Yeeks are a fictional race of goblin-like humanoids found in the Angband family of roguelike games. Yeeks originated in the game Moria and have been present in every version of Angband as well as all its major variants. Yeeks are described as "Strange small humanoid" and can come in different colours depending upon what tribe they belong to. The most common yeeks are blue or brown but clear and black yeeks exist. The yeeks are ruled by their king Boldor and his son Orfax.
Yeeks are typically very easy monsters to defeat, in Moria at least. Folklore even holds that they are called "yeeks" because that is the sound they make if they are trod upon. Although black yeeks are unusually tough and master yeeks have some magic powers, there are no yeeks that normally require more advanced tactics than a few strokes with one's weapon. In the case of clear yeeks, who are invisible, it is nearly always possible to win by striking randomly or, if one is a mage, by firing an area effect spell at a nearby wall. Note that in Angband and later games yeeks are resistant to acid.
The history of the yeeks:
*Moria. Yeeks are first introduced, and five kinds exist.
*Angband. The king of the yeeks, Boldor and his son Orfax are introduced.
*ZAngband. The kamikaze yeek is added. Later versions also include the possibility to play as a yeek.
*Hengband. The president of the yeeks Noborta Kesyta is introduced. It also allows playing as a yeek.
*Gumband. The queen of the yeeks Dalfax is introduced and described as 8 feet tall, bright pink and the reason why Boldor (King of the Yeeks) and their son Orfax spend so much time in the dungeon. It also allows playing as a yeek.
*DrAngband and ToME. One may play as a yeek. They are bad at everything except gaining levels quickly.
Yeeks are typically very easy monsters to defeat, in Moria at least. Folklore even holds that they are called "yeeks" because that is the sound they make if they are trod upon. Although black yeeks are unusually tough and master yeeks have some magic powers, there are no yeeks that normally require more advanced tactics than a few strokes with one's weapon. In the case of clear yeeks, who are invisible, it is nearly always possible to win by striking randomly or, if one is a mage, by firing an area effect spell at a nearby wall. Note that in Angband and later games yeeks are resistant to acid.
The history of the yeeks:
*Moria. Yeeks are first introduced, and five kinds exist.
*Angband. The king of the yeeks, Boldor and his son Orfax are introduced.
*ZAngband. The kamikaze yeek is added. Later versions also include the possibility to play as a yeek.
*Hengband. The president of the yeeks Noborta Kesyta is introduced. It also allows playing as a yeek.
*Gumband. The queen of the yeeks Dalfax is introduced and described as 8 feet tall, bright pink and the reason why Boldor (King of the Yeeks) and their son Orfax spend so much time in the dungeon. It also allows playing as a yeek.
*DrAngband and ToME. One may play as a yeek. They are bad at everything except gaining levels quickly.
UncleGamer Radio is a video game centered independent podcast and community site. The podcast is part of a larger community called the Gamercast Network, which networks multiple independent podcasts together. As of December 2007, the podcasts normally have two hosts, Parris and Jay.
Humble Beginnings
The podcast initially aired in August of 2006. The first episode was hosted by Parris and Robbie, who at the time referred to themselves by their Xbox Live gamertags, Vicious696, and Liquilife respectively. Jay, one of the current hosts, was not introduced six months later, when he appeared in Episode 20.
In December of 2007, Robbie left the show for reasons unknown. While the two hosts did not go into detail, Jay and Parris mentioned that his departure was due to family and health reasons, although speculation into his quick departure has started many plausible rumors on the site.
During the first episode it is revealed that Paris had worked on a previous podcast, but the name of it wasn't revealed until later in the shows history. After their second podcast, the third episode didn't air until mid October due to complications in scheduling.
In Episode 10 Uncle Gamer announced their merging into the Gamercast Network. They invited JVB from podtacular, and Keith from The Video Game Show to formally bring them in.
Humble Beginnings
The podcast initially aired in August of 2006. The first episode was hosted by Parris and Robbie, who at the time referred to themselves by their Xbox Live gamertags, Vicious696, and Liquilife respectively. Jay, one of the current hosts, was not introduced six months later, when he appeared in Episode 20.
In December of 2007, Robbie left the show for reasons unknown. While the two hosts did not go into detail, Jay and Parris mentioned that his departure was due to family and health reasons, although speculation into his quick departure has started many plausible rumors on the site.
During the first episode it is revealed that Paris had worked on a previous podcast, but the name of it wasn't revealed until later in the shows history. After their second podcast, the third episode didn't air until mid October due to complications in scheduling.
In Episode 10 Uncle Gamer announced their merging into the Gamercast Network. They invited JVB from podtacular, and Keith from The Video Game Show to formally bring them in.
Jennifer D. Smith (born September 4, 1978, Burbank, California) is an American former child actor best known for her role on Wild and Crazy Kids, a Nickelodeon children's reality television series (1990-1992). Wild and Crazy Kids featured physical "match ups" between two children in a wide variety of sports and games, many of which included the famous Nickelodeon "slime".
Breakout role
Jennifer's breakout role occurred when she was invited to appear on a Wild and Crazy Kids episode in 1991. In this episode, Jennifer and two other children had to shoot Nerf bows and arrows at water balloons strategically placed over their fathers' heads. Jennifer came in last out of the three contestants, but her personable demeanor and sunny smile endeared her to fans old and young alike.
Modern life
Unlike many former child actors, Jennifer stayed away from the "fast lane" of Hollywood life. She completed her education, graduating from Burbank High School in 1996 and receiving her bachelor's degree from Woodbury College of the Arts in 2000. Shortly after college she was called into the ministry and attended Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating with a Master of Divinity in 2007.
Jennifer is also a talented artist and graphic designer. Her paintings, drawings, and web design are featured on her website.
References and external links
Breakout role
Jennifer's breakout role occurred when she was invited to appear on a Wild and Crazy Kids episode in 1991. In this episode, Jennifer and two other children had to shoot Nerf bows and arrows at water balloons strategically placed over their fathers' heads. Jennifer came in last out of the three contestants, but her personable demeanor and sunny smile endeared her to fans old and young alike.
Modern life
Unlike many former child actors, Jennifer stayed away from the "fast lane" of Hollywood life. She completed her education, graduating from Burbank High School in 1996 and receiving her bachelor's degree from Woodbury College of the Arts in 2000. Shortly after college she was called into the ministry and attended Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating with a Master of Divinity in 2007.
Jennifer is also a talented artist and graphic designer. Her paintings, drawings, and web design are featured on her website.
References and external links
The Dead Report is a periodic news style program that delivers news and reviews relating to zombie media and culture. The Dead Report is distributed via RSS and can be delivered to iTunes or other Podcast aggregator, or via straming flash video by several video sharing sites on the web. The Dead Report is the world's first zombie podcast filmed and distributed in High Definition video.
According to The Dead Report's iTunes description:
"We watch zombie movies, read zombie comics, go to zombie events and report on zombie news from around the web. Whenever possible, we interview the filmmakers, artists, performers or participants involved. The Dead Report is an HD 720p video podcast formatted for AppleTV or iTunes playback on a sweet monitor."
The Dead Report producer's decision to produce in HD has limited the show's native playback to non-portable devices due to the sheer size and quality of the high definition video. Portable devices such as the iPod and PMP devices must either convert the video to play back on their native device, or connect to YouTube.com from their portable device to watch the YouTube feed of the show. On The Dead Report's iTunes page, "Doomsdave" offers the suggestion that iTunes can convert videos for playing on the iPod nearly automatically by right clicking (or control clicking with a one-button Apple mouse) and choosing "Convert selection for iPod/iPhone". It was not mentioned that the Mac/Win freeware application "MPEG Streamclip" can also convert for many other devices and file formats including, but not limited to, the iPhone and iPod family of devices.
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Cast and Crew
The Dead Report is produced by a husband and wife team of David and Joanne Taylor; David shoots and edits the show, Joanne contacts guests and conducts interviews. Sasha Taylor (David's sister) has been a segment producer on the show and conducts the "Dead on the Street" interview segment.
• Dave Taylor, Supervising Producer and Host
• Joanne Taylor, Co-Producer and Host
• Sasha Taylor, Segment Producer and Reporter
• The Zombiemaster, Segment Producer, Reporter, Marketing
• Sheldon Steere, Segment Producer "Night of the Living Dead; LIVE!", Episode 1
• Sheleigh Bober, Segment Producer "A Tribute to George A. Romero", Episode 5
• Zookiemommy, Correspondent
• James/Schloonktapooxis, Correspondent
There are several roles that a contributor can take on at The Dead Report:
• Correspondent; A video blogger who regularly contributes
commentary and reviews about zombie related media and/or news.
• Reporter; Gathers video of events and shoots B-Roll. Collects
jpegs and Quicktime movies for an editor to build a piece from.
Reporter will write the VO for their package.
• Editor; Compiles footage gathered by reporters, records VO when
necessary, animate jpegs, create titles, compresses and uploads
video package.
• Producer; A reporter who edits their own material and can deliver
a complete package.
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Episode Guide
The Dead Report Episode 1
In this episode of The Dead Report: We've got a segment on "Night of the Living Dead: Live on stage". Sasha Taylor joins us for the Dead on the Street segment.
The Dead Report Episode 2
In this episode of The Dead Report: 28 Months Later news, Diary of the Dead news, a review of Fido, and footage from comicon 2007 of director George Romero in conversation with author Max Brooks.
The Dead Report Episode 3
In this episode of The Dead Report: Zombies on TV, the Crawling Zombie toy, a review of "Living With Zombies", Sash comes back atcha' with a "Dead of the Street" interview segment, GameZombie.tv hits us with a hammer of apocalyptic precautionary advice, Indy Mogul cooks up another Backyard FX segment with three rad recipes for homemade brains for the independent filmmakers and general pranksters out there...
The Dead Report Episode 4
In this episode of The Dead Report; Argento and Romero get some FEEDBACK from Rue Morgue and we take a closer look at the connections between Orson Welles and George Romero- including interviews with "Dawn of the Dead" star Richard France, director Dylan Russell and playwright Peter Finch.
The Dead Report Episode 5
In this episode of The Dead Report: Variety reviews Diary of the Dead and we present a tribute to Romero shot by vlogger Sheleigh Bober. We discuss the phenomena of zombie walks, parties and zombie dances. TDR was dead-on-the-scene for the 2007 Zombie Prom hosted by The Pagan Alliance and we interview the emcees: TV’s Mr. Lobo --host of Cinema Insomnia-- and The Queen of Trash; star of song, stage and comic book.
The Dead Report Episode 6
In this episode of The Dead Report: Joanne interviews the dead sexy dance troupe the Living Dead Girlz Dave Interviews the webmaster of zombiepinups.com Chad Savage, and one of the zombie models from zombiepinups.com Sin Dee. This episode is chock full of interview-ey goodness!!!
The Dead Report Episode 7
In this episode of The Dead Report: some Diary of the Dead sequel news and it's Spanish cousin, is coming stateside. We also visit Thrillville's Zombie-Rama for some fiendish fun with Will "The Thrill" Viharo, Mr. Lobo, The Twilight Vixen Review, Dr. Zombie, and a couple of robots.
The Dead Report: Episode 8
In this episode: We show our support for the cause with a wristband of zombie solidarity that we found at NovemberFire.com
Dave interviews Rob Sacchetto of zombieportraits.com about his zombification service and his movie parody zombie posters...
New TDR producer "The Zombiemaster" interviews Chuck Jarman of Bump in the Night Productions, makers of the worlds raddest Halloween masks and awesome horror props. Chuck fills us in on his methods, his gear, and what he's got coming up...
Check them out at www.bumpinthenightproductions.com
The Dead Report Minute
These one minute episodes usually tend to be focussed on more timely issues such as calendar items and breaking news. Past Dead Report Minute segments have been used to promote zombie film screenings and zombie events.
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Links:
http://www.thedeadreport.com, The Dead Report Blog
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=259686258, The Dead Report on iTunes
http://youtube.com/thedeadreportpodcast, The Dead Report's YouTube Channel
http://video.yahoo.com/video/group?gid=2442879 The Dead Report's Yahoo Channel
http://terrorfeed.com/thedeadreport.php The Dead Report's Terrorfeed Channel
According to The Dead Report's iTunes description:
"We watch zombie movies, read zombie comics, go to zombie events and report on zombie news from around the web. Whenever possible, we interview the filmmakers, artists, performers or participants involved. The Dead Report is an HD 720p video podcast formatted for AppleTV or iTunes playback on a sweet monitor."
The Dead Report producer's decision to produce in HD has limited the show's native playback to non-portable devices due to the sheer size and quality of the high definition video. Portable devices such as the iPod and PMP devices must either convert the video to play back on their native device, or connect to YouTube.com from their portable device to watch the YouTube feed of the show. On The Dead Report's iTunes page, "Doomsdave" offers the suggestion that iTunes can convert videos for playing on the iPod nearly automatically by right clicking (or control clicking with a one-button Apple mouse) and choosing "Convert selection for iPod/iPhone". It was not mentioned that the Mac/Win freeware application "MPEG Streamclip" can also convert for many other devices and file formats including, but not limited to, the iPhone and iPod family of devices.
----
Cast and Crew
The Dead Report is produced by a husband and wife team of David and Joanne Taylor; David shoots and edits the show, Joanne contacts guests and conducts interviews. Sasha Taylor (David's sister) has been a segment producer on the show and conducts the "Dead on the Street" interview segment.
• Dave Taylor, Supervising Producer and Host
• Joanne Taylor, Co-Producer and Host
• Sasha Taylor, Segment Producer and Reporter
• The Zombiemaster, Segment Producer, Reporter, Marketing
• Sheldon Steere, Segment Producer "Night of the Living Dead; LIVE!", Episode 1
• Sheleigh Bober, Segment Producer "A Tribute to George A. Romero", Episode 5
• Zookiemommy, Correspondent
• James/Schloonktapooxis, Correspondent
There are several roles that a contributor can take on at The Dead Report:
• Correspondent; A video blogger who regularly contributes
commentary and reviews about zombie related media and/or news.
• Reporter; Gathers video of events and shoots B-Roll. Collects
jpegs and Quicktime movies for an editor to build a piece from.
Reporter will write the VO for their package.
• Editor; Compiles footage gathered by reporters, records VO when
necessary, animate jpegs, create titles, compresses and uploads
video package.
• Producer; A reporter who edits their own material and can deliver
a complete package.
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Episode Guide
The Dead Report Episode 1
In this episode of The Dead Report: We've got a segment on "Night of the Living Dead: Live on stage". Sasha Taylor joins us for the Dead on the Street segment.
The Dead Report Episode 2
In this episode of The Dead Report: 28 Months Later news, Diary of the Dead news, a review of Fido, and footage from comicon 2007 of director George Romero in conversation with author Max Brooks.
The Dead Report Episode 3
In this episode of The Dead Report: Zombies on TV, the Crawling Zombie toy, a review of "Living With Zombies", Sash comes back atcha' with a "Dead of the Street" interview segment, GameZombie.tv hits us with a hammer of apocalyptic precautionary advice, Indy Mogul cooks up another Backyard FX segment with three rad recipes for homemade brains for the independent filmmakers and general pranksters out there...
The Dead Report Episode 4
In this episode of The Dead Report; Argento and Romero get some FEEDBACK from Rue Morgue and we take a closer look at the connections between Orson Welles and George Romero- including interviews with "Dawn of the Dead" star Richard France, director Dylan Russell and playwright Peter Finch.
The Dead Report Episode 5
In this episode of The Dead Report: Variety reviews Diary of the Dead and we present a tribute to Romero shot by vlogger Sheleigh Bober. We discuss the phenomena of zombie walks, parties and zombie dances. TDR was dead-on-the-scene for the 2007 Zombie Prom hosted by The Pagan Alliance and we interview the emcees: TV’s Mr. Lobo --host of Cinema Insomnia-- and The Queen of Trash; star of song, stage and comic book.
The Dead Report Episode 6
In this episode of The Dead Report: Joanne interviews the dead sexy dance troupe the Living Dead Girlz Dave Interviews the webmaster of zombiepinups.com Chad Savage, and one of the zombie models from zombiepinups.com Sin Dee. This episode is chock full of interview-ey goodness!!!
The Dead Report Episode 7
In this episode of The Dead Report: some Diary of the Dead sequel news and it's Spanish cousin, is coming stateside. We also visit Thrillville's Zombie-Rama for some fiendish fun with Will "The Thrill" Viharo, Mr. Lobo, The Twilight Vixen Review, Dr. Zombie, and a couple of robots.
The Dead Report: Episode 8
In this episode: We show our support for the cause with a wristband of zombie solidarity that we found at NovemberFire.com
Dave interviews Rob Sacchetto of zombieportraits.com about his zombification service and his movie parody zombie posters...
New TDR producer "The Zombiemaster" interviews Chuck Jarman of Bump in the Night Productions, makers of the worlds raddest Halloween masks and awesome horror props. Chuck fills us in on his methods, his gear, and what he's got coming up...
Check them out at www.bumpinthenightproductions.com
The Dead Report Minute
These one minute episodes usually tend to be focussed on more timely issues such as calendar items and breaking news. Past Dead Report Minute segments have been used to promote zombie film screenings and zombie events.
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Links:
http://www.thedeadreport.com, The Dead Report Blog
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=259686258, The Dead Report on iTunes
http://youtube.com/thedeadreportpodcast, The Dead Report's YouTube Channel
http://video.yahoo.com/video/group?gid=2442879 The Dead Report's Yahoo Channel
http://terrorfeed.com/thedeadreport.php The Dead Report's Terrorfeed Channel