Your Insert Credit Panel covers bargaining with publishers, sordid secrets of video game couples, and the Zohran Mamdani of esports.
SHOW NOTES:
- Cookie’s Bustle
- Linux
- Steam Deck
- Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
- Stevie Nicks
- “Nothin here except a stinkin’ pile of manure.”
- Coke Zero
- Looney Tunes
1: What’s your favorite cartridge shape? (03:19)
- Atari Jaguar
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Game Boy
- Game Gear
- Sega Genesis
- HuCard
- TurboGrafx-16
- WonderSwan
- Game Boy Advance
2: As a game developer, how do you buy more time from your publisher? (08:21)
3: What are the most important skills people don’t talk about in esports? (13:16)
4: Given recent drama, what are some other secrets of video game character couples? (18:55)
- Capcom Addresses Street Fighter 6 'Incest' Controversy
- Alex
- Street Fighter III
- Bayonetta 3
- Sonic ‘06
- Sonic
- Princess Elise the Third
- Shadow
- Maria Robotnik
- Tails
- Mary Shelly
- Frankenstein
5: What video game would you recommend to Mary Shelly? (27:15)
- Date Everything
- Elden Ring
- White Day: A Labyrinth Named School
- Yume Nikki
- Silent Hill f
- Fatal Frame
- Frankenstein: The Monster Returns
- Monster Mash
- Amiga
- Guitar Hero series
- Spooky Scary Skeletons
- Final Fantasy XV
6: SteveWithaB asks, was there a time you remember being bullied for enjoying video games? (30:04)
7: What is the waking up just a few minutes before your alarm of video games? (37:47)
- Treasure Co., Ltd.
- Ironic
- Batman: Arkham series
- Resident Evil: requiem
- Crimson Desert
- Grand Theft Auto VI
LIGHTNING ROUND: ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID? (41:26)
Recommendations and Outro (58:38):
- Frank: Kinetica, actually donate the stuff you set aside to donate
- Brandon: Suddenly In The Dark (1981)
- Ash: Out of the Closet Thrift Stores
- Jaffe: Donate goods to Housing Works
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.