Molehill Mountain Podcast

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9:26 - THQ Nordic pulls the greatest PR boner in years

26:10 - Detective Pikachu still looks great!

38:23 - Pokemon Gen 8 and the new starters

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If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:41 PMjack cayman​I just got home from the rodeo

6:41 PMjack cayman​made it just in time for the podcast

6:47 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:55 PMAndrew Eisen​Rodeo, eh?

6:57 PMAndrew Eisen​Come to think of it, where are all the rodeo games?

6:57 PMAndrew Eisen​I've got it!

6:57 PMAndrew Eisen​Rodeo Mama

6:59 PMjack cayman​ill show you stuff via Twitter after this

6:59 PMjack cayman​it was the Houston livestock show and rodeo lol

7:00 PMjordan thompson​there's a rodeo game called 8 to glory on Xbox one and ps4

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​that dp trailer, and s&s what a week for fans of pokemon, me.

7:00 PMaddictedtochaos​I think there was one PS2

7:00 PMjordan thompson​I had to google it as well

7:01 PMjack cayman​I had a fried brownie today

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​nah just play overcocked

7:01 PMjack cayman​my Japanese friend wanted me to try the deep fried butter

7:01 PMjordan thompson​cant wait for smash bros : everyone but walaluigi

7:02 PMjordan thompson​if were going with a dark theme how about "cooking humans mama"

7:03 PMjack cayman​Andrew ill be going back to the rodeo next week, they deep fry everything, would you want me to buy something and send you a picture of it via twitter?

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​to serve man moma

7:03 PMjack cayman​we deep fry soda and ice cream

7:04 PMjack cayman​wait is deep fried pickles weird?

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​for a old refrence (og twilight zone for those that dont know)

7:05 PMjack cayman​they were serving deep fried Moonpies and just pie in general

7:05 PMjordan thompson​twilight zone is getting a 3rd reboot now

7:05 PMjack cayman​1/2lb pork chop on a stick

7:06 PMjack cayman​ill upload all the pics I took on Twitter real quick and tag y'all

7:06 PMaddictedtochaos​Deep fried Oreos are really good

7:07 PMjordan thompson​I'm hoping jordan piel doesnt become the tyler perry of horror movies

7:09 PMjordan thompson​cgi mewtwo that is all

7:10 PMjack cayman​@addictedtochaos deep fried Oreos are my top favorite fried food to eat at the fair

7:11 PMjack cayman​CUM

7:11 PMjordan thompson​correct me if im wrong but isnt mewtwo genetically manufactured which means hes one of a kind meaning the mewtwo from the trailers is the one from the movies

7:12 PMjack cayman​yes mewtwo was a experiment

7:12 PMjack cayman​build your waifu the video game

7:14 PMotritzu​The Humanoid mechs do react

7:14 PMotritzu​And the really big assholes are able to be cut into pieces

7:17 PMotritzu​Melee hits make 'em fly away.

7:20 PMpsychadelic snake​8chan isnt bad

7:20 PMpsychadelic snake​its the fact they backpeddled so hard

7:20 PMjordan thompson​ANTHEM!?! WTF not my Bethesda!!!

7:21 PMpsychadelic snake​8chan left 4chan because moot sold us out

7:21 PMpsychadelic snake​then edgy kids took over 8chan and it became a shit hole

7:22 PMpsychadelic snake​if you want a really bad forum,

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Your legs will give out before it finishes loading.

30:44 - Xbox VP blames Anthem reviewer for not understanding a feature the game doesn't explain well

52:36 - Zenimax gets a taste of its own medicine as it's smacked with a trademark dispute

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.

Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:44 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone.

6:45 PMotritzu​Evenin' Zach, Andrew.

6:59 PMlugiae​Hi.

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​played and beat yakuza kawami (pc) this week

7:00 PMScottyJayMan​Hi

7:00 PMotritzu​Happens on occasion.

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​what do you think of the roumers of ori (new one) and cuphead going to switch?

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​I wounder what compramises ori will have to make to run on switch. ori one was amazing looking

7:02 PMjack cayman​Aw man 7 minutes

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​5 minutes you must have awful internet its like 100MBs

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​tetris 99 isnt a demo, its a free game

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​for online payers

7:04 PMjack cayman​WE TALKIN ANTHEM TODAY?

7:04 PMotritzu​It's free, so long as you use Nintendo Online for something else.

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​nope its a 100% free mp game

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​andrew andrew andrew your assuming nintendo is compatent with online in any way shap or form

7:06 PMjack cayman​WOO, I wanna talk about that dumpster fire of a game

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​yup

7:06 PMjack cayman​and yes thats what it is

7:06 PMotritzu​Battle Royal Tetris, yeah.

7:06 PMIngenting Filmen​the only Battle Royal I'm any good at

7:06 PMotritzu​It's crazy.

7:07 PMjack cayman​I haven't been playing any new games lately, unless Planetside 2 and let it die count as 'new'

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​also ezk you should pick up yakuza 0/kawami, they are both on ps3

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​though play it after the kids are in bed, nsfw

7:08 PMmatthew wilson​sounds like its rendering very low rez and upscaling it

7:09 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:09 PMjack cayman​I'm the type of person who makes my characters as deformed as humanly possible.

7:11 PMotritzu​Daemon X Machina? Yeah, it's obtuse as all get out.

7:12 PMIngenting Filmen​Daemon X Machina seems fun from the demo, altough yeah it seems kinda harsh on the newbies

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​so armored core. every comparision is armored core

7:12 PMotritzu​Your first weapon is absolute crap in the demo.

7:12 PMjack cayman​maybe its one of the few games with a casual filter

7:13 PMIngenting Filmen​its mech shootin stuffs, I need metal for that

7:14 PMotritzu​I used English language because I expected something like that.

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​so neir sub or dub?

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​I did dub to much going on in that game for subs

7:18 PMjack cayman​2b best waifu

7:19 PMmatthew wilson​ezk should check out yakuza 0/kawami both are on the ps3

7:20 PMjack cayman​I've been hearing mixed stuff about captain marvel

7:20 PMjack cayman​number 1 thing is that the main actress is a massive sjw

7:21 PMmatthew wilson​definitly play after kids are in bed

7:32 PMjack cayman​anthem IS BAAAAAD

7:33 PMjack cayman​the load times, the DOWNGRADES, THE BUGS, THD BLACKLISTING

7:33 PMjack cayman​its SO FUCKIN BAAAAD

7:34 PMlugiae​That's worse than Sonic 06 levels of Ioading!

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

EZK has the night off so Andrew is all yours...

No timestamps this week but I talk about Activision firing a bunch of its workers after bragging about its best financials in its history, Jump Force's bad trailers, a Twitch streamer who has maybe decided to stop using slurs, a Chucky VS Annabelle video, and the latest Nintendo Direct.

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.

Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​hi

6:59 PMSusanne Christ​Hi!!! ^·^

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​nintendo clearly has the best line up for the year, the direct didnt even include their 2 biggest 2019 games

7:00 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​yup

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​animal crossing isnt my thing, but pokemon is

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​also astral chain hype

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​aparently its good

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​aparently it sticks prity close to the menga

7:03 PMjack cayman​hello i am here

7:03 PMjack cayman​I miss anything?

7:04 PMjordan thompson​with current events this is as good as time as any to say this, I dont always make it to streams but molehill mountain and the channel shows the brighter side of the world making everthing better

7:04 PMjack cayman​apex legends

7:04 PMjack cayman​it now surpasses fortnite by 157 million

7:04 PMjack cayman​are we seeing a fortnite killer?

7:05 PMSusanne Christ​keep looking!!! ull find something better ^·^

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​respawn

7:05 PMaddictedtochaos​Respawn

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​old cod devs

7:05 PMjack cayman​publisher is EA

7:05 PMaddictedtochaos​Yes

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​yes titanfall devs

7:06 PMjack cayman​and from the context clues, I'm guessing you're looking for a new job andrew?

7:06 PMjack cayman​man I work some shitty security job

7:06 PMjordan thompson​did you watch the new Nintendo direct

7:07 PMjack cayman​I'm paid $8.10 to watch over drunks

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​I mean BR is the hot genre right now. hell nintendo made a tetris BR, and somehow its good

7:08 PMjack cayman​whatever your current job is, its alot safer than having to work security at a EDM festival

7:08 PMSusanne Christ​that game is so awesome!!!

7:09 PMjack cayman​its just the usual PvP Tetris stuff but on a massive scale

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​its 98 other people, and the more you ko, the more blocks your drop

7:09 PMjordan thompson​the idea of a tetris movie has been floating around for a while, the only decent idea I could come up with was a legal drama based on the copyright lawsuits that happened in the 80s

7:10 PMmatthew wilson​you drop

7:10 PMotritzu​It's Battle Royal Tetris. The only Battle Royal type game I'm going to paly.

7:10 PMjack cayman​yeah that job seems alot safer, your manager doesn't tell you to go watch for a guy high on PCP

7:10 PMjack cayman​that night SUCKED

7:11 PMSusanne Christ​haha sounds like how my job handles stuff

7:12 PMjack cayman​PFFFT

7:12 PMjack cayman​didn't they lay off a ton of people not long after they said that

7:12 PMSusanne Christ​800

7:12 PMjack cayman​"haha WE ROLLIN IN THE CASH"

7:13 PMjack cayman​"hey kid you're fired"

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​Translation: we didn’t make ALL the money.

7:13 PMjordan thompson​is brand loyalty, human decency and integrity dead

7:13 PMSusanne Christ​not...

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Andrew is a sleepy, sleepy host.

28:40 - Machinima shuts down without warning. 81 laid off. Entire video catalog gone

36:30 - EMT imagines an alternate way to play Resident Evil 2

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.

Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:14 PMjordan thompson​then go to bed you silly fool, I like mole hill mountain but I've been up for nearly 24 hours ill have to catch you next week that is unless I wake up before the stream endsWelcome to live chat! Remember to guard your privacy and abide by our community guidelines.LEARN MORE

6:55 PMSusanne Christ​5 more minutes ^·^

6:55 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello all

6:56 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:57 PMmatthew wilson​so what do you think of the roumers of nintendo rirect next week?

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​roumers are metrid prime colection

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​still think mario maker is best 2d mario game. the comunity lvls are wild

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​also its not nintendo's choice on when to show pokemon, thats the pokemon company

7:03 PMSusanne Christ​it looks lovely andrew!

7:04 PMaddictedtochaos​Don’t miss those days

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​so..... what video did you submit andrew?

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​with your normal resamue

7:08 PMaddictedtochaos​Probably wouldn’t even pay enough to pay rent.

7:08 PMSusanne Christ​u might be able to get a pet if u move :D

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​I would expect a pay cut sadly it seems like a entry lvl job

7:10 PMaddictedtochaos​No 1up is gone for years now.

7:12 PMSusanne Christ​i wish u the best of luck ^·^

7:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Is Batman still a tool in this one?

7:15 PMaddictedtochaos​He was the best part of the first one.

7:17 PMmatthew wilson​does the scond movie pull a 4th wall breack like the first one?

7:23 PMaddictedtochaos​Batman had the best song in the first one.

7:26 PMaddictedtochaos​Last movie I saw was Mission: Impossible Fallout

8:03 PMotritzu​The trick with that is the player has something that lets them know which barrels are going to go boom.

8:04 PMotritzu​Doesn't necessarily mean that the enemies can see the same thing a player can.

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!

Turns out EZK is the better fanboy.

Yes, it's a competition.

12:28 - EZK, the better fanboy, talks about Iron Fist S2, Daredevil S3 and Punisher S2

47:46 - DC Super Pets movie! Who cares about anything else? DC SUPER PETS MOVIE!!!

1:01:37 - NetherRealm artist tells IGN Brazil that Mortal Kombat boss won't be playable. Maybe not lying, but almost certainly wrong, wethinks

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube. Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes.

Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

5:10 PMAndrew Eisen​Test.

6:04 PMjordan thompson​but I didnt study!!!

6:19 PMAndrew Eisen​Heh, nice.

6:32 PMjack cayman​AYO HYPE

6:36 PMAndrew Eisen​Hype? Uh oh, we better figure out something interesting to talk about!

6:44 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:47 PMlugiae​Hi.

6:58 PMjack cayman​Hello

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​square enix is having yoko taro make a raid for ff14's next expansion.

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​will be intreasted to see what he comes up with

7:00 PMjordan thompson​glass uses taken logic to reveal how sam l Jackson being able to do a prison break while also being comatose

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​there are roumers he may be doing the next ff game

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​him or the current guy behind ff14

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​ff14 is legit good though ezk

7:01 PMaddictedtochaos​Agree completely

7:01 PMjack cayman​some off topic news real quick, people want shaggy to be in mortal kombat 11

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​honestly I want to see a yoko taro ff game

7:01 PMjordan thompson​at this point square enix is lying through their teeth if its the FINAL fantasy then why is there now 15

7:02 PMjack cayman​shaggy is a literal god

7:02 PMaddictedtochaos​Things like this Shaggy stuff is why I hate the internet

7:02 PMブランドン브랜든​I remember this one guy said they want big chungus and I was like hell no.

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​wounder how manny people even know who scappy is anymore

7:03 PMjack cayman​the meme came about because there is a episode of scooby doo where shaggy takes on an entire biker gang and wins

7:03 PMaddictedtochaos​Sarah Michelle Gellar

7:04 PMjordan thompson​netherealm/Mortal Kombat is owned by WB and scooby doo is owned by WB years back a mortal kombat scooby doo crossover animated movie cells were leaked but the project never came to forution

7:04 PMmatthew wilson​sadly I watched that in threatres I am sad to say

7:04 PMlugiae​How sad.

7:04 PMブランドン브랜든​I hope they have noob saibot in mortal kombat 11

7:04 PMjordan thompson​read the rest of the comment

7:04 PMaddictedtochaos​I doubt WB would be willing to let Shaggy get torn limb from limb in MK

7:05 PMjack cayman​shaggy is just a stoner shoenen character

7:05 PMjack cayman​STALKER is frozen for me atm

7:05 PManime momo​Hello

7:06 PMブランドン브랜든​sexy underwear that says eharmoney reject lol

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​papper plates andrew

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​crunch ouch

7:07 PMjordan thompson​hey andrew hows it at the top of the hill since youre not quite over it

7:10 PMmatthew wilson​no co workers qaing with you?

7:10 PMjack cayman​I promised to buy Andrew a steam game once I get paid

7:10 PMjordan thompson​well happy belated birthday

7:10 PMjack cayman​ill probably buy him skullgirls with all the DLC

7:13 PMjordan thompson​I realized as time goes on...

Every week, former GamePolitics writer Andrew Eisen discusses all the super important happenings in video games, movies, comics, politics and everything else under the sun. Molehill Mountain—where every topic is of the utmost importance!