Ep. 215 - The Dirtbag of Podcasts

hellojed

My Satantango of videogames might be The Long Drive, a game where I have spent about 8 hours driving nowhere, and yet I cannot stop

rejj

yeso be fooled not, Dear Reader; this is but one small part of a year(s)-long strategy to turn the topic of all conversation to Pathologic 2.

(Or be fooled! And come along for the ride!)

Gaagaagiins

rejj Yeso be fooled not, Dear Reader; this is but one small part of a year(s)-long strategy to turn the topic of all conversation to Pathologic 2.

(Or be fooled! And come along for the ride!)

To be fooled into wisdom… it’s like we’re out on the steppe already, Dүү!

yeso

rejj in my defense, it’s an apt response to the prompt and also I waited a full hour after this thread was posted before replying. Didnt want to be the first post but I had no choice…

…. $9.79 usd right now at gog ! https://www.gog.com/game/pathologic_2

billy

The Annana Kareninanana of video games is obviously

DaveedNoo

If we’re going Russian for the Anna Karenina of games, I’m going Ringo Ishikawa. I think it even has Anna Karenina in it.

KingTubb

Frank played hollow knight with a fight stick, we’re kindred spirits.

It’s not ideal, but I spent time and money putting that stick together, and I was gonna use it on any game that didn’t need a right stick, dammit

antillese

KingTubb If you’re looking for other suggestions, Streets of Rage 4 rules on a stick.

Jaffe

Spoiler Alert: If it turns out we don’t have time for the Console Ranking this week either, the plan is to do “The Dirtbag of Podcasts, Part II.” We’ve still got 21 more of these to get through.

Jaffe

The part seven minutes in where I call Bob Dylan getting the Nobel Prize a “travesty” is an in-joke just for my mom, who does listen to the show every week, when her friend’s kind-of pretentious son described it as such

exodus

Jaffe Well MY mom thought it was “pretty cool” so YMMV (your mom may vary)

dylanfills

Jaffe I’m glad we’re getting some inside baseball on the web format

rootfifthoctave

dang it, i went and searched for that videoball pic on instagram like some stalker weirdo and now i see you guys have linked it!

esper

rootfifthoctave don’t worry, I already searched tim’s instagram like a weirdo for you.

sabertoothalex that actually was my immediate response too, lol

sabertoothalex

the Shake Shack of video games is Killzone because they went super hard at the HALO KILLER moniker and extremely did not even come close to earning it

btw they opened Shake Shack in SF and the peninsula some time ago and just plopped one into downtown Oakland….I haven’t been to that one yet. The burger wars are miserable. Who cares

exodus

sabertoothalex good choice for shake shack of video games and also good choice for whether the burger wars are interesting (they are not)

Alyx

I sure do like Bela Tarr and Battletoads.
OG Battletoads is real good but kinda long for what it is, maybe Battletoads is the Satantango of video games.

Alyx

For anyone unfamiliar don’t start with either of those, instead
watch The Turin Horse
and
play Battletoads in Battlemaniacs

Dunkr

thebryanjzx90

Battletoads is great if you just put the game down and consider it beaten after the turbo tunnel. You did it you beat a really hard level and won the game! Don’t worry about the rest of it!

LeFish

There’s a Shake Shack in my town and it doesn’t really look all that different from any of the other fast food places nearby. I was interested to hear Tim explain its design aesthetic mimicking somewhere that appeared a lot older than it is because that’s not the impression that I get of it, though that might be because my local one is in an upmarket city centre shopping centre.

I’ve never eaten there, and my lasting memory of my local one is that they’re one of a very few retailers to translate into Welsh what they offer front and centre on their storefront, which is kinda cool. Though I’ll never get out of my head seeing “burgers” translated as “byrgyrs”.

antillese

LeFish A Shake Shack just opened “near” me in the west suburbs of Portland. I drove by when I was getting a COVID shot and noticed the very long line. Being in the mood for a fast food burger and fries, I went across the street to Five Guys which had no line.