This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Jeff Marchiafava, and Suriel Vazquez. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! Specifically this week, we're looking for your specific thoughts on the PlayStation 5 so far! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out a great prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.
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2020-11-17 19:01:06 +0000 UTC
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On this Friday's episode of our music podcast CrossFade, the guest is Disney's John Drake (formerly of Harmonix and PlayStation) and we'll be reviewing The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie and Change by Dismemberment Plan. Subscribe to the podcast in its own stand-alone feed and listen to the albums to get ready!
On every episode of CrossFade, we want to involve the Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a...
2020-11-16 22:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt!
Call Of Duty: Black Ops IIIII: Cold War - The latest game in the Call Of Duty: Black Ops series and the first game in the Call Of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War series, as well as the last game in the Call Of D...
2020-11-16 20:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs on the last Sunday of every month, you can support us at the $20 tier even if only for one month.
2020-11-16 19:00:46 +0000 UTC
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We're ready to kick off a gigantic discussion of Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Insomniac Games called The Deepest Dive, but we need your comment to read on the show! This time the panelists are Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Ana Diaz, and special guest (former Easy Allies member) Kyle Bosman.
For the first of two discussions, we'll be covering everything in the game up until you destroy a Nuform r...
2020-11-16 15:20:33 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
2020-11-16 14:28:32 +0000 UTC
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On this episode of our show highlighting the best/most interesting things on the internet, Ana Diaz is joined by @jackie_peanuts and @Jaaahsh to talk about the impact of 2020's pandemic and more on the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community. They talk about shifting the competition online, how popular characters have shifted along with that, and how the community reacted to stories of abuse earlier thi...
2020-11-14 00:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show! It's a huge week for video games and we have a big episode for you, with our review of the Xbox Series X and first impressions of the PlayStation 5! We've also all been playing and really loving Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Bugsnax. Then for the community questions we're joined by generous Extra Life donors Zachary Pligge and Tom Geheran!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:54 - The D...
2020-11-12 02:56:51 +0000 UTC
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This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Ana Diaz, and special Extra Life donors Zachary Pligge and Tom Geheren. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out a great prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
- Xbox Series X ...
2020-11-10 19:15:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt!
Fuser - I'm Dropmix fan "Numero Uno" around these parts and I'd love to check out Harmonix's new format for the unbelievable live-mixing technology. Let's hope it catches on this time!
2020-11-09 20:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! On this week's episode of MinnFAQs, Ben Hanson is joined by Leo Vader to talk about everything that happened during Extra Life 2020 and thank everybody for their amazing donations! Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of that stream with you all!
If you want to join the MinnMax Council and even call-in to MinnFAQs on th...
2020-11-09 19:47:49 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
2020-11-09 15:04:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! This Saturday, starting at 8am Central, we're streaming for 24 hours straight to raise money for Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. We're teaming up with our old friends at Game Informer to save some kids. If you donate any amount, you can win a new game code. We literally have hundreds to give away. We'll also have auctions at the top of every hour, whe...
2020-11-07 00:20:11 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson and Jeff Cork take calls from the community and share the results of their personal goals last month. Jeff Cork talks about the joys of cooking and Ben Hanson talks about the pain of getting into workouts on YouTube. On this episode we're also joined by Twitch's Mary Kish to talk about sustaining a healthy mental well-being. Then we take calls from the MinnMax community from the Patreon-exclusive Discord and share our new goals for November!
You can watch the video ...
2020-11-06 18:16:00 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax is celebrating the release of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales by creating a huge, community game club discussion called The Deepest Dive! Going beyond any video review, we're breaking the new game from Insomniac Games up into sections and reading comments from the community submitted on Patreon during our discussions. You're welcome to play Spider-Man: Miles Morales on the PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 and let us know what you think. The first discussion will air on Novemb...
2020-11-06 14:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! This episode of BetterQuest is going to be structured a little differently. Instead of taking every call like we do for our monthly call-in episode of MinnFAQs, we're going to shake things up so it doesn't feel like an audio spreadsheet. Instead of just checking in on goals and setting new ones (which can be done in the Discord channel and with the literal spreadsheet there), let's broaden the discussion to talking about "getting better" in general.
Submit a comment bel...
2020-11-05 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to The MinnMax Show, thanks for being here! We have a big show today with Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, Jeff Marchiafava, Leo Vader, Suriel Vazquez, aaaaand the developer of HyperDot Charles McGregor!
To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:19 - Extra Life 2020
00:07:16 - Announcing the next Deepest Dive
00:08:55 - Watch Dogs: Legion
00:25:12 - Teardown
00:30:14 - Due Process
00:35:08 - P...
2020-11-04 21:50:30 +0000 UTC
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We're back with the grand finale of The Deepest Dive on The Thing! In the final discussion, Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Mike Mahardy, and Javy Gwaltney talk about The Thing video game from 2002, the prequel film from 2011, the tabletop games, comics, other short stories, and more! Thank you so much for watching, listening, or participating in The Deepest Dive on The Thing. Please let us know what you thin...
2020-11-04 19:15:01 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back! Photomode Snap is our community screenshot review show where we check out and discuss the greatest screenshots taken and submitted by you! We're back with another bonus episode of the show that will be airing during our 24-hour Extra Life charity stream this Saturday! We're teaming up with Game Informer to raise money for Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. ...
2020-11-04 15:15:08 +0000 UTC
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This week on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, Ana Diaz, and Suriel Vazquez. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, topic, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out a great prize for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 10am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
- Watch Dogs: Legion
- Yakuza: Like A Dragon
- Dirt 5
-...
2020-11-03 19:15:59 +0000 UTC
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On this Friday's episode of our music podcast CrossFade, the guest is Jeff Cork and we'll be reviewing Beulah's When Your Heartstrings Break and The Afghan Whigs' Black Love. Subscribe to the podcast in its stand-alone feed and listen to the albums to get ready!
On every episode of CrossFade, we want to involve the Patreon community as much as possible. So please leave a question or discussion topic below and we’ll read some of our fa...
2020-11-02 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks, it's Leo coming at you Patreon-style. It's up to the $10 supporters on Patreon to choose the game we stream every Tuesday at 12 PM Central for The Great GOTY Hunt!
Little Hope - The Dark Pictures Anthology - "You best start believing in ghost stories, Mr. gamer... you're playing one!" This is just one chilling quote from Little Hope, the new choice-driven cinematic e...
2020-11-02 20:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! Thanks for supporting us on Patreon and listening to MinnFAQs. Remember to tune in this Saturday (Twitch or YouTube) for our huge Extra Life charity stream with Game Informer! We'll be playing games and doing wacky things to help raise money for Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare! Every Monday at noon Central, we stream our exclusive Q&A for $20 supporters (the MinnMax Council) on Patreon and they can ask us anything under the sun. Then we share the audio version of...
2020-11-02 19:55:38 +0000 UTC
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To close out The Deepest Dive on The Thing, this week we're talking about every Thing else. We're covering the comics, video game, tabletop games, 2011 prequel The Thing, other media inspired by the thing, and we need your comments to fuel our discussion! Because we're continuing to grow, please keep your one comment to around the length of a tweet. ...
2020-11-02 16:16:40 +0000 UTC
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Every Monday at Noon Central, we stream an exclusive Q&A for supporters in the MinnMax Council. We’re happy to answer any and all questions about the future of MinnMax, our past, or the news of the day in the chat. If you can’t make it into the chat during the stream, feel free to leave your question here and we’ll answer it on the stream.
Thanks for your support, everybody!
2020-11-02 15:04:09 +0000 UTC
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MinnMax's Ben Hanson is joined by Bryan Vore and Ross "The Star Wars Guy" Pfund to talk about the first episode of the second season of The Mandalorian on Disney Plus called The Marshall. Warning! The discussion contains a ton of spoilers!
You can watch the video version here - https://youtu.be/bvZ7dhmOgkA
2020-10-30 18:21:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks! Today's Watch Later (that you're watching a day early because of your generous support) is one of those videos I had to make for my own peace of mind. I hope you enjoy this disgusted look at the mobile game that's cheesed me off the most.
2020-10-29 13:19:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! We've got a big show for you all today, featuring a surprise appearance by Kyle Hilliard in the middle. Have a safe and Happy Halloween, and (for all of you Americans out there) please remember to vote! Thanks, everybody!
Also, for the final month, we're randomly shipping out two Satisfye Switch Grip Bundles to anybody who tweets out their favorite MinnMax content and includes the hashtag #gamesfriendsgettingbetter
2020-10-28 22:17:05 +0000 UTC
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We're covering every version of The Thing with the first ever cross-media Deepest Dive! This week MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Mike Mahardy, Javy Gwaltney, and Kate Sanchez from But Why Tho review and discuss John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic The Thing. We debate the rules of the thing this time around, fawn over Kurt Russell, and read dozens of great comment from the community. Next week we'r...
2020-10-28 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hello everybody! For the first time in a while, we don't have anything to plug on The MinnMax Show podcast other than iam8bit throughout the month of November. The door's wide open if you want to get more attention on a passion project, podcast, business, or anything else! We have over 20,000 listeners/viewers every week, so our $400 tier on Patreon is a really affordable way to promote something good. You...
2020-10-27 21:01:59 +0000 UTC
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