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Nerds Amalgamated

Nerds Amalgamated

Your weekly dose of nerd new — straight from the nerd-verse. 🎮🍿📺

We’re DJ and The Professor: lifelong geeks breaking down the week in movies, TV, gaming, and pop culture.

Every week, we serve up:
🎙️ Hot takes and near deep dives on what’s happening 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 — it’s curiosity, and we lean into it.

If you’re the nerd 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.

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  • S1 · E279
    March 31 · 1 hr 5 min

    Ancient Roman Board Games, Dangers of Cloning & Colbert's Tolkien Movie

    Flinders University have worked with a team of researchers to model an ancient Roman board game and find out how it would have been played. Cloning is not the secret to immortality we thought it might be. Repeated cloning leads to increased mutations and eventually sterility, preventing the clones from reproducing further. Stephen Colbert has announced that he is advising on a new Lord of the Rings movie about the Hobbits in their old age. It's rare to see such a turbo nerd working on a project like this. *** 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 *** Resources Mentioned Finders Uni discovers an ancient game (AI sheds light on an ancient gaming mystery – News, Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core ) Serial Cloning and its Dangers (Limitations of serial cloning in mammals | Nature Communications) A New Lord of the Rings movie….yay (Colbert to co‑write new ‘Lord of the Rings’ film after late-night show ends | Reuters, Stephen Colbert Set to Adapt Next 'Lord of the Rings' Movie) Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yxrbWjTPJAUgANQ14iyRG36Zid29w8PmwLM5tXFr93U/edit?usp=sharing *** If you'd like to be featured on the show, send us an email: Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook || Twitter || Twitch Join the Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/VqdBVH5a And watch us on YouTube: Nerds Amalgamated - YouTube

  • S1 · E278
    March 24 · 52 min

    Firefly Is Coming back!, ChatGPT Didn't Cure Cancer and Adaptations Killing Anime

    Firefly is most likely coming back. The original crew are all on board and they're just looking for a place to show it. Professor is very excited. ChatGPT didn't cure cancer, and LLMs aren't as miraculous as they say. Still, they can finally give us a use for all this extra water and electricity we have, right? Anime thrives on adaptations of other works. But one creator thinks that's a bad thing and could lead to the death of the industry. *** 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 *** Resources Mentioned Firefly is coming back…..well sort of (Nathan Fillion Says 'Firefly' Animated Series In Development, Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk Q&A On 'Firefly' Animated Series, Sarah Michelle Gellar Breaks Her Silence on What Killed the 'Buffy' Reboot: 'Nobody Saw This Coming' (Exclusive)) AI can cure cancer (Tech entrepreneur uses ChatGPT to create a personalised cancer vaccine for his DOG - and the breakthrough could soon help humans too, ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer | The Verge) Anime adaptation is not a great idea (「異世界転生も、チート能力も、ロボもいらない」 『パリに咲くエトワール』の谷口悟朗監督がオリジナル作品にこだわった理由：東京新聞デジタル, “If only adaptations remain, Japanese anime will be done for,” says Code Geass series director - AUTOMATON WEST) Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yXAnG8S2hbItuWrsFJXGcXPTH_KN3x8oCuCGqWamtjQ/edit?usp=sharing *** If you'd like to be featured on the show, send us an email: Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.com Follow us on: Facebook || Twitter || Twitch Join the Community on Discord: https://discord.gg/VqdBVH5a And watch us on YouTube: Nerds Amalgamated - YouTube

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