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Welcome to episode 74 Skazz kicks us off with his report on Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star  on the switch. A warrior style game featuring lots’ of enemy and a  confusing story line. TheSuffolkRam has returned to Borderlands 2 due to the purchase of  glasses (it make sense in context). He talks about strange guns and some  of the strange humour. Skazz talks about the recent splatoon splatfest fest including a in  depth discussion on which way toilet roll should be put on the holder  and the quickest way to empty the roll. We also talk about the next  splatfest decision of Vampire or Werewolves and discuss the benefits of  each. And it implementations in various games. TheSuffolkRam talks about the newest version of Warhammer 40k (8th  edition), talks about the changes to how the game works for the both the  good and the bad. As well as discussing other game workshop products. We talk about IGN’s take over of Humble Bundle, and what the implications might be. Fin

Welcome to episode 73 Middlemeister has briefly returned to us once again to discuss the  story of his purchase of his new SNES mini, including missed buses and  after hours openings. He also talks about the games on it as well. We  look at the difference between the NES mini and some strangely missing  games. TheSuffolkRam has been playing another FPS puzzle game  with Infinifactory. Building complex assembly lines making box based  object for his alien overlords and getting random items as rewards. We then begin discussing the new Star Trek series, Star Trek:  Discovery. Big spoiler warning for this one. Ram wasn’t impressed,  Middlemeiester preferred it more. We talk about the opening two  episodes, the character development in it, the futuristic space ships  and revamped Klingon’s. We briefly talk about Wolfenstein 2 and the lack of automatically  health recovery and why were glad quick saves don’t exist in real life. We talk about the upcoming s

Welcome to episode 72 We kick off with discussing Black Mesa, the remake of the original  Half Life. Both TheSuffolkRam and Skazz has been playing this following  on from last episode discussion, Rams been getting nostalgia, Skazz less  so.  We discuss our opinions on it, as well as Half Life in general and  an alternative theory on Gordon Freeman. We then move onto talking about Ram’s latest purchase, an Oculus  Rift, he talks about the joy of setting it up, the magic that is VR and  both good and bad game experiences. We also discuss the various pictures appearing on Skazz’s Linux  computer, writing on animals, Ethernet’s, boilers, health apps, and  Skazz experience playing laser tag. Notes: Old school nostalgia, or overrated remake? Black Mesa Enter the world of VR with the Oculus Rift Follow us on twitter Like us on facebook Subscribe to our YouTube channel Join us on google+ Join our Steam Group Why not come join us on our next livesteam? S

Welcome to our bumper long episode 71 birthday podcast. We kick off talking about the next splatfest and the relative pros and cons of the superpowers flying or invisibility. We then move onto the most important news of the month, it’s our  birthday! join by making sure you have cake and beer available while  listing to this podcast. TheSuffolkRam kicks off with talking about space capitalism sim  Offworld Trading Company, He discuss cornering the market on water,  pirates and dealing with stocks. Skazz has been playing GTA5 over the last few weeks. He talk about  his experience trying to playing the game online, and we discuss our  preferred GTA games. Ram talks about re watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, this lead  onto talk about Star Wars and other series such as a large talk about  Breaking Bad, the last season of it and out favourite characters from  it. We also talk about Better Call Saul, and what other spin off we  would like to see. We talk abo

Welcome to episode 70 Once again middlemeister has abandoned us in favour of a BBQ. Skazz has somehow managed to find time to play games despite it being the summer holidays. He’s become addicted to Rocket League. a physics game that combines football, cars and rockets. he talks about getting pwned in his first game and how he drive a Delorean TheSuffolkRam has been hunting for signals in Bad Robot’s new game The Signal From Tolva. Exploring an Alien plant, taking control of robots and tough combat all in search for a mysterious signal. Skazz talks about the recent Splatoon 2 splat fest that took part in after last podcast. His once again talks about his dislike of the character Pearl, the new maps for the event and overall dislike of them. he also talks about which he prefers more, Splatoon 1 or 2? We talk about the recent hacking of HBO and the stolen episode, we have a rant about big companies lack of security and why their not learning. We also discuss our pitch for a possible reboot of a computer themed

Welcome to episode 69 In this episode Skazz has not been playing anything due to the summer holiday. So it left to Middlemeister and TheSuffolkRam to pull it all together. We kick off with Middlemeister, who’s been playing the heavily patched Mass Effect: Andromeda, searching out into the galaxy to find and terraform golden planets. We discuss improved game play, semi fixed facial animations, exploring planets and the new Nomad vehicle. Ram has been playing a simple, funny first person adventure puzzle game with Maize, he talks about Russian stuff bears and trying too hard at humour. Midddlemeister talks about the upcoming release of the Snes mini, the dangers of game and console pre-orders and once again how much we hate scalpers Skazz talk about the next splatfest, how ice cream was fighting ice cream and the future choice of mayo vs ketchup and his dislike of Perl. He also looking forward to the new Steinsgate game Chaos;Child We celebrate the future passing of Adobe Flash. We look at its past and als

Welcome to episode 68, still no middlemeister, but were assures he will reappear soon. We been playing anumber of gam,e this episode, kicking off with a game TheSuffolkRam’s was asked to play by Skazz, Stardew Valley. A re-imaging of the harvest moon series, with the player taking on the deed of a farm. Ram find himself getting tire by half seven the morning, and in the game as well. He talk about his frustrations with the game, dungeon diving, and non required housing for sheep plus discussion about minecraft. Skazz has been playing Spaltoon two, delivered on time with no issues (well one…). Hes been painting ground, firing new weapons and putting up with people complaining about voice chat. He also tells us his answer to one of life most important questions – Ice Cream or Cake. Ram has also been playing The Long Dark, a survival game set in the winery mountains of Canada, He give us a tale of his life in the wilderness, involving train tracks, sprained ankles, wolves, fishing and dysentery. We then move ont

Welcome to episode 67, First of all and apology’s for the background and 4G noise, we messed up with the mic placement bit We start off by briefly talking about a game Skazz has not been playing, Tokyo Twilight Session FE (Post podcast we find out he had the name wrong), but leads us nicely into talking about the Nintendo Switch. We discuss build quality, some of it neat features and the exuberant cost of it accessory and games. Speaking of which, we go through a smattering of game available on it including Mario Cart 8 Deluxe and Lego’s city undercover. Skazz then moves onto the upcoming splatfest for Splatoon 2 and eating shellfish. TheSuffolkRam has been having flashbacks to the late nineties with Doorkickers, a top down real time strategy, but with the neat twist of being able to pause at any moment and enter a planning phase similar to Rainbow Six Ram then move onto talking about a political drama hes been watching with Designated Survivor. He talk about president Marty Sue, Convoluted plot lasting too l

Welcome to episode 66 We kick off with an amazing event, Skazz has been playing a game! We’ve mentioned it before, and rouge like FPS starting wizard called Ziggurat. Carrying on with the previously discuss games, TheSuffolkRam has been playing the Sims 3. He talks about designing himself in game, issues with fire, the correct priorities of households purchases. Him and Skazz triad stories of trapping and killing sims and slapping clowns. Middlemeister has also been playing a rouge like with Steam world Heist, raiding ships and shooting robots. We then move onto discussing the recent E3 show (with Skazz abstaining), talking about corporate EA, Long winded Microsoft conferences. A cartoon like Bethesda and a slightly weird Ubisoft. Skazz and Middlemestier then lead us with the Sony and Nitendo conferences and we pick our games of E3. We have a brief look and the start of the Steam sale Notes: A game from the past episode with Skazz playing Ziggurat Design your own sim and set fire to things with The Sims 3 Rou

Welcome to episode 65 After a slightly wobbly start we start again more organised and back with using paper show notes. We kick off with TheSuffolkRam have been trying to prove he not a machine in The Turing Test by being lead through a series of test chambers with an AI talking to him. Middlemeister has been catching up with some older game with The Witcher 3 and Metal Gear 5, Playing card games and sneaking around bases. We talk about our preferred Metal Gear Games and the relevant pros and cons of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 including game play and some crazy boss battles. We also talk about stealth games, including one of Ram most liked game with Thief. Ram’s been watching a bizarre Urban Fantasy with the 1990s TV series Neverwhere. A Neil Gaiman series made originally for Comic Relief, and featuring people who can open doors and eating rats, it is also incredibly hard to find. We briefly mention the death of Peter Sallis and the passing of Roger Moore We find out what Skazz does to homeless people and

Welcome to episode 64 Meddlemeister kicks us off this week with Resident Evil 7, looking for his girlfriend at an old plantation mansion featuring a scary family who like to kill or cut off each others limbs. TheSuffolkRam has been playing the game that had a strange history in Prey, hes been having flashbacks to the polymorph from Red Dwarf and explains how he links games to alcohol. TheSuffolkRam has amazingly been watching an Anime, along with Skazz called Blame!. Based on manga of the same name, set in a future with a city that decided to kill all its inhabitants. Middlemeister has been watching a very violent show set in a wild west style town of Banshee, with a ex-con taking on the role of a sheriff and trying to reunite his ex girlfriend Middlemesiter talks about the upcoming Farcry 5, one of Ram Favorited series which he managed to miss the announcement, this time set in america and featuring cows and tractors We briefly discuss Alan Wake disappearing from Stem due to its music license running out. an

Welcome to episode 63, A surprisingly long episode despite our lack of stuff to talk about Middlemeister kicks us off by talking about Nier Automata, hes been battling robots from the moon, and switching between a number of games modes TheSuffolkRam has not been playing games due to windows update, not graphic card, no sound, and not getting old games to play. He did manage to trey playing Alan Wake and the proceed to hate it. He did also try and play Pippa Funnells the stud farm inheritance, but could only get the poster maker working Middlemesiter has been watching the TV adaption of Neil Gaiman American Gods series which includes people getting eaten by lady parts. We also talk about the upcoming E3, the necessity of VPN’s in modern days and the advantages and disadvantages of them. and also the hack of the NHS and other systems by the WannaCry program We also go off on one of our biggest tangent ever, thanks to out live stream viewers where we discuss and even give praise for windows, achievemen

Welcome to episode 62, this month coming through the miracle of restream In this episode Middlemeister has unfortunately gone ill so its back down to Skazz and TheSuffolkRam to keep things in order. Ram has been chatting to a lonely 1980s AI in Event[0] in order to get home to earth. A enjoyable but very short expensive game so hes not got alot to say. Skazz has been playing a game with school kids who turn into weapons on a deserted island (yes it is Japanese) in its got lot s of story, hit lot of people and good looking graphics but lot of typos in Valkyrie drive. Skazz has been watching ‘The Finder’ a spin off from the highly scientific and realistic forensics series Bones. it features a man who find ‘things’. In other news we reveal that getting middlemeister onto the podcast and getting rid of weird news has causes us to be kicked off our network, but don’t fear, we setting something else up for the futrue. Also how you can come speak to us on Discord. We discuss the Humble Bundle monthly subscription, t

Welcome to episode 61 Sorry in advance for keyboard noise and fan hum, we had a laptop a bit close to the recording mic. In this episode, TheSuffolkRam has been paying a combination of two of his favorites series, Total War and Warhammer in the very originally tiled game Total War: Warhammer. A game witch combines turn based and real time strategy. He talks about the Warhammer backstory and world, explains why Skaven are the best army and why Bretonnians are not, the lack of halflings. He also discuss the pain of bad interfaces, his version of diplomacy and the joys of steam rolling across a map. Middlemeister has been playing the game he gushed about last month with Persona 5. He talks about the combination of school life and deamon dungeon fighting, eating burgers, looking after flowers and fighting PE teachers. Ram has broken out the ancient technology called a DVD boxed set and has been watching an old J.J. Abrams series called Alias. A early 2000s spy drama that holds up still pretty well and which rejig

Welcome to episode 60 In this feature packed podcast we kick off with Middlemeister playing his new PS4 pro, he tells us about the new optimization features and increase performance from the system. We also discuss the morale’s of updating consoles and the current state of VR. TheSuffolkRam has been showing his slum landlord way with Project Highrise, he tells us tales on rubbish overflows, lack of lifts and OCD design. Middlemeister has been catching up to the spin off show from the x-men legion featuring a spoiler you can guess from watching one x-men film, and a woman who can switch places with other people Skazz has been watching one of his favorite series in Steins;gate which has recently release a dubbed version of a film that came out in 2013. A time travel anime with an incredibility confusing plot. Middlemeister talks about the long awaited Persona 5 where you both play as a school kid who at night battles supernatural enemies. Notes: Increase power with the PS4 Pro Reach to the sky’s with Project Hi

Welcome to episode 59 Skazz has been playing Souls style game Nioh playing an starring a chilled waxed Irish/English/welsh bloke in japan, it follows the souls formula of being very difficult but very fun. TheSuffolkRam has been scratching his far cry itch in the latest game Far Cry: Primal. Featuring psychic owls dive bombing and remote controlling saber tooth tigers. Skazz has also been playing the most recent Legend of Zelda: breath of the wild. He has a rant about the changs made to the game for the release of Nintendo Switch. Otherwise am enjoyable game. Middlemeister has been returning to fallout 4 and talks about playing a couple of the DLC with Nuka world and Far Harbor. Nuka world featuring becoming leader of all the raider in a theme park and Far Harbor. Skazz has finally got round to completing a game he started year ago with Army of Two: Devils Cartel and the joy of trying to record a let play and couch co-op. Middlemeister has been watching the new to Netflix series 12 Monkeys not unfortunately f

Welcome to the Rand(Nerds); Podcast episode 58 In this Episode we are joined by special guest Middlemister Both TheSuffolkRam and Skazz have been playing the sand fulled game Spec Ops: The Line and discuss bad cover mechanics, bad team AI and stories where you’re not the hero. TheSuffolkRam has been playing a game he’d complete forgot about with Walking Dead Season Three: A New Frontier. Hes talks about Clementine’s development, how Zombies are like bad weather, ambiguous dialog choices, and also how the game ties in to the bigger Walking Dead universe. Our guest has been playing the recently release Horizon Zero Dawn a game featuring mechanical dinosaurs set on future earth. We discuss post apocalyptic games and the joys of couch co-op. We’ve been watching a lot of tv program, Ram starts us off with The White Rabbit Project. Made by the same produced of Mythbusters featuring some of the previous cast. Ram find it very hard to describe, its a cross between history/science and entertainment show but has some v

Welcome to the Rand(Nerds); Podcast episode 57 TheSuffolkRam has been maiming and blowing up clones in Happy Room. He talks about how the game reminds him of an early DOS game called The Incredible Machine and how it only becomes fun when you hack it using cheat engine. Skazz has fully entered the world of Linux gaming, and we are able to discuss a game that set you in the world of GCHQ like operative with Orwell. With Ram trying to be sensible and careful with people lives, and Skazz doing his best to troll them. We look forward to the new Mechwarrior 5 coming out, we discuss the previous games in the series including being compared to dogs, the size of the mech in the trailer and dialog bring back memory and also the difference between Japanese and Western mech’s. We discuss how valve is dropping green light and replacing it with a new system where developers pay to release their games. And what this means for developers. We also briefly discuss the shitty Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC, how lady bird books h

Welcome to the Rand(Nerds); Podcast episode 56 Apologies for the phone noise in this episode, Skazz has been punished for not putting his phone in airplane mode This episode of Rand(Nerds)was saved thankfully to Internet Explore, which is not something we get to say much. Skazz is still playing vanilla World of Warcraft and has got himself addicted again to the crack of gaming. We discuss previous experiences with private servers including creating our own escort missions. Ram has been playing a game set in the future where corporations rule the planet, no not ‘continuum: the game’, but invisible Inc. He regales us with tales of hacking corporations, flying the world and sacrifices. We also learn about his callous disregards for unnamed NPC. Ram has been watching Person of Interest, the previous project of the creators of Westworld, A story about an all seeing machine working out which people are in peril and giving some vigilantes there social security number. Ram has issue getting into it but has grown to l

Welcome to the Rand(Nerds); Podcast episode 55 Skazz had been playing one of Ram’s favorite games, Deus Ex. Hes having a hard time getting into it so Ram tries to sell it to using a weird cake analogy and tales on how to abuse the game. Skazz has also been playing on private Vanilla World Of Warcraft servers,we talk about how nice the first version was ad Blizzard business practices. We also discuss other MMO’s out there including what Ram wants from an MMO We have a brief discussion into the TV series of Westworld, with some minor spoilers Ram has been experiencing the life of a American teenager girl with time travel powers in Life is Strange, He concluded that high school is horrible and talks about the weird way he plays these games. We discuss the end of the WiiU, the new Nintendo switch and where it will sit in the market and its cost, the loss of LAN gaming and how gaming is now more unsocial. Notes: The original and in our view the best of the series: Deus Ex: Game of the Year edition Facing return to