Is your full name Ex O. Dus?
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This rules. Welcome to the forums!
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Howdy, Iām DJMIDDLEWAY, Harley J, (they/them) listener of a few years, now finally yapping on the forms. Iām a podcaster myself but unless you like Modest Mouse, Iām here for the video games.
My main gaming interests are fighting games, RPGs, music games, or whatever genre they make a game adaptation of an anime out of. Iām playing Deadlock & Balatro most consistently, but I keep an ear on this pod for new games talk and per chance a possible listen for a new to me retro thing.
Nice to meet all of you!
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Hey Iām Superhero Complex, or perhaps I have a superhero complex? Either way, just someone looking for a new community on the internet. I was a big Giant Bomb fan up until a couple of days ago. Gaming is probably my first passion in life, followed closely by film. And you know Iām pretentious about it because I called it film. I watch a lot of horror movies, I especially like what some might call the fucked up shit. Movies like Inside, Martyrs but also movies like Salo and Baise-moi.
Iāve only listened to the latest episode of the show and I like the dynamics of the hosts. I already follow Ash, Frank and Brandon on the socials, so I was likely already sold. What got me to sign up to the forums was that funny picture thread and a few others that make me feel like Iām going to dig this community. So thatās it. I like Spider-Man a lot, dudeās always working.
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Welcome! Fandomās wake has been pretty wack, sorry to read it claimed GB.
Spider-Man has long championed for a strong work ethic! A powerful motivational speaker too!
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Welcome to the forums!
Come one come all, cast your votes
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Just did, awesome, thanks.
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Hi folks! Iām Jay. (he/him) I just recently discovered Insert Credit, after Iād been following Jaffe for a little bit. Iāve been loving the show, so I thought Iād join the forum. Iām a big fan of the Persona games, as well as the original Hades and Balatro. Iām currently playing Batman: Arkham City and Baldurās Gate 3. Glad to be here!
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Hello! Iām Alfred (he/they). Iāve been listening to insert credit for a couple years and started listening to the 2020+ era in reverse and had the fun experience of hearing recurring bits un-emerge. I love that the show keeps a strong grasp on its format, and Iām constantly learning about cool and fun things through the hosts. Itās the only podcast that I listen to every episode of, and it brightens the start of every work week.
I work as a barista and Iāve been in to game dev for a while as a hobby. Iāve made a couple of jam games with friends but Iāve been finding it hard to get to the actual creative part; I find I distract myself with technical problems and new projects rather than confront having to actually Make Art. I hope I get past this and make something sooner rather than later.
Over the last couple of years I got super in to watching wrestling. My favourite wrestler is probably Orange Cassidy thanks to his International Champion run at AEW, but my go-to show now is NXT. Stand & Deliver was great!
I also discovered pinball last year and love it! Mostly Zaccaria Pinball and Pinball FX on steam but I did get to try some physical tables for a day - there arenāt many places in the UK! I had a great time with and am now very affectionate for Zaccariaās Time Machine and surprisingly love the Xena table in Pinball FX.
Iād love to make friends and talk about any of the stuff I mentioned and more. Hopefully see you around the forums :)
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fun fact about me: i used to be friends with donavan and in fact still consider him a friend! most of the world now knows him as danhausen.
welcome to the forum!
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Oh wow! Haha thatās very cool to hear. Heās a great performer, had a lot of memorable moments. I still think about when someone used a mirror to trick him into cursing himself 
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hey. iāve been listening to IC for countless (four?) years now, been an occasional IC forums lurker since 2022 apparently, and been earnestly posting stuff on here a bit as of this week. thanks for having me.
iām a movie lover, software developer, and video game appreciator. i also enjoy playing with music stuff (including trackers!) and sometimes make semi-listenable music.
my video game blind spots are huge so i love discovering interesting stuff via the podcast and yāall. formative and favourite games for me include:
- f-zero
- super mario world
- looney tunes collector: alert!
- final fantasy tactics
- final fantasy tactics advance
- inscryption
- deadly rooms of death
- ridge racer 6
- into the breach
- those newish hitman games!
- paperboy 2
iām ending my playstation plus membership so that i can spend time and money playing more weirdo and historic games on my linux machine and/or the emulators.
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Welcome to the forums! I appreciated your posts in the movie poll thread; I bought the blu ray of La Flor a few months ago but still havenāt gotten around to it.
I know a lot about video games, and Iāve never even heard of this! Whatās is it / whatās cool about it?
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well, i just re-learned itās also known as looney tunes collector: martian alert!. itās been a minute since iāve played it, and iām probably misremembering much about it now. i donāt know that iād say there is much thatās cool about it. but for me, it provided a lot of firsts. it was the first gameboy color game i ever had, with the distinctive see-through gbc cartridge. it was the first time i ever booted up a game to see the infogrames logo. it was also the first deeply 7/10 rpg iād played that wasnāt windows shareware.
in many ways it was much like a gb-era zelda game plus a character switcher. you must collect all of the looney tunes characters to finish the story, as each one had a unique ability to help you traverse the world or KO enemies. so youād swap to each character using the menu and then go ham.
aesthetically it was a veryā¦ average gbc game, but since i was simultaneously playing a lot of sublime first-party games, it really stuck out to me and felt like justā¦ such a genuine little meat-and-potatoes game next to all the legends.
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heya,
my nameās shane (he/him). seems like there are lots of interesting people here! iām heeding brandonās call to join some forums on āMiddle Kick Button.ā i live a very solitary life due to chronic illnessāmostly houseboundāso this is the perfect way to socialize.
video games feel like a place where i can feel normal again; itās hard to express how much they mean to me without sounding corny. In What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy James Paul Gee uses the term Input Amplification to describe how a single button press often results in an amplified resultāe.g. your small thumb movement sends mario practically into orbit (and if youāre also holding forward, practically into a different timezone). For someone like me who has little energy, input amplification lets me do a lot more (at least it feels that way on an emotional level) than Iād otherwise be able to!
anyway, i love rpgs (j- t- c- and otherwise), turn-based roguelites (especially deckbuilders), and vibey games that you can chill with. Iām doing this strange thing where i press the random button on mobygames.com and have to beat whatever game comes up; i also only allow myself an arbitrary amount of āgame oversā to beat the game or else i got to move on from the game forever lol. Itās loads of fun and forces you to pay attention to and be engaged with games that would otherwise not interest you. Highly recommend giving it a go.
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welcome!! the mobygames thing is impressive, i have considered doing something similar with my library of Legitimately Obtained games on steam deck.
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thank you! itās so much fun. been thinking about doing that with my own legitimately obtained games like having to beat a random gamecube game could be fun. if you try it, let us know how it goes!
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Hello friends! Robin (she/her) here. Also heeding Brandonās āget on the forumsā pitch from last ep. I am actively trying to find the things on the internet that are good and worth falling in love with, and not just in a nostalgic way, but in like a āwow there are so many people doing and making cool things out thereā way. You know?
Iām a writer mostly of essays, and currently in an MFA program for said writing. Also a journalist, but not of the video game variety; I interview farmers and chefs and ecologists and write about what theyāre doing to try to fix the world. Iām currently playing Expedition 33 like everyone else and I adore it; also I turn 33 in a couple months so it feels uhhhh especially timely.
Also: I have an agenda. Of my local friend group (largely also cis women in their 30s) I am by far the biggest game-liker, and am not so subtly trying to get my pals invested, most especially by playing games all together. Last night a few of us played Blue Prince together and it was great. Iām looking for more of similar flavor for a good hangout game/pass the controller game/āletās all play togetherā kind of game thatās mechanically accessible, but like, mentally engaging. They all loved the Nancy Drew games as kids and I think similar mystery-solvey games would really hit. I think Return of the Obra Dinn might be nextābut any other recommendations yāall might have for me would be very appreciated!
Happy to be here, and big thanks to IC for being a sweet and fun part of my life for many years.
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Your profile picture reminds me a lot of the Alterlaa buildings in Vienna haha
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Have you played Until Dawn or The Quarry? theyāre def not as smart as Blue Prince but a very fun controller passing time!
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