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The J. Burden Show
The J. Burden Show Ep. 313: Bird from TLE

The J. Burden Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 58:44


We talk about AI   Birdo: https://x.com/TLEbirdarchist https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth Radio Free Chicago J: https://findmyfrens.net/jburden/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j.burden Substack: https://substack.com/@jburden Patreon: https://patreon.com/Jburden GUMROAD: https://radiofreechicago.gumroad.com/l/ucduc Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/j-burden Axios: https://axios-remote-fitness-coaching.kit.com/8ebf7bacb8 ETH: 0xB06aF86d23B9304818729abfe02c07513e68Cb70 BTC: 33xLknSCeXFkpFsXRRMqYjGu43x14X1iEt

The Harvest Season
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The Harvest Season

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 114:55


Al and Kev talk about whether or not farming game remakes are worth it. Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:08: What Have We Been Up To 00:38:42: Game Updates 00:58:01: New Games 01:11:11: Farming Game Remakes 01:51:29: Outro Links Research Story 1.0 Tiny Garden Switch Info Go-go Town “Tourist Trap” Update APICO Physical Edition Farming Simulator 16-bit Limited Edition Romestead Contact Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:30) Al: Hello, farmers, and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al. (0:00:34) Kev: My name is Kevin (0:00:36) Al: And we’re here today to talk about Cottagecore games. (0:00:39) Kev: You woo supposedly the word on the street is it says on the box (0:00:46) Al: Does it? (0:00:47) Kev: That’s odd, yeah, it does it what does the websites I’m assuming it does (0:00:51) Al: I don’t know. This is a good question. What does it say on the website? (0:00:54) Kev: You know, we’ve never done (0:00:55) Al: It says farming. It says a podcast about farming simulators. (0:00:58) Kev: Well, there you go, I guess we were lying somewhere, you know one of these days (0:01:00) Al: Yeah, classic. (0:01:04) Kev: Not days we should do in April fools and switch it up (0:01:07) Kev: Or we talk about I don’t know something else. I guess we kind of do that sometimes but you know something really different (0:01:12) Al: Something, something else. (0:01:14) Kev: Yeah (0:01:16) Kev: We talk about gotcha games, I mean I already do but you know all in oh (0:01:23) Kev: Yeah (0:01:24) Al: Hello. We are going to talk this episode about, I want to have a discussion about remakes. (0:01:25) Kev: Hello listener (0:01:34) Kev: We don’t oh (0:01:34) Al: Specifically remakes of farming games. (0:01:38) Kev: Oh, that’s well hmm. I mean it’s still in the neighborhood like there’s stuff to be discussed for sure (0:01:47) Al: Well, that’s why we’re doing it. (0:01:51) Al: I don’t tend to have topics that I don’t think I’ll have much discussion. (0:01:55) Kev: That is died and I believe that’s factually not true (0:02:00) Al: Wow, how dare, how dare you, how very dare you. (0:02:04) Kev: Oh (0:02:06) Al: Before that, we have a bunch of news, but first of all, Kevin, what have you been up to? (0:02:13) Kev: Okay, let’s see here when I wrote things down (0:02:16) Kev: Okay, Marvel snap. Okay, I should have talked about this earlier because it ended this week, but I mean all snap goes (0:02:22) Kev: It’s good the the new Fantastic Four (0:02:27) Kev: Season with cards based off the movies coming up (0:02:30) Kev: They’re just doing a whole new season like first step family (0:02:34) Kev: First steps whatever but but that’s coming so you know and that looks good (0:02:38) Kev: But I didn’t talk about maximum voltage overdrive or whatever that thing was called (0:02:45) Kev: You played snap outs been a minute. Did you play maximum voltage? (0:02:49) Kev: Do you remember that mode at all? (0:02:50) Al: I think it was around when I was playing, but I don’t think I played it. (0:02:54) Kev: Uh-huh (0:02:56) Al: I did the Deadpool Diner and I did. (0:02:59) Kev: Yeah (0:03:00) Al: There was one other one that I did, but I don’t think I did maximum. (0:03:02) Kev: Okay, so (0:03:04) Kev: So yeah, every once in a while snap introduces these like alternate modes with different rules or different words or whatever (0:03:12) Kev: And so one that they’ve done is called maximum voltage (0:03:16) Kev: and previously maximum voltage was a three-turn game instead of six turns and (0:03:20) Kev: They would give you a random amount like two to four energy every turn like extra so it was you know (0:03:27) Kev: Not just the one two three four (0:03:29) Kev: So you had you could play cards quickly and you had to do on three turns (0:03:34) Kev: It’s a it’s a different pace a game. It’s fun even shorter. I liked it (0:03:41) Kev: Well this past week or two they did maximum voltage overdrive or overcharge whatever’s over something (0:03:50) Kev: Where it was a four-turn game (0:03:53) Kev: The same rules of okay, you get random two to four energy every turn (0:03:59) Kev: on top of what you already have (0:04:02) Kev: But they (0:04:04) Kev: Also filled your deck out with like was it eight or twelve extra random cards in your deck (0:04:10) Kev: Those extra cards had lower costs and higher power (0:04:15) Kev: So it was it was a wild ride because it was a lot of like kind of RNG really right what you get (0:04:22) Kev: It’s hard to build around like, you know real strategy around it (0:04:26) Kev: and you know, I (0:04:28) Kev: I enjoyed it enough. It was fine enough. You know a lot of people don’t like RNG sort of (0:04:34) Kev: modes or strategy so you know I don’t think as popular as other ones but at (0:04:40) Kev: least they tried something right like I always did they say hey try it and then (0:04:43) Kev: we’ll see how it goes but the bigger fiasco was the rewards because when they (0:04:52) Kev: have these side missions they’ll give you usually like a sort of bonus currency (0:04:56) Kev: or side currency or whatever specific for that mode with a shop or reward tier (0:05:01) Kev: or something like that. (0:05:04) Kev: In this case they gave you a shop, you could earn let’s just call them vault points or whatever they were called. (0:05:08) Kev: And so there was a new card in the shop. (0:05:12) Kev: Kid Omega, I don’t know who that character is but they had a decent enough ability. (0:05:16) Kev: But regardless, so yeah, it was a new card and very cool and all. (0:05:24) Kev: But here’s the thing, for the first time ever in one of these side modes, you could not earn the card for free. (0:05:32) Kev: Um… (0:05:34) Kev: Well, I guess you technically could, but… (0:05:36) Kev: So how it works is every eight hours you get a set of three missions, and you get X number of points for it, right? (0:05:44) Kev: Well, people did the math. (0:05:46) Kev: If you did all the missions, every single set of three for every eight hours for the entire duration of the thing, (0:05:52) Kev: you would still have to win 500 games, I think it was, to earn enough points to earn the new card. (0:05:57) Al: That is so many games. (0:06:04) Kev: But… (0:06:04) Al: I don’t think I’ve ever won 500 games combined in the, like, what, combined what, six months (0:06:06) Kev: Yeah, totally. (0:06:14) Kev: I mean, I might be there with you. (0:06:18) Kev: But yeah, so that was wild. (0:06:24) Kev: And a lot of people were up in arms about it, as you can imagine, and I think understandably so. (0:06:30) Kev: Also, because Marvel Snap, traditionally, has been… (0:06:34) Kev: Play-ish where or at least you if you played enough you could get a decent pool of cards or you could get work (0:06:40) Kev: You know the new cards they were releasing if you kept up you could (0:06:45) Kev: You could you could play for free (0:06:48) Kev: the boat the money was either spent on generally speaking on (0:06:55) Kev: Cosmetics, you know variants and bundles (0:06:57) Kev: I guess the season passed you could unlock a new card and that’s ten bucks a month and like that (0:07:02) Kev: But they would drop for free later (0:07:04) Kev: So you didn’t have to do it. But anyways (0:07:08) Kev: Point is that a lot of players feel like the the snap devs are kind of leaning a little more into (0:07:15) Kev: You know pay to win or pay to get the new cards (0:07:19) Kev: So that was a big (0:07:20) Kev: Yeah, big big bit a little bit of fiasco (0:07:25) Kev: and (0:07:26) Kev: Yeah, it’s over now. We went to another mode called sanctum showdown, which is but it’s much slower paced modes fun (0:07:35) Kev: They’re playing it safe. No crazy (0:07:38) Kev: Expensive card or whatever but (0:07:40) Kev: It’s interesting to see (0:07:43) Kev: kind of a shame that they you know, they’re a little money hungry, but (0:07:48) Kev: Cuz though otherwise the game I think is in still in a decent shape (0:07:52) Kev: They’ve released so many cards like I think it’s almost in a state of we can play whatever you want more or less (0:07:59) Kev: But yeah, I mean I’m still playing it. I’m still enjoying it. I did not get the kiddo-megan card (0:08:05) Kev: You know, it’s wild. I saw somebody with that card on day one (0:08:08) Kev: Which means they must have put a lot of money or gold or whatever. Yeah, there’s always an I found the whale. Oh (0:08:08) Al: Hmm there’s always one. There’s always one. Yeah (0:08:16) Kev: Speaking of not having money or wanting money (0:08:20) Kev: Yes, let’s talk about unicorn overlord. So I reached the end of what’s called best stories. That’s the beast land (0:08:30) Kev: Campaign area there’s basically like five countries in the game or whatever and each one is kind of (0:08:34) Kev: Its own little chapter if you will write its own little story and arc and so I reached the end of the best stories chapter (0:08:41) Kev: Which is fine and all the villain was a rat man a rat where rat I guess. I don’t I don’t know how to describe it (0:08:50) Kev: You know, I’ll show you a picture (0:08:52) Kev: but (0:08:53) Kev: And so I enjoyed it. It was a fun chapter. I think the Beast people were cool, but what is funny and (0:09:00) Kev: I can feel it. I learned about this (0:09:04) Kev: When I went online because it felt something felt like it was changing the writing in unicorn overlord who was pretty alright (0:09:12) Kev: Up until around now because they really just kind of did not give the the rat man’s name (0:09:19) Kev: His name was Elgore and he kind of had an interesting story (0:09:23) Kev: The rats were generally oppressed people and he wanted to rise up and then you know, he became a general (0:09:29) Kev: So it’s kind of an interesting story and there was some evil the evil bad guy team (0:09:34) Kev: We’re doing experiments on him yada yada (0:09:38) Kev: But it was really really rushed. And so I kind of looked into it and it turns out (0:09:45) Kev: That oh (0:09:47) Kev: Hold on one second now (0:09:49) Kev: my mic (0:09:51) Kev: Sorry, there we go. Sorry. My mic had a hiccup and I think we’re good now while checking (0:09:57) Kev: double-checking (0:09:58) Al: Sounds fine to me. (0:09:59) Kev: Yes, okay. I lost a few seconds of the recording, but okay. I’m okay (0:10:03) Kev: I don’t know, at least the– (0:10:03) Al: It’s fine now. (0:10:05) Al: Zoom is pretty good at like starting out. (0:10:05) Kev: Yeah, all right (0:10:09) Kev: Well, anyways, so I looked up that why it started feel rushed and turns out that the unicorn (0:10:15) Kev: Overlord development ran out of money and basically the director producer they started funding it out of their own pocket (0:10:22) Kev: so apparently this last (0:10:25) Kev: quarter or so of the the game is gonna feel very rushed and (0:10:30) Kev: There’s no time for story anymore. Which is sad but (0:10:34) Kev: That said the game is still (0:10:38) Kev: Entertaining. I like it. It’s fun. Yeah, like unicorn overlord to two thumbs up from me (0:10:45) Kev: Let’s see (0:10:47) Kev: So yeah, so that’s good. Um, oh, okay follow up from last week (0:10:50) Kev: So we spent a little time having a fun little chat about magic the gathering and capitalism and the $1,000 (0:10:58) Al: Like 20 minutes. (0:10:59) Kev: pack of set of four packs (0:11:02) Kev: and it was all started as you may recall because (0:11:04) Kev: I was looking at the, or you know, the Final Fantasy set of Magic the Gathering cards came out, (0:11:12) Kev: and I did not want to buy them because I didn’t want to spend them, or spend the money for them. (0:11:17) Kev: Well, this week I bought the Final Fantasy card set from Magic the Gathering, virtually, virtually, there’s my caveat, haha. (0:11:26) Kev: Uh, no, I did not spend money, but… yeah, haha, virtual versions of my cardboard. (0:11:27) Al: Oh, wait, that’s that’s even that’s even all right. (0:11:30) Al: I was going to say that’s even worse if you bought digital cards. (0:11:35) Kev: No, no money spent. So I’ve been, I’ve played Magic the Gathering Arena, though that’s the online client. I fired it up to get in there and try. (0:11:43) Al: Good game. I’ve not played in a long time, but when I was playing, I was doing a lot of arenas. (0:11:49) Kev: Alright, it’s good. It feels comparable, I think, to, you know, Pokemon TCG live. (0:11:54) Al: Oh, I think it’s way better. (0:11:56) Al: I think it’s way, way better. (0:11:57) Al: I think the I mean, it’s been a while since I played it. (0:12:00) Al: But in my experience, the app was much less slow in menus and the effects were much better. (0:12:05) Kev: Yeah. (0:12:08) Kev: I agree with that. It is much, much more polished, right, overall. A little fancier. And you’re right, a little less laggy. (0:12:17) Kev: But, yeah, but I mean, the point is, it serves as a decent online, you know, substitute for the paper game. (0:12:26) Kev: So I got some, yeah, Final Fantasy cards there and played a little, doing a choco bow deck. (0:12:33) Kev: I’m really upset (0:12:35) Kev: Those cards are really good, art-wise and gameplay-wise (0:12:42) Kev: They have, because I mentioned I was playing Final Fantasy, the proper FFTCG (0:12:49) Kev: That game doesn’t have equipment cards (0:12:51) Kev: Magic the Gathering does, so Magic the Gathering can include iconic items and weapons (0:12:57) Kev: Like the Buster Sword, or a cup of instant noodles from Final Fantasy XV (0:13:04) Kev: So I’m more…a little… (0:13:05) Kev: I’m jealous that Magic did it so well. (0:13:07) Kev: Whoever…the people working on the Final Fantasy set, they really love Final Fantasy. (0:13:13) Kev: They have Souplex the Train as a card. (0:13:17) Kev: People who know FF5 understand that reference. (0:13:25) Kev: But yeah, I mean, I try to… (0:13:27) Kev: I’m still thinking about it. I’m looking at it. (0:13:31) Kev: The card’s proper. I’m not gonna buy it yet. (0:13:35) Kev: Oh, it’s been…I’ve been craving it. It’s a siren song. (0:13:38) Kev: So I had to…you know…I had to at least do it virtually to enjoy it a little. (0:13:46) Kev: But I digress. That’s what I’ve been up to this week. (0:13:50) Kev: What about you, Al? What’s going on? (0:13:52) Al: Well, let’s see, what have I been up to? (0:13:56) Al: Shock surprise. (0:13:58) Al: I have been playing some Mario Kart World up. (0:14:00) Kev: Yeah, you’re going for it, man. Getting all those knockouts here. I’ve seen your progress. (0:14:04) Al: Yes, so update on that. (0:14:07) Al: I have done all of the Grand Prix’s 150, three stars and all of the knockout (0:14:13) Al: all of the knockout tours, 150, three stars. (0:14:19) Al: and I have done enough in free. (0:14:22) Al: Rome to unlock mirror mode. (0:14:25) Kev: Okay. (0:14:27) Al: And I have unlocked all of the costumes. (0:14:30) Kev: Oh, you’re- you’ve done it all almost pretty much at this point. (0:14:33) Al: I am still missing three characters. (0:14:36) Kev: Wait, wha- oh. How d- uh- uh-huh. (0:14:38) Al: But that’s because they are the Kamek characters, (0:14:43) Al: so you have to be on a specific course (0:14:47) Al: and someone use the Kamek behind you on that specific course. (0:14:50) Kev: Uh, okay, I did notice that I got some kamiks and I think I got kamiks characters out of that. (0:14:53) Al: There’s a chance that you get one that character, so. (0:15:00) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:15:01) Al: So I’ve got most of them, but I’m still missing three of them. (0:15:04) Al: And it’s like they are dreadful to try and force like the bet. (0:15:08) Kev: Yeah, who are they? (0:15:10) Al: How who am I missing? (0:15:12) Al: Let me check my spreadsheet. (0:15:14) Al: I am missing Rocky, wrench. (0:15:18) Al: Peepa and Swoop. (0:15:20) Kev: Oof, oof, oh man, I like swoop. (0:15:21) Al: I have the rest of them. (0:15:22) Al: So that’s I have that’s 15 out of 18 characters unlocked (0:15:26) Al: and 103 out of 103 costumes unlocked. (0:15:31) Al: So, yeah, and I’ve got all the vehicles as well. (0:15:36) Al: All 40 of them. (0:15:37) Al: So I am going to I’m definitely going to do. (0:15:40) Al: I’m definitely going to start doing mirror modes. (0:15:42) Al: I really want to restart all the mirror modes (0:15:45) Al: before I get too much muscle memory for specific courses. (0:15:46) Kev: Yeah. (0:15:49) Kev: Mmm. (0:15:50) Al: Right, because that that’s when it becomes really hard. (0:15:52) Kev: Yeah, you’re right. (0:15:53) Kev: That’s an excellent point. (0:15:53) Al: But I’d love I’d love to three star mirror mode (0:15:56) Al: because I’ve never restarted every mirror mode in a Mario cart. (0:16:00) Kev: I mean you’re like there, you’re wide as well, right? You’ve gone the 90%? (0:16:06) Al: Yeah, it’s I guess the thing is it’s just about like time now, right? (0:16:10) Kev: Uh-huh. (0:16:10) Al: Like we’ve got two and a bit weeks until Donkey Kong comes out. (0:16:15) Al: That’s basically my deadline, right? (0:16:15) Kev: I was about to say, that’s the deadline, right? (0:16:17) Al: Like if it’s if I’ve not done it by (0:16:20) Al: Donkey Kong coming out, it’s probably never happening. (0:16:23) Kev: Yeah, well, maybe they’ll release some DLC, but I understand what you generally say. (0:16:28) Al: Yeah, but at that point, I don’t I think at that point I’ll play the DLC, (0:16:31) Al: but I don’t think I’ll go back and try and do the other mirror modes. (0:16:31) Kev: Yeah, it’ll be out of your system, I get it. (0:16:34) Al: Right. (0:16:36) Al: So we’ll see. We’ll see how I feel. (0:16:38) Al: But I’m going to I’m going to at least try and see how far I get. (0:16:42) Al: But obviously it’s quite few and, you know, I can see I should be able to do them. (0:16:47) Al: Right. Because I’ve done one hundred and fifty. (0:16:49) Al: I should be able to do mirror mode. (0:16:50) Al: I don’t think I’m in use to them enough that I will cause problems. (0:16:53) Al: Although maybe there’s a couple of courses that are recreations of previous ones, (0:16:58) Al: like the Mario Bros circuit, which is just like the continuation from the one (0:17:00) Kev: Yeah (0:17:03) Al: and since the sna is- (0:17:06) Al: right? That one might be trouble because I suspect I’ll have muscle memory for that course (0:17:06) Kev: Yeah (0:17:12) Kev: Sure sure (0:17:12) Al: but we’ll see, we’ll see. I’m gonna try and we’ll see how I go (0:17:17) Al: and I think that’s all I was considering. So have you done much free roam? (0:17:22) Kev: Not too much myself now (0:17:25) Al: So you’ve got the P switches, you’ve got peach medallions and you’ve got the question mark blocks. (0:17:27) Kev: Yeah (0:17:29) Kev: Yeah (0:17:32) Al: the only one that’s actually like shown on the map. (0:17:36) Al: The P switches where each course has a certain number of P switches and it shows you how (0:17:38) Kev: Mm-hmm (0:17:40) Al: many you’ve got. So I’m considering doing the P switches, but there’s no way I’m going (0:17:47) Al: to look for all of the peach medallions and all not not P switches sorry the question mark blocks. (0:17:52) Al: It’s not the P switches the question mark blocks. There’s no way I’m going for the piece all the (0:17:56) Al: P switches and all the peach medallions. I’ll probably do some more just playing around in (0:18:00) Al: free roam and if I see some I will do some, but I’m not going to go out my way to get (0:18:04) Al: every day because it’s like (0:18:06) Al: 300 P switches or something it’s mad how many there are I’m not going to do (0:18:08) Kev: Yeah, you don’t want to collect all the Koroks? (0:18:12) Al: all of them definitely not but I can see myself doing all the question mark (0:18:17) Al: blocks just because they’re like clearly like there’s six on this course six on (0:18:22) Al: this course six on this course I could see myself doing that but I’m not I’m (0:18:28) Al: not going all in on that at this point right like we will see (0:18:31) Kev: man. I gotta say the free roam is a little disappointing from what I’ve experienced and (0:18:39) Kev: seen. I was really hoping for, for lack of a better word, secrets, right? Little nooks (0:18:47) Kev: and crannies you could explore that, you know, you wouldn’t experience on a race or whatever, (0:18:52) Al: - Yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:18:53) Kev: right? Like in, you know, shooting for the stars, like even a handful of courses not in any of the (0:19:01) Kev: pre-write, you know, unofficially labeled, like you enter a cave and all of a sudden (0:19:06) Kev: there’s this little racetrack down there. Stuff like that, but anyways, yeah, there’s not much (0:19:12) Kev: going on other than unlocking mirror mode, I guess, on free roam. Although I do like the (0:19:20) Kev: Princess Peach Castle, the window easter egg, that’s fun. (0:19:23) Al: Yeah, yeah, it’s I will agree that I think free roam is a little bit of a disappointment, but yeah, I am still very much having fun. (0:19:35) Al: And I will definitely be playing this with people in person a lot. (0:19:40) Kev: I’m sure. I mean, it’s Mario Kart. It’s built for that. (0:19:41) Al: No, it’s 100% worth. (0:19:44) Al: Yeah, it’s 100% worth it, especially as, you know, it was what, like 30 quid in the bundle, right? (0:19:49) Kev: Yep. (0:19:50) Kev: Exactly. (0:19:50) Al: Like it was very much worth that. (0:19:53) Al: And just, it is, I still stand by it’s the most fun to control the, with the new physics reactions. Like I feel like all the other ones will feel quite stiff going back to them. (0:20:04) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don’t think (0:20:10) Kev: Yeah, I yeah, I don’t think a lot of people are gonna push back on that it does feel very good to control (0:20:16) Kev: I agree (0:20:19) Kev: Yeah, it’s it’s I mean it’s Mario Kart right like it’s still gonna be good (0:20:22) Kev: It’s a but it is funny though that you know insert the the Simpsons sheep gif when Donkey Kong bonanza comes out (0:20:28) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. That is going to be like a couple of weeks of just (0:20:34) Kev: Yeah (0:20:37) Al: like that’s the only thing I’m playing. Yeah. And we, has the direct been since we recorded (0:20:39) Kev: It looks so good, I only more (0:20:44) Al: our last episode? I can’t remember. Super fun. I’m so excited for this. I think it’s (0:20:44) Kev: I I can’t remember. We haven’t talked about it either way, but that’s uh (0:20:51) Kev: that’s a (0:20:52) Kev: good looking direct (0:20:53) Al: really, yeah, I think they, that was a great direct because it shows (0:20:58) Al: it kind of confirmed a bunch of the stuff we already knew while also giving us enough (0:21:03) Al: to be like, oh, there’s more. Right. And, and I think it’s really, I think it’s really (0:21:09) Al: good looking. Like I love the different effects that you get in transforming into other animals (0:21:16) Al: and also having Pauline basically be like a parrot on your shoulder. Right. It’s really (0:21:22) Kev: yep it’s it’s so good I i love the online reaction that we the internet gave of like you (0:21:23) Al: fun. (0:21:30) Kev: know the trifecta of uh was it ralph and vanellope uh sully and boo and now we’ve got dk and pauline (0:21:38) Kev: you know big guy and then little girl um it’s it’s fun (0:21:38) Al: Look, it works, right? Like why, why break it? Why try and fix it if it’s not broken, (0:21:47) Kev: Exactly. It’s great. Um, yeah, I’m I’m very pumped. Uh, (0:21:52) Kev: for uh uh the the game or general, I guess. Um, it’s I’m a (0:21:59) Kev: little disappointed that we don’t get the animal buddies (0:22:02) Kev: per se. I mean, I know Rambi’s in there and and it’s kind of (0:22:06) Kev: in there, but you know, it’s it’s the functions been replaced (0:22:09) Kev: by your transformations and the transformations are cool. I (0:22:12) Kev: won’t lie. Um but uh I don’t know. I’m a guy who likes Rambi. (0:22:17) Al: Well, look, I don’t have any real history with the previous DK games other than trying them and not enjoying them. (0:22:23) Al: So I don’t particularly mind. (0:22:27) Al: I’m not a lower muncher. (0:22:30) Kev: Sure, I mean, it’s not even like lore stuff because that’s uh, that’s just uh, you know, I guess mechanics or (0:22:38) Kev: Gameplay traditions, whatever. But if you want to talk about lore, I mean we can get trying to you know (0:22:43) Kev: We can try figure out why on earth (0:22:48) Kev: Does how is Pauline hanging out a DK? How does that timeline work? (0:22:52) Al: Well, I think everything lines up if you just ignore the original DK game. I don’t think (0:22:59) Al: anything else is a problem. I think it’s only that. And I think that this ties in so much (0:23:00) Kev: Yeah. Which… (0:23:05) Al: better to Odyssey, because why would Pauline be the mayor of a city that’s named after (0:23:11) Al: her kidnapper? But she would be the mayor of a city that’s named after her hero. (0:23:12) Kev: Yeah, I like the way you think there that’s a good point, yeah, but and also like this (0:23:28) Kev: is even more so than Odyssey cuz I mean Paulina was in there was you know, she’s first time (0:23:32) Kev: back in forever or whatever but she’s you know, she has a starring role finally, that’s (0:23:40) Al: Yeah, my I also I have another theory that it might be time (0:23:47) Kev: All right, oh well there you are now we’re talking let’s get into that Zelda split timeline (0:23:55) Al: Well, I don’t even think it needs to be a split timeline, right? (0:23:58) Al: Like, if something happens and she gets shot forward and then she goes back in time after this, (0:24:04) Kev: Oh, I like it. I like. (0:24:05) Al: you know, she could still go through the whole thing, because the thing is, right, (0:24:09) Al: Pauline in Donkey Kong, that’s not this Donkey Kong, that’s Cranky Kong. (0:24:14) Kev: that is cranky kong who does exist yeah oh I like that that’s clever yeah there you go all right I like it (0:24:15) Al: So, you know, she’s obviously from the past. (0:24:22) Al: Or, or, here’s another suggestion. (0:24:25) Al: If Donkey Kong, if Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong are both Donkey Kong, then maybe Pauline. (0:24:32) Al: This could be a different Pauline. Maybe this is Pauline’s daughter. (0:24:35) Kev: You know, I mean, that’s well established, right? Bowser Jr. looks just like Bowser when he’s a baby, I guess, so you know. (0:24:45) Al: Pauline Jr. (0:24:46) Kev: Pauline Jr. could be! (0:24:49) Kev: Although, okay, you know what? You know what? I’ll even point the bat at the stands here. (0:24:54) Kev: I bet we get little Pauline here as a character in Mario Kart World War 2. (0:24:58) Al: I hope so. I do hope there is some stuff coming, so I saw someone note that some of the characters (0:25:06) Al: have lots of costumes, and some of them have almost none. In fact, some of them have none. (0:25:11) Al: And the interesting thing is, one of the characters that has almost none is Donkey Kong. He only (0:25:12) Kev: Yeah. (0:25:16) Al: has one costume. Just before a Donkey Kong game comes out, suspicious. So are we interested (0:25:17) Kev: It is very strange considering, you know, he’s… (0:25:21) Kev: Uh-oh, uh-oh! (0:25:28) Al: in a Mario Kart World update coming with some Donkey Kong costumes to encourage you (0:25:34) Kev: I mean (0:25:36) Al: to be interested in the new game? Maybe. Yeah. And we obviously have all the baby characters, (0:25:37) Kev: If if it feels like the most obvious dough in the world, right, um, so yeah (0:25:46) Al: so would we get a young Pauline, as well as the babies that we’ve got of the other characters? (0:25:48) Kev: I like it (0:25:51) Kev: How cute (0:25:51) Al: We don’t have Pauline at all. Oh no, we do have Pauline. But also Pauline only has one (0:25:53) Kev: We do it, Paul (0:25:58) Kev: Like a generic racer costume, so there you go (0:25:58) Al: costume. So, you know, the two of them, both in an upcoming game. You know, I will be very (0:26:05) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah (0:26:09) Al: disappointed if there’s not. But this makes you wonder what else could be related to things, (0:26:11) Kev: I you know that’s I don’t think you’re being unreasonable (0:26:16) Al: right? Birdo only has two costumes, so that’s an interesting one. Could there be a Birdo (0:26:22) Al: thing coming up? Who knows? Lakitu only has two costumes, and there is an update to… (0:26:28) Al: Why can’t I remember the name? Goodness me. Mario Party. Which Lakitu obviously has a (0:26:34) Kev: Which Mario what okay? (0:26:40) Al: big part in Mario Party. Maybe I’m stretching at this point. Who knows? But we’ll see. I’m (0:26:41) Kev: Yeah (0:26:48) Kev: We we will see I think that’s the end that’s all we can kind of say really um (0:26:54) Al: I’m sure we can say much more, but let’s not. (0:26:56) Kev: Well, well, okay, yeah, you know, I will say this like each his legs still make me very uncomfortable. I (0:26:59) Al: Fair, very fair. (0:27:03) Kev: Don’t like it (0:27:05) Kev: Get in the car. Don’t look at those freak. Yeah, no, no, I don’t like it. That’s (0:27:08) Al: Don’t put him on a bike. (0:27:15) Al: He should be in the cloud cart. (0:27:19) Al: That’s the only one he’s allowed to be in. (0:27:20) Kev: Yeah, you really or you know, I don’t care I (0:27:23) Al: No, I’m just saying. (0:27:26) Kev: Look, I don’t care if it’s like (0:27:29) Kev: Horrendous I don’t care if it’s horrendous like animation clipping just (0:27:35) Kev: Just stick the the dang (0:27:36) Al: The cloud around every cart you put them in. (0:27:40) Kev: Yeah, yeah, when he’s the bike it’s just clipping right to the cloud (0:27:45) Kev: Okay, you make it it’s worth it (0:27:50) Al: All right, so that’s my car. (0:27:52) Al: I’ve also I don’t want to talk too much about this, but I do want to mention it. (0:27:58) Al: I’ve opened Lens Island again and started playing that. (0:28:02) Al: So for context, I originally backed on. (0:28:06) Al: Kickstarter and I started playing it when it first came out, but it had no controller (0:28:11) Al: support and basically was horrible to use on the steam deck. (0:28:16) Al: So I have started playing it again, and it is less horrible to play on the steam deck. (0:28:24) Kev: But that’s always the bar we want less horrible (0:28:25) Al: And I think that’s as far as I’m going to go on this comp on it just now. (0:28:33) Al: I will probably go into it a lot more in the next. (0:28:36) Al: episode, probably, but no promises. (0:28:38) Kev: Okay, fine. Okay. (0:28:43) Al: So that is a thing that is currently happening that I am not going to give any opinions on right now. (0:28:52) Al: But finally, we are recording this on Saturday, the 28th of June. (0:28:57) Al: I have just finished the first day of Pokémon Go Fest 2025 Global. (0:29:01) Kev: Oh, is that what’s going on? Okay. (0:29:03) Al: That’s what’s today. (0:29:04) Al: Yeah. So, uh, I had. (0:29:06) Al: Fun. I got a few hours where I was allowed to remove my (0:29:14) Al: responsibilities from children and just go play Pokemon in Edinburgh. (0:29:17) Al: And yeah, I got a good amount of stuff done and I enjoyed that. (0:29:20) Kev: Cool. What is going on? What are they releasing? (0:29:24) Al: This is the Crowned in Shield form Zacian and Zamazenta. (0:29:30) Kev: Wait they weren’t in there already that’s weird, but okay (0:29:32) Al: No, they had the base forms, but not this Crowned in Shield form. (0:29:37) Al: Uh, because they’ve got to release them separately to make the most money, right? (0:29:42) Kev: - Oh, yeah, yeah. (0:29:46) Al: But yeah, so, uh, yeah, I think they did this one a lot better than the previous (0:29:52) Al: other forms, because with Curum and with, uh, oh, what’s the other one? (0:29:59) Kev: Uh, uh, uh, Nick Asma. (0:30:03) Al: Nick Rosma, thank you. (0:30:05) Al: with both of them. (0:30:06) Al: You have a certain amount of energy you need to get to fuse them, but if you separate (0:30:15) Al: them, you have to use the same amount of energy again to fuse them again. (0:30:21) Al: It’s like a thousand-fuse energy, or whatever they call it. (0:30:25) Al: I can’t remember and I don’t care. (0:30:26) Kev: Yeah, that’s correct (0:30:29) Al: Once you fuse them, you use up that thousand, but you get like a hundred per raid that you (0:30:33) Al: do. (0:30:34) Al: raids to get enough defuse once (0:30:35) Kev: Okay (0:30:36) Al: set of them. And then if you’re like, “Oh, I fused the wrong one”, and you unfuse it, (0:30:37) Kev: Yeah, oh (0:30:42) Al: you then have to do another 10 raids to do it. But of course, those raids were only available (0:30:45) Kev: It sounds like a lot (0:30:48) Al: for one weekend. They’ve never been available again, so you can’t get the energy anymore. (0:30:55) Al: It’s dreadful! (0:30:56) Kev: That sounds like a lot. (0:30:58) Al: Well, the good thing is that Zamasenta and Zacian, once you turn it into crown form, (0:31:04) Al: If you revere its form, you can… (0:31:06) Al: you can then do it again without using any energy. (0:31:09) Kev: Sure, okay. Okay, I mean, that’s that’s definitely nice. I just, man, I just got to say I didn’t go that long at all. But hearing how like, because I think Megas were kind of the first one where you had, you know, special mega energy or whatever. Like, it’s, oh, it doesn’t sound great. Just the oddest. (0:31:33) Al: The the Megas actually I think is a lot better than it was when it first launched. (0:31:38) Al: So like you you can get one free mega for each of your mega Pokemon once a week. (0:31:45) Al: So once you’ve done the initial one, every week, you can do it once for free. (0:31:49) Al: You only have to pay more energy after the first one (0:31:53) Al: if you want to do it faster than that. (0:31:55) Al: And as you get up the power, like once you can level up the mega and once you get (0:32:00) Al: Mega level 3. It matters. (0:32:04) Al: How much it costs so like every if you were to do it every single day, you wouldn’t be using a huge amount of energy so it’s it’s not it’s it’s much better than it was initially launched and I get why you know it is a bit frustrating that you still have to use it energy at all but it’s a lot less annoying you also get energy if you walk with them as a buddy and stuff like that so you know it’s it’s fine it’s fine it’s these fusing ones that are the most annoying because it’s like. (0:32:33) Al: I know have my necrosimas and my cutums fused and I can never unfuse them because I would never be able to fuse them again right like it’s just that’s it if you chose the wrong one tough and it’s really annoying because one of them I did choose the wrong one and but there’s nothing I can do about that I’m stuffed and that’s just what I have to live with. (0:32:40) Kev: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. (0:32:46) Kev: Oh, no! (0:32:50) Kev: Ugh. (0:32:52) Kev: Oh, that’s rough. That’s rough, buddy. (0:32:53) Al: Still. Yeah, that is life but yeah so there’s actions Amazon to was done much better and I got shiny. (0:33:03) Al: And I got my energy and I’ve I’ve powered them up so nice powerful Pokemon looking looking great my shiny shield was it shield form kind of what it’s called and they have new adventure effects so. (0:33:04) Kev: Yeah! (0:33:10) Kev: Yeah, that’s the game! (0:33:18) Kev: That’s cool, that’s good. (0:33:19) Al: There we go. (0:33:22) Al: And they can also be used because they’re when they’re in that form they can be used at power spots, which normally only dynamics Pokemon can be used a pair of spots, but of course you can’t you can’t. (0:33:33) Al: And they can also be used in Dynamax session and Amazon to but when they’re in that form you can use them a pair of spots so that’s fun. (0:33:44) Al: So yeah, I probably do a little bit tomorrow as well because it was Amazon to things action tomorrow, but which is a bit annoying, but if you got the ticket for go fest you do get enough energy to do one of one of the dogs, so I do have enough to do as action, but I probably want to get enough to do another one. (0:34:02) Kev: Sure. Well, I am glad that you’re enjoying it. (0:34:03) Al: Continuing to enjoy Pokemon go despite everything. (0:34:07) Kev: I don’t… (0:34:11) Kev: This, well, that’s kind of, uh, I mean, that’s just a blanket save these days. (0:34:20) Al: They keep trying to ruin the game, but I still somehow enjoy it. (0:34:24) Al: All right, let’s talk about some game use a woo. (0:34:31) Kev: Oh, wait, wait, back up. (0:34:32) Kev: I’m sorry, I just– (0:34:33) Kev: I don’t know why you just clicked something in my mind. (0:34:34) Kev: I forgot. (0:34:35) Kev: I want to follow up my Magic the Gathering thing. (0:34:39) Kev: So as I look, you know, I was dipping my toe in the MTG pool. (0:34:44) Kev: Guess what’s the next secret layer? (0:34:45) Al: I don’t know. (0:34:46) Kev: You know me. (0:34:48) Al: Ah, ah, ah, pressure, um, unicorn over the light! (0:34:53) Kev: Haha, oh, oh, that’d be so (0:34:54) Al: No, ah, no, um, let’s see, so Kevin, something Kevin would like. (0:34:59) Al: Well, it’s not going to be like anything Nintendo. (0:35:02) Kev: No, no it’s just very funny hearing that. (0:35:04) Al: Wait, is it? (0:35:06) Al: No. (0:35:08) Kev: I didn’t intend, I didn’t intend, life log Nintendo Pass. (0:35:09) Al: Well. (0:35:12) Kev: You don’t like Nintendo things, um, but it won’t, uh, MTG, I gotta say, it wouldn’t be (0:35:15) Al: I mean, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that’s the opposite of what I thought, Kevin. (0:35:19) Kev: in there. (0:35:20) Kev: Yeah, okay. (0:35:21) Kev: Yeah, okay, yes, yeah, I know what you’re saying, but the way it came in my ears, it’s (0:35:21) Al: What I thought was, oh yeah, it could be, you know, you like Nintendo stuff. (0:35:25) Al: And I was like, oh no, but they’re not going to do something with Nintendo. (0:35:27) Al: That was my point. (0:35:30) Kev: It’s not too funny. (0:35:31) Al: Trying to accuse me. (0:35:32) Al: Accuse me of not thinking you like Nintendo stuff. (0:35:34) Al: Ah, no, I’ve not got anything. (0:35:39) Al: Nothing’s coming. (0:35:40) Kev: Ow! The lowest hanging fruit! Gotta go fast! (0:35:44) Al: Oh, Sonic. (0:35:45) Al: What? They’re doing Sonic, Magic the Gathering? (0:35:47) Kev: They’re doing- okay. (0:35:49) Kev: Yeah! Dude, they already did SpongeBob! Who cares? (0:35:53) Al: What? This is what one out all these cards look so good. (0:35:54) Kev: Oh, you missed that! SpongeBob’s in magic! Oh, yeah! (0:36:02) Kev: Don’t they? (0:36:03) Al: Oh, no. Oh, no. (0:36:04) Kev: They look- that’s- that’s the exact reaction. (0:36:10) Al: I don’t want this. Well, no, I do want this. (0:36:14) Kev: And you- and- oh, my- like, Shadow- (0:36:15) Al: I managed to not even look at the Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings ones somehow. (0:36:18) Kev: Oh- oh, yeah. (0:36:20) Kev: Shadow looks busted. It’s insane. (0:36:24) Kev: They’re no big the cats, so point against them for that. No cream, either. (0:36:28) Kev: But overall, it’s- it’s in their- (0:36:31) Kev: Ugh, Sonic’s ability, ‘cause you know, when they have an ability, they have a little, like, name for it. (0:36:36) Kev: It- it’s literally “Gotta go fast.” (0:36:38) Kev: You know “Gotta go fast” isn’t even from the games. (0:36:40) Kev: It’s just from the, uh, the- the dub intro of an anime. [Laughter] (0:36:45) Al: Yeah, I’m not particularly surprised. (0:36:48) Kev: Oh, yeah, Sonic’s going to magic. (0:36:50) Kev: It’s- ugh. I don’t like it. I’m- I’m- I’m- oh, dear. I’m cooked, as the children would say. (0:36:58) Kev: You know, Unicorn Overlord, it- wild as it- it’s not in Magic the Gathering, but in- they have one of those- (0:37:04) Kev: What is it? I think it’s, like, the Overlord edition. You know, one of the big fancy collector’s editions. (0:37:08) Kev: There’s actually a whole (0:37:10) Kev: building card game inside that it’s wild (0:37:16) Kev: Yeah, card games are my vice. They’re my legal addiction. Sonic’s coming to magic (0:37:16) Al: And will this be coming and will this be coming to arenas? (0:37:28) Kev: uh good question I don’t know arena is very weird because arena has (0:37:39) Kev: arena is kind of its own environment it has exclusive arena cards it has its own formats (0:37:45) Kev: and i’ll tell you the the bad ones we’re getting a spider-man set in a few months (0:37:51) Kev: that the spider-man set cards are coming to arena but not with spider-man full (0:37:58) Kev: they’re going to replace them with whatever generic magic card characters or whatever (0:38:02) Al: What? What does that even mean then? (0:38:05) Kev: it means they didn’t get the license to use it digitally (0:38:07) Al: What would be the point in adding the cards then, if they’re not the cards? (0:38:11) Al: So they’re gonna have like the same effects, but not use any names for Spider-Man. (0:38:14) Kev: yeah yeah you you get yeah you get pied or arachnid avatar I don’t know (0:38:18) Al: That’s so stupid. (0:38:20) Al: Just don’t do it. (0:38:28) Kev: uh good old magic together I i joined just this year what a good time to get into this game (0:38:36) Al: Update, I have downloaded Magi the Gathering Eraser. (0:38:39) Kev: yeah oh we gotta play some games um all right let’s go to non sonic base oh or is there (0:38:44) Al: Yes, yeah, news, game news. No, no, no, no, there’s obviously not. Research story have (0:38:47) Kev: is there sonic base news maybe not yet one day it’s inevitable (0:38:56) Al: announced that their 1.0 is coming the 21st of July, so it has been a long time coming. (0:39:00) Kev: Okay (0:39:02) Al: Let’s see, when did this first come into Early Access? February 2023 was when this launched (0:39:04) Kev: Yes, oh wait research, so I don’t know I heard something else okay that that is exciting (0:39:11) Al: in early access. (0:39:12) Kev: Research work takes forever to ask Cody. That’s why the 1.0. It’s it’s forever (0:39:14) Al: So, maybe we need to get our second harvest on this after the 1.0 is out. (0:39:18) Kev: It’s the equivalent of getting their PhD congratulations research story (0:39:23) Kev: I’m sure Cody isn’t triggered by this at all (0:39:31) Kev: Okay, so wait we got let’s see what is the date on the oh July 21st there (0:39:38) Kev: It is but it’s available on the on a beta branch. That’s weird. What do you mean? (0:39:43) Kev: 1.0 will be available in beta before one point (0:39:45) Al: No, no, that’s so. So that’s before launch, you’ll be able to play the beta. (0:39:48) Kev: Yeah, I know that that’s very weird to me like (0:39:52) Al: Well, OK, I see what you mean. I see what you mean. I see what you mean. So (0:39:57) Al: it’s not actually that uncommon in software development where you go, this is our beta for (0:40:05) Al: 1.0 or 1.1 or whatever. That is not that uncommon, actually. I think it’s less common in games, (0:40:07) Kev: Sure. Yeah. Sure. And I mean, like, you know, public betas and test servers, (0:40:12) Al: But it’s definitely something that you see quite a lot. (0:40:18) Kev: like they’re common and I’m not saying it’s unheard of, but I don’t know. (0:40:21) Kev: It just feels weird, especially in game dev, like the 1.0 is the big fitting, right? (0:40:25) Kev: So, uh, I don’t know, but whatever, um, but hey. (0:40:28) Al: You still have to pop the game you can’t just play it’s not just anybody can play it like it’s public (0:40:33) Kev: Yeah. (0:40:34) Al: But public for people who have paid for the game, right? (0:40:37) Kev: That’s true. Good point. (0:40:40) Kev: All right. But hey, it’s here. (0:40:42) Al: Tiny garden the content the (0:40:45) Al: Featured game of last week’s episode have released a statement regarding the Nintendo switch version (0:40:52) Kev: I didn’t think I’d ever hear a statement from Tiny Garden. (0:40:56) Al: This is this is great. I’m just (0:40:58) Al: going to read some of the statement because I don’t think I can really (0:41:01) Al: summarize it better than they have done. “We wanted to clarify some questions (0:41:06) Al: that have arisen regarding the Nintendo Switch version of Tiny Garden. We have (0:41:09) Al: been vague and perhaps not communicated with you as well as we could have, for (0:41:14) Al: which we apologize. We did not want to cause you unnecessary concern or bore (0:41:18) Al: you with technical details. The truth is that the Switch version of Tiny Garden (0:41:23) Al: will be ported by an external company. As we are such a small team it was very (0:41:28) Al: hard for us to do everything in-house. The problem here is we’ve not yet found a (0:41:32) Al: company that can port the game with the polish and quality that we feel (0:41:35) Al: comfortable with. Both our publishers Super Rare Games and us want to deliver (0:41:40) Al: the best possible version of Tiny Garden on Switch. However, we did not (0:41:43) Al: anticipate that this porting would be so complicated.” Hey, I could have told you. (0:41:48) Al: We’ve seen this before. (0:41:50) Kev: What are you talking about? (0:41:52) Kev: It’s katrossi katronfi, it’s fuckies! (0:41:56) Al: And then they go into details about complaining. (0:41:58) Al: About their game engine and that’s the reason. (0:42:02) Al: Sure, fine. (0:42:05) Al: It’s funny because it’s like, oh no, we didn’t know it would be complicated to bring it to a (0:42:10) Al: console. Like what did you expect? Like these things are always complicated. (0:42:14) Kev: Well, yeah, I mean anything game dev is complicated pretty much anything dev software dev is always complicated (0:42:19) Al: Yeah, exactly. (0:42:21) Kev: Well, look here. Here’s your free advice tiny garden people call biting studio (0:42:27) Kev: Those are the guys who make cassette beasts that except beasts is on Godot. They brought it to switch (0:42:32) Kev: It’s awesome on switch. There you go (0:42:33) Al: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’s the thing. I suspect if you do it in Unity or Unreal, I suspect (0:42:42) Al: it is slightly easier because they are obviously like larger companies use them and so therefore (0:42:51) Kev: They’re established. (0:42:53) Al: need the console support to be as good as it can be, right? Because otherwise there (0:43:00) Al: There would be big problems because Godot is. (0:43:04) Al: open source and therefore more likely to be used by smaller teams, and they are less likely to be focusing on consoles at all more likely to be focusing on just PC because that is the easiest for. (0:43:18) Kev: Uh-huh (0:43:18) Al: I mean, it’s just the easiest to develop for full stop right because there’s no gatekeeper right like that has has been the case for a long, long time. (0:43:20) Kev: Yeah, I mean yes, yes, that’s correct (0:43:26) Kev: And probably will always be the case because just the nature of the beast so yeah (0:43:28) Al: Exactly. (0:43:29) Al: Exactly. (0:43:30) Al: Exactly. (0:43:31) Al: So there’s, they’re probably simplifying. (0:43:33) Al: Things in what they’re saying, you know, these things happen. (0:43:40) Al: I would like to clarify again, please, if you’re backing a game on Kickstarter, if you (0:43:47) Al: want it for console, don’t back it on Kickstarter, right? (0:43:50) Al: Like just, just like it’s the console is always like, it is when the Kickstarter happens normally, (0:43:59) Al: the way that it is happened is there is a working version of the game. (0:44:03) Al: It may not be final. (0:44:04) Al: It may not have all the content, but they have a game and it can run on PC. (0:44:08) Al: There will be nothing running on console at that point. (0:44:11) Al: And it’s very likely, unless they are a team that have ported to console before, it’s very (0:44:16) Al: likely that they have no idea what they’re doing with consoles at all, right? (0:44:20) Kev: Yep. (0:44:21) Al: And this, this isn’t meant to be harsh on them. (0:44:24) Al: This is just a fact that if you have, if you’re not a console developer, you do not know how (0:44:29) Al: complicated it is. (0:44:30) Al: I am not a games developer, right? (0:44:33) Al: I’m a web developer. (0:44:34) Al: And even in web development, there are things that if you don’t know how it works, it is (0:44:38) Al: so much more complicated than you realize. (0:44:42) Al: And there are just certain things that are more awkward. (0:44:45) Al: And if you haven’t started development on it, you don’t know how complicated it is. (0:44:49) Al: And it is likely not going to be done until the game is finished. (0:44:52) Al: That’s the other thing, right? (0:44:55) Al: Even Stardew Valley still doesn’t get updates out day and date on console, right? (0:45:00) Kev: Yeah. (0:45:01) Al: and stardew valley (0:45:03) Al: is one of the biggest indie games, full stop. (0:45:06) Kev: Yeah. (0:45:07) Al: It’s not like he’s only on his own anyway. He has a team that he works with, he worked with (0:45:12) Kev: Nice. (0:45:12) Al: porting companies before, he has done many different things, and even he can’t do it. (0:45:20) Al: It takes so much work, even big companies struggle with that. (0:45:26) Al: It is rare for a game to come out at the same time on PC and console unless you are one of (0:45:31) Al: of the biggest games and they will. (0:45:34) Al: Completely different teams working on the PC version, working on the switch version, working on the PlayStation version Xbox is different because they’re like the Microsoft of well, pretty much Microsoft have done so much work and I, you know, I’m the first to jump on Microsoft a bad bandwagon, but Microsoft have done so much work to make putting games to Xbox so incredibly easy it’s not. It’s still not just as simple as click a button. It does. (0:45:36) Kev: Mm-hmm (0:45:41) Kev: Yeah (0:45:44) Kev: They are a PC (0:46:03) Al: It does it, but it is so much easier than any other console. If you have an existing PC game, especially if you’re using the tools that Microsoft give to make the game on PC. (0:46:07) Kev: Sure. Yeah. Well, I mean, guess. Hi. Hey, I’m still holding out for mighty number nine (0:46:15) Al: All that being said, all that being said, never back a Kickstarter for a switch game. Just don’t do it, right? (0:46:25) Kev: on the 3DS. Uh, but. (0:46:31) Al: I have, I have, when I, when I bought my steam. (0:46:33) Al: Dick, it was so good because it meant that I could go through and like change (0:46:37) Al: all of my kickstarters to use to steam codes instead of switch get codes. (0:46:41) Kev: Mmm, yeah, at least (0:46:41) Al: And you get the game a year before, right? (0:46:44) Al: It’s just every, every, every single one is there’s none of them. (0:46:49) Al: Not a single game that I have backed on Kickstarter has released (0:46:53) Al: on switch at the same time as steam. (0:46:54) Kev: year you’re not wrong not at all ah well you know what though in this (0:47:03) Kev: particular case there’s an easy way to fix this you know what you don’t even (0:47:07) Kev: have to release on the switch tiny garden just so you know what we’re (0:47:11) Kev: canceling it we’re investing everything into the playdate port and we’re all in (0:47:12) Al: Honestly, a Playdate port would probably be quicker, because it would have to lose features, (0:47:17) Kev: we’re good all is forgiven (0:47:24) Al: right? It’s not going to be the same, the graphics are simpler, like honestly, if they started now (0:47:31) Al: from scratch, they could probably get a Playdate version out before they could port their version (0:47:34) Kev: Well, well there you go, Tiny Guard. The path is there. (0:47:34) Al: to Switch. I’m not joking. They would of course get a fraction of the sales, right? There are (0:47:42) Al: Playdates. Yes, it does. I love the Playdate, it’s so good. I just wish I played it more. (0:47:44) Kev: the dozens look I mean I might join the dozens I’ll say that (0:48:00) Kev: Yeah (0:48:05) Al: As far as I can see, the only number I’ve seen on Playdate sales was in May of last year, (0:48:10) Al: They said 70,000 have been sold (0:48:12) Al: But that was one year into it, and we’re now a year later, so who knows

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The J. Burden Show
The J. Burden Show Ep. 286: Bird from TLE

The J. Burden Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 58:24


We talk about the worst people on earth...podcast listeners (This means you)   Birdo: https://x.com/TLEbirdarchist https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth   Radio Free Chicago Bear Gear Here w/ Code J.Burden:   J: https://findmyfrens.net/jburden/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j.burden Substack: https://substack.com/@jburden Axios: https://axios-remote-fitness-coaching... ETH: 0xB06aF86d23B9304818729abfe02c07513e68Cb70 BTC: 3NZWdERoBXveb8uRQwgan7iMkA1V1rqX1G

No Real Libertarian
Finland - The ChiCom Psyop

No Real Libertarian

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 99:02


You know what it is. Birdo and I talk shit, discuss Finland being fake and gay and then talk more shit about Europe.

The J. Burden Show
The J. Burden Show Ep. 261: Bird from TLE

The J. Burden Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 64:00


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Reminding You Why You Love Football - The MUNDIAL Podcast

In this week's episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, Owen Blackhurst is joined by Seb White and, by popular demand, the moonlighting ex-pat James Bird, in a remotely recorded episode to talk about feeling hard, Tribe West, your people, Powerpodz, MOTD, Jogo Bonito v Mighty Machine, Christiana, taking the shilling, saying what you see, Birdo on the Spot, missing your mates, Judy Dench's a Toffee, eating a takeaway in an away pub, Goodison, memories, nipple cripples, waiting for your balls to drop, fish finger sarnies, shopping in Milan, 7-Yerlevens, big birthdays, Valentine's Day conceptions, COVID, the Great Smog of '52, French Lick, Michael Jordan, Paul Ince at Inter and the Paul Ince room, un'anatra all'acqua (eventually), Ince & Hodgson: Football Detectives, causing mischief, bicycle kicks, a real fizzer, Family 1–0 Ronaldo, Pagliuca's comeuppance, a bromance, losing the dressing room, big time Charlie, Paul and Denis at the Mol, Glenn and Eileen in Tettenhall, General Stones in the trenches, I'll be back, a wonderful 0–0, another Gazza gaffe, Inter me-nan, taking things too seriously, living the dream, get the keepnet, The Sopranos, Meadow in goal and actors playing keepers, defending the volatile Janice, negative football parents, side quests and Asad's dearth, lovely football schmutter, Sopranos XI, a Grobbelaar doppelganger, Aprile at right-back, a crazy-looking winger, terrifying eyebrows and threats, pairing two from three, dressing Hesh, just annoying, Kneecap, Darwin Núñez, footballers writing about football, Héctor's insights, the cashless society, airports being crap, toilet seats, a hole in the ground, duty-free extravagance, a sea of cars, and somehow so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Friends Against Government
TLE 199 - Mac & Cheese Map

Friends Against Government

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 77:19


Become a valued and cherished Board Member today: https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth… Check out LineMart, our Official TLE Merchandise store: https://www.toplobsta.com/collections/timeline-earth — — — On this episode, we bring on the extremely important Lee Enfield to expose Birdo's economic idiocy, talk Thanksgiving statistics, and ponder the supervolcanic apocalypse. — — — Recorded LIVE every Wednesday! (11/27/2024) Featuring, the "The Golden Throat", Car Campit: https://twitter.com/TLE_Car And the "Number One PTO User of the Year", Aaron: https://twitter.com/btwa_RETURNS And as always, the wise and Dionysian Birdarchist: https://twitter.com/TLEbirdarchist And of course, the team's erudite investigator Paz: https://twitter.com/TLEPaz Follow the show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timelineearth — — — THE EARTH IS A LINE!

The Metacast
Fortnite Creative Economics with MustardPlays and Birdo

The Metacast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 70:48


Fortnite has paid out roughly $500 million to creators since UEFN and Creator Economy 2.0 launched in March of 2023. These payouts, which have increased 32.5% YoY (measured from March through September), are showing no signs of slowing down. However, Fortnite Creative engagement as a proportion of total Fortnite engagement has actually declined as Epic has launched more successful modes like 'Reload.' What will it take for Epic's $500 million investment to turn into a thriving UGC ecosystem that creates more value than it costs? Where does the Fortnite economy go from here? Joining host David Taylor today are two top Fortnite creators and influencers, Chad Mustard (aka MustardPlays) and Michael Ha (aka Birdo).MustardPlays has accumulated over 900K followers on Youtube with his Fortnite Creative content, and his company JOGO Studios, which he co-founded with TypicalGamer, is the 4th most popular game on Fortnite at the time of recording. Birdo created a Fortnite-focused TikTok following of over 2M. He then hit it big with Minigame Box PvP, which has been played for 5 billion minutes or 1% of all Fortnite Creative time since the release of UEFN in March 2023.We'd also like to thank Heroic Labs for making this episode possible! Thousands of studios have trusted Heroic Labs to help them focus on their games and not worry about gametech or scaling for success. To learn more and reach out, make sure to visit https://heroiclabs.com/?utm_source=Naavik&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=PodcastIf you like the episode, please help others find us by leaving a 5-star rating or review! And if you have any comments, requests, or feedback shoot us a note at podcast@naavik.co. Watch the episode: YouTube ChannelFor more episodes and details: Podcast WebsiteFree newsletter: Naavik DigestFollow us: Twitter | LinkedIn | WebsiteSound design by Gavin Mc Cabe.

Des si et des rais
Ép. 628 | Spécial jeux vidéo avec Jean-Michel Martel

Des si et des rais

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 73:38


Cet épisode est une présentation de Eros et Compagnie. Obtenez 15% de rabais sur absolument tous les produits de la boutique en ligne et encouragez-nous en utilisant le code promo RAIS15 sur le site ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠erosetcompagnie.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Pour nous encourager tout en protégeant vos précieuses données (ou tout en piratant tout l'Internet), vous pouvez également vous abonner ou renouveler votre abonnement à NordVPN via le ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nordvpn.com/dsedr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ pour obtenir 4 mois gratuits et nous donner un petit coup de pouce puisqu'on reçoit 40% de la valeur de votre abonnement et ça, ça fait toute une différence pour nous! Pour nous laisser un message audio qui sera fort probablement joué en ondes, rendez-vous au ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SpeakPipe.com/DesSiEtDesRais⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ /// LE PLUS GRAND JOUEUR DE MARIO AU QUÉBEC EST AVEC NOUS! En effet, l'incomparable humoriste Jean-Michel Martel est des nôtres pour jaser avec nous de sa passion numéro un: NINTENDO! Et comme il est entouré de pas pire gamers en Julien Bernatchez, Guillaume Dupuis et Mathieu Niquette, la discussion s'enflamme rapidement, court dans tous les sens et va dans des zones beaucoup trop nichées pour que ce soit accessible, mais malgré tout, on sait que vous adorez ça! Comme cet épisode n'est absolument pas résumable, voici en vrac la (très) longue liste des sujets abordés: jeuxvideo.com, les fausses rumeurs, Métal Mario, Dr. Mario, Pink Gold Peach, la taupe, les couleurs de Toad, les instructions de Mario Bros. 1, le t-shirt magané de Julien, la réalité dans les jeux Mario Bros., les timelines de Zelda, les mains dans Zelda 1 qui ne sont pas dans Mario Kart, les genres de lapins dans Zelda 1, l'identité de Waluigi, Wapeach, Waluigi's clipping toenails, les différents Wario, Pizza Tower, Mario Time Machine, Partners in Time, Paper Mario, Sticker Stars, Mario RPG. Histoire de prendre un break de chaos, Jean-Michel nous propose un quiz qui, selon lui, est très facile, mais à travers tout ça, on dérape quand même constamment et on parle de: la version SNES de Yoshi Cookie, Josiane Aubuchon, le film de Mario Bros., le nom de Birdo en japonais, Mario Bros. 2, le retour de Wart, Zelda Link's Awakening, Mario Superstar Baseball version NTSC, le tableau inexistant de Mario Bros. 3, la version rare de la pochette de Mario Bros. 3, Punch-Out, la beta de Warioland au Virtual Boy, Lou Albano, Danny DeVito, Sammy de Scooby-Doo dans Mortal Kombat, la qualité et la difficulté de Mario Sunshine, nos meilleurs et nos pires Mario sur les différentes consoles, Mario Land, Lost Levels, les warp-zone qui font reculer, souvenirs de Mario 64, la corde à danser, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, la version WII U de Super Mario 64 DS, Vegas Stakes, le poids de Wario, le sexe de Birdo, le narrateur du livret de Mario RPG, Mario's Time Machine Deluxe sur MS DOS, Mario is Missing, les blocs note de musique, le monde 7 de Mario Bros. 3, Ah! Et Guillaume Dupuis nous appelle du futur et le Guillaume Dupuis du présent arrive avec un boutte de carotte prouvant que la fin du monde approche, mais le lore est pas si clair que ça! Et dans le segment Eros, il nous présente son nouvel oeuf en acier inoxydable qui est encore plus gros que l'autre (qu'il a donné à une personne mystère qui a le plancher pelvien bien entraîné). Des si et des rais : Mangez des champignons et écoutez notre show! Invité: Jean-Michel Martel (Un genre de podcast) Avec : Julien Bernatchez, Guillaume Dupuis et Mathieu Niquette Captation / Montage / Réalisation : Jonathan Barbe Date d'enregistrement: 19 septembre 2024 Date de diffusion : 3 octobre 2024 /// Abonnez-vous à nos réseaux sociaux via le ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkTree⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SpeakPipe

Friends Against Government
TLE 190 - Genetically Modified Leftoids ft. 'Fearless' Kevin Castley

Friends Against Government

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 202:09


Become a valued and cherished Board Member today: https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth… Check out LineMart, our Official TLE Merchandise store: https://www.toplobsta.com/collections/timeline-earth — — — On this episode, Birdo welcomes the fearless Kevin Castley onto America's Most Popular News Program. We talk Donald Trump and the rise of the NAFO threat and Le Struggles of Le Working Class. Follow Kevin on X: @KevinCastley Check out Superpower Broadcasting: https://www.youtube.com/superpowerbroadcasting Also, check out the Superpower Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/@superpgaming Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SuperpowerBroadcasting Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/superpowerbroadcasting — — — Recorded LIVE every Wednesday! (9/18/2024) Featuring, the "The Golden Throat", Car Campit: https://twitter.com/TLE_Car And the "Number One PTO User of the Year", Aaron: https://twitter.com/btwa_RETURNS And as always, the wise and Dionysian Birdarchist: https://twitter.com/TLEbirdarchist And of course, the team's erudite investigator Paz: https://twitter.com/TLEPaz Follow the show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timelineearth — — — THE EARTH IS A LINE!

Reminding You Why You Love Football - The MUNDIAL Podcast

In this week's episode of Reminding You Why You Love Football, media liberal left-wing elite Owen Blackhurst is joined by James Bird and Tommy Stewart to talk about Waiting for Birdo, John Aldridge capturing Basque hearts and banging in goals wherever he went, Seb's dinner for two, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Cartman and Butters, Carlos Tazez and other cartoon footballers, James's uncle MBE, Federico Casotti on the wonder of Wesley Sneijder, Owen's swazz, being robbed of the Ballon d'Or, Jose Mourinho's Weirdos, dangerous underdogs, clickbait transfer rumours, a great ghost game, Mario Balotelli, presenting your business card, Dutch caps, triumphant Tommy trouncing James, street football, manscaping your body hair, Tenerife 08, Corporal Cockout's bellyflop challenge, Dong McEnroe, Asad the Hirsute, questionable tournament formats, Stade Brestois 29 confounding expectations, watching pirates training, Qarabağ Ultras in the Exmouth Arms, the dearth of stardust, they're not laughing now, achieving your dreams, backflips at Goose Mansions, just play, attic finds, signed certificates, being in the local paper, coconut water v tap water, solicitors, doing your research, and somehow so much more.Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The J. Burden Show
The J. Burden Show Ep. 216: Bird and Paz from TLE

The J. Burden Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024 63:46


We talk about the Marine Corps Band. Birdo: https://x.com/timelineearth https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth https://x.com/TLEbirdarchist Paz: https://x.com/TLEPaz https://t.co/sdLJpfL2Ds J: https://findmyfrens.net/jburden/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j.burden Substack: https://jburden.substack.com/ Axios: https://axios-remote-fitness-coaching...

The J. Burden Show
The J. Burden Show Ep. 206: Birdo from TLE

The J. Burden Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2024 54:57


We talk about the Biden family. Birdo: https://x.com/timelineearth https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth https://x.com/TLEbirdarchist J: https://findmyfrens.net/jburden/ Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j.burden Substack: https://jburden.substack.com/ Axios: https://axios-remote-fitness-coaching...

Historia de Aragón
Checkpoint T05xP40 - Paper Mario y la puerta milenaria

Historia de Aragón

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 68:54


Paper Mario y la puerta milenaria quizás no sea el juego más conocido de la saga Mario, pero sí es uno de los más queridos por quienes lo han jugado. En la nueva versión que salió la semana pasada el juego está tal y como lo recordamos, y eso nos ha hecho pensar sobre su aproximación minimalista, cómica y dulce a las historias clásicas de aventuras. Además, hablamos de otros juegos y personajes "de culto" de la saga Mario, incluyendo los personajes Birdo y Bibiana, dos narrativas trans adelantadas a su tiempo que debutaron en Super Mario Bros 2. y este mismo Paper Mario.

Checkpoint
Checkpoint T05xP40 - Paper Mario y la puerta milenaria

Checkpoint

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 68:54


Paper Mario y la puerta milenaria quizás no sea el juego más conocido de la saga Mario, pero sí es uno de los más queridos por quienes lo han jugado. En la nueva versión que salió la semana pasada el juego está tal y como lo recordamos, y eso nos ha hecho pensar sobre su aproximación minimalista, cómica y dulce a las historias clásicas de aventuras. Además, hablamos de otros juegos y personajes "de culto" de la saga Mario, incluyendo los personajes Birdo y Bibiana, dos narrativas trans adelantadas a su tiempo que debutaron en Super Mario Bros 2. y este mismo Paper Mario.

Reminding You Why You Love Football - The MUNDIAL Podcast

Owen (Dictatezo), Seb (Whitinho Santos), and James (Goblauro) catch up in this week's RYWYLF in the absence of Tommy (Gooseca the Asthmatic Rhino) and pull their socks up to talk Brazilian nicknames, al Capocannoniere (or something like that), ghost goals, the endless need for narrative, Edin Džeko swanning about at Inter, football stadiums as Transformers, watching a game at the indomitable San Siro, a man walks into a bar, 35 being old, pronouncing banal as baynle, old-school buzzer noises, liver-ripping orcas, Educating Seb, J. League mascots who lunch, massaging beer-drinking cows, Birdo's foodie credentials, a hench owl, Gulliver White's selfies with Lilliputians, player watching, the work of art, coveting canvas, twitching, Eddie Abbew, running for the bus, common sense, a battle with a bike shed, and somehow so much more!Get the latest issue of MUNDIAL Mag hereSign up for the The Hat-Trick NewsletterFollow MUNDIAL on Twitter - @mundialmagFollow MUNDIAL on Instagram - @mundialmag Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eurogamer Podcasts
Newscast: Where does Nintendo go next for the Super Mario Bros. Movie 2?

Eurogamer Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 27:45


This week on the Eurogamer Newscast, we talk about where Nintendo can take its moustachioed mascot next when he returns for the Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel. We heard confirmation of a second Mario film this week, though notably it was not confirmed this would be "The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2". Mario and friends will return, of course (the first film's billion dollar box office guaranteed that), but Nintendo was typically coy around what exactly this follow-up will focus on. Donkey Kong? Daisy? Yoshi? Birdo? We get our thinking Cappy's on to theorise where the Mushroom Kingdom's story might go next, and whether this is all leading to some kind of Avengers-esque Super Smash Bros. team up movie. Or, alternatively, whether none of this really matters as it's just a light-hearted film for families. With me this week are Eurogamer's Ed Nightingale, Victoria Kennedy and Liv Ngan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SuperPod Saga
Ep. 83 - Game Characters You'd Have a Drink With (ft. Matt and Gerry)

SuperPod Saga

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 73:40


BOTTOMS UP! SuperPod Saga is going bar-hopping! This week, Aaron is joined by Gerry and Matt as they discuss the video game characters that they'd love to have a drink with. CHEERS! SKOL! CHUG! Matt Storm: https://linktr.ee/dj_stormagedddon Super Ghost Radio: https://linktr.ee/superghostradio More SuperPod Saga: https://www.superpodsaga.com/ ⦁ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsk92iXuOGiul8ZiIYNMMmQ ⦁ Twitter - https://twitter.com/SuperPodSaga ⦁ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/superpodsaga/ ⦁ Discord - https://discord.com/invite/7zXbMvVQks ⦁ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/superpodsaga 00:00 - Intro and Guest Intro 08:58 - Topic of the Day and Discord Q&A 14:12 - Birdo and Wario 16:46 - Kazuma Kiryu 18:22 - Ness and the gang 19:58 - Kirby 22:41 - Samus Aran 23:43 - Slippy Toad 25:58 - Joel Miller 27:52 - Garrus Vakarian 31:27 - Chris Redfield 33:29 - Leon Kennedy 35:08 - Princess Peach 37:15 - Knuckles 38:26 - Jimmy T. 39:33 - Patron shout-out and ad break 50:22 - Cid Highwind 52:40 - Clive Rosfield 53:38 - Professor Layton 54:18 - Mr. Game and Watch 58:46 - Ken Masters and Cal Kestis 01:02:53 - Earthworm Jim 01:03:44 - Astarion 01:06:04 - Adol Christin 01:11:07 - Wrappin' it all up and Outro Bones Coffee has some of the best flavors of coffee that I've ever tasted. Do me a FLAVOR and check some out! Click the link below and use one-time code "SUPERPODSAGA" at checkout to get 20% off of your order! GET YOUR BONES COFFEE HERE > https://www.bonescoffee.com/?rfsn=7344707.323bd7 Liquid I.V. - Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link https://zen.ai/aarontommysuperpodsaga to save 20% off anything you order

Friends Against Government
TLE 161 - NATO (Full-Gay)

Friends Against Government

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 56:06


Become a valued and cherished Board Member today: https://www.patreon.com/timelineearth… On this episode, the boys contemplate Birdo's latest illness and become the Number One NATO Tracking Podcast in America. Recorded LIVE every Wednesday! (2/7/2024) Featuring, the "The Golden Throat", Car Campit: https://twitter.com/TLE_Car And the "Number One PTO User of the Year", Aaron: https://twitter.com/btwa_RETURNS And of course, the team's erudite investigator: https://twitter.com/TLEPaz Follow the show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/timelineearth THE EARTH IS A LINE!

Gaming Together: A Cooperative Podcast
Episode 130: Asshole Gamers 2 - Princess Birdo

Gaming Together: A Cooperative Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 73:51


Welcome to episode 130 of the Gaming Together Podcast!Hosted by Phil and NaveOur socials: linktr.ee/gamingtogetherSupport our content here: https://www.patreon.com/gamingtogetherpod

Life's a Draft
Partner Perspectives

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2023 70:22


How well do the ladies of LAD know their men? We put that to the test with a series of questions. Unaware of the task at hand, the fellas do their best to make Bob Eubanks proud. J Cat's favorite movie? What foods does Birdo hate? Shine's favorite band? Catman's ultimate dessert? And who loves the curse of Oak Island? Listen as the guys describe their first dates and lots more.

NintenDomain Podcast
384: Quake 2 is an Earth-Shattering Remaster on Switch and Jon Can't Find a Game Store in Florida

NintenDomain Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 103:44


This week on NintenDomain, Jon is back again and we talk about the greatness of the new Quake Remaster, The pointlessness of the Toxic Avenger Remake, the importance of Birdo, and so much more!! Support  the show and get bonus episodes at: www.patreon.com/nintendomainpodcast Music: Intro: Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing: Samba De Jeneiro Break 1: Quake 2: Dissonant Perfection Break 2: Ape Escape: Monkey Madness Ending: Quake 2 64: Finale Remix Topic Times 00:05:09 Got Item: No retro game stores in Florida Barbie TMNT Mutant Mayhem 00:16:25 Quake II Toxic Avenger 00:33:28 Samba De Amigo Demo 00:40:10 Death's Door Slime Rancher Ape Escape 01:17:16 Weekly Nintendo News  

Western Promises
092 From Scrap You Came w/Gang Scrap

Western Promises

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2023 71:37


very special guest this week Gang Scrap joins us to talk empire building, scrapping for god, morality, ukraine/russia, NATO, PLATO, BIRDO, and so much more follow gang_scrapper on instagram: instagram.com/gang_scrapper get bonus eps, discord access, and support the show: patreon.com/westernpromises

The Mario Bros. Show
BONUS EPISODE: Flying Carpets, Vegetables, and Birdo

The Mario Bros. Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 8:26


This bonus episode is a tribute to Super Mario Bros. 2, the strange game that included Princess Toadstool and Toad as playable characters. As the four set off for adventure, they'll come up against creepy masks, vegetables, the strange boss Birdo, and the ugly Wart. It's a classic episode of nostalgic proportions! 

The Emo Social Club Podcast
It'sa Me, L E A!

The Emo Social Club Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 68:02


Getting downright chatty and silly with LEA on the pod this week. We talk about her recent EP "Never Happy Ending," collabing with Kellin Quinn and the music community as a whole, Mario and Nintendo hot takes and more.______#3 Best Music Podcast - Chicago ReaderICYMI: we're the #1 music podcast to come in third in the Chicago Reader's "Best of 2022" round-up!  Check out the run-down here + pick up a FREE copy of it if you're in Chicago.EMO SOCIAL MERCH SALEIt's prime layering season, club! So make sure you get some discounted Sun's Out, Stay Inside & Emo Social Nu-Metal tanks in our store!Thanks to our designer Joey Resko for our designs.Join the club!Twitch: https://emosocialclub.tvDiscord: https://emosocial.club/discordTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@xemosocialclubxTwitter: https://emosocial.club/twitterInstagram: https://emosocial.club/instagramYoutube: https://emosocial.club/youtubeFacebook: https://emosocial.club/facebook  Follow us!Brian: @spookypants1Lizzie: @bordenbathory

Life's a Draft
The Birdo Tapes #5- Shine

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2023 18:48


If you're reading this, you either know one of us and or listen to our Life's A Draft Podcast. I'm sure there are times when you wonder, “Who are these guys?” or “Who would pick Transformers in Round 1?” Well, in the Birdo Tapes you'll catch a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of these podcasters. You might leave more confused than when you started, but give it a listen and find out what makes these guys tick, why they pick the selections they choose, and most importantly, where did they get these nicknames?

Thick Lines
*UNLOCKED* 31 - Last Lewks with Corinne Halbert

Thick Lines

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2023 79:00


We're celebrating one year of Thick Lines on Patreon by releasing our very first Patreon exclusive episode from 2022. To support the show and get bonus episodes like this one, go to patreon.com/thicklinespod. Katie and Sally are joined by Corinne Halbert (Acid Nun) to discuss Charles Burns's Last Look (Patheon, 2016). Topics discussed include shadow work, denial, loving Mass, William S. Burroughs, David Lynch, body horror, Naked Lunch, Tintin, Birdo, addiction, Silent Hill 2, A Serious Man, and of course, Acid Nun. Find more Corinne at corinnehalbert.com. La Luz de Jesus Gallery: https://laluzdejesus.com/tits-clits-1972-1987-book-signing-and-artwork-exhibition/ Heavy Manners Comics Fair: https://heavymannerslibrary.com/events/heavy-manners-comics-fair-spring-2023 Sally's shop: https://dearsallymadden.bigcartel.com/ Follow Thick Lines on Instagram @thicklinespod.

Life's a Draft
The Birdo Tapes #4- Beau

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 14:49


If you're reading this, you either know one of us and or listen to our Life's A Draft Podcast. I'm sure there are times when you wonder, “Who are these guys?” or “Who would pick Transformers in Round 1?” Well, in the Birdo Tapes you'll catch a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of these podcasters. You might leave more confused than when you started, but give it a listen and find out what makes these guys tick, why they pick the selections they choose, and most importantly, where did they get these nicknames?

Nintendo Pow Block Podcast
333. Mario Movie Trailer, Birdo in Wave 4, and New Nintendo Legos

Nintendo Pow Block Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2023 86:10


**Support The Show on Patreon** On this episode, Ed and Corey discuss the Mario Movie trailer, new Lego sets coming, Wave 4 of Mario Kart 8 DLC, Kingdoms of Amalur, and more. Follow our Hosts: Edward Varnell: Twitter | Instagram Corey Dirrig: Twitter | Instagram Contact the Show: Email: NintendoPowBlock@gmail.com Twitter: @PowBlockPodcast Follow Nintendo Pow Block on Social Media: Twitter | Discord | Instagram | Twitch | YouTube Thank you for listening and/or watching Nintendo Pow Block. You can find the show on YouTube and your podcast service of choice every Wednesday morning. Remember if you're watching on YouTube to subscribe the channel. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave us a review and five star rating. Remember to also check out Expansion Pass and The Direct Recap Show. See you next week on Nintendo Pow Block! Be You. Be More. Play Games. Be Better. Nintendo Pow Block Podcast. https://www.bossrushmedia.com/

The Harvest Season
I Want to Be a Cult Leader

The Harvest Season

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2023 65:07


Al and Bev talk about Cult of the Lamb, again Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:04:42: What Have We Been Playing 00:17:23: News 00:34:12: Cult Of The Lamb 01:01:27: Outro Links Bloom 1.1 Ooblets 1.1 Verdant Village Engine Before The Green Moon Season: A Letter to the future Original Cult of the Lamb Episode Cult of the Lamb Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript [00:00.000 –> 00:27.000] [Theme Music] [00:30.000 –> 00:37.140] Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of the harvest season. My name is Al and my [00:37.140 –> 00:46.880] name is Bev and we’re here today to talk about farming, no cottagecore games. Apparently [00:46.880 –> 00:52.320] that is just like muscle memory for my brain now because it’s been going on for so long. [00:52.320 –> 00:56.960] I was actually thinking while I was doing that intro, how do people with multiple podcasts [00:56.960 –> 01:02.360] do it? I don’t know. How do they remember which podcast they’re introing? Maybe like [01:02.360 –> 01:07.120] they I don’t know if they just had like some sort of routine that gets it into like into [01:07.120 –> 01:11.840] the specific podcast. Yeah yeah like this is this is the thing I do before this podcast [01:11.840 –> 01:17.080] and it’s like you juggle or something yeah yeah that would work. There’s a friend in [01:17.080 –> 01:23.880] my D&D group who like she had like a Scottish character like a Scottish dwarf and every [01:23.880 –> 01:28.960] time she she couldn’t do the accent unless she did like this little like song beforehand [01:28.960 –> 01:33.360] so she would do the song and then just like talk in a Scottish accent for like the rest [01:33.360 –> 01:39.600] of the day. But she could not get started without it so yeah just some sort of routine [01:39.600 –> 01:46.200] I guess that triggers it. Yeah I I mean I’m going to guess that the accent was probably [01:46.200 –> 01:51.800] not great anyway. I don’t know I thought it was pretty great but yeah but how do you what [01:51.800 –> 01:56.000] do you what do you think about Shrek’s accent that’s the real question? Uh I mean I don’t [01:56.000 –> 02:05.160] know no I could no it’s not okay I mean it’s Shrek. I mean I’m not saying it would be Shrek [02:05.160 –> 02:09.200] but I think that’s a good indication of whether people think something is a good Scottish [02:09.200 –> 02:12.800] accent or not and if they think that Shrek is a good Scottish accent then they don’t [02:12.800 –> 02:16.880] know what a Scottish accent is. I guess I don’t know I watch a lot of Outlander so I [02:16.880 –> 02:22.880] feel like I have a better representation maybe. I have heard of that I have no idea what it [02:22.880 –> 02:30.440] is. Okay I would recommend it’s a if you like like historical fiction it’s essentially someone [02:30.440 –> 02:34.760] going back in time to like the I don’t know seven goodness I don’t even know like what [02:34.760 –> 02:40.860] 1700s maybe in the Scottish Highlands. Oh my word like they’ve actually got like proper [02:40.860 –> 02:50.280] Scots in this as well. Mm-hmm I’m gonna watch it. Probably not. Okay. Interesting mm-hmm [02:50.280 –> 02:57.160] it’s Lionsgate. Mm-hmm yeah so it’s like behind a payroll there’s the first like three seasons [02:57.160 –> 03:04.700] I think are at least the US like Netflix but not all of them. I mean basically basically [03:04.700 –> 03:11.120] nothing’s on Netflix anymore other than Netflix stuff mm-hmm where is it it is on yeah it’s [03:11.120 –> 03:17.320] on well they’re calling it stars now but that’s one of those it’s one of those Amazon Prime [03:17.320 –> 03:21.360] channels that you have to have Amazon Prime and then you also have to pay for this extra [03:21.360 –> 03:28.120] channel on top. Right yep I hate it. Alright let’s move away from subscriptions please [03:28.120 –> 03:40.160] I’m all tied out. Alright this is a podcast about Cottagecore games. Uh-huh. We this episode [03:40.160 –> 03:45.960] we’re gonna talk about Cult of the Lamb this is our second harvest on Cult of the Lamb [03:45.960 –> 03:51.840] the previous episode will be in the show notes if you want to listen to that first by Kevin [03:51.840 –> 03:59.320] and Kelly mm-hmm but me and Bev had some thoughts and it’s been a while since I we decided to [03:59.320 –> 04:03.960] do this so I can’t remember what my thoughts were but I’m sure they’ll come back. Uh-huh [04:03.960 –> 04:09.680] I it’s yeah it’s also been a while but I did start up playing it today so I can revisit [04:09.680 –> 04:16.400] this world and try to create some thoughts. Yeah I talked a little bit about it in the [04:16.400 –> 04:23.280] game of the year episode as well but mm-hmm anyway. Before that oh I need to say this [04:23.280 –> 04:28.840] I need to get into the habit of saying this right up front. Transcripts for the podcast [04:28.840 –> 04:32.360] are now available in the show notes and on the website and they say it’s best to say [04:32.360 –> 04:37.920] it as early in the podcast as possible for obvious reasons so there you go. Beautiful. [04:37.920 –> 04:42.600] So we’re gonna talk about Cult of the Lamb before that we’re gonna have some news but [04:42.600 –> 04:48.200] first of all Bev what have you been playing? I’ve been playing a lot of Stardew ever since [04:48.200 –> 04:56.400] I saw that concerned ape treat for the seven years I’ve just been immersed and I think [04:56.400 –> 05:03.440] I’m finally going to reach like one point the 1.5 update finally so I’m excited to reach [05:03.440 –> 05:08.060] this new venture in this game that I haven’t actually played yet. Did you do a new save [05:08.060 –> 05:13.680] or are you on top of one of your old ones? I did a new one. Wow mm-hmm fair enough mm-hmm [05:13.680 –> 05:19.760] how about you what are you been playing? I have been playing a couple of things so I’ve [05:19.760 –> 05:26.080] been playing Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity I think it’s called the newer one whatever [05:26.080 –> 05:29.480] I’ve just slowly been playing through that I think I talked about that in the last episode [05:29.480 –> 05:34.320] that I did so yeah I’ve just been slowly playing through that I’m not sure when I’ll finish [05:34.320 –> 05:40.600] it I’ll probably take a break this week because the new Kirby game just arrived at my house [05:40.600 –> 05:48.440] so I’m gonna play that. Exciting. Yeah yeah very exciting I’ve also been playing the Bloom [05:48.440 –> 05:55.680] update which I’ll talk about more in the news soon bear with and I’ve also been playing [05:55.680 –> 06:02.640] the new Mario Kart levels and I actually I had not I hadn’t actually finished playing [06:02.640 –> 06:06.240] the previous ones because I can’t remember when they must have been like just before [06:06.240 –> 06:09.720] Christmas or something so it was just really busy with lots of other things so I ended [06:09.720 –> 06:16.340] up not not three starting them so I’ve been doing that and then moving on to the new ones [06:16.340 –> 06:22.240] as well so yeah. Is this Mario Party 8? Yes. Okay so I was gonna say a new one I haven’t [06:22.240 –> 06:28.900] heard of a new one coming out. No but it’s interesting because so they say so when they [06:28.900 –> 06:33.640] announced this DLC they announced at the beginning of last year or middle middle of the beginning [06:33.640 –> 06:38.840] of last year sometime early last year and they said they were going to be six waves [06:38.840 –> 06:47.000] over basically two years so up till the end of this year and then that kind of string [06:47.000 –> 06:54.660] that that text on the DLC has kind of has been deleted so that’s interesting and people [06:54.660 –> 07:00.440] are leading to believe to think that that means there’s going to be more it possibly [07:00.440 –> 07:04.600] could mean that this is not all going to be done by the end of this year I would be surprised [07:04.600 –> 07:09.200] if that was the case right because like there’s only two more waves to go and not managing [07:09.200 –> 07:14.840] to do two more waves this year would be surprising so I’m also probably leaning towards the idea [07:14.840 –> 07:21.260] that there’s possibly more coming but also adding to that speculation in this DLC pack [07:21.260 –> 07:31.240] sorry wave need to use the right terminology this DLC waves are transient why would you [07:31.240 –> 07:36.080] use wave when you’ve got when you want people to continue playing things don’t use terminology [07:36.080 –> 07:43.740] about transient things well it like the well waves always sure they’re like transient but [07:43.740 –> 07:48.240] there’s always a wave after the wave yeah but that’s that’s well exactly so it makes [07:48.240 –> 07:56.000] it worse right I don’t know it’s gonna be infinite infinite number of waves right like [07:56.000 –> 08:00.360] you never stop the waves and they’re all transient and I just it doesn’t feel like the right [08:00.360 –> 08:04.420] terminology they would want to use for this thing come on I mean they haven’t come out [08:04.420 –> 08:08.960] with a Mario Kart like 9 so I think that is what they’re doing is just trying to like [08:08.960 –> 08:14.160] string this game out for as long as possible before they come up with a new one oh who [08:14.160 –> 08:24.340] knows who knows so the other the other speculation is in this wave they released Birdo as a playable [08:24.340 –> 08:31.180] character in the game hmm which Birdo has been available in previous games and fun fact [08:31.180 –> 08:37.240] I don’t know whether you’re aware of this Bev Birdo the only canonically trans character [08:37.240 –> 08:45.180] in Mario what I did not know this yeah okay was confirmed canonically as trans in something [08:45.180 –> 08:56.460] like 1993 wow obviously obviously the terminology is not great so you have to bear in mind that [08:56.460 –> 09:02.340] this was the early 90s I’m still incredibly progressive to have a trans character in a [09:02.340 –> 09:10.440] video game coming out of like Japan well yeah yeah yeah that’s a good point okay my new [09:10.440 –> 09:17.240] favorite character is now Birdo Birdo also you can get in all nine colors that you can [09:17.240 –> 09:21.540] get the Yoshi’s in which is fun I’ve been playing as the light blue Birdo I just okay [09:21.540 –> 09:29.980] just because it’s fun but in the game on the character selection screen they didn’t just [09:29.980 –> 09:36.220] add Birdo they also added I think it was five question marks as well so the speculation [09:36.220 –> 09:41.820] is that there are five more characters coming to the game that sounds about right now if [09:41.820 –> 09:46.420] they were to do let’s say for example the two more waves that they were planning to [09:46.420 –> 09:51.460] do this year they do them this year and there’s also a character in them that would leave [09:51.460 –> 09:57.500] three characters left to come which if they were to do another year the same as they have [09:57.500 –> 10:03.140] been doing these two years that would be another three waves so all of that speculation to [10:03.140 –> 10:08.540] come would imply possibly theoretically that there would be three more waves coming next [10:08.540 –> 10:15.860] year that’s a lot considering this game came out in well how many years has it been now [10:15.860 –> 10:22.060] so I was actually looking at this the other day I love to look at these things I mean [10:22.060 –> 10:28.680] first of all right the the game is insane like the amount of sales is just quite insane [10:28.680 –> 10:35.860] right so if you look at the sales right the set up until recently the best-selling Mario [10:35.860 –> 10:44.500] Kart game was Mario Kart Wii right okay and Mario Kart Wii sold in total 37 million copies [10:44.500 –> 10:55.160] which is a lot for a video game right that made it in the top like 15 I think best-selling [10:55.160 –> 11:03.620] video games okay wow okay roughly and it’s obviously these things are not static so certainly [11:03.620 –> 11:09.580] until recently it was in the top 15 best-selling video games of all it’s currently the 16 okay [11:09.580 –> 11:18.700] Mario Kart 8 so ignoring 8 so just the switch version has sold 52 million copies okay 52 [11:18.700 –> 11:30.100] million copies making a revenue of 2 billion dollars oh my goodness that’s a lot I can [11:30.100 –> 11:35.740] see why it’s okay it’s much more on the switch because I feel like this people are people [11:35.740 –> 11:41.380] like this which much more than people liked the Wii this is Wii not DS Wii oh sorry well [11:41.380 –> 11:48.540] it’s also on the DS so isn’t it not Mario Kart Wii Mario Kart Wii was just on the Wii [11:48.540 –> 11:55.840] well no Mario Kart 8 that was on the Wii U okay well never mind I don’t know I’m tired [11:55.840 –> 11:59.780] I’m gonna blame you on that so if you if you include if you combine the two Mario Kart [11:59.780 –> 12:04.420] 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe right because they’re basically the same game it’s just that they [12:04.420 –> 12:09.940] have now added more content like the only recently until last year Mario Kart 8 Deluxe [12:09.940 –> 12:14.980] was just Mario Kart 8 with the DLC right it was the exact same game everything else [12:14.980 –> 12:18.940] was exactly the same it was just on the switch so if you include if you combine the two of [12:18.940 –> 12:27.100] them they have sold 60 million copies oh my goodness in total Mario Kart have sold 166 [12:27.100 –> 12:35.620] million copies in total so Mario Kart 8 and Deluxe have together it’s over a third of [12:35.620 –> 12:42.780] all Mario Kart sales that’s pretty okay so I could definitely see why they they’re they [12:42.780 –> 12:48.380] are making waves and trying to prolong this as long as possible absolutely they sold four [12:48.380 –> 12:55.420] million copies in the last quarter of last year oh goodness Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U [12:55.420 –> 13:02.980] only sold 8 million copies so half of what they sold on that game in the last quarter [13:02.980 –> 13:09.580] of last year the the first Mario Kart only sold 8 million copies the second Mario Kart [13:09.580 –> 13:15.860] sold 10 million copies the GBA version which is the third one sold 6 million copies right [13:15.860 –> 13:21.860] like it’s just it’s absolutely insane the numbers on this I can’t I just I cannot get [13:21.860 –> 13:29.980] over how absolutely crazy it is anyway we were talking about dates Mario Kart Wii came [13:29.980 –> 13:35.740] out in 2008 Mario Kart 7 which was the 3DS version came out okay that’s what I was thinking [13:35.740 –> 13:43.940] of 2011 so there was three years between Wii and 7 and Mario Kart 8 which was the Wii U [13:43.940 –> 13:50.940] the first version of this was on the Wii U was 2014 so between Wii and 8 that was six [13:50.940 –> 13:56.940] years okay and that was 2014 nine years ago so it’s been nine years since my oh my goodness [13:56.940 –> 14:02.860] nine years okay next year will be 10 years maybe they’re waiting for that 10 years maybe [14:02.860 –> 14:07.260] they’re like intentionally pushing it back I would not be surprised I think at this point [14:07.260 –> 14:12.060] they’re just waiting for the next console whatever that is are we look are we like looking [14:12.060 –> 14:18.320] at a console yeah of course like would that just be the switch pro no I mean I don’t I [14:18.320 –> 14:22.180] think at this point they’re not doing a switch pro yeah I think they’ve done their their [14:22.180 –> 14:26.540] stuff right they’ve done the the OLED that I think that’s all they’re doing I don’t think [14:26.540 –> 14:30.620] they’re doing any more than that but fine let me get them let me get the dates out again [14:30.620 –> 14:37.260] shall I I did these I did this before but I can’t remember exactly what it was but I’m [14:37.260 –> 14:46.380] pretty sure that this is the like second longest between consoles Nintendo consoles now the [14:46.380 –> 14:53.220] it depends how you count them I’m basically counting Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, DS, 3DS [14:53.220 –> 15:03.260] and NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, Switch right so I’m counting kind of those [15:03.260 –> 15:08.260] gaps yeah I think the only gaps the only gaps that were bigger than the current gap are [15:08.260 –> 15:15.340] NES to SNES and Gameboy to Gameboy Advance okay the Wii U came out in 2017 and it was [15:15.340 –> 15:20.260] five years until the Switch came out the Wii came out in 2006 it was six years until the [15:20.260 –> 15:25.460] Wii U came out okay well there’s a pattern here because the SNES the NES to the SNES [15:25.460 –> 15:30.900] so you just added super in front of it and Gameboy and Gameboy Advance they just added [15:30.900 –> 15:37.100] advance to the end of that and Wii, Wii U yeah yeah yeah I know but but what I will [15:37.100 –> 15:41.380] say is those ones tend to be less successful uh-huh I don’t think they’ll just do like [15:41.380 –> 15:46.420] a Switch 2 or I think well they might they might they might jump onto the branding but [15:46.420 –> 15:51.740] like I think Switch 2 would be better than like Switch U or something like that because [15:51.740 –> 15:57.580] the problem is like Wii U and Gameboy Advance they kind of sound like they don’t sound like [15:57.580 –> 16:01.980] new consoles they sound like uh like the problem that we use people always thought it was just [16:01.980 –> 16:07.220] an accessory for the Wii right not a new console in and of itself so they just add super in [16:07.220 –> 16:13.580] front of Switch and it’ll just be SN I guess no no no wow yeah yeah that’s not gonna be [16:13.580 –> 16:23.460] great no I’m sorry did you hear that as it came out your mouth yes I did no no please [16:23.460 –> 16:35.340] Nintendo that feels like something Nintendo would do I know I’m scared now cuz I I feel [16:35.340 –> 16:39.420] like the biggest complaints I was just performance for a switch I could definitely see them working [16:39.420 –> 16:45.580] hard to that’s really yeah there’s nothing else right now like people like oh what but [16:45.580 –> 16:48.860] this what but that right but that’s not really something that’s kind of widely accepted like [16:48.860 –> 16:52.940] it’s it’s it’s performance people just want it to be more performance maybe they like [16:52.940 –> 16:57.700] some people want 4k I don’t know if we’re gonna get 4k I don’t really care right like [16:57.700 –> 17:04.860] does it really matter if Mario Kart’s in 4k or 1080p yeah just want it to be more performant [17:04.860 –> 17:11.500] mm-hmm can you imagine scarlet and violet on a more powerful console yeah I want it [17:11.500 –> 17:21.660] I want it anyway um is have I talked about everything yeah that’s all that’s what we’ve [17:21.660 –> 17:28.380] been playing uh-huh should we talk about some news yes let’s do it otherwise we’re gonna [17:28.380 –> 17:40.340] be the Nintendo yeah Nintendo power mm-hmm so we had the playdate update last week which [17:40.340 –> 17:44.100] announced a number of things and one of the things that they announced was that there’s [17:44.100 –> 17:53.660] a new update of my favorite game on the playdate bloom bloom 1.1 is out now the main thing [17:53.660 –> 18:01.280] is some new story and new flowers but there’s a couple of other cool things for example [18:01.280 –> 18:06.740] they have like lo-fi beats mode so you know that you know I’m talking about the kind of [18:06.740 –> 18:12.540] youtube videos of the person studying with the music they basically implement and implemented [18:12.540 –> 18:17.300] that into the game they called it simple mode and you’re just in the game and you just press [18:17.300 –> 18:23.520] the the button and you go to simple mode and it just plays that music or chill mode sorry [18:23.520 –> 18:31.380] okay I was gonna say like how how is it a mode like are you just changing the soundtrack [18:31.380 –> 18:37.020] to why call it a mode and so I guess it’s not it takes you out of the game essentially [18:37.020 –> 18:41.700] and it puts you into like the screen just shows what you see in those youtube videos [18:41.700 –> 18:45.740] okay so the idea is that it’s meant to just be like oh I’m not playing the game just now [18:45.740 –> 18:53.740] but I like the music you turn it on it’s a music player now basically yeah okay interesting [18:53.740 –> 19:00.340] I I don’t I feel like it’s not worth that battery well the screen’s not changing right [19:00.340 –> 19:04.260] I suppose but it’s still wasting like it’s a tiny little thing and you’re just playing [19:04.260 –> 19:09.740] music well look it’ll be great it’ll be great once you got the stereo dock on yeah I’m very [19:09.740 –> 19:17.300] excited for that mm-hmm okay I want this game but I don’t think it’s worth buying a playdate [19:17.300 –> 19:24.980] for yet au contraire it is absolutely worth buying a playdate just for this game this [19:24.980 –> 19:32.380] game does not cost ten dollars this car this game costs ten dollars plus a playdate that’s [19:32.380 –> 19:39.460] so if we’re going by like the assumption that every dollar is worth like an hour worth of [19:39.460 –> 19:46.520] gameplay that’s like 280 hours of gameplay I mean I don’t so I don’t subscribe to that [19:46.520 –> 19:51.100] I I strongly disagree with that theory I don’t think that you should I do not think the game [19:51.100 –> 19:55.460] should be ranked based on how many hours they have because that’s how we end up in a situation [19:55.460 –> 20:00.660] where games end up having pointless stuff in them yeah I completely I understand that [20:00.660 –> 20:04.940] like I my only argument is maybe like the sixty eighty dollar games that are like you [20:04.940 –> 20:15.980] know ten hours long no well I don’t know like if mmm I’m on the fence like I see I see the [20:15.980 –> 20:23.500] point of it and at the same time I want games to be cheaper for like that level of like [20:23.500 –> 20:28.420] gameplay I think it depends on what you get out of the game right and I think my point [20:28.420 –> 20:37.260] is like personally I would rather the game was shorter and more concise and better than [20:37.260 –> 20:42.740] you know takes me 200 hours to get through I don’t want to have to spend that long in [20:42.740 –> 20:52.180] a game it just it feels pointless to me it’s not fun well that depends on the game like [20:52.180 –> 20:58.760] I can look at your Pokemon scarlet violet hours and say you know this was probably worth [20:58.760 –> 21:05.740] the sixty dollars that Nintendo was was was you know charging for that so it’s it’s not [21:05.740 –> 21:11.380] so much about like the length of the game maybe but maybe more so replayability even [21:11.380 –> 21:17.380] like it I don’t I’m also really tired of 200 plus hour games I don’t have enough time I’m [21:17.380 –> 21:20.840] not like a full-time streamer I don’t have time to play these games and complete them [21:20.840 –> 21:27.940] the way that I would like to but if you have like a really nice short game that is fantastic [21:27.940 –> 21:34.540] to play again over and over like you know maybe like turnip boy means evades tax evasion [21:34.540 –> 21:43.060] or I haven’t played this but a slow hike like those games have like a lot of replayability [21:43.060 –> 21:48.420] and they’re done very well and I feel like they probably would be worth you know maybe [21:48.420 –> 21:54.040] twice as much as they’re being charged for so I think I find this I find it a funny idea [21:54.040 –> 21:59.660] the the concept of replayability right because like every game is replayable right other [21:59.660 –> 22:05.500] the other than say for example detective games where once you’ve figured out it’s not fun [22:05.500 –> 22:14.140] anymore right I the idea of this game is replayable like I don’t surely it’s just about whether [22:14.140 –> 22:20.500] you want to replay it or not right like I very rarely replay games so Pokemon is basically [22:20.500 –> 22:27.140] my exception right Pokemon is the game that I will infinitely play and I will put insane [22:27.140 –> 22:40.300] amounts of hours into right like that is my exception and possibly no so I think so no [22:40.300 –> 22:44.640] I keep going back to Mario Kart to finish the new stuff because I enjoyed completing [22:44.640 –> 22:49.420] the new stuff but I don’t go and play Mario Kart if I’ve or if there’s nothing that I’ve [22:49.420 –> 22:55.900] not completed so I would the only time other times I would play Mario Kart is when I’m [22:55.900 –> 23:00.980] a gathering of people and we want to play something right so party games are different [23:00.980 –> 23:05.300] yes right we I don’t think we can compare party games and single-player game I don’t [23:05.300 –> 23:10.620] think that makes any sense well I mean it has that level we play like like if you just [23:10.620 –> 23:14.780] depending on how you define replayability like even if it is only a party game you are [23:14.780 –> 23:21.620] playing it again like replaying it sure but like that’s the point uh-huh I feel like we’re [23:21.620 –> 23:28.500] just hard we’re just arguing semantics now I know yeah we are I don’t know where I dove [23:28.500 –> 23:34.580] into this hole and I want how to get out of it I want game stories to be shorter I and [23:34.580 –> 23:38.780] that’s all I was saying okay I don’t know how we got to that point well because because [23:38.780 –> 23:44.540] you’re saying the play date is worth it’s worth buying just for bloom and I don’t want [23:44.540 –> 23:53.740] to drop to this one game obviously obviously I’m joking uh-huh right bloom is a fantastic [23:53.740 –> 23:58.660] game and I think that if you can afford a play date mm-hmm and you have that sort of [23:58.660 –> 24:03.260] money to just drop on something like that which I understand most people do not then [24:03.260 –> 24:07.460] it’s worth it okay if you don’t have that sort of money then it’s absolutely not worth [24:07.460 –> 24:16.340] it okay all right I’m happy with this yeah I am very much enjoying it the all the other [24:16.340 –> 24:21.620] fun it’s like they’ve got lots of other other random little things like in your phone you [24:21.620 –> 24:27.940] have you can now change the background you and there’s like loads of little cute pictures [24:27.940 –> 24:33.300] of like the two the main character and her girlfriend like and you just like rotate it’s [24:33.300 –> 24:38.940] so cute who do you have as what is your current background then I mean it’s just it’s one [24:38.940 –> 24:43.100] of those pictures of it’s okay I think there’s some other I think there’s like some flower [24:43.100 –> 24:47.940] ones as well but I just find one that I liked I will leave a screenshot in the show notes [24:47.940 –> 24:53.380] for people beautiful of the background that I chose that I thought was particularly cute [24:53.380 –> 25:04.540] to have all right go play bloom ooblets 1.1 localization update is out now so if you if [25:04.540 –> 25:08.900] you speak French German or Spanish and you don’t speak English you’re not listening to [25:08.900 –> 25:15.900] this podcast unless you’re bilingual sure if you would if you’re bilingual and you would [25:15.900 –> 25:21.780] prefer to play the game in your native language go do it now or if maybe you’re like me and [25:21.780 –> 25:27.100] you want to practice a second language go play this game now his game is really the [25:27.100 –> 25:34.020] best way to do that like that feels yes no like I’ve struggled in the past with Pokemon [25:34.020 –> 25:38.080] so I’ve I’ve learned I can’t do that with a new game I should at least play it once [25:38.080 –> 25:44.700] before before trying to play in Spanish but I’ve spent a lot of hours in ooblets and it [25:44.700 –> 25:49.380] would be very interesting to see how they translated all their like quirky little sayings [25:49.380 –> 25:59.900] into Spanish so now I’m very intrigued the the update did cause a big bug that basically [25:59.900 –> 26:05.100] meant the game crashed anytime you tried to open it but that’s fixed so that’s all good [26:05.100 –> 26:09.540] I am really intrigued as to how like that because it sounds like it happened for most [26:09.540 –> 26:15.700] people so there’s obviously something that they forgot to test that basically happened [26:15.700 –> 26:22.180] for everybody I am fascinated as to how that happened but anyway I don’t know whether we’ll [26:22.180 –> 26:27.940] ever know I guess not unless they talk about it in one of their news they have been reasonably [26:27.940 –> 26:33.740] open about things so who knows at verdant village I’ve not talked about this a huge [26:33.740 –> 26:40.160] man on the podcast but it’s a game that’s in early access they’re rewriting it in a [26:40.160 –> 26:45.280] different game engine so realistically there’s going to be almost no updates for the next [26:45.280 –> 26:52.560] like year or two probably they don’t have a time frame they said that they won’t update [26:52.560 –> 26:57.960] until it’s got close to feature parity of what they currently have and I don’t know [26:57.960 –> 27:03.780] about the two engines whether there’s it’s easy to put things between them my like gripe [27:03.780 –> 27:17.540] about this update is that they have a tldr but it’s in the middle it’s also like it’s [27:17.540 –> 27:23.540] not really a tldr it’s tldr for some of it yeah for the tldr game is made in construct [27:23.540 –> 27:28.900] 3 construct 3 has many issues in my opinion that cause weird bugs and other issues uh-huh [27:28.900 –> 27:33.120] okay but you’re missing the big part which is we’re going to rewrite and not construct [27:33.120 –> 27:41.660] 3 yeah yeah oh yeah it’s it’s a little a little bizarre but you know it’s fine it’s fine um [27:41.660 –> 27:46.660] I you know it’s a lot of information in there so I you know I generally appreciate when [27:46.660 –> 27:52.660] devs are more you know forthcoming than not um so I mean you don’t have to read it if [27:52.660 –> 27:59.980] you don’t want to so it’s fine and we have a couple new games um so the first one is [27:59.980 –> 28:07.180] before the green moon a science fiction farming simulator game set in a small community at [28:07.180 –> 28:12.620] the base of a space elevator during the days and seasons leading up to your departure for [28:12.620 –> 28:19.780] the moon this one looks I don’t know like I like the landscape style but I don’t think [28:19.780 –> 28:31.340] I like the like character styles I yeah so I don’t like to be too harsh on indie games [28:31.340 –> 28:37.260] uh-huh but I’m not a huge fan of any of these graphics mm-hmm there is like a green like [28:37.260 –> 28:45.100] overall like vibe to this and I guess I like that it’s on brand with green boom I guess [28:45.100 –> 28:51.220] yeah the green moon is it’s I mean this is very definitely not on earth like the moon [28:51.220 –> 29:00.060] I mean it looks like a brain right it’s like wrinkly and all very interesting um I don’t [29:00.060 –> 29:06.780] yeah I oh just everything about these everything about this graph these graphics just makes [29:06.780 –> 29:14.780] me feel uncomfortable it feels very like gamecube like graphics I feel like yeah oh that’s what [29:14.780 –> 29:18.900] they’re doing isn’t it yeah I’ve talked about this on the podcast before but we don’t need [29:18.900 –> 29:26.540] nostalgia for every everything right we don’t need nostalgia for the bad 3d graphics of [29:26.540 –> 29:32.420] the early 2000s we just don’t need it don’t bring us back there mm-hmm I will say at the [29:32.420 –> 29:37.180] like comparing this to like verdant village at the very least this looks like a completely [29:37.180 –> 29:44.260] new like concept from I think what I’ve seen where I spurred it village like I open it [29:44.260 –> 29:51.260] up and I thought it was stardew so I will even though we’re not like huge fans of this [29:51.260 –> 29:55.860] style I will say at least they’re not they’re trying something different and not just what [29:55.860 –> 30:01.500] creating what looks different to you other than just the back story well I mean just [30:01.500 –> 30:06.940] like the the overall style of it like none of these buildings look like anything I’ve [30:06.940 –> 30:12.180] seen before although I haven’t like played many yeah even this like landscape shop like [30:12.180 –> 30:17.220] the trees like it looks like a completely new world okay yeah no that’s fair because [30:17.220 –> 30:22.860] like um just like concept wise and gameplay wise it looks very similar to most farming [30:22.860 –> 30:28.420] games the only thing I can really see is that it says they’ve got wet and dry seasons which [30:28.420 –> 30:33.500] would be slightly different from the four standard seasons that we get which I actually [30:33.500 –> 30:39.140] might like to play with because I spent some time like sitting abroad in a place that had [30:39.140 –> 30:44.420] wet and dry seasons and I think the place I grew up in like in Florida South Florida [30:44.420 –> 30:52.220] was mostly wet and dry seasons because there was just no winter so I I like that I’ll take [30:52.220 –> 30:57.900] it yeah whereas I mean it’s an interesting concept to me the idea of a wet and dry season [30:57.900 –> 31:04.420] because like in Scotland we have the the wet warm season the wet cold season and the kind [31:04.420 –> 31:16.540] of the other wet seasons uh-huh um the other new game is season a letter to the future [31:16.540 –> 31:27.500] this looks beautiful yes so I will say that is true I will say the name is terrible yes [31:27.500 –> 31:35.700] I I was very confused by a letter to the future like what but what what does that mean is [31:35.700 –> 31:40.260] it gonna be time travel uh well that’s that’s what you’re that’s what you’re intrigued by [31:40.260 –> 31:46.860] right that’s what gets you into the I suppose is it though like a question shouldn’t be [31:46.860 –> 31:53.220] a hug I think it’s a I think it’s a time capsule thing rather than a time travel thing you [31:53.220 –> 31:59.380] are collecting memory so maybe they are going towards that but they could have just said [31:59.380 –> 32:05.220] time capsules I don’t know well the time capsule is a letter to the future right it is but [32:05.220 –> 32:12.540] that and what we do now of the point sure and what we do now that is a letter to the [32:12.540 –> 32:18.180] future I think it’s met I think it’s a metaphor for okay okay and how we can affect the future [32:18.180 –> 32:22.980] generations by what we do now okay so maybe just call it a letter to the future don’t [32:22.980 –> 32:29.300] put season in front of eggs yeah I don’t know I don’t know why they’ve done that and seasons [32:29.300 –> 32:37.300] all caps like that’s another choice that I don’t understand in a different font this [32:37.300 –> 32:44.660] appears to be on PlayStation and steam and epic I haven’t actually looked too much into [32:44.660 –> 32:50.980] this mm-hmm I meant to do that I mean I I love the introduction to the characters in [32:50.980 –> 32:55.940] this small like video of them where they’re just showing like candid shots of each of [32:55.940 –> 33:03.420] them just staring at the camera hmm I don’t know so it feels it feels very cinematic leave [33:03.420 –> 33:08.020] home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything [33:08.020 –> 33:13.480] away ride record meet people and unravel the strange world around you immerse yourself [33:13.480 –> 33:20.300] in the world of season a third-person meditative exploration game another word for cottage [33:20.300 –> 33:27.060] core I guess meditative I mean I mean our new name there is definitely no farming in [33:27.060 –> 33:30.380] this while they say that they don’t say anything about farming but it definitely feels cottage [33:30.380 –> 33:37.980] core to me it does it looks yeah yeah the whole vibe feels very like you’re trying well [33:37.980 –> 33:42.060] I mean you’re exploring so you’re not necessarily like building a cottage core life but yeah [33:42.060 –> 33:48.380] the graphics are very breath of the wildest mm-hmm but I mean it’s done fine I don’t it’s [33:48.380 –> 33:53.300] quite nice looking I like the shot of like the keepsakes to like the just the way that [33:53.300 –> 34:04.260] they’ve portrayed a collage or scrapbook it’s very very neat yeah definitely mm-hmm all [34:04.260 –> 34:09.060] right so that I that’s out now I don’t know if I said that and before the green moon is [34:09.060 –> 34:15.940] coming out this year something okay all right so that’s the news we are going to talk about [34:15.940 –> 34:22.820] cult of the lamb so as I mentioned before we have done an episode on cult of the lamb [34:22.820 –> 34:29.220] already mm-hmm Kevin and Kelly did that last year sometime maybe November something like [34:29.220 –> 34:38.220] that sounds about right but as always happens other people had opinions on the game and [34:38.220 –> 34:44.980] Bev has played it and I have played it and people were very surprised on the game of [34:44.980 –> 34:50.300] the year episode that this was one of my top games of the year mm-hmm and I think that’s [34:50.300 –> 34:59.460] probably because it is a roguelite game mm-hmm so let me just address this because I think [34:59.460 –> 35:04.600] some people may have been put off the game by being called a roguelite uh-huh and I understand [35:04.600 –> 35:12.220] I hate roguelikes I’m not a fan of roguelites to me roguelites are like roguelikes but less [35:12.220 –> 35:21.580] bad right like they still have some of the annoyances of a roguelike but less of it because [35:21.580 –> 35:25.220] you don’t lose everything all the time mm-hmm because you get to keep some of the stuff [35:25.220 –> 35:28.700] you don’t lose everything it’s not like you just play it and then at the end you have [35:28.700 –> 35:33.420] if you die you have to restart mm-hmm so I’m not a huge fan of them even the roguelites [35:33.420 –> 35:38.620] because I I just I find that even though you’re like building stuff up around like between [35:38.620 –> 35:44.700] the runs I still feel like it’s not satisfying to go oh sorry you have to go back even if [35:44.700 –> 35:48.940] you’re more powerful and you have more weapons and that sort of stuff I still I’m like I [35:48.940 –> 35:53.140] want I want somewhere in it I want to restart somewhere in it right I don’t want to have [35:53.140 –> 35:57.660] to go all the way back to the beginning and that’s what annoys me mm-hmm but let me tell [35:57.660 –> 36:04.300] you cult of the lamp has done it really well it has so mm-hmm your base is always fine [36:04.300 –> 36:08.860] right like you never like your base is never reset right there’s no risk of that your your [36:08.860 –> 36:14.620] village your villagers they’re all fine you can lose stuff but not like through the village [36:14.620 –> 36:19.100] there’s risk in the village but it’s not like it’s not like you die in a run and therefore [36:19.100 –> 36:23.300] half of your village disappear that’s not a thing that happens yeah you can lose things [36:23.300 –> 36:28.460] in the village but it’s through you not dealing with things properly that’s that’s how you [36:28.460 –> 36:36.500] can lose things and how it happens is so you go out from your village to do one of the [36:36.500 –> 36:39.720] the runs which is basically you go through a bunch of dungeon you go through a bunch [36:39.720 –> 36:46.580] of dungeon areas to get stuff and you know sometimes to like get new followers sometimes [36:46.580 –> 36:52.800] to do certain things for the demon blah blah blah blah blah and if you die during that [36:52.800 –> 36:59.700] run you then lose some of the stuff that you got on that run and that’s all you really [36:59.700 –> 37:05.380] lose when you die yep and so i’m fine with that like that that to me makes sense right [37:05.380 –> 37:10.700] because you’re going out into the wilderness to dangerous place and you’re doing stuff [37:10.700 –> 37:14.300] and if you die and you’re brought back to life you don’t get to keep everything that [37:14.300 –> 37:20.300] you were getting in that thing but you don’t then lose other stuff and it’s not like there’s [37:20.300 –> 37:23.560] also like once once you’ve done that one it’s like you don’t really care about the runs [37:23.560 –> 37:27.180] it’s not like here’s a level and you’ve got tight 10 levels and you have to get through [37:27.180 –> 37:32.820] all 10 10 levels it’s like different random orientations of dungeons put together and [37:32.820 –> 37:37.660] different things that can happen through it like it’s so much better than any roguelike [37:37.660 –> 37:43.340] or roguelite yes i have played i feel like i’m gonna go on a limb here and say this game [37:43.340 –> 37:52.860] is not a rogue light it is a stardew level-esque type of game because you have like your base [37:52.860 –> 37:59.900] that you’re you know contributing continuing to upgrade and upkeep and you know you have [37:59.900 –> 38:04.860] other places to explore within this world but then you go into the mines or the dungeons [38:04.860 –> 38:09.020] in this case for additional resources that you can’t get anywhere else other than the [38:09.020 –> 38:14.700] mines maybe this is why you like this yeah i mean possibly like i don’t i don’t really [38:14.700 –> 38:19.940] want to get into the the genre discussion right but no i don’t generally calls this [38:19.940 –> 38:27.460] a roguelite um yes and and and i would agree that like it’s not like other roguelites but [38:27.460 –> 38:34.340] like i mean what are even what even are genres i think my point is like don’t get put off [38:34.340 –> 38:40.740] by people calling this a roguelite if you don’t like roguelikes and road lights it is [38:40.740 –> 38:49.180] it is not like that no yes exactly so and the loss that you get makes perfect sense [38:49.180 –> 38:54.780] and i’m completely fine with that like i’ve funnily enough i like ironically enough this [38:54.780 –> 39:01.620] podcast was the one that introduced me to roguelites via atomic grabs oh that is an [39:01.620 –> 39:05.760] example of one that i absolutely hate right because it’s like sure you’re building like [39:05.760 –> 39:12.060] stuff up between your runs but like the idea that i’m gonna die and then i lose my farm [39:12.060 –> 39:17.540] is just so incredibly frustrating to me that i hated it so much we did that together didn’t [39:17.540 –> 39:26.820] we yes we did i hated that game with an absolute passion uh-huh i so like i enjoyed it but [39:26.820 –> 39:31.220] i what i feel like that game could have done better it was having that base like that place [39:31.220 –> 39:38.060] you come to between runs where you pick your character whatever having that be more interactive [39:38.060 –> 39:43.620] and that’s really where like where cult of the lamb excels is having the capability of [39:43.620 –> 39:48.420] saying i don’t feel like doing a roguelite right now i that’s gonna stress me out i just [39:48.420 –> 39:55.660] want to farm and take care of my villagers and have fun that way which is great i think [39:55.660 –> 40:01.260] and i feel like most of the mechanics in this game are just really nice and like not stressful [40:01.260 –> 40:07.860] or like even the fishing one is fine like it’s actually enjoyable to to do fishing so [40:07.860 –> 40:12.060] i just feel like a lot of these components like every small little component in this [40:12.060 –> 40:18.540] game they just did so well um yeah so you were you were comparing it to stardew and [40:18.540 –> 40:25.300] i think that’s fair um in terms of that combat i will say the combat in this game so much [40:25.300 –> 40:31.900] better than stardew yes so much better like the stardew one isn’t bad but it’s not good [40:31.900 –> 40:39.120] it’s fine um but you don’t really feel like you have a huge like it’s basically like hit [40:39.120 –> 40:46.180] the button at the right time right like there’s not any real strategy to it um sure there [40:46.180 –> 40:50.300] are different weapons and stuff like that but it’s not amazing whereas this i think [40:50.300 –> 40:55.280] is like a legitimately good combat and i’m very picky on combat there are very few games [40:55.280 –> 41:02.380] that i actively like the combat in this is definitely one of them and i at least for [41:02.380 –> 41:06.780] in terms of combat i tend to prefer like the really fast like like melee weapons because [41:06.780 –> 41:12.940] i’m just spamming buttons and not really like paying attention to the combat but yeah for [41:12.940 –> 41:17.060] like the first time ever i’ve enjoyed playing a hammer or an axe something that’s heavy [41:17.060 –> 41:23.300] to swing because it just feels i don’t know it’s so easy it just feels like it just flows [41:23.300 –> 41:28.820] so naturally to be using any weapon in this game um so i definitely agree that it’s just [41:28.820 –> 41:36.060] fantastic um and now i’m wondering why it wasn’t on the top like three of my game of [41:36.060 –> 41:42.660] the year and i don’t remember where it was a couple months ago um but it was just so [41:42.660 –> 41:49.060] good i love it and yeah and it’s just so silly too i think that’s the thing like it just [41:49.060 –> 41:57.100] it takes such a ridiculous concept and makes it ridiculous it’s not serious at all oh absolutely [41:57.100 –> 42:04.220] yeah and and this is the thing in like i love i love ridiculousness um but it’s like ridiculousness [42:04.220 –> 42:13.820] in a very cute way like like it just the con the idea of like the cutest lamb right in [42:13.820 –> 42:20.300] the world right like it’s so well designed like and then it is like standing at the front [42:20.300 –> 42:25.020] of like uh a church like brainwashing people [42:25.020 –> 42:37.580] yeah or yeah exactly like i just i cannot i cannot elaborate too enough on how ridiculous [42:37.580 –> 42:44.060] that is just that everything about it is so ridiculous um the character design is really [42:44.060 –> 42:51.740] good they’re all pretty simple but they’re all really good um the i also like how obviously [42:51.740 –> 42:55.660] i mean this is my dream game right because there’s automation everywhere right like you [42:55.660 –> 43:00.860] you you can do all the automation right from the start because you can you can basically [43:00.860 –> 43:04.900] i mean it takes a little bit yeah you have to go through some tutorials to unlock everything [43:04.900 –> 43:09.740] but basically from very early on in the game you can get your villagers to do things for [43:09.740 –> 43:13.420] you yeah and you don’t have to do them and that’s that’s perfect for me i love it’s great [43:13.420 –> 43:25.540] you just want to i want to be a cult leader um we got an episode title um and and but [43:25.540 –> 43:29.980] it’s not like oh then you know you never get any more automation because obviously the [43:29.980 –> 43:34.020] more villagers you get the more you can do so you still have to do some things for yourself [43:34.020 –> 43:37.300] at the beginning right it’s not like oh i’m never going to do any farming no you you’ll [43:37.300 –> 43:41.180] have to do some farming because well first of all you don’t start with very many villagers [43:41.180 –> 43:45.060] obviously you start with one right that’s how a cult works well actually i don’t know [43:45.060 –> 43:50.820] i’ve never been in a cult is it how a cult works i don’t know you have to start somewhere [43:50.820 –> 43:56.220] you do you do but also like would you ever be the first person to join a cult i mean [43:56.220 –> 44:03.780] but i think you do that how would t

Life's a Draft
The Birdo Tapes #3- Catman

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 15:22


If you're reading this, you either know one of us and or listen to the Life's A Draft Podcast. I'm sure there are times when you wonder, “Who are these guys?” or “Who would pick Transformers in Round 1?” Well, in the Birdo Tapes you'll catch a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of these podcasters. You might leave more confused than when you started, but give it a listen and find out what makes these guys tick, why they pick the selections they choose, and most importantly, where did they get their nicknames?

Dork Matters
Super Mario Dorks

Dork Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 72:42


Swing your arms from side to side! We're doing 'The Mario'! We talk our first Mario experiences, Mario's last name, Bowser's reproductive system, fave Mario games, fave Mario characters, Super Crown sexiness, and more! We also talk Tall Boys (not the beer cans), the correct pronunciation of 'meme', dream-reality confusion, and more! Let's-a go, paisanos!  FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:Super Mario Brothers (1993)Super Mario Bros. Super Show! The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)BONUS CONTENT:BowsetteBooetteBlooperetteEveryone else?Goombette, Waluigiette, YoshietteSpaceman, Bif NakedSOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagramBen Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsJess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagramDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and redditHelp spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods!"Oh, it's me, Chris Pratt, but I'm also Mario." -Lexi Hunt

Player One Podcast
Ball Boosters

Player One Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2023 79:06


This week! Greg and CJ chat about the Nintendo Direct, The Last of Us TV series, Metroid Prime Remastered, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Dead Space, games we want to see on NSO, and much, much more. Links of interest: Nintendo Direct 2.8.23 Pikmin 4 has a dog, is out in July Samba De Amigo is back! Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp out in April MK8 Wave 4 includes Birdo, Yoshi's Island track Metroid Prime Remaster shadowdropped Game Boy and GBA added to NSO Splatoon 3 DLC is just hub worlds and a campaign? Hm. New Zelda trailer shows vehicles, new enemies Tears of the Kingdom is $70 Metroid Prime Remastered The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap Dead Space P1P GT7 CanAm Race 3 Replay Follow the podcast on Mastodon Greg Sewart's Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch The Sega Genesis Mini 2 - All Games Ranked! - Generation 16 Episode #127 Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. Running time: 1:19:05

The Vookcast - Australia's Nintendo Podcast
#247 - Nintendo Direct (+Birdo) Discussion

The Vookcast - Australia's Nintendo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2023 64:15


In this episode of the Vookcast, Ollie is joined by Angelo, Luke, and Michael as they discuss the February Nintendo Direct, which somehow didn't happen after they recorded.There's a remastered Metroid, a new Professor Layton on the way, and of course, Birdo is coming to Mario Kart 8.Relevant articles:Zelda: https://www.vooks.net/the-legend-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kindom-collectors-edition-amiibo-announced-alongside-new-trailer/GB: https://www.vooks.net/game-boy-game-boy-advance-games-launch-on-nintendo-switch-online-today/Advance Wars: https://www.vooks.net/advance-wars-12-re-boot-camp-finally-launches-on-april-21st/Pikmin: https://www.vooks.net/pikmin-4-lands-on-july-21st-with-new-footage/Mario Kart 8: https://www.vooks.net/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-4-gets-new-course-birdo/Ghost Trick: https://www.vooks.net/ghost-trick-phantom-detective-is-coming-to-the-switch/Professor Layton: https://www.vooks.net/professor-layton-returns-with-a-new-world-of-steam-on-switch/Metroid Prime: https://www.vooks.net/metroid-prime-remastered-launches-today-digitally-later-physically/Everything here: https://www.vooks.net/everything-from-the-february-nintendo-direct/Support the show

Ode to Games
Nintendo Direct Reactions: Zelda, Level 5 Is Back, and Power Pros - Episode 249

Ode to Games

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2023 115:04


Kevin and Logan react to all the amazing news from this week's Nintendo Direct, including Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Ghost Trick's surprise return, and Birdo's huge comeback! Plus, Power Pros' bizarre return to the West. Then, in the Ode To segment, the guys discuss the current state of the Pokemon franchise following Legends Arceus and Scarlet and Violet. And, Kevin's final thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Play Along Podcast
Nat Funny Teaser - Ky vs Charging Chuck In A Circle Of Death

Play Along Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023 17:22


We had a tonne of fun recording this and wanted to share it with everyone! Some context: Our group of adventurers consist of five real humans transported to a world populated by what they know as video game characters. But this world is real, and the group find them in the middle of a conspiracy surrounding the disappearance of the council. They set out to rescue the first of the council members, Mario, and found themselves in a Yoshi village. The village chief requested that the group save his Queen, who the group suspect to be the creature we know as Birdo. The adventurers, accompanied by Yoshi of the village, find a small bandit fortress and believe they have found Birdo. And the plan was going so well, until Ky slapped the tribe leader across the face and stole his helmet believing it to be a symbol of leadership. But Chuck wasn't going down without a fight. And the tribe craves an honourable, albeit bloody, fight to the death over the title of tribe leader. Find all of our socials, as well as our discord server here! https://linktr.ee/PlayAlongPodcast Intro and outro music is Seaweed Samples by Studio Deadly. Find them here: https://studioundeadly.bandcamp.com/releases

Life's a Draft
The Birdo Tapes #2- Eric

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 19:45


If you're reading this, you either know one of us and or listen to our Life's A Draft Podcast. I'm sure there are times when you wonder, “Who are these guys?” or “Who would pick Transformers in Round 1?” Well, in the Birdo Tapes you'll catch a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of these podcasters. You might leave more confused than when you started, but give it a listen and find out what makes these guys tick, why they pick the selections they choose, and most importantly, where did they get these nicknames?

Off The Gourd
EP 27: The Boys Make Lists (ft. Birdo)

Off The Gourd

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2022 93:02


The Boys discuss their favorite 2022 things. The Boys: Ethan: https://twitter.com/ethanodom_exe Jackson: https://twitter.com/jackson_oriez Pierce: https://twitter.com/pierce_exe https://www.youtube.com/c/Pierceexe Sam: https://twitter.com/sum_bummer

Life's a Draft
The Birdo Tapes #1- J Cat

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 20:55


If you're reading this, you either know one of us and or listen to our Life's A Draft Podcast. I'm sure there are times when you wonder, “Who are these guys?” or “Who would pick Transformers in Round 1?” Well, in the Birdo Tapes you'll catch a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of these podcasters. You might leave more confused than when you started, but give it a listen and find out what makes these guys tick, why they pick the selections they choose, and most importantly, where did they get these nicknames?

Life's a Draft
Holiday Potluck

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2022 103:34


Twas three weeks before Christmas and all through the land, the LAD boys were ready with a big special planned. The lists were all finished, multiple categories to scan, as E returned from the tropics with a nice tan. Shine has his ice cream, Catman with no stache, had both joined the Zoom to giggle and laugh. There are foods, traditions, and icons that delight, while Beau regaled us with a tale of a Thanksgiving almost gun fight! J-Cat hit the egg nog, his stories never bore, listen to the one about the pesky oven door.Off in the moonlight, somewhere by the sea, Sir Dilts stares in wonder why Vegas favors the Lions by 3. So we give you our teams to see if they are pleasing, while Birdo reminds us of the reason for the season! Happy Holidays to you, from the Life's A Draft crew!

Life's a Draft
Holiday Potluck

Life's a Draft

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2022 103:34


Twas three weeks before Christmas and all through the land, the LAD boys were ready with a big special planned. The lists were all finished, multiple categories to scan, as E returned from the tropics with a nice tan. Shine has his ice cream, Catman with no stache, had both joined the Zoom to giggle and laugh. There are foods, traditions, and icons that delight, while Beau regaled us with a tale of a Thanksgiving almost gun fight! J-Cat hit the egg nog, his stories never bore, listen to the one about the pesky oven door. Off in the moonlight, somewhere by the sea, Sir Dilts stares in wonder why Vegas favors the Lions by 3. So we give you our teams to see if they are pleasing, while Birdo reminds us of the reason for the season! Happy Holidays to you, from the Life's A Draft crew!

I Don't Wanna Hear It
200 – Guys, We Live A Life of Crime: Remembering the Sixth Street House (with Matt Moment)

I Don't Wanna Hear It

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2022 93:20


I Don't Wanna Hear It Podcast200 – Guys, We Live A Life of Crime: Remembering the Sixth Street House (with Matt Moment)For the big two-hundred, Matt Moment joins us to speak on the dark days of 2003.Check out more of our stuff at I Don't Wanna Hear It and join the Patreon, jabroni. I mean, if you want. Don't be weird about it. Oh, and we publish books now at WND Press because we want to be bankrupted by a dying medium.We now have a Big Cartel where you can buy shirts, pins, mugs, and coffee.Also, you should listen to our 2021 Christmas special: A Black Metal Christmas Carol, our 2022 Halloween special: Ghoulie Ghoulie Ghoul, Where Are You?, as well as Mikey's true crime podcast, Wasteland and Shane's psychology podcast, Why We Do What We Do.Aaannnddd... our good buddy and frequent third host Matt Moment is in a great hardcore band called Contact. Check 'em out! You can preorder their upcoming record, Before and Through and Beyond All Time right here from Patient Zero Records.Episode Links:HewhocorruptsHorse the BandLattermanSome of our old bands are on Spotify:Absent FriendsWe're Not DeadYears From NowMusical Attribution:Licensed through NEOSounds. License information available upon request.“5 O'Clock Shadow,” “America On the Move,” “Baby You Miss Me,” “Big Fat Gypsy,” “Bubble Up,” “C'est Chaud,” “East River Blues,” “The Gold Rush,” “Gypsy Fiddle Jazz,” “Here Comes That Jazz,” “I Wish I Could Charleston,” “I Told You,” “It Feels Like Love To Me,” “Little Tramp,” “Mornington Crescent,” “No Takeaways.”

Gaming Together: A Cooperative Podcast
Episode 80: Halo Infinite Co-op and Forge - Peach Rabbid Kills Birdo

Gaming Together: A Cooperative Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2022 143:07


Welcome to episode 80 of the Gaming Together Podcast!By Phillip and NaveWe are joined by Nick from Friday Night Gamecast!And by Eric from GamePositive!Spoilers for:PreyFF13-2Alone in the DarkHell BladeLinktreeSupport us on Patreon: Gaming Together is creating A Podcast, and Gaming Videos | Patreon

All I Need
Episode 399: The End of Consolidated skateboards or is it with Leticia and Birdo

All I Need

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2022 82:18


Leticia and Birdo are back on the All I Need pod to discuss the history of Consolidated skateboards as well as their decision to call it quits with the brand. We cover a lot of iconic skate history in this one with topic such as Reasons for shutting down the cubeCurrent life happeningsPossibly one more Consolidated shoe to be releasedOver 900 consolidated board graphicsFull length skate videosRoberto AlemanClint PetersonScott BourneAlan Peterson gives consolidated 10k for a vert ramp in the warehouseConsolidated & Vans collab shoeand much more!!!As always thank you for tuning into the show! If you would like to support the show please purchase some of our skateboards & apparel here www.allineedskate.bigcartel.com - Anthony

Infendo Radio | Nintendo Podcast
Infendo Radio 643 – Who Is Birdo?

Infendo Radio | Nintendo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2022 54:38


Infendo Radio 643 is on now! This week we talk all about the resent Pokémon news before talking about the games we have been playing in the Change The System segment.

pok birdo infendo radio
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
The Monstrefact: Birdo of Subcon

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 4:34 Very Popular


In this episode of STBYM's The Monstrefact, Robert discusses the famous egg-spitting lizard creature from “Super Mario Brothers 2.” Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Thick Lines
*TEASER* 31- Last Lewks with Corinne Halbert

Thick Lines

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 2:39


Subscribe to patreon.com/thicklinespod for the full episode.   Katie and Sally are joined by Corinne Halbert (creator of “Acid Nun”) to discuss Charles Burns's “Last Look” (2010-2014). Topics discussed include nuns, shadow work, denial, loving Mass, William S. Burroughs, David Lynch, body horror, Naked Lunch, Tintin, Birdo, addiction, Silent Hill 2, A Serious Man, and of course, Acid Nun. Find Corinne at corinnehalbert.com. Follow Thick Lines on Instagram @thicklinespod.

the Transgenda
Accidental Allies

the Transgenda

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2022 33:23


In this episode we're talking about transphobes who were accidental allies and ask the question "is Birdo a trans icon or problematic?"  Plus, at the 15:00 mark Ana gives her TED talk on the differences between Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.Send your questions, feedback, and stories to questions@transgendapod.com.If you or a trans loved one are contemplating suicide, please call the Trans Lifeline at (877) 565-8860.Other Resources:https://www.thetrevorproject.org/https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/guide/a-guide-to-being-an-ally-to-transgender-and-nonbinary-youth/https://www.glaad.org/resourcelisthttps://transequality.org/Intro and Outro Music:  Cats Walking by Yomoti

Friends Against Government
TLE 34 - Looks like Aaron is still alive I guess

Friends Against Government

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 53:41


On the latest episode of Timeline Earth, Paz, Car, and Aaron 'celebrate' Aaron's return. Birdo is galavanting about GoMAZ so he is burning some PTO this week.

Friends Against Government
TS 6 - The growing Cold War

Friends Against Government

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2021 51:51


This episode is focused around Joe Biden's gun control executive orders, 3d printing, and the growing Cold War between the States. Birdo joins me this month to help out.   If you're new to 3d printing, start here: https://www.enblocpress.com/guide/   Also sign up for Lee's newsletter to stay updated on this topic and others.