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Episode 337: Silksong is Easy

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On this week's show, Shane and Stan talk about their latest videogame obsessions. Shane slashes through a maze of bugs in Silksong while Stan takes pictures of planes for Sky Cards. We also read off some our recent Perplexity prompts, review a new attachment for handheld gaming, and go over router extenders to stream games in bed.

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    • Timestamps:

    0:01 - Stan did a punch
    2:35 - The economics of movies
    9:31 - This week's episode
    13:35 - Silksong first impressions, the glory of the Steam Deck, and our relationships with Metroidvanias
    28:53 - Hard games
    35:06 - SkyCards: The Millennial urge to collect them all
    46:35 - A Perplexity digression
    50:21 - Handheld hardware - The Retroid Dual-Screen add-on, the Odin 3, and the PS Portal
    1:04:12 - Wrapping up

    Links from this week's episode:

    https://skycards.app/

    Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?

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