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So this one's gonna be a real fun one, I mean, but you know, to keep tradition going. What I'm nerding out about this week just the end of not only the decade, but the Star Wars trilogy. At this point, I uh, the newest trilogy. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm excited to see what's in store there. But I will say, you know, whether you loved it or hate it, at least it's over all right, y'all. Well, without further ado, speaking of sci fi, I want to kick off the first thing. Actually, I'm gonna shelve that because part of me wanted to go in chronological order or jumping around. And of course, the first thing I want to talk about that came out this decade that I was super excited about was on July fifth, two thousand, fifteen, dragon Ball came back with dragon Ball Super. So of course we had the movie that came out before that, but the season officially started in July fIF two fifteen. It was off to a rocky start. People weren't feeling the animation, but soon enough it kicked off. People loved it, and before you know, we were going into super dope arcs ending with the Last Battle of the last arc where we met Juren and everyone's just freaking out and then we're like, psych we were not doing anymore for a bit. We're gonna give you the Broly Movie, which came out in November fourteen of two thousand and eighteen, and was just left you hungering for more. So hopefully in we'll get some more Dragon Ball Super. But I will say that was probably the biggest thing. The first thing I thought about when doing this episode was Dragon Ball Super because that was the wildest moment we thought we were done when z happened and Super came back and blew us away. Of course there was g T after Ze. I don't want to fully erase it, but y'all, y'all saw a G team. But after that, I do want to talk about kicking off this decade, which you may it seems so long ago now that I'm like kind of like looking at it. But in January of two thousand ten, kicking off the year, BioWare went ahead and dropped Mass Effect too. Now this is this, This was like the second installment of Mass Effect would would end up being a trilogy, but this was the game that kind of I think solidified Mass Effect as the best sci fi experience. Mass Effect one was a good time. I didn't come in until two. Actually, no, that's that's not true. I actually did play one before two because I remember liking that there weren't any Mako missions, and if you don't know what the MAKO is, it was a kind of like a driving mission on the planet. And it was bad and some people like it, most people hate it. A Mass Effect two came out, continuing the story of Commander Shepherd and creating more options to have sex with more aliens and eventually leading into the third one, which will not make the list. I enjoyed it, but it did have a huge hickup. Not the ending was so bad for Mass Effect three that they had to release a DLC where they did a different ending, which wasn't that different. I was fine with it, but you know I was. I don't think I was ready for the Shepherd's story to end, but it did in in a neat way that I liked. Most people did not. But that was that was truly a good time. But two thousands ten wasn't wasn't just about that. RPG two thousand ten also brought us Red Dead Redemption, which was released in May eight or two thousand ten. Red Dead Redemption was the spiritual successor to rock Stars Red Dead Revolver, which was a Western game that kind of came and went, but Red Dead Redemption was a moment. Red Dead Redemption was when rock Star I think fully settled in and made a huge cinematic experience. And I think that's what's cool about it coming out the same year as Mass Effect Too, because Mass Effect Too, I often at the time said it was the best set sci fi UH TV series slash movie that I've ever played. And these are two games that were cinematic and true to the genre, and Red Dead Redemption truly had you following James Marston down his path to outlawed them and him trying to move past his past. But as we all know in the wild West, past always catches up to you. It received rave reviews across the board and then led to some really cool DLC that came out in One Game of the Year from v g X and uh Best Original Score, Best Song in a Game, and Best Original Game. And I remember Red Dead Red Dead Redemption. I keep trying to say Revolver. I had the soundtrack for it. That's how into it I was. Is the soundtrack was fired and it was by Jose Gonzalez, if I remember correctly, it was just looking at it. Um, yeah, Jose Gonzalez, he had he won Best Song. But it was a beautiful soundtrack that complimented the truly cinematic experience in video games and I truly, truly, truly, truly, Uh, if you haven't played it one or two, I definitely would suggest you go check it out. This one's gonna be a more personal one because I think across the board and not everyone was as big of a fan of this as as I was. In two thousand ten, Halo Reach was released. It was a prequel to the Halo series that kind of showed the invasion that led to complete decimation. And it's my favorite type of story trope where you start off. It's kind of like Rogue one where you start off and you know these heroes won't make it, but you want to see how they go out, and it would do. It was truly, um a beautiful experience. I don't want to say cinematic again, even though it was. I feel like I'm saying cinematic too many times times. But it was a beautiful experience that I truly, truly uh. I hope everyone gets a chance to play now that Master Chief collection is out on PC. Now let's talk about some movies here. In two thousand ten, we had the release of Kick Ask, which who the comic was fired and so was the movie. The movie I think really tightened up some parts of the comic that you know, just weren't I guess you could say kosher. And I think now the movie doesn't hold up as well, but I truly did enjoy it, and I think that was a big moment for superhero movies because it also kind of invited the idea of superhero movies outside of the now successful m c U formula. I gotta put some respect on Scott Pilgrim's name because that also came out in two thousand ten, which was truly a fun movie, and the comic is super fun. If you haven't checked it out yet, might I suggest you do it too. Thousand and eleven was a big year. I was talking about the m c U, and I think this was the one that solidified the formula because on July nineteenth, two thousand and eleven, we had Captain America, the first Avenger, good old Chris Evans stepping up to the plate and solidifying himself as Steve Rogers. I mean he had the body, he had the I mean he really This was the watching Captain America was truly the first time I I knew it was gonna work because Captain America was a tricky character to do because he's very much like Superman in the sense that he's corny, he's easy. He wants the best in people. But if you can get someone who can get you to believe in that, who can get you to believe in justice, faith and not be jaded about it, then you have your Steve Rogers. And I think Chris Evans nailed that. And you know in this you know it's good to revisit it because you know he he ends the mantel this decade, you know, as as we got to the end of the end game. But ut this was this first pay and that wasn't two thousand eleven. Also in two thousand eleven we got Thor which honestly, I'm not it was great, but it's it doesn't hold a candle for me. Um. But if we want to talk about things that really stunk, then I'm definitely gonna have to say Green Lantern also came out in two thousand eleven. However, I will give a shout out because I'll always put respect on the Fast series name. Fast five also came out in two thousand eleven, which really was the one that kind of revitalized the series, and I gotta say, truly, it deserves to be on this list. I mean, it's not necessarily the most quote unquote nerdy thing, but I feel like the Fast series is truly turning into a superhero universe when you're watching kind of the way that the movies are going, so truly, uh, truly, I'm gonna hold a point. I'm gonna say it's nerdy, and I think you can be nerdy abou about it. So yeah, Past five two thousand eleven. So in the world of video games, two thousand eleven led to the release of Dark Souls, which Dark Souls has solidified its place as the super try hard if you're really serious about gaming. It's created its own genre, which is now referred to as a Soul's type, which is adventure games that required tight controls, quick reflexes, and is completely unforgiven and without Dark Souls coming into the foray, the sequel to um Demon Souls. Uh, we wouldn't have our Secu dos. We honestly wouldn't even have Jedi Fall in Order because Jedi Jedi f Jedi Fall in Order borrows a lot of things from the soul's type genre. So shout out to Dark Souls in two thousand eleven, unknowingly creating a whole new genre of video games and really blown onto the scene in a exciting way. Also, we had another bio ware hit in two thousand eleven with Dragon Age two. Dragon Age two was the second installment of the dragon Age series and still going good. I mean, this was well if you know where Dragon Age kind of ended up. Even though I am a fan of Inquisition, even though it was critically kind of panned. Uh, dragon Age too really elevated the series in a big way. Beautiful story in the same way that they were telling this artful sci fi masterpiece, they were doing the same thing with Dragon Age in a fantasy setting. And I truly put so many hours in this game, and if you have origin, you should pick it up and give it another replay because it was I think it definitely was one of the breakout games of that year. But speaking of finishing trilogies and so on and so forth. In two thousand eleven, we did have the End of Years of War three, which finally which was the final chapter of that first trilogy. We found and found out we happened with Dom and his wife and we saw it was kind of a heartbreaking into that, but it was a It was a beautiful game, and if you're Gears fan, you really enjoyed it. If you weren't, you did. I mean, I feel like Gears are hit and missed for people, but I did enjoy the trilogy. I thought it was phenomenal, and Gears three definitely is gonna be up there for me. As far as game releases. Also, I do want to shout out some smaller games that came out in two thousand and eleven, which was Bastion, which is an artful indie game. It truly if you haven't played Bastion, it still holds up. You can pick it up. It was developed by Super Giant Games, released on July twenty and it was it's kind of like a fantasy floating themed environment where you're kind of like doing like light platform or work. And I mean the art of this game is just truly gorgeous. It almost uh, it's it's right up there with It reminded me of Braid a lot, which was a puzzle platform er that kind of used a lot of um beautiful backgrounds and such. So if we move forward into two thousand and twelve, we can finally start talking mug games like Dishonored, which was truly so fun. I can't I found Dishonored pretty late in the game, and Dishonored was a game that you could complete it anyway that you wanted it. It follows, you know, it's kind of has the Steam punky you know, vibe. It's by Bethesda, and you can either be stealthy and and like totally go through the game without killing anybody doing non lethal takedowns, or you can do kills, and based on how you do it, uh, it changes the ending. So you're following the story of Corville Atano, who was a bodyguard of the Empress and who was framed for the Empress's murder and now with the exchange of power in the fictional city of Dunwall, it forces him to fight his way to redeem his name and you know, restore the rightful power into the rightful air into power, I guess is what I'm meant to say. And then of course in two thousands welve is where we have the mass Effect three. But you know, like I said, um not wasn't the biggest fan of of that. I mean I was. I guess what I'm trying to say is everyone wasn't the biggest fan, but I was a huge fan of it. I hope you know, let me know. Were you a fan of mass Effect three? Yes? Or no? I know we got a lot of mass Effect heads and the nerd fan so just let me know. In this year, Blizzards and kind of weird hot Water due to the kind of issues that it's kind of having with its support of certain regimes. But in two thousand twelve, Blizzard released Diablo three, and this was interesting because as someone who loves Diablo three didn't really play the prior Diablos, this one was one that you know, kind of was hit or miss for some fans. They did not like how different. It was. For me, I fell in love with the game and just played through it, and then it only got better as time went on, because eventually it led to having its season system and really just pushing the game. I think to new how Nights in the long chevity of that game, just kind of being able to live on definitely got a shout out. In two thousand twelve, Counterstrike Global Offense launched. Uh. I mean before this, people were playing counter Strike Source before that one point five. But Global Offense is the newest iteration of counter Strike and kind of the kind of platform that a lot of e sports used. You know, the s L has been uh, the counter Strike Go League is still alive and well. And I'm still a Fanatics fan, you know, even though they've they've kind of fell off. But back when I was watching seriously Fanatics, we you know, we we were great. So in two thousand twelve was a very big moment for movies because two thousand and twelve is when we got the first Avengers. This was when it all galvanized. This is the moment we've all been waiting for. This is what built that strong MCU foundation and what we would eventually revisit to see how many Easter eggs we can pull out and reuse from this moment. But Avengers comes out. It's a smash hit, a home run, and I I wish I can forget the feelings I felt up until now. It's just to witness Avengers for the first time again, because I remember being so blown to blown away because I didn't think it was possible, yet they pulled it off. Little did I know in about six more years they're gonna blow my mind yet again. But Avengers solid point. And you know, I'm gonna do a quick shout out in two thousand twelve to the Hobbit, even though you know, I'm not the biggest Tolkien fan and you know I I dabbled, but not the biggest Tolkien fan. But the Hobbit did drop and people were messing with that. So two thousand thirteen movies were We're interesting because two thirteen is when we got a Man of Steel. Two thirteen was when we got Iron Man three. So as far as like nerdy movies, uh, you know, it was it was. It was rough. We had the Wolverine. Um, yeah, it was. It was a rough year for movies. I will say the g I. Joe movie was pretty solid, and of course wow, yeah, two thousand thirteen was a rough part of the nerd dom in decade because you have Buckle up, Man of Steel, Iron Man three, four, Dark World. You know, these were all kind of movies The Wolverine that the nerd community just weren't really rocking with, and um and those all came out in two thousand. Even like Kick Ass two wasn't as exciting as Kick As one for me, so it truly truly seemed kind of bleak. But then we had bright spots like movies like Uh, snow Piercer which came out and was pretty dang solid and uh and that was pretty much the breakout for me that year. But it truly it was. It was Hansel and Gretel two thousand and thirteen in in in movies, well, it was something we're gonna look back and be like, yep, that was a thing that happened. However, in video games it was a breakout year because in two thousand and thirteen was when we got Grand Theft Auto five, which was a phenomenal. I can't speak highly enough about how much Grand Theft Auto Five raised the bar. Not only doesn't introduce three main characters, one of them being black, which was you know, we haven't seen a black protagonist since San Andreas. I will say Nicole Belck was fun. I really did enjoy the story of four, but being able to play a black, you know character in a Grand Theft Auto is something that I enjoy. Maybe with six will get some women in there, but five, you know, we're following three protagonists. It's a beautiful story about three three people in crime at in different points of their crime career. So you have Franklin, who's kind of like a newbie to the game. He wants to get involved in big crime stuff, but you know, he's, uh, he's he's he's just trying to figure his way. Then you have Michael, who's like old school, he's in witness protection, knows the game like the back of his hand, but he's trying to stay out of it. And then we introduced later into the game, Uh, Trevor, who's this wild card who just really is is just you can't you can't figure out what he's up to, so much so that even when you switch to his character in the game, you'll end up in random places, sometimes on an island way off from the city, trying to figure out where you're gonna go. And Grand Theft Out of Five also introduced the Grand Theft Auto Online, which is still going strong till this Day. This was released in two thousand thirteen and it's still going strong right now. And Grand Thought and Grand Theft Auto five because you know they it eventually launched like the RP community, so you have g t A r P and like I said, once you put g t A and PC, all the mods give longevity to the game, so even if you wanted to buy it by the game now, you'd still have a community to play with online. Another game that came out in two thousand thirteen, when that's interesting to talk about now because we're going to get the next installment very soon was the Last of Us. Naughty Dog came through and gave us just the most phenomenal video game experience with the Last of Us and UH it truly um It's it follows you know, uh to to uh two main characters, Ellie being escorted by Joel, a smuggler who who who has taken in Ellie and they it's Joel, you know, early in the game, loses his own daughter, so it kind of leads to this father daughter relationship and it just if you haven't played it, definitely pick it up now so you can be ready when part two comes out, which is currently scheduled to come out in a so just just check out Last of Us. It's truly a piece of work of art. And then we also had BioShock Infinite, which I truly enjoyed. It was a very interesting take on the BioShock franchise in the ending. Really, you know, some people like felt some type of way about it. I actually truly loved it because it took something that kind of uh was a constant in in the in the series and flipped it on its head. So definitely, definitely, definitely please check out BioShock Infinite as well. But if you have to choose between that and Last of Us, of course Last of Us. Uh. And we also have The Stanley Parable, which was an indie game that is another game that plays with the format of video games. Check that out. We had the drop of Dota two, which you know, if you listen to our Mobile episode you heard uh Me Danny and producer Dan talking about that, and Injustice God's among Us, which actually was a solid fighting game. The community couldn't really the fighting game community really couldn't build off of it. That was a fighting game that Sonic Fox was actually dominating it, but the community just wasn't there, so it kind of fell off. Also, I want to shout out war Frame, a free to play game that came out in two thousand, probably one of the best free to play games ever just that period, point blank. We're gonna go through the rest of the decade, but right now, we just need to take a quick break. So why don't you just uh go grab a glass of water. I'll see you in a bit and we're back doing everyone. How's it going. It's your boy if he and we're going through the best of the decade, and we've been going through the best things and nerd them. We've been primarily talking about video games and movies, so I'm probably gonna have to go back towards the end of this to really talk about stuff that happened on TV as well. But but that's gonna be more Hopscotch Hopping. Around two fourteen released one of my favorite game franchises at the time. It was rocky, but eventually it came around to be a solid game, which was Destiny. Uh Destiny dropped and it and you know, like I said, it's it was kind of rocky year one and then, but the excitement was there. It kind of fell off. And then year two when Taking King was released, everyone was hyped about the game. It was great, and then we ran into Destiny too, and it seemed like it was the same kind of issues. But you know, it'd be like that sometimes truly a good time time. But two thousand and fourteen I definitely got a shout out tighten Fall. Titan Fall is a solid if you like Max and you like shooters, titan Fall was that franchise, But titan Fall was one of those franchisees that were that was plagued with like being smushed between too many games and it kind of fell by the wayside. Uh. Actually, titan Fall one actually I think had a good push, but it just really kind of had trouble finding its footing. But it had a strong community that wrote it out, and I think truly is one of the most innovative games that have that came out because it really did kind of take shooters and kind of want to go in a different direction with them. And then, of course in two thousand and fourteen, we also got Divinity Original Sin, which is probably one of the most solid RPG franchises out. It's good and if if we want to talk about solid RPG franchises. I'm also going to give a shout It's a Banner Saga, which so came out in two thousand fourteen. Good times all around as far as movies go. We had this was this was we were back to the hits because we had Lego movie come out, which was phenomenal, Captain America Winter Soldier, which is on a lot of people's lists as the best Captain America. They really like that, and then Guardians of the Galaxy, which which was great. So you had Captain America, Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy coming out, truly dominating the year as probably some of the most talked about movies. I mean, Winter Soldier reintroducing Bucky. It was so fun and got all the hubbub excited because we knew that Bucky eventually becomes Cap in the comics. And we'll get tomorrow on that later. But it was truly an exciting time for movies, which led us to two thousand fifteen, and you know two there were lots of you know, I could I could talk about some some good and like we said, we had you know, um, Dragon Ball, super Roly, but the breakout film of I mean, in two thousand fifteen, we had Dragon Ball Super coming back out. The breakout film of that year was mad Max Fury Road, a movie that I saw in the theaters probably three times. It was so solid and it was interesting because in the world of all these different you know, uh, reboots and what have you. You know, we had Jurassic World come out and it really didn't hit like it wanted to. I feel like Mad Max Fury Road nailed it, like just top to bottom, and then Pepper. Throughout the year, we have things like ant Man coming through, and then we had the second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, which some people felt some type of way, and then we had Creed as well, which this is very important because I feel like Creed was the movie because we already had Fruit val Station, but Creed was the movie that solidified Googler as just a undefeated director, and that I feel like it is what led to him being the director of choice for Black Panther. So very great, super exciting, good year, you know, and just reminder, we're going through the best of nerdy things. So just I know you might be listening to what why aren't you talking about this movie? In this movie, I'm talking about the nerdy stuff. You know. There there have been great movies besides that, but I'm I'm sticking to the nerdy things. But in two thousand fifteen, and video games was very important too, because we had h one z one released their Battle Rayal, which would be the thing that leads to both Player Unknown Battlegrounds and Fortnite. This is this is this is the beginning. It's very buggy at this time. It's not really popping off like that. But h one z one did release, and it becomes it's gonna be it's it's gonna be something new, uh to watch out for when you when it gets when it gets polished. But the other games we also had that year was Fallout four, which I truly enjoy. But oh boy, I think the game of the year that kind of took over in two thousand fifteen has to be The Witcher three Wild Hunt. This was the third entry, third and I think final entry to the Witcher trilogy. Truly beautiful story, fun game play. It was so solid. It's such a solid entry. It took me a re visit to really understand how good it was because it kind of was like it's kind of difficult if you're not if you're not really on your stuff. But which are three Wild Hunt really knocked it out, ended up taking home so many game of the years. But you also had the release of Rocket League, which was such a simple yet innovative concept which was just soccer with cars, and that took off and still to this day has a large community. We also had dragon Balls Universe, but there's another dragon Ball game that kind of I think takes the place of the dragon Ball game. So but you know, that was at the time we thought it was great. As far as the indie game shout out, I definitely want to shot up bro Verse bro Force, which was an indie game side scroller that lets you play as these kind of classic, uh, these classic like action heroes. Two thousand sixteen is a wonderful time to be a nerd because we got not only Doctor Strange, not only Captain America Civil War, not only Rogue one, but we also got Deadpool. But we also did get Suicide Squad in Batman v. Superman, which you know, some some people might be into it, me not at all. Uh. We had the Warcraft movie Come and Go. I mean it did well in China. I necessarily didn't hate it that much, but that's because I knew enough about the warcraft lore that it filled in. But we also had the Assassin's Creed come and flop as well. You know, lots, I think there were lots of hits and misses in two thousand six Um X Men Apocalypse, you know, it really was all. Two thousand and sixteen was one of those where it's all over the place because the highs were high, but the lows definitely were low. I mean Deadpool. I think it's the biggest one to talk about here because, like I said, at this point in in the m c U, they're established as hits, Like we know they're gonna be good. We know what to expect. We didn't know what to come from Deadpool. There was a lot of fan outcry when people passed on the animatic that was going around online. The fans went crazy. Till this day. We don't know if maybe that was part of the plan, maybe they leaked it on purpose to see if there was, you know, a want for this. But either way, Ryan Reynolds becomes Deadpool and you know, not the version that we saw in the Wolverine and It truly did show us that not only are we in an era where we can enjoy nerdy comic book movies, but we can make some stuff just for the adults and Deadpool. We It was highly anticipated, it came out, did well, and everyone got excited. It truly was a fun time to be a nerd and thinking back, I was like, yeah, two thousand and sixteen, that was a great year in video games. We had titan Fall two, which unfortunately came out during the releases of Battlefield one and I think a new Call of Duty and just unfortunately it was looked over. It was a solid game until this day, I still uh, I still still still am very angry that it didn't get the respect it deserved. But that led to them eventually making the uh eventually making the the game Apex Legends, So you know, through the dust and fire, we did get something great. You know. Verse two also came out. Uh so yeah, so we had the release of battle Born Overwatch and then one other Overwatch style game that also did not do as well as Overwatch in two thousand sixteen, and I can't believe we almost missed it for some reason. Whoever made this uh, this Releaseless put some disrespect on Overwatch his name. But yeah, Overwatch definitely came came out and crushed. As far as television, I gotta put some respect. My hero Academia came out and this was on April third of two thousand and sixteen. We had my hero Academia or book you know, hero depending on who you're talking about, which you know, I am late to the game on but man, oh man, am I loving it now? Speaking of heroes, two thousand seventeen was another great year for heroes. Why because not only do we get great Marvel movies like thor Ragnarok, but also we had Wonder Woman which knocked, which showed us that DC can in fact create dope movies, you know. Uh. We also had The Last Jedi, which rocked my socks. I I was a fan of it once again. It's one of those that it you know, some people in our miss But we also did have Spider Man Homecoming, which was a big moment because all this time we didn't have any Spider Man's, no Spider Man's but we did see Spider Man in Civil War and now we got our movie and then Guardians of the Galaxy volume two dropped as well. All around, it was definitely great, and of course the second john Wick came out, which really did heighten from the first john Wick and take us to a whole new level of killing people. I guess that's the best one we could say. We also got Logan as well, so not only are we getting good Spider movies, good good DC movies, but finally some good X movies. And once again it followed the same formula of Deadpool, of being like, Okay, we're going to take something and uh make it. We're gonna take this comic book property and make it adult, and it kind of followed that old man Logan style and it really did nail it, so good job for them. We also got the Chumaji movie, which was a surprise breakout hit, and of course, if I'm gonna talk about john Wick two, I definitely want to talk about Charlie their own an Atomic Blonde, which was so solid. It was basically Lady john Wick, and I was all for it. It was so good. I if you haven't seen Atomic Blonde, definitely check that out, because I did. I definitely think it's worth checking out if if if you're into that, some flops. We had Dark Tower UM and uh Bright. Oh man, I almost forgot about Bright. There was there was a world I lived in before reading that where I thought where I forgot Bright even existed. But then we also got it as well. So all in a two thousand seventeen was a solid year. Two thousand seventeen and video games too was very interesting because we got uh Fortnite. Fortnite Battle Royale was dropped, you know as a fluke alongside uh, alongside you know, the the Save the World version, which ended up becoming a huge hit. As far as other video games, you know, we had the Legend of Zelda, Breadth of the Wild, drop phenomenal Horizon zero Down, Destiny to which ran into the same first year issues as the first uh Destiny hell Blades, soon as Sacrifice, which the sequel was just announced at the Video Game Awards a few weeks ago. And uh we also had the uh Dishonored DLC, which featured a woman of color, uh, which was cool. You know, so some people are like, oh, if you're it's cool to me. Star Wars Battlefront two had a shaky release, but now once again that's another game that kind of came out now and is pretty solid and worth checking out now because they definitely did a great job of fixing all the issues that people were having with it. We had Red Dead, Redemptions to come out in video games this is last year now, Spider Man, Marvel Spider Man the video games Solid, God of War Solid. These are all hits, Smash Ultimate and then of Horse, the definitive Dragon Ball Z game, Dragonball Fighter Z, which you know is super fun. You heard me whining about it, but you know it's there were there were issues, but in the end, I think it's a solid fighter flops Fallout seventy six. You also have Sea of Thieves, which is up going pretty strong too. I mean, I'm not really into it, but I definitely see y'all in the discord talking about it, so I'm gonna shout it out just for y'all, but though, but I think the big, the big games worth talking about is gonna be Dragonball Fighter Z, Spider Man, Red Dead, Redemption to uh and of course for me, Monster Hunt a World. As far as movies go, I'm just gonna give a moment of silence because on February six, my life changed. Black Panther was released It was a film that captured my favorite superhero and ran with it and nailed. Shout out to Ryan Coogler, shout out to Chadwick Boseman, Shout out to everyone making this beautiful thing come to life. And I mean two thousand and eighteen was we got Avengers Infinity War, which left everyone just in shambles after the snap. We had Incredibles to come come through. We had Spider Man into the Spider Verse. We had Aquaman which not as bad as people say, same thing with Venom, yes they did blow their load and not you know, and and like tease Carnage even though we kind of saw like a version of carnage in there. And then we had Deadpool two. You know, so all these things, yet somehow green Book one, I was taking all those things over. Green Book winning Solo came out as well. It was. It was truly, and we had the ant Man in the Wasp. Truly, this was a solid year for Nerdy movies. It probably out of all the years that we've talked about, beyond like a lot of the kind of intro stuff that came through, I think two thousand eighteen might be the most solid year of Nerdy movies, because it's just like the strong entry of the strong entry of like you know, Black Panther, and you had Aquabam, which isn't that bad. I'm gonna jump with some respect on Aquaman ant Man in the Wasp, you know, and and Avengers Infinity War which lobbed everyone up, and then of course into the Spider Verse. Solid solid. I need everybody to know how solid it was. This year in movies was interesting for because we did get Captain Marvel, which was amazing. We got In Game which was amazing. Far From Home also amazing. You know. Unfortunately we had Dark Phoenix, but Shazam also came out this year. Wild Sorry it blows me away that Shusam came out this year in April. I we went through the whole there's movie, so many movies that came out this year. Detective Pikachu, you know, the Angry Verse two movie, which I will still to this day say, was surprisingly extremely funny. Like I I challenge you now that it's probably out on video and all that, check it out. Tell me tell me if I was right, you know, Like, what do you think Lego movie too? Yeah? This was such a solid movie year. Um, just as far as nerdy movies go, but in game, you know obviously probably is going to have the crowd. I mean, I wouldn't even movie. I wouldn't movie the Year, and maybe I wouldn't because Far from Home I think really did uh elevate I mean, in game wrapped it up, but Far from Home I think elevated the series to a point that gets me excited for the next one. And I'm glad they worked everything out. But also we had in video games Death Stranding, Jedi Jedi, Fallen Orders, Sword and Shield, Borderlands three, shinmu Uh, like so many solid games, Second Oh, Shadows, Dietract, Kingdom Hearts three came out this year, Gears five, like so many. We are at the point where, like I think we've caused a snowball of nerdy stuff, that so many nerdy things are coming out that it's gonna be hard. I think you have to find now Apex Legends came out this year. You have to find your favorite thing and rock with it, because now we're in a wealth of of delicious nerdy things. I truly, I I truly am excited. But you know, we're gonna take one last break and then when we get back, We'll go through some of the best television of the decade. Uh, and and and and wrap it up see all in a bit and welcome back. So we've been going through the best of the decade. But man oh man, we have a whole We have so much more time to talk about stuff, but we don't have much time left. So I'm gonna try and fit as much of the best TV of the decade as I can into this segment, which is Game of Thrones. Even though we didn't like the ending, it was a great ride and great experience. Breaking Bad came out this decade, which was probably the best TV viewing experience I had. Or yeah, on, let me see, maybe it ended this eve. Yeah, Breaking Bad end at this decade. It started outside in in January two thousand and eight, but it ended in two thousand thirteen, which probably was the best ending of a TV series quite some time, because it's kind of a lot of people can't dismount. I feel like Parks and Rex started a little bit outside of the decade, uh, starting in April nine of two thousand nine, but ended February two thousand fifteen, which was one of the greatest comedy television shows. I think that has been out. We got Rick and Morty this decade, Black Mirror started in two thousand and eleven, Fargo, True Detective, there were so much, so much. We had the Expanse, Start Ships, Creek, Brooklyn nine nine. These are all phenomenal shows that I can't really get too deep into because I'm just wrapping it up. Mr Robot, Crazy Ex Girlfriend and uh, you know, Glee ended in two thousand fifteen, so and Bob's Burgers started. There's so many amazing television shows that started in this decade and ended in this decade. Stranger Things, So that was the best of the decade. I think I got most of it. I'm sure I missed some stuff, but definitely what I want to hear your best of the decade? Uh, just tweet at me. Let's do um hashtag for this. Let's say uh hashtag Nerdificent decade. And I'm gonna make it harder for you. What do you think is the best nerdy thing that came out this decade? Nerdificent decade? And uh, you know, at the top of the year when we get back, we'll read some talk about it for a bit before we jump into the episode, But thanks for listening. It's been super fun. I you know, we we went through the TV, we went through you know, there's there's just so we are in probably the golden age of being a nerd because there's so much media coming out for us. There was a fun thing piece that came out that said nerds are no longer the underdog, and I truly believe it. I think there's so much space, so like, go forth, make nerdy stuff and just nerdy stuff, and of course stop all gatekeepers. Nerd them is for everyone, so always make space for everyone to fit. And if you see anyone trying to exclude anyone, stop it. Like they said, p J Mask, it's time to be a hero. Step up. Let's get rid of the gatekeepers. 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What's up, y'all. It's December by now. If you waited a while, you might not have gotten what you wanted for Christmas. So how about you head over to te public dot com slash Nerdificent and use the code nerd Treat thirty because from December you have thirty percent off so you can get all that Nerdificent gear that you want. So that's nerd Treat thirty at the checkout. You can even use that across the whole website. Feel free to use it by as much stuff as you want, and you know, just treat yourself. Hello, Hello, how's it going everyone? Welcome to another episode of Nerdificent. And it's only me in the studio because we're doing something special, So Danny's very busy and getting ready to travel and you know, it's down to the wire here, so there's no guests. It's just me and you talking to your ear. And not only is the year ending this year, but so is the decade. So I wanted to take a big look back at the best and nerdiest of this decade and really break it down with y'all. So this one's gonna be a real fun one, I mean, but you know, to keep tradition going. What I'm nerding out about this week just the end of not only the decade, but the Star Wars trilogy. At this point, I uh, the newest trilogy. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm excited to see what's in store there. But I will say, you know, whether you loved it or hate it, at least it's over all right, y'all. Well, without further ado, speaking of sci fi, I want to kick off the first thing. Actually, I'm gonna shelve that because part of me wanted to go in chronological order or jumping around. And of course, the first thing I want to talk about that came out this decade that I was super excited about was on July fifth, two thousand, fifteen, dragon Ball came back with dragon Ball Super. So of course we had the movie that came out before that, but the season officially started in July fIF two fifteen. It was off to a rocky start. People weren't feeling the animation, but soon enough it kicked off. People loved it, and before you know, we were going into super dope arcs ending with the Last Battle of the last arc where we met Juren and everyone's just freaking out and then we're like, psych we were not doing anymore for a bit. We're gonna give you the Broly Movie, which came out in November fourteen of two thousand and eighteen, and was just left you hungering for more. So hopefully in we'll get some more Dragon Ball Super. But I will say that was probably the biggest thing. The first thing I thought about when doing this episode was Dragon Ball Super because that was the wildest moment we thought we were done when z happened and Super came back and blew us away. Of course there was g T after Ze. I don't want to fully erase it, but y'all, y'all saw a G team. But after that, I do want to talk about kicking off this decade, which you may it seems so long ago now that I'm like kind of like looking at it. But in January of two thousand ten, kicking off the year, BioWare went ahead and dropped Mass Effect too. Now this is this, This was like the second installment of Mass Effect would would end up being a trilogy, but this was the game that kind of I think solidified Mass Effect as the best sci fi experience. Mass Effect one was a good time. I didn't come in until two. Actually, no, that's that's not true. I actually did play one before two because I remember liking that there weren't any Mako missions, and if you don't know what the MAKO is, it was a kind of like a driving mission on the planet. And it was bad and some people like it, most people hate it. A Mass Effect two came out, continuing the story of Commander Shepherd and creating more options to have sex with more aliens and eventually leading into the third one, which will not make the list. I enjoyed it, but it did have a huge hickup. Not the ending was so bad for Mass Effect three that they had to release a DLC where they did a different ending, which wasn't that different. I was fine with it, but you know I was. I don't think I was ready for the Shepherd's story to end, but it did in in a neat way that I liked. Most people did not. But that was that was truly a good time. But two thousands ten wasn't wasn't just about that. RPG two thousand ten also brought us Red Dead Redemption, which was released in May eight or two thousand ten. Red Dead Redemption was the spiritual successor to rock Stars Red Dead Revolver, which was a Western game that kind of came and went, but Red Dead Redemption was a moment. Red Dead Redemption was when rock Star I think fully settled in and made a huge cinematic experience. And I think that's what's cool about it coming out the same year as Mass Effect Too, because Mass Effect Too, I often at the time said it was the best set sci fi UH TV series slash movie that I've ever played. And these are two games that were cinematic and true to the genre, and Red Dead Redemption truly had you following James Marston down his path to outlawed them and him trying to move past his past. But as we all know in the wild West, past always catches up to you. It received rave reviews across the board and then led to some really cool DLC that came out in One Game of the Year from v g X and uh Best Original Score, Best Song in a Game, and Best Original Game. And I remember Red Dead Red Dead Redemption. I keep trying to say Revolver. I had the soundtrack for it. That's how into it I was. Is the soundtrack was fired and it was by Jose Gonzalez, if I remember correctly, it was just looking at it. Um, yeah, Jose Gonzalez, he had he won Best Song. But it was a beautiful soundtrack that complimented the truly cinematic experience in video games and I truly, truly, truly, truly, Uh, if you haven't played it one or two, I definitely would suggest you go check it out. This one's gonna be a more personal one because I think across the board and not everyone was as big of a fan of this as as I was. In two thousand ten, Halo Reach was released. It was a prequel to the Halo series that kind of showed the invasion that led to complete decimation. And it's my favorite type of story trope where you start off. It's kind of like Rogue one where you start off and you know these heroes won't make it, but you want to see how they go out, and it would do. It was truly, um a beautiful experience. I don't want to say cinematic again, even though it was. I feel like I'm saying cinematic too many times times. But it was a beautiful experience that I truly, truly uh. I hope everyone gets a chance to play now that Master Chief collection is out on PC. Now let's talk about some movies here. In two thousand ten, we had the release of Kick Ask, which who the comic was fired and so was the movie. The movie I think really tightened up some parts of the comic that you know, just weren't I guess you could say kosher. And I think now the movie doesn't hold up as well, but I truly did enjoy it, and I think that was a big moment for superhero movies because it also kind of invited the idea of superhero movies outside of the now successful m c U formula. I gotta put some respect on Scott Pilgrim's name because that also came out in two thousand ten, which was truly a fun movie, and the comic is super fun. If you haven't checked it out yet, might I suggest you do it too. Thousand and eleven was a big year. I was talking about the m c U, and I think this was the one that solidified the formula because on July nineteenth, two thousand and eleven, we had Captain America, the first Avenger, good old Chris Evans stepping up to the plate and solidifying himself as Steve Rogers. I mean he had the body, he had the I mean he really This was the watching Captain America was truly the first time I I knew it was gonna work because Captain America was a tricky character to do because he's very much like Superman in the sense that he's corny, he's easy. He wants the best in people. But if you can get someone who can get you to believe in that, who can get you to believe in justice, faith and not be jaded about it, then you have your Steve Rogers. And I think Chris Evans nailed that. And you know in this you know it's good to revisit it because you know he he ends the mantel this decade, you know, as as we got to the end of the end game. But ut this was this first pay and that wasn't two thousand eleven. Also in two thousand eleven we got Thor which honestly, I'm not it was great, but it's it doesn't hold a candle for me. Um. But if we want to talk about things that really stunk, then I'm definitely gonna have to say Green Lantern also came out in two thousand eleven. However, I will give a shout out because I'll always put respect on the Fast series name. Fast five also came out in two thousand eleven, which really was the one that kind of revitalized the series, and I gotta say, truly, it deserves to be on this list. I mean, it's not necessarily the most quote unquote nerdy thing, but I feel like the Fast series is truly turning into a superhero universe when you're watching kind of the way that the movies are going, so truly, uh, truly, I'm gonna hold a point. I'm gonna say it's nerdy, and I think you can be nerdy abou about it. So yeah, Past five two thousand eleven. So in the world of video games, two thousand eleven led to the release of Dark Souls, which Dark Souls has solidified its place as the super try hard if you're really serious about gaming. It's created its own genre, which is now referred to as a Soul's type, which is adventure games that required tight controls, quick reflexes, and is completely unforgiven and without Dark Souls coming into the foray, the sequel to um Demon Souls. Uh, we wouldn't have our Secu dos. We honestly wouldn't even have Jedi Fall in Order because Jedi Jedi f Jedi Fall in Order borrows a lot of things from the soul's type genre. So shout out to Dark Souls in two thousand eleven, unknowingly creating a whole new genre of video games and really blown onto the scene in a exciting way. Also, we had another bio ware hit in two thousand eleven with Dragon Age two. Dragon Age two was the second installment of the dragon Age series and still going good. I mean, this was well if you know where Dragon Age kind of ended up. Even though I am a fan of Inquisition, even though it was critically kind of panned. Uh, dragon Age too really elevated the series in a big way. Beautiful story in the same way that they were telling this artful sci fi masterpiece, they were doing the same thing with Dragon Age in a fantasy setting. And I truly put so many hours in this game, and if you have origin, you should pick it up and give it another replay because it was I think it definitely was one of the breakout games of that year. But speaking of finishing trilogies and so on and so forth. In two thousand eleven, we did have the End of Years of War three, which finally which was the final chapter of that first trilogy. We found and found out we happened with Dom and his wife and we saw it was kind of a heartbreaking into that, but it was a It was a beautiful game, and if you're Gears fan, you really enjoyed it. If you weren't, you did. I mean, I feel like Gears are hit and missed for people, but I did enjoy the trilogy. I thought it was phenomenal, and Gears three definitely is gonna be up there for me. As far as game releases. Also, I do want to shout out some smaller games that came out in two thousand and eleven, which was Bastion, which is an artful indie game. It truly if you haven't played Bastion, it still holds up. You can pick it up. It was developed by Super Giant Games, released on July twenty and it was it's kind of like a fantasy floating themed environment where you're kind of like doing like light platform or work. And I mean the art of this game is just truly gorgeous. It almost uh, it's it's right up there with It reminded me of Braid a lot, which was a puzzle platform er that kind of used a lot of um beautiful backgrounds and such. So if we move forward into two thousand and twelve, we can finally start talking mug games like Dishonored, which was truly so fun. I can't I found Dishonored pretty late in the game, and Dishonored was a game that you could complete it anyway that you wanted it. It follows, you know, it's kind of has the Steam punky you know, vibe. It's by Bethesda, and you can either be stealthy and and like totally go through the game without killing anybody doing non lethal takedowns, or you can do kills, and based on how you do it, uh, it changes the ending. So you're following the story of Corville Atano, who was a bodyguard of the Empress and who was framed for the Empress's murder and now with the exchange of power in the fictional city of Dunwall, it forces him to fight his way to redeem his name and you know, restore the rightful power into the rightful air into power, I guess is what I'm meant to say. And then of course in two thousands welve is where we have the mass Effect three. But you know, like I said, um not wasn't the biggest fan of of that. I mean I was. I guess what I'm trying to say is everyone wasn't the biggest fan, but I was a huge fan of it. I hope you know, let me know. Were you a fan of mass Effect three? Yes? Or no? I know we got a lot of mass Effect heads and the nerd fan so just let me know. In this year, Blizzards and kind of weird hot Water due to the kind of issues that it's kind of having with its support of certain regimes. But in two thousand twelve, Blizzard released Diablo three, and this was interesting because as someone who loves Diablo three didn't really play the prior Diablos, this one was one that you know, kind of was hit or miss for some fans. They did not like how different. It was. For me, I fell in love with the game and just played through it, and then it only got better as time went on, because eventually it led to having its season system and really just pushing the game. I think to new how Nights in the long chevity of that game, just kind of being able to live on definitely got a shout out. In two thousand twelve, Counterstrike Global Offense launched. Uh. I mean before this, people were playing counter Strike Source before that one point five. But Global Offense is the newest iteration of counter Strike and kind of the kind of platform that a lot of e sports used. You know, the s L has been uh, the counter Strike Go League is still alive and well. And I'm still a Fanatics fan, you know, even though they've they've kind of fell off. But back when I was watching seriously Fanatics, we you know, we we were great. So in two thousand twelve was a very big moment for movies because two thousand and twelve is when we got the first Avengers. This was when it all galvanized. This is the moment we've all been waiting for. This is what built that strong MCU foundation and what we would eventually revisit to see how many Easter eggs we can pull out and reuse from this moment. But Avengers comes out. It's a smash hit, a home run, and I I wish I can forget the feelings I felt up until now. It's just to witness Avengers for the first time again, because I remember being so blown to blown away because I didn't think it was possible, yet they pulled it off. Little did I know in about six more years they're gonna blow my mind yet again. But Avengers solid point. And you know, I'm gonna do a quick shout out in two thousand twelve to the Hobbit, even though you know, I'm not the biggest Tolkien fan and you know I I dabbled, but not the biggest Tolkien fan. But the Hobbit did drop and people were messing with that. So two thousand thirteen movies were We're interesting because two thirteen is when we got a Man of Steel. Two thirteen was when we got Iron Man three. So as far as like nerdy movies, uh, you know, it was it was. It was rough. We had the Wolverine. Um, yeah, it was. It was a rough year for movies. I will say the g I. Joe movie was pretty solid, and of course wow, yeah, two thousand thirteen was a rough part of the nerd dom in decade because you have Buckle up, Man of Steel, Iron Man three, four, Dark World. You know, these were all kind of movies The Wolverine that the nerd community just weren't really rocking with, and um and those all came out in two thousand. Even like Kick Ass two wasn't as exciting as Kick As one for me, so it truly truly seemed kind of bleak. But then we had bright spots like movies like Uh, snow Piercer which came out and was pretty dang solid and uh and that was pretty much the breakout for me that year. But it truly it was. It was Hansel and Gretel two thousand and thirteen in in in movies, well, it was something we're gonna look back and be like, yep, that was a thing that happened. However, in video games it was a breakout year because in two thousand and thirteen was when we got Grand Theft Auto five, which was a phenomenal. I can't speak highly enough about how much Grand Theft Auto Five raised the bar. Not only doesn't introduce three main characters, one of them being black, which was you know, we haven't seen a black protagonist since San Andreas. I will say Nicole Belck was fun. I really did enjoy the story of four, but being able to play a black, you know character in a Grand Theft Auto is something that I enjoy. Maybe with six will get some women in there, but five, you know, we're following three protagonists. It's a beautiful story about three three people in crime at in different points of their crime career. So you have Franklin, who's kind of like a newbie to the game. He wants to get involved in big crime stuff, but you know, he's, uh, he's he's he's just trying to figure his way. Then you have Michael, who's like old school, he's in witness protection, knows the game like the back of his hand, but he's trying to stay out of it. And then we introduced later into the game, Uh, Trevor, who's this wild card who just really is is just you can't you can't figure out what he's up to, so much so that even when you switch to his character in the game, you'll end up in random places, sometimes on an island way off from the city, trying to figure out where you're gonna go. And Grand Theft Out of Five also introduced the Grand Theft Auto Online, which is still going strong till this Day. This was released in two thousand thirteen and it's still going strong right now. And Grand Thought and Grand Theft Auto five because you know they it eventually launched like the RP community, so you have g t A r P and like I said, once you put g t A and PC, all the mods give longevity to the game, so even if you wanted to buy it by the game now, you'd still have a community to play with online. Another game that came out in two thousand thirteen, when that's interesting to talk about now because we're going to get the next installment very soon was the Last of Us. Naughty Dog came through and gave us just the most phenomenal video game experience with the Last of Us and UH it truly um It's it follows you know, uh to to uh two main characters, Ellie being escorted by Joel, a smuggler who who who has taken in Ellie and they it's Joel, you know, early in the game, loses his own daughter, so it kind of leads to this father daughter relationship and it just if you haven't played it, definitely pick it up now so you can be ready when part two comes out, which is currently scheduled to come out in a so just just check out Last of Us. It's truly a piece of work of art. And then we also had BioShock Infinite, which I truly enjoyed. It was a very interesting take on the BioShock franchise in the ending. Really, you know, some people like felt some type of way about it. I actually truly loved it because it took something that kind of uh was a constant in in the in the series and flipped it on its head. So definitely, definitely, definitely please check out BioShock Infinite as well. But if you have to choose between that and Last of Us, of course Last of Us. Uh. And we also have The Stanley Parable, which was an indie game that is another game that plays with the format of video games. Check that out. We had the drop of Dota two, which you know, if you listen to our Mobile episode you heard uh Me Danny and producer Dan talking about that, and Injustice God's among Us, which actually was a solid fighting game. The community couldn't really the fighting game community really couldn't build off of it. That was a fighting game that Sonic Fox was actually dominating it, but the community just wasn't there, so it kind of fell off. Also, I want to shout out war Frame, a free to play game that came out in two thousand, probably one of the best free to play games ever just that period, point blank. We're gonna go through the rest of the decade, but right now, we just need to take a quick break. So why don't you just uh go grab a glass of water. I'll see you in a bit and we're back doing everyone. How's it going. It's your boy if he and we're going through the best of the decade, and we've been going through the best things and nerd them. We've been primarily talking about video games and movies, so I'm probably gonna have to go back towards the end of this to really talk about stuff that happened on TV as well. But but that's gonna be more Hopscotch Hopping. Around two fourteen released one of my favorite game franchises at the time. It was rocky, but eventually it came around to be a solid game, which was Destiny. Uh Destiny dropped and it and you know, like I said, it's it was kind of rocky year one and then, but the excitement was there. It kind of fell off. And then year two when Taking King was released, everyone was hyped about the game. It was great, and then we ran into Destiny too, and it seemed like it was the same kind of issues. But you know, it'd be like that sometimes truly a good time time. But two thousand and fourteen I definitely got a shout out tighten Fall. Titan Fall is a solid if you like Max and you like shooters, titan Fall was that franchise, But titan Fall was one of those franchisees that were that was plagued with like being smushed between too many games and it kind of fell by the wayside. Uh. Actually, titan Fall one actually I think had a good push, but it just really kind of had trouble finding its footing. But it had a strong community that wrote it out, and I think truly is one of the most innovative games that have that came out because it really did kind of take shooters and kind of want to go in a different direction with them. And then, of course in two thousand and fourteen, we also got Divinity Original Sin, which is probably one of the most solid RPG franchises out. It's good and if if we want to talk about solid RPG franchises. I'm also going to give a shout It's a Banner Saga, which so came out in two thousand fourteen. Good times all around as far as movies go. We had this was this was we were back to the hits because we had Lego movie come out, which was phenomenal, Captain America Winter Soldier, which is on a lot of people's lists as the best Captain America. They really like that, and then Guardians of the Galaxy, which which was great. So you had Captain America, Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy coming out, truly dominating the year as probably some of the most talked about movies. I mean, Winter Soldier reintroducing Bucky. It was so fun and got all the hubbub excited because we knew that Bucky eventually becomes Cap in the comics. And we'll get tomorrow on that later. But it was truly an exciting time for movies, which led us to two thousand fifteen, and you know two there were lots of you know, I could I could talk about some some good and like we said, we had you know, um, Dragon Ball, super Roly, but the breakout film of I mean, in two thousand fifteen, we had Dragon Ball Super coming back out. The breakout film of that year was mad Max Fury Road, a movie that I saw in the theaters probably three times. It was so solid and it was interesting because in the world of all these different you know, uh, reboots and what have you. You know, we had Jurassic World come out and it really didn't hit like it wanted to. I feel like Mad Max Fury Road nailed it, like just top to bottom, and then Pepper. Throughout the year, we have things like ant Man coming through, and then we had the second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, which some people felt some type of way, and then we had Creed as well, which this is very important because I feel like Creed was the movie because we already had Fruit val Station, but Creed was the movie that solidified Googler as just a undefeated director, and that I feel like it is what led to him being the director of choice for Black Panther. So very great, super exciting, good year, you know, and just reminder, we're going through the best of nerdy things. So just I know you might be listening to what why aren't you talking about this movie? In this movie, I'm talking about the nerdy stuff. You know. There there have been great movies besides that, but I'm I'm sticking to the nerdy things. But in two thousand fifteen, and video games was very important too, because we had h one z one released their Battle Rayal, which would be the thing that leads to both Player Unknown Battlegrounds and Fortnite. This is this is this is the beginning. It's very buggy at this time. It's not really popping off like that. But h one z one did release, and it becomes it's gonna be it's it's gonna be something new, uh to watch out for when you when it gets when it gets polished. But the other games we also had that year was Fallout four, which I truly enjoy. But oh boy, I think the game of the year that kind of took over in two thousand fifteen has to be The Witcher three Wild Hunt. This was the third entry, third and I think final entry to the Witcher trilogy. Truly beautiful story, fun game play. It was so solid. It's such a solid entry. It took me a re visit to really understand how good it was because it kind of was like it's kind of difficult if you're not if you're not really on your stuff. But which are three Wild Hunt really knocked it out, ended up taking home so many game of the years. But you also had the release of Rocket League, which was such a simple yet innovative concept which was just soccer with cars, and that took off and still to this day has a large community. We also had dragon Balls Universe, but there's another dragon Ball game that kind of I think takes the place of the dragon Ball game. So but you know, that was at the time we thought it was great. As far as the indie game shout out, I definitely want to shot up bro Verse bro Force, which was an indie game side scroller that lets you play as these kind of classic, uh, these classic like action heroes. Two thousand sixteen is a wonderful time to be a nerd because we got not only Doctor Strange, not only Captain America Civil War, not only Rogue one, but we also got Deadpool. But we also did get Suicide Squad in Batman v. Superman, which you know, some some people might be into it, me not at all. Uh. We had the Warcraft movie Come and Go. I mean it did well in China. I necessarily didn't hate it that much, but that's because I knew enough about the warcraft lore that it filled in. But we also had the Assassin's Creed come and flop as well. You know, lots, I think there were lots of hits and misses in two thousand six Um X Men Apocalypse, you know, it really was all. Two thousand and sixteen was one of those where it's all over the place because the highs were high, but the lows definitely were low. I mean Deadpool. I think it's the biggest one to talk about here because, like I said, at this point in in the m c U, they're established as hits, Like we know they're gonna be good. We know what to expect. We didn't know what to come from Deadpool. There was a lot of fan outcry when people passed on the animatic that was going around online. The fans went crazy. Till this day. We don't know if maybe that was part of the plan, maybe they leaked it on purpose to see if there was, you know, a want for this. But either way, Ryan Reynolds becomes Deadpool and you know, not the version that we saw in the Wolverine and It truly did show us that not only are we in an era where we can enjoy nerdy comic book movies, but we can make some stuff just for the adults and Deadpool. We It was highly anticipated, it came out, did well, and everyone got excited. It truly was a fun time to be a nerd and thinking back, I was like, yeah, two thousand and sixteen, that was a great year in video games. We had titan Fall two, which unfortunately came out during the releases of Battlefield one and I think a new Call of Duty and just unfortunately it was looked over. It was a solid game until this day, I still uh, I still still still am very angry that it didn't get the respect it deserved. But that led to them eventually making the uh eventually making the the game Apex Legends, So you know, through the dust and fire, we did get something great. You know. Verse two also came out. Uh so yeah, so we had the release of battle Born Overwatch and then one other Overwatch style game that also did not do as well as Overwatch in two thousand sixteen, and I can't believe we almost missed it for some reason. Whoever made this uh, this Releaseless put some disrespect on Overwatch his name. But yeah, Overwatch definitely came came out and crushed. As far as television, I gotta put some respect. My hero Academia came out and this was on April third of two thousand and sixteen. We had my hero Academia or book you know, hero depending on who you're talking about, which you know, I am late to the game on but man, oh man, am I loving it now? Speaking of heroes, two thousand seventeen was another great year for heroes. Why because not only do we get great Marvel movies like thor Ragnarok, but also we had Wonder Woman which knocked, which showed us that DC can in fact create dope movies, you know. Uh. We also had The Last Jedi, which rocked my socks. I I was a fan of it once again. It's one of those that it you know, some people in our miss But we also did have Spider Man Homecoming, which was a big moment because all this time we didn't have any Spider Man's, no Spider Man's but we did see Spider Man in Civil War and now we got our movie and then Guardians of the Galaxy volume two dropped as well. All around, it was definitely great, and of course the second john Wick came out, which really did heighten from the first john Wick and take us to a whole new level of killing people. I guess that's the best one we could say. We also got Logan as well, so not only are we getting good Spider movies, good good DC movies, but finally some good X movies. And once again it followed the same formula of Deadpool, of being like, Okay, we're going to take something and uh make it. We're gonna take this comic book property and make it adult, and it kind of followed that old man Logan style and it really did nail it, so good job for them. We also got the Chumaji movie, which was a surprise breakout hit, and of course, if I'm gonna talk about john Wick two, I definitely want to talk about Charlie their own an Atomic Blonde, which was so solid. It was basically Lady john Wick, and I was all for it. It was so good. I if you haven't seen Atomic Blonde, definitely check that out, because I did. I definitely think it's worth checking out if if if you're into that, some flops. We had Dark Tower UM and uh Bright. Oh man, I almost forgot about Bright. There was there was a world I lived in before reading that where I thought where I forgot Bright even existed. But then we also got it as well. So all in a two thousand seventeen was a solid year. Two thousand seventeen and video games too was very interesting because we got uh Fortnite. Fortnite Battle Royale was dropped, you know as a fluke alongside uh, alongside you know, the the Save the World version, which ended up becoming a huge hit. As far as other video games, you know, we had the Legend of Zelda, Breadth of the Wild, drop phenomenal Horizon zero Down, Destiny to which ran into the same first year issues as the first uh Destiny hell Blades, soon as Sacrifice, which the sequel was just announced at the Video Game Awards a few weeks ago. And uh we also had the uh Dishonored DLC, which featured a woman of color, uh, which was cool. You know, so some people are like, oh, if you're it's cool to me. Star Wars Battlefront two had a shaky release, but now once again that's another game that kind of came out now and is pretty solid and worth checking out now because they definitely did a great job of fixing all the issues that people were having with it. We had Red Dead, Redemptions to come out in video games this is last year now, Spider Man, Marvel Spider Man the video games Solid, God of War Solid. These are all hits, Smash Ultimate and then of Horse, the definitive Dragon Ball Z game, Dragonball Fighter Z, which you know is super fun. You heard me whining about it, but you know it's there were there were issues, but in the end, I think it's a solid fighter flops Fallout seventy six. You also have Sea of Thieves, which is up going pretty strong too. I mean, I'm not really into it, but I definitely see y'all in the discord talking about it, so I'm gonna shout it out just for y'all, but though, but I think the big, the big games worth talking about is gonna be Dragonball Fighter Z, Spider Man, Red Dead, Redemption to uh and of course for me, Monster Hunt a World. As far as movies go, I'm just gonna give a moment of silence because on February six, my life changed. Black Panther was released It was a film that captured my favorite superhero and ran with it and nailed. Shout out to Ryan Coogler, shout out to Chadwick Boseman, Shout out to everyone making this beautiful thing come to life. And I mean two thousand and eighteen was we got Avengers Infinity War, which left everyone just in shambles after the snap. We had Incredibles to come come through. We had Spider Man into the Spider Verse. We had Aquaman which not as bad as people say, same thing with Venom, yes they did blow their load and not you know, and and like tease Carnage even though we kind of saw like a version of carnage in there. And then we had Deadpool two. You know, so all these things, yet somehow green Book one, I was taking all those things over. Green Book winning Solo came out as well. It was. It was truly, and we had the ant Man in the Wasp. Truly, this was a solid year for Nerdy movies. It probably out of all the years that we've talked about, beyond like a lot of the kind of intro stuff that came through, I think two thousand eighteen might be the most solid year of Nerdy movies, because it's just like the strong entry of the strong entry of like you know, Black Panther, and you had Aquabam, which isn't that bad. I'm gonna jump with some respect on Aquaman ant Man in the Wasp, you know, and and Avengers Infinity War which lobbed everyone up, and then of course into the Spider Verse. Solid solid. I need everybody to know how solid it was. This year in movies was interesting for because we did get Captain Marvel, which was amazing. We got In Game which was amazing. Far From Home also amazing. You know. Unfortunately we had Dark Phoenix, but Shazam also came out this year. Wild Sorry it blows me away that Shusam came out this year in April. I we went through the whole there's movie, so many movies that came out this year. Detective Pikachu, you know, the Angry Verse two movie, which I will still to this day say, was surprisingly extremely funny. Like I I challenge you now that it's probably out on video and all that, check it out. Tell me tell me if I was right, you know, Like, what do you think Lego movie too? Yeah? This was such a solid movie year. Um, just as far as nerdy movies go, but in game, you know obviously probably is going to have the crowd. I mean, I wouldn't even movie. I wouldn't movie the Year, and maybe I wouldn't because Far from Home I think really did uh elevate I mean, in game wrapped it up, but Far from Home I think elevated the series to a point that gets me excited for the next one. And I'm glad they worked everything out. But also we had in video games Death Stranding, Jedi Jedi, Fallen Orders, Sword and Shield, Borderlands three, shinmu Uh, like so many solid games, Second Oh, Shadows, Dietract, Kingdom Hearts three came out this year, Gears five, like so many. We are at the point where, like I think we've caused a snowball of nerdy stuff, that so many nerdy things are coming out that it's gonna be hard. I think you have to find now Apex Legends came out this year. You have to find your favorite thing and rock with it, because now we're in a wealth of of delicious nerdy things. I truly, I I truly am excited. But you know, we're gonna take one last break and then when we get back, We'll go through some of the best television of the decade. Uh, and and and and wrap it up see all in a bit and welcome back. So we've been going through the best of the decade. But man oh man, we have a whole We have so much more time to talk about stuff, but we don't have much time left. So I'm gonna try and fit as much of the best TV of the decade as I can into this segment, which is Game of Thrones. Even though we didn't like the ending, it was a great ride and great experience. Breaking Bad came out this decade, which was probably the best TV viewing experience I had. Or yeah, on, let me see, maybe it ended this eve. Yeah, Breaking Bad end at this decade. It started outside in in January two thousand and eight, but it ended in two thousand thirteen, which probably was the best ending of a TV series quite some time, because it's kind of a lot of people can't dismount. I feel like Parks and Rex started a little bit outside of the decade, uh, starting in April nine of two thousand nine, but ended February two thousand fifteen, which was one of the greatest comedy television shows. I think that has been out. We got Rick and Morty this decade, Black Mirror started in two thousand and eleven, Fargo, True Detective, there were so much, so much. We had the Expanse, Start Ships, Creek, Brooklyn nine nine. These are all phenomenal shows that I can't really get too deep into because I'm just wrapping it up. Mr Robot, Crazy Ex Girlfriend and uh, you know, Glee ended in two thousand fifteen, so and Bob's Burgers started. There's so many amazing television shows that started in this decade and ended in this decade. Stranger Things, So that was the best of the decade. I think I got most of it. I'm sure I missed some stuff, but definitely what I want to hear your best of the decade? Uh, just tweet at me. Let's do um hashtag for this. Let's say uh hashtag Nerdificent decade. And I'm gonna make it harder for you. What do you think is the best nerdy thing that came out this decade? Nerdificent decade? And uh, you know, at the top of the year when we get back, we'll read some talk about it for a bit before we jump into the episode, But thanks for listening. It's been super fun. I you know, we we went through the TV, we went through you know, there's there's just so we are in probably the golden age of being a nerd because there's so much media coming out for us. There was a fun thing piece that came out that said nerds are no longer the underdog, and I truly believe it. I think there's so much space, so like, go forth, make nerdy stuff and just nerdy stuff, and of course stop all gatekeepers. Nerd them is for everyone, so always make space for everyone to fit. And if you see anyone trying to exclude anyone, stop it. Like they said, p J Mask, it's time to be a hero. Step up. Let's get rid of the gatekeepers. 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