Pen Fights Gamepad

Dan Absalonson & Donald Conrad
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A podcast where two dads talk gaming and writing.

  1. 05/23/2013

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 13

    Download the .mp3 Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: Donald is going to E3! Dan's a published author! Chewie with IBS, and lots of other stuff about games and movies.

  2. 03/08/2013

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 12

    Download the .mp3 Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Sound Effects Attributions: DunDunDunnnExtreme.wav copyc4t http://www.freesound.org/people/copyc4t/sounds/153405/ 76058_digifishmusic_Dramatic2.wav digifishmusic http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/76058/

  3. 02/01/2013

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 11

    Download the .mp3 Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com Click to Enlarge Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: J.J. Abrams Lens Flares YouTube Video explaining it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paPT4iHUjFQ More show notes to come soon.

  4. 11/22/2012

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 10

    Download the .mp3 Website for the podcast: www.PenFightsGamepad.com Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wives and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show: Dan once killed Bambi Moose like getting drunk on berries Children screaming Twilight is about pooping Moose mouth Donald's injured family - skull shaping, broken ribs, a broken wrist Poop grenade Poop waterbottle Farts are funny Video Game Giveaway - To celebrate the forthcoming STAR WARS movies from Disney, we are giving away Lego Starwars The Original Trilogy for the Gamecube! www.did-not-finish.com happenings: Warlords - a reboot of the classic Atari video game Assassin's Creed III: Liberation - PlayStation Vita Call of Duty Classic Ninja Turtles NES games Marvel Super Hero Squad and renting video games Epic Mickey 2 and little kids playing video games Food Parties! Kids asking Santa for video games FTL the space ship video game Letting newbies wind at video games leads them to try out for American Idol X-men and Baseball cards Where Ken Griffey Jr. Go? Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the SNES Tiger Woods Shaq Fu for the Super Nintendo NaNoWriMo Dan hasn't been writing because he's been studying plot structure Donald gives Dan his thoughts and awesome ideas on Dan's science fiction novel after his third read through Dan explains a few things about the development of his novel Dan has a new Anthology for sale - "Danthology." A collection of all his short stories in one place for 99 cents eReaders, eInk, Barnes and Noble How our wives talk in their sleep Flashpoint the TV show Terra Nova on Netflix - it is so bad that it is kinda good? 'Last Resort' Canceled - boo hoo TV networks concerned about how many people watched the Felix Baumgartner jump from space Disney bought Lucasfilm! New STAR WARS movies? We're excited! Thrawn Trilogy The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings book vs movies Will the new STAR WARS movies make a spike in Science Fiction books? Video Games making more money than Movies Black Ops 2 made 500 million in 24 hours The Avengers took around 5 months to hit a billion dollars The Hulk, the only movie Dan still needs to see before finally seeing the Avengers Good video game movies? Windows Phone 8, iPhone, Galaxy S3, Samsumg ATIV Mac VS Windows

  5. 10/24/2012

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 09

    Download the .mp3 Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Some of the Topics covered in this show: What We’ve Been Up To Added a Facebook “Like” button to the posts of website Dan and his wife are doing Foster Care We’re On Stitcher! - Read Example 1 and Additional Info Donald generously gave Dan Torchlight Metriod Prime games DNF - I am playing Double Dragon Neon and enjoying it? Tokyo Jungle is amazing! Borderlands 2 is Amazingerest heyash.com extralife.org Dan is playing New Super Mario Bros with his wife and loving it! DDTAM - “Stuffed Monster” available in audio http://everyphototells.com/2012/10/episode-99-stuffed-monster/ Movie Memories (ep 5 just went live) Dan has a story that is going to be published in an anthology by Five Rivers Publishing Dan is going to submit to the Inlander Short Story Contest again Wool Treasure Park Things We Need to Read, Watch, or Play Dan Added Assasin’s Creed because it’s on Steam for Mac -Donald is happy about this. Dan finished Batman: Private Casebook - great art, writing was decent Galaxy on Fire space game on iPod touch & iPad New Game from Chris Roberts creator of Wing Commander Trailer: http://www.playerattack.com/news/2012/10/10/wing-commander-creator-returns-with-star-citizen/ Kotaku Article: http://kotaku.com/5950453/you-loved-wing-commander-now-meet-the-shiny-successor-that-will-bring-space-sims-into-the-21st-century Kickstarter!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen Brad Hates Games revisits Colony Wars and it reminds me of - Freelancer - the Chris Roberts game that Dan may not know about. -  opeing cinimatic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RsWPFUzxgRU#! gameplay http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NODc1lXn0ak#! Privateer Intro Video Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9LVXvRrT0 Writing Excuses 7:33 starts at: 14:06 How Lost did it wrong from last episode with Michael and Walt http://www.writingexcuses.com/wp-content/uploads/Writing_Excuses_7_33_Authentic_Emotion.mp3

  6. 09/21/2012

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 08

    Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: What we've been up to DDTAM- Stuffed Monster http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/09/stuffed-monster.html Novel Experiment: The Ghost of Meadowhill http://www.dandantheartman.com/p/novel-experiment.html Do research on Napa school DNF- Xbox Glold is pissing me off. PS+ is making me happy Borderlands 2 excitement Assassinâs Creed Revelations Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Double Dragon Raptr.com Danger Joe video game Assasin's Creed for Kinect Zombie Carnival Positive reviews Truth about Zombies Praise Original idea VS current Idea We're Alive http://zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html Donald am now listening in real time :( Walking Dead Episode 3 Guess what? Things got worse. bing rewards Download the .mp3

  7. 08/31/2012

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 07

    Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: We have our first guest on the show! David of www.glowpuff.com games! Introduce David of http://glowpuff.com/ Glowpuff games interview. What we've been up to Talk about microphones of last two episodes and laptop dying. Did Not Finish Updates Did Not Finish question from Dan Dan asks if there was a game Donald wasnât looking forward to playing for Did Not Finish which surprised him and was actually pretty good. DanDanTheArtMan.com Updates The Truth About Zombies a reading of chapter 1 http://www.dandantheartman.com/2012/08/a-reading-of-my-new-zombie-novel.html Start this video at 1:38 Samsung loses in court Thoughts on how this will affect the phone market. http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/24/apple-vs-samsung-verdict-samsung-guilty-of-willfully-infringing-apple-patents We're Alive audio drama fiction podcast http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/Main.html Rotten Tomatoes on Lord of the Rings Movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) TOMATOMETER 92% | AUDIENCE 92% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) TOMATOMETER 96% | AUDIENCE 92% The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) TOMATOMETER 94% | AUDIENCE 83% Download the .mp3

  8. 08/10/2012

    Pen Fights Gamepad | Episode 06

    Donald Conrad of www.did-not-finish.com and Dan Absalonson of www.DanDanTheArtMan.com talk about video games, writing, being husbands with awesome wifes and fathers of many young children, what life is like as dads and lots of other stuff. Topics covered in this show: Batman The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit being made into three movies? Star Wars Christmas Special Dan liked King Kong by Peter Jackson? Donald did not. Peter Jackson wants to be like Twilight and make several movies from one book? Dan's review of the first Twilight book: http://www.dandantheartman.com/2011/06/review-of-twilight-spoilers.html The first Underworld movie and how it was good a vampire flick 3D being overdone in movies Dan pines for Original Star Wars trilogy, Donald has a copy on VHS Hear Donald talk like Bane from Batman The Dark Knight Rises! Bane and how his mouth is covered, acting, speaking Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises The Man of Steel trailer Listen to the guys watch the trailer and comment then discuss: Talk about the darker new direction that is hinted at. Is this the “Nolaning” of the Superman franchise? Are they trying to make Superman fit into the grittier Batman univers? Will JLA be better as a darker more serious film? G.I. Joe the movie Animated movies being better than the live action, Star Wars: Clone Wars Total Recall reboot - Dan hasn't seen the original, added to his list Superman teaser trailer left us wondering SNL skit of Superman where everyone knows who he is Things We Need To Watch or Read list is visited http://www.penfightsgamepad.com/p/things-we-need-to-watch-or-read.html 1. Dan recommends a book to Donald: John Cleaver trilogy http://thedanwells.com/titles/ianask.html 2. Dan finished the comic The Dark Knight Returns Making an Animated version of The Dark Knight Returns Batman The Animated Series and their voice actors doing a trailer for the new Batman live action Batman Arkham City Asylum game - Dan needs to play it 3. Dan saw Captain America Tron Legacy, and Dan hasn't seen the original Tron 4: Donald is enjoying a TV show "Breakout Kings" on Netflix. World may have stopped turnning for a moment. Dan remixed some music for a Glowpuff video game "Carnival Carnage" (the one starring Donald) Live play the Beta build of Carnival Carnage (because I have it!) Donald plays it live on the show DNF update Finished Duke Nukem Forever - I have some thoughts Expendables 2 game - I got it for free in a strange way Patapon 2 - Best game ever? Dan was on The Roundtable Podcast www.roundtablepodcast.com Dan gives a short reading from his Sci-Fi novel of the scene where Quickstar leaves his Captain dead or alive. See more by this artist Zzenya Thompson here: http://zzenkinsein.deviantart.com/ Download the .mp3

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A podcast where two dads talk gaming and writing.

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  • Creator
    Dan Absalonson & Donald Conrad
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2013
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Pen Fights Gamepad