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Ep. 208 - How To Correctly Pronounce Ocarina, with Jackie Cole

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Community Manager for Singularity 6 Jackie Cole joins the panel to cover the dark truth behind convention booths, not letting the gacha getcha, and Call of Looney.

Questions this week:

  1. Can games be used as tools for mental health? (03:00)
  2. Why does every MMO feel so bad to play, and can that be fixed? (07:04)
  3. Are emulation hobbyists saving or destroying video games? (11:26)
  4. Who are the nicest, most well-adjusted people in video games? (15:53)
  5. What do most people not know about running a convention booth? (20:06)
  6. Dirtbag Spencer asks: How can we make gamers care less about brands and more about the people who make video games? (23:57)
  7. Has a video game ever satisfactorily addressed a complaint you had with it while you were playing it? (29:08)
  8. Where would be the point in a documentary series about game companies where a still flips to a photo negative and the voiceover goes “And that’s where it all went wrong?” (33:15)
  9. Is there any way for Call of Duty to redeem itself ethically? (37:29)

    10. LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamer Tags (41:57)

    Recommendations and Outro (49:18)

    Quickly, discuss this episode in the forums, before they get you!

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Zero Wing
    • Puss N Boots: Pero’s Great Adventure
    • Swery’s The Good Life
    • Monster Hunter: World
    • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
    • Stardew Valley
    • Depression Quest
    • Sky: Children of the Light
    • Journey
    • Brain Age: Train Your Brain In Minutes A Day!
    • The Insert Credit Dot Com Forums
    • Metroid Dread Is Already Running On Switch Emulators
    • Players Have A Ton Of Complaints About Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games
    • C418
    • 2 years of failure by C418
    • The World Famous Vincent
    • Anita Sarkeesian
    • Insert Credit’s Own Ash Parrish
    • Victoria Tran
    • Indie Megabooth
    • Noclip Documentaries
    • Higurashi series
    • NieR
    • Destiny 2
    • Tomak: Save the Earth, Again
    • Tomak: Save the Earth, Again’s reviews page on Mobygames, which calculates mostly based on Brandon’s 2002 insert credit review
    • Gunhouse
    • Deadly Premonition
    • Star Wars: Battlefront II
    • The uncomfortable truth of Call of Duty’s latest marketing campaign by Kazuma Hashimoto
    • Battlefield 2042
    • Castle Wolfenstein series

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      Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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