Ep. 389 - Middle Kick Button, with Any Austin

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Ep. 389 - Middle Kick Button, with Any Austin

Youtuber, statistician, and cartographer Any Austin joins the panel to determine whether open world games should have minimaps, how to become a Sega Man, and the relationship between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Any Austin. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: Brian David Gilbert asks, which video game do you wish you could scrub from the memories of everyone in the world except for you? (08:08)

2: What’s the platonic ideal in open world games for you? (14:25)

3: What’s something you’ve seen in a video game that you’ve appreciated the developers putting much more work into than was even a little bit necessary? (20:07)

4: If you were isekai’d into a generic fantasy setting, what would your job be? (27:15)

5: Psinux asks, how does a Sega kid become a Sega man? (33:23)

6: What’s the best mountain in a video game? (37:37)

7: What is the BBC’s Planet Earth of video games? (43:30)

LIGHTNING ROUND: The Price is Sprite (49:20)

Credit Report (01:01:20)

Recommendations and Outro (01:02:10):

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Just came here to say I was an Any Austin fangirl before he became popular.

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When Brandon mentioned the game with a different title if you held certain buttons. I was sure he was going to mention Tuff E Nuff. I’m not sure why I thought that, other than that Tuff E Nuff is known to have other titles.

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The example Austin eventually settled on is legit just Tanya the Evil. Props if that wasn’t a bit lol.

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For question three, Austin’s answer reminded me of this aspect of Undertale I think about a lot.

In the village Snowdin there is a wolf throwing ice off of a conveyor belt and into the river. You follow that river through the next two areas, occaisionally seeing the slightly melted blocks of ice, until you enter the lava area Hotland. There the ice melts to cool down the core that powers the entire civilisation. The wolf is an essential worker, tirelessly turning to throw ice, just because the conveyor belt was a little too short.

Also was surprised Frank didn’t say he wanted to be the NPC that tells you the name of the town for question 4. Playing against type.

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Real ones remember Eggbusters

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Excited to listen to this one. Austin is great. I hope he talks about meal prep and underwear!

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I feel called out by Brandon for the comment about 5 people getting sucked into weird Sega evolution systems. I definitely still have a gamecube save of sonic adventure 2 with a chao garden with a chao for every combination of devil/neutral/angel + each specialization possible…

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Oh man how did I not make the connection with the voice right away. I had watched Egg Busters before but… stopped? Like that was a long time ago. Time to check out the channel again!

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I’d be a rando standing in the streets in a mid-large city with their finger on the pulse having new dialogue after every single story event

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Shame no one brought up Mt. Kolts from Final Fantasy VI, where you get Sabin… you know, the character who can suplex a full-sized ghost train while running away from it at full speed.

SimEarth! It’s right there! And yeah, I know, it doesn’t look pretty like Planet Earth but it’s in the name!

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I was definitely thinking about God of War 2018 for this one. Half the game is about climbing one mountain.

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Well, all of Celeste is about climbing one mountain

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I guess GoW 2018 is 50% about climbing one mountain, and 50% about climbing a 2nd mountain when you find out it’s the wrong mountain. So 100% mountain, but splitting between two mountains lets Celeste win. I bow down in awe of our mountainous power Jaffe.

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I had a real “Ash vs. Metaphoré ReFantazio” reaction at the “Squadallah” buzzer

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if we are taking all time faves for buzzer sounds we gotta have a klonoa wahoo and good answer buzzer episodes too

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You know that reminds me of a certain somebody who also had some wild ideas about how mankind could better get along…

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That’s right, ActRaiser on the SNES.

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everyone playing the Price is Sprite:

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7: What is the BBC’s Planet Earth of video games? (43:30)

This little fake documentary is pretty funny

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