Hey all! What’s that behind your ear? It’s another episode! We’re not going away, just popping in and out like a blink dog with Parkinson’s. This episode is completely Adam free so take that for what you will. The first half is just Pat and Ryan, rambling on with some links and the second part is Pat, Ryan and new comer Sebastian where we talk about the Monkey Sphere. So enjoy!
And look at that! We’re back! Kinda! So, let me explain… We haven’t got the URL for our new show yet and we’re still getting a few of our guests lined up for our show. Don’t worry though, we are almost back! In the meanwhile, we finished up the brackets. I sound like I am on a CB Radio. Fun! Stupid Vista. So enjoy and hold on tight! Enjoy!
Alright everyone, calm down! Don’t go screaming away in a panic, but it’s true: we’re going on hiatus until the 7th of January. Why? Well, it’s not actually Pat’s fault (although I sure Pat would have screwed us out of more shows getting out). The reasons are simple: we want to give you a better show, a show we can be even more proud of. Not that we don’t love this show, but we think it could be so much more. We can give you more than just our mindless blathering, but an honest to god good product that you can use.
So here is our idea and new theme… we want to help you and us be better geeks. You see, we and probably most of you listeners, are geeks, but none of us knows everything about all geek topics. So we want to introduce geeks and non-geeks to topics, hobbies, and ideas maybe never before explored. We’ll give you a run down of it’s all about, useful links and books, tips, interviews, guest hosts, and whatever it takes to give you a crash course. A Geek’s Guide to <Fill in the Blank>, if you will. We’ll still be the same snarky hosts you love to listen to, but now we learn while we have fun! And wasn’t that just the best when you were a kid? Shut up, it was.
We’re taking this time off so we can re-tool and record a backlog of episodes to make the release schedule more Pat-proof. Is there a topic you would like to see us cover? This new show is for you as much as it is us. Let us know! In the mean time, this channel won’t be totally empty. We are going to finish up our vs. brackets and get them out and we might throw in the occasional Links and S*&%. So stay tuned for great things! Later!
This episode is both late and short. It’s short because it’s late. It’s late because of Pat. Yeah, I know, he’s always the scapegoat, but he’s the one all busy and crap. Seeing that this episode is midweek, and another one is just a short time away, we just covered what we did the past two weeks and a whole bunch of links. It maybe short, but it sure doesn’t lack substance. Enjoy!
Ryan:
Portal + Half-Life 2
A Weighted Companion Cube of your very own: “in time for Christmas”
Portal Weighted Companion Cube Papercraft
Thinking with Portals
Trey’s Travels
Bionic Commando
Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 Makes Remote Pen-and-Paper Play Easier
Sony confirms $400, 40GB PS3 for the US, price drop for 80GB model
Pat:
Former Star Trek Star Stages Raid at Las Vegas Hilton
Listening to radios at work is illegal
Transformer Costumes
Escape Archive
Adam:
George Lucas plans ‘Star Wars’ TV series
Free Heroes HD w/360 HD Drive Purchase
8 Superheroes Who Are Actually Douchebags
Vinegar Boy”, as told by Aaron
The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World
Web 2.0 Project Taps ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ to Probe Presidential Contenders
Top Gear: What Happens if You’re Struck by Lightning While in a Car?
So we don’t have an episode this week because once again Pat has let us down. Something about being busy coming back to Reno but not really. Instead enjoy this supplement to FHF, our versus brackets have returned! Well, we recorded this a while ago and we wanted to get the whole thing recorded before we doled it out. But we would rather post something than go another week with nothing, so here you go! The idea is simple, we take things that are cool (or maybe not cool) and mostly geeky and see who would win in a fight. It’s not a straight popularity contest. Yes, there are tons of others out there doing something similar, but we have never exactly been all that original either. Music is courtesy of PodsafeAudio.com and Devin Anderson. The song is chopped up and we are using it without permission, so I’m sure we’re violating some terms of service, but this was a quick edit job to get this episode up, so I hope they forgive us. If you are Devin’s lawyers, we’re small time and have no money. If you aren’t lawyers, enjoy!
This week marvel as Ryan plays the DS as he produces the show! No one will probably notice. We continue review crap that comes out this winter, continuing with November movies. Annoyed with that? Oh well, it’s still entertaining to us at least. Also, hear us complain about the PS3 and Darfur (Pat mostly)! Listen to Ryan die as he plays Rune Factory! Hear Adam… err… say things! All on this great new episode of Friends Hating Friends. Enjoy!
Ryan:
40GB PlayStation 3 confirmed with no PS2 backwards compatability
Sony explains the reasons behind the PS3 backwards compatibility cut
Dvorak: The Online Journalism Free-for-All
The World’s Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories
Rocket-Powered 21-Foot-Long X-Wing Model Actually Flies
X-Wing Rocket Launches, Disintegrates Mid-Air
LEGO’s Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon Unboxed, Now Shipping with 4-pound Manual
Pat:
Live-Action Donkey Kong (unknown source)
New AT&T terms of service: We’ll cut off your Internet connection for criticizing us
Adam:
John P. Harvard goes Halo
Bad motivational posters
Net Ten: Top Ten Disturbingly Sexual Game Characters
Conan and Jim Carrey - Quantum Physics
An Experiment in Nudity: Top 10 Female Names on Google
Complain to Pat (You’ll know when you listen).
A day late but still great and that rhymes and thus is immune from contradiction. Keeping the trend of bitching about what’s new this fall season, we now turn our gaze towards movies. Guess what? We think many of them suck, but that shouldn’t be surprising. All Hollywood can churn out is crap. Ryan was coming off of Vicodin this episode which is his excuse this time for tripping over words left and right. Tired of us bitching about upcoming releases? Well, give us suggestions! This is almost as much your show is it is ours (I mean, we’re doing most of the work here, but it would be pointless without you, the listeners. And it’s probably work to listen to boot.) So give us feedback and ideas in the comments on our blog or send us or email at friendshatingfriends@gmail.com. Enjoy!
Ok so before anybody starts whining, I’m not complaining that people want to help end the suffering of the people of Darfur. I’m bitching about the people who are whining about the US government not helping the people of Darfur. If you want to send your money, or more importantly spend your time in Darfur. Then be my guest. Just don’t whine to me when the red cross runs to the bank laughing.
It’s not my fault! Really! His computer is acting all stupid or some such nonsense and we just couldn’t manage an episode this week. Never fear, we will be back next week with more awesome you have come to fear and respect.
Ok, so our friends over at Accidental Survivors are supporting a cancer fund raiser. Here’s Rob’s post:
“The Accidental Survivors take the time to do a Special Episode for the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Please take a few minutes to listen and make a pledge for Rob’s wife Melodie who is taking part in the relay.
Go to this link and do a search for Melodie Wakefield. Pledge her any amount for the relay. It will only take a moment to give a little bit and help a lot.
Click here to listen to the episode.”
I know they’re Canadian and you thought that they had socialized cancer research. But no cancer in Canada means better bacon for us.
Good news everyone! The first week of September will be FHF free due to Epic Fail. We were recording tonight (Monday) and got almost all the way through when I noticed nothing from when the show actually started got recorded. I’m a retard! I should have noticed that fact before we were 90% done, but no. We didn’t try to record again because frankly all our creative, improve energy had been used. Usually, re-records feel flat. So, nothing this week, tune in next week hopefully with less fail. We still have links, so you can at least enjoy those.
Just a heads up that because we (read: Adam) are link whores and spend an insane amount of time online lately (read: Adam), we’re going to start having, now and then, some extra links that’ll be down below the show links. Basically these are ones that would have made it on the show but we didn’t want it to be the Adam’s Links podcast… more than it already is, anyway. Enjoy!
Well, blame Adam and Pat. Pat had to work really late and Adam had some fantasy football league thing (I guess that’s him circle jerking with a bunch of guys to Bert Farve and Chad Jackson or something; I don’t know). I didn’t want to blather into the mic all by myself, so I just played Bioshock. We’re going to record Tuesday night, so the show will probably be up Wednesday morning. So hold tight my fellow social rejects, you will get to laugh at us soon enough.
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You might be coming here, looking for the latest episode, and freak out wondering what the hell happened! You want consistency in your podcast/blog! These changes are wrecking your world! Relax… I understand. But this is for the best, really. You see, we want to make occasional blog posts but we don’t want push the latest podcast off the first screen. To allow both, we now have two columns. So never fear, constancy will return. This new layout better suits our purposes and we’re far too lazy to screw with things too much pretty much ensuring this will stick around awhile. Do tell us what you think, especially small bugs and tweak suggestions. Those aren’t too bad. Bigger things will probably ignored (again, see: lazy). Enjoy!
