Ep. 276 - Bye Forever DICE 2023

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Ep. 276 - Bye Forever DICE 2023

Brandon Sheffield and Frank Cifaldi report from Las Vegas, where they supposedly attended the 2023 DICE Summit, but mostly ran into used game stores and friends of Insert Credit. Featuring Alex Jaffe, Brandon Sheffield, Frank Cifaldi, Chris Kohler, Ally McLean, Mathew Kumar, and Kris Graft.

SEGMENTS

Retro City Games shopping with Chris Kohler (00:51)
Retro City Games shopping with Ally McLean (10:48)
Driving with Chris Kohler, Ally McLean and Frank Cifaldi from Retro City Games to another used game store (16:09)
Brandon discusses the plot of The $cheme (2003) with Ally McLean (25:18)
Getting lost in the car after Retro City Games #2 (27:08)
A miserable situation involving accoustic covers of popular music (38:15)
In the Circus Circus hotel room (39:17)
Walking through Circus Circus (42:15)
6 AM stories with Kris Graft (44:00)
Post-show thoughts from Brandon and Frank (58:56))

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BluntForceMama

esper Dances with Wolves (1988)

Nice

(Haven’t listened yet)

hellomrkearns

esper How To Draw Gex & The Gang

riley hogan

esper my sensitive ears were not powerful enough for this one. i will forever lament missing out on this episode

exodus

Don’t buy the ABSGEEGA lavalier mic everybody.

Also apparently my intro didn’t record! It was blank audio! Cool cool. It was me in the airport looking for frank and then finding him and ally mclean and talking about how Penn of Penn and teller got real skinny and now he looks weird.

Skip this one if you like your ears

Mnemogenic

exodus Thanks for the heads up. I hate my ears so this is perfect

EDIT: Oh hey, I’ve seen Welcome II the Terrordome. It’s awful! There’s a really disturbing scene where you watch a woman have a violent miscarriage. I would not recommend it.

dicegame

real insert credit heads find this the most LISTENABLE episode yet 😤😤😤

RubySunrise

I was that kid who would’ve loved receiving How to Draw Gex as a gift or something. My best friend and were all about that N64 Gex game for a couple months, which is forever in kid-time.

bwood

I remember throwing away Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective for the Sega CD.

TheFragranceOfDarkCoffee

bwood The board game version of that game is much better, really. I recommend it in fact

chrisbandicoot

Turns out phones have pretty good inbuilt mics (sorry I know the LAV should be better, but it definitely isn’t)

exodus

chrisbandicoot mine sucked which is why I bought the lav. you can hear the difference in the tokyo episode as it goes along, once I get a mic plugged in. I assumed one that cost more money would be of higher quality, like a CAPITALIST FOOL

exodus

we will look into some software to fix this and maybe reupload. it’s pretty atrocious, and I wouldn’t be able to listen to it with the ears I’ve got.

bwood

exodus You should keep the original on file, though. Something about the audio quality makes this episode feel like a video game podcast interpretation of Waiting for Godot. I quite like it for metaphorical reasons.

connrrr

I was thinking “hearing a familiar voice would be nice to de-stess with right about now” and then I put the episode on and you know what……………………………………………………………………………………… it is!

DavidNoo

my ears! My precious ears!!!!

Snowdecahedron

If anyone didn’t notice, it’s listenable from 39:17 onwards

exodus

yeah maybe we should re-release the original version, or an even worse version, as the “ultimate pain edition” as a patreon bonus with a new intro.

dicegame

exodus can i remix it . . . ULTIMATE PAIN DICEGAME UCHIHA BONE ROLLER MIX

exodus

dicegame absolutely, THAT should be the patreon bonus. you want the raw files?

dicegame

exodus YEA DUUUUDE hit me up

JJSignal

What fun. I hate Vegas! But I do love buffets, and Wicked Spoon, and the Cosmo hotel is neat. I’m a little mad at myself that I’ve never bothered checking out Retro City Games. Also completely forget about DICE every year.