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Your Insert Credit Panel covers bargaining with publishers, sordid secrets of video game couples, and the Zohran Mamdani of esports.
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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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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