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Hopped-Up Gaming
by HUG Crew
Join the Hopped-Up Gaming crew on our weekly podcast that encapsulates the things that run our life - liquor, video games, film, and popular culture.
Episodes
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Episode 154: What The Hell Is Mana, Anyways
What happens on Draenor stays on Draenor. This week the HUG crew get all up in the guts of fantasy/sci-fi universes, spending more time than is physician recommended discussing the latest news in the Warcraft, Star Wars, and Halo Universes. We also drink beer and make fun of each-other's…
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Episode 163: Calm, Reasoned Debate
Who would've thought putting six people in a room full of beer and asking them to all decide on the 'Best' video game of the year would lead to contention. It's out Hopped-Up Gaming Game of the Year deliberations, which is a fancy way of saying a bunch of nerds drank beer and yelled at each…
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Episode 162: 2015 in Video Games, Alcoholism
We equally celebrate our mutual antagonism and our love for video games this episode, with our favourite individual games of 2015! The full HUG family sits down by the virtual fire, drinks a lot of different beers, and talks for far too long about video games. Beer of the Week: The Phillip's...
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Episode 161: The Requisite Star Wars Episode
If you don't like Star Wars, then we apologize in advance. This week, we celebrate the last day of the year by endlessly discussing The Force Awakens. Our likes, dislikes, questions, quibbles, and everything in-between. If you've somehow not seen the film yet and managed to avoid any spoilers we…
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Episode 160: Sleepy Holiday Podcast
In a match against Superman and Solid Snake, the true losers are the people arguing. Kelly and Norris have somehow managed to survive last week's Metal Gear Marathon, and so with the holiday season fast approaching and most of our regulars screwing off to be with 'family', or 'friends,' we have…
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Episode 159: Zipper Threats and Undertale
Don't fool yourself Timmy, if a zipper could it would kill you and everyone you cared about. This week is all about our game of the month, Undertale! With opinions ranging from gushingly positive to outright dismissal, we have a full range of reactions and emotions. It's almost like a real...
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Episode 158: Anti-ISIS Pokemon Strats
This week, the gang determines that if the chips were down, they could probably individually take Palmer Luckey in a fight. And by that I mean we discuss the latest and greatest events from The Game Awards, The Playstation Experience, and the Capcom Cup! We also taste Mike's latest batch of...
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Episode 157: The Original Steam Machine
This week the gang argues about children's cartoons, discuss their undiagnosed medical maladies, and the existence of steam-powered computers. There's also discussion on the new Bloodborne DLC, discuss where we're at in Fallout, Kelly realizes he doesn't know where Boston is, and we put together...
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Episode 156: Ben Kenobi Is The Worst Cover Name
We're all up in this podcast like Mr. Bean's up in his turkey. We hear some dissenting points on Undertale from Matt, discuss the pros and cons of putting a bayonet on a rocket launcher, and ask where the cast of Friends must be now. There's a lot of Fallout talk as well this week, while Kelly…
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Episode 155: Say My Name, Codsworth
If dreams are the window to the soul, everyone on this podcast has some serious, serious issues. The gang isn't sure if they're nonplussed this week about all the beer and video game happenings, though they are sure they have some words for Fallout 4. There's also talk about the overlap between...
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Episode 153: Ted Cruz Has A Punchable Face. Also Video Games
You know it was a good Halloween when you're considered a public nuisance. On this episode of HUG the gang talks about surviving their All Hallows Eve, has a childish argument about Mario games, and discusses their plan to take Matt on a spiritual gaming awakening. We also gush about blind speed...
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Episode 152: Don't Punch Teens They're Just Doing Their Job
We're winding down the spookiest Rocktober you've ever seen this week, coming in live with talk on Ray J's current whereabouts, Mike's home brewing tips, and our plan to get into the moonshining business. Other topics include the proper definition of a divekick, how crazy video game archivists…
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Episode 151: Halo 5 Is Frog Fractions 2
Last month all we talked about was Metal Gear, this month it's flat earth memes. Who said people can't change. This week we talk about Undertale, cool hip hop lingo, Destiny's siren call, tentative Halo 5 excitement, how cross-generational games somehow still exist, how nobody cares about...
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Episode 150: Patrick O' Pumpkin Must Die
On this episode, we argue the top ten types of pies! You *won't believe* what the number one is! Also we learn that Patrick O'Pumpkin is a corrupt ne'er-do-well, we discuss ham poisoning, and how our future involves eating potatoes on Mars. Speaking of Mars, there's talk on The Martian this...
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Episode 149: Metal Gear Hangover
We survive centipede attacks this week to get you the final, exhausted word on Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain. But first, we discuss the phantom beauty of Channing Tatum in Magic Mike XXL, and just how great in general movies involving nude dudes are. Be warned, from the 21:30 point to the end…
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Hopped-Up Spoilers: Batman Arkham Knight
Chris, Dave, and Emery come together to rap about Batman: Arkham Knight in this spoilerific podcast about everyone's favourite caped crusader. Caution: If you haven't played Batman: Arkham Knight and don't want to be spoiled, this may not be for you.
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Episode 148: Don't Compare Cormac McCarthy to Metal Gear
This week, to try and confuse anyone brave enough to listen, we decided that this podcast needed seven people on at once. Topics of discussion include post-modern music, post-modern art, post-modern metal gear, bad Mario Maker design, rom hacking video games, and ponies fighting ponies. Beer of…
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Episode 147: Prime Ministers Love Pork
Only on Hopped-Up Gaming can the topic change from the British head of state having sex with livestock to a definition of bioinformatics. We're like a thinking man's idiot here on Hopped-Up Gaming. This week, we discuss - shocker of shockers - more Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain. Norris also...
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Episode 146: Mr Bizkit Was My Father's Name
This week, we bring to the table some revolutionary new reality television ideas, including puppets, snow, bikinis, and murder. Afterwards we discuss the initial planning stages for our burgeoning space program, how standing robots are clearly better designed than crouching robots, and then barf...
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Episode 145: Metal Gear Facts
Check your temperature and your nanomachines because this week the gang's got Metal Gear Fever! Whether its discussing horses pooping on faces or your helicopter's preferred intro music, we get down to the true heart of The Phantom Pain. We also discuss our group outing escaping from a broken...
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Episode 144: Friends Don't Let Friends Midnight Release
We debate this week the pros and cons of going to a Metal Gear Solid V midnight release, discuss Norris's experience at PAX, and how we may be too old for PAX these days. Matt also describes his descent into Icewind Dale 2, which devolves into us just gushing about old RPGs for a while. Dave goes...
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Episode 143: The Gang Tells Her Story
We open up this week with what the people have been clamouring for: newgrounds hentai flash game stories. We also discuss live-streaming game development, and awful personal impediments to workplace productivity. We also talk a whole bunch about Her Story, our game of the month! Starting at 19:50...
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Episode 142: Neverending Demi Lovato Nightmares
This week we bring on local casual games all-star Jenna to tell us all the hottest new strats for pretending to be a Disney pop princess. Before that though we talk about lavender beer, Batman addictions, and the definition of Horse. Emery finds us the worst fan fiction of all time, and we all...
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Episode 141: Why Can't I Vape my Food?
We start this week's episode reading a letter from the criminally insane, only to realize that the truly crazy was us all along. We then discuss Lego video games' nonsense lore, Resident Evil's nonsense lore, and the Republican Primary debate's nonsense lore. There's some questions on who the…
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Episode 140: There is No 'Get F**ked' Button
We all rolled out of bed this week and decided to record a podcast about video games, in particular about Rising Thunder, Her Story, and our horrible decision to bring back Game of the Month. We must've been tired, because we also ended up talking about the new Hearthstone expansion, Konami...
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Episode 139: The Fast and Furious Cast
We watched all seven Fast and Furious films in one day. And documented it. Witness our modern-day 'Heart of Darkness' as grown men are broken and reshaped into American muscle cars, going one quarter-mile at a time.
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Episode 138: Enter Grease Wilder
EVO is hype! Video games are hype! Podcasting is hype! Get hype with us too as we discuss the EVO 2015 Street Fighter Finals, Soylent energy replacement, and how Norris needs to stop asking about fighting game stories. We also bid our fond farewell to the Paul Blart(s) of Jurassic World, get…
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Episode 137: Normal, DOA, or Extreme Podcasting
Episode 137: Normal, DOA, or Extreme Podcasting This episode of Pumped-Up Gaming contains neither aspartame nor macros, but what it does contain is a lot of sweet sweet EVO talk! Within that, we discuss Street Fighter 4's last hurrah, Mad Catz's traitorous sponsorship practices, and where we we...
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Episode 136: Video Games Are(n't) Sexy
On this week of Hopped-Up Gaming we've got - you guessed it - sexy video games! With special guest Jalyn Euteneier we discuss the horrors of laugh tracks, science fiction super sports, and Second Life's Housing Bubble. And because we can't help but discuss our favourite topic, we discuss…
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Episode 135: Starring The Rock in a Giant Lizard Suit
This week, with our special guest Kelly Wright, Unity programmer extraordinaire, we talk about everyone's favourite hot-button issue: sexy video games. We also expound on our love for bad Resident Evil writing, get all in-depth with Batman: Arkham Knight, and talk about how, really, someone…
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Episode 134: Some Things Never Change
This week our very own Dr. Bill resurfaces, with stories to tell about our technological hell-future, before getting into what truly matters: non-canon Dragon Ball Z storylines. We also catch up with what everyone's been playing, end up talking about E3, and then discuss the same damn games we've...
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Episode 133: The Gang Gets Drunk, Eats Cheese, and Watches E3
We're downright RAMBUNCTIOUS for E3 this week, with a throw-down on everything we saw from the Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and Sony conferences. We discuss also gaming's burgeoning gore renaissance, Microsoft's techy future goggles, EA's insufferable boredom, Ubisoft's outright insanity…
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Episode 132: Don't Send Your Kids to Crusader Kings Camp
We drink bad beer this episode. We talk about exciting video games this episode. We discuss more comic books this episode. And we cross the boundaries of good taste in this episode. Listen to this episode. Hosts: Chris Norris, Emery, Dave, Vince, Mike Drink of the Week: Red Racer Maple Bacon Ale...
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Episode 131: Your Guide to Electronic Music
It's another installment of your favourite weekly 90's electronica podcast! We've got all your favourite Intelligent Dance Music hits, including some hot new Cybergoth and Deep House bangers. Wait, those two might be the same thing? Screw it. This week discuss the deception that is non-alcoholic...
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Episode 130: Four White Guys Talking in a Room
Welcome to another episode of four white guys talking in a room! Where we bring you the latest and greatest on: our misspent university education, our pilfering of liquidating book stores, our opinions on media studies, and how our love of craft beer can only be defeated by our lack of will to…
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Episode 129: The Gang Tries to Grow Up
Welcome to the best video game podcast that hates video games, where this week we discuss tactical fashion, fruity-tasting beer, and self-depreciating superhero names. We also go into some depth about this week's topic, of our changing attitude towards video games as we grow into quasi-adults…
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Episode 128: A Meal Replacement Podcast
We take a stand against the tyranny of the bathroom on this episode of HUG, by all pledging our allegiance to the Shake Life. We also discuss our feelings on the new Avengers movie, our excitement for Mad Max, and our anticipation for Fallout 4's almost certain E3 announcement. Norris also admits...
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Episode 127: Some Rando Thoughts About Marvel
Episode 127: Some Rando Thoughts About Marvel We discover the potential economic impacts of reaching peak-Pratt this week on HUG, and also give our insightful opinion on Youtube eating challenge videos, and decide that going to see Avengers 2 is more important than recording a full episode. So...
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Episode 126: Papa Cicerone's Olde-Style Sportsman Podcasteria
Rated a solid 81 by esteemed podcast vintners, it's your favourite internet radio show about things that are and are not sports, high school football films, and internet anger. This week we delve into the relationship between football films and cult indoctrination, we discuss Valve's future plans...
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Episode 125: Make Dunking an Olympic Sport
Episode 124: Making Dunking an Olympic Sport We press 'F' this week to pay respects to the truest American artform: basketball dunks. With special guest Keir Miron, programmer for The Darkest Dungeon and noted basketball historian, we continue our path into sports madness by giving the NBA…
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Episode 124: NHL Playoff Primer 2015: Do You Even Bandwagon?
We all come down with a bad case of hockey fever this week, as we turn our ever-open gaze onto the beautiful game of ice puck. With the 2015 season at a close, and the playoffs starting the day of this release, we take some time to break down and discuss this years' playoffs: the teams, the...
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Episode 123: Hopped-Up Sexual Education
We had to throw something together at the last minute this week, so we sit down and talk about the Bill's interaction with public school high school sex ed. Man I hope that sounds less weird to you than it does to me. We also go back to talking about video games, because we had nothing else…
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Episode 122: Paranoid Fantasies Part Two
We conclude our depraved spiral into shoddily-painted fantasy madness this week, as our stalwart heroes beat up people who look kind of like goblins, set themselves on fire, kill each other repeatedly (both accidentally and on purpose), and as a general rule make everything they touch just a…
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Episode 121: Paranoid Fantasies Part One
This week we put on a show! Stay awhile and listen while we spin you a tale of adventure, deceit, and indefensible murder as we play Paranoia, the tabletop game where everyone's out to get you including yourself. This is Part One of our two-part series, as we play through our own take on a cult...
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Episode 120: Ernest Joins a Radical Terrorist Group
In keeping with our evolution, transitioning away from silly video games and into discussion topics far out of our breadth and scope, today dear readers we're going to be shedding some light on the history of ISIS. If we're not all killed first. We discuss their origins within the Middle East…
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Episode 119: I For One Welcome Our New Sexy Robot Overlords
I was also debating the title 'How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robot Dong' for this episode. We're talking about robots today! From using the Voight-Kampff test to determine which of us is an android, to the numerous robot-controlled dystopias, to our sexy, sexy robot future. It gets a...
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Episode 118: I Tweeted The Best Minds of My Generation
We start this week in already live and in action, and dive right into how social media has created a daily hell from which we can never escape. And then we talk about hockey. I mean I guess video games come up *eventually* but who even plays video games anymore, right? How 90's. On the Show…
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Episode 117: I Don't Think You Can Just "Give" A Fleshlight
This week, the gang realizes they're all still children who hate fancy food and love poop jokes. We find out how Dave's body rejects fancy food, how Matt is unsuitable for command, and how downloading a tool to automatically play cookie clicker is the saddest of all performance art. We also…
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Episode 116: Things Bad Teens Do
This week, we analyze with our keen minds the year's greatest television spectacle - when Law and Order SVU met Gamergate. Also, we argue over which of us has worse taste in books, the pros and cons of giving video games as Valentine's Day gifts, and try to solve our utter bewilderment around the...
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Episode 115: Young Adult Fiction
In the midst of making fun of Dave's embarrassing fighting game abilities, we discuss what everyone's talking about these days: YA. Or Young Adult fiction, for the plebs. We also somehow get mired in talking about Entourage, Wachowski films, and just end up talking about the eventual rights of...
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