Back for another round of face-rocking amazement! This week, the Commander and CountZer0 are joined by Tim’s friend, Dr. Phred. And as we announced last episode, we’re working off a script now, so don’t expect the old ways of rambling around looking for things to talk about. This is hard-hitting news and opinions now! Seriously. Lots of things this week, everything from more talk about Microsoft and BluRay, the new 2D utopia of gaming that is Capcom, and my review of Neo Geo Battle Colosseum. There’s tons of other greatness as well, and be sure to hit the Pink Ninja Studios Forum Post for links to everything we talked about!

80 EPISODES! A True milestone. And to mark this rather momentous occasion, CountZer0 and I have made a concentrated effort. Yes, the unthinkable has happened…

WE ACTUALLY PREPARED FOR A SHOW! WITH REAL TOPICS!

Yep, we are straight up ripping off the idea from Tech Snark. All the random cool shit that we find during the week gets dumped into a handy Google Doc, and then we work off that for our show topics. Never thought you’d see the day did you? Everyone has to grow up sometime, even us.

Head to the forum to get the show links for everything we talked about on the show.

Wow. It’s really been two weeks since the last show. Granted, the first week was sheer lack of desire, but the second week was due entirely to my bout with the dreaded flu that is working its way around. But I digress… Jason and I are back, although a day late on the release, and we’re talking about all kinds of awesome. Least of which is the amazing artwork you see before you from the fantastic Edgey and his supernatural use of Adobe Illustrator. No point in typing anymore. Just listen!

And we’re back! It’s the good ‘ol Commander Tim joined by CountZer0 and IndieMike, making his first appearance on the Commander Tim Cast. Everything from the writers strike to Bionic Commando, with a dash of Jason’s fancy new Playstation 3 gift. I’m seriously not going to type it all out here. Just listen for over an hour of podcast bliss.

Hello all! Guess what? I finally did it. I broke down and decided to join the 21st Century. Threw all caution to the wind, and my lightgun collection in the closet. Yes, I bought a high-def LCD television. I know, I know! I swore up and down that I was quite content to live in my safe standard definition world… but then, I saw something that REQUIRED me to purchase a new television as soon as I possibly could. Listen in to find out what. And let me tell you, I now know what I’ve been missing. Anyway, the reason for that glorious statue on the left is that CountZer0 is brining us the 2007 Pink Ninja Studio Awards, as voted on by our listeners! Tune in to find out who were the big winners, and just how much some things suck ass.

Commander Tim Pie-cast, bitches. One half of the flying Faustinis writes in to express his displeasure with our blanket reference to manga as hentai, and our friend Wayne voices his opinion on the lack of 2000AD availability in the U.S.

Oh, and we have pie. Good pie. And JargonGnome… here’s a nice little shout-out to you;

Jason and I back again! I’m getting the PC upgrade bug again, but for no good reason. I don’t game on my PC, but the trick is that I really can’t muck with what I’ve got because my XP machine has become rather mission critical. Listen in to hear what I mean. We talk some games, some tech, and Jason runs his mouth off about how he’s going to beat my skull in on Virtua Fighter 5. Ahem… more on how that went down on next weeks show. It wasn’t pretty. Oh, and that’s the “California Fires” cake we were talking about on the show. This pic is the one Carolyn snapped in the store. Creepy.

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WWDC 2006 just wrapped up, and aside from seeing all the cool new things that Leopard is going to bring (and there’s a lot of things), we also got to see the the last of the PowerPC Macs when Apple announced the amazing new Mac Pro. The sheer power this thing has at it’s disposal has me salivating. We all saw it coming, but still, actually having it here is pretty cool. My initial impressions are very good for this machine. Moving a Firewire 800 plug to the front was a very awesome thing, as is the extra USB port. I was also impressed to see that you can now have dual optical drives in a Powermac once again. One stickler though is the moving of the power supply to the top of the case, so now you have the “rat tail” effect of the cord dangling from the top of your Mac. But, that is a minor issue in the big picture. More impressive than the exterior changes is the dramatic difference on the inside of the case. Not only are the new Mac Pro’s powered by quad Xeon processors, but they also have room for 4 hard drives (in a trés cool configuration no less), they left enough room for a double height videocard, 16 gigs of memory, and if you give him enough time, Jonathan Ive will probably find a way to keep your pet hamster in there. Although, you could probably do that now, but with possible undesirable results.

Well, I want one. Wait, let me clarify! I want one when Adobe finally decides that they will actually port their applications to the Intel Mac platform. Yes, I know CS3 is the scheduled release for their big universal launch. But for goodness sakes! You can no longer buy a PowerPC based Macintosh! What the hell Adobe? Fine fine, take your time… it’s not like I’m giving up my dual G5 anytime soon. But still, I wish I had a reason to.

Business Week is running a cover story on the new ‘brat pack’ (fuck I hate mainstream media) that is coming out of the valley. I guess I should hate him for it out of sheer jealousy, but the fact is that Kevin Rose came up from being a production assistant on TechTV to being one of the leaders of the modern day web. My hats off to you Kevin; you have arrived.
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