This week we talk to Andy and Dan from Relief LAN, a charity that turns the humble LAN party into a force for good, and with David establishing a homestead in the inhospitable north we bring in Starly and Chris to talk about growing up geek in regional Victoria. We cover our recent purchases from … [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 25: A Dream of Gnomes and Spiders appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
Are you sick of hearing about E3 related shenanigans? Well, you're in luck because we forgo the hype and instead, focus our attention on the romantic highs and lows of recording a podcast in an inner-city AirB&B, the best way to set up a movie cinema arcade to make money off fighting games, ruthless Let it Die strategies bound to incur a retaliation and Noah potentially screwing up god’s grand genocide plans. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 24: Is this Wolfenstein? appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
With Dave off to parts unknown we welcome Chris to the podcast to talk to us about moving house, the correct way to save the world and why Anthony must apologize for Everquest. This week we take a sneak peek at an in-progress E3, talk about some really old games and mourn the death of … [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 23: This House was Made for Moving appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week on the Semi-Cast, even though we know better, we jump right in and talk about a series of games Tell Tale will probably never make, a very different interpretation of Marvel vs Capcom, the extremely vague hitbox detection a Maplethorpe game would require and a cautionary tale in the form of Couter-Strike. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 22: Never bet against Dragon Ball Z appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week we crawl out from behind our pile of boxes to plumb the depths of our relative physical music collections to see what really lurks in the shadows, lament the inevitable arrival of the Deerclops, experience the difficulty in impersonating Eddie Murphy's laugh and mourn the simultaneous starvation of millions of virtual bunnies. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 21: Dial 1 for Anime appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
We're screaming through the gate, late and on fire with this one but we're still here to wax lyrical about determining the sex of iron chairs, the reason it's inadvisable to sleep on a plane in crash position, how Nether Realms needs to up its root-kit game if it's going to compete with Street Fighter and how many 3D Marks your car stereo can get. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 20: Too Much Water or Not Enough Water appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
For all we know, this week's episode of the Semi-Cast could have been a fever dream where we talked about the relative strengths of vicious coffees straight up murdering people, finding food in games where no food should be found, the times when having 400 arrows is still not enough arrows and facial capture on a face that already looks like a 3D model. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 19: Booker T DeWitt appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week we spend some quality time together attempting to get to the bottom of David Boreanaz's tea habits, 12-year-olds in Playerunkown's Battlegrounds with no mental capacity for intellectual swearing, the globally recognised romantic comedy naming formula and the deep, dark hankering only Elite Dangerous can fix. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 18: The Lovepire Strikes Back appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
Anthony is back from his jaunt out East and we get straight to business talking about the appropriate games to be included in a bootleg NES Mini, Japanese Tekken developers under-selling the strength of kangaroos, the democracy of car travel playlists and the history of herding whales with other whales. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 17: The Swamp End of Town appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
In this special edition of the Semi-Cast we take listener questions as well as turning our hands to helping the citizens of the internet as a whole. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to semicast@semi-informatic.com [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 16: Valiant Hearts 2: Valiant Hearter appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
For this Easter edition of the Semi-Cast we eat too many hot cross buns and try and make sense of making clothes with your hair, constructing the perfect Aussie metaphor, the after-effects of watching all of Serial Experiments Lain in one sitting, and the reasons you shouldn't let Matthew Newton use your editing equipment. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 15: Egg dregs appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
Outside may be cold and wet but inside we're talking about what the hell a jam fancy is, untechnical Scorpio technicalities, Grand Theft G2A: Gearbox Edition and the place of graphic ASCII art in game journalism. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 14: Gluten balls appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week we spend way too much time talking about the outcome of fake fighting, we show the plants in our garden who the real boss is, we also discuss the finer points of prank-based performance anxiety and discover just how long dwarves can hold a grudge. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 13: An unsanctioned match appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week we use our collective level heads to discuss preventing the earth from spinning off its axis, how to most tastefully light rollercoaster vomit, video games for the smallest room in the house and traveling 600 years for absolutely no reason. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 12: Head workouts appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
On this week's podcast, we discuss Nintendo's aversion to meat, Benedict Cumberbatch's little-known sister Bernadette, the glorious stupidity of having a valve where your eye should be and our absolute proficiency with the NATO alphabet. Whiskey, Tsunami, Fjord! [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 11: Agent Vampires appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week on the Semi-Informatic pirate radio show we lovingly call the Semi-Cast, we uncover the truth behind swearing at truck drivers through walkie talkies, upgrading our slots with confetti shooting maracas, acquiring a building permit through Hyrule City Council and the current Bitcoin to Doubloons exchange rate. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 10: Your inventory is full appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week on the Semi-Cast we spend some time riding the Nintendo Switch train and eventually find ourselves talking about Captain Morgan: The Anime Series, how to tell the difference between Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson, preserving the rich tapestry of video game history and the never-ending saga of expensive Mass Effect DLC. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 9: He’s even more than jolly appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week on the video game podcast which is quite often actually about video games, we spend quality time getting to the bottom of; how many homebrews it would take to pay off the fuzz, why mothers are sometimes in need of a good knife, the reason Obi-Wan may be hiding inside our walls and why owners of AMD graphics cards are more likely to stab you. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 8: That’s what happens when you go to a pot exhibition appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
This week on Australia's most high-brow podcast, we set our sights on taming a dinosaur with Jason Segel's junk, Steam Greenlight getting the red light, selling arcade parts out of your garage and teaching ten-year-olds the secret language of Xbox live voice chat. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 7: A plumber on some fairly strong hallucinogens appeared first on Semi-Informatic.
We tackle the big issues of the week, while still finding time to discuss buying games on the toilet, supposedly secure passwords stored in plain text, the video game lineage of alpacas and Steam games we will never... ever... talk about again. [more] The post The Semi-Cast – Episode 6: Jiggle Bones appeared first on Semi-Informatic.