Carnage (because I have it!)
Donald plays it live on the show
DNF update
Finished Duke Nukem Forever - I have some thoughts
Expendables 2 game - I got it for free in a strange way
Patapon 2 - Best game ever?
Dan was on The Roundtable Podcast www.roundtablepodcast.com
Dan gives a short reading from his Sci-Fi novel of the scene where Quickstar leaves his Captain dead or alive.
See more by this artist Zzenya Thompson here: http://zzenkinsein.deviantart.com/
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show:
- We talk taking young children to theme parks.
- Donald went to a local theme park called Silverwood with his family
- Tiny Toot Train
- Dan talks about his recent trip taking his family to Disneyland
- Water World stage show, Kevin Costner's fish wig, the movie Open Range
- Vegas TV show
- We talk about all the Reboots going on like Fantastic Four
- Donald saw The Amazing Spider-Man movie in 3D, he liked it
- Dan watched Iron Man 1 & Iron Man 2, he liked them
- Tech in Iron Man vs what is available today
- Dan saw The Expendables and really liked it
- X-Men First class
- Dan read more of Donald's graphic novel The Death of Don Hat
- Dan's blog post on writing a prequel novel and writing the back story of a character and why Donald thinks it's a bad idea
- Rogue archetype character breakdown, examples Han Solo, Aragorn
- A Pen Fights Gamepad drinking game which we don't recommend you play
- Firefly
- Why Dan hates when cool looking animated characters are ruined by high pitched voices and why Mickey Mouse's gloves may be white
- Breaking down the universe of Mickey Mouse and the speculative technology behind Mickey Mouse's helper character Tootles
- Donald brought over his Playstation Vita and Dan finally plays Gravity Rush
- How playing games, reading books, watching movies has been revolutionized with the ability to consume in bite size chunks whenever you have spare time
- Donald talks about his PS Vita
- Steam summer sale on video games
- The Secret of Monkey Island (video game)
- The Hitman games
- Mission Impossible for the N64
- Hitman: Blood Money cheap on Steam and awesome
- The Crisis Collection (unique first person shooter)
- Independant games like Terraria, Jamestown on steam
- Indie musicians, authors, and how it's all been revolutionized from the days of the big publishers
- Building and managing our website, web analytics
- Wordpress VS Blogger
- This is episode 5! Celebrate with us by sending us an audio recording, we'll play it on the show!
- Why some people were gamers as kids, mostly females, but are no longer interested in video games but will still play old console games
Website for this podcast:
http://www.PenFightsGamepad.com
Dan's Websites:
http://www.DanDanTheArtMan.com
http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan
Donald's Website:
http://www.did-not-finish.com
http://www.twitter.com/ConManEd
Download the .mp3
Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.
Topics covered in this show:
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We're back! And now we have a dot com! Our website is now www.PenFightsGamepad.com
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We got featured on the ComixBox for our latest talk on comic books and superheroes. Link: http://paper.li/comicbox/1339621754
Things Dan Needs To Watch or Read
- Dan finished Kick Ass
- Dan is over halfway through The Dark Knight Returns
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GlowPuff games is making a new game starring our very own Donald Conrad! www.glowpuff.com
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Donald watched the movie Transformers Dark of the Moon and hated it.
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Donald watched the movie Chronicle and loved it.
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Creatives making better stuff with restraints like a small budget
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Star Wars original trilogy VS newer trilogy.
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Darth Vader being a Jack Ass. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPm2rIQO_c
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The Notebook re-cut as a Horror movie trailer (There are many, YouTube it)
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Flashpoint (One of Dan's favorite shows on Netflix)
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24 the TV show, and Jack Bauer
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Donald is playing Duke Nukem Forever and he's not happy about it
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Donald updates us on Did Not Finish - Call of Duty Classic
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Ouya game system and their Kickstarter
link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console -
Email received from James - "Why do you talk about writing? Shouldn’t you talk more about games on the podcast?” The hosts respond.
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Hosts talk about Dan’s novel and recent blog post about it: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/07/my-first-show-my-first-novel.html
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David Farland and his "Daily Kick" writing advice, www.davidfarland.net
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Donald sticks it to Dan with some great feedback on his novel, and questions about why certain scenes are characters are they way they are
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Dan shares some advice from Stephen King's book "On Writing" and how he should use the advice himself
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Donald shares more ideas for improving Dan's book
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Dan's web comic www.dyingwishcomic.blogspot.com
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www.DanDanTheArtMan.com has published works by Dan available in audio and eBooks most for free
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Donald’s Graphic Novel
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Dan recommends an epic fantasy trilogy of novels by Michael J. Sullivan - Theft of Swords http://www.riyria.com/
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Game of Thrones Show and Books
Website for this podcast: http://www.PenFightsGamepad.com
Dan's Websites:
http://www.DanDanTheArtMan.com
http://www.twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan
Donald's Website:
http://www.did-not-finish.com
http://www.twitter.com/ConManEd
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff.
Topics covered in this show:
- Donald talks about things he's read in Dan’s book, Dan expands on it
- Privateer video game
- http://www.gog.com (Good Old Games website)
- Dan talks about Donald's graphic novel, Donald expands on it
- Nathan Lowell
- Matt Nelson creator of web comic "Catbeard the Pirate http://www.catbeardthepirate.com
- Dan finished watching the movie Thor and gave it a 4/5 stars
- Touch on other movies which lead up to The Avengers
- Hulk Fights Bear video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nFsKUSK9M
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. In this second episode they talk about lots of video games, including some old ones, Donald's first impressions of Dan's novel, E3 and movie dissapointments, playing Resident Evil 6 on a PC with an Xbox gamepad when the game comes out, a Do Not Watch blog post from Donald's site. Donald talks Call of Duty Classic & Resistance Burning Skies. Also, Dan talks about playing Tangled w/ 4 year old & how 4 Year old on the Wii and many other things like:
The Zelda Timeline
Zelda:
Ocarina of Time, Windwaker, Twighlight Princess
Dragonball Z
The Expendables
It's a long one and a good time!
Website: http://penfightsgamepad.blogspot.com/
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Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. In this first episode they talk about they met, their interests, and their art. Donald blogs about finishing his enormous back log of video games and creates graphic novels. Dan writes and podcasts short stories and has his first full length novel coming out soon.
Links to things mentioned in the show:
Donald's website & twitter handle:
http://did-not-finish.com/
http://twitter.com/ConManEd
Dan's website & twitter handle:
http://www.dandantheartman.com/
http://twitter.com/DanDanTheArtMan/
Alien (Movie)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)
Russian Unicorn Bad Lip Reading Video:
http://youtu.be/YjaZNYSt7o0
Clang Kickstarter with Neal Stephenson:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
Round Table Podcast
http://www.roundtablepodcast.com/
Writing Excuses Podcast
http://www.writingexcuses.com/
Music used in the podcast by Kevin Macleod:
http://incompetech.com/
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