Community Manager for Singularity 6 Jackie Cole joins the panel to cover the dark truth behind convention booths, not letting the gacha getcha, and Call of Looney.

Questions this week:

  1. Can games be used as tools for mental health? (03:00)
  2. Why does every MMO feel so bad to play, and can that be fixed? (07:04)
  3. Are emulation hobbyists saving or destroying video games? (11:26)
  4. Who are the nicest, most well-adjusted people in video games? (15:53)
  5. What do most people not know about running a convention booth? (20:06)
  6. Dirtbag Spencer asks: How can we make gamers care less about brands and more about the people who make video games? (23:57)
  7. Has a video game ever satisfactorily addressed a complaint you had with it while you were playing it? (29:08)
  8. Where would be the point in a documentary series about game companies where a still flips to a photo negative and the voiceover goes “And that’s where it all went wrong?” (33:15)
  9. Is there any way for Call of Duty to redeem itself ethically? (37:29)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamer Tags (41:57)

Recommendations and Outro (49:18)

Quickly, discuss this episode in the forums, before they get you!

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Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.