Hello everyone! What a week! I’ll start with the end of the week where we plan to look through a bunch of old Nintendo Power covers and come up with a list of our favorites. I’m very much looking forward to it! Earlier in the week we’ll be looking at Weird West and Moss: Book 2 which both r...
2022-04-04 16:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In this podcast we reveal that the (sparse) games of April are no match for our mighty planning skills. And hey, everybody else probably just felt the need to get out of Glover's way anyway, right? ...Right?
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In this podcast we reveal that the (sparse) games of April are no match for our mighty planning skills. And hey, everybody else probably just felt the need to get out of Glover's way anyway, right? ...Right?
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(00:02:12) LEGO Star Wars: The ...
This week the video games are here, including Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Weird West, the end of Ghostwire Tokyo, Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files, and some more Tunic. Also: Sony’s PlayStation Plus Plus announcement, the Breath of the Wild 2 delay, Fast & Furious Crossroads speeds off i...
2022-03-30 22:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post
You never know where this podcast is going to go, and this week it mainly went to a crash course on the Weekly World News, with a sprinkling of Doc Martens, Nintendo Power, vegetables canning, and Lisa Loeb along the way. Long live Batboy!
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You know what time it is: the end of the month, the time when we present to you, the noble patron, some stream options to choose from as we give to you our thanks in a visual form. Register your vote below for the stream taking place this Friday, April 1st (no joke!), and here are some handy link...
2022-03-29 21:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhat’s with all the birthdays? There are so many right now, so I might as well say “Happy Birthday” to cover my bases! This week we’ll be tackling Kirby and more on the podcast. Will we be finishing Scrap Mechanic? We’re so close! We’ve got the Ramblecast, more Alex-y Quest, a Patron...
2022-03-28 16:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post
You had questions--about shoes in the house, the dangers of rented storage spaces, our most and least favorite things about the Bay Area, making and maintaining friendships, dead and dying game consoles, our favorite words--and once again, we had answers!
2022-03-24 20:08:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve all gotten into Ghostwire Tokyo this week and thus we dissect our time in slightly spooky Shibuya, Vinny finished Tunic and has Thoughts (!), Alex and Brad are… still playing Stranger of Paradise, and we cover the latest news, including management issues at Moon Studios and Funomena, th...
2022-03-24 00:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Ramble time! Did we remember to cancel that San Francisco gym membership? Is one of us about to become an accordion owner? Can you hack a Roku (and would you even want to)? Just how many style parodies has Weird Al done, anyway? Is Vinny discovering all kinds of regional quirks via ham radio? Lis...
2022-03-22 19:13:52 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Happy Monday! We’ve got some hot releases this week with Ghostwire and Kirby. We’ll be covering them both in streaming form (Monday and Friday) and (at least Ghostwire) in audio on the podcast this week! All the major form-groups. A balanced media diet. We’ll also have Alex-y Quest t...
2022-03-21 18:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The coming of March has blessed us with an end-of-fiscal bounty of games, as we spend a bunch of this week’s episode digging deep into Ghostwire: Tokyo, Tunic, and the ever-baffling Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Plus: Vinny’s late-game Horizon thoughts, some speculation about th...
2022-03-17 00:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's ramble has us digging into a wiiide array of topics, such as: why Greenwich gets to have all the (mean time) fun, the many offensive uses of glitter, some relics fro...
2022-03-15 20:24:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey Everyone! I’m really excited to get my hands on Tunic this week. I’ve been dumping a bunch of hours into Horizon, but wouldn’t mind switching it up and Tunic seems like just the thing. We’ll be talking about that and also some early impressions from Ghostwire: Tokyo on the podcast thi...
2022-03-14 16:20:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Alex does double duty this week with Gran Turismo 7 and WWE 2K22, our weekly progress checks with Elden Ring and Horizon continue, the Xbox leaves a tiny footprint in Japan, we watch that Obi-Wan trailer, an intra-apartment sonic battle looms, and more!
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2022-03-10 00:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Another ramble is upon us, and this week we get into everything from the terrifying size of wavelengths to the world's biggest antenna(s), how many birthday parties is too many, hoarding your children's possessions for decades (or not), whether a person REALLY needs 10 gigabit Internet (yes), wha...
2022-03-08 23:04:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s like 72F degrees outside right now! I think it was like the 30s yesterday. Are things… heating up in video game land? Well, we’ll have some Gran Turismo 7 and WWE 2K22 to look at and help you decide this week. We’ve also got another episode of the Comfy Crew with Mary Kish, and Alex-...
2022-03-07 19:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! We've been kicking around the idea of doing a video version of the Planorama--you know, so you can see the video games as well as hear about them--and now that the internal game releases tool Vinny's been banging on is entering a usable state, we gave the video a test run this month before...
2022-03-03 23:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post
February was a cavalcade of big games, but March appears to be no slouch as we dig through the next month's release list to see what's what. From Kirby to Ghostwire: Tokyo, Triangle Strategy to the annual wrestle-fest, Tunic to Gran Turismo 7, and, uh, wherever Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy...
2022-03-03 22:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
VIDEO GAMES! There are a lot of them out, and we check in with our progress through Horizon and Elden Ring, plus Shadow Warrior 3, Far: Changing Tides, and Destiny 2: The Witch Queen. Also: Epic's Bandcamp acquisition, the words "Fallout: New Vegas 2," a hit list for wrestling talent, and more. 2022-03-03 00:25:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Patreon CMS is doing its best to stop this podcast from posting, but the Ramblecast yearns to be free! Join us for new microphones, old web eras, Gabe Claus and the wonderful Steam Decksmas, and more!
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2022-03-02 02:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostHappy almost March! As predicted, I’ve switched back to Horizon to try and make as much progress through that one as I can before jumping back to Elden Ring. Currently, I’m around 30 hours in and really enjoying it. We’ll have more on that on the podcast, along with Elden and some Shadow Wa...
2022-02-28 19:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This short but action-packed month is almost over, which means it's time for another question-and-answer session with you, our supporter! This time we take Qs about dangerous teenage activities, exotic user icons, the legendary Kart Kall, and the eternal taco debate: hard versus soft (or both?!?)...
2022-02-24 23:03:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Elden Ring is out this week, and we have gotten drawn into, chewed up by, and spat out of its gaping open-world maw. Plus: some later-game thoughts on Horizon Forbidden West's story twists, thoughts on whether the world needs another Street Fighter, a consideration of the ever-expanding definitio...
2022-02-24 00:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Roughly 90 percent of this podcast is a methodical look back through the last 30-ish years of music and pop culture, with a smattering of chattering about that Foo Fighters horror movie, baby's first headcanon, preparing for the looming vibe shift, and more.
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2022-02-22 22:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this sure has been a February to remebruary, what with the likes of Elden Ring and Horizon and Sifu and Dying Light and... yeah. A lot of games. Now it's time to decompress, play some other and decidedly more offbeat games, and say a resounding thanks to you, the patrons making all...
2022-02-21 22:44:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Hello! While I’m still really invested in Horizon Forbidden West, we’ll be switching gears this week to check out Elden Ring. Look for our thoughts on this week’s podcast along with a livestream on Thursday. We’ll also be continuing with Alex-y Quest, the Ramblecast, and the ...
2022-02-21 17:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's show is all about our evolving thoughts on Horizon: Forbidden West, from art and visual design to combat and gear, the continuation of Zero Dawn's story, and more. Plus: Favorites from the soon-to-be-abolished Wii U and 3DS eShops, an update on the (supposed) Resident Evil 4 remake, V...
2022-02-16 23:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
How old are our pets? Do we even know? Are we a tie-dye podcast or a HyperColor podcast? Have we solved the mystery of crypto? What's up with that new Lord of the Rings show? How many NFL teams does one city need? Is Vinny going to launch his own TV station? If you want some answers, you'll just ...
2022-02-15 22:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings, Nextlanders! Hope you had a good Super Bowl weekend, or if you're from Cincinnati, you're finding love and support among your fellow Ohioans. This week's schedule is going to heavily feature Horizon: Forbidden West, but we've got some other game business to tackle too. Without further ...
2022-02-14 17:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post