You realize how phallic microphones are when you're taking pictures of them.

The Widget episode 88 in summary:

• Paul is severely hungover (more than normal)
• New iPad (Dave STILL isn’t buying)
• Kinect is fastest-selling consumer electronic in history (it burns us)
• Sony has your number (well, your IP at least)
• Stole some MS Points? BOOM! (banhammer)
• The AMD 6990 is big enough for even the most ardent size queens (e-Penis)
• Viewer mail (plenty)

Succinct, to the point, and best of all, I didn’t have to come up with any witty copy. Well, except for that title. C’mon: you know you love my attempts at creating fun little play-on-words show titles. Or, at least I like to think you do… you know what? Screw you, man! I’m trying here. I’m going back to my man-cave… alone… with my Blue Yeti penis…

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If you caught what song I'm referencing with this episode's title: Congrats, you're old.!

Tim’s losing his touch. The guy that used to be on top of every single thing in the world of games, tech, and whatever has turned into, gasp, an adult who doesn’t have the time to obsessively absorb every piece of news. No greater example of this exists than his recent purchase of a PSP. However, you’ll have to listen to find out why. Other tidbits include: new MacBook Pro models, the 3DS is out in Japan (and hacked), Sony is a bunch of bastards (not news), Paul wants to have a key party with his Wii, and we all hate the gaming media (buncha young whippersnappers).

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Sometimes, computers just let you down. Stupid computers.

First off: the audio quality on this episode is below our usual high-standards. A mid-recording glitch in the process rendered Tim’s audio channel nearly inaudible for the duration of the episode. However, through some digital black magic, it was able to be resurrected, but at the expense of some audio quality. Just so everyone knows, we’re blaming Dave.

That being said, here’s what you’ll find in this episode: Intel recalls Sandy Bridge chipsets due to a manufacturing flaw, Dave Bunchanumbers nearly destroys his new PC by installing his heatsink backwards, Nokia ditches Symbian and MeeGo and embraces the loving electronic arms of Windows Phone 7, Sony is cracking down on the people who broke open the PS3, a pre-release build of Crysis 2 was leaked, and much more (lots of viewer mail to sift through as well). Hugs.

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Paul may laugh; but secretly, he's incredibly turned on by my number pr0n

Happy New Year! With the 2010 Steam Holiday Sale behind us, we spend some time going over some of the great deals that were had by all (Tim has a spreadsheet to prove it). We also get to hear the first-hand account of the newly-minted Game Dev Story addict, Tim. Learn how to turn your new Radeon 6950 into a 6970 with nothing more than a BIOS flash. Thanks, AMD! One lonely piece of viewer mail, and a raving lunatic reviews Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Feed her.

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I don't care what Paul says: I still ♥ you, internet.

If you enjoyed our extended discussion about The Human Centipede (now on Netflix Instant), then you’re going to simply adore our talk about Funky Forest – After School Club. In more technology related news: Kinect is dumb, but hacking it is super-cool, the new Asus Sabertooth P67 is awesome looking, AMD gets caught cheating with their drivers, dead-drop file sharing is a great way to share CP, and tons of Viewer Mail. 2+ hours for this one.

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It's a movie! It's a game! Yeah, Paul's a sick-o, what can we say?

Dave’s excited because of the new MacBook Air and the Mac OS 10.7 Lion Preview. Paul and Tim are excited because of the renewed GPU competition that the release of AMD’s Radeon 6800 series has created. None of that lasts very long though, because for some reason, we start talking about ‘The Human Centipede’. Paul has seen it, Tim refuses, and Dave is oblivious. Tweets, emails, and more on this 100% medically accurate Widget.

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Paul thinks this is what our wedding will look like. It's important to note that Paul is a moron.

Hey ho, Widget buccaneers! After a goddamn lengthy hiatus, we decided to come back and do a show. Lots of stuff happened during the break. No, I’m not going to list it here. Also, I’m not going to post show notes, or what this episode is even about. The way I look at it, if you’re reading this, you likely already have an undying love for all thing The Widget, so you’re going to listen anyway. Oh, and ignore what I said about this being out on Monday. ♥

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Even at his advanced age, Paul still finds time to game in between bathroom breaks

Paul is getting old. Or at least he has convinced himself he has. Though if Paul is an old man, then Dave must resemble Donovan from the end of Last Crusade. So what we’ve got going on this episode is the PS3 USB *ahem* jailbreak, XBox Live banning (stop pirating your games already!), the impressive Apple graphics driver update (running Portal like it’s 2006! Awww yeaaah…), drooling over the Nvidia GTX 460 (go buy one NOW!), and lots of viewer mail. It’s going to be a few weeks before our schedules line up again to record a show, so savor this one!

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