The fall TV season reviewed.
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5by5 | The Incomparable #65: Maine is Purgatory
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5by5 | The Incomparable #20: Everyone’s a Redshirt in Real Life
AMC’s "The Walking Dead" TV series.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the world of console controllers, addressing the flood of listener feedback by expanding the discussion to include aftermarket and third-party controllers, and attempting to address the objections of PlayStation fans. A few comments about CES and how to deliver a truly Apple-like keynote presentation round out the episode.
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5by5 | Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.
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5by5 | The Incomparable #83: Nothing Ever Ends on Taco Tuesday
Discussing Moore and Gibbons’s classic comic "Watchmen."
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5by5 | The Incomparable #117: Intergalactic FedEx
We follow up on our previous episode to ask Serenity Caldwell how she uses her iPhone to read books (and discover her shocking method of scanning pages). Then there’s a discussion of Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest Vorkosigan novel, "Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance." Finally (at 65 minutes in if you’re skipping ahead), Jason asks Scott to recommend which unread book on his Kindle he should dive into next.
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5by5 | The Incomparable #28: Bad at High School
5by5 - The Incomparable #28: Bad at High School
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5by5 | Hypercritical #2: Backup Vortex
5by5 - Hypercritical #2: Backup Vortex
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5by5 | The Incomparable #3: Doctor Sherlock vs. The Melty Man
It’s British TV time. Steven Moffat’s "Sherlock" and "Doctor Who" are on the agenda. We mention his sitcom "Coupling" too. And Glenn cranks the pretention meter up to 10, only for Jason to crank it right back down to 1.
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5by5 | The Incomparable #99: Convenience Store Clerk of Dune: A Summer Reading List
Summer’s here and it’s time to get to the beach with a good sci-fi novel. Our panelists are well read and of exquisite taste, so we’ve got a boatload of suggestions for you. From funny to serious, there’s a book in our list that will hit the spot the next time you’re looking for something to read.
The Incomparable Book List
"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan (Moren) Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (McNulty) "Dune" by Frank Herbert (Fleishman) "The Time Traveler’s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger (Friedman) "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L’Engle (Caldwell) "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger (Snell) "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis (Moren) "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester (McNulty) "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons (Fleishman) "The Long Walk" by Stephen King (Friedman) "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes (Caldwell) "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson (Snell) "Galactic Pot Healer" by Philip K. Dick (Fleishman) "The Devil You Know" by Mike Carey (Moren) "Contact" by Carl Sagan (Caldwell) "My Teacher is an Alien" by Bruce Coville (Friedman) "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman (Snell) "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell (McNulty)
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