Ep. 272 - New Donk, Michigan

phylaxis

man…. i dunno, my only experience w hifi rush is the trailer, and music aside it seems like this is the game that should be getting all the dialogue-flak that forespoken is getting. visually on point, though! gameplay looks like it could be real fun!

Salloumi

phylaxis Not to mention, “You’re probably wondering how I got here…”

Which I want to believe is deep parody, but… it’s not, is it?

rootfifthoctave

phylaxis i think the difference is hi-fi rush is aimed at 8 year olds that like stuff for 8 year olds and forspoken is aimed at 14 year olds that like stuff they think is for 20 year olds

Funbil

phylaxis should be getting all the dialogue-flak that forespoken is getting.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately too. I’d hate to make any extreme speculations, but I can’t help but notice the drastically different demographics of Hifi Rush's main character versus Forspoken's… Surely gamers wouldn’t have implicit biases against both non-white people and women, would they??? When a white guy uses certain speech patterns there’s no problem, but when a black woman does it somehow it becomes cringey… Just an observation. Good thing there’s no history of gamers acting exactly this way in countless other contexts, otherwise we might have a real deep-seated cultural problem on our hands

phylaxis

Salloumi god that hit me FIRST THING and i immediately knew the game was either laser-focused to make me hate it or just had superlatively lazy writing. howwww did that get written and recorded and put in a game in 2023???

bwood

Salloumi You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack.

palo

Salloumi that character is supposed to be a bit of a dope. He is a wannabe rockstar guitarist that doesn’t even know how to play guitar. The other characters don’t buy his persona and let him know it.

The trailer was really bad, I imagine it was the Microsoft marketing team doing what they wanted with it. That being said I found the game very enjoyable for a shadow drop gamepass release

phylaxis

also my answer to the music question is dragon quest 7 on the ps1: i had a much more enjoyable time with it muted and me listening to anything else! i was so in love with previous DQ soundtracks but 7 was just so so dreary and repetitive.

wickedcestus

“Here’s a question from me, Alex Jaffe. I ask…” made me chuckle quite a bit.

exodus

wickedcestus that was my favorite bit in the show myself

rootfifthoctave I feel like people should have more respect for the intelligence of 8 year olds! (the devs I mean)

dicegame

had an extremely similar moment of awe as tim in the grocery store at the sheer audacity of these

phylaxis

dicegame
hahah the food co-op i used to work at sold this brand and the first time i saw be’f i SHREIKED and had to show it to every coworker i had

thebryanjzx90

dicegame lol Uchiha Saus’ge

DavidNoo

dicegame

This stuff smells like dog food and tastes delicious

deepspacefine

dicegame I love gardein products but these soups are as funky as the names.

@Jaffe You committed the cardinal sin of Pennsylvania. Yinz is distinctly pittsburgh / southwest. Philly is southeast, about 5-6 hours away. We’re about as far apart as LA and San Fransico, or Jacksonville and Miami. And we hate each other.

wickedcestus

be’f is pretty remarkable.

phylaxis

be’f friends forever

phylaxis

Funbil been thinking about exactly this wrt the game! like, I really love the concept of a black woman from NYC getting zooped into a jrpg fantasy world! and I dunno, the demo was fun enough, even if it’s not a groundbreaking new property and didn’t quite stick the landing. we’d be seeing wayyyy less pushback on the writing if the protagonist was yet another white guy

connrrr

Do people not know what glassing is? I was at my friend’s college grad party and someone got glassed right in front of us while we were playing pool. That was a lot of blood!

IncompatibleKaiser Vagrant Story does this. I kinda hate when games drop important setup in the attract mode/idle screen, but also think that could be used really well nowadays since everyone is always online and could easily be tipped off to watch it—but games don’t really stick cutscenes into their titles screens so much anymore, do they?

phylaxis

glassing isn’t really a term used in the usa, it’s much more common in the uk

Syzygy

phylaxis
We do, but the meaning differs somewhat.

notthetoilet

Hey haven’t posted in a while as I got a job that completely depletes my social battery, but I still listen every week and

this episode rocks
this forum rocks
hyper gunsport rocks
it’s only a 9 month secondment and I ain’t built for it long term so I’ll be back around

pasquinelli

i hope @Jaffe hasn’t recommended going to the dentist because he’s stricken with tooth pain. and in any event, i second the recommendation.

Jaffe

pasquinelli I was, yes. Better now though!

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