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Ask the Failcrew – Winter Is Still Coming

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Send in your questions to @made_of_fail on Twitter or our Tumblr queue (questions can be asked anonymously!) and we’ll post short answers to one question each Wednesday!

Season One on DVD. Season Two about to air soon. Alina’s chapter-by-chapter re-read on Second Time Around.

I’m excited. Are you excited? ’cause I’m excited.

This week we asked the Failcrew: What author, filmmaker, or artist has inspired you the most, and why? Don’t forget to join in the discussion in the comments! And send in more questions, we’re starting to run low!

Dana Miller (@y_draig_goch)
Garth Nix, O.R. Melling and J.K. Rowling.
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[Deconstructing Moya] Episode 4.19 – “We’re So Screwed, Part I: Fetal Attraction”

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New post at Deconstructing Moya!

“We’re So Screwed, Part I: Fetal Attraction”

Moya and crew take their first step into Scarran space to track down and rescue Aeryn, only to find her ready and waiting for them. Along with bunches of guards, Charrids, an automated security system than kills anyone carrying a weapon, a Scarran, and a plague of their own making.

Ask the Failcrew – For Emily Wong

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We’ve lost some good people. They gave everything to get us here. It’s up to us to make it mean something and do them justice. The Collectors, the Reapers… they aren’t a threat to us. They’re a threat to everything, everyone. Those are the lives we’re fighting for. That’s the scale.

It’s been a long journey, and no one’s coming out without scars, but it all comes down to this moment. We win, or lose it all in the next few minutes.

Make me proud. Make yourselves proud.

If you had a choice of only one book, movie, or video game for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

Adam Griffith (@kitsunewill)
Let’s do one of each.

BOOK: Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett. This is where I think the Discworld series hit its height, and it explores the background and decisions of one of my favorite characters, Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.

MOVIE: Ghostbusters. I have seen this movie at least a hundred times in my life, and I never get tired of it. This is the film that introduced me to the Urban Fantasy genre before I even knew there was such a thing.

GAME: Civilization IV (Civ 4). I grew up with these games, and this iteration of the series is considered by many to be the best. The mechanics are excellent, the gameplay is fun, and the whole package is narrated be Leonard freakin’ Nimoy. If you have not played this game, correct that mistake immediately.
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[Galilea] Episode Three: Through the Woods

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Star Trek: Galilea

Episode Three: Through the Woods

Starring:

    Paulina Logan as Commander Brunhilde Engelstadt
    Alexander Adrock as Captain Surak
    Noel Thingvall as Commander Valkon
    Gavin Leaf as Q
    Adam Griffith as Chief Petty Officer Variel Wallace
    Angelle Tusa as Ensign Mireille Landis
    David Sahlin as Lieutenant Gennoc
    Kevin O’Shea as Lieutenant Commander Veleth
    George Hatch and Erin Klitzke as the Romulan Bridge Officers

Script by Alina Leigh
Story and Direction by Kevin O’Shea
Assistant Directors Noel Thingvall, Alina Leigh and Adam Griffith
Cover Art by Benjamin Colón

Star Trek created by Gene Roddenberry, copyright 2012 Paramount
This is a non-profit unlicensed fan production. All rights reserved by respective parties.

Promoting a friend’s new video series!

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Reposted from the Made of Fail Behind-The-Scenes Tumblr:

Actually, I don’t think I’m going to leave this at a simple reblog, because it’s something that we’re going to get very much behind. By “we”, I mean “Made of Fail Productions”, and by “Made of Fail Productions” I mostly mean me ’cause everyone else does their own thing (but I’m pretty sure they’re going to also be behind this too).

We’ve talked about being geeks and nerds a lot on the flagship podcast, with more than a few episodes devoted to simply being a geek, from being around celebrities to a two-parter about self-esteem, and we even had an episode devoted to dating and romance.

Cat’s got a great concept with Single Female Nerd, and I’m going to go so far as to say that she’s got not only my endorsement with this video series, but Made of Fail Productions as a whole. Send in questions for her first video, guys, I know you have them.

Signed, Kevin. Because I can.

Ask the Failcrew – Earworms

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Have a pressing question that you want a dozen answers to? Ever plagued late at night with the need to know our favorite cheeses? Look no farther, because Ask the Failcrew is here! Send in your questions to @made_of_fail on Twitter or our Tumblr queue (questions can be asked anonymously!) and we’ll post short answers to one question each Wednesday!

You know who’s completely awesome? Alan Menken. The man behind the musical score and half the songs at New Disney, from The Little Mermaid all the way through Tangled, Alan Menken is a golden god. Add to that innovative animation, spectacular voice acting, and questionably-controversial reinterpretations of classic stories from around the world, and you have the one company that has owned me completely since I was too young to know any better. Sure, other companies have proven able to do it better from time to time – The Road to El Dorado, for one, and The Iron Giant never fails to make me cry – but time and again, Disney has been the King. For better or worse, the Mouse is with us.

This week’s question came anonymously from Tumblr: You’ve discovered that you have the ability to hear the soundtrack of your life in your head. What musician, living or dead, scores your daily soundtrack?

Dana Miller (@y_draig_goch)
Harry Gregson Williams
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Ask The Failcrew – There’s one in every attic

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Have a pressing question that you want a dozen answers to? Ever plagued late at night with the need to know our favorite cheeses? Look no farther, because Ask the Failcrew is here! Send in your questions to @made_of_fail on Twitter or our Tumblr queue (questions can be asked anonymously!) and we’ll post short answers to one question each Wednesday!

Sometimes you feel like there’s some sort of mystical tome that explains everything about the world. Something that you could go into a library and request, or at least request that the librarian not slam down right in front of you when you were really looking for The Poky Little Puppy. I mean seriously, it’s not like Golden Books is too concerned with the mystical disturbances at the Hellmouth, so why should I be?

That trailer, by the way, is brilliantly done, and the author has made trailers for every season of Buffy and Angel. Give them a looksee (though be warned, Mark is still in the middle of Season Three so don’t spoil him).

Speaking of books, on this first installment of Ask the Failcrew, we find out What would be your first major-release non-fiction book deal, and who would play you in the eventual movie?

(Readers, answer this question in the comments! LET’S KEEP THIS CONVERSATION ALIVE)

Adam Griffith (@kitsunewill)
Hmm. Probably the account of how I saved humanity from a horde of rampaging kill bots, and became emperor of the world. I would be played by Jack Black and it would be a musical.
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