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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross jam on Rock Band.

Music games used to be massive, but now they barely exist. Those plastic instruments helped us feel like we could play music. For me personally, these games helped me get better at appreciating music, and encouraged me to learn more instruments myself. Rock Band was the king of the heap, in quality if not always in sales, and now you can hear us jaw about music for three hours.

• [Counting Blue Cars](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM)

• [Drum Notation](www.google.com/search?espv=2&tbm…1&biw=953&bih=848)

• [Rock Revolution](www.youtube.com/watch?v=656yWb3hjc4)

• [Rock Band 3d Printing](www.pddnet.com/articles/2009/10/…ck-band-figurines)

• [Hole Guitar Isolated](www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-xUwDARVb4)

• [RHCP2014](rhcp2014.com/)

• [Role Models](www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bst-K65RpI)

• [Money City Maniacs- Sloan](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh81JTt0ng)

• [The Way - Fastball](youtu.be/b0wfu3tOrtQ)

• [For Real - Okkervil River](www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlB2XLmA4Ec)

• [Venus - Television](www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3d5ZdE4vY)

• [Digging For Something - Superchunk](www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvdXEHlz-Qg)

• [Shangri La - The Kinks](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt0IXkIVvo4)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

• [Pollos Hermanos](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQ2F3T1ydM)

• [Greatest Mod of All Time](www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF-XMtNEudQ)

• [LGNPC. Look at these fonts!](lgnpc.org/)

• [False Dmitriy](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitriy_I)

• [KOTOR iOS](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFO1ESyJzA)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross meander through the remaining quest lines in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

This is the final chapter of our Morrowind adventure. Things take a religious bent as we look at the Tribunal Temple and the Imperial Cult, then we get a little martial with the Imperial Legion. We ask which Great House is the greatest, and decide that building your own house is kinda dumb. Finally, we serve the occult by doing the Vampire and Daedra quests. It's a show 'n' tell grab bag of the rest of the best.

• [Onion Romantic Comedy](www.theonion.com/articles/romanti…an-arrested,757/)

• [EC on MMO Quests](www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAkP5VjIv8)

• [VVVVVV](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxuacwotoQw)

• [Cool World](www.youtube.com/watch?v=q32xMkroUwE)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross profess ambivalence about the guild quests in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Sure, the world is in danger... but there's rats to be slain. Also, corrupt and inept guild leaders to oust. Part 2 of our Morrowind series dives into the Fighters, Mages and Thieves guilds, along with the Morag Tong (Assassins). This is where the game falls down a little bit, and the "go here, kill thing, grab thing, return with thing" quest structure starts to wear thin.

• [Lamarckism](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism)

• [Percious Mercious, Vvardenfell State](www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss)

• [The Peter Principle](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle)

• [Liartown](liartownusa.tumblr.com/)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross expand upon the main quest of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

It's the biggest game we've ever done for the show. It's so big that it's immune to our usual treatment. This isn't a text you can read from front to back. Instead, it's a world you inhabit. This episode sees us completing the main quest of Morrowind, fulfilling the Nerevarine prophecies and defeating the evil Dagoth Ur. But that's only one part of the story. Next week, we will look into the various guilds of Morrowind.

• [Elder Lore Podcast](elderlore.wordpress.com/)

• [Mod we used](www.ornitocopter.net/morrowind-overhaul/)

• [Linda Carter in Skyrim](www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLSbQ72mHE)

• [Renraku Arcology](shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Renraku_Arcology)

• [Banhammer](www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiII8z_KK7g)

• [Sometimes when you're searching for Mojo, you find miracles](www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLzZITnwVLk)

• [Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKcIG8D8FOY)

• [Vivec Essay](fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/10/2…d-part-3/)

• [Space Jockey](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_WJLptNNE)

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The attendees of the Portland Retro Games Expo 2014 speak their minds about Street Fighter II.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross frame-jab a double-floop in Street Fighter II, live from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2014.

We managed to do it, guys. We managed to not only expose how bad we are at Street Fighter II to a whole convention hall of convention-goers... but we got up on stage and acted like experts. This is the first live episode of the show to go out on the feed, and we couldn't be more grateful for the support of our listeners. It made the whole thing possible.

Extra-special thanks to Brayton Cameron and Nick Glauber for helping us man the booth. You are magical people.

• [From Masher to Master](shoryuken.com/srk/FightingGamePrimer.pdf)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

• [Wolfman Jack](www.youtube.com/watch?v=99z-H_NEccU)

• Lockjaw: marvel.wikia.com/Lockjaw_(Earth-616)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross analyze I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

An evil AI named AM has destroyed the world, but he saved five people... in order to torture them for an eternity. Why did he pick these five people? This strange adventure game answers that question through symbolism, ironic punishment, and aberrant psychology.

• [I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream](hermiene.net/short-stories/i_have_no_mouth.html)

• [Fat Albert](www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WT-fxBNKs8)

• [Hey! Really Giger!](www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymWmfUV3Eqw)

• [Phalanx Covenant](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_Covenant)

• [Game Informer Article](www.gameinformer.com/b/features/arc…st-scream.aspx)

• [The Lottery](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery)

• [Dread](www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFm8HHV8ks4)

• [Hardcore History](www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/)

• [Beaver Berry Butts](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoreum)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the 2002 remake of Resident Evil.

• [3T Scroat](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-6YU1vX3-0)

• [Cellulitis](www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-condit…on/con-20023471)

• [The Thing. You should watch this movie](www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec)

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