October 06, 2025

Ep. 409 - Silent Hilf

1 hour 9 minutes

Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield cover Silent Hill f, the sacrifice of EA to the monster of private capital, and thirty PlayStation hot takes. Hosted by Esper Quinn, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

Laparoscopy

“Don’t you dare throw chunks.”

Tetris Effect

Lumines Arise

Silent Hill f

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Rhythm Heaven

1: Y’all playin’ that Hilf? (05:29)

Silent Hill series

Al Yang

Konami

Kingdom Hearts series

Lucy James

Pyramid Head

2: EA got bought. That’s not good, right? (14:53)

Video gamer Electronic Arts to be bought in largest-ever private equity buyout valued at $55 billion

EA’s new owners are making “a huge bet” on generative AI cost-cutting to help repay a $20 billion loan, claims report

Madden series

Battlefield series

EA Sports FC series

Rockstar finally fixed the disastrous GTA remastered trilogy years after it released

BioWare

The Sims series

Xbox One

Xbox ROG Ally

3: What do you think the CEO of Nintendo of America does? (21:03)

Nintendo Of America President Doug Bowser Announces Retirement

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Sega Genesis

Mother 3

Pokemon GO

4: Which real world non-extinct animal is presented as the most powerful in video games?(24:39)

Lion

Wolf

Gorilla

Donkey Kong

Shark

Red Dead Redemption II

T-Rex

Komodo dragon

Dragon

Grizzly bear

Legendary Axe

Golden Axe

Tiger

Tokyo Jungle

5: What is a “real gamer?” (26:35)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Sam Bankman-Fried

Super Smash Bros. series

Legend of Zelda series

Valorant

Counter-Strike

Words With Friends

Wordle

Spelling Bee

Zach Gage

Puzzmo

6: Are there protest video games? (32:02)

1000xRESIST

Mouthwashing

Jack Thompson

This War of Mine

Spec Ops: The Line

Disco Elysium

itch.io

Despelote

Consume Me

Hades II

Ghost of Yōtei

LIGHTNING ROUND: 30 Years of PlayStation (42:02)

Recommendations and Outro (52:51):

Brandon: Kimimi the Game Eating She-Monster, Coyote Media, skip the commentary track for Blood of Heroes, Makeruna! Makendou 2 - Versus Menu Music

Frank: Silent Hill f, Coyote Media

Ash: Log off, get your uterus checked out if you have a uterus

Esper: J2ME, DoCoMo i-mode, KDDI ezWeb, etc. The Mobile Gaming of ol’ thread, Women Wearing Shoulder Pads (i actually watched this the day after recording but since I write the show notes i’m going to recommend it here, it’s less than 2 hours to watch the whole first season and it’s incredible)

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