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  • Saints Row IV Collector’s Edition Survey: The March 2013 Report

    Preservation edition: an attributed synopsis of Dustin Triplett’s March 19, 2013 Geekenstein report, recovered from an August 21, 2017 Common Crawl capture. The complete written report survives. Later announcement context and the collecting exercise below are separate editorial additions checked October 7, 2026.

    What the March 2013 report established

    Triplett reported that the Saints Row Facebook page had shared a survey listing nineteen items that might be included in a Saints Row IV collector’s edition if readers showed enough interest. His report emphasized the range: ordinary clothing and pins appeared alongside a Johnny Gat memorial statue and a remote-controlled aircraft. He invited readers to choose what they would like to see.

    The report was about possible extras. It was neither an unboxing nor a confirmation that the complete list would be produced.

    The proposed extras, grouped by their role

    • Clothing and accessories: a themed shirt, campaign pins and hats, car flags, a tie and tie bar, a money clip and a belt buckle.
    • Display and novelty objects: a character figurine, a Johnny Gat memorial statue, a voice-changing device, a briefcase with novelty handcuffs, a Dubstep Doomsday Button, a nonlethal weapon replica and an Eagle Jet remote-controlled aircraft.
    • Printed and packaged objects: a poster tube, concept-art book, Steelbook, cloth map and wooden cigar box.
    • Edition extras: a proposed download card, a presidential seal or coin, and a lit glass display case.

    These groups summarize the survey’s named possibilities; they are not a contents checklist for a released product. The old survey is not presented as an active form.

    A later, separately dated bundle announcement

    A reproduction of Deep Silver’s June 4, 2013 press announcement identifies the North American Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition. It describes a twelve-inch Dub Step gun replica, an eight-inch Johnny Gat statue and a pocket-size Dubstep Doomsday Button, plus Commander in Chief digital extras. This later source narrows the announced bundle; it does not turn every March suggestion into a shipped component.

    Read the reproduced June 2013 publisher announcement. This preservation pass has not inspected a physical copy or verified present-day redemption of its digital extras.

    Use the history to check an actual edition

    Start with the title, edition, platform and region printed on the offered package. List the actual components separately, then mark each as shown, reported, absent or unknown. Keep visible condition, demonstrated operation and digital access as different fields. A survey idea is not evidence that a component belongs in every copy.

    Continue with KLXCards’ collector-edition evidence and contents guide for a worked three-stage record and questions that resolve missing information. Geekenstein’s six-field collecting worksheet also gives you a compact record to keep alongside photographs.

    Historical source and preservation notes

    Original reporting: Dustin Triplett, March 19, 2013. This is a condensed written preservation edition. The capture date is not the original publication date. No historical image, missing unboxing video, current code validity or newly performed product inspection is claimed.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · Collector-edition reading trail

  • Telltale Games’ Poker Night 2 Review

    Preservation edition: an attributed synopsis of Jake Petersen’s May 1, 2013 Geekenstein review, recovered from an August 23, 2017 Common Crawl capture. The review assessed the PC version and also listed Xbox 360. Its written argument survives; this edition does not claim a new playtest.

    Petersen initially thought Poker Night 2’s unusual cast might be an April Fools joke. Playing it changed his view: he praised the conversation and character interactions as the strongest reason to enjoy this particular poker game.

    Characters were the main attraction

    The review brought together Brock Samson, Claptrap, Ash Williams and Sam, with GLaDOS as dealer. Petersen valued the writing and how the characters’ personalities carried into their interactions. His positive assessment was aimed especially at readers familiar with one or more of those characters.

    He also liked the poker AI, while clearly admitting that he was not an experienced poker player. His descriptions of conservative or impulsive character play were the reviewer’s observations, not an independently measured model of the game’s AI.

    Two variants, with different hand-building rules

    Petersen described Texas Hold’em as combining two hole cards with five community cards to make a hand. He distinguished Omaha, where a player receives four hole cards and must use exactly two of them with exactly three community cards. The cast and those rules formed his picture of an accessible, varied poker experience.

    The article mentioned Team Fortress 2 unlockables and ended with a favorable purchase recommendation. Its price and old purchase advice are omitted here because they do not establish availability or reward access today. No numerical score has been inferred from a rating-image filename.

    Current title context, checked October 7, 2026

    Skunkape Games’ Steam listing dates Poker Night at the Inventory to March 5, 2026. That is the first game, featuring Max, Strong Bad, Tycho and the Heavy, rather than this Poker Night 2 cast. This preservation edition has not established a Poker Night 2 rerelease or working redemption of its old promotions.

    Historical source and preservation notes

    This is an attributed, condensed written preservation edition. The capture date is not the article publication date. Optional historical media is not republished and no missing interview dialogue is supplied.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · Digital card history reading trail

  • Chromancer is Bringing TCGs into the Digital Era

    Preservation edition: an attributed synopsis of David Rhinehart’s September 11, 2013 Geekenstein feature, recovered from a July 28, 2017 Common Crawl capture. The original written feature survives. This edition summarizes its argument and distinguishes later sourced context from the writer’s contemporary assessment.

    Rhinehart introduced The Started Hare’s Chromancer as an attempt to rethink the digital trading card game. His interest centered on two connected proposals: giving digital editions collectible identity and making the battlefield change the basic actions available to a player.

    The promise and problem of digital scarcity

    The feature described plans for finite card print runs, individual serial IDs and later editions distinguished by artwork or design. Rhinehart saw the appeal of finding something special, but also questioned how scarcity and trading would be balanced for newcomers. His enthusiasm depended on implementation, especially keeping rare cards from overwhelming players without them.

    Those were pre-release proposals and a dated editorial judgment. The feature did not establish a functioning market, final card balance or a collectible’s present-day value.

    A battlefield that could remove basic capabilities

    Rhinehart described land generating chroma, with creatures and buildings placed on it. The Castle, Graveyard and Bank represented drawing cards, recycling discarded cards and saving resources. An opponent could attack those structures; losing one constrained what its owner could do. Movement, positioning and the twelve card colors added decisions to that framework.

    He regarded this as a promising use of the digital medium and a reason to reconsider TCGs after losing interest earlier in his gaming life. This is his 2013 assessment, not a new playtest.

    Later creator context, checked October 7, 2026

    The article anticipated a late-2013 launch. The creator’s August 2014 update still described a new beta client and an approaching open beta and launch. Keep the earlier date as a forecast. A separate September 2013 creator announcement offered a 50-card physical starter-and-promo set and Mark Poole artwork; delivery is not verified in this preservation pass.

    The related George Maasry interview is a separate historical URL whose recording or transcript remains missing. This feature does not supply that interview’s dialogue.

    Historical source and preservation notes

    This is an attributed, condensed written preservation edition. The capture date is not the article publication date. Optional historical media is not republished and no missing interview dialogue is supplied.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · Digital card history reading trail

  • Cards Against Humanity and Card Removal: A 2014 Opinion in Context

    A preservation edition · Original written source recovered

    Original coverage: Jared Brazil. June 21, 2014. Preservation edition: Geekenstein Editorial, October 5, 2026.

    Jared Brazil’s June 21, 2014 Geekenstein opinion criticized the removal of offensive Cards Against Humanity cards and the creators’ explanation for that decision. This attributed, condensed preservation edition records the argument without republishing the original’s abusive headline or treating its views as current guidance.

    The argument in the original opinion

    Brazil began by praising the game’s provocative humor when played with an appropriate group. He argued that selectively withdrawing some offensive material while retaining other provocative subjects was inconsistent with the game’s deliberately outrageous identity. His objection concerned the explanation for editorial choices, rather than a complaint that the game should avoid offensive content altogether.

    What the disagreement concerned

    The article described a public objection to a card and a creator’s response expressing regret about the joke. Brazil challenged the distinction between jokes aimed at powerful institutions and jokes aimed at people with less cultural power. He preferred a consistent rationale for the game’s content and interpreted selective removal as a contradiction. These are the historical writer’s judgments; this page does not endorse his language or assumptions about gender.

    Opinion, evidence and edition changes

    A period opinion can document a dispute without settling it. The preserved essay is evidence of what Brazil argued in June 2014. It is not an authoritative inventory of every card in every edition, and it does not establish the contents of a copy sold today. Follow an edition’s publisher documentation or inspect the actual copy when identifying a card set.

    A current reader’s question

    For a game night, discuss the material the group wants to use before play. For a collection, record the edition and the physical contents separately from your opinion about them. The publisher’s current game information and edition FAQ provides present product context; it should not be substituted for the dated article’s argument.

    Identify the pack before extending a collection

    For a separate present-day collecting exercise, read KLXCards’ PAX-pack and edition-record guide. It distinguishes event-pack evidence, physical contents and signature provenance. The publisher’s Geek Pack description confirms a PAX connection, without proving that every convention pack has the same contents.

    Historical source and restoration notes

    The Common Crawl capture 20150902124754 contains the original introduction or written article. Capture time is not publication time. This edition paraphrases the source with attribution. Optional original images and the old entry widget are not republished. No new historical quotation or outcome is invented.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · PAX card-game reading trail

  • Cards Against Humanity Signed PAX Packs Giveaway: 2013 Archive

    A preservation edition · Original written source recovered

    Original coverage: David Rhinehart. June 28, 2013. Preservation edition: Geekenstein Editorial, October 5, 2026.

    On June 28, 2013, David Rhinehart announced a Geekenstein giveaway for three Cards Against Humanity PAX East 2013 expansion packs, described as signed by Max Temkin. This page preserves that announcement as a closed historical record.

    What the announcement offered

    The post invited readers to submit a humorous completion of a prompt in the comments during a one-week entry period. It said the team would choose the entry they found funniest and linked the site’s Max Temkin interview. A Rafflecopter giveaway appeared at the end of the source.

    The giveaway is closed

    The 2013 entry period has ended. This preservation page accepts no entries, offers no prize and makes no claim about who won. The recovered article does not establish a winner, a surviving signed copy’s authenticity or any present resale value. The original entry widget is not reactivated.

    Read the original interview

    The related Max Temkin interview and surviving video preserve the contemporary creator context. A signature described in a giveaway announcement is historical context, not authentication of an item offered today.

    Identify the pack before extending a collection

    For a separate present-day collecting exercise, read KLXCards’ PAX-pack and edition-record guide. It distinguishes event-pack evidence, physical contents and signature provenance. The publisher’s Geek Pack description confirms a PAX connection, without proving that every convention pack has the same contents.

    Historical source and restoration notes

    The Common Crawl capture 20150829205455 contains the original introduction or written article. Capture time is not publication time. This edition paraphrases the source with attribution. Optional original images and the old entry widget are not republished. No new historical quotation or outcome is invented.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · PAX card-game reading trail

  • Let’s Play Cards Against Humanity with Dan Amrich

    A preservation edition · Original recording available

    Original coverage: David Rhinehart. May 25, 2013. Preservation edition: Geekenstein Editorial, October 5, 2026.

    David Rhinehart’s May 2013 post introduced Geekenstein’s PAX session of Cards Against Humanity with Dan Amrich and Katrin Auch. The session used the newly released third expansion and PAX-exclusive packs. The original GeekensteinLive recording remains available.

    The surviving PAX recording

    The upload runs 1 hour, 41 minutes and 1 second. Both the recovered introduction and the uploader acknowledge technical problems; the video description mentions cuts and missing parts. This edition preserves the released recording as it exists. It does not claim to recover unrecorded rounds, repair missing footage or identify every card played.

    Watch the original GeekensteinLive recording on YouTube

    Identify the pack before extending a collection

    For a separate present-day collecting exercise, read KLXCards’ PAX-pack and edition-record guide. It distinguishes event-pack evidence, physical contents and signature provenance. The publisher’s Geek Pack description confirms a PAX connection, without proving that every convention pack has the same contents.

    Historical source and restoration notes

    The Common Crawl capture 20150902082937 contains the original introduction or written article. Capture time is not publication time. This edition paraphrases the source with attribution. The exact original video ID was recovered and its public GeekensteinLive watch page verified. The externally hosted recording is not downloaded or reuploaded. Its availability remains a YouTube dependency.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · PAX card-game reading trail

  • Cards Against Humanity Interview with Max Temkin

    A preservation edition · Original recording available

    Original coverage: Josh Rios. May 11, 2013. Preservation edition: Geekenstein Editorial, October 5, 2026.

    Geekenstein’s May 2013 introduction presented a conversation with Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin about making the party game. The original recording survives on GeekensteinLive. It is linked and embedded below, rather than replaced with a newly invented interview.

    Watch the original interview

    The GeekensteinLive upload runs 13 minutes and 9 seconds. The uploader apologizes for low-quality audio. The recording remains the evidence for what was asked and answered; this preservation edition does not supply a fabricated transcript or attribute new statements to Temkin.

    Watch the original GeekensteinLive recording on YouTube

    Identify the pack before extending a collection

    For a separate present-day collecting exercise, read KLXCards’ PAX-pack and edition-record guide. It distinguishes event-pack evidence, physical contents and signature provenance. The publisher’s Geek Pack description confirms a PAX connection, without proving that every convention pack has the same contents.

    Historical source and restoration notes

    The Common Crawl capture 20150903232328 contains the original introduction or written article. Capture time is not publication time. This edition paraphrases the source with attribution. The exact original video ID was recovered and its public GeekensteinLive watch page verified. The externally hosted recording is not downloaded or reuploaded. Its availability remains a YouTube dependency.

    Common Crawl source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution and corrections · PAX card-game reading trail

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: The 2014 Anarchy and Democracy Debate

    From the archive · Preservation edition

    Original coverage: Jake Petersen and Christian Mincks. February 25, 2014.

    This newly written, condensed edition preserves the argument of the recovered Geekenstein article. It is not the full original text or a new firsthand review. Illustrations are omitted.

    Two definitions of a successful stream

    Geekenstein’s February 25, 2014 debate featured Jake Petersen and Christian Mincks discussing Twitch Plays Pokémon. A crowd used chat commands to control Pokémon Red. Their dispute concerned Anarchy, which accepted the stream of inputs, and Democracy, which grouped commands into votes. The voting period discussed in the article was twenty seconds. These describe the experiment’s historical settings, not every subsequent stream or a current Twitch feature.

    Petersen: coordination should help the game advance

    Petersen argued for the voting mode as a practical answer to obstacles that chaotic inputs could make difficult. Navigating menus, operating the PC and moving through demanding areas made mistakes costly. Losing or releasing Pokémon could undo substantial progress. He accepted slower individual actions if they produced useful collective decisions. His case treated completing the adventure as an important shared objective. A method that reduced repeated errors could improve the stream even if it lacked the immediacy of every input taking effect.

    Mincks: the experiment is more than the ending

    Mincks conceded that voting could be effective. He disagreed that efficiently completing familiar game challenges should define the event’s success. For him, the unusual appeal was a crowd negotiating disorder, inventing stories and finding ways to cooperate while every voice could contribute. The Anarchy mode preserved that social experiment. Its mistakes were not merely wasted time: some became part of the community’s shared history. That argument does not say every frustrating moment was enjoyable; it gives the stream a purpose beyond reaching a conventional win state.

    The later addendum

    An addendum discussed the losses associated with the event the community called Bloody Sunday. Mincks continued to defend the chaotic mode and the meaning viewers attached to their Pokémon. This did not erase Petersen’s practical concerns. It made the disagreement clearer: a player optimizing an adventure and a spectator valuing an emergent collective story could judge the same event differently.

    A debate about play

    The piece’s mock-formal debating language concerned a game and its community, not a political endorsement. Both writers’ positions are retained here; the page is not credited solely to the author shown in the original widget. The useful question for another shared game is what participants want to accomplish together. Agreeing on that goal can matter as much as choosing the interface that processes their commands.

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    Historical source and restoration status

    The complete written article was reviewed from Common Crawl capture 20170816130626. This edition paraphrases its content and retains the original writer’s perspective. Missing illustrations or optional videos are not recreated. Capture time is not publication time.

    Common Crawl historical source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution, project context and corrections · Complete archive

  • Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: The May 2014 Announcement

    From the archive · Preservation edition

    Original coverage: Neil Scanlon. May 7, 2014.

    This newly written, condensed edition preserves the argument of the recovered Geekenstein article. It is not the full original text or a new firsthand review. Illustrations are omitted.

    The original news

    Geekenstein’s May 7, 2014 announcement reported that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company had revealed Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for Nintendo 3DS and 2DS. The article anticipated a worldwide release in November 2014. It identified the games as a return to Ruby and Sapphire, which had appeared on Game Boy Advance in 2003. Neil Scanlon is the explicit written credit in the recovered body, even though the surrounding contributor widget uses a generic label.

    What this short announcement established

    The item pointed readers to a brief teaser and press-release announcement. It did not offer a hands-on review, a detailed account of mechanics or an exact November release day. This edition preserves that narrow news intent instead of filling the route with a new review. The announcement’s forward-looking language belongs to May 2014; it is not presented as an upcoming release today.

    Continue through the archive

    The earlier X and Y report captures another moment in this period’s Pokémon coverage. The companion games-and-cards guide gives returning fans a separate route to understanding game versions and identifying printed cards. A video-game remake does not, by itself, establish the set, printing or play rules of a physical card.

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    Explore the related XY-era card history

    Editorial follow-up · Geekenstein Editorial · October 5, 2026

    The May 2014 announcement records anticipation for a return to Ruby and Sapphire’s world. If that memory leads you toward physical cards, KLXCards’ X/Y and ORAS history and collecting guide offers a separate route through XY Base Set, Flashfire and Primal Clash, with primary checklists and a printing-identification exercise.

    The game and card timelines remain distinct. Use the exact expansion and collector number to identify a card, and use the appropriate rules and current format information if you plan to play it. This follow-up complements the preserved announcement.

    Historical source and restoration status

    The complete written article was reviewed from Common Crawl capture 20170820001646. This edition paraphrases its content and retains the original writer’s perspective. Missing illustrations or optional videos are not recreated. Capture time is not publication time.

    Common Crawl historical source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution, project context and corrections · Complete archive

  • Mega Charizard and Pokémon Bank: The September 2013 Announcement

    From the archive · Preservation edition

    Original coverage: Alex Santa Maria. September 4, 2013.

    This newly written, condensed edition preserves the argument of the recovered Geekenstein article. It is not the full original text or a new firsthand review. Illustrations are omitted.

    What the report announced

    Alex Santa Maria’s September 4, 2013 report covered a Nintendo presentation ahead of Pokémon X and Y. It highlighted Mega Evolutions associated with Charizard, Venusaur and Blastoise, alongside plans for Pokémon Bank. The writer was especially enthusiastic about Charizard. The report anticipated X and Y’s October 12, 2013 release; that was a forthcoming date when it was written.

    Keeping a collection across generations

    Pokémon Bank was described as a separate Nintendo 3DS application with a fee and a role in storing and moving a video-game collection. Santa Maria connected the announcement with the practical appeal of retaining Pokémon gathered across older games and multiple DS cartridges. The article’s references to earlier generations belong to the transfer arrangements discussed in 2013. They are not current instructions for moving a save or a promise that any old service remains available.

    Video-game history, not card rules

    This was a short news report, not a review of the released games or a test of the finished transfer service. No lost presentation video has been recreated here. Mega Evolution in a video game and a named Pokémon on a printed card are different game contexts. Our companion guide explains how to move from these historical game stories to identifying physical cards without treating the two systems as interchangeable.

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    From the Mega Charizard announcement to exact cards

    Editorial follow-up · Geekenstein Editorial · October 5, 2026

    The report above concerns a video-game announcement and transfer plans in September 2013. For a separate physical-card collecting project, use KLXCards’ X/Y, ORAS and Mega Evolution collecting guide. It connects the historical game context with XY-era expansion checklists and compares two exact M Charizard-EX printings from Flashfire.

    Keep the expansion, collector number, language and finish together in your record. A game memory explains why you like a character; it does not establish a particular card’s identity or the availability of a historical transfer service today.

    Historical source and restoration status

    The complete written article was reviewed from Common Crawl capture 20170823135316. This edition paraphrases its content and retains the original writer’s perspective. Missing illustrations or optional videos are not recreated. Capture time is not publication time.

    Common Crawl historical source record

    Geekenstein and KLXCards are companion projects under the same ownership. Attribution, project context and corrections · Complete archive