December 09, 2025

Episode #115: Motherflipper, Those Are Auks!

2 hours 17 minutes

Featuring:
Merve
Drinking with Skeletons
Colonel Mustard
The Kappa

Editor:
The Kappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
1:35 – Twitch Scandals
14:15 – EA Goes Private
38:05 – Pirate Games
48:15 – Colonel Mustard’s Indie Mystery Picks
53:15 – Ghost of Yōtei
59:25 – Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles
1:14:45 – Battlefield 6
1:31:25 – Digimon Story Time Stranger, Part 1
1:49:15 – A Digression on Pokémon
1:52:15 – Digimon Story Time Stranger, Part 2
2:02:05 – Electronic Arts and BioWare
2:13:35 – Conclusion

Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep115

Podcast header image from Digimon Story Time Stranger. Content warning: discussions of animal abuse, sexual assault, and suicide. Spoiler warning: Assassin’s Creed Rogue; Consume Me; despelote. Linkdump and timestamps for warnings after the jump.

Introduction (0:15)

No links here.

Twitch Scandals (1:35)

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of animal abuse and sexual assault

Article on streamer Emiru being assaulted at TwitchCon. (Source: NBC)

Wikipedia article on Dan Clancy.

Article on the Hasan Piker dog collar controversy. Clarification: Despite how we may have discussed the issue during the episode, we would like to make it clear that the allegations have not been definitively proven. (Source: Forbes)

EA Goes Private (14:15)

MAJOR SPOILERS: Assassin’s Creed Rogue

The press release about Electronic Arts being acquired by an investor consortium. (Source: Electronic Arts)

Reporting on JPMorgan Chase’s loan to the consortium being expected to be rated B. (Source: @jasonschreier.bsky.social on Bluesky)

Reporting and context on Saudi gaming investments. (Source: Game File)

Correction: The DJ featured in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Salvatore Ganacci, is Bosnian-Swedish, not Saudi Arabian. (Source: Wikipedia)

Article on Dragon Age games outselling Mass Effect games. (Source: The Gamer)

Motive Studio is currently working on an untitled Iron Man game. (Source: Wikipedia)

Depending on how you see it, the last Ultima game was either 2013’s free-to-play action RPG Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avataror 2018’s first-person action RPG Underworld Ascendant, which was permitted to use the Ultima lore and setting under a licensing agreement but was not permitted to use the Ultima name or branding. (Source: Wikipedia)

Clarification: We recorded on October 19th, 2025, before the remake of Plants vs. Zombies, subtitled Replanted, was released on October 23rd, 2025. (Source: Steam)

The last mainline, new, non-mobile, non-browser release in the Command & Conquer series was Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, released in 2010. (Source: Wikipedia)

Official website for Star Wars Zero Company, releasing in 2026. (Source: Electronic Arts)

Pirate Games (38:05)

Wikipedia article on Skull and Bones.

Wikipedia article on Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

The Kairosoft game that The Kappa was referencing was Game Dev Story. (Source: Wikipedia)

Josh Sawyer’s comments on the commercial performance of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. None of the comments I could find specifically referenced the game’s pirate theme as an issue. (Source: jesawyer on Tumblr)

Wikipedia article on Assassin’s Creed Rogue.

“Truck” in the sense of a vehicle or transportation is a back formation of “truckle,” but “truck” in the sense of barter or exchange does indeed come from the Old French troquer, which means “to exchange,” as The Kappa alluded to. (Source: Dictionary.com)

Wikipedia article on Sid Meier’s Pirates!

Colonel Mustard’s Indie Mystery Picks (48:15)

Steam store page for Unheard – Voices of Crime.

Steam store page for The Roottrees Are Dead.

Ghost of Yōtei (53:15)

PlayStation store page for Ghost of Yōtei.

The actress who played Shadowheart in Baldur’s Gate 3 is Jennifer English. (Source: Wikipedia)

Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles (59:25)

Steam store page for Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles.

Wikipedia article on Tactics Ogre.

Final Fantasy Wiki article on “You spoony bard!” (Source: Fandom)

Battlefield 6 (1:15:45)

Steam store page for Battlefield 6.

Digimon Story Time Stranger, Part 1 (1:31:25)

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of suicide

Steam store page for Digimon Story Time Stranger.

The XKCD comic “Hyphen.”

Wikipedia article on Summer Wars.

Digimon Wiki article on Eater Eve. Clarification: Eater Eve is from Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, not Digimon Tamers.

Correction: Digimon Tamers originally aired in Japan from April 1st, 2001 to March 31st, 2002, so its original premise and early episodes could not have been influenced by 9/11. (Source: Wikipedia)

A Digression on Pokémon (1:49:15)

Nintendo store page for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

Wikipedia article on The World Ends with You.

Digimon Story Time Stranger, Part 2 (1:52:15)

MAJOR SPOILERS: Consume Me; despelote.

No links here.

Electronic Arts and BioWare (2:02:05)

Wikipedia article on Anthem.

Wikipedia article on Jack McBrayer.

Wikipedia article on Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Wikipedia article on the upcoming video game Exodus.

Steam store page for Megabonk.

Conclusion (2:13:35)

No links here.

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