Quest 68 - What movies are we looking forward to in 2017?

Did you know that there are actually a whole bunch of good movies coming out in 2017? The time is meow!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:30 - Should Shyamalan still be allowed to direct movies?
  • 08:00 - How much money is Netflix offering independent films?
  • 18:00 - What order should you watch Fast and Furious movies in?
  • 29:00 - Can you excited about yet another Spiderman movie?
  • 40:00 - How should the new Kingsman movie start?
  • 49:30 - What TV shows are we looking forward to in 2017?
  • 54:45 - Wrap up!

Music

 

Quest 67 - What happens when Amazon goes down?

Amazon goes down, the QQ Cast geeks out, and by the end you will wish that you had amnesia!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:45 - What happened to Amazon S3 today?
  • 06:40 - How many servers are really designed to be cloud friendly?
  • 15:00 - In light of Cloud Bleed, should you stop using shared services?
  • 26:00 - Are you using Heroku?
  • 34:00 - Why are message queues so important?
  • 46:20 - Can dependency injection make debugging easier?
  • 59:45 - Has the tech community aligned around cloud technology?
  • 67:10 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 66 - What's in your Steam library?

In search of happy topics, the QQ Cast reminisce about the games in their Steam library...wait, when did I buy THAT???

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:45 - Where do you see your stats on Steam?
  • 09:30 - Who doesn't have Age of Empires installed?
  • 14:00 - Is Cities Skylines the new SimCity?
  • 25:00 - When did development stop for Fistful of Frags?
  • 32:30 - Has anyone heard of Hoard?
  • 37:30 - How many hours have we put into Left 4 Dead?
  • 48:15 - Did Pillars of Eternity revive CRPGs?
  • 55:45 - Get out of here, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
  • 65:30 - Why did Tom buy so many Warhammer games?
  • 73:00 - What do we want to go back and play?
  • 74:00 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 65 - Why didn't we talk about the N64?

The QQ Cast corrects their mistake of not talking about the N64 during quest 64...the podcast number, not the game!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:55 - How hyped was the N64 launch?
  • 12:30 - What were our favorite N64 games?
  • 22:45 - How many friendships did Mario Party destroy?
  • 33:15 - Was Mario 64 the first "let's play" game?
  • 48:30 - Which N64 Zelda game was the best?
  • 59:15 - Did Smash Brothers create a new genre?
  • 65:50 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 64 - What is the state of Voice UX in 2017?

Warning! This podcast is geeky. Really really geeky. If you listen to this while driving, you may fall asleep at the wheel. You have been warned!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 02:30 - Can you survive without a phone in the 21st century?
  • 14:00 - Are voice commands more than just an interface?
  • 29:00 - Is "Idiocracy level" dependency on these technologies a bad thing?
  • 37:00 - For your average consumer, how useful is all this voice stuff?
  • 50:10 - Can you subpoena an AI to come to court?
  • 60:30 - Wrap up!

Music

Quest 63 - What did we talk about for 100 podcasts?

100 podcasts later, the QQ Cast reviews their answers to previous quests and realizes just how often they have been wrong!

Minutes

  • 00:00 - Mic Check and Introductions
  • 06:20 - Quest 1 - What are the ingredients for a good podcast?
  • 21:45 - Quest 20 - What are some obscure video game trivia questions?
  • 41:30 - Quest 37 - Which technologies are iterating versus innovating?
  • 56:55 - Quest 47 - Should you go buy a VR headset, right now?
  • 73:00 - Wrap up!

Music