On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by Alex Kanter and Michael Frank to discuss the end of the Michael Jordan documentary and the potential return of the NBA playoffs. (0:00- 37:15). Later, Mitchell Rincon joins the show to join us as we deep dive the band: The Growlers. Thanks for listening!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1I9XmxeMSFUnfFAxx8IHrs?si=goPCV2yrSAevROLQ5SwsNw
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by Mitchell Rincon to discuss a plan to salvage the NBA playoffs and then we deep dive the greatest rock n roll band of all time: The Rolling Stones. (0:00-48:30) Later, Tim, Mark, and Dustin join the show for some Trivia. (48:30- 1:57:56) Thanks for listening!
Pineapple Couch Deep Dive Playlist: The Rolling Stones
Check out the playlist above!
— Brob
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50GDOa6a2BN5ZSnKDs0bBM?si=8HdwIZiESDemIpNhgLq93A
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by Big Dawg to discuss the Chargers selecting Justin Herbert in the NFL draft, Jameis Winston signing with the Saints and others NFL draft stories. (0:00- 23:23)
Then, I am joined by Alex Kanter and Michael Frank to talk about episodes 3 + 4 of “The Last Dance, the future of the eastern conference, Westworld season 3 and some quarantine recommendations. (23:23- 74:36)
Lastly, I am joined by Peter Gonzalez to talk about Captain America: The First Avenger as we continue our MCU rewatch here on The Pineapple Couch. (74:36- 100:38)
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by my father to discuss Gronk being traded to the Bucs to reunite with Tom Brady, Tua’s future in the NFL, and Jamies Winston and Cam Newton’s potential destinations. (0:00- 31:05). Later, I am joined by Alex Kanter to discuss the first two episodes of the Michael Jordan documentary and what we hope to see in the upcoming episodes. We talk about the future of this current NBA season and what the effects of the postponement of play could mean for a potential playoffs. (31:26- 68:28). Thanks for listening!
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch I am joined by Alex Kanter and Michael Frank to talk about what we think the NBA will look like in 2030. We take a look back the 2009-2010 season and compare it to modern basketball and then give out our predictions of what we think the NBA will be like in 2030. Also, we talk about The Strokes new album “The New Abnormal”. Thanks for listening!
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by Alex Kanter, Tim Hall, and resident NBA insider John Robbins to partake in an all time NBA draft. We each select 8 players and then compare our teams (00:00- 38:01). Later, I am joined by my dad to deep dive the players and teams of the NBA in the 1980s. (38:52- 73:29). Thanks for listening!
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w/ Brob, I am joined by our resident NBA insider John Robbins to talk about fake NBA trades that we think would make the league more fun and we rank our top 5 point guards right now. Thanks for listening!
On today’s episode of The Pineapple Couch w Brob I am joined by our resident NBA insider John Robbins to discuss the NBA’s best players under the age of 25 and we give our predictions on how we thought the NBA playoffs would have played out this season. Thanks for listening!
As sports fans we are lost in a vast desert desperate for any sort of content possible. Do you miss football/sports so much that you would bet on a madden game? I know I do
Madden games can be found here:
https://www.twitch.tv/livefootballsims
Here is today’s slate:
Who you got?
— Brob
As close to perfect as a shooter may ever come.
2007 – PS3, XBOX 360, PC, Wii. (reviewed for PS3)
Playtime: 500+ hours
Greatness: 93.6
In the winter of 2007 I was staying with my cousins for winter break, as I would do every summer or extended break from school while my parents were at work. It was home to my grandma and grandpa, my aunt and uncle, and three of their five kids who were older but had not yet flown the coop. With me and my sister that made nine people in a four-bedroom house. The house was more cramped than Japan but my cousin Chris and I almost never went outside; we were gaming like it was Japan too. RuneScape, Last Chaos, and Pokémon filled our days and nights with escape from boredom and hunger. The occasional Yu-Gi-Oh battle was essentially our only recess from the screens. One night, early in our stay, Chris’ older brother brought home a brand-new PlayStation 3 and a copy of COD 4 that he had bought from an actual, physical, in real life Circuit City. My only gaming console up to that point was the GameCube, and I waited all night for my chance to play the new PlayStation when my cousin went to work in the morning. I crouched by the machine like a noob—instead of hitting the PS button on the controller—to tap that (back then) incredible touch power button. The console beeped that most perfect beep that a piece of electronics has ever beeped, and video games once again changed my life.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is my favorite shooter of all time, which can be surprising since most of my favorite shooters come from the series’ main rival, Battlefield. I mean, nowadays, I talk a lot of shit on most Call of Duty’s that come out, as one should when comparing them to the masterpiece that was COD 4. In 2007, it was the most realistic, most innovative, and most compelling first-person shooter for a video game console yet. COD 4—with its online play especially—set the tone for how shooters would be made and played for over a decade. It was a total system seller for both the PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360, possibly saving the two consoles from catastrophe after weak first year sales. The game is turning 13 this year, so let’s try to get in and get out as quickly as Capt. Price had hoped to in “All Ghillied Up”.
Fun: 19/20
The campaign is gorgeous and godly entertaining, and the online gameplay was the pinnacle of fun in video games that year. When I first started playing this game, I probably played through the single player story like five times before I even touched the multiplayer, and by golly was I in for a treat. The online component in this game was the most robust and well-developed of its kind for a console game at the time. It absolutely blew my mind how addicting it was to drop into “Crossfire”, or any of their other unbelievably well-designed maps, with 15 other players and kill and die over and over again all day long. The dying could be extremely frustrating at times however, and the reliance on its very simple gameplay formula did, albeit very rarely, cause a bore in COD 4.
Stimulation/Engagement: 13/15
The campaign was extremely engaging and pretty replay-able, but the online play is definitely what kept me playing this game so much that I honestly have no idea how many hours I actually sunk into it. It’s at least 500, but could be closer to a thousand. I had a hunger to be good at this game, win every match, rank up, and unlock every gun. But as I said before, the formula was very simple and grew old eventually, and “prestige-ing” was a pretty cheap way of keeping the experience going.
Innovation/Ingenuity: 13/15
The graphics, the setting, the online play, and the incredibly gripping single player story were all intensely innovative. At the end of the day however, it did inherit the basic point-and-shoot war game model.
Storytelling/Writing: 10/10
I had never loved a story in a video game this much, and few games since have even come close. If you somehow haven’t played it, I really don’t want to spoil anything. Let me just say this game’s campaign contains several of the greatest moments in video game storytelling history.
Immersion/World Building: 10/10
Once you enter COD 4’s world of joint-task forces, counter terrorism, and Russian ultra-nationalism, everything around you disappears, and you never want to leave it.
Control/Systems: 10/10, Graphics/Presentation: 5/5, Art Style: 5/5, Sound Design: 5/5
All perfection. There was nothing like it on consoles at the time.
Online Capabilities/Multiplayer: 10/10
It was the culmination of online gaming and everything every gamer wanted out of an online shooter up to that point. COD 4 online was simply spectacular, a marvel, and obviously added more than a few points to several other sections of this review.
Total: 103/110
Greatness: 93.6
Every year I long for a new shooter to come along and be as good as COD 4, make me love gaming as much as COD 4, and push the boundaries of gaming as much as COD 4 did. Until then—if it ever happens—Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will reign supreme as the closest a war game has ever come to being perfect. Long live games, long live gamers, and long live the GGoat Project.
-Tim
