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Rob and Patrick have been playing Starfield and recording their impressions and experiences along the way in a series of one on one conversations. This episode covers their opening hours with the game, some early confusion, and their early engagement with some of the game's major systems.

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Patrick and Rob have managed to avoid thinking about the heartbreak of another season of Chicago Bears football, but week one is almost here, so the two work through their feelings by breaking down every division in the NFL. They also manage to convince themselves that, no, the Bears are not back and might not ever come back, so they distract themselves with conversations about running backs, the sheer amount of ads in American sports, and more.

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A new Armored Core is here, and both Patrick and Ren have spent time with FromSoftware’s latest entry. Is this MechaSouls, a true Armored Core sequel, or something else? After checking in with Microsoft announcing it’s going to sell cloud streaming rights to Ubisoft as part of the ongoing Activision Blizzard sale, we host a lengthy conversation with the ex-VICE Motherboard folks about their new journalism venture, 404 Media. After a dip in The Question Bucket, our trio of Baldur’s Gate 3 adventurers swap tales of divergent storytelling, a bounty of glitches, and more.

Discussed: Armored Core VI 6:48, UK Blocked Microsoft-Activision Merger 39:29, Interview with 404 Media 1:02:34, The Question Bucket 2:25:42, The Baldur's Gate 3 Act 1 Spoiler Zone 2:52:38

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The Remap crew, well-known for their spicy takes that take three hours to unpack, tries to untangle the ongoing conversation about Baldur’s Gate 3, the realities of AAA game development, and how the current (and broken) media ecosystem fuels a toxic discourse. After, we learn more about Rob, Ren, and Cado’s adventures in Baldur’s Gate 3, Ren and Patrick go sicko mode on Blasphemous 2, and Patrick discovers a series of excellent card and board games made for kids. Finally, a question about media literacy sends us to the philosophy zone.

The Discourse Around Baldur’s Gate 3 1:54, Blasphemous 2 1:01:50, Kid Boad/Card Games Made By A Parent with Their Kid 1:20:52, The Question Bucket 1:33:07

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Rob and Patrick are joined by critic at large Rowan Kaiser to question what new ingredients could be added to a 6-way Cincinnati chill (spoiler: delicious garbage), unpack what the hell happened to college football in the past few weeks (spoiler: greedy TV details derailing regional history), consider What Exactly James Harden Is Doing (spoiler: being James Harden), and spend considerable time examining the history of women’s soccer and how it relates to the toxic backlash the women’s team experienced at this year’s World Cup (spoiler: it’s complicated).

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It seems the world has Baldur’s Gate Fever, and that doesn’t exclude the Remap Radio crew. Patrick chose an ideal week to be off so that Ren, Cado, and Rob could be their best goblin like CRPG selves. But first, Rob went looking for other spaces to find tactical bliss and ended up returning to Xenonauts 2. Then we get deep into zen and the art of cable management as Rob describes his weekend as the King of Executive Function. Then we time travel back to last week when Patrick was still around and he HAD to chat with Ren about Atlas Fallen because it’s just That Good. Finally, we dig into Baldur’s Gate 3, our characters, and where the TTRPG systems bend when being programmed vs. being run by a human being. Stay after the outdo for a special Spoiler Section where we go deep into Act 1, including a time where Cado got seemingly stuck (but only for a few days).

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The crew is back with a veritable bevy of games. Rob and Cado checked out The Banished Vault, a resource management game that pulls heavily from board games in that same genre. Patrick checks back in with Final Fantasy XVI and finds the game becoming more and more uninteresting as the focus moves away from the story it started to tell in it's opening hours. After the break, Ren's been playing Blood West, a solid immersive sim set in the Wild West that unfortunately (but not surprisingly) falls afoul of some problematic usage of Indigenous folklore. Rob and Cado talk about their time in The Expanse: A Telltale Series. And finally we end in an extra beefy question bucket full of stories about that velvet curtain at the back of the video store.

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The crew meets under sweltering conditions to discuss how they're coping with the heat and how much they are suffering for their gaming. With her Steam Deck laboring under such conditions, Ren has been playing a bunch of retro-style games including HROT and Demon Lord: Reincarnation. Ren, Cado, and Patrick discuss Remnant 2 as a shockingly great co-op game, and Patrick is delighted by Viewfinder. Then the gang digs into the Question Bucket.

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The whole crew is back, which kicks off with the state of play of Activision and Microsoft, a discussion about the state of esports in light of Overwatch League’s likely demise, and Corsair buying the mechanical keyboard company Drop. At the break, Patrick checks in with Hi-Fi Rush director John Johannes about the lack of Zwan music in the game’s DLC, meeting fans in person, and more. In the world of playing games, Ren and Patrick are checking out (and liking!) Remnant II, while Patrick is less satisfied with how Oxenfree II ended up. Finally, The Question Bucket returns to mull refrigerator smells.

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With the gang and their friends still wondering where their severance is, they get exciting news about some well-deserved bonuses for their former bosses. Then, they talk about the ruling in the Microsoft-Activision merger case, Home Depot's Halloween lineup, Oxenfree 2, Tyranny, and Aliens: Dark Descent.

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