Recorded Wednesday, 07.22.09
At long last, the first episode of Geek Bits has arrived! What is Geek Bits, and who are these clowns that you’re listening to, you ask? We are four friends (Matt, Dan, Opey, and Tim) who are into all things geek. Every week we scour the internet, play games, read comics, watch movies, and anything else that we find fun and entertaining; then we come together to discuss various topics. We never take ourselves too seriously and we always have a great time.
But enough about us. We’re sure you’ll get to know us much better as the weeks go by, so let’s just get right into our first episode. You can listen to it using the player below, or you can download it directly to your computer using the links provided. Reference information is provided after the break.
Here are the five topics we covered this week, timestamped for your convenience, along with some reference information about each one:
00:02:12 — Kick-Ass – A comic book currently published by Marvel Comics with a movie (hopefully) coming out some time next year.
Kick-Ass – Wikipedia | Kick-Ass – IMDb
00:12:52 — The Digg Bar Debacle – The popular social news site Digg came under fire recently when users felt misled after shortened Digg URLs redirected them directly to the Digg website instead of the source article.
TechCrunch Article 1 | TechCrunch Article 2 | Digg’s Response
00:25:37 — Amazon’s Rumored Purchase of Netflix – Not much information as of yet, so we spend most of the time speculating about what could possible come of this.
00:38:24 — Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Star Wars franchise’s second attempt at an MMORPG, and this time it looks like they got it right.
Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Site
Latest Development Video
00:49:06 — Video Game Consoles – We offer our opinion on this long-running debate, looking specifically at the motion capture technology each company demonstrated at E3 ‘09.
E3 ‘09 – Project Natal Demo
The Beginning of the End of Humanity
E3 ‘09 – Sony Motion Tracking Demo