Welcome back to another awesome episode of Nerd pop culture delivered in a friendly manner by those loose gooses, the Nerds. This week we would like to say that since China hasn’t offered us any money to sell our self-respect or virtue that we support the protestors in Hong Kong. Viva la revolution! Now if we do not have an episode in the near future you know that they took us out like Hillary Clinton helps her opposition to have fatal accidents… Just going to leave this here and see who comes after us first.
Now onto the episode, first up is the Professor with a look at the Australian Video Game Archive. What is this you ask, well it is an amazingly cool idea and we hope it gets sorted out soon. Now if you love playing awesome games, love Australia, and are just a tragic nerd like our boys then you will love this. To know exactly what it is you are going to have to listen in and find out. But let us know on Facebook what game you think should go into the archive.
Next up we have finally achieved printed electronics that you can wear. That’s right, wear. Are you tired of not being able to hold your torch and need an extra hand, but don’t want to wear one of those straps around your head with a light on it? We have the solution for you, tattoo light systems. Want to stand out in the crowd and really be noticed? We can help you shine a light on your darkest corners. Sounds interesting right? Well listen up as this is our second featured topic for the week.
Do you wish that reality television had more things like axe throwing in it? Are you tired of shows like survivor where there is no chance of them dying? Well we have a show that is moving in the right direction, True Viking! The show with the potential to form a crew and going pillaging in a foreign monastery… um, maybe we are getting carried away here, oh well, it sounds better than the sewage from the Kardashians. This is our third topic of the week.
Then we have the games played, shout outs, remembrances, birthdays, and special events. We hope you enjoy the show and that we entertain you and maybe even educate you on some of the topics we discuss. Now, we need to watch out for those Chinese hack…er um, gamers with better computer systems. Take care, stay safe, look out for each other and stay hydrated.
EPISODE NOTES:
Australian Video Game Archive - https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6408217/national-film-and-sound-archive-to-start-collecting-video-games/
Printed Electronics - https://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com/printed-electronics-open-way-for-electrified-tattoos-and-personalized-biosensors/
True Viking the survival series - https://deadline.com/2019/10/game-of-thrones-star-kristofer-hivju-takes-on-vikings-in-non-scripted-entertainment-co-production-1202753816/
Games currently playing
Buck
– World of Warships - https://worldofwarships.com/
Rating – 4.5/5
Professor
– Creeper World 3 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/280220/Creeper_World_3_Arc_Eternal/
Rating – 9/10
DJ
– Magic the Gathering Arena - https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena
Rating - 3.5/5
Other topics discussed
The Good Place (American fantasy comedy television series)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place
Untitled Goose Game available on PC, Mac & Nintendo Switch
- Info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Goose_Game
- Game website - https://goose.game/
Blizzard bans Hearthstone player for Hong Kong protest support
- https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/08/blizzard-bans-hearthstone-player-for-hong-kong-protest/
Games added into the Australian video game archive
- Alien Carnage, originally released as Halloween Harry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Carnage
- The Hobbit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1982_video_game)
- Hollow Knight - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Knight
An Aspie Life (Adventure game that deals with the topic of Asperger's Syndrome)
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/786410/An_Aspie_Life/
Glow in the dark tattoos
- https://authoritytattoo.com/glow-in-the-dark-tattoos/
Tormund Giantsbane (Game of Thrones character)
- https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Tormund
Tormund & Brienne of Tarth : A love story better than twilight
- https://i.imgflip.com/14yqst.jpg
The Island with Bear Grylls (British reality television programme)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_with_Bear_Grylls
The Grand Tour (British motoring television series)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Tour
The Colony (British reality television program)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colony_(2005_TV_series)
Back in Time For… (British lifestyle television series)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Time_for...
Creeper World 4 alpha gameplay video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVp2eF9AaU&feature=youtu.be
Every game company Tencent invested in
- https://www.pcgamer.com/au/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-invested-in/
Death of Edgar Allen Poe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe
Assault of Precinct 13 (2005 French-American action thriller film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_(2005_film)
My Songs Suck (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/mysongssuckpod
Everybody Wants to be a Cat (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/ewtbacpodcast
Floof and Pupper Podcast (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/floofandpupperpodcast
Shoutouts
5 Oct 2019 – Monty Python turns 50 - "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" first aired on BBC1 – going on to run for four series, spawning four original films, numerous live shows and several albums.
- https://www.montypython.com/news_mp50announce/494
6 Oct 2019 – R.I.P Ginger Baker – Ginger Baker, English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream with Eric Clapton in 1966. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music. Baker's drumming is regarded for its style, showmanship, and use of two bass drums instead of the conventional one. Baker was an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream, of the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2008, and of the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2016. Baker was noted for his eccentric, often self-destructive lifestyle, and he struggled with heroin addiction for many years. He was married four times and fathered three children. He died from illness on 6 October 2019 at the age of 80, at a hospital in Canterbury. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Baker
7 Oct 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. To achieve this, the probe was equipped with a dual-lens 35mm camera, one a 200mm, f/5.6 aperture, the other a 500mm, f/9.5. The photo sequencing was automatically triggered when Luna 3's photocell detected the sunlit far side, which occurred when the craft was passing about 40,000 miles above the lunar surface. The radio-controlled Luna 3 was part of the Soviet Union's highly successful lunar program, which completed 20 missions to the moon between January 1959 and October 1970. - https://www.wired.com/2011/10/1007luna-3-photos-dark-side-moon/
Remembrances
2 Oct 2019 - John Kirby, American attorney. He was most notable for his successful defense for Nintendo against Universal City Studios over the copyrightability of the character of Donkey Kong in 1984, from which Nintendo subsequently named the character Kirby to honour him. Kirby was considered to have "saved Nintendo" during its early growth into video games into the American market. In thanks for aiding them, Nintendo gave Kirby a $30,000 sailboat christened the Donkey Kong along with "exclusive worldwide rights to use the name for sailboats." He died from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 79. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney)
7 Oct 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. He and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. Several of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. He died at the age of 40 in Baltimore, Maryland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
7 Oct 1939 - Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon,pathologist, writer and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease. He wrote a biography of William Osler in three volumes. In the beginning of the 20th century, Dr. Cushing developed many of the basic surgical techniques for operating on the brain. This established him as one of the foremost leaders and experts in the field. Under his influence neurosurgery became a new and autonomous surgical discipline. He was the world's leading teacher of neurosurgeons in the first decades of the 20th century. Arguably, Cushing's greatest contribution came with his introduction to North America of blood pressure measurement. Cushing's name is commonly associated with his most famous discovery, Cushing's disease. In 1912 he reported in a study an endocrinological syndrome caused by a malfunction of the pituitary gland which he termed "polyglandular syndrome." He published his findings in 1932 as "The Basophil Adenomas of the Pituitary Body and Their Clinical Manifestations: pituitary Basophilism". Cushing developed many surgical instruments that are in use today, most notably Cushing forceps and the Cushing ventricular cannula. Cushing was also a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, nominated at least 38 times. He died from a heart attack at the age of 70 in New Haven, Connecticut - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Cushing
Famous Birthdays
7 Oct 1943 - Austin Stoker, Trinidadian-American actor known for his role as Lt. Ethan Bishop, the police officer in charge of the besieged Precinct 9, Division 13, in John Carpenter's Howard Hawks-inspired, 1976 film, Assault on Precinct 13. This was one of the few heroic starring roles for a black actor in an action film of the 1970s outside of the blaxploitation genre. Prior to his role as Lt. Bishop, Stoker appeared in several blaxploitation films, often playing police detectives. Among these films were Abby, Combat Cops, and Sheba, Baby, in which he played Pam Grier's love interest. Some of Stoker's other notable acting roles were in Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Horror High, Airport 1975, Victory at Entebbe, and the 1977 television mini-seriesRoots. Stoker is known to Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans for his role as Dr. Ken Melrose in the 1982 B-movie,Time Walker, in which he appeared with Darwin Joston, his co-star from Assault on Precinct 13. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Stoker
7 Oct 1947 - Lightning Bear, Native American stuntman, stunt coordinator and special effects artist. He performed stunts on Star Trek: The Original Series, as well as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He did not receive on-screen credit for his work. Lightning Bear did stunt work on several other television programs, including The Green Hornet, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Bonanza. He is perhaps most noted for his stunt work on the three original Star Wars films (A New Hope, 1977; The Empire Strikes Back, 1980; Return of the Jedi, 1983). Among the many other feature film productions, he worked on were Planet of the Apes (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora!, Diamonds Are Forever, The Poseidon Adventure, Saturday Night Fever, Ragtime, Conan the Barbarian, and Rocky IV. Lightning Bear says he has been very lucky in his life as the industry is and always has been his first love. He likes the way it is always changing with new methods and technology, never having the same circumstance or conditions and the ability to travel and see different countries, cultures, people and locations. He was born in Houston, Texas
- https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Bear
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510019/
7 Oct 1885 - Niels Henrik David Bohr, Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research. Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom, in which he proposed that energy levels of electrons are discrete and that the electrons revolve in stable orbits around the atomic nucleus but can jump from one energy level (or orbit) to another. Although the Bohr model has been supplanted by other models, its underlying principles remain valid. He conceived the principle of complementarity: that items could be separately analysed in terms of contradictory properties, like behaving as a wave or a stream of particles. The notion of complementarity dominated Bohr's thinking in both science and philosophy. He predicted the existence of a new zirconium-like element, which was named hafnium, after the Latin name for Copenhagen, where it was discovered. Later, the element bohrium was named after him. He was involved with the establishment of CERN and the Research Establishment Risø of the Danish Atomic Energy Commission and became the first chairman of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1957. He was born in Copenhagen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
Events of Interest
6 Oct 2009 - The Maze Runner a young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner was first published. His publisher wanted him to write another book, but he decided he would try for a national book market instead. In November of that year he had an idea when going to be "about a bunch of teenagers living inside an unsolvable Maze full of hideous creatures, in the future, in a dark, dystopian world. It would be an experiment, to study their minds. Terrible things would be done to them – awful things; completely hopeless – until the victims turn everything on its head." Dashner wrote the book from December 2005 to March 2006. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maze_Runner
7 Oct 1856 - Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
– Patent (s) - https://patents.google.com/patent/US164904
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US30910
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US104621A/en
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US23445
7 Oct 1988 – A Inupiaq hunter Roy Ahmaogak discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. The whales' plight generated media attention that led to the collaboration of multiple governments and organizations to free them. The operation was called operation breakthrough. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sent a team of whale biologists, and the United States Department of State requested the help of two icebreakers from the Soviet Union, the Vladimir Arseniev and the Admiral Makarov. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Breakthrough
7 Oct 2011 – Sanctuary final season was aired, the fourth season was the 64th most watched cable show in 2011 - https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/sanctuary-season-four-19069/
Intro
Artist – Goblins from Mars
Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)
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