It’s very rare that I like to use this space for anything other than what you came here for: news of the weird and the occasional genre pop culture breakdown. However, I need to ask a favor of you.

You see, I also do a few podcasts outside of Weird Things. One of them was Game On, a video game show I wrote and was hosted by the supernova that is Veronica Belmont and Weird Things podcast host Brian Brushwood. It was very silly and despite some early episode woes, we really found our feet.

Unfortunately, due to low download numbers over the first 10 episodes, our network announced they were canceling the show. Sunday was our last episode.

Which is when something amazing happened. Our viewers went berserk.

In fact, they protested so loudly that the head of our network, Leo Laporte, said that if the last episode got 50,000 views and downloads than he’d bring it back.

Which brings me back to that favor.

Every YouTube view or download counts to the total. If you dig video games, you’ll like it. If you are more of a casual player on you iPad or iPhone, you’ll like it too. If you wouldn’t mind giving this episode a chance, we would all greatly appreciate it.

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Some of you may have heard about the recent Portal 2 marriage proposal that went viral this last week, but that was not nearly the first geeky proposal. From the table top, to video games, to conventions, geeks all over are finding creative ways to get hitched. So I present to you this, a list of the best and nerdiest proposals for your enjoyment.

Engaged!

The first on the list is a proposal done at the Chicago Comic Con, at what seems to be an insignificant location. By the end of the proposal though, we see why the young couple is at Comic Con, and are pronounced engaged by a nearby celebrity!

Ring of Wedding +1

This next proposal features a young lady that wants to propose to her boyfriend in their game of D&D. She sets a trap to capture his reaction, and is ready to pop the question. During their game she decides to use her “Ring of wedding +1″, an item that she created especially for the proposal.

Forever-Bound

Now there have been many video game proposals over the years, where people who were knowledgeable enough hacked the games programming to creatively ask the question. From Marrio, to Crono Trigger, and even Halo, But this next couple can bee seen playing through the old Nintendo game Earthbound. The girl doesn’t even seem to understand what is going on, and when she does she has a hard time believing it happened. The best part of this “stupid jerks” proposal, is that at one point she even seems upset that her previous game was deleted, but all is well that ends well.

I finally watched “The Poughkeepsie Tapes.” And I say Booo! I’m not gonna dress this post up in some florid over-long introduction and frilly poetical conclusion just so I can puke up all over it after the dance. The movie is no good.

For those of you who don’t obsessively track the misadventures of distributionless horror movies: “The Poughkeepsie Tapes” is a 2007 serial killer flick, filmed documentary style, about a mass murderer in Poughkeepsie, New York, who videotaped his numerous hellacious homicides. Written, produced and directed by the Brothers Dowdle, the film kicked around the festival circuit, got bought by MGM, was scheduled for a tentative, ultimately cancelled, 2009 theatrical release, and then just sort of faded away. (You can dig it up online in all of the places you’re already thinking to check.)

Dance time.

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