Nerds Amalgamated
Your weekly dose of nerdy chaos — straight from the Aussie nerdverse. 🎮🍿📺 We’re DJ and The Professor: lifelong geeks breaking down the week in movies, TV, gaming, and pop culture, with a healthy obsession for indie devs, comics, and creators who are shaping the future of fandom. Every week, we serve up: 🎙️ Hot takes and deep dives on what’s blowing up (or bombing) in nerd culture. 🕹️ Spotlights on indie games, comics, and creators — real talk, straight from the people making the stuff we love. 🤓 Science and tech tangents, because being a nerd is more than just fandom — it’s curiosity, and we lean into it. If you’re the friend who can’t stop ranting about patch notes, MCU theories, or why that side quest broke your heart, you’ve found your people. Pull up a chair, grab your headphones, and let’s get nerdy. New episodes every week. Stay chaotic, stay curious.
Episodes
The Protoclone is an android based on human muscles. DJ thinks this thing might be too lifelike, and it's time to call Rick Deckard.
EA are being bought by a consortium of investment firms. Do they still have a future, or will they be killed off?
Tilly Norwood is an AI actress created for the sole purpose of starring in real movies. As any first gen tech, it'll be rubbish, but if you combined Tilly and a Protoclone body, DJ would pro...
A new study tells us all the statistics about Australian gamers. Turns out we're all getting older and less social. We have some theories why.
Dance Dance Revolution can be adapted into a memory trainer for people with dementia, and it actually works to reduce the rate of decline.
A fully AI movie will be presented at Cannes soon, and we expect it to be bad.
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We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can get a 10% discount when you...
Things get wild when Professor and DJ talk about stopping children from accessing in appropriate games.
Warner Bros are suing Midjourney for ripping off their art. With the recent case against OpenAI for pirating books, the precedent might not be on their side.
Science is hard to do objectively. There's always a bias, and good scientists find ways to minimise that. The Nerds talk through creating science to push a narrative, and wh...
Mojang are being sued for breaking the laws of the European Union by changing their terms of service to ban gun mods. Spearheaded by a mod developer, this lawsuit is adjacent to Stop Killing Games but not quite part of it.
Google has announced a plan to block indie developers from publishing apps for Android without giving away their personal details. Professor is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore, and is seriously c...
This week we interviewed Isaac Fox, creator of popular comics like SuccuBUSTED and Cremisi about his new project, The Manti-Corps.
We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com
Astral Tickets Comics
Website - https://www.foxxycomics.com/
Youtube - Astral Ticket Comics - YouTube
Facebook - ATFoxxyComics
Instagram - Izum...
This week we interviewed Savas Savidis about his game Tales of Grimace and what it takes to be a an indie game developer in high school.
We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com
Tales of Grimace The Game
Website - https://www.talesofgrimace.com/
Steam Page - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2223310/Tales_of_Grim...
The famous modder behind the Special K mod has deleted their steam account and written a manifesto about why Steam is evil. We disagree.
The resurrected Direwolves are doing well, and Peter Jackson is promising to bring back the Moa next. Let's just skip straight to the dinosaurs.
Movies used to be based on comics. But now movies are bigger than comics, and people think comics are worse for it.
Stop Killing Games has reached 1 million signatures on the European Citizens Initiative. But the battle isn't won yet. Due to invalid signatures, the petition could use as many extra signatures as it can get.
Microsoft have laid off 9000 people from their gaming division, while also planning for a third party Xbox handheld. Could this be the end of the Xbox hardware?
Killer Whales are not whales, but they are indeed killers. ...
Stop Killing Games has nearly reached its conclusion, unless hundreds of thousands of European gamers come out of the woodwork. Aaaand here they come.
You will soon be able to buy lab grown meat in Australia. Will you eat it?
Duke Nukem is coming to TV. Maybe this icon of the 90s should have been left there though.
We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the ...
This week we're interviewing Neural Forge, creator of the board game Nimbus.
Neural Forge official website
Neural Froge Etsy Store
– NeuralForge - Etsy Australia
Neural Forge Facebook page
Neural Forge Instagram
– Neural Forge (@neural_forge) • Instagram photos and videos
Neural Forge Nimbus Kickstarter
– Nimbus by Neural Forge — Kickstarter
The Switch 2 is not without controversy. The big issues center around hardware ownership. So why are Nintendo getting this wrong?
Happiness is tricky to pin down, but the latest research gives some hints on how to get there.
Years ago, Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra agent. This led to no end of problems for the writers, mostly caused by the fans. Let's hope their next big plot twist goes better.
Nintendo Switch...
Crunchyroll have published a report on anime revealing that a majority of people under 50 watch it. Yet the company still wants growth. What are the implications?
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take Two has some thoughts on the games industry, and they're... interesting. Is he completely out of touch, or is it the kids who are wrong?
A supervolcano might wipe all of us out. The good news is scientists are discovering ways to defuse ...
Wow 250 episodes and we are still going…what an achievement...We would like to thank each and every one of you for being part of this magical journey
Finally, Valve are releasing SteamOS onto third party devices. Is this finally the year of the Linux gaming PC?
The Large Hadron Collider has turned lead into gold through shooting two lead atoms at each other and missing.
Europe has achieved a victory over generative AI dubb...
There's a variety of reasons consoles are getting more expensive instead of cheaper, and they aren't all because of greed. Chips just aren't improving like they used to.
Marvel has a new strategy. Will they finally start making good content?
A new technique from MIT allows scientists to photograph atoms with a microscope. Finally, we can see what they're up to.
Why are consoles getting expensive
A new analysis indicates that subscription gaming has no room to grow. Of course, that won't stop them trying to take away our game ownership.
Humans have been using fire for hundreds of thousand of years. But during the Ice Age, there's a gap in the evidence. What were humans doing with fire during that time?
Netflix's CEO claims that Netflix is saving the movie industry. Of course he would say that. What's the truth?
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At last, the Oscars have added a rule that voters have to watch the movie. Somehow, people are complaining about doing their job.
Ubisoft are being threatened with a complaint about their data collection. The GDPR hammer is raised and ready.
Scientists want to grow astronaut food from scratch using bioreactors. This totally won't make a giant meat blob that consumes the Earth.
We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com and with a 15% discount using the code word : NERDS15
DJ went wild and mixed a sachet of REZ with a bottle of coke, while the professor went with the traditional approach of mixing a sachet with water....how did it pan out? Find out....
Gacha games have seen rising popularity in the past few years, but with that comes a new wave of ...
Ubisoft has responded to a lawsuit against them as part of the Stop Killing Games campaign. This setback doesn't mean the end for the campaign. They'll keep fighting.
A Minecraft Movie is a surprising hit. But it comes with some interesting implications for the future. And please don't throw your popcorn.
Dire Wolves are back. But they're not really. Colossal Biosciences claims to have created dire wolves, but what they claim...
From computer mice to increased prices for games, we'll tell you everything worth knowing about the Nintendo Switch 2 and why you probably don't want to buy it.
Tariffs aren't just affecting video games, but they're also coming to Hollywood and could push out the smaller studios.
A new brain to speech implant greatly improves the speed at which a human-computer interface can translate thoughts into words. Next step on the ful...
SAG-AFTRA warn you not to believe the major games companies who claim that they're close to a deal. Instead, the union is refusing to back down without getting all the concessions they want for their members.
Anime is facing a staff shortage. This could mean lowering quality or reducing season length. Hopefully it means removing filler.
Light sails might be the best way to get to Alpha Centauri within a human lifetime. But we...
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