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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