Mike and Ting talk about Roblox and rapid fire some gaming news.

NOTE: this episode was recorded on 13 April 2021.

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Roblox

• Roblox | Official Trailer (2020) (YouTube)
• ROBLOX's $30 Billion Dollar Bet! - Why You Should Care About ROBLOX Going Public - Extra Credits (YouTube)
• History of Roblox
• Ready Player One (2018)
• How Much MONEY Do Roblox Developers Really Make? (Millions) (YouTube)
• Adopt Me
• 5 mistakes creators make building new games on Roblox
• Royale🌼High
• ⚡Speed Run Simulator ⚡
• (Roblox) HEDGEROWS II - Weapons Showcase (YouTube)
• The Story of Roblox (YouTube)
• Metaverse
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

Rapid Fire

• Report: PS3, Vita, And PSP Stores To Be Permanently Closed In A Few Months
• It's March 31, The Day Mario Dies (Or Nintendo Just Stops Selling a Bunch of Games)
• PAC-MAN 99
• Microsoft's $10 billion bid to buy Discord could close as early as next month
• Epic Is Losing Hundreds of Millions As it Battles To Gain Market Share from Steam
• Sarah Connor and the Terminator have both arrived in Fortnite
• Alien's xenomorph and Ripley come to Fortnite
• Master Chief joins the cast of Fortnite
• The next Call of Duty is reportedly set in alt-history 1950s where WW2 never ended
• Call Of Duty Mobile Dev Made $10 Billion In 2020, Making It Among The World's Largest Studios
• Why Cyberpunk 2077's Multiplayer Mode Should Be Canceled
• Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official update coming
• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
• April Fools' Day 2021 round-up
• What Is Mo Gulag Mo Problems In Warzone?
• Kojima Photoshop April Fools

Mike and Ting talk about mullets and reflect on being unable to return to Hong Kong for the past 3 months.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Roblox and Rapid Fire.

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Pre-Chat

• Trinity College in Perth bans mullet haircuts, labelling them ‘unacceptable’
• Hongkongers stuck in Britain eager to return, but travel ban has already taken toll
• Bed stains and wet floors: Quarantine hotel under fire for unsanitary conditions
• ‘Hunger Games-style’ fight for British flights as Hongkongers battle to get home
• Hong Kong coronavirus: Britain ban lifted, but 'chaos' over special flights has some criticising coordination
• Thailand Alternative State Quarantine ASQ & ALQ
• Fast-spreading UK variant said to fuel Bangkok nightlife cluster
• Thailand says Bangkok COVID-19 outbreak may take months to contain
• Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
• Shoppers rush back as High Streets reopen in England and Wales
• Clipstone Restaurant
• EZ Thai Language : How To Say "Hello" (YouTube)

Mike and Ting talk Death Stranding. No spoilers!

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What is Death Stranding?

• Once, There Was an Explosion (YouTube)
• Death Stranding
• Death Stranding on Metacritic
• Death Stranding Review - IGN
• Death Stranding Review - Giant Bomb
• Death Stranding – E3 2016 Reveal Trailer | PS4 (YouTube)
• Death Stranding is going to be part of a new genre of gaming called strand games, according to Kojima
• Death Stranding (Video Game 2019)
• Every Death Stranding Cameo in the game and where to find them
• Timefall
• MULE
• Beached thing

Playthrough and Impressions

• BRIDGES (YouTube)
• Does Birthday Affect DOOM Abilities?
• Her Story (podcast episode)
• What Is The Chiral Network?
• DEATH STRANDING - All LOW ROAR Moments + EXTRAS (YouTube)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• More than half of Death Stranding’s team defected from Konami
• Bola gun
• Floating carrier
• BB BREAKS OPEN ITS POD || DEATH STRANDING [EASTER EGG] (YouTube)
• Death Stranding guide: How to avoid and kill BTs
• Urination
• EX grenade
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – How to manage your inventory
• Order 26: URGENT Fresh Pizza Delivery: Peter Englert - How to Deliver Pizza
• Death Stranding Is Getting Away With One Thing No Other Game Could
• DEATH STRANDING - Sam Bridges (Reedus) all sink actions , get lot of likes from BB (YouTube)

Summary

• The Face of Our New Hope (YouTube)
• Death Stranding Is the Defining Game of 2020 (Despite Releasing in 2019)
• Hideo Kojima: 'Metal Gear questions US dominance of the world'

Mike and Ting talk about NFTs, Avatar retaking the crown, and stool gazing.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Death Stranding - Part 1.

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Pre-Chat

• Non-fungible token
• CryptoKitties
• What are NFTs and why are some worth millions?
• Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million
• Artificial scarcity
• China Box Office: ‘Avatar’ Leads With a Further $14 Million
• An Exhaustive Timeline of All the Avatar Sequel Announcements
• Everything we actually know about Matrix 4
• Pre-Chat: Subscription Toilet (podcast episode)
• Going through the motions: the rise and rise of stool-gazing
• This AI app lets you scan your poop for science. Does it work?
• Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mike and Ting talk about live service games, the 25th anniversary Pokemon Direct and BlizzConline.

The “book club” game is: Death Stranding.

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Live Service Games

• Valor (Freelancer Theme) by BioWare
• Anthem Update
• The Future of Artifact
• Artifact Classic - Steam Charts
• Artifact Foundry - Steam Charts
• Electronic Arts Removes Multiplayer Mode From Dragon Age Game in Big Pivot
• @jasonschreier - BTW I should elaborate on one thing. Although some people within BioWare have been pushing for this, as the story says, there are also people at BioWare who very much wanted DA4 to be a multiplayer service game. Reality is never as simple as "EA wants X; BioWare wants Y."
• Games as a service
• Ready Player One
• Star Citizen
• Destiny (video game)

Pokemon Direct

• Pokémon Presents | #Pokemon25 (YouTube)
• Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus
• Pokemon Sword and Shield Quality of Life Improvements Make It More Strategic
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
• Pokémon Puzzle League
• New Pokémon Snap
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Pokemon Fans Voice Concerns About Pokemon Legends: Arceus

BlizzConline

• BlizzConline 2021 - Opening Ceremony - Blizzard Entertainment (YouTube)
• World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic: Release date, news, level boosts, and everything we know so far
• Relive the Legacy: Announcing the Blizzard Arcade Collection
• Hearthstone Mercenaries is a roguelike mode with teams of heroes and simultaneous combat
• Hearthstone Region Transfer
• Overwatch 2: 55 New Details Revealed at BlizzCon 2021
• Overwatch and Overwatch 2 will have a shared multiplayer experience (2019)
• Don't expect Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4 in 2021
• A leaked Elden Ring trailer is being circulated online
• Everything we know about Diablo 4
• Diablo III - Leah Dies - Diablo is born (YouTube)
• Every Comic Book Guy "Worst. Episode. Ever." Supercut (YouTube)
• Diablo 2: Resurrected - What's new and what's staying the same in the remaster
• The outrage over Warcraft 3: Reforged, explained
• Why wasn’t Starcraft at Blizzcon 2021?

Mike and Ting talk about Ember mugs, how to hang up annoying phone calls, and meal replacement drinks.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Anthem, Pokemon and BlizzConline.

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Pre-Chat

• Ember: The World’s First Temperature Control Mug
• WHOOP - The World’s Most Powerful Fitness Membership
• LPT: if you’re stuck on an annoying call, put your phone on airplane mode instead of just hanging up. The other person will see “call failed” instead of “call ended”.
• r/ShittyLifeProTips
• Huel
• Soylent
• Ensure
• QNOLA

Mike and Ting talk about Cyberpunk 2077.

Contains SPOILERS for Cyberpunk 2077!

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Playthrough

• GeForce NOW
• Dark Patterns
• Cyberpunk 2077 patch notes: 1.1 and 1.12 hot fix update details
• Datashard
• Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberware
• Cyberpunk 2077 radio stations: what can you listen to in Night City?
• Porsche 911 II (930) Turbo
• Beat on the Brat
• Life Path Guide and Differences
• Cyberpunk 2077 - Jackie and V Crime Montage [4K 60FPS] (YouTube)
• The Heist
• How long is Cyberpunk 2077?
• Fool on the Hill
• Misty Olszewski
• Dream On
• Romance Guide: Romance Options and Sexual Encounters
• Sinnerman
• A Cool Metal Fire
• Easter Eggs and References
• Play It Safe

Story

• Walkthrough - Main Jobs
• Cyberpunk 2077 First Written in Polish
• Cyberpunk 2077 Slang - Don’t Be A Gonk And Brush Up On Your Street Slang
• A Clockwork Orange (novel)
• Surf washing detergent, Perf with Surf, TV Commercial April 2020 (YouTube)
• Confronting Yorinobu Arasaka Cyberpunk 2077 (YouTube)
• What Does Choom Mean In Cyberpunk 2077
• Jackie Welles
• How to Unlock All 5 Endings in Cyberpunk 2077
• Hanako Arasaka
• Panam Palmer
• Adam Smasher
• Rogue Amendiares

Summary

• Witcher 3 is the best game ever made according to Game Informer!
• Immersive sim
• Action role-playing game
• Bethesda Game Studios
• Cyberpunk 2077's Wall-Running Mechanic Removed 'Due To Design Reasons'
• Cyberpunk 2077 — Out Commitment to Quality
• Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer: release date, microtransactions, and more
• GTA Online is poised to have its most profitable microtransaction year ever
• Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer
• Thief: The Dark Project
• Death Stranding
• SnowRunner

Mike is worried he has lead poisoning, Ting tries Beeminder, and they both talk about the snow in the UK and Texas.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Cyberpunk 2077 - Part 2.

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Pre-Chat

• Lead poisoning
• Small Vintage Porcelain Chinese Bowl. Decorated Exterior: 151,100 ppm Lead. That’s more than 15% Lead. 90 ppm Lead is toxic to kids.
• A birthday telegram from Zinedine Zidane. (YouTube)
• Beeminder
• @bmndr - Oh my goodness we got brutally roasted on this @lostlevelsclub podcast (starts ~3m14s). So unfair yet so funny!
• Balance
• Headspace
• Clone a Voice in Five Seconds With This AI Toolbox
• UK weather: Storm Darcy leads to heavy snow and ice
• Texas weather: Deadly winter storm sweeps Texas and US southern states
• Fake snow? Conspiracy theory claims Texas weather ‘government-generated’

Mike and Ting talk about Amazon and Google's game cancellations and studio closures, rapid fire news, and Global Game Jam 2021.

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Google and Amazon

• Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus
• Google employee growth, 2001 through 2019
• Jade Raymond Joins Google as Vice President
• Amazon Can Make Just About Anything—Except a Good Video Game
• Amazon Wants to ‘Win at Games.’ So Why Hasn’t It?
• Fully Customizable Game Engine - Amazon Lumberyard
• CRYENGINE
• Valve cancelled a lot of games over the last 10 years, including Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3
• New World
• Amazon’s Next CEO Says He’s Committed to Making Video Games
• Amazon buys video-game streaming site Twitch

Rapid Fire

• Goldeneye 007’s lost Xbox 360 remaster has leaked—as a full-game speedrun
• We have finally played the lost, official Goldeneye 007 remaster for Xbox 360
• This Leaked Goldeneye 007 Remaster Is a Legal Nightmare - IGN Now (YouTube)
• Lucasfilm Games Begins a New Era
• LucasArts
• Open World Star Wars Game in Development at Ubisoft
• Get Your Fedoras and Whips Ready for a New Indiana Jones Game
• The Mandalorian
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• Resident Evil Village: Trailer Breakdown - Secrets, Theories and Details You Might Have Missed (YouTube)

Global Game Jam

• GGJ Online (2021) Keynote and Theme Reveal Video (YouTube)
• GGJ Online Diversifiers!
• Pointillism
• Trials (series)
• Office Assistant
• Papers, Please
• Pointillist shader (for the “Get to the point” diversifier) from my unfinished Global Game Jam 2021 solo project
• Our Global Game Jam 2021 game: Found in SPAAAACE!
• Pre-Chat: GME, DOGE and WallStreetBets
• GGJ 2021 Hong Kong Award Winners
• GGJ 2021 Hong Kong Games

Mike and Ting talk about the GameStop short squeeze and Dogecoin.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for AMZN, GOOG and GGJ.

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Pre-Chat

• r/wallstreetbets
• r/OutOfTheLoop
• Short squeeze
• The day Volkswagen briefly conquered the world
• How WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop Shares to the Moon
• Paper Hands Vs Diamond Hands — A Boomer’s Guide To WallStreetBets Lingo
• r/wallstreetbets stats
• @elonmusk - Gamestonk!!
• r/dogecoin
• How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with blockchain.info?
• Wallstreetbets, it's a privilege holding with you!