DwarfCast 126 – Cured Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 22nd January 2021, 15:33 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes As we sit here and hope beyond hope that 2021 will bear as little resemblance to 2020 as humanly possible, here at G&T we're looking to replicate at least one element from the last 12 months: lots of regular DwarfCasts. Whether you think this is a good thing or not is entirely another matter, but never-the-less Ian, Danny and Cappsy have once again gathered to power through the commentaries for Dave Dwarf with Series XII, episode 1, Cured. Read more →
DwarfCast 125 – Book Club #7: Better Than Life (Part Four) DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 24th December 2020, 15:24 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes We did it, everyone. Almost an entire year of consistent podcasting and all it took was a global pandemic and stay at home orders to make it happen. I even bought a proper microphone. So, in a very nice accident of timing, we are rounding out the year with our final book club for Better Than Life, Part 4: The End and After. Danny, Ian and Cappsy gather round the virtual yule log to discuss the shit out of 12 whole pages, before fully embracing the Christmas cheer with some truly awful parsnip waffles. Read more →
DwarfCast 124 – Can of Worms Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 18th December 2020, 13:29 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes It's time for our DwarfCast commentary for the final episode of Red Dwarf XI, Bag of Shite: Polymorph 3. So, before I open the particular can of worms of what we thought about this episode a little too much, please go and listen and find out for your selves what our general feelings towards this episode 4 years after its initial broadcast are. As ever the sentient soundwaves that make up Ian, Cappsy and Danny are present as we put series XI to bed, while digging into their own tasty bedtime snack of waffles. Read more →
DwarfCast 123 – Book Club #6: Better Than Life (Part Three) DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 9th December 2020, 14:04 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes I know we said we'd be back soon but just count yourself lucky we only made you wait an extra week and not almost 40 years. As we get very close to finishing Better Than Life, join the pale, waxy figures of Cappsy, Danny and Ian as they enter The Book Club Time and are after feasting on Part Three: Garbage World. What are the long term narrative implications of Garbage World? Is Polymorph a show to book conversion too far? What could possibly be next for the poor giraffe? For those of you not of a nervous disposition, listen on and find out. Read more →
DwarfCast 122 – Krysis Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 20th November 2020, 12:59 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes It's time for a new DwarfCast so grab the keys to your new sports car, leave your partner for someone younger, buy a new wardrobe of designer clothes, spend too much money on sunglasses, trade in your sports car for a motorbike, give an unsolicited shoulder massage to an acquaintance, tell everyone about your eclectic music taste, retweet Emma Kennedy, get a tribal tattoo, have your bits pierced, be a sex tourist in East Asia, trade in your motorbike for a different sports car, stick a deck chair up your nose, go see Ricky Gervais stand-up, sit alone at a nightclub bar, launch an ill fated music career, vote Lib Dem, place your best cloche on your head and listen to our commentary for Krysis... Read more →
DwarfCast 121 – Book Club #5: Better Than Life (Part Two) DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 13th November 2020, 11:02 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes Sit down, get comfy, put on your favourite Paul Robeson track and blow the dust off your, er, dust covers because we're back with another Book Club! Join the emaciated husks of Danny, Ian and Cappsy as they tackle Better Than Life Part Two: She Rides and discuss the first ever instance of the show stealing from the books as well as the very meaning of relative time dilation in an amazingly compressed space. And giraffes. Read more →
DwarfCast 120 – Officer Rimmer Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 27th October 2020, 13:52 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes After a bit of a rest we're back with another commentary, continuing to mercilessly cleave through the the Dave era. Next on our hit list is Officer Rimmer, and whether or not we can get over the fact that it ended way too abruptly and actually talk about the episode itself is something you will have to discover yourself by listening, but what I will tell you that our commentary is followed by another edition of Waffle Men in which we delve into the history of telethons and logos. Read more →
DwarfCast 119 – Book Club #4: Better Than Life (Part One) DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 22nd October 2020, 11:26 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes In what will surely test the very limits of the phrase "worth the wait" we're back with our DwarfCast Book Club (patent applied for)! After a short break, Ian, Danny and Cappsy are ready and willing to dive into Better Than Life; starting, uncontroversially, with Part 1: Game Over as our time in the deadly TIV comes to an end. Read more →
DwarfCast 118 – Give & Take Commentary DwarfCasts Posted by Jonathan Capps on 24th September 2020, 11:32 Subscribe to DwarfCasts: RSS • iTunes Are you ready for some hot G&T on G&T action? Well, ready or not Ian Symes, Danny Stephenson and Jonathan Capps are here to perform life altering surgery on your astonished ears and find out whether Give & Take really is the best episode of the series. As if that isn't enough, be sure to stick around after the main feature to be treated to another edition of Waffle Men, especially if you're a fan of unnecessarily long chats about food. Read more →
Simulants’ Revenge – Full Playthrough Features Posted by Jonathan Capps on 19th September 2020, 14:41 EDIT (21/09): Thanks to MiloScat (double thanks, in fact, since he was the one to get us looking into the same in the first place) we've very quickly discovered that the version we play here is in fact a medium fidelity version and there's at least a high and low fidelity version. We've now repackaged the downloads to include these versions. This also clears up speculation in the video and in this article regarding the visuals, as the high fidelity version seems to have all the visual features seen in the screenshots. Back in 2003, TOS and a company called Blue Beck launched the first ever official Red Dwarf game, Simulants' Revenge. Billed as the first of a "host" of new games, it would sadly be the only example of its kind and the only official game to be made for the next decade plus. It was made for the then prominent mobile platform J2ME (if you had a phone in the early to mid 2000s that produced actual colour images it was probably running this platform) but it quickly fell off the face of the earth as GNP's short lived foray into the mobile space was put on ice. After a question submitted to an episode of DwarfCasts piqued our interests we promptly tracked down a copy to fill a 17 year gap in our collective knowledge, so we can now present to you a full run through of the game with colour commentary from Jonathan Capps, Danny Stephenson and Ian Symes... Read more →
