We’re back with another exciting episoded of “Toretto’s Shitty Tuna Sandwich,” which looks at the rollercoaster that is the Fast and Furious franchise. Join Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Crosley Hotshot” Dykes, Joel “King ### Model III” DeWitte, and Ryan “Waterman Aerobile” Lootens as they talk about the best titled, but probably most misguided movie out of the bunch: ‘2 Fast 2 Furious.’
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Toretto’s Shitty Tuna Sandwich: The Fast and the Furious
Hi and welcome to “Turetto’s Shitty Tuna Sandwich,” a new retrospective series on the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise. The Binge Buddies – that is to say – Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Horsey Horseless” Dykes, Joel “Scripps-Booth Bi-Autogo” DeWitte, and Ryan “Fuller Dimaxion” Lootens – strap in their seatbelts and discuss 2001’s The Fast and the Furious. You ready to live your life a quarter mile at a time?
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The Fate We Make Ep. 7: Terminator Wrap Up
Welcome to the finale of “The Fate We Make.” Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog” Dykes, Joel DeWitte, and Ryan Lootens wrap up this series with a look at the Terminator franchise overall and how it has remained ambitious throughout, even if the execution wasn’t up to snuff. A dense episode with a lot to unpack so stop reading these shownotes and hit that play button.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 6: Terminator: Dark Fate
This week on another exciting chapter of “The Fate We Make” Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Roomba” Dykes, Joel “DJ Roomba” DeWitte, and Ryan “Rosie” Lootens come together once again to discuss ‘Terminator: Dark Fate,’ the worst sequel with perhaps the best ideas. There’s also a prolonged introduction where the Binge Buddies attempt to figure out Aziz Ansari’s name, and all the Americans in the cast learn about the verb hoovering.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 5: Terminator Genisys
Howdy and welcome to another exciting edition of “The Fate We Make,” the Terminator retrospective. The Binge Buddies, featuring Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Helper” Dykes, Joel “Clank” DeWitte, and Ryan “Daft Punk” Lootens join forces to take on ‘Terminator Genisys,’ which is some really dumb fun packed alongside some interesting ideas.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 4: Terminator Salvation (2009)
This week on The Fate We Make the Binge Buddies, composed of Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Johnny 5” Dykes, Joel “Marvin the Paranoid Android” DeWitte, and Ryan “R2-D2” Lootens “excitedly” sit down to discuss ‘Terminator Salvation.’ It’s got Christian Bale in it, and it’s got up-and-coming names that are going to be big, and McG directed the thing so it can’t be bad, right? RIGHT? It’s the best one ever, RIGHT?!?!?! Should probably listen to the episode and find out just how great this film is.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 3: T3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
This week on another exciting episode of The Fate We Make, Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Robbie the Robot” Dykes, Joel “Optimus Prime” DeWitte, and Ryan “HAL” Lootens adjust their expectations to talk about the third Terminator film, ‘Rise of the Machines.’ It actually isn’t that bad of a film and as the Binge Buddies mention up top, it’s better than what’s to come.
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Mind the Messy of PsychOdyssey
Here’s a newsflash for you that is probably super obvious: game dev is messy. Like, extremely messy. It’s all chaos all the time and then suddenly WHAM, out comes a game. Even throwing super regimented and organized individuals into the fray doesn’t seem to stem the tide of just pure, unadulterated chaos. I read books like Press Reset and Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and see some of the fallout from all this chaos and I can’t help but wonder…why? Why do people subject themselves to all of this…(please don’t say chaos again…) disarray for some pretty bleep bloops?
Enter PsychOdyssey, the enlightening 32-episode documentary series about Double Fine during the creation of Psychonauts 2. You read that correctly. Thirty-two. Episodes. 2 Player Productions, the documentarians in this venture, followed Tim Schafer et al. around for seven years, recording the ups, downs, and all the diagonals of the video game creation process. And boy are there a lot of diagonals.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 2: Terminator 2 Judgement Day (1991)
The future is here and it’s time for another episode of The Fate We Make. This week the binge buddies – Bryan Dressel, Matt “Doraemon Zombie Dog” Dykes, Joel “Gerty” DeWitte, Ryan “Toyota Violin Playing Robot” Lootens – gather round their mics to talk about the greatest movie of all time: Terminator 2: Judgement Day. Do the kids still say “that’s it, that’s the tweet?” Because that’s it. That’s the tweet. Seriously, absolute perfection from front to back.
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The Fate We Make Ep. 1: The Terminator (1984)
Hi! Welcome to the exciting new season of Binge Buddies – “The Fate We Make.” Bryan Dressel, Matt “Zombie Dog Awesome-O” Dykes, Joel “HK47” DeWitte, and Ryan “Rock’em Sock’em Robots” Lootens team up to talk about the Terminator film franchise, and they’re starting at the beginning (obviousy) with the 1984 classic. How does this film stand up to the absolute best film of all time (Terminator 2)? Click that beautiful play button and find out.