We speak to Johnnie Excel, competitive eater and StarCraft 2 player, about competitive eating's culture, tactics, future and more.
Johnnie's YouTube channel
CNN article on Kobayashi arrest
S: Put Your Hands Up (Dubstep Version) A: Chandubaba
In our yearly HatchetJob awards AKA Insert Category, we invent awards for the videogames we played in 2014 - yes 2014 - from the serious to the stupid, from sex robots to sociopathy.
Can you guess which titles won the ‘Ubiest Ubiboo’ and 'Decrease in real-life stalking' awards?
This show was recorded in February 2016.
Music Velveteen Skies by Carosone
In our yearly HatchetJob awards AKA Insert Category, we invent awards for the videogames we played in 2013 - yes 2013 - from the serious to the stupid.
Can you guess which title won 'It's a condition!' ?
This show was recorded in February 2015.
Music is 80/90 Pieces by destinazione_altrove
In this show we discuss playing The Last of Us with a parent (who watches it as if it were a film) and whether the game, and its story, are deserving of the praise heaped upon them.
There are spoilers for the game and the film 28 Weeks Later.
Roboticist and educator Dr. Julie Carpenter tells us about her research with bomb disposal experts, how society might have to change as robots become more advanced and even what happens when a robot powers down in front of a small child. Recorded late August 2014.
Festo seagull drone: http://youtu.be/9YGLZXEwRVc
Festo kangaroo: http://youtu.be/_4luJ0ZSqy8
Music is Open by Com Truise
In our yearly HatchetJob awards AKA Insert Category show, we invent awards for the games we played in 2012 - yes 2012 - from the serious to the stupid. Can you guess which title won Wub Wub?
Music is Don't Go (RumbleStep Mix) by CDK
Dr.Tom Stafford is a lecturer in psychology and cognitive science at the University of Sheffield. He explains why the way you practice affects how good you get at something - and he's got 850,000 people to back him up.
Axon game: http://axon.wellcomeapps.com/
Github: https://github.com/tomstafford/axongame
Tom's blog: http://www.tomstafford.staff.shef.ac.uk/?p=221
Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomstafford
We discuss Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA and how games should portray governments in the future. Some spoilers about locations and plot devices.
We're taking submissions for the 3rd annual Insert Category awards from HatchetJob.com. Invent an award for a game released in 2012.
Music from Incompetech.com
We discuss Bioshock Infinite & touch on topics such as racism in the early 20th century, meaningful choices in games & how we're being asked to pay for unfinished stories.
M: Paradise is Lost A: Mauerhuhn
We discuss Sleeping Dogs, Ni no Kuni and Rumble in the Dungeon. The first part of the show is about AI, cloud computing and human resources. Skip to about 9m15s for the start of Sleeping Dogs.
Rumble in the Dungeon rules PDF
Music is Crazy Drunk (feat. FORENSIC/4nsic) Spaztits Mix by Phi-ode
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