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19. Unsettling, but Not in an Artistic Way

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We’re officially Twitch Affiliates! Moving up in the world, speedrunning, what we’re streaming, what TV we’re watching, what cool indie music we’re listening to, Celeste and Antichamber reviews, and, of course, more Slay the Spire. 

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• Kara Comparetto on Twitch and YouTube

  • Kara playing “To Zanarkand” and other FF music

  • Yes, she did play “One Winged Angel”.  She’s really good. 

• I’m not Toby Fox on YouTube

• Overwatch’s new hero: Echo

• Emotes

• Antichamber

• Celeste

• Anthony Caliber

• TASBot

• MarI/O

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons

• TLOU delayed again 

  • TLOU new leak

• Playstation throttling downloads

• MTG Vs STS

  • Spacegodzilla, Death Corona

• TV Talk 

  • Cobra Kai

  • Westworld

  • Miracle Workers 

  • Feel Good

  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout

  • Kim’s Convenience

  • What We Do in the Shadows 

• Music for the stream

  • Adequate Fur

  • Andres Luke

  • Archduke Kong

  • Crowd the Airwaves

  • Joe MRTN Raps

  • Lily Desmond

  • Nico Padden

  • Pros & iCons

  • Starring Casey Drane

  • Racey Jones 

  • Greyhunter 

  • Drew Mazur 

  • AL2H Teen Mom Podcast

  • Total Request Podcast

  • The Squirrel Friends Cocktail Hour

Naughty Dog’s announcement on Twitter

Totally not Toby Fox’s announcement video, now deleted.

18. A Solution to a Problem No One Has

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Minecraft, PS5 hardware stats, even more Slay the Spire, and special episodes of not a cooking podcast as well as not a politics podcast! Won’t you join us?

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• More Slay the Spire

• Ember mug

• Not a cooking podcast 

• Toby Fox still be posting

  • Live at Grillby’s 

• Games we want to stream at Twitch.tv/pixelnoisefm

• Minecraft

  • Final Fantasy XI

  • Jak II

• PS5 stats revealed. Really, watch the presentation. It’ll blow your mind.

The HRTF is the unique ‘sound fingerprint’ each person has. It can be graphed as the presenter’s was above.

HRTF profiles are measured by sitting in the middle of this awesome speaker sphere with a microphone in each of your ears.

The PS5 system on a chip is reminiscent of the custom chips Apple designs for iPhone and iPad.

Playstation is planning on backward compatibility from PS4 forward.

A diagram of how the system will use your HRTF to give you 3D audio, no matter your sound setup.

17. A Glitch Filled Run with an Odd Series of Events

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Trophies, achievements, and reminiscing, oh my!  We talk about Slay the Spire (more), the new Deltarune trailers, and some of our favorite games and gaming moments. 

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• 16” Macbook Pro

• The Mighty Black Stump

• Hello Internet

• Do By Friday

• Congressman pleads guilty to spending campaign funds on Steam games

• Halo Master Chief Collection

• Deltarune Ch 2 Trailer 1

• Deltrarune Ch 2 Trailer 2

• Game Theory: This is NOT Your Story! | The Deltarune Undertale Connection

• Toby Fox writes a Pokemon Song

• Slay the Spire on Steam and on STREAM

• Overwatch on Stream

• Trophies in Video Games

  • The Witness

  • Days Gone

  • Spider-Man

  • Sequence (music)

  • Control

  • Star Wars Battlefront 2

  • GameSpy

  • PS Games by Plat Completion

  • Ico

• Our Achievements in Gaming

• Anthony Caliber on Twitch

• No multiplayer shipping with The Last of Us Part II

• Retro Games Revisited

• Alex’s favorite games

  • Super Mario 3

  • Final Fantasy X

  • Mario Kart 64

  • Pokemon Red & Blue

  • Minecraft

  • Fire Emblem

  • Pikmin 2

• Tony’s favorite games

  • The Last of Us

  • Undertale

  • Star Wars Battlefront 2

  • Portal 2

  • Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Control

  • Life is Strange

  • Skyrim

  • Jak II

  • The Witness

  • Death Stranding 

• Dan’s favorite games

  • Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance 2

  • Slay the Spire

  • Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Pokemon Red

  • Skyrim

  • Kirby 64

  • Metroid Fusion

  • Crash Bandicoot

• Kirby Air Ride

• Soaked Series Invitational

  • Cr1tikal on YouTube (penguinz0)

• Slay the Spire

  • Roguelike

• Dreams

• Fortnite

• Virtue Reality

• Elgato HD 60 S+

• Ray Tracing

  • Basic intro video

  • Lengthier technical explanation for nerds

  • Ray Tracing on Wikipedia

16. They Bring the Party

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Settlers of Catan, Sheriff of Nottingham, Cards Against Humanity, Slay the Spire, Coffee Talk, and way too much TV and politics talk. Sorry. 

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• Settlers of Catan

• Sheriff of Nottingham 

  • Superfight

• Cards Against Humanity – “They bring the party!” – Alex

  • Teachers Against Education

• Slay the Spire

  • Jorbs on YouTube

• Nindies Hits

• Coffee Talk

• TV Talk

  • Bojack Horseman 

  • Letterkenny

  • Avenue 5

• Politics 

  • Miracle Workers

  • Veep

  • Bernie’s Bird

• Fantastical

• CARROT Weather

• Apollo

• Pokemon G.O.

• A gigantic Scrooge McDuckian Vault

15. Game of the Decade

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It’s a brand new decade (some say) and in this one, in addition to naming our games of the decade, the guys talk about movies, the new PN Death Stranding video review, Sim games, Fortnite(!), and follow up on The Game Awards.

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• Sportsball Corner

• Alex LIED to you!

  • Mana

• Dan doesn’t watch movies

  • Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Palpatine (2019)

  • Joker (2019)

  • Kick-Ass (2010)

  • Cats DLC

    • Jason Derulo

      • Whoops, I dropped my monster condom…

    • Home video

    • Annie Get Your Gun

    • Khaatz

• Pixel Noise Death Stranding Review Video

  • Back in the 90’s

  • Red Dead

  • “Being a busy adult with many important things to do.”

• SimCity 2000

  • The Sims

  • Roller Coaster Tycoon

    • The best RCT channel I know about on YouTube

  • EduTuber CGP Grey plays text adventures

• Death Stranding – Speedrun.com

• Fortnite

  • Overwatch

  • Fortnite adds local split-screen on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4

  • Demoman

  • Fortnite’s Marshmello concert was the game’s biggest event ever

  • WikiHow to win a solo game of Fortnite

• The Game Awards

  • Best Sound Design: COD Modern Warfare

    • “Why the Guns In Modern Warfare Sound So Incredible”

    • Infinity Ward explains their sound mix options

    • Interview with the Infinity Ward sound engineers 

    • PUBG

  • Margot Robbie deserves better than Suicide Squad’s sexism

  • Best Ongoing Game: Fortnite

    • Gold Glove Award

    • "The Mac mini remains a product in our lineup, but nothing more to say about it today."

    • Fortnite 2

  • Best Art Direction: Control

    • More on Control next episode…

  • GOTY: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

    • Nominees: 

    • Super Smash Bros Ultimate

      • Super Smash Bros

      • Super Smash Bros Melee

    • Death Stranding

    • Control

    • Resident Evil 2 Remake

    • The Outer Worlds

    • What a “Souls-like” is

      • God of War

      • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

  • Best Performance: Mads Mikelson as Clifford Unger in Death Stranding

    • Nominees: 

    • Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges in Death Stranding

    • Matthew Poretta as Dr. Casper Darling in Control

    • Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden in Control

    • Ashly Burch as Parvati Holcomb in The Outer Worlds

    • Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz in Gears 5

  • Disco Elysium

    • Won Best RPG

    • Won Best Narrative 

    • Won Best Independent Game

    • Won Best Fresh Indie Game

    • Life is Strange

  • Best Action/Adventure Game: Sekiro

  • Untitled Goose Game nominated for Best Independent Game and Best Fresh Indie Game. 

  • Push Me Pull You

  • Baba is You nominated for Best Independent Game

  • Slay the Spire nominated for Best Fresh Indie Game

    • Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

• The Pixel Noise Games of the Decade 

  • Dan: Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Tony: The Last of Us

  • Alex: Minecraft

14. The Rise of Skywalker Review Part 1

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Tony and Alex review Star Wars Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker.

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• The Star Wars Saga US Release and Re-Release History

• Character Ben Rickert in The Big Short: “If we’re right, people lose homes. People lose jobs! People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about f****** banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here’s a number, every one percent unemployment goes up, forty thousand people die, did you know that?”  Clip.

• Anakin Poster

• Episode 13, where we discuss Life is Strange 2

• Hello Internet 

• George Costanza “We’re living in a society”

  • JOKER - Starring George Costanza from Seinfeld

• Roderick on the Line

• Bojack Horseman

• Breaking Bad

13. Sometimes There Are Helpful Things in the Emails

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FU: Pokémon Sword and Shield 

• Pokémon Emerald 

• The infinite horrors of Pokémon’s Mr. Mime

• Detective Pikachu 

• Blacephalon

• Palossand

Death Stranding 

• Zero Punctuation Review

• Super Meat Boy

• Celeste

• Cuphead

• That’s too much, man! 

• That’s too much tuna

Stadia Friends

• December Stadia Pro Games

• List of Tomb Raider Games

Mario Maker 2 – Play as Link!

• Official announcement video

• “Being a busy adult with many important things to do.”

ERB The Joker Vs Pennywise 

Remaster

• Shahid Kamal Ahmad

• Virtue Reality

• Universal Paperclips

• Cookie Clicker

• Peace Fare (around 11:05)

Life is Strange 2

• Life is Strange

• Life Is Strange: Before the Storm

• The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit

• Firewatch

• The scene we discuss from Life is Strange 1 Episode 2: Out of Time.  Do not watch if you haven’t played the game!!!

After Show 

• TV Talk

  • The Mandalorian 

  • Verizon Disney+

• 🏆Game of the year predictions 🏆

  • 2019 in video gaming

  • 🏆

  • Dan’s Personal Pick – Days Gone Untitled Goose Game 

  • Tony’s Personal Pick – Death Stranding Untitled Goose Game

  • Alex’s Personal Pick – Untitled Goose Game

  • 🏆

  • Dan’s Public Picks – Death Stranding or Pokémon Untitled Goose Game

  • Tony’s Public Pick – Pokémon Sword & Shield Untitled Goose Game

  • Alex’s Public Pick – Death Stranding

• Image credit: @poo_woo

GQ (Girls Quartet) Vol. III CD. Listen to them and their other two albums, they’re amazingly good. Follow them.

12. The Rain is Bad, but Sometimes You Have to Power Through It

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E12 The Rain is Bad, but Sometimes You Have to Power Through It

• Google Stadia

  • “Resume Viewing” – Black Mirror

  • “Two days after launch, Google Stadia founders finally have their access codes”

  • “Google Stadia nearly doubles launch lineup to 22 games on eve of debut”

  • “All games purchased with or without discounts are available to you even if your subscription expires.” 

  • The original tweet that caused the confusion in Italian.  The key phrase being “I giochi ottenuti gratis o con sconti,” meaning “games obtained for free or with discounts” would be lost upon canceling the pro subscription.  Whoever wrote the tweet was mistaken. 

  • “Google Stadia ‘Base’ will launch next year w/ free 1080p, 60fps game streaming”

  • “The content you have downloaded as part of your PS Plus membership at no charge is only accessible as long as you are an active PS Plus member.”

  • They took John Roderick’s silver ingot

  • “We've identified and addressed an issue where a small fraction of Stadia access codes were sent out of order.”

  • “10 percent of devices are using Android 9 Pie, nine months after its release”

  • Go to 27:13 for the iOS vs Android latest version install base

  • “The new Mac Pro starts at $5,999 for the 8-core Intel Xeon 3.5GHz model, with 32GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and Radeon Pro 580X graphics card, but there will be multiple build-to-order options and configurations available with up to 1.5TB of RAM, Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics and a 28-core Xeon.”  The Pro Display XDR “starts at $4,999 and that isn't even including the price of the Pro Stand - that costs another $999.”

• Samurai Shodown 

  • Water Closet

• Destiny 2

  • Destiny PS3 vs PS4 Pro Graphics Comparison

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• Death Stranding

  • “It’s totally brand new genre”

  • Death Stranding Sign Guide

  • Will Metal Gear Solid Fans Like Death Stranding?

  • Death Stranding - Best Easter Eggs and References Part 1

  • Some don’t like it 

• Detroit: Become Human

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

• Pokémon Sword and Shield 

  • LEGO Racers 2

• The Metal Gear series, explained

• Half-Life Alyx 

  • More info from Alanah Pearce 

• TV Talk

  • Bojack Horseman

  • Steven Universe

  • Murder Mystery

11. The Xbox Story

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E11 The Xbox Story

• Overwatch 2 trailer

• Eric Jensen replies to our tweet!! 

  • Days Gone

  • Horizon Zero Dawn 

  • Spider Man

  • The infamous Days Gone bike chase

  • Apollo App

• Last of Us Part II, now May 29. 2020

• Racing games 

  • Jack X Combat Racing (“Nobody’s Perfect…”)

  • Forza 7

  • Mario Kart

  • Midnight Club 

• GTA Memories 

• Xbox story 

  • Cuphead

  • Rare Replay

  • Forza 7 

  • The Sony PS3 XrossMediaBar (XMB) and the Emmy award it won (“The Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology”)

  • The Xbox One menu system 

  • Rocket League

• Creative Problem Solving

  • The Witness 

  • Undertale: “A traditional role-playing game where no one has to get hurt.”

  • The Genocide Run 

• Xbox Story part 2

  • PS4 Pro 500 Million Edition 

  • Red Dead 2 graphics comparison 

• Slay the Spire

• Magic the Gathering  

  • Magic Arena 

• Death stranding 

  • Death Stranding coming to PC 

• Barbershop

  • The Rough Dozen

  • Vocal Spectrum – “Go the Distance” Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube

  • Barbershoptags.com 

  • True medical tone deafness, AKA Amusia.  

• Music we listen to

  • Sloppy Jane: Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Twitter, Facebook

  • Rockapella: Spotify, Apple Music, website    

  • Alex can be heard in the background of “Love Her After” by Andreas Luke (Bandcamp, Facebook)

  • Tony can be heard in the background of “Bird + Cat” by Lily Desmond. (Bandcamp, Facebook)

  • TonyAlexGaming

• Customizable Elite Controllers 

  • Thrustmaster pro (video)

  • C40 TR Controller

  • Xbox Elite Controller 

  • Alex’s mouse

  • Tony’s mouse

  • Hori’s ergonomic Switch controller 

• The new Analogue Pocket 

  • The Retron by Hyperkin

• List of best-selling video games

• Super-Secret After-Show, including the Lightning Round

  • Watch dogs legion pushed back 

  • No more facebook integration on PS4

  • Aladdin and Lion King on Switch 

  • Life is Strange 2

  • Pokemon Sword and Shield

  • Luigi’s Mansion 3

  • Star Wars IX

  • Dolby Cinema

  • The Outer Worlds

  • Ghost Recon Breakpoint

  • Ticket to Earth 

  • The Bradwell Conspiracy 

10. Not a Politics Podcast

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E10 Not A Politics Podcast 

RIP Kirby 

Metagaming

Ninja’s move to mixer has cost him 30% of his audience on average 

OW on switch 

“One country, two systems. (国两制)”

• Blitzchung and HK

• Hong Kong Protests Put N.B.A. on Edge in China

• Are Hong Kong and Macau Countries? By CGP Grey

• Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China

  • “We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple.”

• Matthew Panzarino’s tweet 

• BlizzCon 2019 Protest "Full-Steam Ahead," Say Organizers

• South Park S23 E02 “Band in China” (which, obviously, got banned in China)

Smash can have any single Overwatch character 

Sources: Blizzard Cancels StarCraft First-Person Shooter To Focus On Diablo 4 And Overwatch 2

• Fortnite 2

• Pepperoni 2

Death Stranding, coming November 8th 

• Metal Gear: “Famously, the battle with Mantis repeatedly breaks the fourth wall...”

Hidden Information in Games

• In The Last of Us, training manuals will sometimes be damaged in a way that corresponds to their contents.

• P.T. Secret Ending Instructions 

• Terraced Dynamics

• Terrace (agriculture)

• Terrace (building)

• BDE

The music of Untitled Goose Game (Debussy Piano Preludes) (The Verge)

• Debussy’s Preludes 

• Prelude no. 9, book II, ‘Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C.’  It starts out sounding like ‘My Country ‘Tis of Thee,’ but quickly becomes one of the most recognizable themes in the game. 

• Prelude no 5, book II, ‘Bruyeres’. Another prominent theme in the game.

• Prelude no 12, book II, ‘Feux d'artifice: Modérément animé’. You may recognize it from the endgame. 

• The complete Debussy preludes (warning, very long and very beautiful.)

• Goose Game of the Year in Australia 

Tony Streamed GOW for a couple hours, and you can watch it in less time than that! 

Stadia out nov 19th, Everything you need to know.  

Slay the Spire 

Using a mouse and keyboard with the switch

Red Dead Redemption 2 and God of War

Red Dead’s 80 second rule 

Stardew Valley 

Super-secret after-show

• Solfège

• Shadow Vowel

• Bobby McFerrin getting the crowd to harmonize with him

• Tags mentioned: “Get On That Horse,” “Our Love is a Hamburger,” and “Clouds on Fire.”

• “Down Our Way”

• Do By Friday 

• Roderick on the Line

• Merlin Mann

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