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Pre-PAX East 2014: Feels Like the First Time

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(note: No Type-Moon Weekly News Round Up or All Points Bulletin this week.)

It has been a long time since either of us was a first-time con-goer, but that is what we are when it comes to the PAX East and gaming conventions! Everyone talks so highly of this convention that we finally got roped into going. Look for us around the convention. We’ll be attending tons of panels and concerts, plus tweeting up a storm, and you might even get our Miis on Streetpass!

Pre-PAX East Podcast

Our tentative panel schedule:

Friday:
10:00 – Game Devs: The Next Generation
11:00 – Writer’s Workshop with Tonic Industries
11:30 – Kotaku’s Incredible Fantastic Panel Extravaganza XVIII-2
12:00 – How Urban Black and Latino Culture Can be the Next Frontier in Games
01:00 – Why No One Will Game with You
02:00 – Six Months Into the New Console War
03:00 – What Is Happening to Tabletop Roleplaying Games?
04:00 – Why Internet Jerks Aren’t Going to Win, And You Can Help
04:30 – Terrifying Adventures in Cyberland: A Toolkit for Bullying, Stalking and Harassment in Game Culture
05:00 – Pitch Your Game Idea
06:00 – Talk like a Board Game Geek
07:30 – The Art of the Table: GMing Beyond the Basics
08:30 – Friday Night Concerts

Saturday:
10:30 – Penny Arcade – Make a Strip
12:00 – Modernizing Fantasy RPGs
01:00 – Extra Credits
02:00 – How Arcade Games Influenced Home Console Gaming
03:00 – Why D&D Is Still Awesome: A 40th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Tribute
04:00 – Gaming Socially: A World at Play
05:00 – Dungeons & Dragons R&D Presents: The Art of the Dungeon Master
06:00 – Games That Are So Bad, They’re Good
06:00 – Foreplay: Romance in Games
07:00 – We Didn’t Start the DLC Fire, but We Fed the Monster. Now What?
08:00 – Was I Wrong? Revisiting Controversial Reviews
08:00 – Saturday Night Concerts
09:30 – Console Launches: A Post Mortem

Sunday:
10:00 – Isshoukenmei: Localizing Japanese Games
11:30 – Sex, Sexy & Sexism: Fixing Gender Inequality in Gaming
01:30 – Acquisitions Incorporated Live D&D Game: Dragons Over Easy

The Speakeasy #051: Upside-down Pineapple, March Movie Madness

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Drink #051: Upside-down Pineapple
March Movie Madness

Unlike all the other East Coast anime fans, we didn’t head to Anime Boston this month. Instead, we talk about all the movies we saw during March. Okay, yeah, fine we couldn’t come up with a real, all encompassing topic, okay? But hey, you get two anime movie reviews (Patema Inverted and Giovanni’s Island both of which played at the NYICFF) and our thoughts on the Veronica Mars movie (have we ever sounded this ridiculously happy in a podcast before?).

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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

Upside-down Pineapple

  • 1/2 oz. Vodka, vanilla
  • 1/4 oz. Grenadine
  • 1 oz. Pineapple Juice

Shake vanilla vodka and pineapple juice with ice and strain into shot glass. Add grenadine. The grenadine will sink to the bottom and will give this shot a very sweet conclusion.

NYICFF 2014: Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart

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narutaki_icon_4040 Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart hails from France. It was created as a “rock opera” based on the concept album, La Mécanique du Cœur.

The film begins with a sequence of the “coldest day ever” where we see the town go from snowy to frozen over in stunning fashion. The gothic spires, twisty streets, and angular architecture evoke just the type of macabre visual style that I love. The style becomes ever more realized as the movie goes on introducing things like an accordion stream train (seriously, this was so cool) and a sideshow filled to the brim with odd characters.

Additionally, a couple of scenes which melt into one another and back again are a dizzying delight. And the dream sequences of Jack and Acacia have a lot of charm.

The combination of imagination and technical detail was incredible in Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart.

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