Episode 49: 49: Pinching the Harmonica

Hypercritical

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News, Apple, Ars Technica, Siracusa, Mac, Tech, Sci-fi, Geek, Tech News

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2012

⏱️ 136 minutes

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss iPad use by three-year-olds, why non-gamers might consider the "Xbox" name a proxy for all of console gaming, the Wii generational hardware conundrum, and finally, an extremely long and obsessively detailed walk through the history of console game controllers, culminating in a rant about something that almost all other gamers love unconditionally.

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0:00.0	You are listening to hypercritical, a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple, related technologies and businesses.
0:10.0	Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be completely destroyed.
0:16.7	By my co-host, John Syracusea,
0:18.7	may have heard of him from Arse Technica.
0:21.3	I'm Dan Benjamin, founder by five today is January 6
0:24.1	2012 a brand new year this is episode number well I think it's number 49
0:31.6	we would like to say thanks to our two Well, I think it's number 49.
0:37.0	We would like to say thanks to our two sponsors today for making this possible. It's MailChimp.com, ring in the new year.
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0:59.0	My whole USB bus went dead. I couldn't even move my mouse.
1:05.0	How should we start to S.S.H.N?
1:08.0	No, I unplugged, the mouse is plugged to the back of the computer and plugged the but I
1:13.7	unplug the keyboard is plugged into the back computer the mouse is plugged to the
1:16.5	keyboard so I unplugged the mouse from the keyboard and then the mouse moved again
1:19.1	but nothing else still works sort of restarted. You were able to restart
1:22.4	successfully without a hard crash or something.
1:25.1	Yeah, no, it's just it. It happened once before like the same thing last time.
1:29.5	I remember I hear you, you can hear me. I don't, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, in the spirit of the season, I'm gonna in the spirit of the season I'm gonna blame static electricity.
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