Ep. 215 - The Dirtbag of Podcasts

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Ep. 215 - The Dirtbag of Podcasts

In which our heroes dive deep into the Dirtbag, receptacle of all Patron-submitted questions, on the hunt for “What is the ____ of video games?” format in particular. Hosted by Alex Jaffe with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

Dirtbag Benjamin asks: What is your fine barrel-aged Kentucky bourbon of video games, your Mad Dog 20/20 of video games, and your oversized lollipop of video games? (03:23)
Dirtbag Eric Eaton asks: What is the Bob Dylan of video games? (05:54)
Dirtbag Timothy asks: What is the F For Fake of video games? (07:54)
Dirtbag Anonymous asks: What is the Anna Karenina of video games? (09:47)
Dirtbag Kiko B asks: What is the Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie of video games? (11:58)
Dirtbag John H asks: What is the Shake Shack of video games? (12:26)
Dirtbag Per Hasselstrom asks: What is the Satantango of video games? (16:38)
Dirtbag Crumbling Zero asks: (19:01)
Dirtbag Devils Blush asks: Who is the Carlo Rambaldi of video games? (21:35)
Dirtbag Andy Dausman asks: What is the using a shaving brush and shaving soap instead of a electric razor or disposable razor with canned shaving cream of video games? (22:45)
Dirtbag UG asks: What is the Neapolitan ice cream of video games? (26:41)
Dirtbag Rainbow Battlekid asks: Who or what is the Michael Jordan of Baseball of video games? (27:20)
Dirtbag Paul asks: What is the “Weird Al” Yankovic of video games? (29:41)

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antillese

esper Dirtbag Andy Douseman asks: What is the using a shaving brush and shaving soap instead of a electric razor or disposable razor with canned shaving cream of video games? (22:45)

Esper - you transcribed my German name phonetically, and I can’t fault you to correct it because this is an amazing answer. Its like you all did a perfect psychological analysis of Game Player me. Or you think that I would appreciate the conceptual aesthetics of going to great lengths to play Tingle Tuner or Asuka 120% Limit Over because I post on this forum. I do.

Thank you Esper, Alex, Brandon, Tim, and Frank for the fun Christmas present.

And before any of you think that I’m some kind of poseur (one who “poses”):

I did recently replace the brush because it wasn’t badger and it fell apart and I got a synthetic one to be kinder to badgers. But the razor is like 11 years old and rules. (Sorry about the water scale. Our neighborhood has very hard water.)

yeso

the Sátántangó of video games = Pathologic 2. How so?

the game quotes a couple notable shots from the film
both game and film have 12 part structure
both portray dense and complex social relations in a small, isolated town
both have a ‘return of the native’ type character catalyze simmering tension/dynamic in the town
both the film and the game make considerable demands of the audience, both are fairly grueling but give you the sense of having had an experience and come out the other side
thematic focus on political ideology vs individual greed or opportunism

also has broader similarities to Tarr films: werckmeister and Turin horse too

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!)

esper

antillese tell me how to spell it (dm if you like) and i’ll get it fixed!!

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

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)