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On this episode of The Final Score, Scott keeps falling off a tower, ESO beta is for Brian, Nicole finally sees the brilliance of Legends, Canada to pay more for PS4, PC drivers coming for Xbox One controller, Steams new controller looks more like a 360 controller, EA crossing the ad line, Popcap hit with layoffs, EA is now Neutral, we give away a ton of codes, Impossible Mission is our old school pick this week, and more!

In 1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. In 1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first domain name, symbolics.com. The domain…Read more →

In this installment of Critical Hit: A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: Beware the Bone Takers! NOTE: You can download the Torqletones song for FREE at members.majorspoilers.com NOTE: Level 14 character sheets are now available at members.majorspoilers.com and the Critical Hit Logo T-Shirts are indeed at SlashLoot.com Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Critical Hit continues far into the future! Contact us at podcast@majorspoilers.com A big Thank You goes out to everyone who downloads, subscribes, listens, and supports this show. We really appreciate you taking the time to listen to our ramblings each week. Tell your friends about the podcast, get them to subscribe and, be sure to visit the Major Spoilers site and forums.

This week on Current Geek, It's a good day to eat pie, Tim Berners-Lee wants to make a better social web, Snowden speaks out at SXSW, Randall Munroe answers the hard questions, fixing your parents wifi, BBC updates the Hitchhikers game, fastet robot on earth, between two ferns, Google wants you to tango, modular phones and what the french think about it, Apple TV will never happen as a TV, our italian accents, and more!

On this episode of The Instance, Boosts are in and so are the preorders, we kinda know when WoD will hit stores, there are now Heroes in the Storm, and Uther and Jim are totally a couple now, crazy blizzard news cycles lately, more details about your initial time in Warlords comes to light, did everyone get their Hearthsteed, HS goes out of beta, we are weeks from D3 expansions, will our taxis ever get an upgrade, proving that proving grounds still exist, what to do before the expansion hits, the music in wow, ESO is talkable now, the cost of flying with your boosty, Kerrigan never looked so sexy and evil, and more!

Ryan Estrada joins Brian Dunaway, Joel Duggan and Matthew Ducharme to talk about his life as an artist/adventurer who is globetrotting around the world while creating and collaborating on comics.   Broken Telephone (The Whole Story 2014) By Ryan Estrada https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanestrada/broken-telephone-the-whole-story-2014 Ryan Estrada spent 7 years writing 18 stories that join together to tell one crazy, globe-spanning crime caper where every character is the hero of their own story and the villain of someone elses. Now, hes teamed up with 18 amazing artists to bring those stories to life. About Artist: http://www.ryanestrada.com/ An artist/adventurer who travels the world making comics and videos. He is the creator of the graphic novels Aki Alliance, The Kind, and Ped X-ing. His work has been featured in Villard Books Flight: Volume 4, Grand Central Publishings This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death, and DCs Zuda Comics. He also runs Cartoon Commune, a custom comics/illustration service, and The Whole Story, offering pay-what-you-want digital comics. About The Comic https://gumroad.com/l/brokentelephone Broken Telephone is 18 books illustrated by 18+ artists. You can read any book you want whenever you want, but if you read them in order, something amazing happens. Each character is the hero of their story, and the villain of someone elses. They never meet, and everyone does what they think is right, but together they do a whole lot of wrong. Show Notes: Tell us about Broken Telephone. The project. How it started. How is it going. Where is it going. Thats a lot of artists to wrangle! Thats more of a statement than a question...how about...how are you handling it? Whos managing these people! Does globetrotting ever make it difficult to get to the comic? I can barely get anything done on a regular routine...or does it energize you! What is in your mobile artists backpack to be able to capture your creativity and produce comics while traveling. You must have had some fantastic opportunities to just sit and sketch. Wildlife especially. Do you ever talk to Eric? Go on motorcycle rides? fight crime? How is the Broken Telephone project progressing? With as much travelling as youve done, how do you think your world view differs from most Americans? Your webcomic The Kind has a photographed backgrounds with cartoon art on top. How difficult was that to pull off? http://www.ryanestrada.com/thekind/ Follow up: what prompted the cartooning over photo? As a artist yourself, was it scary or exciting to hand off pieces of your story to other artists? How much did you direct them? What about apps? Ebooks? https://www.celtx.com/index.html andnbsp; andnbsp;

In 1839, Sir John Herschel presented his ‘Note on the Art of Photography, or the application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the purposes of Pictorial Representation’ to the Royal Society, likely the first use of the word ‘photography’.…Read more →

This Episode:NaNiwa Quits (Garrett cheers)Heroes of the Storm UpdateWCS Korea, GSL Season 1IEMYour Emails (Send them to StarCastShow@gmail.com) Hosts: Garrett “Saint” Weinzierl, Kyle “Tarrasque” Fergusson

Tonight, on TMSPM: 9 things that are too crazy to believe, Captain Kirk is in trouble in Middle Earth, that missing flight might be on China satellite images, being tricked into seeing your mom's naked photos, Hal Douglas is no more, your tweets and more on this episode of TMSPM

Cover stories for Nancy Wilson (Heart) and Adam Levine (Maroon 5), and songs in tribute of my performance on the game show The Experts (I lost) (103 minutes) This episode […]

Join Brian, Joel and Matt on this mini size episode of CC2C for an update to a few of our favorite comic related Kickstarter projects. http://www.strippedfilm.com/ (src: http://www.strippedfilm.com/about/) STRIPPED is a love-letter to comic strips. It brings together the world’s best cartoonists to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newspapers die. Over 90 interviews were conducted, including the first-ever audio interview withBill Watterson (Calvin andamp; Hobbes), as well as Jim Davis (Garfield), Cathy Guisewite(Cathy), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Mike andamp; Jerry (Penny Arcade), Matt Inman (The Oatmeal), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), Lynn Johnston (FBOFW), Zach Weiner (SMBC), Scott Kurtz (PvP), Scott McCloud(Understanding Comics), Richard Thompson (Cul de Sac), Jeph Jacques(Questionable Content), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) and more. STRIPPED sits down with these creators to talk about how cartooning works, why it’s so loved, and how they’re navigating this dicey period between print and digital options…when neither path works perfectly. Even more than comics, this movie’s about pursuing art in an age when the business of art is changing constantly. andnbsp; http://animationdock.com/ (src: http://animationdock.com/#the-low-down) What is it? Simply put, the Animation Dock is an animation desk for tablets. See, back when people did traditional animation on paper, they had these really spiffy, classically-designed desks with a rotating disc in the center. This allowed animators to rotate the paper as they drew, always ensuring they could get the best angle while pumping out beautiful animations. The animation dock recreates that experience– except instead of paper, we’re doing it with the iPad. We want to remind everyone that the simple act of drawing is the only skill you truly need to bring stories to life

In 1781 – English astronomer William Herschel observed what he initially thought was a comet but turned out to be the planet Uranus. It was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope. In 1882 – At the Royal…Read more →

Big thanks to Chris Bergman from Choremonster.com & Sam Jane for joining us on this episode of Nerd Parents! We discuss Christmas babies, sick kids, being away from home, should kids be rewarded for chores, how kids learn, family game night, toddler translations & solicited feedback!

Coming up on TMS: Some emails have to be seen to be believed, home owner had some trouble with his agents, Bachmann says the country is being bullied by them gaze, Keith Richards wrote a children's book, Lena Dunham is OUT, Frozen is a satanic tool for indoctrinating our children, Recomentals, Tom's Tech Time, your emails and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.