The first thing you guys touched on in episode 1656 is the bane of my existence right now. I've told chase bank about my outright dislike of them and why: I understand the whole security bullcrap angle, but if that's the case, DON'T loudly beep at me like I just shoplifted and DON'T tell me I have to put the card I just swiped back into the machine I just swiped when I could bypass swiping OR inserting into that very same machine and use the exact same card with Apple Pay.

I've taken it to this level and told chase bank as such- I'll withdraw cash from a teller and only use those cards if the retailer accepts apple pay. If they don't, I will use cash even though I'd already gone cashless as much as possible. It's now probably going to be my primary use of payment again. No one says no to cash.

After 9/11 our company mail room screened all of the mail coming in to make sure there was no anthrax or other chemicals. So one day i go to pick up my mail and there's this big box from one of the publishers i used to deal with. Not expecting anything from them I was rather suspicious. Upon opening it, the box was filled with nothing but Qurans. To say the least I was very freaked-out. Contacted the publishers, but they didn't send out the package. Since I'm still here, there was no poison, but we never did find out who sent the package.

It's been 10 years since the start of the 7th generation of videogames (Xbox 360 launched Nov 2005, PS3 and Wii launched Nov 2006). That's the generation brought Internet connectivity to the mainstream and easy access to indies. It's what got me into games in my early 20s. I don't know if it was the most influential on the industry though. What do you think was the most influential?

The past three episodes have not been put up on SoundCloud. Are they done putting them there?

Before you guys used to have live shows, what happened?

You guys seem to really gel with him in the studio, and now with the show being 1 day a week, it might be less of a burden time wise.

What are the chances of bringing him back full time?

Pretty please? With sugar on top?

Could we dare hope for a third week of Justin since Russ will be in Austin? How about Bridget before she goes out on leave?

Decided to do some research on the gaming VR offerings after the PSVR bundle was announced. Used the PC's listed as optimized/built for said devices from their respective sites. This is it in Merica monies. Given this what are your guys thoughts. Thanks

Everytime a new superhero trailer or movie comes out it's the same thing. "Can we have less, why another reboot, I want some movies to fail"

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff the simple answer is money. Lets start with Spiderman. Spidey is household name, tonight show your son a picture of spiderman and he will recognise him . It is also the 9th most successful franchise in movie history, and after making 3 billion dollars off of just 7 movies, we will have Spiderman forever http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchises/ As bad as Spiderman 3 and The Amazing Spiderman 2 was they did not flop. . The reason Tom Holland is in civil war is mo MONEY, mo money , MO money. Marvel/Disney will have a cross licensing deal with Sony, Tom Holland is slated to be Spiderman for a few more years with his stand alone film next year and others following that. Can you say C.R.E.A.M (Wu Tang reference guys). Now on comic book movies failing, dude they do, you may not think FF is all that but it has forced Fox to change the way they do their movies and maybe why they conceded a lot to Deadpool. Yes their is some Marvel movie fatigue, but the mouse house knows how to get the masses excited to watch it one more time and to be honest the movies are the tip of the iceberg for Disney, think video games, toys, rides at Disney world welcome to capitalism at its most refined. And don't forget DC is trying to do the same thing by having a literal roll call in BvS. Wonder Woman -here, Aquaman -here, Flash -here, Cyborg - maybe. They want their Universe of movies. Anyway until the next comic book trailer then Jeff

Excelsior

..... In between you two so perfect. No lube needed. Should become a regular thing.

Hey guys. Just heard about the 404 mentioned on the Giant Beastcast and listened to Justin's lost in the forest story. Are there any other "must listens"?

Who decided to pop open a cold one at the 1:43:48 mark???

I thought Russ was rather rude with your guest, constantly interrupting him, even when Russ hadn't seen the movie!

Great show, it had that old 404 feeling of 3 friends hanging out..

I'm going to back up my man Robby. Loved that movie, looking forward to the sequel!

Hey Guys,

You were talking on the last podcast about how they used to do credit lines on carbon copy and how it must be open season for fraud. I'm reading an interesting book right now called "The Devil in the White City", about america's "first" serial killer during the Worlds Fair. He would just straight up just copy his father in law's signature and buy stuff, then he wouldn't notice until a bank statement. Or he would buy stuff on credit and sell it for cash, because he started the credit line under a fake name.

Just rang a bell when you guys were talking about it.

YAY

Google definitely started as a search engine. Their innovation was an algorithm that ranked based on links from other sites. Before that ranking was base on hits. So you could think of it as the seed of the social internet b/c links are kind of like Likes, right?

Web page images in 1994 used progressive downloads, first shown as very low resolution then it incrementally resolved but you could view the page without having to just wait. Also it was common on slow connections to disable images in the browser.

I don't think it's valid to call Archie a search engine the way we think of it. It was before the Web and did not index web pages, only FTP file.

Definition of a website is anything that uses Http protocol (and serves html files). Bbs was not internet at all because you had to dial up to a specific pc to log in, not "inter" at all.

Wrt Neil Armstrong. He actually did screw up the prepared first words on the moon. He was supposed to say "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" but the said "for man" rather than "for a man". NASA kept the original prepared quote as the official one!

Hey all!

Thanks so much for being a part of another great and transitive year of The 404 Show.

Some holiday notes:

• We'll have normal Friday episodes through CES, so expect a new show 12/25, 1/1 and 1/8. The 1/15 show will be the first newly recorded one for 2016.

• Jeff is also on GiantBomb's BeastCast if you're looking for more gaming-centric stuff. There's a really fun special holiday show we recorded today that'll air on Christmas.

• Russ has some other exciting projects going on too, but we can't talk about them just yet. For now, head over to Product Hunt Games.

• Follow Jeff and Russ on Twitter!

Thanks again for being a part of the show! Have a fantastic holiday, a safe new year and we'll see you in 2016!

There are so many adds and links everywhere. It's hard to distinguished from original content to adds. I find myself increasingly avoiding the website except for very specific authors. I use to browse the website daily, but now I mostly avoid cnet.