Ep. 186 - Dirtbag Strikes Back, with Alex Jaffe and Mathew Kumar

wickedcestus

i feel like there are very few options when it comes to comparing someone to a famous video game designer and having it come out favourably. you kinda have to reach for the negative

EDIT: or at least, this is the easiest way to come up with a knee-jerk answer.

yeso

it’s a little bit weird that no one said they’d choose to be beaten to death by kisara from suikoden V, because that’s something lots of people think about and say

wickedcestus

I just want to make it clear to everyone that i love Marcel Proust and have modelled my life on his since i was 20 years old. I am well on my way to being bedridden at age 35 and living off 2 croissants (i might go with bagels instead, honestly) and 2 cups of coffee (i might substitute tea on alternating days) per day. i would recommend “in search of lost time” to anyone and please don’t think he’s actually similar to Johnathan blow. it was just a joke. we were joking around

穴

esper Ravioli asks: What video game attack move would you want to be killed by? (28:23)

I want yoshi to eat me, poop me into an egg and then throw that egg into the nearest police truck causing it to explode

edit: just thought of a better one: yoshi eats me, poops me into an egg, and then throws that egg to Jonathan Blow and he blows up… on Marcel Proust’s grave

christoffing

穴 Having spent too much time in FFIXV means:

My first thought when reading Yoshi is Naoki Yoshida.
Nothing about wanting Naoki Yoshida to eat you and turn you into an egg surprised me all that much.

dylanfills

穴 My immediate thought was that I want Luigi’s taunt from smash bross to kill me just for how entertaining and impractical it would be

captain

is j. franzen the j. blow of literature

kory

I was a little surprised at the purely pragmatic responses to #5–my immediate thought was the home run bat move from God Hand…assuming I don’t die immediately on impact, I feel like I would be in for a pretty thrilling ride as I tink out of existence in the distant horizon

hellojed

yeso Proust spent 20 years in self-imposed isolation in his apartment working obsessively on his novel, so who would be the VG equivalent

Sometimes I think about that, how there might be someone who’s spent like 20 years on their RPG maker magnum opus and they haven’t released or finished it yet.

Syzygy

There’s probably thousands of those

Gaagaagiins

Ravioli asks: What video game attack move would you want to be killed by? (28:23)

kory

Gaagaagiins

goonbag

yeso Proust spent 20 years in self-imposed isolation in his apartment working obsessively on his novel, so who would be the VG equivalent.

Surely this is Ulillillia

yeso

goonbag I think this might be it

Syzygy lol absolutely not no

Syzygy

Would Proust have been more comfortable transitioning to a full-time job at Walmart if he lived today? Discuss

antillese

kory You just reminded me of Hakan. I haven’t thought of him in probably a decade. Where do I send you the invoice for my time? 😛

Syzygy

I take it you aren’t familiar with how Ulillillia’s career has gone in recent years

Gaagaagiins

Seeing ullillilia advocating for more radical economic reforms on the official Bernie Sanders Facebook page has been a light in the darkness these days

yeso

Last I read walmart wasn’t working out for him, they weren’t giving him enough hours or something

Syzygy

Not to turn this into an unfortunate exercise in celebrity but quite the opposite, it appears by all his reckoning to have markedly improved his life, he takes it very seriously and has converted to pretty stable, offline socialization.

yeso

well that’s a positive development. I don’t really “follow” what’s going on with him bc I don’t want to participate in making him a spectacle as you correctly indicate but ofc I’m rooting for the guy. I’m glad he conquered his fear of the blue water…

exodus

glad it’s working for him (I’ve really only heard his name, don’t know much about him) but I still consider wal-mart a domestic terrorist organization taking america down from the inside. but I get that (because of its success with its terrorisms) it’s really the only place a lot of people can work and shop.

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