Molehill Mountain Podcast

EZK and Andrew celebrate the 100th episode of Molehill Mountain by building a farm together in Stardew Valley.

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:

6:57 PMWarren Lewis​Heyo.

7:00 PMlittlegittel​EZKs volume is low and Andyroo is very loud

7:00 PMBornDistracted​oh this is something different...

7:01 PMBornDistracted​better

7:01 PMlittlegittel​Much better

7:02 PMBornDistracted​you finally made the Century mark...

7:05 PMlittlegittel​Sorry for the ignorance, what platform is this?

7:08 PMBornDistracted​night owls lol

7:10 PMlittlegittel​I can already tell that I like this game.

7:11 PMlittlegittel​I like how the tree becomes translucent when you go behind it. Nice feature

7:14 PMBornDistracted​Zach is it easier playing with Andrew than your kids? lol

7:17 PMlittlegittel​I had 2 big problems. 1. The island is like 10 miles off the coast of England...apparently. And 2. She would never be able to hide that sword in her dress

7:18 PMBornDistracted​isnt she Amazon?

7:19 PMBornDistracted​lol at Andrews sarcasm

7:20 PMKirby Jason210​Hi

7:22 PMBornDistracted​Wonder Woman was still put together better than Last Jedi in my opinion...

7:23 PMBornDistracted​booo lol

7:23 PMlittlegittel​Fishing!!!

7:23 PMA Leaf​sweet I didn't miss it

7:26 PMA Leaf​sci-fi voice Andrew, I like it

7:26 PMBornDistracted​its almost Vader-esque...

7:27 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:28 PMBornDistracted​omg keep it clean lol

7:30 PMBornDistracted​i can picture the 2 of you guys doing a mystery science theatre type stream...

7:31 PMTartTooth​whoa. Andrew is echoing horribly.

7:32 PMA Leaf​yeah you sound like a robot

7:32 PMlittlegittel​No echo for me

7:32 PMA Leaf​it's not too bad, slightly annoying

7:32 PMBornDistracted​lol

7:33 PMaddictedtochaos​Sounds better

7:33 PMlittlegittel​Yes actually. Good sound now

7:33 PMA Leaf​yep better

7:34 PMBornDistracted​uh oh im lagging...

7:35 PMA Leaf​same

7:35 PMA Leaf​switched to 720

7:35 PMBornDistracted​leaf thats a good idea

7:48 PMA Leaf​damn buffering every 5 min

7:48 PMA Leaf​switched to 480p

7:56 PMaddictedtochaos​That looks horrible. That art style needs to die.

7:58 PMA Leaf​it's gross how almost every CN show is that calarts style now

7:58 PMA Leaf​Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Thundercats Roar, Uncle Grandpa, etc etc

8:01 PMA Leaf​I'm really angry about the trailer and key art

8:02 PMA Leaf​stream's offline Andrew

8:02 PMA Leaf​back now

8:02 PMA Leaf​But yeah, I'm a history buff and BFV really ticks me off

8:03 PMA Leaf​they're putting women in the promotional art as if they typically had front line roles in the military in WW2, and they absolutely did not.

8:04 PMaddictedtochaos​He’s not wrong though. Doesn’t bother me wasn’t interested in it anyway.

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!

Brittany Ferrendi has returned to chat with us about her first year directing the SPJ's Kunkel Awards, which recognize excellence in video game journalism.

Check out this year's winners here.

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:

6:45 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMmatthew wilson​lol

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​no red box

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​nah I would rather have good internet

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​I would never ever ever move to a area with bad internet

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​I would trade all the rental stores in the world for internet

7:03 PMlittlegittel​Incorrect. I could play forever

7:03 PMlittlegittel​Fish. Spend time fishing

7:04 PMA Leaf​I put hundreds of hours into New Leaf, loved it.

7:04 PMA Leaf​Here's hoping for an E3 surprise...

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​stardew valley is not animal crossing, its harvest moon

7:05 PMlittlegittel​Well I'm a little ashamed to admit that I was also on the FarmVille bandwagon for a while

7:06 PMEvoh Lurks​have you ever seen the anime called umaru chan

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​now that is just a bad game

7:10 PMBornDistracted​it's like a feeling out process...

7:11 PMlittlegittel​Is that a Nintendo neon?!?! On point!

7:21 PMlittlegittel​Yay! $40,000 well spent

7:25 PMBryan Gillis​I made it! And the first two words I heard were "Superman's crotch"

7:30 PM Chat disconnected. Please wait while we try to reconnect you.7:30 PM Successfully connected.

7:30 PMBryan Gillis​I am indeed. I must have context!

7:30 PMAndrew Eisen​Uh oh. Looks like the show just died.

7:31 PM Chat disconnected. Please wait while we try to reconnect you.7:31 PM Successfully connected.

7:32 PMAndrew Eisen​Test.

7:32 PMBryan Gillis​I give you a B-

7:33 PMAndrew Eisen​I'm back! Sorry folks, my internet blinked out there for a minute.

7:35 PMBornDistracted​lol

7:35 PMTor Øyvind Moe​we were here

7:40 PMjack cayman​Andrew is a major nerd LMAO!

7:53 PMBryan Gillis​Never read the comments, eh? That means I can say whatever I want here and Andrew will never know. Mwahahaha!

7:55 PMAndrew Eisen​Sticky, your comments keep getting removed. Keep it clean and civil, please.

7:55 PMSticky​yeah journos hate reading the truth when its about them

7:55 PMSticky​clean like Schreier

7:55 PMAndrew Eisen​Clean as in don't swear and don't be a jerk.

7:56 PMBryan Gillis​There's an old quote that comes to mind: You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themself into

8:01 PMSticky​literally calling anon gamers "terrorists" is acceptable to these people

8:02 PMSticky​i do want to point out again Koretzkys bitter little article

8:02 PMSticky​just another smear for the pile because he cant admit what liars these people are

8:03 PMBryan Gillis​Or..

8:03 PMBryan Gillis​maybe they have a different opinion from you?

8:03 PMBryan Gillis​Doesn't make them liars

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!

I was on call last weekend and spent most of the podcast on the phone but EZK was there to pick up my slack!

11:30 - Nintendo updates warranty after FTC warning

24:07 - Nintendo reveals online service details

43:53 - Shane Black is making a new Predator movie and we've seen the first trailer

55:15 - Syfy passed on a new Tremors TV show. What did we think of the pilot's trailer?

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:

6:51 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:56 PMBryan Gillis​Hey guys! Visiting the US, so it's actually convenient for me this week

6:56 PMDED_SEC Gaming​Hav u played duke Nukem 3d

6:57 PMBryan Gillis​In the Chicago suburbs to see my Mum

6:57 PMBryan Gillis​Was in the Houston area last week to see my Dad as well

6:58 PMBryan Gillis​Same with the allergies- mine are a lot worse here than they were in Scotland

6:58 PMBryan Gillis​the cold climate there probably leads to fewer allergens

6:58 PMBryan Gillis​Ah, cool cool

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​what do you think of the walmart leaks?

7:00 PMBornDistracted​recharging from games can be a good thing...

7:01 PMBryan Gillis​Oh cool, you found a way to play with them. Did you need to buy another copy of the game?

7:01 PMBryan Gillis​Ah, okay. didn't know that was a possibility, cool

7:02 PMmatthew wilson​stardew valley should run on a toaster, that is kind of suprisingf

7:03 PMBryan Gillis​It looks like it should, certainly, but maybe it's not that efficient behind the scenes

7:04 PMBornDistracted​tell Andrew to take his time lol...

7:05 PMhype guy​sup

7:05 PMBryan Gillis​have you finished the museum collection? That's the painful one for me

7:06 PMBryan Gillis​I'm waiting for the update on Switch, then I plan to go in mostly blind and be surprised

7:06 PMBryan Gillis​Oh wow, nice! Congrats

7:07 PMBornDistracted​sometimes spoilers are difficult to avoid

7:07 PMBryan Gillis​Yeah. I'm just avoiding any explicit walkthroughs of the new content. it's not like there's one big twist to avoid the spoilage of

7:08 PMmatthew wilson​why first gen is most popular gen

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​f that, no way will I pay for online saves. I get that for free on steam

7:13 PMBornDistracted​cant cloud saves get corrupted?...

7:13 PMBryan Gillis​Much less likely than local saves getting corruptes

7:13 PMBornDistracted​oh ok

7:13 PMmatthew wilson​unlikely cloud saves are rarely just saved to 1 server

7:13 PMBryan Gillis​cloud files usually use multiple backups to check for corruption

7:17 PMBryan Gillis​Seems reasonable to me. no reason they should have to foot the bill if someone else breaks it

7:20 PMBryan Gillis​Yeah, the legality issue is another big thorn. it boggles the mind that repairing your own electronics could be illegal

7:21 PMBornDistracted​maybe they can franchise their repair centers?...

7:23 PMBornDistracted​agreed

7:23 PMmatthew wilson​dell does that for their stuff

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!

Cane sugar, water, and coffee.

35:27 - We discuss a new N64 controller from Retro Fighters

51:07 - Nintendo's being greedy with its pricing of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for the Switch

59:07 - EZK notices some oddities with the website for the Atari VCS

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:

7:57 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

7:57 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

8:03 PMDED_SEC Gaming​Hey Andrew wassup

8:04 PMmatthew wilson​lol

8:04 PMDED_SEC Gaming​How’s Lucille doing

8:05 PMScottyJayMan​Hi everyone! Are we all Funky today?

8:05 PMmatthew wilson​zackery did you see that bad new york times op-ed?

8:06 PMaddictedtochaos​Should have went with Lucifer.

8:06 PMmatthew wilson​I linked it to you on twitter

8:07 PMBornDistracted​I'm starting to think Andrew should of been the new Solo...

8:08 PMaddictedtochaos​I’m as pro gaming as it gets, but e-sports is the dumbest thing ever. IMHO.

8:08 PMBornDistracted​yes lol

8:08 PMmatthew wilson​not just me, a bunch of people in the games indastry taeied it down, for good reasson

8:10 PMmatthew wilson​give me a kotor movie lol

8:10 PMmatthew wilson​I know it will never happen

8:10 PMBornDistracted​agreed Matthew

8:10 PMmatthew wilson​too manny marval movies lol

8:17 PMmatthew wilson​nah it will just be yoda's great great grandfather lol

8:18 PMaddictedtochaos​As long as they stay good keep making them.

8:19 PMmatthew wilson​how manny more years before saturation 5 years?

8:19 PMAndrew Eisen​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suL0F...

8:22 PMBornDistracted​do you think the marvel universe has peaked now after the Avengars did so well box office wise?...

8:22 PMaddictedtochaos​Marvel is comic book people making movies DC is movie people trying to make comic book movies and failing miserably.

8:22 PMmatthew wilson​I get its not for you twoo, but the more I watch my hero academia, the less I find myself enjoying the marval stuff. marval spends so much time on action scenes, and not enough on the world.

8:28 PMmatthew wilson​not in the US, in the US tickets are going down.

8:28 PMaddictedtochaos​The theater chain in my area actually dropped their prices to $4.99.

8:33 PMmatthew wilson​Ticket sales, not prices

8:33 PMmatthew wilson​People just are not going to movies anymore

8:34 PMBornDistracted​I think it depends on the population of the nieghboorhood

8:34 PMaddictedtochaos​That is why I went to the earliest showings for Avengers last Friday. Kids still in school, people still at work.

8:34 PMmatthew wilson​I mean maybe, maybe 2 times a year

8:36 PMBornDistracted​I'm sure their better than the Last Jedi movie lol

8:37 PMBornDistracted​correct

8:37 PMBornDistracted​that's why you guys liked it perhaps lol

8:38 PMaddictedtochaos​Star by Star killed Star Wars for me.

8:38 PMmatthew wilson​ironically, I watched more movies in collage for free, at my school movie theater.

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!

Kiwi is underrated.

14:39 - Nintendo notices its board of directors is a sausage fest

28:48 - UPS has an awesome idea for a Nintendo Labo product

33:25 - Firewatch devs acquired by Valve

45:45 - Quantic Dream sues media over unflattering reporting

51:45 - Epic still moving forward with its lawsuit against a 14-year-old Fortnight cheater

1:01:28 - CIA training games were released through a FOIA request and Techdirt decided to Kickstart a game based on one of them

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:

6:52 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMaddictedtochaos​Hi

6:59 PMmatthew wilson​whats up

6:59 PMScottyJayMan​Hi all

6:59 PMaddictedtochaos​See avengers yet?

7:00 PMBryan Gillis​Hello hello. Actually up late enough for it this week

7:00 PMmatthew wilson​this season of anime has been insane good. for one that isnt mentioned much is GEGEGE NO KITARO. its ghost stories with yojia, and in the first epasode punks logan paul.

7:01 PMBryan Gillis​Yup. It's 3am here, so I'm usually asleep by now

7:01 PMmatthew wilson​go to bed than

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​yokia

7:03 PMmatthew wilson​yup

7:04 PMEvoh Lurks​you should do a review on the Anime called Gate

7:05 PMmatthew wilson​apparently we are getting a 4kids situation with nija batman, not happy about that

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​anyone who knows the history of 4kids knows what I mean about that, and why it is not good.

7:07 PMmatthew wilson​apparently a totally different script

7:07 PMScottyJayMan​So no vagina bones?

7:11 PMaddictedtochaos​Did you see where Sega has said that they would consider bringing Yakuza 3-5 to PS4 if there is enough demand?

7:13 PMaddictedtochaos​No 5 was PS3

7:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Unknown if ports or remakes.

7:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Yes

7:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Not sure

7:14 PMaddictedtochaos​Could be

7:15 PMaddictedtochaos​Figures just as I paid $80 for part 3.

7:18 PMmatthew wilson​for nintendo smash smash and mor smash lol, and maybe a new pokemon game

7:19 PMmatthew wilson​more

7:19 PMRyan Asmus​I'm back

7:22 PMAndrew Eisen​"Nine male Directors and zero female Director (percentage of females: 0%)"

7:23 PMBryan Gillis​Maybe finish the game for your Patreon instead?

7:25 PMScottyJayMan​The fishing in BOTW is rubbish

7:26 PMBryan Gillis​Yeah, best to start small

7:26 PMBryan Gillis​Breath of Fire, not BOTW

7:28 PMaddictedtochaos​You can bomb fish too

7:28 PMBryan Gillis​Or better: throw a bomb in the water, then collect dead fish

7:31 PMBryan Gillis​Some types of fish do run away. Besides, a bomb is just more fun

7:32 PMBryan Gillis​He can hold an unlimited amount of dead animals, but only a couple weapons

7:37 PMBryan Gillis​And they will never release a game again

7:38 PMScottyJayMan​Valve is the new EA

7:40 PMScottyJayMan​Probably came to that decision after multiple death threats from Pewdiepie...

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!