It’s a funny thing, Halloween. It’s an American tradition that, through copious amounts of exported television, has embraced our dank British shores and seems to have taken root like some sort of gnarled evil tree. Personally, I actually hate scary things, and yet I have a contradictory interest in the…
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October 31, 2014 at 9:00 pm | Halloween, Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION | No comment
Tags: creepypasta, Goosebumps, Halloween, horror, John Dies at the End, Junji Ito, The Evil Within
It’s been a while since we last rambled into a microphone, and since we last did that the video game community collectively shat itself inside-out via Twitter. This time we discuss #GamerGate (obligatory hashtag included) while firmly rooted to our fence, and if I see one more person write “you…
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September 20, 2014 at 10:58 am | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION, Vaguely Topical | No comment
Tags: Doctor Who, Duke Nukem, feminism, GamerGate, games journalism, Hellblazer, John Constantine, Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, MGS, Uncharted, Uncharted 3 multiplayer
Due to an immense cock-up, I somehow managed to record the entire hour’s discussion via my laptop’s craptacular on-board microphone, which is barely fit for webcam communication let alone podcasting. Still, I’ve done the best I can to clean up the audio! This week’s topic defaulted to “space operas that…
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August 13, 2014 at 8:28 pm | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION | No comment
Tags: anime, Cowboy Bebop, Ernest E. Ville, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, Outlaw Star, sci-fi, the Sims
The third time’s the charm! This week’s theme is “Ian Fleming”, and we somehow manage to deviate heavily, driving drunkenly in a meandering fashion across an entire range of James Bond-based topics. The topics can be boiled down to the following: Murdered: Soul Suspect (video game) Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack…
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July 14, 2014 at 10:03 pm | James Bond, Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION | No comment
Tags: Bechdel Test, Casino Royale (1967), Charlie's Angels, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Coyote Ugly, Deadly Premonition, Gert Frobe, Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Minecraft, Murdered: Soul Suspect, Roald Dahl, She's All That, Sherlock Holmes, Square-Enix, Tomorrow Never Dies
Against all advice, we’re back for another week of geeky banter. We’ve even tried to better ourselves by not playing a game while we talk, finding a quieter room and by recording the video footage with FRAPS. This week we tackle the thrilling subjects of: England going out of the…
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July 1, 2014 at 7:40 pm | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION | No comment
Tags: Archer, Discworld, Football (bah!), Grand Theft Auto, GTA Online, GTAV, scavenger hunts, Sir Terry Pratchett, Sports (ergh!)
Sam and I have wanted to try this whole “podcasting” thing for a while, so we bought a half-decent microphone and, just to completely break convention, we played Minecraft while we talked (nobody plays Minecraft on YouTube, right?). We “um” and “er” our way through such exciting topics as: Give…
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June 24, 2014 at 8:34 pm | Podcasts, The PAYNEful podSPLOSION | No comment
Tags: Daniel Craig, Give 'Em Hell Malone, James Bond, Liquid Snake, Metal Gear Solid, Minecraft, podcast, Sean's terrible Heath Ledger Joker impression, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension, The Punisher, Tomb Raider, Uncharted, Wayne's World
