Let’s Weekend #29 – We’re DOOMed.

by Filippo Dinolfo | 0 Comments | 21 May 2016

On this episode of Let’s Weekend: Brandon, Patrick, Fil, Chris, and Theresa talk about the new DOOM. What’s good about it and what isn’t. Patrick fixed Magic: The Gathering. We’re all perplexed by the Tetris Movie. Plus we contemplate the continuing deterioration of the US political system. That and a lot more, on Let’s Weekend!

5/20/2016 Show Notes

What Are We Up To?
- B: Playing DOOM, reading ‘Seraph of the End’ and ‘Spain In Our Hearts’
- F: Playing DOOM, still going through The Wheel of Time, looking for a new cartridge.
- P: M:TG, naturally. (Much more on that later…) Finally saw Deadpool.
- C: Deadpool, Game of Thrones, Uncharted 4, Severed, Hitman
- T: gonna die if we don’t get to watch Deadpool this weekend, reading more Harry Potter, playing DOOM, working on Civ V achievements, planning on returning to Fantasy Life, Mario Kart
Brandon’s Random Factoid
DOOM is awesome (and also not awesome).
PSN Flash Sale
Wizards of the Coast announce five new M:TG products, two major ones in particular
- Kaladesh Block: Kaladesh on 9/30, Aether Revolt on 1/20
- Commander 2016: introducing four-color commanders
- Not among the five is a newcomer outreach measure: Sample Decks
  - FREE 30-card decks built around a single planeswalker and a single rare
  - Deliberately built so that non-beginners won’t snap them all up
M:TG needs middle ground formats between Standard and Modern. Patrick has ideas.
- The problem
  - “Standard”: past 15-18 mos (no long-term value)
  - “Modern”: from 2003 on (such long-term value it’s cost prohibitive)
- The solutions – protecting investments without overextending formats
  - “Planar Basic”: combinations of blocks that share a setting/”plane”
  - “Planar Standard”: Standard, including past blocks set on same planes
    - This would add eight full past sets to the current Standard.
  - WotC adoption of Planar formats could improve quality of reprints.
There is a Tetris movie coming.
Did somebody order a tokusatsu version of The Expendables? We’re getting one.
Fox uses Double Dribble Youtube clip without permission in Family Guy episode, claims ownership, and has original video DMCA’d
The shitshow that was the Nevada Democratic Convention.
- With appropriate commentary provided by Cenk Uygur.
“A–holes of the Week” GOPs in House of Rep Bully LGBT Anti-Discrimination Amendment into Failure
- Honorable Mention: Oklahoma enacts their own anti-LGBT law, declares State of Emergency, Call for Obama’s Impeachment