It has happened. The DJ kept within the time limit.
This week the Professor took a sabbatical and its Dev-i-boy’s last episode before he takes his own sabbatical.
We saw some big big leaks from Nintendo which might have some massive reveals such as a Luigi in Mario 64. Could this help or hurt Nintendo, who knows but one is for a certain we might some leaks from other companies in the near future.
Toss a coin to your Witcher, O Valley of Plenty, O Valley of Plenty, and this time we are gonna see plenty of backstory in the new Witcher series, The Witcher : Blood Origin. We might have more insight about the Witchers...
Speaking of insight, there is now a new theory that what killed the Vikings was not the penguins but smallpox…
This week, DJ embraced his inner child by playing M.A.S.S Builder and Dev-i-Boy played good cop bad cop in The Red Stare.
Big Nintendo leak, massive early game revelations
Netflix expanding The Witcher Universe with a prequel series
Smallpox might have killed the Vikings
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/smallpox-virus-ancient-dna-teeth-vikings-europeans
- https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6502/eaaw8977
Games Played
DJ
– M.A.S.S. Builder - https://store.steampowered.com/app/956680/MASS_Builder/
Rating: 4/5
Dev-i-boy
– The Red Stare - https://store.steampowered.com/app/625470/The_Red_Stare/
Rating: 4.5/5
Other topics discussed
Queensland records three new coronavirus cases, as police set to charge two women over 'deceitful' border crossing
Valve Confirms the Leak of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Code
- https://www.wired.com/story/counter-strike-global-offensive-team-fortress-2-code-leak/
Star Fox 2 (action game developed by Nintendo and Argonaut Software for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is the sequel to Star Fox (1993) and, like its predecessor, pushed the graphical capabilities of the SNES with Argonaut's Super FX technology.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_2
The Witcher - Jaskier Song -Toss a coin to your witcher
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoQJM8SO6V0
Witcher (A witcher also known as a wiccan, hexer,vedymin, or witchman, is someone who has undergone extensive training, ruthless mental and physical conditioning, and mysterious rituals in preparation for becoming an itinerant monster slayer for hire.
- https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Witcher
Witcher - Game Glossary Entry (Witchers came into being when the first settlers were colonizing the untamed lands of present-day Temeria. The elite caste of warrior-monks was to defend humans from the monsters which inhabited the wild.)
- https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Witcher#The_Witcher
End of the Viking Age (While the Vikings were active beyond their Scandinavian homelands, Scandinavia was itself experiencing new influences and undergoing a variety of cultural changes.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#End_of_the_Viking_Age
Rear Window (1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window
Bart of Darkness (first episode of The Simpsons' sixth season. In the episode, Bart breaks his leg and becomes increasingly isolated in his room. He starts spying on neighbors with a telescope and begins to suspect that Ned Flanders has murdered his wife.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_of_Darkness
Dances with Wolves (1990 American epic Western film starring, directed and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake that tells the story of Union Army lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner) who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and of his dealings with a group of Lakota.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Wolves
Groundskeeper Willie - Bonjour you Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUKEVU-TwM
The Phantom (American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a fictional costumed crime-fighter who operates from the fictional African country of Bangalla.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom
Garfield: The Movie (2004 American live action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt inspired by Jim Davis' comic strip of the same name. It stars Breckin Meyer as Jon Arbuckle, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Dr. Liz Wilson and features Bill Murray as the voice of Garfield, who was created with computer animation, though all other animals were real.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield:_The_Movie
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006 British-American live action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow. It is the sequel to the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield:_A_Tail_of_Two_Kitties
Stigmata (in Christianity, are the appearance of bodily wounds, scars and pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists and feet.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends (a British animated anthology television series based on the works of Beatrix Potter, featuring Peter Rabbit and other anthropomorphic animal characters created by Potter.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Peter_Rabbit_and_Friends
Miss Potter (2006 biographical drama film directed by Chris Noonan. It is based on the life of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories, such as Peter Rabbit.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Potter
Peter Rabbit (2018 3D live-action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Will Gluck and written by Rob Lieber and Gluck, based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit_(film)
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game franchise published by Sega.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(film)
Resident Evil (an action horror science fiction film series loosely based on the Capcom survival horror video game franchise of the same name. The films follow Alice, a character created for the films, who is a former security specialist and covert operative who battles the Umbrella Corporation, whose bioweapons have triggered a zombie apocalypse.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_(film_series)
The Evil Dead (a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Robert Tapert and executive produced by Raimi, Tapert and Bruce Campbell, who also starred alongside Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManicor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_Dead
Evil Dead 2 (a 1987 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi, and a parody sequel to the 1981horror film The Evil Dead. )
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_II
Army of Darkness (a 1992 American comedy horror film directed, co-written and co-edited by Sam Raimi, co-produced by Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell and co-written by Ivan Raimi. Starring Campbell and Embeth Davidtz, it is the third instalment in the Evil Dead franchise, and a sequel to Evil Dead II, and follows Ash Williams as he is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Darkness
Kill My Darlings (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/killmydarlingspodcast
Shout Outs
24 July 2020 – Regis Philbin, TV and gameshow host, passes away at 88 - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/25/regis-philbin-dies-tv-host-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire
Regis Philbin, a host who became a beloved fixture of US daytime television, has died. Philbin was a longtime morning talkshow host before stepping down in 2011. Other credits included Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and America’s Got Talent, both transfers from British TV. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was briefly America’s most popular show, airing as often as five times a week. It generated around $1bn in revenue in its first two years and helped make Philbin a millionaire many times over. His question to contestants – “Is that your final answer?” – became a national catchphrase. He was also given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the daytime Emmys. Having been called "the hardest working man in show business", he holds the Guinness World Record for the most hours on U.S. television. He died from heart disease in Greenwich, Connecticut.
26 July 2020 – Olivia de Havilland, Gone With the Wind star, passes away at 104 - https://screenrant.com/minecraft-title-screen-seed-found-original-background/
Gone With the Wind star Olivia de Havilland, who was considered the last surviving actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. Her younger sister was the actress Joan Fontaine. She first drew attention by playing opposite swashbuckling Errol Flynn in a series of films starting in the 1930s and made an enduring impression as the demure Southern belle Melanie in Gone With the Wind in 1939. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She and her sister remain the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards and the only sisters to have won any Academy Awards. She died from natural causes in Paris.
28 July 2020 – 25th anniversary of Waterworld - https://www.headstuff.org/entertainment/film/waterworld-25-the-curse-of-kevin-costner/
Waterworld opened in theaters 25 years ago today, riding on a wave of hyperbolic handwringing over its chaotic production and inflated budget. Waterworld is essentially Mad Max on water. However, it’s less like the original 1979 revenge classic and more like Beyond Thunderdome. Set in a post apocalyptic world where the polar ice caps have melted, the world is now one gigantic ocean. The legend of ‘dry land’, can only be found by a map, tattooed on a child’s back. Initially planned as a $100 million adventure, the Kevin Costner vehicle suffered from natural disasters, including a multimillion-dollar set being destroyed by a hurricane, rewrites, production setbacks and the like, which inflated the final cost to a then-record $175 million. When the film finally opened in July of 1995, it earned mixed reviews and entirely decent box office. Despite eventually breaking even and (over the years) making an outright profit, Waterworld is still held up as a definitive Hollywood bomb.
Remembrances
28 July 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, he campaigned for universal manhood suffrage and the abolition both of celibacy for the clergy, and slavery. He played an important part in the agitation which brought about the fall of the French monarchy on 10 August 1792 and the summoning of a National Convention. His goal was to create a united and indivisible France, equality before the law, to abolish prerogatives and to defend the principles of direct democracy. He died from Robespierre was executed by guillotine at the age of 36 in the Place de la Revolution.
28 July 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Evangelista_Purkyn%C4%9B
Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term 'protoplasm' for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. He is best known for his 1837 discovery of Purkinje cells, large neurons with many branching dendrites found in the cerebellum. He is also known for his discovery in 1839 of Purkinje fibres, the fibrous tissue that conducts electrical impulses from the atrioventricular node to all parts of the ventricles of the heart. Purkyně also introduced the scientific terms plasma (for the component of blood left when the suspended cells have been removed) and protoplasm (the substance found inside cells.) He described the effects of camphor, opium,belladonna and turpentine on humans in 1829. He also experimented with nutmeg that same year, when he "washed down three ground nutmegs with a glass of wine and experienced headaches, nausea, euphoria, and hallucinations that lasted several days", which remain a good description of today's average nutmeg binge. The crater Purkyně on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid3701 Purkyně. He died from uremia at the age of 81 in Prague.
28 July 1968 – Otto Hahn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn
German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. Hahn is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry. He discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium,protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of radioactive recoil and nuclear isomerism. In 1938, Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons that were developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. Considered by many to be a model for scholarly excellence and personal integrity, he became one of the most influential and respected citizens of the postwar West Germany. He died from heart failure at the age of 89 in Göttingen.
Famous Birthdays
28 July 1945 – Jim Davis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)
James Robert Davis, American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres (a.k.a.Orson's Farm). Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for an advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds. He then created a comic strip, Gnorm Gnat, that ran for three years (1973–1975) in The Pendleton Times, a newspaper in Pendleton, Indiana. When Davis attempted to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate, an editor told him: "Your art is good, your 'gags' are 'great', but bugs—nobody can relate to bugs!" He then began studying the comic strips; still firmly believing that animals were funny, he took note of how Snoopy was not only a scene stealer in the Peanuts comic strips, but that he was far more of a marketing success than his owner Charlie Brown. Deciding that the comic market was oversaturated with dogs, he decided to create a cat character as the lead of his next strip instead. He was born in Marion, Indiana.
28 July 1866 – Beatrix Potter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter, English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter's study and watercolours of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter self-published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Following this, Potter began writing and illustrating children's books full-time. In all, Potter wrote thirty books; the best known being her twenty-three children's tales. With the proceeds from the books and a legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District which at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape. She continued to write and illustrate, and to design spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitutes the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in songs, films, ballet, and animations, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film. She was born in 2 Bolton Gardens,West Brompton, London.
28 July 2002 – Archer Martin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Martin
Archer John Porter Martin, British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge. He specialised in biochemistry, in some aspects of vitamins E and B2, and in techniques that laid the foundation for several new types of chromatography. He developed partition chromatography whilst working on the separation of amino acids, and later developed gas-liquid chromatography. Amongst many honours, he received his Nobel Prize in 1952. He published far fewer papers than the typical Nobel winners—only 70 in all—but his ninth paper contained the work that would eventually win him the Nobel Prize. The University of Houston dropped him from its chemistry faculty in 1979 (when he was 69 years old) because he was not publishing enough. He was born in London.
Events of Interest
28 July 1932 – "White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Zombie_(film)#Release
White Zombie is a 1932 American pre-Codehorror filmindependently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin. The screenplay by Garnett Weston, based on The Magic Island by William Seabrook, is about a young woman's transformation into a zombie at the hands of an evil voodoo master. Bela Lugosi stars as the zombie master "Murder" Legendre, with Madge Bellamy appearing as his victim. White Zombie is considered the firstfeature lengthzombie film. A sequel, Revolt of the Zombies, opened in 1936. Modern reception to White Zombie has been more positive. Some critics have praised the film's atmosphere and compared it to the 1940s horror films of Val Lewton, while others still have unfavorable opinions on the quality of the acting.
28 July 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/plane-crashes-into-empire-state-building
A United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945, killing 14 people. The freak accident was caused by heavy fog. The B-25 Mitchell bomber, with two pilots and one passenger aboard, was flying from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. As it came into the metropolitan area on that Saturday morning, the fog was particularly thick. Air-traffic controllers instructed the plane to fly to Newark Airport instead. This new flight plan took the plane over Manhattan; the crew was specifically warned that the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the city at the time, was not visible. The bomber was flying relatively slowly and quite low, seeking better visibility, when it came upon the Chrysler Building in midtown. It swerved to avoid the building but the move sent it straight into the north side of the Empire State Building, near the 79th floor. The accident caused the death of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at US$1 million (equivalent to about $14M in 2019), although the building's structural integrity was not compromised. Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver was thrown from her elevator car on the 80th floor and suffered severe burns. First aid workers placed her on another elevator car to transport her to the ground floor, but the cables supporting that car had been damaged in the incident, and the car fell 75 stories, ending up in the basement. Oliver survived the fall but had a broken pelvis, back and neck when rescuers found her amongst the rubble. This remains the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.
28 July 2018 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-29/wendy-tuck-becomes-first-woman-to-win-round-the-world-clipper/10048800
Tuck first took part as a Skipper in the Clipper Round the World race in 2015–16, becoming the first Australian woman to do so. In 2017-2018 she became the only Australian to repeat the challenge skippering the 70-foot yacht, Sanya Serenity Coast, over 40,000 nautical miles and six oceans. The yachts are named after the tall ship clippers that raced tea to England. Tuck's crew was not constant and changed regularly throughout the race. On 27 July 2018 12.36 (UTC) she crossed the finish line becoming the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World race (or any Round the World yacht race). Interviewed after the race, she said, “If one little girl sees this, sees it can be done and has a go, that will be what matters to me.”
Intro
Artist – Goblins from Mars
Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)
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