ThePowerGeeks.com » pinball http://thepowergeeks.com The Power Geeks Radio Show Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:11:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Power Geeks #65 http://thepowergeeks.com/2010/09/the-power-geeks-65/ http://thepowergeeks.com/2010/09/the-power-geeks-65/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:30:53 +0000 DarthMolen http://thepowergeeks.com/?p=16538

We are LIVE on Ustream!!! This week we talk InterventionCon, Apple Media Press Conference, Commodore 64 rising from the ashes and MUCH MORE!!!

Items of Interest

  • Historic Nasa Pictures come to Flickr “Commons” (SM)
    • Nasa posts free pictures on Flickr Commons of some of the most historic moments in its history
    • a GREAT trip down memory lane for any space nuts out there
    • Goddard, JFK, Von Braun, LBJ, John Glenn, Lots of rockets and xp planes
      • (JP – What an awesome collection of pics… Geeks and space geeks alike should dig this!)

Gold Sponsors:

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  • Will be THE place for Geeks to hang out
  • What is UberDorkCafe? It is the brain child and DREAM of Natali, aka @UberDorkGirlie from twitter, and it blends art + science = geek
  • Place to hang, eat, have awesome kid parties (if thats your thing), or to get your gaming on
  • Woookie Coookies – a piece of UDC before there is even a physical cafe
  • UberDorkCafe – Auction Sept. 11th – DC,Tampa Bay,Online
  • first Piece revealed and accompanying t-shirt @hefnatron
  • Ellen campaign???
    • Both are available in the Android Market for Android devices running 1.5 or later
    • Lite is a free version (ad supported) with slightly limited functionality
    • Full version is only $1.99 USD  (On Sale till Midnight Monday Central for only $0.99 for Labor Day Sale!)
    • Go Buy it! or try it, then buy it!

Deals of the Week / New Releases

    • Originally aired 1960-62, hosted by Boris Karloff
    • Guests included Shatner, Richard Chamberlain and other soon to be stars
    • Many of the program’s writers, including such icons of the genre as Robert Bloch (“Psycho”) and Richard Matheson (“I Am Legend”)
  • Pinball FX2 comes to XBLA (SM)
    • Pinball? In this day and age? Original Pinball FX was one of the most bought and downloaded games on XBLA
    • FX2 is a “platform” meaning, you get the engine for free, you can import all your original FX boards and then the new boards come as content that u can purchase
    • New Achievements for old tables, Multiplayer support over XBLA, Leaderboards
    • (sm) Pinball tip of the week – Every Chuckie’s i’ve been to has 1 pinball machine for 1 token plays, boot the kids off it and camp the sucker

Geek Speak

  • Apple Event (JP)
  • iTunes 10 (available for download starting today)
    • New logo, few interface tweaks
    • Most of the new release’s focus is on Ping, a social network for music. “It’s like Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes,” Jobs said
    • iOS 4.1 announced, available next week
  • High Dynamic Range photos: The phone will take three photos in rapid succession — one at what the phone thinks is the normal image, one underexposed and the third overexposed. The image is then combined to create the high dynamic image. Mel Martin demonstrated the power of this type of program in July.
  • Bug fixes including those relating to the proximity sensor, Bluetooth and the iPhone 3G.
  • High-definition video upload over Wi-Fi.
  • TV show rentals and purchase
  • Game Center debut

New iPod Nano
It’s hip to be square. the newly introduced iPod nano finally dispenses with the wheel because now the control surface is the iPod touch. The new model is so small that like the newly announced iPod shuffle, it has a clip that allows it to be worn and has a 24-hour battery life.

What isn’t there: the video camera that was included in the last release of the nano a year ago.

Other features include:

  • VoiceOver
  • FM radio
  • Nike+ and pedometer

It comes in six colors, two more than the shuffle. It will cost $149 for 8GB and $179 for 16GB.
New Shuffle
The new iPod shuffle is smaller than the 2nd generation device and brings back buttons!
The new shuffle has a click wheel
It will hold 15 hours of music, is available in 4 colors and sells for US$49.
4th Gen iPod Touch
FaceTime. It isn’t just for iPhone any more.
Apple has just introduced a new generation of iPod touch with an new chip (the same A4 that powers the iPad and the iPhone 4), a better display (the iPhone 4′s double-resolution Retina display), and a built-in, front-facing camera that introduces FaceTime video conferencing capabilities.
a hefty refresh for an already great device,
lots of new features that really expand the way you can use the device.
newest iPod touch units bring nearly all of the iPhone magic to a Wi-Fi only platform.

Preorders start today, and they’ll be shipping within a week
Prices start at $229 for the 8GB version.

Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

  • Intel a Busy bee (SM)
    • First, the purchase of Mcafee for $7.68 billion
    • Now, Infineon’s wireless unit for $1+ billion
    • Who is Infineon? make certain Iphone / IPad parts
    • Even intel sees writing on wall and is scrambling to be relevant
    • Have agreed to pay the US govt $55 million to settle charges that it paid kickbacks to tech partners for recommending their products to federal agencies
    • This final agreement, announced Mon, by the Dept of Justice follows a tentative settlement earlier in the month where HP agreed “in principal” to resolve the case.
    • “Contractors must deal fairly with the government when doing business with federal agencies,” Tony West, assistant attorney general for the civil division of the Department of Justice, said in the statement. “As this case demonstrates, we will take action against those who seek to taint the government procurement process with illegal kickbacks.”
    • The case stretches back to 2004 when two whistleblowers–Norman Rille, then a senior manager with Accenture, and Neal Roberts, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers–filed a civil complaint alleging that HP had doled out kickbacks. The suit, which also included Sun Microsystems and Accenture, was launched under provisions of the False Claims Act (PDF) in which private citizens can file actions regarding fraud on behalf of the U.S. and share in any money recovered.
    • In 2007, the DOJ joined the investigation and charged that the defendants used affiliate relationships “to enrich themselves through a kickback scheme.”
    • The settlement also resolves charges that a 2002 contract between HP and the GSA was falsely priced because HP failed to provide complete information during negotiations with the government.
    • HP’s response to the whole thing? “HP denies engaging in any illegal conduct in connection with these matters. We believe it is in the best interest of our stakeholders to resolve the matter and move beyond this issue.”
  • Commodore 64 Rises from the Ashes (JP)
    • Commodore USA announced right to make branded computers 6 mos ago
    • Then promptly went back under that radar as a deal couldn’t be hammered out
    • Now popped back up with full blown computer hidden in a authentic commodore 64 shell, right down to the huge keys!
    • PC64, 4GB DDR3, SATA 1TB HDD, HDMI, Blu-Ray or DVD
    • Want more modern? Go w/ the Phoenix or Amigo
    • All OS’es (including Amiga emulation)
      • (JP – I want one!!!)
    • Snoop Dogg and Symantec’s Norton want you to show off your lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the “Hack is Wack” cybercrime rap contest.
    • Contest ends Sept 30th. Upload your 2 min video at www.HackIsWack.com
    • Snoop is going make the initial call for entries through his Facebook account, Twitter and YouTube page
    • What’s the winner get?  RT airfare for 2 to Los Angeles along with two days and two nights hotel stay to meet with Snoop’s management and learn more about his business. You’ll also get two tickets to a Snoop Dogg concert and a new laptop pimped out with Norton Internet Security 2011.
    • The winner, to be announced on Oct. 20, 2010, will be selected based on overall creativity, rapping and performing skills, and delivery of a compelling anti-cybercrime message.
    • On Twitter? Use hashtag #SnoopNorton to look for and mark tweets about the contest.
      • (why does this Reel Big Fish song keep running through my head??? Sell out, with me tonight… sell out… JP)
  • PS3 3D Movie Support Pushed to October (SM)
    • Yeah, is that bated breath I hear?
    • Was scheduled for this month,
    • Put away your copy of Rainy with a side of meatballs, you have to wait til oct.
    • Will get pushed in a firmware upgrade
    • If you’ve held off buying Borderlands in the event they’d release a GotY Edt., you’re risk seems to have paid off.
    • Posting on Twitter, developer Gearbox Software has confirmed such a collection by tweeting “Borderlands Game of the Year Edition announced! Game + all FOUR DLCs and bonus map for 360, PS3, and PC. Available in October!”
    • As well as coming pre-patched with all the usual fixes that follow a game’s release, there’s the following four download content packs included:
  • The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
  • Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot
  • The Secret Armory of General Knoxx
  • Claptrap’s New Robot Revolution
    • The only real unknown is what the bonus maps will be, but with an October release, there won’t be long to wait to find out.

Intarweb Goldmine

  • Press your ashes into Vinyl, put yourself on reverse… (UDG)
    • headstones are so last century
    • UK Company is offering to bake your ashes into a vinyl record
    • Record will have your own voice, favorite tunes, or last will and testament
    • They also offer R.I.V. custom artwork for the center, 24 mins of content
    • Yours for only 2,000 pounds
  • Woman Dr. Dies of asphysition in boyfriends chimney (JP)
    • Straight from the land of WTF
    • The doctor, involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship, apparently tried to force her way into the home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later.
    • While she was trying to break in, the man she was pursuing escaped unnoticed from another exit “to avoid a confrontation,” authorities said.
    • Who says Dr’s are some of the smartest people on the planet??  not me!
  • Proof that Golf is bad Joo Joo (SM)
    • I have PROOF that golfing can be bad for your health
    • guy in California swinging at a ball in the rough struck a rock
    • Sparks then set 25 acres ablaze
    • needed 150 firefighters to put out the blaze
    • I’d say that’s definitely a mulligan
    • His game was on FIYAH! Literally

Extra Links

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  • Series of physical journals that will be written in and by the geeks, the panelists, the cosplayers, the vendors, & the fans. Everyone & anyone at a Con can write in this journal Allowing good, bad, and geeky experiences to liv on
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Flame Mail

DEAR TPG – JOO SUCK 4 MAKING IT HARDER 4 ME 2 CHOOZE WHICH ST ONLINE I WANT 2 WASTE MY MONEY ON…

Just kidding: John Writes,

Okay, I blame myself for this.. but WOW now my ST Online decision is much harder!!! I had no idea there were so many collector’s edition variants available out there. I wish I could just pay for the little perks individually rather than choosing :( . Nice investigative work finding out all the MIND WARPING options out there Jeremy!

I think in the end I’ll go with the Original Constitution Class ship since… (a) its upgradeable (b) it has blue phasers (yes im serious) (c)

(In all fairness and in the interest of full disclosure… WE at TPG are a team… everything you see and hear is a team effort… Steven did the majority of that research… I just rocked out the delivery… Mad Props to our host!)

Q: Do the exclusive items stack? Can I get more than one thing?

A: Yes, different items stack. So if someone purchased multiple copies of the game from various retailers, he would receive all those items for EACH character created. Included playtime will still stack as well. However, the same bonus does not stack. So if someone purchases from Wal Mart twice, he cannot get two 500 point skill bonuses for the same character. (Each character will get one).

Hello Borg Chick on the bridge of my constitution class ship toting around a TR116.

Geek Speak

  • Christmas-topics
    • Best Holiday Contest EVER!!!!
      • Since we have ended up with Zombies in almost every episode… I have to mention this one…\
        • The girls over at Geek Girls Network are at it again with a cool Holiday contest to win an autographed Comic…
          • The contest is to take a classic carol and re-write it to be geeky…
          • and here is the example they posted…
            • The Zombie Song (as to the tune of The Dreidel Song)

              My boyfriend is a zombie

              He tried to eat my feet

              But now I have a shot gun

              Only bullets he will eat

            • Oh – zombie zombie boyfriend

              I’m sad to see you go

              But now your brains are splattered

              Into bits upon the snow

        • Follow the link above to enter
      • Christmas Light Guitar Hero
      • Christmas Specials will be airing this weekend… Frosty and Frosty returns on CBs Friday night
        • What Christmas specials do you look forward to??
          • Morayma and I look forward to the “A Christmas Story” 24 hours on TBS every year Starting on Christmas Eve (SM: OH YEAH!)
          • If you want christmas specials, gotta watch “The Hallmark Channel” 24×7 of every special except (JP: does it include “Bad Santa”?)
    • Christmas Wish lists:
    • Cap My IPhone and San Fran Network Outage
    • Fake Steve Jobs (Newsweeks Dan lyons) organizing planned attack on AT&T Network
      • In his upset about poor service, he is trying to get users to attack AT&T network on Friday for one hour
      • Late wednesday night He asked his followers and cohorts to “stand down”
      • I have huge issues with the original request… and here’s why…
        • so you’re pissed… you don’t like AT&T’s service or network huh? Well this is America.. and YOU have a choice… go to another network
        • you want to try to make a point?? great… This is the issue you choose??
        • with everything going on in the world today?? This is what you are trying to devote your energy to?? Huh?
        • Have you stopped to consider who this would hurt?? The people who use their iPhone to run their small business??
        • the people who only have a cell phone and no land line… what if they were crippled and needed help while you were making your “point”???
        • and what point is it exactly that you’re trying to make? if you band a bunch of people together in a malicious attack you can bring a network to it’s knees? this in no way represents normal use??
        • I hope in the future when people try to organize  a flash mob to prove a point… that A. It is a point worth proving B. it doesn’t put anyones safety at risk and C. they think it through first


    Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

    Deal of the Week

    • Free ExtraLife IPhone App (SM)
      • For those that just like a daily laugh. Scott Johnson
    • Belkin Bluetooth Music Reciever (JP)
      • Pairs with up to 6 devices and can stream music from them via bluetooth from up to 33 Feet away
      • not bad for $50 and it comes with a 3.5mm to RCa as well as a 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable so it should work with almost any home audio setup

    Intarweb Goldmine

    Contact Info

    • On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and @FueltheFighter
    • email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com prcole@fuelthefighter.com
    End Music by Ding Pong, 12 days of christmas
    Thank you Scott Johnson and of course all gold farmers everywhere…

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    John writes that he’s having a problem with the ST Online Pre-Orders

    “Well I had a little problem with the ST Online Collector’s Edition pre order. Originally I’d ordered it from Amazon, because of the cool extra features including open beta access, and a borg bridge officer. After that, I realized that there’s ANOTHER bonus item out there that I want more! If you pre order from game stop, you get a constitution class ship as a part of your account (way better than a borg bridge officer)

    Any idea if there are yet more bonuses lurking out there for ST Online pre orderers?”

    • Here we’ll add to your problem…
    • GameStop: Exclusive ship: The classic USS Enterprise
    • Best Buy: Pet Tribble or Targ (based on faction)
    • Amazon: “Liberated Borg” Bridge Officer with “unique nanotechnology augmentations”
    • Direct2Drive: Multi-Spatial Personal Shield (regenerates itself and player health)
    • Wal-mart: Bonus Skill Points (bestows additional skill points)
    • Target: TR-116 ground weapon (micro-transporter beams projectiles to target, no line of sight required)
    • Steam: Chromodynamic Armor, improves critical hits and damage of energy weapons


    Letter from Brandon thanking us for the Holiday gift guide.

    “I wanted to tell you the last show was great. I thought it was awesome having all the gifts suggestions. I am really thinking about getting one of the Scottie vests. Also, I had forgotten about erector sets, I used to go crazy with them as well. I just ordered the “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead” for $10 including shipping from Walmart. Anyways guys keep up the great work. Enjoy listening to you guys and will as long as you stream.
    P.S.: Cole is gorgeous”

    Geek Speak

    • Vaporware and Overhype (SM)
      • Apple Tablet
      • Crunchpad Tanks – Specs here
      • L4D2
        • Despite being hyped as ridiculously better, delivers less or par to L4D1
        • Feels like an expansion not a whole new game to pay $60
        • Some complaints out there that the AI director is now fatally flawed and is harder than needed
        • Still fun with friends but so was L4D1… would have been just as happy with an XPack for the first
      • SF IV
        • Really? Just a re-skinned Streetfighter II with 3D graphics
        • Can’t we just all play SF II or Turbo? Cheap end boss, with all the SF out there, why but one 3 gens back?

    Deal of the Week

  • New Tiger Woods game free online
    • Tiger has been caught with another mistress and you have help him maneuver his escalade through obstacles to escape his golf club wielding wife
  • For Stephen King Dark tower Fans… Discordia Online has launched
    • a new free online adventure into the world of the Dark Tower Series!!!
    • Super excited to get started on this… if only I could squeeze about 15 more hours into each day…

    Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

    • DARPA Looking to Create “Zombie” Soldiers (JP)
      • Holy Hell!
      • How this will work, an injection will put you in hibernation, effectively stopping your heart (think squirrels and bears)
      • When you get back to the aid station, a antidote will be administered and all your vital signs will come back. TADA! undead.
      • Already testing this on rats and small animals
      • All kidding aside, a majority of the deaths on a battlefield come from the inability to stop the bleeding and evacuate the wounded
    • Comcast Buys NBC from GE (SM)
      • Acquiring %51 for 13 Beeellion dollars
      • Comcast finally has a stake in the over-the-airwaves market
      • C$ also owns Versus, E, Golf, and G4
      • One thing that could be effected is Hulu.com, which is owned partly by NBC Universal
      • Comcast has promised to leave that business model alone
      • (Lets talk worse case scenarios – Hulu only available to comcast subscribers, hulu taken down, limited choice field, considerations to in-house networks)
    • Nook has arrived, is it a Kindle Killer? (JP)
      • Pretty much same specs with the screen – e-Ink and gray scale
      • However – small color touch screen instead of keyboard at bottom, ePub support (open book format), loan feature (only once)
      • A bit buggy but at least its competition
      • Won’t be able to find it in the brick and mortar stores until probably February
    • Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Execute their Search Agreement (SM)
      • This ball was started 6 months ago but finally takes effect
      • Yahoo will use the Bing tech for searching but maintain majority of its ad revenue
      • Kind of useless really? Microsoft was stealing their market share from Yahoo anyways
      • Google still king
    • Mobile Phones Not Related to Brain Tumors (Cole)
      • Some tinsel hat pundits have pointed at cell phones as possible cancer factories
      • 30 year study of almost everybody in Scandinavia
      • Despite the soaring use in the 90′s of mobile phones, no significant rise in brain tumor occurrences (1998-2003)
      • Denmark, Findland, Norway, and Sweden all have very good cancer registries with over 60,000 ppl having brain cancer
    • America’s Army Costs Military $32 Million Dollars (SM)
      • This over 10 years, anywhere between 1.5 million and 4 million dollars a year spent
      • Was pitched to congress as a 5 year 7 million dollar project
      • Used as a recruiting tool, its one of the ways they stave off the draft and garner volunteers
      • This last game they just released was crap, when we have things such as COD: MW2
      • Just buy the MW engine already…

    Intarweb Goldmine

    Contact Info

  • On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and @FueltheFighter
  • email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com prcole@fuelthefighter.com

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    -Don’t forget their laptop which has 2 graphics card built in, the mobius, at a mid-line desktop price
    -If you want all the bells and whistles, they can handcraft that too, just call them up during normal business hours, they’ll talk with you, find out your needs, and recommend the system that you need (not the one that costs the most)
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    (Steven)WoW, and more WoW. Did I mention WoW? 2 world achievements to get, Brewfest and All Hallow’s Eve. Working towards “What a long strange journey” which awards a really fast mount

    Jeremy – 4 little words… O D S T !!!!! Baby!

    Tech,Gaming, and Geek News

    • Australia Bans L4D2 (JP)
      • Australia doesn’t offer a “18+ rating for games”
      • First game was MA 15+
      • Rejected because of  “realistic, frenetic and unrelenting violence.”
      • Speaking of L4D, the originals DLC is coming next week (Sept. 29)
      • Free from PC owners, $7 for XB360
        • (Australia I’m SOOO Glad you pointed this out because we know all the violence in the world is caused by Zombie video games! HAHHA)
    • AT&T at it again… 3G Microcell announced (JP)
      • AT&T is releasing a Microcell device… this means if you have crappy cell coverage where you live, you can plug this into your broadband and get better coverage
      • So… you’re not using their network… you’re using YOUR broadband… but they want you to pay additional fees to be able to use this??!?!?!
    • Rumor: Microsoft to Buy EA (SM)
      • Shares are up on EA due to an insubstantiated rumor that M$ is looking to purchase EA
      • Don’t always believe what you hear
      • Why would M$ want this? Platform exclusivity makes the worth of the company about half
      • Denial of Sports games to Sony and Nintendo might be worth something
      • NFL probably wouldn’t put up with it since Madden has exclusive agreement w/ NFL
    • Phishing has officially hit Twitter (JP)
      • Bad people mad a page that looks like the Twitter login page
      • Hacked a few accounts and started to send out DM’s
      • Ppl fell for these messages and went to the page and logged in, subsequently getting their UN and PW stolen
      • The Dupes then become part of the viral bot-net that sends out more DM’s
      • hints to prevent phishing:
        • IE 8 has anti-phishing enabled that highlights the domain name of the URL
        • Slow down, read the domain on the location bar and make sure its correct, sometimes ppl use weird host names that look like a site they are targeting
        • Plugins available for Firefox
        • Also, be weary if you don’t know the person you’re clicking on the link from…
    • Geek Fight Cometh!!!! (SM)
      • What happens when you take a roomful of overzealous convention geeks
        and equip them with boffer swords, shields made out of keyboards, and
        an unquenchable thirst for blood? Geek Fight, the new Business Card
        Game (BCG) by Diving Dragon Games! Explore your wildest fantasies by
        pitting your favorite convention stereotypes against each other in a
        gladiatorial melee of legendary proportions.
      • a new card game, very inexpensive something like 7 bucks for a set…
      • working on getting a set or two to review and maybe a giveaway…
        • Also, we might be getting the creator for an interview…
    • Apple has ok’d 2 Porn apps… (JP)
      • Yes, they have approved 2 Pornstar apps for staying in “touch” with these stars of adult films… (ok, there’s no nudity in the app itself) just suggestive photo’s blog links, and “Premium Content” hmmm
        • but they have denied an ebook reader because it had the Kama Sutra in it!
          • Apple when will you make sense???

    Geek-Speak

    • William’s Hall of Fame tables for PS3
      • 13 tables (all non-movie related) ranging from Arabian nights to Jive Time Bear (1970′s)
      • Only fault? NON-MOVIE RELATED.
      • My favorite tables? 1993 Star Wars, Twilight Zone, Dr. Who, Terminator 2 ( me too… Love Star Wars and Simpsons Pinball)
        • a Real full size pinball game is on my bucketlist of things for my house … I will have one before I die! video pinball is fun, but somewhat less fulfilling

    Product Reviews:

    • HALO 3 ODST
      • I started the campaign, will be playing some major Multiplayer this weekend…
      • Full review coming next week once I’ve had more time with it.
      • could be the closest to a perfect game we’ve seen… ever.

    Deal of the Week

    Contest

    We have 2 more codes to give a way to lucky listeners with iPhones….
    so let’s say the first two people who email or twitter me with the costume Cole wore to her Star Trek convention we talked about in an earlier episode will win.

    Must have an iPhone and a US iTunes account to redeem the Code for the game. Triazzle, a wonderful puzzle game we have talked about in a few different episodes…

    Going to have another contest coming up soon for some iFrogz Earbuds w/ Mic. spread the word… the more listeners we get… the more stuff we can get to giveaway to you guys!

    Intarweb Goldmine

    • People of Walmart
      • Prepare to get your eyes seared (pg 2 and 4)  (seriously… I hate you for this one… some things cannot be unseen – JP)
    • Adult Swim does a Human Weapon parady (Robot Chicken)
      • Fans of the Human weapon series or fans of Robot chicken will really enjoy this…
      • Nothing like watching Jason Chambers teach bullies how to do a super-wedgie, complete with diagrams!

      Contact Info

      • On Twitter: Steven is @DarthMolen and I am @JPuent and @FueltheFighter
      • email us: darthmolen@thepowergeeks.com and jpuent@thepowergeeks.com prcole@fuelthefighter.com

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