Status Quo Gets By With A Little Help From Its Friends

I MISSED LAST WEEK BECAUSE I WAS PAX EAST
 
All of The Echo Chamber (from L to R: me, The Ozone, Arcanon, Mystakin and Weff).

Oh God, so much happened over that weekend, so I'll just copy some stuff over from my Twitter Thread on it:
-Smack Talk Showdown/FUNEmployed:
So, it used to be that EVERY party game was trying to rip off Cards Against Humanity, which ripped off Apples to Apples.


I am thoroughly sick of Cards Against Humanity. Too much of it relies on the card being funny, the jokes don't work on everybody, and you'll always have one asshole going "OH COME ON! THAT WAS SO FUNNY!" Apples to Apples abstracts thinngs a little bit, since you can't rely on throwing down MIDGETS SHITTING IN A BUCKET LOL.

Smack Talk Showdown and FUNEmployed require you to actually be funny, and use your wits. With Smack Talk Showdown, you cut a wrestling promo with a set up, and have to deal with "Smack" cards that you need to include. FUNEmployed makes you take 4 seemingly random cards and have to present a coherent presentation on why you should get the job.

-Beat 'Em Ups Are BAAAACK! AND ALL THREE OF THEM ARE DIFFERENT?
1. Raging Justice- What's Different?
A unique art style gives the appeance that all of the characters are rotoscoped clay models, like Mortal Kombat makes DKC. Also has objectives where you can arrest certain perps for bonus points.

2. Streets Ablaze- What's different?
Full 3D characters, environmental hazards and a neat little effect that shows off your "finishing moves"

3. The Take Over- What's Different?
Made in conjunction with Matt of Super Best Friends Play, this has full 3D environments, and GUNS. Most importantly though, it has Haggar Dropkicks. MAtt's a fan of the genre, so I know he and the team will do it justice.


-Sentinels Of Freedom:
I love the Sentinel Comics verse, and I'm really glad this game is coming out.


 So far everything "fits" the tone and gameplay of the original Sentinels Of The Multiverse, and creating my own charachter only seems like an added bonus. Who knows? My they'll make me enjoy playing as Fanatic!


FRIDAY NIGHT MYSTERIES PRESENTS: DANGANRONPA EPISODE 8


Now we're getting into the good shit. The Manly Stanley joins me on this episode, and we talk about Zero Escape, Ace Attorney and my Danganronpa Theories. Like I mentioned, I'm going to try another game after this one before going to the sequel.

Hopefully he can join me in future episodes!

JAM OF THE WEEK: Danganronpa Menu Music

Because it's baller and I've never featured it before.

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 2/11/2017: Sad, Old Men

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-OH GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?

-Apparently Scrath and Sniuff actually existed:

Sounds exactly as good as you imagine a hair metal band in the 90's would sound.

-Online Play I couldn't get to work, but I'm glad it's there with all the features we mentioned. Namely the "all members get one song".

-As someone coming off a Game Jam, most of what happens when making a game comes from the testing, more so then the coding. For example. you can program a basic collision detection code to get everything else moving, but until you find out stuff like "running in a corner accelerates your character so hard you go to another dimension",then you go back and fix that error.

Like the old proverb, "Most Writing Comes In The Editing"

-I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!

​-Legendary Punk Singer Jello Biafra:


-Legendary Punk SInger Jello Biafra on Not Owen President

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-The Lee Harvey Oswalds DO exist, and I have more likes on Facebook then them and I'm a slightly better singer than them.




-YOU'RE FAKE NEWS OWEN

-The "We're gong to call you fake news until you stop attacking us" is a real thing, sadly.

-Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. If you bang in 1910s Germany, you could pop out Eva Braun. She's not a leader, though so chances are you're popping out the modern day equivalent of a modern day millennial.

-Here's John Howland's Wikipedia page, since this podcast will be the most anyone's ever thought about him.

-This the Zero Escape Timeline. Some highlights:

• (1904) In April, copies of Phi and Delta arrive (presumably in Germany or Europe) via transporter from 2029 following D-END 2. 
• (1905) Ten months after arriving by transporter, another copy of Phi is sent to 2008.
• (December 25, 2028) - In California, Sigma is knocked out by Soporil in his car. His consciousness is pushed to January 25, 2074, and his 68-year-old consciousness occupies his body in the present time. Phi's consciousness also switches places with her future consciousness. Akane joins Sigma and Phi, but her consciousness isn't from the future so she hasn't experienced the Radical-6 outbreak. The three of them infiltrate the Mars Mission Test Site (Dcom) in Nevada after using Crash Keys to hack the admin server to include them. Six others have joined the Dcom experiment for their own reasons: Junpei, Mira, Eric, Carlos, Diana, and Q. 
• (January 27, 2074) Akane has been wearing K's armor. K is revealed to be Kyle, a clone of Sigma, who has been kept in cold sleep since the beginning of the Nonary Game in this timeline. Sigma learns that his body is 67 years old, but his consciousness is from the past. Akane attacks Phi with the Myrmidon knife, making Phi and Sigma's consciousness jump back to the past to April 13th, 2029. 

 -And now a message from Commissioner Gordon:

VOICE OF ALL- AER 7 BREAKING POINTS


Dovin Baan is Dovout Baan. I'd also like to show you the bloopers I recorded!

PODCAST RECAP 12/31/2016: FUCK OFF 2017

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-Every member of the podcast is within a year of each other: Weff was born in 87, Me and Mystakin '88 and Arcanon was '89, so we all have the same frame of reference for pop culture.

-Family Feud's NEKKID GRANDMA!


-Family Feud's BUTT


-As far as Game Completion goes, a lot of that falls upon that person's personal psychology. I'm the kind of guy who would prefer to buy a game I can obsess over and play the shit out of it, then spend 60 on a game I'd only play once.

While I enjoy games like Dishonored and ZTD, there's not a lot of replayability in those games. With Stardew Valley, there's enough to do to keep me occupied. With HITMAN (2016), there's a big environment to play around in with lots of challenges sprinkled throughout.

-HowLongToBeat.com is a website that lets you import your Steam Library and let you know how long it would take to beat the games in your library. 

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-I didn't really feel like writing anything, so here's the 42 Puzzle from Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

-JinjOzone


-ShittyFlute's best song:

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 12/10/2016: Daddy Give Me The Issues

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-Why CCR was not part of the Color Bands challenge, according to head designer of Magic The Gathering: Mark Rosewater: (warning- artist is Canadian)







-The Who Super Bowl Smash Up is the only way we get any Quadrophenia on Rock Band. "5:15", "The Real Me", "Love Reign O'er Me", "Sea and Sand" WHY CAN'T WE HAVE SOME QUADROPHENIA?

-:Fire Water Burn" by The Bloodhound Gang

-For an example from Deadly Premonition, one of the side missions you do is for Michael, an aide to Harry Stewart, an eccentric businessman who is also an aficionado of gas masks. At the time of completing the game, Michael is only seen as speaking for Harry and escorting him around.


Michael adds weirdness and mystery to someone who ends up being a central character while getting little to do himself. Not a useless character, but he just serves a prupose. However, after running an errand for him, you find out that Michael is adopted and wants nothing more than to please his adopted father.


-"Stopping Points" in video games are a double edged sword. Yes, they can provide a "Hook" to get you back, but it's also a place to leave the game FOREVER. Arcanon brings up Borderlands, and like Skyrim, it's easy to forget what you're doing in a game like that because the quests are so small, and the world is so big, so if by any chance you DO come back, you're like, "Eh...."

The key there is to make the segments digestible enough in 30-60 min bursts that provide both significant value, and something big enough to come back on. I understand there's SO MUCH ELSE that a game has to account for before player psychology, but at least games are at the point to where we can have this discussion.


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-John's "Killer Voice" is but the latest in the roster of "weird voices we happen to do" and I hope, like Jonesy Spencerson, he make a comeback.

-Owen has 2 Daddies came off the tail end of the Mega 64 Podcast that day where they talk about the phrase "Daddy Give Me The Cummies" whcih is probably the least appetizing phrase in the English language behind "Trump Era Republican"

-And now, to give you some brain bleach, the worst thing I ever did:


-Marc Summers suffers from OCD, which is all the more badass considering his job as host of Double Dare. Then he got fired from his job on a talk show after disclosing it. Though "Lunatic Fringe" is a tad insensitive when he's suffering from internal turmoil.

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 12/3/2016: Boopin' To Flavortown

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-For the sake of comparison, here's a handy chart that has all the vocal ranges:



There is some overlap between vocal ranges, for example bass (lowest male voice) and soprano (highest female voice) overlapping by middle C. Of course, it varies from singer to singer and song to song, but given that you can sing a note in Rock Band in a different octave and still have it be "correct", so it's not that bad. Of course, this was recorded two weeks ago, and the challenge will be different by the time you read this, so fuck me.

-Sombra's the newest playable hero in Overwatch:

While I haven't given her much playtime, I'm glad she exists because Overwatch needed its equivalent of the Spy from Team Fortress. Usually I'd bring out the Spy when the other team has a lot of defenses set up, since, like Sombra, I can go invisible, get behind enemy lines, and fuck shit up.
In general, OW is more dynamic then TF2 with each charachter having ultimate abilities popping off quicker, thereby enabling the tides to turn. However, her hacking ability gives the game that much more back and forth, and can do things like hack Torjborn's turrets, and Bastion's sentry mode, two of the biggest STOP signs on the battlefield.

-Metallica On Youtube:


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-Ben getting Hors D'Voures wrong as the episode wears on is probably my favorite bit.

-This week's Indiegogo is... A Donkey Sauce Cannon! Our stretch goals include a trip to Flavortown and a wacky robot sidekick.

You can learn how to make Donkey sauce here. It's not that special

-Between Inspector Gadget and Godzilla, if Matthew Broderick was involved in a movie based off something from your childhood, it's not going to be good.

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PODCAST RECAPS FOR 11/19/2016: Glorious Battle Corner

INSERT QUEST HERE ON PATREON!

I took part in the Patreon Launch Livestream for Insert Quest Here! (I come in at arount 55:00 in). Ray's a super cool dude, the podcast is super fun, and hopefully he has me on more in the future.

I play the love child of Tibalt (from Magic The Gathering) and Captain Kirk.

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-PCPartPicker.com is a pretty cang good website, with recoomended builds, advice, and price comparisons. Thankfully my computer is at the point where I can upgrade shit piece by piece, but building a PC from scratch is a good exercise, just so you can better understand what can and will go wrong.

-For those who are further behind, here are the two decks I've been using for Hearthstone:
Beast Druid
Midrange Shaman

Neither are too expensive to put together, you just need to play through the last two solo adventures and Ragnaros The Firelord, which is in the Classic set. 

-Overwatch VA Video is so adorable. Sadly Jonny Cruz, the VA of Lucio posted it on his twitter, but there's a YouTube video here:


-Reinhardt VA Darin De Paul with some Reinhardt Cosplayers:



-Pokemon Drum Kit Signed by Mike Portnoy:



-Lil' Jon x Lazy Town


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-I was going to do some number crunching with regards to who was the best question asker, but I think Trace just swept it. Or everything will have to measured in fractiions of Traces.


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Given my research, as it turns out, you won't be "eaten" so much as "vored" by Griffin McElroy, because "eaten" implies that your flesh will be torn, whereas vore is- Wait where are you going? I HAVE RESEARCH FROM DEVIANTART TO SHOW YOU!

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 10/29/2016: Five Nights At Arby's

INSERT QUEST HERE: ECLIPSE PHASE: LUNAR HELL HUNT


I was on the Special Halloween Episode of Insert Quest Here!


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-Something... happened last week? I think. I dunno, the podcast is the same as it ever was!

-Dumb Bullshit Jared Leto Did To Get Into Character For The Joker:
1. Sending random gifts to his coworkers like used condoms and anal beads.
2. Fucking with his coworkers by being "in character" the whole time and insisting everyone call him Mr. J on the set.
3. Dropping a live pif in the middle of a table read.

Yeah, everyone hated him.

Jared Leto feels like the  director was egging him on the whole time. Like, all the other actors were like "Man, not this shit again" and David Ayer, the director, along with the marketing team was like "HOW MESSED UP IS THE JOKER GONNA BE?"

-Why I Am The King Of Five Nights At Freddy's: without my kickass song, nobody would have heard of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Markiplier, NateWantsToBattle and Game Theory are all liars and charaltans. Never played the games, but I'm the real King Of Finve Nights At Freddy's: A Game I've Never Played.

-"Bad Things Happen Warehouse Starring Jared Leto" is what is on the marquee at every 30 Seconds To Mars concert.

-Creepy Stuff Scientist is how I imagine John would act if were still alive and unactivated by The Protocol after [REDACTED] activated it.

-Real people painted like animatronics? Did you mean Steam Powered Giraffe:


-If we're doing jump scare muppet house, I'm surprised we haven't brought up the one guy who's got "innocuous object but REALLY SCARY" on lock down:

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-Rockudrama, while not meaty, is really big on dry humor, like, as Arc mentioned: Jake and Amir. While nowadays it seems "DORKLY" is the big CollegeHumor brand, CH in general was pretty good at that aloof, "bullshit with a striaght face". I thought the series ended when I graduated college, but it's still going on, like this from a couple days ago:

Let's look at comme-

oh... oh... oh...

-I've come around on Kool Terry. Kool Terry is Kewl with Mee. He's like onions: when made to put in a dish, it's great, but you can't eat it on your own. Also it smells bad.



 -The TRUE AND HONEST Nintendo Switch Trailer:


-The curly fries look SOOOOO GOOOOD, but those Beef and Cheddar Sandwiches could look better.
 

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 10/08/2016: VIDEO GAMES? Videjo Garmes!

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I didn't forget, we just railed on the Xbone for 90 minutes.


VOICE OF ALL- BORN OF AETHER

I play Not-Soldier 76! This was one of the better MtG stories of this block, so kudos!


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-As of this past Friday, the Giant Bomb Shenmue Quick Look ended, and BOY WAS THAT ENDING THE EPITOME OF NOT WORTH IT.

Hope they do Shenmue 2.

-The game I was talking about where your uncle is a cosmic horror is called "The Uncle Who Works At Nintendo" It's pretty interesting, and I might play it on stream one of these days.

Something Awful: So what exactly is your uncle's role in the Nintendo organization?
Guy Whose Uncle Works for Nintendo: My uncle is one of the main guys. He invented Mario. He lives in Japan and he knows the president of Nintendo. The president of Nintendo is named Ryu Nintendo and he invented the first Nintendo, which was a robot that did math. My uncle works on all the games and makes up how the levels look, and he knows all the cheat codes and can get extra men in any game. He gets to play all the games before they come out and he gives them all to me when he beats them.

-Campo Santo of Firewatch posted up an article noting a situation similar to "UNCLE NINTENDO"




-For those of you saucy boys wondering who Griffin McElroy is:


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PODCAST RECAP FOR 8/13/2016: Goons Commiting Crimes

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-Arcanon, we're your friends. Please stop doing crimes. First you start off by having been mistakely banned in GTA V then you commit more dire crimes, like marijuana needles or saying the cusswords.

Remember: When you want to do crimes, instead eat a lime.

-Having since played Lucioball, I can confirm that it's really fun to play, and lends itself better to a proper soccer proxy than ROcket League, since your characters don't move as fast or as loose as a car, so you have more control, and more players per team lends better to having strict positions (usually forward/midfield/goalie)

-FUN FACT: The Soldier being healed by a medic in TF2 is called the "Pocket Soldier" and the un-Medic Soldier is called the "Roaming Solider"

-"Cowboy" by Kid Rock

-Here's just one example of Ubers's cosplay witchcraft:

The Goon is seriously really good, and when it takes a break from the hilarious action to focus on The Goon as a human being, then it gets required reading for any comic fan. Yeah, there's punching zombies and all some freaky mob shit going down but yo, check this: The mob boss he was The Goon for gunned down the aunt who raised Lil' Goon who then bashed the boss's head in with a rock out of vengeance.

-Rhythm Bastard's Super Group
Vocals: Janelle Monae
Lead Guitar: Tom Morello
Rhythm Guitar: Nile Rodgers
Bass: Flea
Drums: Travis Barker

Arcanon's Super Group
Vocals: David Draiman
Guitar: Tom Morello
Bass: Justin Chancellor
Drums: Neil Peart

Jeff's Super Group
Vocals: "Zoli" Téglás
Guitar: Trevor Riley
Guitar: Tepe
Bass: Matt Freeman
Drums: Brooks Wackerman

Mystakin's Super Group
Vocals and Guitar: Orianthi
Bass: Rob Trujio
Drums: Zack Starky


-All Metallica Songs In 4 Minutes:



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-For more info on Jonesy Spencerson, click here!
Recap: Music!Jonesy: A harrowing tale of intrigue with Orwellian Inspiration.
Podcast!Jonesy: A dumb carny barker voice I do.

-Now, I'd like to address two moments early in the podcast.
Owen and John: Heihachi? Heahachi! Heihachi. Heihachi!
Jonesy: Who's this Heihachi fellow? Are the Japs coming back?

Alex: Can we call an audible? I don't want to focus on them being fat people, how about "your car is filled to capacity".
Me: That is an acceptable substitute.
John: Or how about just sweaty people?
Alex: Filled to capacity with sweaty people.
John: I FUCKING SWEAT A LOT! or something like that

Looking back at these two moments, there was no reason for me to use that particular language and a substitute was readily available.

Same as with the Kaiju episode a few weeks ago. Was there a reason I had to use "gypsy"? Why not "witch" or something?

Like Jonesy could have said something like "Wasn't he a general during WWII?" Or "I prefer to drive American!" Something that shows that he's still in that era and an idiot, but not using that particular term.

Or my half of the question: why did I specify fat people? The change we made kept the main thrust of the question, and none of my responses changed as well.

Because society, they were the "natural" response. Mystic powers and vengence? OF COURSE gypsies. Sweaty and stinky? OF COURSE fat people. But why?

It took just a smidgen of effort to change it to where I would be able to communicate the same endpoint and nobody would be excluded/offended. 

It's why all of these people who complain about "PC CULTURE IS RUINING COMEDY! WHY IS EVERYONE SO OFFENDED?" come off as lazy. Slurs and stereotypes aren't the backbone of comedy and ideas, they're a crutch that defy reality and keep those already marginalized down. For example, I could have used "bitch" instead of "complain" in that first sentence. However, I caught myself doing it often, and decided to use the word I actually meant.

Every post, every song, everything I do is a challenge. As Mark Rosewater from Magic The Gathering puts it, "Restrictions breed creativity". Status Quo Radio was a set of restrictions. My Magic The Gathering songs are a set of restrictions. The fact that I try to connect something real to this unrelated thing is what I love about doing music, and it's a restriction.

If "respecting people who are different" is a restriction too large to bear, then please vacate society.

PODCAST RECPAS FOR 8/6/2016: Hype Fights With A Cartoon Turtle

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:

• Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
• Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
• I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12

 I seriously need to catch up on these... I WILL be adding more this weekend.

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-Here's the press release that has all the Rock Band Rivals details.

Lots of interesting stuff in there, but that $30 price point without any extra DLC is very hard to justify. I guess with the pre-order bonuses, it's a little better, but imagine NOT being a Rock Band fanatic or getting into it the first time and looking at that. The preorder DLC is good, making for some great party times, so I can at least use that as an excuse.

The problem is that I don't think the new features are worth $30 on their own. Both are great modes, but I'll have to wait until we have more details to see how deep they go.

Rockudrama looks stupid and ridiculous, which is exactly what I wanted from this.

The Rivals mode has me excited and if Pokemon Go is anything to go by, people love being part of arbitrary teams. As long as the challenges keep up like a Hearthstone or something, I can see people checking back in daily to help out their crew.

-Fitbit: Are They The New Subject Of Numerous Thinkpieces?

Arcanon had a picture up on his instagram that showed he got 1337 steps and I'm furious I can't embed those images into this website's CMS. Either way, I'm glad this and Pokemon Go are helping people move around more.

So, to make up for that, here's a picture of Fitbits and Vape Rigs:

-Echo Chamber Creepypasta: One secret episode that IU listened to at 6:66 PM it was really scary and Rhythm Bastard started screaming and Jeff said how much he loves anime and Arcanon said how much he hated anime and then hyperrealistic blood came out of my headphones.

-Miley Cyrus's "Can't Be Tamed"

Wow, where did all that shit come from? EDM has a habit of going from 0-60 in a matter of measures. It did chart the most interesting part of the song, though.

It is possible to chart EDM, as evidence by Mr. Owen himself:

And also Arcanon:

-I leave you now with this comic from markraas :

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-Type Rider I was expecting to have a story like Braid or Limbo or something where there was a greater story in the background, but it's refreshing to see an edutainment game present differently than what we're used to. 

-Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing/Mario Teaches Typing were some of the big games when I was a kid (at least that I could play while I'm in school). Thought I question how much that really helped us with typing since the whole "Home Row" thing never stuck. Like, as I type this it's half muscle memory and half me looking at my keyboard and jamming shit in as fast as I can and OH GOD I'M LOOKING AT MY HANDS WHILE TYPING I AM NOW MANUALLY BREATHING SOMEONE HELP. 

-The Daigo Parry Video we were talking about is impressive even without knowing all the mechanics:

This article as goes into detail on how this moment works, but what I find fascinating is that Justin Wong could have won by DOING NOTHING. In a game like Magic The Gathering, you can see the level of strategy step by step. In Hearthstone, it also shows you the past few spells cast so you can go back and see what happened. 

But in fighting games, all of that happens at a way faster pace. If you've ever had trouble pulling of a Shoryuoken consistently, imagine having to not only be able to pull it off on demand, but also devote mental energy to playing what is essentially MtG without the benefit of stopping.
For me, this moment would be HBox's Bracket Reset at this past EVO: 

No offense to Armada, who gave Hungrybox a HELL of a run for his money and could have easily taken it, but he looks like someone or knows someone who has unironically uttered the words "Cultural Marxism". 

-Top tier meme:

-This is the Mew Card that was a promo for Pokemon The Movie 2000:

Translate:
Mew w/ 30 HP
2 PSI Energy- Psychic: 40 Damage

-80's Overwatch Setlist has at least 2 not 80s songs on the playlist, but it's still got tons of fucking awesome jams:

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I see Mr. Robot all the time during WWE Raw, and the first episode got a little too close to home for me as far as his mental problems go. It's brilliant, but it got too real to me. 

Klingons wouldn't be that tough because of what's known as The Worf Effect.

For those of you further behind, Worf is a character on Star Trek: The Next Generation from the Klingon species. He's a warrior, but he always gets his ass kicked to show how tough the antagonist is as if to say "If they can be Worf, they must be the baddest mofo in the universe!"

FUCK RONALD REAGAN

The bit where we talk about Office Hours and the cafeteria sounds reasonable compared to the other shit talk about. 

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60% of Twitter went with job security because, duh, millenials. 

999 has 6 endings, and Virtue's Last Reward has 9. Though I think VLR has like 24 tracks. 

I've never read any HP Lovecraft shit, so my only "Cthulu God" knowledge comes from C'thun of Hearthstone, the Eldrazi in Magic The Gathering and Cthulu Saves The World. 

Benny's scenario in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream's Good Ending, where this happens:

This is article lays out all the things Finland does right in regards to schooling. Like alot of things the Scandinavian countries do, us Americans look at it and go "WHERE'S THE HARSH PENALTIES FOR FAILURE? HOW CAN WE FUCK OVER BROWN PEOPLE?"

Me according to John and Andy:

Also, John is a fucking idiot, because I do not do leg day on a machine. SQUATS FOR DAYS, DEADLIFTS FOR EON, LOWER BODY GAME STRONG AS FUCK.

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 7/23/2016: My Pokemon Go Team Is The Best Team

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:

• Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
• Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
• I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12

 I seriously need to catch up on these... I WILL be adding more this weekend.





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-Arcanon The Pokemon Prof.!


-How to get a starter Pikachu:

-is me:


-FUCK YOU WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH JIGGLYPUFF IS MINE.

-Andrew Huang's Pokemon Song:

-For those of you interested, here's our list of 30 SNES games:
Super Mario World
Super Mario RPG
Harvest Moon
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
SimCity
Legend Of Zelda: Link To The Past
Donkey Kong Country
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Super Mario Kart
Battletoads
Illiusion Of Gaia
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid
Mario Paint (Extra Add On)
Mega Man X
Super Bomberman
Wild Guns
Super Punch Out
NBA Jam
Earthbound
Contra III: The Alien Wars
DKC2: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
Super Castlevania IV
Secret Of Mana
Rock N' Roll Racing
Super Street Fighter II
Gradius 3
Kirby Super Star
Mortal Kombat II
Goof Troop
Yoshi's Island
Turtles In Time
Pilotwings
Starfox

-Captain Skyhawk was a shooter for the NES that started my love for games with thing that are in the air combined with animals. I never played far in the game, what I did instead was replay the first two levels 100 times. That's the weird thing about young me: I inherited 50 games from my older brother and played the first 5 minutes for hours and hours.
Yo, but check these graphics. DON'T THEY JUST BLOW YOUR FIVE YEAR OLD MIIIIIIND?

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-Choice Auto-Correct Quotes:
"That birch of a wife left me"
"There's a flat bunny"
"Her carves are biking"
"I'm really liking this flap house walking down the sheep"

-Books by Chick Tickle sounds like they'd be the opposite of a Chuck Tingle books.

-"I AM SO JOYFUL RIGHT NOW" reminds me of this comic by Kelly Turnbull of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: 
 

-The AutoCorrect ZoneCast Network, featuring such shows as:
Hell Turd
I'm Rashly No
Elmo Chandelier

PODCAST RECAP FOR 7/16/2016: Bogs For Poglins

WE HAVE A RADIO STATION!

Currently Up:

• Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
• Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
• I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12

 I seriously need to catch up on these...


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-There seems to be a Monopoly game for pretty much anything, 
 

-Betting on CS:GO/Controversy As Summed Up By Jim Sterling:

-Dan Ryckert is "for the love of God he's trying" in human form. It seems that every week on the Bombcast he says something that makes me blurt out "Wait, how did you NOT know that?" But, as he reassures us week to week, he is trying new things and undoing old bad habits.

Except the whole "I expect a palette of diet soda to be shipped to my house every month"
I think during Giant Bomb's 2015 End Of The Year Podcast he was compared to Papyrus from Undertale.

-We've shittalked Livin' Da Dream enough on this podcast. I feel bad about it, but I also hope that NBA 2K17 has a similar stupid campaign mode story.

-For comparison, here's the beginning of "Up":

-Sakaguchi's Mega64 Video:

-Gnarls Barkley's Music Video for "Run":

-Barney in Robot Chicken:



I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 19
-Andy is a married man with a child, so of course his friends list is zero. HAHAHA OWNED says the man who 95% of his social circle is from Magic The Gathering and Conventions and never goes out.

-In theory, aren't all magnets anti-magnets? Because I learned in Basic Fucking Science that magnets have these things called "poles" and similar poles repel each other.

-Soylent is the latest new trend for Tech Bros who don't want to bother with shit like "Reasonable Work-Life Balance", "Cooking", and "Nutritional Supplements Made By People Who Know What They're Doing" named after a movie where all food stuffs are made out of human beings.

-The Turing Test is a test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both, developed by computer scientist Alan Turing. 

The Reverse Turing Test is a computer convincing you that you are a computer, as shown in XKCD:




 The Douglass Test is a burger that convinces you to eat yourself because the I'd Rather Not Gods hate your stupid ass named after Podcast Emperor Owen Douglass.

-MY BURGER BUDDY AND ME:

PODCAST RECAPS for 7/9/2016: Very Impolite

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Currently Up:

• Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
• Echo Chamber Episodes 160-167
• I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12

 I seriously need to catch up on these...

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-Horse Beach by Rockhead:

-Disturbed's "Shout 2000":

Because this is what I was thinking when they mentioned "Shout 2000:

-Truth be told, I like playing Reaper because he plays the same way I play League of Legends: go in, do some damage, then run away like a little girl. With his Wraith mode and teleportation, he's essentially the Spy from Team Fortress 2, who I used a lot to get behind enemy lines and key targets. But then I hear him talk...

Demoman? Is that you?

-REAPER'S PLAYLIST:
"Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
"Bodies" by Drowning Pool
"Down With The Sickness" by Disturbed
"I Am Hated" by Slipknot
"Crawling" by Linkin Park


-Fun fact: Keith Ferguson, the voice actor for Reaper is also the voice of Bloo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends :

Death walks among you

-Overwatch Lore: Reaper and 76's origins

Overwatch lore is very in depth for something you're pretty much thrown in the middle of having no impact within the gameplay. TF2 was also like that, but it had the core game first, then all the lore came much afterward. Characters like Saxton Hale and Merasmus weren't planned when TF2 first released, all it had were it's 9 classes, all it will have will be its 9 classes.

However, since Overwatch is a game that plans to expand it's character roster over time, it wants to make sure players stay invested in the characters themselves, so naturally they make all this other stuff up to make this new guy sound like the coolest ever.

TF2 needed investment in it's gameplay, Overwatch needed investment in its characters.


-Overwatch Characters as dogs from Reddit.
 
-History Of Japan because WE KNOW YALL LOVE THAT SHIT:

-HiImDaisy Comic Dub of Persona 4:


I use the phrase "I got a body by doing situps" in every conversation.

-Sequelitis Mega Man:

-Andrew Crashes E3:

-Mr. Bones Wild Ride sounds like a treat and a nightmare:

-I just downloaded RollerCoaster Tycoon Deluxe off Steam and I spent 2 hours on it. I can confirm that the UI doesn't scale, but not in the way they stated. I had this weird thing where the icons were cut off on the top.

-While "Social Eating" is probably part of some Korean thing called "muk-bang", you KNOW it's going to be used for some fetish shit.

-Stakin's Law: Everyone on Twitch will mention their dick. Always.

I'D RATHER NOT EPISODE 18 

The Wild Thornberry's Movie I was thinking about "Gift Of The Gab".

The Twitter polls I find tend to be closer, because they don't hear discussions and come to the same conclusions we do. So this week's Twitter Poll ignores the fact that I SHIFTED IT INTO HIGH GEAR.

FUN FACT: "Girlfriend" by Kabbage Boy was going to be a song included in the PC release Rock Band 4, which is probably the greatest tragedy of that not Fig not succeeding.


The word "Gypsy" is thrown around a lot in this episode, my bad.

The premise John, I'm sorry, "American Ass John" is describing sounds like this really bleh show "Kappa Mikey":


That sounds a lot like Rolling Stones' "Hey You"

Crank 2 Kaiju Scene:


Until next time: MONSTERS ARE REAL! DANGER CAN HAPPEN!

PODCAST RECAPS FOR 7/2/2016: Stealing Your Heart on More Than One Level

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Currently Up:

• Echo Chamber Episodes 1-10
• Echo Chamber Episodes 160-166
• I'd Rather Not Episodes 1-12

 I seriously need to catch up on these...

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I couldn't find any behind the scenes footage of Flea doing Donnie from The Wild Thornberry's voice.


WARNING: TV Tropes Link. Swiper No Swiping has it's own TV Tropes page. The description is... usual TV Tropes fare, but one cool example mirror's John's Fallout Example:

In Fallout: New Vegas with a high enough speech skill, you can actually talk the Big Bad Legate Lanius into calling off his attack on the NCR and going home without a fight.

"Cats are notorious for their racism"- Rhythm Bastard

While I could be Real Life Squirrel Girl, The Unbeatable Squriel Girl is REALLY GOOD. Art by Erica Henderson and writing by Ryan North, it's definitely worth picking up.

You know, I really liked the Sly Cooper games on the PS2, and I heard they were doing a movie! I wonder how that looks...

Hmmm... they don't look too bad in the more realistic style, but I think between this and the Ratchet and Clank movie, there should-

MURRAY WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE



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-Mighty Number 9 had everyone rooting for it, then against it, which is sad, since as more and more news came out, it was clear there was a lot that was mismanaged.
Mediocre games come out all the time, and they get a shrug at most, but the development behind Mighty Number 9's just compounded the emotions behind what would have otherwise been an OK game, leaving many crying like an anime fan on prom night. I'm not entirely sure how Mega Man 9 and 10 did if those were better spiritual successors, but Jim (Fucking) Sterling (son) did a pretty good recap of all the foibles during the past 3 years:

At least we'll always have Shovel Knight.

And this dope Mega Ran track:

-So here are the two screenshots we were talking about from The New Paper Mario Not Thousand Year Door:

After the snap with Allison Rapp, Nintendo would be a little more gunshy about this kind of thing. One more line, of "I AM NOT A CROOK!" and then that Toad jumping out the window would have suffice. Because people jumping out of windows because they're awkward is never not funny.


-G2A Article
 
-Jeff, watch this and tell me if you still love Bubsy:

-This is the outside of Magic The Gathering Battlegrounds:

-This is the inside of Magic The Gathering: Battlegrounds:


The shirtless guy with cyber armor was actually in the Red banner in the cover.

-My favorite thing about Zork that's not the orgy scene (I imagine)

-Also a tutorial for how to play it in Black Ops:

JimQuisition on violence:

Paolo brought up an excellent point about Watch_Dogs when his brother said "I can do everything I'm doing here in GTA, I'd rather play that". There's too much effort in being the best and you cant always be the best. It requires way less effort to be different and good.
-Some 90's cringe from 2003:

-Dark Cloud 2 is a such good commercial:

-FUN FACT: Apparently Heavy Weapons Guy's $200 bullets are melted down from rare coins. Wouldn't that make the bullets more expensive as time goes on, because the bullets are becoming rarer?