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S4E4 - The Big One Hundred from 2018-04-15T13:36:06
Hello, The Listener! Welcome to a very special podcast special; it's the one hundredth DLC episode! That's right, the century mark! Triple digits! The Grand Hundo! We are so very thankful for the s...
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S4E3 - March Backwards Into Heck from 2018-03-25T12:29:49
Another month and we are back again The Listener! Personal and scheduling conflicts have messed with the recording opportunities but we made time to do a Podcasting just for you! We start off with ...
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S4E2 - Gex And Mortal Kombat Are Basically The Same Thing from 2018-02-18T13:32:22
Hello and apologies for the delay, The Listener! You may have been worried about our absence but we are back, and the only thing to worry about is Talen's French speaking. In this episode we discus...
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S4E1 - Holding Out For A Hero from 2018-01-07T14:34:02
Happy new year, The Listener! Yes, we are back, no, December didn't happen. Don't worry about it, December isn't real anyways. What's important is that it's January and you know what that means - a...
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S3E23 - Ecin from 2017-11-19T17:06:21
It took a minute, but we are back with the 96th episode of the Downloadable Concept Podcast! To celebrate, Fox and Jeb made the incredible joke for this episode title. In the episode proper, Fox ta...
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S3E22 - Drop Test from 2017-11-05T13:50:10
Happy November, The Listener! We've got a special treat for you, as we sorta discuss current gaming news in the form of World of Warcraft Classic. There's some talk about rage quitting, Jeb is back...
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S3E21 - Bees Nuts from 2017-10-22T13:50:58
Hello, The Listener, we are back! So it turns out every time we try to record in October, we get slightly sicker. But we managed to get something together for y'all. A very quick run-through of wha...
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S3E20 - Asymmetry from 2017-09-24T13:29:35
Hello, The Listener! We're back with a brand new edition. After a brief run of nostalgia, we take a dabble in the realm of asymmetrical games and talk about a few choice titles. Then in Retro Gamin...
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S3E19 - Lag from 2017-09-10T13:13:57
Hello there, The Listener. This week, lag happened! Hooray! We were all ready to go and have topical discussions but technical whatsitproblems happened and caused Jeb to live further in the past. W...
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S3E18 - If It Is Broke Fix It from 2017-09-03T14:32:11
Welcome The Listener to September! Accidentally a topic emerged as we got sidetracked to talk about games that started out not so good but got much better. Meanwhile Fox catches everyone up on Yuri...
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S3E17 - Do Not Shake The Munchlax from 2017-08-27T13:59:04
Welcome back, The Listener! I hope you are feeling well. You are important and you matter. Fox and Talen are back from a conventional weekend, so it's time to catch up! Immediately the plan gets th...
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S3E16 - Says I Just Spoilers from 2017-08-13T14:04:17
We've got a treat for you, The Listener! In this episode, we *spoilers*, and *spoilers*, before discussing Arbitrary Decisions and in doing so, *spoilers*. Retro Gaming News is, of course, *Spoile...
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S3E15 - Shop Class from 2017-08-06T12:59:14
Welcome to August, The Listener! The most August of months. In this episode, we talk about a few series that may have gone on a little longer than necessary in a not at all self-aware fashion, foll...
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S3E14 - Two Fifths Two Feelious from 2017-07-30T13:31:53
We're back, The Listener! Two of us have escaped the Mimic Invasion. The Munchlax Brigade is recovering, so it's just Talen and a Jeb this go around. After the Mimic times, we realized games are no...
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S3E13 - Mimicry from 2017-07-16T13:05:31
Beware, the Listener! In this episode, not everything is quite what it appears to be. A theme occurs organically after accidentally connecting a common thread in what we've been playing. After th...
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S3E12 - Professor Sleeve's Wild Ride from 2017-07-02T14:03:59
After last week's episode totally didn't disappear into the aether, the crew is back and arguably better than ever. This week includes Jeb discussing Poi, which he mispronounced as Pio, before an a...
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S3E11 - Happy Kirbday Wario from 2017-06-18T12:29:02
We're back, thanks to the contributions of you, The Listener, on our Patreon! Jeb has been able to circumvent the desk-based plight that befell the previous episode and I hope Talen doesn't read th...
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S3E10 - Big The Cat X Waluigi OTP from 2017-05-28T14:02:28
A short one this week, on account of a desk-related incident in the Canada Division of DLC. But we do manage a brief discussion of Star Ocean 3, starring Fayt Leingod, the second-best Star Ocean ga...
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S3E9 - April Is Prohibited from 2017-05-21T13:00:35
Hello The Listener! A whole lot of everything happened over the past, like, month, but after ten thousand years we're free. In this episode, Jeb tells us about a month's worth of RPGs, while Fox an...
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S3E8 - Zanarkand Abe Vigodas from 2017-04-23T12:21:59
This week: Hello The Listener! We almost talked about Full Throttle Remastered but had to get sidetracked because our brand is strong. Then we take time to talk about some overlooked titles from 20...
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S3E7 - We Make Editing Hard For Talen from 2017-04-09T13:00:09
This week: Hello The Listener! It's been a minute, so time to catch up on what the crew has been up to over the past few weeks. We rehash some old jokes, and before hitting up 1995 in Retro Gaming ...
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S3E6 - Crisis On Infinite Crises from 2017-03-19T14:03:04
This week: Despite the concentrated efforts of everything going wrong, The Listener, we have managed to cobble together an episode for this week! We talk a bit more about the games we'd talked abou...
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S3E5 - The One Where We Talk About New Games from 2017-03-12T13:01:25
This week: Hello again again again again, The Listener! This week, our entire crew has been playing recent titles, even Talen, so we're slightly relevant! In the land of retro gaming news, we look ...
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S3E4 - Surprisingly Few Sonic Jokes from 2017-03-05T16:11:31
This week: Team Australia had some business to attend to, so we had to look deep in our hearts for the immortal words of Sonic M. Hedgehog - we had to go fast. But we did get in some talk about Tor...
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S3E3 - No, Not That E3 from 2017-02-26T13:58:35
This week: While thunderstorms in the world of Jeb threatened to delay the podcast, your favourite DLC crew persevered and delivered an episode to you, our dear The Listener, in back-to-back weeks!...
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S3E2 - Games Happened, Carpentry Did Not from 2017-02-19T14:02:04
This week: Thanks to a stunning array of scheduling conflicts, your favourite Can-Australian Trio has been unable to yell at each other for several weeks. But the wait is over, The Listener, and so...
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S3E1 – We're e-Back! from 2017-01-22T14:06:51
This week: The holidays are over and we are back with a brand new edition! In the season three premiere, our intrepid and semi-humorous hosts talk about games played over the break. Meanwhile in wo...
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S2E25 – The Goaty GOAT Of The Year Special 2016! from 2016-12-18T14:30:39
This week: The last episode of 2016 brings our last chance to tell you the Games Of 2016 we enjoyed the most, and recommend you try out! We also talk about games that sadly, passed away, in 2016, a...
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S2E24 – The Headache Special from 2016-12-11T14:30:54
This week: This record was done while Fox was sick, Elli was overwarm and there was just not a lot going on (featuring Devil May Cry's Dante). We delve into the history of games that died in 2015, ...
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S2E23 – 1994 Corrections! from 2016-12-04T14:30:25
This week: Did you like last week's episode? Well this is more of it. We talk about Final Fantasy XV, we talk about Pokemon Sun and Talen talks more about Dishonored 2. And then, we go back to 1994...
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S2E22 – 1994 Hits Back from 2016-11-27T14:30:32
This week: Talen made an offhanded joke about 1994 in the pre-edit, and that led to him being subjected to a hail of rocks and sneers! So, in deference to this Mighty Good Year, we're talking 1994 ...
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S2E21 - Misplaced Meat Delivery from 2016-11-13T14:30:01
This week: Scheduling meant we had to record at a different time, which also meant with different prep and that meant that Talen's original idea was washed away in what amounts to one glorious nine...
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S2E19 - HALLOWEEEEEEN from 2016-10-30T14:30:53
This week: Spooooky games, odd digressions into inflated babies, October 2014 and the rite that would bring to life Count Wrenchula.
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S2E18 - Yoiks, Elli! from 2016-10-09T14:30:45
This week: We delve into what we're using Patreon money for (a mystery solving van), what Jeb thinks of Digimon, who cares what Yokai watch is, the rundown of MOAB, Fox is a terrible husband to her...
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S2E17 - The Blood Lobster's Revenge from 2016-09-25T14:30:36
This week: Jeb talks to us about Virginia, the fascinating David Lynch-em-up, Fox talks more about Xenosaga and giant honking robots under late capitalism, and Talen runs us through the arrange of ...
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S2E15 - Christ I'm Tired from 2016-08-14T16:05:44
This week: I GOT IT DONE OKAY IT'S EDITED IT'S UP OKAY OKAY, GOING TO BED NOW GOING
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S2E14 - Dark Souls With Amber! from 2016-07-24T14:30:18
This week: Talen Lee has been hiding a secret from the podcast for a few months now, and now that he's finished playing Dark Souls 1, it's time to admit it, and talk about it - and that's why we re...
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S2E13 - Pzort from 2016-07-03T14:30:55
This week: It's been a few weeks, so we catch up, talk about video and card games, and look back on the year of 1996, to see what kind of games celebrated their 20th anniversary!
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S2E12 - Emperor Birthday's Imperial Birthday Birthday Special! from 2016-06-05T14:30
This week: Today we talked about the year of Fox's birth, 1983!
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S2E11 - Its Just, Gayze from 2016-05-29T14:30:55
This week: *blows dust off Wordpress inputs* Hello! We didn't plan on having three weeks off there, sorry! But now we're back, and we're exactly the same size we were, within system tolerances and ...
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S2E10 - The 1998 Special! from 2016-04-24T14:30:23
This week: Well, we threatened to do this - quite a few times, in fact! We told you that whenever we were totally stuck for a topic of interest, we would break the glass on one of those emergency c...
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S2E9 - ALL HAIL THE GITROG MONSTER from 2016-04-17T14:30:14
This week: We talk about Dark Souls III, about Shadows over Innistrad, about Commander Keen and Miitomo and of course, Retro Gaming News!
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S2E8 - April Fools Something Or Other from 2016-04-03T14:30:35
This week: I dunno, here's an episode or something. We make fun of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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S2E7 - The Dante's Inferno/Grey's Anatomy Canon from 2016-03-20T14:30:35
This week: With stresses from work and game jams and saving New York around them, our intrepid podcasters talk about unpolished, prototype games that Talen got to play at a class event. There's als...
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S2E6 - Don't Ever Talk To Me Or My Brother Or My Brother's Brother Again from 2016-03-13T14:30:46
This week: Amidst discussions of heartwarming anecdotes about little kids, hilariously bad interfaces for PC ports and Munchlax archery, we take some time to talk about pizza gaming, games you play...
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S2E5 - super. hot. super. hot. from 2016-02-28T14:30:31
This week: Would you believe that we had, at the start of this segment, a plan for a segment? And then Super Hot happened and Mirror's Edge came up and SEGATA SANSHIRO JUDO FLIPPED THE ENTIRE PODCA...
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S2E4 - Werner Herzog Presents Gun Hazard from 2016-02-21T13:39:37
This week: In our efforts to talk - fairly sensibly - about Tom Clancy's The Division, we go way off the rails. There's Magic The Gathering talk, some gaming history, multiple cut sections of viole...
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S2E3 - Introducing SPLAMA from 2016-02-14T14:07:43
This week: Thanks to a technical error and family obligations, the team put together a low-edit podcast, with all the background hum of air conditioners that implies. But we talk about some videoga...
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S2E2 – Steve Unto Steve from 2016-01-31T14:30:16
This week: This week, we talk about The Blackwell Epiphany, Project Mirai DX, and Jonathon Blow's The Witness, a Jonathon Blow Game By Jonathon Blow. Then, after a rousing game of Retro Gaming News...
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S2E1 – We Have A Theme from 2016-01-24T14:30:25
This week: Welcome back, The Listener! If you've not noticed there's some changes going on and we're going to be keeping you posted on them bit by bit - because of course, no technical change goes ...
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S1E48 - The Goty Of The Year Christmas Special! from 2015-12-20T14:30:47
This week: The Christmas Special! We talk about the games we've played this year that we liked, and a little bit about making the podcast! There's a lot of swearing! We had a major record interrupt...
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S1E47 - The Elli Is A Crybaby Special from 2015-12-13T14:30:03
This week: Since it's the Christmas Special next week, we trialled the idea of a Phoning It In And Waiting For The Break Special, only to have the theme of an Elli Is A Crybaby Special thrust upon ...
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S1E46 – MMO Talk 1 from 2015-12-06T14:30:33
This week: It's a solemn anniversary, where we talk about City of Heroes, and other MMOs. We discuss, thanks to The Listener asking for it, how MMO play is different, what about it appeals to us an...
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S1E45 – Ken Pender's Sonic Knees from 2015-11-29T14:30:08
This week: Since you, The Listener asked for it, we talk about what the Downloadable Concept Podcast is about. Well, okay, no, we don't, we talk about Sonic The Hedgehog, because we are awful peopl...
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S1E44 – What's A Mixtape? from 2015-11-22T14:30:21
This week: Where the hell were we last week? Turns out that we were lost in various wildernesses! But good news, this week instead, we have talk about tabletop games, mix tapes, a minimum of edits,...
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S1E43 – Professor Oak's Wild Ride from 2015-11-08T14:30:28
This week: We have some talk about Magic: The Gathering, share some tales of Dog Bear and Spooky Bonus. There's a little section where we talk about Lovely Games, games which are nice and comfortin...
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S1E42 – Tenuously Connected from 2015-11-01T14:30:05
This week: We talk about Rune Factory 4, about Final Fantasy 14, about the backstory of Yuri Duelists, and wind up sluicing down November 2010's bizarrely dense release schedule for the Kinect, and...
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S1E41 – Fuck It, That'll Do (The Halloween Special) from 2015-10-25T14:30:20
This week: This week, we have weird diversions into Talen's incredibly anti-Halloween childhood, answer The Listener's The Question, talk about card games and get generally s̨̫̺̜̣͈̫̠̲̥͑̋̇̐̋̈́́͗̕̚p̈͠...
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S1E40 – ME GRIMLOCK TAKES OVER from 2015-10-18T14:30:37
This week: Our dedication to continuing to marinate in the gaming culture we're enjoying, both for good and ill means we wind up spending some time talking about accessability in game design, about...
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S1E39 – We Have Censor Beeps Now from 2015-10-11T14:30:09
This week: Holy crap we came prepared this week but it doesn't stop us from having digressions that had to get cut like 'the danger of swans' and bootlegging videogames across the border. In the me...
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S1E38 – The Generic White Guy Episode from 2015-10-04T14:30:15
This week: This week we finally talk - a little bit - about Kentucky Route Zero, we explain what a Rune Factory is, Talen and Jeb ruminate some on the Uruk-stabbing simulator Shadows of Mordor and ...
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S1E36 – Jacesplaining from 2015-09-20T14:30:33
This week: There's been a rash of talk about Magic: The Gathering and Saints Row IV and we wind up on a tangent about something to do with a kung fu movie of some description and talk about the Vid...
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S1E35 – The Complex Munchlax Canon from 2015-09-13T14:30:30
This week: The crew expose their personal relationship with stealth and failure by talking about Saints Row IV, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and The Swindle. There's talk of Yurijam games, a ...
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S1E34 – The Tity Episode from 2015-09-06T02:23:18
This week: Oh my god we just basically talk about boobs. And JRPGs. In fact we don't really talk about boobs at all? We just talk about talking about boobs. Really, it's just Jeb and Fox giggling a...
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S1E33 – The Edited Unedited Episode from 2015-08-30T14:30:28
This week: Fox has a breast cancer charity to get to work on, so we dive in without a plan, figuring something will emerge. Along the way we talk card game design, travel through time, and Jeb pled...
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S1E32 – "I've Been Playing A Lot Of Hotline Miami" from 2015-08-23T14:30:29
This week: Inspired by the Ludumdare theme, we decided to talk a bit about games where you play monsters, except we kind of spent more time talking about how messed up it is to vote for an owl. The...
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S1E30 – No-Edit Retro Gaming News! from 2015-08-09T14:30:50
This week: On the normal record time, Fox and Talen are going to be a few hundred kilometers from their computers, which means they had to whip up something quick. What you get is this supremely un...
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S1E29 – Gay Sparkle Princess Witch from 2015-08-02T14:30:22
This week: Thanks to a special guest in the form of Louise (@Cubed2d), of Generic Evil Inc., we talk about procedural generation in games, The Swindle, and of the interesting work of freelancing mi...
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S1E28 – Meet Big Deck Mulligan from 2015-07-26T14:30:27
This week: It's one part botched audio, one part unstructured mess this week, as Talen came in with a plan and nothing went according to it.
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S1E27 – The Yogobol Cometh from 2015-07-19T14:30:59
This week: The conversation about board games, card games, the notion of emergent, player-driven stories opposing in-game narrative and the strange doldrums of July and June is not helped by the ap...
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S1E26 – Dubiousoft from 2015-07-12T14:30:51
This week: After playing Black Flag, Jeb decided what he should try out is playing Watch_Dogs and see if it was quite as bad as advertised. What do you think happened, Listener?
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E1S25 – Assassins Sweepstakes from 2015-07-05T14:30:25
This week: Yo ho yo ho, it's a pirate's life for we! Jeb starts us off on a talk about Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag, which turns into a sprawling conversation about the franchise entirely! And th...
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S1E24 – Talen Doesn't Know Consoles from 2015-06-28T15:31:17
This week: It's Final Fantasy Fiesta! Because of that, we talk about Final Fantasy V, and we talk a little bit more about the year that the game came out - the context surrounding what is definitel...
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S1E23 – The E3 Bumper from 2015-06-21T14:30:34
This week: With E3 looming large on the landscape, we thought maybe it was time to do a full, deep dive on an older year. We talk about surprises that came up at E3, as we seek to avoid The Hype, a...
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S1E22– We Don't Talk About Splatoon from 2015-06-14T14:30:53
This week: Thanks to timely sales, games like Hyrule Warriors, Sunset Overdrive, Hyrule Warriors, the Steam sales, and Hyrule Warriors are all on our podcasters' minds.
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S1E21– Hype-Rule Warriorsout Four from 2015-06-07T14:30:08
This week:Apparently, Hyrule Warriors came out. Like, a year ago.
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S1E20 – The Mentioning Currency Special from 2015-05-31T14:30:05
This week: A conversation about recent games takes us past old game currencies and an exploration of what it means to be valued in a game space. And since we haven't talked about him too much latel...
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S1E19 – The Sabriel Special! from 2015-05-24T14:30:51
This week: We have the amazing Sabriel on, and we talk about upcoming new releases, about games from 2010, and we watch as Jeb's fast-answer to Retro Gaming News gets dunked.
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S1E18 - The Talen Is Wrong A Lot Special from 2015-05-17T14:30:20
This week: Gongcon postpones the record by a day, and a huge diversion you don't get to hear about sandbars led to this strange little show where we talk about Vanillaware, The Last Express, and th...
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S1E17 - The Plague And Fire Special from 2015-05-10T14:30:46
This week: We aren't dead! Despite Fox and Talen being sick, and poor Jeb's computer being bricked, we still found time to put together a quick-and-dirty podcast! Hope you enjoy!
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S1E16 – Rockin' With Jetgrind from 2015-05-03T14:30:37
This week: We have our special guest JetGrind (@JetGrindFuture) to talk about game music and musical games!
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S1E15 – Dig Deep #1 from 2015-04-26T14:30:40
This week: We dig down deep into the systems of a game Jeb was asked to review, Eastside Hockey, and Fox talks for a while about Fire Emblem!
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S1E14 – The Bubsy Gets Mentioned Special! from 2015-04-19T14:30:30
This week: 'A rambling, unstructured mess,' say critics, 'Just talking about games like Ori and Dynasty Warriors,' say others, 'I don't get the Bad Rats joke,' says another.
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S1E13 – Accessibility and Puzzles from 2015-04-12T14:30:35
This week: Inexplicably, between making fun of Talen and the Retro Gaming News, we somehow find the time to talk about accessability and puzzling in videogames!
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S1E12 – The Bad Rats Special, with FutureFriendSA! from 2015-04-05T14:30:27
This week: We have a special guest, FutureFriendSA, who talks to us about awful videogames, Lets Play culture, and delves into what Bad Rats even is.
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S1E11 – The Talen Can't Be Arsed To Edit Special from 2015-03-29T14:30:44
This week: Thanks to Room 801, Fox and Talen have a massively curtailed schedule, so we just talked for an hour and played Retro Gaming News! But in the process, we celebrated a puppy's birthday, e...
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S1E10 – We're Not Talking About Sonic from 2015-03-22T14:30:14
This week: We talk about Jeb's decision to engage with games more deeply, and the idea of playing games until you're done with them. We talk about how you 'beat' a game, and then move on to a littl...
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S1E9 – A Drop Of Vitriol from 2015-03-15T14:30:27
This week: We ask and answer the question Which videogame character is the worst at his or her job?, and discuss the Ubisoft games - both their good, and their bad - that are on sale right now!
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S1E8 – Dragon Dragon Fuck The Dragon from 2015-03-08T14:30:32
This week: We discuss #NanoRenO, a pile of upcoming visual novels, and the upcoming Magic: The Gathering expansions.
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S1E7 - Indiecade IS a Word from 2015-03-01T13:59:36
This week: Holy crap, Indiecade! There's a lot of stuff to talk about here, and Compufreak has come down from his icy igloo to share stories about what he saw and played with at Indiecade, includin...
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S1E6 - Invisible Histories from 2015-02-22T14:30:55
This week: The strange and curious case of the Lords of the Fallen sale, and discuss the histories behind videogames we're losing thanks to opaque development. We talk about Room 801, about Constru...
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S1E5 - The Friday The 13th Valentines Day Special! from 2015-02-15T14:30:10
This week: We discuss Friday the 13th in videogames, with a discussion of spoooky horror games; we talk about bad luck in games; and we talk about romance in videogames, after Valentine's day. Fina...
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S1E4 - It's Not Loom, Dammit from 2015-02-08T14:30:06
This week: Lyne, Magic Online, Retro Gaming News, Sunless Sea launches, JustOneTime.
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S1E3 - Not Associated With #IDARB from 2015-02-01T14:30:14
This week: We dedicate almost a full hour of the podcast to a discussion of point-and-click adventure games, both their history and modern examples that have expanded on and explored the mechanisms...
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S1E2 - Not Making The Edit from 2015-01-25T14:30:35
This week: Cat Goes Fishing, The Long Dark, Phone Games, Dog Sled Saga, The Humble Card Bundle, Retro Game News, And the team play 'Four Games That-', like all those cool Twitter people do. Also, J...
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S1E1 - Sexing Yoshis from 2015-01-19T11:15:05
This week: 2014 Videogames, Dark Souls, Sexing Yoshis, The Worst Dad In Videogames, Retro Gaming News, Swearing In British and the adventures of Crotch Knight.
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