Episode 99: 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2012
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on iTunes 11 and Apple's continuing failure to grok online services, then discuss the Wii U, starting with the painful setup process and continuing on to New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and, inevitably, the Wii U GamePad controller.
Links for this episode:
- Order of authors on publications - Academia Stack Exchange
- Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down?
- Dropbox: The Linchpin - Daring Fireball
- Dropbox: The Linchpin - Michael Tsai
- How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii - Ars Technica
- The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads - Ars Technica
- The incredibly true story of how I bricked my Wii U - The PA Report
- Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
- New Super Mario Bros. U - Amazon.com
- Wii U - Nintendo
- Nintendo Land - Amazon.com
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| 0:00.0 | No, no, don't let that happen. |
| 0:01.6 | This is hypercritical, a talk show |
| 0:05.2 | reminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related |
| 0:08.6 | technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.0 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my friend and yours, John |
| 0:15.3 | Syracusea. I am Dan Benjamin. Today is Friday, December 21, 2012. This is our 90, 9th, and second to last episode of all time. |
| 0:27.0 | We would like to say thank you very much to our sponsors, |
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| 0:37.8 | We would also like to say thank you very much to our bandwidth sponsor. |
| 0:41.2 | He's been with us all for the month of December. |
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| 0:57.0 | Right, do you have any opening statements about the t-shirt before we begin show proper? |
| 1:03.3 | Ah yes that's right we do have an update here about the t-shirt so if you remember |
| 1:08.1 | last week on episode number 98 we did a we did a poll, hypercritical t-shirt poll. And I'm going to go in and close |
| 1:21.9 | the poll right now. |
| 1:24.0 | But we have results from this poll. |
| 1:28.0 | We asked the listeners on the show. |
| 1:30.0 | We said, what kind of a t-shirt would you want? Would you want a t-shirt for |
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