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

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

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
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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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 07

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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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 06

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

1. Dan recommends a book to Donald: John Cleaver trilogy
http://thedanwells.com/titles/ianask.html

2. 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

3. 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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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 05

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


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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 04

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're back! And now we have a dot com! Our website is now www.PenFightsGamepad.com

- 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

- GlowPuff games is making a new game starring our very own Donald Conrad! www.glowpuff.com

- Donald watched the movie Transformers Dark of the Moon and hated it.

- Donald watched the movie Chronicle and loved it.

- Creatives making better stuff with restraints like a small budget

- Star Wars original trilogy VS newer trilogy.

- Darth Vader being a Jack Ass. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPm2rIQO_c

- The Notebook re-cut as a Horror movie trailer (There are many, YouTube it)

- Flashpoint (One of Dan's favorite shows on Netflix)

- 24 the TV show, and Jack Bauer

- Donald is playing Duke Nukem Forever and he's not happy about it

- Donald updates us on Did Not Finish - Call of Duty Classic

- 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.

- 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

- David Farland and his "Daily Kick" writing advice, www.davidfarland.net

- 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

- Dan shares some advice from Stephen King's book "On Writing" and how he should use the advice himself

- Donald shares more ideas for improving Dan's book

- Dan's web comic www.dyingwishcomic.blogspot.com

- www.DanDanTheArtMan.com has published works by Dan available in audio and eBooks most for free

- Donald’s Graphic Novel

- Dan recommends an epic fantasy trilogy of novels by Michael J. Sullivan - Theft of Swords http://www.riyria.com/

- 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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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 03

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

Website: http://penfightsgamepad.blogspot.com/

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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 02

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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Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 01

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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