Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The selection election for the GWC Book Club November Book of the Month is in full swing over on the forum. Don’t forget to stop by and cast your vote. Currently the four leaders are:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse Five by [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Join us as we rewatch and discuss the live-action Transformers movie the same day it released to DVD and HD-DVD. Highlights: we review the history and various story lines of Transformers, geek out over slow-motion battles, question the meaning of life and the concept of DNA-based computers (and Furbys), love on Michael Bay, enjoy the embarrassment [...]

GWC Direct-To-Archive #2 [78:43m]:
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I’m normally not a fan of marketing schemes like this — but this one is easily the coolest thing I’ve run across in many days. Once I heard, “Chuck, this is Optimus Prime…” I didn’t give a damn what they do with my information. I’ve already bought the DVD anyway. It’s just totally worth it.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
So I ran across this posting from The Lonely Toaster on the forum about Transformers costumes. I was super stoked about it, but I after I saw it I realized that I’m really not as imaginative as some of the folks in this video. In fact, I’m not even in the running.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
As you’ve probably heard, we’re big fan’s of Michael Bay’s live-action Transformers movie. We’ve seen it a few times in the theaters, but tonight we get to check it out in the comfort of the GWC lair, firing up the theater (and subwoofer) for some ground-pounding robot-saving-the-world action. That’s right: the movie hits shelves for [...]
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Welcome to the new GWC direct-to-archive podcast! This ‘cast operates in conjunction with the Galactica Watercooler ‘cast, offering us an opportunity to dish at length about science fiction, fantasy, comic, and videogame subject matter. In this first ‘cast, we discuss the GWC rewatch of The Last Starfighter — a flick that has a special place [...]

GWC Direct-To-Archive #1 [72:25m]:
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
If you’re a Halo 3 player looking for some multi-player action, come join other GWCers tonight for a frakkin’ frag fest on XBox Live. It’s an informal meetup, so you don’t need to dress up — or make any special plans. Just look for any of your GWC friends and invite them into your game [...]
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
It’s week twenty-nine of our planned off-season re-watch of the entire “re-imagined” BSG canon, and it’s time to move on to the season 2.5 episode “Downloaded.” So why not join us here for the GWC online frak party? There’s room for everyone, though you’ll have to bring your own snacks…
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Here’s the new weekly presidential approval poll. Remember — even if you voted last week, you’ll want to vote again on this poll as this is a weekly feature and the results will vary from week to week. Let your opinion be heard (for free)!
Remember: This approval poll applies to the current GWC re-watch schedule, [...]
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
This week we cover Razor Flashback #2, the current rewatch episode The Captain’s Hand, and (as always) lots, lots more. Highlights: We discuss the flashbacks vs. the pre-season-three webisodes and their classification as “episodes” (and therefore spoilers), enjoy seeing a Viper in a whatever-isode, question the heritage of young Adama’s blue eyes, wonder what derogatory [...]

GWC Podcast #67 [112:40m]:
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Full disclosure: I’m a huge Halo fan. Though I’ve only recently begun to fully enjoy the FPS experience, Halo’s story was enough to pull me in from the beginning. The Halo story is epic, covering a huge volume of time and space. Spread over thousands of years and dozens of parsecs? As Jayne would say, [...]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
It’s week twenty-eight of our planned off-season re-watch of the entire “re-imagined” BSG canon, and it’s time to move on to the season 2.5 episode “The Captain’s Hand.” So why not join us here for the GWC online frak party? There’s room for everyone, though you’ll have to bring your own snacks…
Feel free to jump [...]
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