Nerd Culture Podcast

Episode #68 features:

Popcorn Junkies: Ender’s Game & The Lone Ranger

Contest of Champions: The Astonishing X-Men vs Justice League Dark

Azerothian Times: Garrisons, Leveling in Draenor & Make A Wish charity Pet & Mount

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The Lone Ranger blu-ray

Astonishing X-Men: Gifted trade

Justice League Dark vol 1 trade

Episode #66 features:

5 minute Popcorn Junkies: Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, The Wolverine & We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

Contest of Champions: The Fantastic Four vs The Incredibles

Azerothian Times: BlizzCon 2013

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I’m You, Dickhead on Kickstarter

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Shaun of the Dead

The Shining

The Wolverine

We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

Day 1

I have just completed my first Full day of Hearthstone, and I love it!

Just to give some background to my TCG playing, I have enjoyed about 10+ years of Magic: The Gathering, about 2-3 years of Pokémon, and 1-2 years of the WoW TCG. I have also played the Battletech card game and tried Yu-Gi-Oh (no I didn’t like it). This brings me up to Hearthstone. In simple terms, I love it. It’s true that it doesn’t have the feel for the instant spells, which Pokémon didn’t have either (making it more simplistic and easier to follow), however Hearthstone adds in the secrets which activate on the enemies turn, giving a little bit more strategy for you and your foe to think around.

Also, automatically gaining 1 mana crystal per turn up to 10 alleviates the problems of having resource ‘clumps’ or ‘droughts’ during your game and is a huge plus. The fact that the game also adds in ‘the coin’ to allow the 2nd player 1 turn of being ahead of the 1st player resource wise is also an interesting concept to balance who goes 1st and 2nd.

The 9 different characters all have their own unique spells, abilities and even creatures makes them all very appealing, provided you know what type of deck you want to make.  This gives a lot of interesting choices for what may even be the same theme behind a deck, but can be executed in up to 9 different ways, based on the innate hero ability, as well as the extra cards they bring to the table.

I look forward to playing against more opponents, live and npc, and getting a much better feel for this game.

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Episode #64 features:

Nerd Culture News: The X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer & 2 scripts for ID4 2

5 minute Popcorn Junkies: The Fifth Estate & Blackfish

Contest of Champions: James T Kirk vs Han Solo

Azerothian Times: Account wide Professions, Scalable Instances & Warcraft: The Movie

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Episode #62 features:

NCP goes weekly! Featuring our newest Crewmember – Bo!

Nerd Culture News: Tarantino’s 2013 Top 10, JJ Abrams talking to George Lucas ‘daily’ & my attendance at the Armageddon Expo Media event

5 minute Popcorn Junkies: A Field in England & Cabin in the Woods

Contest of Champions: Spider-Man VS Wolverine

Azerothian Times: Our new World of Warcraft segment

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A Field in England

Cabin in the Woods

BlizzCon 2013