Horror Movie Night Episode 2: Waxwork

by SaintmortJuly 12, 2015

Velcum to Da Vaxvoooooorrrrrkk!!!!!!

In this episode of Horror Movie Night, Scott desperately pours water out of the boat while everyone pokes holes in it, Adam reads six hours of useless notes, and Matt remembers a third of the movie. Thrills, chills and tangents abound – would you like a closer look?

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Geekscape 348: Amber Benson Casts A Spell On Us!

by JonathanJanuary 6, 2015

Amber Benson arrives on the Geekscape show to talk about her brand new novel “The Witches of Echo Park”! We talk to Amber about writing, what her literary influences are and of course ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’! What are the dangers of doing a 3 hour Reddit AMA? What is her best and worst exchange with a fan? And just how sexual a book is “The Witches of Echo Park”? Things get a little raunchy as Ben geeks out and we all go a little blue! I recommend ‘Essex County’ to Amber and she talks about her cinephile love of ‘Nights of Cabiria’! Yes! It’s THAT weird of a Geekscape… and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

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Corruption In Video Game Journalism: What Does It Mean For You?

by Shane O'HareAugust 19, 2014

A very interesting topic has come up over the weekend. The entire events and goings on have been collected in this, albeit long, video. If you care at all about video games in the slightest, then I HIGHLY suggest you give this a watch.

http://youtu.be/C5-51PfwI3M

The sites and people implicated in this video are some of the big dogs in the video game journalism industry. It brings up a great topic that needs to be addressed. Accountability and Honesty.

If any of the allegations are true, then we have ourselves a huge problem on our hands. When personal agendas (we here at Geekscape have No Agenda) get pushed through big media outlets, like the ones implicated in the above video, we have a failure of the industry. You as consumers need to keep people like us in check, so that we can accurately cover the topics you hold dear. If this kind of stuff goes on, then you the consumer will be hurt.

One of the interesting things to come of this is the mass censorship of the above video and it’s topic. When it was posted on Reddit’s /r/gaming earlier, it was immediately removed from the page and all the comments deleted. It wasn’t until the video was posted on /r/videos that I found out about the subject. Turns out the head moderator of /r/gaming felt the video was against Reddit’s rules, but the head moderator at /r/videos felt like it was NOT.

What is interesting about this, is that the moderator from /r/gaming in question has publicly reached out to Miss Quinn.

Now this isn’t about if she fucked a couple (5) guys. It’s about her using her relationships with people in the media to affect articles and news to profit. To knock out competitors, or people that she deemed “oppressive”. Its about creating a terrible image for females in the video game industry.

Miss Quinn has said that she won’t respond to anything about this above subject because it’s not about “video games”. What I have to say to you Miss Quinn, is you can’t have your cake and eat it too. You’ve vocally taken a stance on things that do NOT directly correlate with gaming, but pick and choose when that topic is valid. You’ve said that this is just a push to crush creativity. This is NOT a push to crush creativity. This is the start of a movement to keep people like me, people like the folks over at Nerd Reactor, the people at Kotaku and others honest.

The Question of The Day

So the question of the day, the dear readers of Geekscape, is what do you think of this whole incident? Please consume the evidence and form your own opinion. We want to hear from you how you feel about the subject of Honesty in Journalism. How do you the readers think we the Press should be held accountable? Please share this post, share the video and propagate the formula. Honesty.

Addendum

I would like to point out that during the writing of my piece, the video from Mundane Matt had been re-uploaded. His take down was the catalyst for the story getting out. It goes back to the start of my article. When corruption in the industry is rampant, you the consumer hurts. Miss Quinn abused YouTubes DMCA take down policy, and will most likely abuse Twitter’s abuse policy in all of this. Her correspondence with the Reddit /r/gaming mod needs to be taken into question as well. His public response thread is full of questions that aren’t getting answered.

http://youtu.be/Equc1QnQ9rw

Reddit Upvotes To Land On The Xbox One With ReddX App

by MoreLikeAndyAugust 19, 2014

If you’re in the middle of a game on the Xbox One and have a idea for a Reddit post, you no longer have to reach for that tablet/phone/laptop to create said post. With the announcement of ReddX, everyone’s favorite place to have discussions and share media is now an app for the Xbox One.

You might think ReddX would limit you to only browsing r/gaming since. You will be happy to know that the entirety of Reddit will be available to peruse. Of course posting, commenting and upvoting will be possible whether you choose to use the Xbox One controller or actually reach for that SmartGlass device if you prefer to type with your fingers.

ReddX wouldn’t be complete if it didn’t have achievements like all the other Xbox One apps tend to have. Microsoft community manager Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb decided to have a little fun with the achievement images with posing as popular internet memes like Scumbag Steve, All The Things, and Futurama Fry. You can see the all the images for these achievements on SgtFrankieBoy’s Imgur page.

To all you fellow Xbox One owners, what will be your first post using ReddX? Mine will probably end up being a clip of me failing at video games, as usual.

Source: Xbox Wire

The Saint Mort Show Episode 084: Scott Roger of Survivor Girl

by SaintmortMay 28, 2014

For episode 84 of the Saint Mort Show I sat down with my internet friend Scott Roger who cohosts of the Reddit Horror Club Podcast with me every week. Scott has been in three different music project throughout the year or so that I’ve known him but we barely discuss any of them. Instead we just well… chat. Then his wife comes and joins the convo. Wish I was better at selling this episode but that’s basically all that happens (If that isn’t selling the shit out of a podcast I don’t know what is).

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The Best of the Bullet Bill Changes Everything Meme

by GilmoreMarch 1, 2012

In 2006, before the internet was overrun by tired old advice animal memes, we had 4Chan, we had Something Awful, we had Fark and maybe a few other places. Memes weren’t on the news and they sure as hell weren’t performing at real, televised awards shows. But much like the transgendered dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, life found a way.

And also in the summer of 2006, Geekscape‘s Jonathan London annoyingly gave his friend Graham a piece of advice that would unknowingly set off one of the greatest message-board-based memes of all time. They were playing New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, Graham was rushing through a level, and Jonathan warned “Careful. Bullet Bill changes everything.” And indeed, he does.

Bullet Bill Changes Everything

Bullet Bill, for the uninitiated, is the lovable yet deadly giant bullet/bomb that has killed countless of us who have dared underestimate him in a Mario game.

And so, with uttering of one of the nerdiest things ever said out loud, the geek community couldn’t stop putting Bullet Bill into some of humanity’s darkest moments (and some randomly great ones), showing once and for all that Bullet Bill truly does change… everything.

NOTE: Some of these may be horribly offensive.