Thursday, March 20, 2014

Pen Fights Gamepad has Podfaded

Donald Conrad is still cranking out content over at his amazing video game website: 

and

Dan Absalonson is still cranking out content over at his website:

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.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 13

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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.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 12

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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.

Sound Effects Attributions:

DunDunDunnnExtreme.wav
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 11

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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.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 10


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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

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 09

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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

Friday, September 21, 2012

Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 08


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
AssassinĂ¢s 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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