This month’s topics include:
- SNES Mini / Conspiracy Theories on NES Mini
- Summer 2017 Box Office Bloodbath + Wonder Woman talk.
- Is VR a Fad? What about AR? Is either the future? Maybe 4K is the future?
- Terminator 3 Appreciation Day.
Enjoy!
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 102
This month’s topics include:
- Off-Topic Beginning!
- But first, Ben and Jones discuss the DC Extended Universe! And what they expect to see from Wonder Woman.
- Ben complains about Rogue One yet again. Does the rebel who rebels for the rebellion actually rebel at any point in the film?
- Our ideas for Admiral Ackbar Begins: And Origin Story. Plus does Rule 34 apply to his race?
- Core Wars! AMD vs Intel, and ATI vs NVIDIA!
- Jones has used the same CPU since 2010 – how?
- Are PC upgrades slowing down? Whatever happened to Moore’s Law?
- Whatever happened to Tiger Direct?
- Are desktop computers a dying species? Thin clients taking over?
- Overwatch!
- Jones and Parker discuss Overwatch and Ben falls asleep.
- Ben and Jones discuss HDR and 4K Blu-Rays.
- And of course more movie talk…
- Discussing Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
- Jones finally sees Logan!
- Is Summer 2017 going to be a major movie box office bust?
- Split / Unbreakable 2: The Breakening
Enjoy!
Sony Mavica Fun!
I recently used an ancient Sony Mavica disk camera to document Bay Area Maker Faire 2017.
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 101 (Or 5 in binary)
Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
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- DICE’s Battlefront 2 and Star Wars in general
- Why Ben and Jones didn’t care for Battlefront (2015), and why Parker likes it.
- Movie release schedules – is Spring the new Summer?
- Parker once again tells us that he liked Duke Nukem Forever.
- Is DLC splitting the community and killing games off too soon? And it is a side effect of games being to cheap?
- Jones plays the Nintendo Switch!
- He forgot to taste the cartridge!
- Parker calls “Breath of the Wild” the worst 3D Zelda ever?
- We all talk about portable game systems for a while.
- Why did Nintendo kill off the NES Classic so early? Don’t they like money?
- Marvel: The Taco Bell of Filmmaking?
- Why is this sort of bland corporate profit-making better than McDonald’s or Wal-Mart?
- Is Disney not going to bother with original content like Pirates of the Caribbean in the future?
- Jones complains about aliens in Star Wars.
- Abandoned movie sets such as The Fugitive’s Train Wreck.
- Why movies love CGI and don’t use many practical effects.
- The Governments / Armies / First Order in The Force Awakens Don’t Make Any Sense.
- We spend the last 15 minutes of the podcast complaining about this 🙂
- What Wonder Woman Battlefield 1 content would be like and why it should be made!
- DICE’s Battlefront 2 and Star Wars in general
Enjoy!
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 100!
We finally made it to 100 episodes, and have a super-sized episode to celebrate!
Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
- Are R-rated movies coming back?
- John Wick and Logan do well, while PG-13 Ghost in the Shell flops.
- Are people finally tired of PG-13?
- The lack of finality in modern movies, and why this is emotionally bad.
- How does the Galactic Senate work in Star Wars? Were the Gungans properly represented?
- Nintendo Switch Impressions Now That It’s Out
- Right analog stick is awful – why?
- Load times are worse on cartridge than SD card – huh?
- Parker gives his impressions of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- The first Zelda game with DLC?
- Difficult games – old school fun or a waste of time in a busy world?
- Open World Gaming – What Is it?
- Jones and Parker discuss World and Warcraft and Ben falls asleep.
- PS4 Pro / 4K gaming
- Is it worth it?
- Jones gets an OLED TV!
- Console Gaming is becoming more like PC gaming – our thoughts!
- Why Ben and Jones won’t play old games.
- Parker and Jones discuss why they didn’t buy Mass Effect Andromeda.
- Movie Talk!
- Ben complains about theater projection.
- Is the theater becoming an exclusive event experience instead of cheap entertainment?
- What movies should Disney make live-action remakes of next? (They’ll do them all, but in what order?”
- Is anyone going to care about Avatar 2 when it eventually comes out?
Enjoy!
Xbox One S Laptop For Sale!
I’m now taking offers on the Xbox One S Laptop we built on the Ben Heck Show last fall.
Size: 17″ x 9.5″ x 1.75″
Weight: Appx. 6 pounds.
Display: 15.9″ 1080p
Storage: 1TB
Power: 110VAC (no battery)
Includes: Power cable, LCD remote (provides additional functions) and Xbox 1 S Controller
Email offers to benjamin.heckendorn@gmail.com, thanks!
Original episode covering its construction here:
Xbox One S teardown video:
Benheck.com Podcast Episode 99
Almost to 100! It only took us 11 years… Joining us once again is Parker Dillmann from Macrofab!
Topics include:
- Bill Paxton Tribute
- His early days. Parker likes him because he’s a Texan.
- Greatest hits! Our best Bill Paxton impressions!
- Some of his lesser-known movies, like Traveller and Next of Kin, includes how to spell Traveller.
- Ben keeps talking about Indian Summer for some reason, and calls Paxton “a progenitor of an archetype”.
- Battlefield 1 – Best Battlefield since Bad Company 2?
- Real locations, instead of tunnels and gas factories. Cities feel like actual places, not just corridors.
- Meaningful destruction and more squad focus.
- Fewer overpowered vehicles, more infantry action.
- Satisfying guns in all classes, but game takes about 20 hours of play to become fun. Don’t give up!
- Ben’s Never Played Mass Effect – Jones / Parker react!
- Can they convince him to give it a try?
- How Jones/Parker feel about the original trilogy.
- Choice Matters, plus great story and characters.
- Andromeda? Is it Road House in space?
- Nintendo Switch Week!
- Is it just a Zelda adapter?
- Can Nintendo survive another generation without 3rd party?
- What if Microsoft bought Nintendo?
Enjoy!