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 Kate’s picks:

• HBO Forsakes Cable
  MUWAHAHA!!! Bring ’em down!
• ComicsPLUS Returns
  But you probably never of heard of it in the first place. In any case, the service is relaunching and hoping to give Comixology a run for its money. Considering you can import any of your comics files and it isn’t tethered to Amazon, it sounds good to me!

 Alain’s picks:

• More Otaku than Otaku
  GME! Anime Fun Time looks at Princess Jellyfish with two thirds of Anime World Order. A look at real geek girls. Warts and all.
• The Power of Moe
  Carl and Andrew look at moe. Yup. It is actually a very thoughtful discussion. It just never ceases to be a hot button topic.
• The Mechanics of a Cross Over
  Idea Channel and Extra Credits look at how game mechanics change the way we think about the story in video games.
  • Do Games Have Less Value than Other Media?
  • Are Videogames About Their Mechanics?
• The Final Staw
  The last few people trying to prevent World War I do what little then can to stop seminal tragedy of the modern age.

 Still coming down off the NYCC high.

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 Alain’s picks:

• The Muppets Painted As Twin Peaks Characters
  All Geeks Considered as a most unusual double-header of reviews of Twin Peaks Season 1 and The Muppet Show Season 1. Also The Muppets Painted As Twin Peaks Characters is a real thing.
• Discount Time Travel
  All Geeks Considered also looks at Primer, a super low-budget time travel movie with a cult following due to its complex narrative structure.
• All Purus Must Die
  The Veef show looks back on Gundam Unicorn now that it is over. Richard from the Macross Speaker Podcast and Andrew have a bit of a difference of opinion of the OVA series.
• Murphy’s Law is the Only Constant
  WWI as a general concept might have been inevitable but the specific events that lead to the War that occurred were anything but. It was a collection of small disasters and miscommunications.
• Oh, you Villain, Villain, you Damned, Smiling Villain!
  Extra Credits looks at villains in video games and how to make them better. The first part looks at the less complex character of the mechanics villain. Next week will talk about narrative villains and how they have to be fundamentally different from mechanics villain.
• Hot and Saucy 
  A look at the labels of American hot sauce and what they say about the culture that makes them.

  Kate’s picks

• Animated Fan-made Blue Blazes Opening
• New Exhibit at the Japan Society
  Colorful and fantastical works by contemporary artist Manabu Ikeda, Hisashi Tenmyouya, and teamLab. It runs until early 2015.
• Blue Beer
  Straight from Japan of course!

 And so Gundam Unicorn comes to an end:

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 Kate’s picks:

• MoCCA Fest is Moving
  Having a nicer, newer, and more artistic space is definitely welcome. The real downside is the previous location was more centrally located and had transit very close by. So now MoCCA Fest will be nearly the exact same long trek as NYCC.
• Sweet GitS Poster

 Alain’s picks:

• Not About the PlayStation 2 Game by Core Design
  All Geeks Considered dive into the Dirty Pair film known as Project Eden. One of these days we have to review those Dirty Pair movies for the blog.
• If Gamer Gate Won’t go Away …
  then we might as well have an interesting conversation about games journalism. Alpha Counter talks to mostly retired video games journalist David F Smith.
• Bottom of the Barrel
  A look at something actually eating at the heart of video games: Shovelware based on licensed properties.
• Lamby Lamby Dance
  Thankfully OSMcast! is back to talking about thing they know about. This time they discuss Ringing Bell. The anime whose main claim to fame is it being the Sanrio film about the lamb who has to become a bloodthirsty killer.

 Adorbs.