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it's tuesday january twenty fourth I'm Donald Bell you're experiencing the crave podcast and I'm here with the AH eric franklin sure oh god he's gonna take all day with this introduction to that's a look that was at your face is like all manly other dulcis dude yeah you were you were definitely a Georgian you're soaking in that interval is speaking of take a long time what time is it now what what time oh you know I some of us have other things to do this is an important kind of gas but yes you can just sit in the pot all day long there's definitely some Facebook and then neither they have any polish bar coaster we're also joined by bonnie bonnie charlie yes thank thank you for joining us again here well we never want to take you for granted ever all right although we made this podcast you don't want to know we don't want to the word lost well I want to know yeah we don't want you hear what I said damn leaving oh she's leavin I'm leavin Eric and then just gonna be back man I got you here by yourself just like you started yeah I hope you come back I probably won't leave this you'll see me with like a giant beer to be like a 26 Donald L I keep expecting him to walk into any way be talking to the sound effect machine like it's me Stephenson Stevens what's funny handcuffed to the tables like please let me go to babble you know check out shot Donald coming back well if you care if you extend it out long enough it will become its own thing will get some momentum going yeah well just tuned in it'll be like oh you know just watching you die basically happier watch a man die on live all right that's my legacy is fine great on that note dark who wants to see the world's biggest original Nintendo controller I do I I said an original intent I should just say nes people know what I'm talking yeah yeah I have to dumb it down yeah I don't dumb it down it is the world's largest reproduction functioning reproduction of an NES joypad scaled up 30 times in each dimension is being shown off at London's Liverpool Street Station it is was made by an engineering student Ben Allen disguise and some collaborators from healthy diversities way to fit so you need two people you need two people to play at least two people I crave it you know genuinely it past my crave test I wouldn't want one of these yeah all right well I'd want to rent one of these for a party maybe you know that would be that would be a great party yeah yeah that'd be awesome if so are when the Sun was made like two years later they'd probably have they'd probably would i would also it would be like a furry theme party where we all come dressed as our favorite like you know this Mario sorry why you throwing that in right now if you're gonna go on all the time in 13 times i'm not saying it's not an explicitly sexual furry party I'm just saying that would really take lied right not explicitly sexual free part it's just a party where you leave your keys in a bowl you know maybe let your animal nature take its course that's all drop that out there he what the reaction is no I mean Mario with the the tail is still counts I think that's pretty free yeah that's pretty and illicit little years yeah that's I could just see yeah that's actually I get him bad really this guy knows what I'm talking about yeah he'd made my first was a little furry yes he's a lot free but God lost him for making this thing now uh that said I do hope that you know world's engineering students have bigger projects to tackle beyond this not just in scale but I don't know how much the world needed this not okay to admit yeah okay sure like most things on crave it's there's not that much of a need you crave it you don't necessarily need it yeah yeah sure yeah I use may be really sad about what I do as a job you know like anything i can write any and all are we promoting it yeah why we all just look tackle bigger figures no matter what you do in your life and how you hundred years no one care you don't care what you do well it's not okay you can be dr. evil and just you know calculate exactly how to bring about the end of the world and in which case keep 100 years now aren't even be alive that's a worthy goal right sure sure if it's something you're going to make a difference if that's cuz you're gonna blow up the planet with the giant laser you know I don't think the you get you could actually accomplish about but even if you did everyone's dead know you're super heated with the laser I probably could yeah I mean there's no yeah you could be like you know the the elseworlds Batman his wants to just destroy the world because there's no point in living right you know for our then Holly came to that conclusion after reading the crave blog I'm sure you know like you know this is the best humanity k this exists and this is it let's just yeah destroy it all right let's do it time well you will be survived though by a fleshless robot baby I'm happy about this uh animatronic creation please sighs does it it moves we should definitely cut to the video your next nightmarish mache like a so long again it's happening right riving around why is it around because it's meant to be a very realistically kind of articulated animatronic baby is Houston I uh apparently was used in a soap opera because they needed they didn't want to sneak one else's January you're my god is a robot baby coming out of this woman Oh God and then like credits was that baby brother for the One Life to Live season finale that announced that would have been pretty great yeah so I mean things like this need to be created so that actual stunt babies which don't exist no baby wants to be a stun baton babies want to be much baby yeah but yeah you're right so things like this need to exist so to keep a natural baby out of harm's way or from having to be a stage sure for you know hours on end share so this is a good thing it I mean it will haunt you you probably already wish you could have done seen that yeah but here's here's the other secret to making a creepy robot they exist everywhere like we listen used to work there was like a Santa dancing Santa robot you could have just got at like walgreens for four five dollars if you start peeling the clothes and skin off that thing at the doll head it's great like that is really scary yeah make us terrifying nightmare bot for like ten bucks yeah it's kinda like the futurama Santa Claus or the killer Santa Claus robot guy yeah oh yeah that's pretty yeah yeah I reminds me of Emily drivers doing in their own anger I'm so angry angry I am so that's what she sounds like wow this is a thing this can't end well we're going we're going way low today big dark and deep in in addition to robot babies we will also be survived by the trees right the trees will speak for us they will make beautiful music thanks to H I would playing turntable this is an art project by actually I don't know who it's by its by a genius that it's art name yes it's actually it's using a tone arm on a standard turntable with a slice of wood rotating around it and the there's a little light and a camera on the tone arm that is looking at the particular color and grain of the wood and then running that through software and creating you know kinda threshold of pitch and tones and little bursts of piano plotting sadness that mix de lies a horrible you are as a human being to have cut this tree down on the lonely years this tree spent an in the wilderness to grow these rings I'm feeling that food is manager pretty heavy pretty yeah intense trees all make happy music today no no I mean well it's been chopped down it's I would think after we're all dead and gone for you to be pretty happy yeah you know how long the trees live about before they I mean how long would they live usually what's what's the what's the life span on trees for its growing ready forever I think they don't think they just live for your digging in some jeopardy knowledge that I don't have access yeah I'm sure search away but the longer you live it seems like the sad of your life is I think that's what we're getting from this yeah so you know our our continued search for immortality as human beings um I don't we're going real dark music gotta hey I can't really help it with this well here's a good thing is that the music is really generated by the software right yeah you can i plug in Herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass and play this dude I mean that the artist decided to make this all filtered through a minor key you know piano yeah he could have chosen to have it all be FUBU zella that's coming out of this tree trunk right I want people to feel something but if you're gonna make your gonna make art I don't picture gonna sell if you're gonna sell a serious piece of already have to make it play some some plotting John Cage you know music yeah that's the way to do it if he had it playing kazoo sounds no wouldn't be no one would take him serious acts can we read it that we had sex instead meet with their there now needs to be like an nth that comes out to tell us that that was not what they intended to sound like at all right and that they really sound like yeah Kinsella Wow images of people running really fast take everybody back around the tree man chasing older man chasing half-naked women yeah that'd be great we can get the book but this ya know this is Star Wars and then what I said that's satyr that I could identify the for the for opening notes of the start which names on that's pretty impressive alright so that that lead us to our next story which is the star wars uncut project yes a crowdsourced version of the original version of Star Wars yes filmed 15 seconds at a time incredible yes any watch the horribly difficult to watch incredibly difficult every-everything seconds you know something new is coming you know yeah and some a different er pretation of that scene or and how how precise it is to like you know one you know once he'll start with what's you know what actor saying it you know and would like a Lego configuration saying it or something like that it definitely laughed more at this version yeah giggling yeah um yeah it's pretty cool I liked it I can't get it to play oh no then hang on it's taking a second oh here it comes okay you can see if you can cut in a little bit further because even the original version of Star Wars doesn't you know well there's a home up for a little bit that's cool scene up I I encounter I encounter a lot of pain when I see this as much as I don't understand not on look at this BBQ oh come on that's a cop-out yeah d 2 g's so this goes on for two hours and three minutes yeah yeah it's I skipped around a lot yeah I can watch my fault yeah like this watch like it was but I yeah other than that I'm pretty amazing pretty amazing accomplishment i absolutely and they started with in 2009 2009 was when they can they put the word out figures and then it just goes some in this a completely different you know and the phallic look man one so how do they avoid a lawsuit though I mean ultimately they actually got the okay from George Lucas okay yeah POTUS Oriole Kevin yeah and they knew she was not the worst guy i'm kind of realizing lately i've been reading a lot of interviews am like well over the last few years uh I feel like he's been more more like a publicly available like doing interviews and stuff not the worst guy me you know the whole like ruin your childhood thing that's you know that's pretty unforgivable but yeah um but other than that uh IIIi understand his point he's like hey it's my movie at is my movie so I could do what I want and I mean you can't argue with that yeah he hasn't seen us yet for talking about his machine okay yeah that's coming on the same star wars uh you know theme here we have a gigantic well I should say almost life-size stormtrooper cake yes mm-hmm I like like this oh that's the cake that's the case holy yeah snowy it was six foot and 300 pounds oh my god yeah I actually a hundred pound pound i interviewed the the woman who owned the cake shop who made that is it in some cisco no oh Boston it's all gone by the way we have a slide to it someone at CES attacking and you know it was for um a sci-fi trade show in Boston and they they asked them to make that cake and all it took two weeks in the hole like Baker's amazed and people like that skating how do you do that how do you sculpt the cake you do a lot of fun on a rice krispie treats lot of fun only use all the pipes and then mm-hmm that was a structure okay this one has no charge yeah and they had to transport it in like sections to the to the conference in our still pretty amazing um and she said the most challenging part well they're two things one was making the cake delicious yeah right um and then the second part was the fondant because that's the sugary kind of coating outside but like hanging it vertically it usually like falls off so they had to like do it in sections wow yeah wow that's what it's pretty mean yes awesome that's great all right who's next though I mean now this is really I do yeah she wants to work on um something for the hobbit movie next Oh Peter Jackson to call us like some life-size wardrobe you laid off three feet tall well it'll be fine yeah what'll Gandalf will be critical yeah well I say small they are just lay lifeless work to be able to kind of hack into an ordinal if you have some kind of like bloody cake like seeing something like black licorice juice coming out Nelson do it some teint II darkspawn taint no darks let you have that I was I was mixing middle-earth with dragon age I'm sorry that was anyone knows about dragons knows what the taint didn't even look at which is bet they do they might not actually I would suspect that most people who are very knowledgeable dragon age probably don't know they know okay it's a disease people reminds out of the gutters all right um whisk us away into the magical and wonderful world what was the last one was he saying something yeah I missed that I was clapping meanwhile nice great thank you so much pressure on that I like that like that that's something that can be refreshed like you know every few months or something like that I mean up you know any of your time Stephen pressure I I appreciate haha and seeing what's his name was Apache chief yeah yeah how do you get a growing giant yeah yeah what do you what do you say no joke or so like that anyone could make that is ok to really use awesome um not much oh no I'm not gonna see it don't say that yeah and those tons of stuff in geek news is weak tons of stuff first I wanna you can just start playing that clip I just want to talk about um finally umm don't say teen aight ain't gonna say it um no I finally uh plucked down the world actually I didn't plan on anything but I finally uh went in and started playing the old republic these star wars MMO the new star wars in the mo and um i was i just finished dragon age 2 I was really into the whole story and whatever and this is you know this is just a cinema opening cuz I just want to play that cuz it looks really cool I was really into the story and the kind of way that Bioware does their RPGs is very character focused you get to make a lot of choices that matter game like me I want more of this so Star Wars has that one to play it and you know experience that more and it's the star wars universe as well even try it 30 days for free why not right and I get in and it's awesome it's great i'm playing a sith inquisitor you know being all dark making these dark choices and like at one point yeah you know I have to torture his guide of a choice whether my torture man at night to watch her room and I guess dark points and people that yes they hate flow through you bring out the robot baby yeah exactly as an angry walk there's no you are i don't wanna i know i know i'll stop you lost me no um that you haven't seen any walks in the game yet by the way um and it was great that was very story focus and then the game started to remind me that it's an MMO and I I remembered how much I hated some aspects of MMOs from my experience by seven years of playing wow um or six years of playing wow and I like last night I was playing I know this is kind of hard to not get this games pretty awesome um last night was playing and you know I did like the story is great knowledge stuff you make the choices but it's too far and I mean it's it's uh it's not um what hormones when I try to say the story is great but you have to do all the MMO stuff in between the story so you have to do all this like questing and finding stuff and group it up with people that you hate and don't like that Arun and all that stuff and you're trying to solve all these quests or complete all these quests and there's mobs come you know that are that are a growing on you and I'm use all these different terminologies doesn't matter people know I'm saying all these moms are a growing on you and you're just trying to get back to the to the main base to turn in the quest that's all you want to do but these mobs keep a growing and keep killing you in so frustrating it's like what happened to the story all I want is a story no it's an MMO so I don't know if I'm going to continue playing past 30 days I mean I'll play a little bit more but the thing that keeps me playing that keeps them keep the thing that keeps everyone playing is that whole like that addictive quality of the game that hold that you get in that that that dopamine drip every time you open up a chess and it's like oh I didn't get what I want to try it again you know that kind of stuff and that's hitting a little crack button exactly exactly just give it to me it almost feels as good as the first time but not quite I got you go back exactly exactly so uh that's but that was my experience and it's funny my my wife came up to me last night i was playing she's like oh honey you go together suck yeah nice very nice thank you oh no she was like oh honey you know you again yes great she's like all right just just don't let it turn into a while I just got over that me you're so much so much so much a better husband since you quit wow this is we not go back there I was like all right well yeah but anyway that was my experience it Oh Republic um I'm so happy for you know yeah don't be well okay that's all right again you can leave it what it doesn't have to be yeah resolved yes I resolved yeah oh I'll catch you guys up in a couple of weeks but you know yeah cuz you think you're at home back well we'll stage an intervention if after the 30 days you still get the call your wife and can I do this remotely from my house is that frosting yeah exactly hey guys sure us baby robots late anyway Oh discard that kind of stuff it um move it on all right other geek news yeah you guys ever play D&D the tabletop game had a top game whatever you call it older cousin who is hooked on loved it binger play okay so no nerds here it's what you say phenix except for me cuz i used to play the hell out of D&D back in the day when I was like 12 that's how you got your brain wired for mmm yeah I know and I they just announced it was it the coast or a couple weeks announced that their come out with a fifth edition of the rules they're receiving a lot of competition or getting a lot of competition because of MMOs because of games i agree more crap because of games like skyrim where people are just like well I don't really need to play this table game that we know the way I can't see anything I was going to his world where everything's done for me Dungeon Master make up rules on the fly I can just play the game and you know get that kind of fulfillment that the kind of like achievement fulfillment from this thing instead of going to this other thing where's things always planning I think a nice people together but i really hope like these types of games don't they don't go away because i really did the thing about those games is the social aspect and even in WoW in MMOs the social aspect was never as but it was always about the achievement in WoW so I was like we have to kill this thing this is I go and do this and DNA was always like well let's see what we do if we don't kill this thing let's see what happens if you know you flirt with this woman or something like that where are you or we try to talk to the top our way out of this situation so my or not quite you know that kind of stuff and it just you'll be ready in a room with people right they can't aggro mob on you yeah termas you know like computer that's so cute yeah I mean it's true that mean you're actually face to face with people is a different it's a totally different dynamic yeah yeah it is behind your computer exactly and we would plan stuff we would take like 15 20 minute stuffs gonna let's plan this out and see what house every we take the time to plan it was fun man it was it was great so I hope those games old so noodles what are the new rules how are they adapted well they're the unique thing that are doing is they're actually getting feedback from the community they're kind of they're gonna have this really long play testing on time to kind of get feedback from the community too so that like the community can be very much involved in the direction that the new D&D goes because one of the things about me not playing DD today the reasonable politicals on my friends I please play with you know they'll marry yeah they have kids is no time it takes a lot of planning and for the dungeon master especially has they have to please a plan all this stuff out and if you have a you know two kids it's you don't really have time to do that kind of stuff so I'm hoping that it goes in the direction of you know not requiring so much planning you can just kind of drop in get in there have your fun excuse me and drop out so that's what I'm hoping for so we'll see that's going to be an ongoing thing so no see ya pretty interesting uh Oscar nods came out today guys yes yes yes I like that fascia making right now Nick and uh the rise of the planet of the apes face but when I Andy Serkis did not get that snubbed once again am um on the Oscar not yeah this year not that exciting for me that's there's a few Oscar nominations that I'm pretty happy with I'm I was glad Jonah Hill and Brad Pitt got nominated for money blocklist probably that may be my favorite movie of the year appreciate it yeah I haven't seen it yet it's so good it's so well-written it's um the sort Sorkin is this organ know who does a writing from West Wing and the guy did the is a sweetness organ yeah okay and I did the writing for the social network I did originally I feel like yeah okay well what is the writing for that that guy wrote it and stuff and yeah it's just yeah okay it's working so yea the rioting is great as quick is very witty are the story though I knew the story get out still on the edge of my seat yeah you know like that they end it was like I think I'll change it because this looks like they're going to change it was so good so I really hope that um at least one of those guys or at least a movie get some recognition other than the nomination oh and that it was like the top go through the top 10 films i got nominate it right quick if i can find them right quick best picture the artists the descendants extremely loud Incredibly Close the help Hugo Midnight in Paris Moneyball the tree of life and war horse cassie is bliss i tells me I have a gun I've actually only seen two of these movies on his list I've only see Moneyball in Midnight in Paris I want to see Hugo I want to see tree alive I kind of want to see warhorse I don't want to see help I don't want to see the artists well I'll see the arse I'll say and I'll see everything else on it because Gary Oldman's Allison extremely close and the descendants I heard its kind of overrated Hollywood it was actually saying something about that on Twitter but anyway um right I we started we started watching The Tree of Life a couple of weeks ago or a couple of days ago and is a little too terrence malick for my wife turns erotic movie you know they can be pretty abstract you know and not very dialogue heavy and just kind of lie about images a lot of weird camera stuff going on and yeah so she don't want to finish that so I have to finish it my own well anyway talk a lot yes right um so you guys excited bout the Oscars ago no you guys on Karen well it's just gonna start to remind me how little the active social life / movie viewing life I have yeah I just I don't need that yeah don't shame me Kabaddi I'm sorry yeah I'm that I'm no longer in tune with the the zeitgeist pop culture's aight guys okay yeah I'm okay with that yeah you look like you I'll see the movies two years from now and no one care yeah no one discussed the weather late to the party on twitter but Moneyball my money good for my money money balls the best picture of the year I can't watch you that's my money yeah that's so expect that diffusion and lastly in geek news uh you went through up that image I grew up whoa really reading the x-men I can understand why a young impressionable mind would read a comic and in the 90s this character Elizabeth Elizabeth Braddock I've known also known as Psylocke I was turned into like before before she was like his kind of kind of mica SH she wore this for body power her ability to fart out robot is that picture showing no you should go back to that oh she was a telepath but she was very kind of mica shoes she was you she wore this like pink sued like full bodysuit that you have her whole body and then when she went through the siege perilous she got remade as a as a Japanese assassin chick that wore that outfit and instead of doing like she had an instead of like using her telepathy whatever she had to check this this this sauce sonic knife there and she would like you know hit dudes with no cuz up and she wore that outfit as an impressionable young 14 year-old elizabeth Braddock's also nice i like made a very strong impression on me and marvel actually released that no other reason saying this cuz Marvel actually they don't usually do this with a lot of panels but they actually made a gif out of that panel and was like we released it and for some reason and layout this is what people have been doing and the one above it is even worse I don't know it yeah that's so yeah I just want to bring a little tension the psylocke one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters and not she's not that interesting but she's awesome she made same time to say that and that's what week I think he covered all the bases perv quotient Yeah Yeah Yeah right cool success it that's it great that's a show all right yeah you should check out our crave blog you can find it at this thing right here crazy scenic amor ya seen accomplished favor news that sandy that's great many different many different ways you could 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