Ep. 387 - Ethical Banana Diamonds, with Brian David Gilbert

That has not been my experience with Mario Kart

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I will add my experience with Mario Kart has always been either solo to unlock stuff, or 3-4 players locally and having fun with the chaos. Have never touched online.

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This episode has been one more event in a long line of events that affirm to me that BDG is my spirit animal. I will not be elaborating. Thank you.

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The J in JRPG stands for ā€˜Just’ rpg.
It’s linear, mechanics focused, crunchy, maybe has some puzzles and fishing. Double-meaning as Justice is a typical driving force in the stories.

Western rpgs are more focused on player expression and range of interaction while Just rpgs are focused on telling one story with a predetermined set of characters playing their roles as actors in it.

FF14 is an MMOrpg before it is a Just rpg
FF15 is Just rpg

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Enjoyed the Kongversation. I witnessed Donkey Kong jumping over Candy Kong’s blown kiss into the save barrel many times, his nephew blindly aping him. So I don’t think he’s ready for a relationship, and he’s also a bad role model

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Honestly, with how much they’ve streamlined it and made it as single player as possible, I think FFXIV is a JRPG before it’s an MMORPG at this point

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What DIDN’T that show try to reference…

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What are the unjust rpgs?

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Tyranny?

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Is Mario Kart the Big Bang Theory of video games, or is it the upcoming Donkey Kong Bazinga?

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I thought Frank was just being silly about the Diddy Kong-spiracy, but apparently he isn’t in Mario Kart World (or at least hasn’t been shown yet) and wasn’t in the last Mario Party.

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I don’t think that Nintendo is getting rid of all of the Rare influence. Cranky Kong is in Donkey Kong Bananaslama. They did not even redesign him. I thought that he would at the least match Donkey Kong with a new brow.

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What happened to Diddy? Nintendo protagonists of late need a magical best friend to do all of the talking. He’s got that purple rock as a sidekick. Diddy’s role has been usurped.

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I enjoyed listening to this episode a lot.

The J in JRPG stands for Jung.

To actually explain this: it’s because I think JRPGs exemplify archetypes more than most formats.

I was going to bring this up on the next episode. Rambi the Rhino’s in there, too

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there is some sorta Frank slander going on because Frank won the speedrun Arcade of our Own episode if i remember - he nominated Kid Dracula

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I think Diddy Kong needs a comeback because the Kong family appears to be different primates and there’s no reason not to introduce a character like David Kong the stinky human to the group as well.

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Yes, but in my head, he’s Danny Kong.

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I’m cool with Danny. Cause then we can use the more formal Daniel, when he’s in trouble.

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