A podcast brought to you by those goofballs from Nerds Amalgamated, for nerds by nerds about nerd pop-culture news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Writer/comedian/low-income husband and father James Donald Forbes McCann does not own a boat—yet! It is only a matter of time before this soon-to-be-lucrative podcast changes that sad fact. The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan podcast exists for one reason: to generate enough money for catamaran ownership. Yes, James can see the boat now, glimmering, as though in a vision. He could almost reach out and touch it. It is a beautiful boat. Go to www.patreon.com/jdfmccann and begin your ...
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Law and Disorder follows a band of troubled Marshals as they try their best to clean up crime in the city of Untherlass with very limited legal powers and even less training. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawanddisorder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Who said nothing ever happens in Brisbane? Join hosts Jessica Kate and Ellen Rose as they dig up the skeletons buried in our own back yard and take you on a macabre tour around Australia’s third largest city - home to the Stefan Needle, the Brown Snake, the crushing feeling that you’re trapped in a dead-end town that you can never leave, and some of the most brutal murders in Australian history. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz. Hosted on Acast. See acast ...
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Life is hard and people are trash! but can you tell the people you meet during you week exactly what you think of them? No! You cannot! But we feel your pain and we are going to do something about it. Listen in while we say all the negative things that you have been thinking so that you don't have to. And we will do it while trying new wines and letting you know what wines you should drink with us! Your hosts and new-found friends; Andy, Geena, and Zane, have some things to get off their che ...
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WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT DOGS! Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers, and others may even be pupperinos. There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers. The chunky ones are thicc, and the thin ones are long bois. When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof. Once in a while they do each other a frighten. And whether they're 10/10 or 12/10, they're all h*ckin' good boys and girls. Check us out every Wednesday as we show ...
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ARE DRAGONS TOO CLICHE? DO GOBLINS SEEM BORING? HAVE YOU PLAYED THROUGH THE PUBLISHED MATERIALS ONE TOO MANY TIMES AND DON’T KNOW WHERE TO TURN NOW? THEN HOOKED IS THE PODCAST FOR YOU. If your players are ignoring your well crafted plot-hooks and setting up shop in a tavern, getting drunk, and bothering the city guard then we are here for you. Each episode our hosts (and special guests) will serve up a heroes feast of plot-hooks, NPCs, magical items, epic tales, and forgotten lore that they ...
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Pay to Win Audio, Netflix to The Rescue and Bacteria Pirates of The High Seas
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Call of Duty Black Ops 6 has a new pay to win audio tier using customised Head Related Transfer Functions. Cool tech, but what isn't cool is allowing some players who can afford a subscription to have a gameplay advantage. Netflix are saving the Anime industry by... *checks notes* paying the animators a fair wage. This utterly insane idea will hope…
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AI propaganda, Playstation Vs Hackers, and Bringing Back The Dead Thylacine
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A minor actor has had his identity used to create Venezuelan propaganda. He's not too happy about that, and hopes the unions will be able to prevent this in the future. Playstation have spent ten years suing a company for making hacks for their games, and they just lost. While this might lead to a proliferation of cheaters, we're more excited about…
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Sorry to everybody I forgot Join the 1000 club: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann GET YOUR PAMPHLET TODAY: https://www.jdfmccann.com/pamphlet GSTK out now on YoutuBe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivuZOzcUUs Buy the books: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Nobel Prizes, The Real Cost of Game Piracy and Hollywood's Direction
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The Nobel Prizes for 2024 have been awarded. AI. AI everywhere... A study has attempted to estimate the actual cost of game piracy for developers who use Denuvo DRM. Is it really worth using on games? Hollywood has changed a lot in the last few decades with the rise of streaming. Some insiders have concerns about its ability to adapt. Nobel Prize 2…
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The Future of the Sims, Responding to Toxic Fans and Plastic Eating Bacteria
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EA have announced that they aren't working on The Sims 5 after a decade. Instead, they're farming out future content releases to the fans. Is this a sign of EA's laziness or is it the right move? Toxic fans ruin everything. Fortunately, studios are developing techniques for protecting actors and fans from their actions. A recently discovered bacter…
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Matt McCusker - Champagne Podcasting
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Listen to the Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast: https://www.mssecretpodcast.com/ Get around Matt: https://www.instagram.com/mccuskermatthewj/ Peep the visual component: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX8puwySi2vmz0YxCqoYMCg/videos Join the 500 club: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann GIGS, Houston, Chicago, Tulsa: www.jdfmccann.com GET YOUR PAMPHLE…
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Steam Record Playercounts, Suing OpenAI and Earth's New Moon
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Steam has once again broken their record for most concurrent users online. So where are all these new users coming from? What do they want? What does this mean for the future of Steam? OpenAI is being sued for copyright infringement. If they lose it could mean the end of the existing LLM AI hype. For the next few months Earth will have a new moon t…
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R18 for Gambling Games, Lionsgate AI and How Sleep Resets Your Brain
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Australia has now brought in an R18 rating for games featuring gambling. We discuss the merits behind this change and whether it will really protect the children from gambling addictions. Lionsgate have decided to use AI to create AI generated "augmentations" to their films. We go deep on deep fakes, and appropriate usage of AI. New research explai…
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Oxenfree Erasure, Disney Vs Peter Cushing, Gene Editing & A New Nerd Approaches
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A New Nerd Approaches and his name is Phoenix If you own the game Oxenfree through Itch.io, you're about to lose access to it. The Netflix owned games studio is pulling the game from storefronts and libraries, leaving nothing in its wake. This time, even if you own it, you won't be able to download it. This should be completely unacceptable, so how…
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Japanese Censorship, Humans in Heat & Jenna Ortega on Women Led Franchises
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Suda51 and Shinji Mikami got together to talk about Japan's CERO system of games classification. They've raised some excellent points about the inconsistencies in the system. Humans don't like the heat much. New research shows that the fatal limit for temperature and humidity might be much lower than expected. Jenna Ortega thinks more women led fra…
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How Epic Store Finds Users, Debunking the Marshmallow Test & Banning Fake Reviews
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Epic Games Store's long running free games program seems to be paying off for their user acquisition strategy, despite their low sales of exclusives. They still can't hold a candle to Steam though. The Marshmallow test is supposed to determine a child's future. The latest studies actually debunk it, and prove that you really aren't limited. At leas…
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Keep the dolphin smooth GSTK out now on YoutuBe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivuZOzcUUs The James Donald Forbes McCann Catamaran Plan Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the books: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Banning Roblox, Olympic Maths and D23 Announcments
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Roblox is now banned in another country for child exploitation. These are serious allegations, so we're lucky serious journalists have investigated and uncovered the reasons why Roblox isn't great for kids. We discuss the issues and whether Australia should follow suit. Mathematicians have worked out the optimum swimming stroke, and are training sw…
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Aleks Milinkovic in conversation
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The Unbearable Drabness of Modern Interior Design
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This one gets a little visual. If you'd like the visual component it is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOdtkiM7Es Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the books: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Warframe CEO on Live Service Games, Jim Shooter on Modern Marvel and Cocaine Sharks
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The CEO of Warframe developer Digital Extremes has explained why he thinks there hasn't been another Live Service hit like Warframe. Jim Shooter, a former Marvel head, has some thoughts on modern comics - There isn't enough dialogue apparently. Sharks in Brazil have gotten their fins on large amounts of cocaine from drug smugglers. Everything human…
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Viggo Mortensen on Franchies, The Indie Games Bubble & Why We Blush
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Viggo Mortensen hasn't been seen in any big franchises since Lord of the Rings. He's got a very good reason for that, and he isn't likely to go back. At least he's willing to tell us why. We've seen a lot of great indie games in the last few years, but it's starting to look like the bubble might be popping. Sooner or later it'll be back, but at wha…
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Ants Performing Surgery, Why We're Addicted to Games and Goodbye Crunchyroll Comments
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A species of carpenter ants will perform surgery on their wounded comrades. These gory scenes take place after vicious battles with other ant colonies. This is the first time that surgery has been observed in non-human animals. Much has been made of video game addiction, which is a real and scary thing. But not every case is medical addiction, and …
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AAA (audio advice addition)
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Totally unrelated visual component this week: https://youtu.be/dv2yQOvgAGE Tickets on sale now for Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth: http://www.jdfmccann.com/gigs Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the books: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Happy Whales, Eve Open Source & Hollywood Exodus
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Scientist have found that whales are happier when humans are not around, and this was during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic, when human activity on the ocean was limited. Which begs the question do whales really hate humans? Eve Online's creator CCP Games have decided to go open source...will this make the game immortal? Only time will tel…
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Tickets on sale now for Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth: http://www.jdfmccann.com/gigs Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the books: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Sam Clarke made a beautiful visual component: https://youtu.be/MnR-8gUFnw8?si=ywbUxBflfL7vRg3j Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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UnSocial Multiplayer, The Curse of Geoengineering & GTA the Movie
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A classic MMO designer thinks modern MMOs aren't giving players enough ways to play together. MMOs have changed over the last 20 years, and are no longer the only way to play with your friends. So what's really behind the changes? A new study suggests geoengineering might actually just move the issue from one place to another. Who will bear the con…
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Ticket for the Australia tour go on sale July 4 Join the sailing club to contribute financially to James Donald Forbes McCann's journey to boat ownership AND you'll get to watch the GOD SAVE THE KING special and important video: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the several books written by James Donald Forbes McCann: https://www.jdfmccann.com/…
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Welcome to the new and improved JDFMCP season 2 episode 2 Check out the Catechast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy7FvqcH5J1HzovfnF-NvsA Check out the JDFMCP visual element on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesDonaldForbesMcCann Join the sailing club to contribute financially to James Donald Forbes McCann's journey to boat ownership: www.pa…
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Save TF2, Save The Crow and Save Arctic Foxes
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Team Fortress 2 has been overrun by bots. A new campaign to save this game from the hackers and cheaters who are ruining it begs Valve to make a difference. We discuss how this relates to the Stop Killing Games campaign and the various ways Valve and the community can save the game. By all accounts, The Crow's reboot will not be any good. Can it be…
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Welcome to the new and improved JDFMCP season 2. Check out the JDFMCP visual element on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesDonaldForbesMcCann Join the sailing club to contribute financially to James Donald Forbes McCann's journey to boat ownership: www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the several books written by James Donald Forbes McCann: https://ww…
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Join the sailing club to contribute financially to James Donald Forbes McCann's journey to boat ownership AND you'll get to watch the GOD SAVE THE KING special and important video: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the several books written by James Donald Forbes McCann: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Join the sailing club to contribute financially to James Donald Forbes McCann's journey to boat ownership AND you'll get to watch the GOD SAVE THE KING special and important video : https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Buy the several books written by James Donald Forbes McCann: https://www.jdfmccann.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo…
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Setting Up (ft. Blake Freeman & Eve Ellenbogen)
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While Eve sets up in the background, James sits down for a chat with comedian Blake Freeman. It's a totally normal and conventional podcast except that Eve is making the set in the background. This will only mean something to people watching the video, though. Other wise I assume it'll be a normal podcast with some annoying hammering sounds. Go che…
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Paid Mods, Microsoft Recall and GRRM's Rants
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Sorry about the audio quality on this one. The people responsible have been fired out of a cannon into the sun. The problem has been fixed and we'll be back to our usual quality next week. Should we pay modders for their work? After hundreds of hours playing modded games, and even designing some mods himself, Professor's got some thoughts on this. …
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Special Announcement | GOD SAVE THE KING
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Out now for Patreon members: https://www.patreon.com/jdfmccann Watch the director's cut of GOD SAVE THE KING by Sam Clarke, the new James Donald Forbes McCann Comedy Special/Tour Documentary/Art-house Film. Sam Clarke's website: https://samclarkestudio.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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HONOUR AND SHAME ft. Eve Ellenbogen
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Why Gamers Smurf, The End of Anime, Adults Only Social Media and Poo Pills for Parkinsons
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According to surveys, most gamers Smurf - that is high level players using a low level account to stomp noobs. So why do you do it, and is it as bad as it sounds? The end of anime's Golden Age may be upon us. Miyazaki says so, but he's just won an award for anime. So is it self-deprecating humour or bragging? The Australian government has suggested…
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Stop Killing Games Update, Isekais Are Off the Rails and Pig Butchering Scams
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The UK has issued a response to the Stop Killing Games campaign with a possible angle of attack. Remember to keep signing your local petitions to help make a change. The creator of Ghost in the Shell Arise thinks Isekais are off the rails and that the real world doesn't suck that much. Has he been outside recently? AI deepfakes are being used in a …
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