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Author Archives: Michael McConnell

July 1, 2015 Hang Out in a Virtual Record Store With We Have A Technical

I don’t really listen to the radio anymore. I didn’t like that I wasn’t hearing a lot of new music, so I started digging around for music podcasts. Many of these are basically a shift on a college radio station in your genre of choice. (Later on, I’ll collect these into a single column.) One […]

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May 15, 2015 Hardcore History Gives Everyone A Cool History Teacher

The only thing you need to find a passion for history is a good teacher. Everyone now has a good history teacher in Dan Carlin, host of the podcast Hardcore History. I thought it was a good way to start my posts about podcasts here at zwolanerd with what I think is the pinnacle of […]

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January 8, 2015 Operation All The Zeldas!: Oracle of Ages

Okay, so I went MIA. I’ve been stuck on this stupid Oracle of Ages game for the better part of two months, and today I decided that I’d move on. I’d already decided that when I wasn’t able to complete Majora’s Mask, that I would try to finish every other game in the series. So […]

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September 4, 2014 Operation All The Zeldas! Oracle of Seasons

After expanding Zelda’s game world into 3D with the N64 era games, going back to the classic overhead view was a bit jarring. However, we’re at the Game Boy Color era games with the first of the two Oracle games, Oracle of Seasons. Nintendo seemed to share the idea about the old view feeling constricting, […]

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June 30, 2014 Operation All The Zeldas! Majora’s Mask

So I have failed you. This will be the first one of these games I review without having completed the game. Part of that is because I moved, some of it was the Mario Kart 8 review that will be on this site sooner or later. Majora’s Mask is a huge game, and with a […]

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