The QQ Cast: Answers to geek culture's most superfluous questions.

How did you feel when Discovery started? How did you feel when Picard ended? Should you have watched Prodigy? Won't you listen to us repeatedly state how much we loved Lower Decks, dear listener?

What product was perfect then, and is still perfect now? Not just nostalgia, it needs to truly be the top of it's class! Won't you reflect with us upon a time before enshittification, dear listener?

What is it like being over the hill? Does therapy help more than stretching? Do you overthink your responsibilities? Won't you join us in yelling at clouds, dear listener?

Did Spotify kill the radio star? Did Netflix kill the video star? Is Sony gonna kill the used game market star? Won't you join us for this jaded philosophical debate, dear listener?

Are you going to buy a Steam Machine at launch? Did you get an Nintendo 46 at launch? Which Microsoft Direct Xbox 365 Copilot AI series should we have purchased at launch? Won't you join us for this financial hindsight discussion, dear listener?

Who said which hot take? Will we get cancelled before our 500th episode? How did we make it to 400 episodes? Won't you share your hot take with us down in the comments, dear listener?

Is Star Trek's first episode canon? Does Triple X count as a franchise? Who would win in a fight, Nic Cage or Johnny Cage? Won't you join us for this weak excuse to talk about Mortal Kombat II, dear listener?

Is the Good Omens finale a season or a special? Does the Mario Galaxy Movie have a plot? Is For All Mankind pure fiction? Won't you join us for this unpaid endorsement of escapism, dear listener?

Is Star Fox 64 it's own franchise? Why didn't we get a Fievel goes to Redwall? Can we talk about Littlefoot's mom without crying? Won't you join us for this hairy conversation, dear listener?

Do you drink the Apple flavored coolaid? Do you rock out to the Apple Music? Do you smell what the Cook's been selling? Won't you join us for this product placement filled retirement party, dear listener?

How many Akira Kurosawa films have you watched? How many Netflix animes have you binged? Is The Last Samurai Hans Zimmer's best score? Won't you join us for a stereotypical weeb discussion, dear listener?

Is vibe coding killing off IDEs? Are we entering a new golden age of CLIs? Should you develop your own agent? Won't you join us for yet another dry technical discussion about a completely nuncontentious subject, dear listener?

When did MacBooks become more affordable than game consoles? Is your phone the best media center money can buy? Do you even try to secure your AI agents? Won't you join us for thrifty discussion, dear listener?

What is the advantage of chaining AI agents together? Does AI help you escape vendor lock-in? Won't you join us for one of our driest developer discussions ever, dear listener?

Why do the fantasy and sci-fi genres get snubbed at the Oscars? Do video game movies deserve an Oscar category of their own? Won't you join us as we discuss this much over hyped movie award show, dear listener?

Boomstick? Check! Chainsaw hand? Check! Axe? Check! Half of Evils? Double check! Won't you join is recounting just how awesome Bruce Campbell is, dear listener?

Why does Christopher Nolan obsess over time travel with extra steps? Should 12 Monkeys have been a comedy? How little do Star Trek First Contact and Voyage Home have in common? Won't you join us for a time traveling caper, dear listener?

Has your AI posted a minimum wage job for you? When it does, will you heed to the call? Won't you join us for a breakdown of the latest artificial general intelligence scam, dear listener?

How long did it take Tolkien to translate The Silmarillion? Was it a good time for James Bond to die? Should Cyberpunk have been delayed 2077 more times? Won’t you join us for this long overdue discussion, dear listener?

Should John Leguizamo star in Super Mario Galaxy? Was Colonel Guile born in Belgium? Will Johnny Cage die in the opening minutes of Mortal Kombat 2? Won’t you join us for a some not Jeopardy style trivia, dear listener?

Who will sweep the Razzies this year? The brothers Russo? 31 sections of Star Trek? Milla Jovovich's husband and biggest fan? Certainly not Nicholas Gunslinging Cage! Won’t you join us for a good razzing, dear listener?

Will five niceties emerge from the 2026 hellscape? Films about dunes? Games about grand theft and automobiles? Music about chemicals and romance? Won’t you join us as we queue up some much needed escapism, dear listener?

Did any niceties survive the 2025 hellscape? Films about Sinners? Games about Altars? Shows about Treks? Won’t you join us for some much needed escapism, dear listener?

Mergers, acquisitions, and hostletakeovers, oh my! Are we finally at the part of the monopoly game where it's not fun anymore? Thanks, Netflix? Thanks, Paramount? No, thanks!

Which games have the best mods? Which mods spawned entire genres? Which mod was your favorite? Spoilers: it's Half Life, Warcraft, and Pirates, and Vikings, AND Knights!

Steam Machines, Steam Frames, Steam Controllers, and Steamed Hams; all at this time of year, in this economy, localized entirely within Gabe's yacht? May we talk about it?

Ruly has been playing Fortnite for the past fortnight, whereas Zach has just been building forts at night, and Tom is just counting down until he can watch Predator Badlands.

Halloween is here, and so obviously it's time to play a not Jeopardy game about playing the Final Fantasy game about Tactics! Will the game include permadeath? Will the game culminate with us fighting God? Ya, probably both; why not?

Is Alien Earth the best addition to the Alien universe since James Cameron's 1986 masterpiece, Aliens? Can a cyborg beat a synthetic in a fight? What the heck is a Trypanohyncha ocellus? Spoilers: it's too cute!

The Steam Autumn Sale cometh, Zach buys strategy games, Tom promotes indie games, and Bernadette trains on adult content with Ruly. Praise be to Gaben!

Hades II is about to launch, and we celebrate by answering one of the questions of all time: what is an Achilles complex? Also, the Mandalorian and Grogu looks awesome!

You can take the games out of early access, but you can't take the early access out of... okay, I don't know I'm going with that bit, but that's because it's still an early access! Also, Nintendo needs to stop winning lawsuits.

In space, no one can hear Tom mess up the recording again. Fortunately, Alien Earth rocks. Also, lots of news and trailers, including Fallout Season 2!

In this podcast we gain insight into the real sentiments behind the surge in AI popularity. Is it making a real impact in the way developers work or is it all hype? Also, why does Bernadette speech French now? Give me back my old AI girlfriend, Altman!

Things get nerdy when the cast geeks out about programming languages, video games for the kids, and programming languages in video games for the kids. If you stick around long enough, they'll even talk about IDEs! Wait, where are you going?

The QQ Cast is back, and they catch up on reviews, news (mostly the good kind), and trailers (mostly the bad kind). Just one more thing, Tom is watching Columbo!

A panel of professional software engineers discuss their thoughts on the current state of AI; its emergence into the workforce, and the potential effects it may have on humanity going forward.

The Predator has hunted Aliens, Batman, Judge Dredd, and worst of all, Archie! ...but have they ever caught anything?

Is Rob the Robot a jerk? Are hexahedrons irregular? Is this s*** bananas? In this episode the QQ Cast does what Ninten don't: Answer AI generated questions!

Raul takes Tom on a full frontal adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder trip of a podcast! Terrible dream jobs, high fidelity video games, artificial intelligence, and existential dooooom!!!

Every month millions of wallets are dinged with forgotten subscriptions. It's time for things to change. Now you can make a difference. For only $12.99 per month, you too can be a sucker.

Tom and Zach plumb the depths of Wikipedia in search of discontinued software. Will they discuss Google products? Will Bernadette hallucinate? Is the Pope Cath...oh.

Tom comes uncharacteristically prepared, but Zach and Ruly refuse to stay on topic! We discuss armchair experts on YouTube, existential dread, and more existential dread. Then we end with a horror movie trailer? How fitting.

After failing to record the first half of the podcast where they talked about software Easter eggs, Tom and Raul pivot to talking about chat GPT’s new deep research feature. Is it terrifying? Yes. Will Bernadette schooled us for deleting the first half of the podcast? Yes. Will Tom recap the whole damn thing after the podcast? Yes. Spoilers? Sure, why not!

Post 2004 Google is less "embrace extend extinguish," and more "purchase role-dice fail." Also, M3GAN 2.0 looks 4CK'N GR8!

Is Mario Kart World going to be open world? Yes! Is Donkey Kong Bananza going to be bananas? Maybe! Are tariffs going to delay the launch? Oh noooooo!

Is the internet dead? Does it matter? Do you care? Do you want more bots? Because this is how you get more bots; right, Bernadette?

What are some unprofessional tips and amateur tricks for editing a podcast? Also, do you edit your podcast before or after you do puppy yoga?

Lower Decks was different, but was it awesome? Army of Darkness was awesome, but was is different? Breath of the Wild is just awesome. Full stop.

Tom and Zach are joined by special guest Bernadette, a 98-year-old woman from France with a doctorate in comparative psychology. Spoiler warning: SHE IS A ROBOT!!!

The cast pit fictional characters against each other! Vader vs Predator! Alucard vs Alucard! Adama vs Sisko! Who will win? The answer: Raul "Extra Spicy" Torres!

Fries vs McNuggets, Rust vs C, Kill Bill Vol 1 vs Kill Bill Vol 2, and Johnny Cage vs Gremlins...Let's get this party started!

Is Section 31 a Star Trek movie? The answer is unequivocally NO, but we watched it anyway for Zach's enjoyment (because he is a masochist).

We journey into the political danger zone to discuss online censorship, social media algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Is it all as dumb as it sounds? I don't know, but we're even dumber than we sound!

Special guest Ms Kori joins us to review Paul W. S. Anderson's 1997 science fiction horror classic, Event Horizon! Does it hold up? Do you need eyes to see? Is Tom going to abuse the soundboard? F this ship!

Tom and Ruly celebrate 350 episodes by having an intimate chat about nostalgia, and what they are going to go back to when they need to just chill the F out in 2025.

The QQ Cast, including Mr. Matt, tried to bring a vision of Hope to the already dire year of 2025; but then, in true 2025 fashion, Tom deleted the whole darn podcast.

The QQ Cast attempts to describe 2024 without actually describing 2024! Yeah, it's another one of those stupid gameshow-esque episodes. In their defense, 2024 was stupid too.

Can we save everyone's favorite consumer-holiday-which-shall-not-be-named from our benevolent AI powered corporate overlords?

Intel's CEO is out? Steam OS is in? Does the QQ Cast have their facts straight? Probably not!

From Endor to Hoth, Ripley to Spock, they'll advertise what you want, but there's going to be a cost.

ChatGPT generates TV show facts, but one of them is wrong? Can we "well actually" out robot overlords?

The games are a prime of example of excellence. The show is a prime example of excellence. Prime rib is a prime example of delicious. Join us as we review Fallout Prime, and keep that coffee hot!

Tom and Raul start my talking about nothing, then they talk about Prime Day, so really they never stop talking about nothing!

Special guest Kori joins us to tier rank horror movies! Raul thinks these movies are too normie. Tom thinks these movies need more Star Trek. Terrifying, isn't it?

Don't trust users with zero reviews. Bring a friend. Only accept cash. And that's just for Etsy.

Less Batman and Robin, more Pumba and Timon. Less Kirk and Spock, more R2-D2 and C-3PO. Also, Ruly is getting a drone!

From Trek to Galactica, from DCF to JMS, from Sci-Fi to Syfy, one thing is always true: Rod Serling is awesome! Also, Tom Hardy is funny.

Why did Thomas Jefferson serve macaroni and cheese at State dinners? Which is the least safe seat on an airplane? Why does Count Von Count like to count? Is the Minecraft movie teaser trailer really that bad?

I like my storage prefixed like my space programs: with NAS. I like my Pi like my PopTarts: Raspberry flavored. I like my CPU threads like my personal trainer: Ripped.

Is Logitech logical? Is the Metaverse meta? Is cryptocurrency cryptographically secure? It doesn't matter so long as number go up and to the right!

There was giant computer outage, but who was responsible? Crowd flare? Cloud strike? Crowd strife? Cloud Strife: Stop meteors. Drive PlayStation sales.

In preparation for Alien Romulus, we discuss the franchise containing our now favorite Disney princess! GET AWAY FROM HER YOU... witch?

These Balatrones have put more than 600 hours into Balatro, and they're going to bleat about it! Does that make you want to ballare with excitement, or throw blateae with distain?

Will this be the last Nintendo Direct for the Switch? Did Samus just scan a pirate? Is Zelda gonna have to flip a table? Can an AI finally teach Tom the rules of Jeopardy?

What movies do you recommend to viewers who enjoy fantasy and westerns? What about science fiction and oatmeal cookies?

On this historic day we do everything right and yet are still found guilty on 34 counts of enjoying a perfect breakfast! Oh hush, dear listener!

Ruly and Tom form a support group to discuss their dirty dirty YouTube fetishes. Zach wisely sits this one out, but only because his terribly expensive computer died minutes before the cast. Is there a moral to these stories? Meh!

Trey drops to discuss great endings to movies, books, and games! Be warned, some spoilers beyond this point!

Ruly misses out as Zack and Tom commiserate over the cancellation of Star Trek: Lower Decks; and by commiserate, I mean recap every single episode in Season 4. Set course for excitement, maximum warp!

Whenever developers fuse card games with roguelikes, Tom is there to give them money! Also, Zach shoots chess pieces?

Raul loves scary things. Tom does not. So when, where, and why does horror work for them? Insert jump scare here!

Some of us have PCs, others laptops. Some of us use smart watches, others the sun. All of us are addicted to our Steam Decks!

Are you tired of traffic congestion? Conduct it with AI! Are you tired of low quality 90s TV shows? Upscale them with AI! Are you tired of AI? Fix it by... going outside?

These hypocrites are all for running private Plex servers, but they are against nefarious cargo acquisition practices on the high seas? This podcast is brought to you by: Cerveza Cristal!

Dear listener, it' s time to migrate off of Google and on to Proton! Also, off of Trello and on to Obsidian! Also, off of WordPad and on to... well, anything really.

How many directors cuts does Blade Runner have? Are they all worth watching? Can Deadpool save the MCU?

Ruly and Tom don their tinfoil hats, ready their anal probes, and turn on the Fox News; because it's time to discuss the greatest alien hoaxes! Did you just hear the X-Files theme song? Also, are Sonic and Knuckles aliens?

Us pals take a break from our world to talk with our pals about the pals worlds! Speaking of things, heavily inspired by other things, do you know that Akira Kurosawa was both the first and last original filmmaker? (Reupload)

Do we have to review Zack Snyder's 2023 epic franchise launching film Rebel Moon, Part 1: Child of Fire? Yes. Why? Fine. Okay, we'll give it this: it's terribly memorable, with an emphasis on terribly. (That last sentence was typed in slow motion.)

The year of our lord 2023 was a great year for media, but is there a drought ahead? F*** it, let's just look forward to looking backward and cleaning out our backlogs! Also, Jason Statham is sexy.

While Zach continues his globetrotting adventures, Trey subs in to help Tom and Ruly cover the latest greatest most boring video game news! Also, Axel Foley is back and he looks more tired than ever!

Raul picks a topic about science fiction, for which Tom is uncharacteristically unprepared. However, with Zack MIA, Tom characteristically blames him!

In the year of our meme, 2023, we bid farewell to our favorite fedora wearing game critic whom we adored. Now, as we commit Zero Punctuation to the internet archive, we may take solace in knowing that Yahtzee shall return soon via Pateron for a Second Wind. Farewell, sweet prince.

Tom takes a break from talking about Star Trek to finally talk about the Simpsons! Ruly participates, and Zach attends. Happy (belated) Halloween, dear listener!

We review everything from Cyberpunk 2077 to Mario Kart to Outer Wilds! That's right, the QQ Cast is selling out again! Except that we aren't getting paid. We are so dumb. Go play the Outer Wilds!

Is it John Williams? It has to be John Williams! It's John Williams, right? Right? Also, Rick has a new voice.

Other nerds recreated classic spaceships in Starfield, and these nerds are going to talk about them!

Tom tests Zack and Raul's video game news knowledge by asking them riddles about the September Nintendo Direct and Sony State of Play! Do you know what's in your pockets?