Infinite Cities

Don't you just love driving in -15℃ and being incapable to see more than a few feet in front of your car? Will and Karp sure does, and they're doing their best to persuade Feather and Gary in this episode where we discuss Easy Delivery Co! In this episode: understanding winter, KK Slider, not understanding winter, cat.wav, VIDEO GAME, huge pizzas, consensual violence, doordashing flowerpots. ~~~ O...

Much like the absolutely horrendous evil killer sun robot at the end of stage 2-1, this game wants to be bigger than the tiny screen it's confined to. A full inventory of this game's design decisions takes about twenty minutes. A technical mastery of the GBA is on display, but as late as it came it - does it matter? Is there room in your life for a forgotten, obsolete, well-crafted retro game? Is...

In This episode: We played peak! Stamina, Passports, Feather getting shot by a blow dart, Trying to save feather from the blow dart, falling down a hole, cheeky guys, 20 player expedition. Shoutouts Zone:   Cozy Con online https://www.mixcloud.com/live/CozyConOnline/  

A little less than two years ago, the pod delved deep into the Hallownest, embracing the void in order to push back the Radiance. Now, we're returning to the bug life, weaving our thread of destiny throughout the kingdom of Pharloom. Will we accomplish our climb towards the Citadel, or fall prey to the innumerable bosses that stand in our way? Who knows! All we can really do is, in the words of ou...

This is a game that lives under a lot of very unkind shadows: the shadow of it's predecessor, What The Golf , a very fun and unique game and one that we played in the perfect environment (as a group, eighteen hours into a twenty four hour stream). What the car is in the shadow of the modern gaming environment, where a game that definitely has twenty dollars of work in it is still twenty whole doll...

CW: lots of food talk. As always. How many eggs have you cooked? How many stingrays? How many cigarettes? We're here to answer all these questions and more, but not the most important question of them all: is this game saying anything? In this episode: lukewarm icecubes, but I digress, stabbing fish, the She-Ra curse, friction pans, petting a chicken, snack scorpions, 2020's-Itch-house-style, boun...

We continue on our 80s crime adventure, even against insurmountable odds! (The odds are the fact that this game is like 100 hours long!) We'd have a better chance if we didn't keep getting distracted - still, it's always nice to return to Kamurochō. In this episode: Locked in the batting cages, the virtues of motorcycles as a melee weapon, the curse of the charismatic autobiography, please let me...

We're taking a break from beating up yakuza to play a quirky little game by the Katamari people. Can you guess who didn't like it and watched a Longplay instead? In this episode: eye boogers, giraffe cabal, Noby Noby Boy, pineapple juice day, easily befriendable bullies, The Looker, uninteresting jank. ~shoutout zone~ QWOP ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the incredible Cliff, you can fin...

After a week living Yakuza through baseball games and karaoke, the gang is playing Yakuza. Or, well, we're mostly watching it, so far? Most of us, anyway.  in this episode: a fiery game full of passionate men, so many cutscenes, how long to beat, aura plays, scummy but flashy vibes, sweet potater soju, hot and heavy, thicc drama, jingle all the way, bacchus, hallway fights, living yakuza, fatt oni...

You gotta love a roguelike deckbuilder. It's the peanutbutter and chocolate of genres. The randomness and run-to-run differentiation, with the short-loop tactics of building a deck. It's so good together! Except sometimes you get a peanutbutter guy and then spend  the next ten minutes looking for mr. chocolate until you hit the big ugly jelly boss and he blaps you back to the goddamn home screen ....

It's the summer, which means the clocks are ticking down and everyone's fucking busy. Except for me and Feather, who are here to yap, as always. It's Citizen Sleeper 2! If you haven't listened to our episode on the first game, you can do so here , but it is not required for this discussion! Join us as we talk about building safety nets, trusting others, transness, and bodies!   in this episode: cl...

It's episode 100! To celebrate, we're playing  all the games . Okay, not all the games. Just a lot of games. Just fifty of the games. And well, we each only played some of those. But MANG let me TELL you about a game I played! In this episode: 100 episodes, steelmanning the barbuta defense squad, retro jank, bouncing off bushido ball, what the hell is golfaria, the timelessness of puzzle games, mo...

Someone's taken our shell, and we're getting it back, no matter who's in the way. Gary and Karp chose to tackle some crabs this week. Hope you like Soulslikes, because we sure do, and this is a great one.  In this episode: Prawn shop, rubberbanded lobsters, Gary's gonna shoot someone, sea-mmer, shark-grabber, LAWBREAKER, hackey-sack, fish swearing. ~~~ Our theme music is Glass Half Full by the inc...

We're kicking of the Summer of Sea with a spooky fishing game. Gary has been obsessed with "number go up" and Will has been taking it easy as we Dredge for spooky fish.   in this episode - feather's bad takes, feeling the call of the sea, number go up, fucked up fish, fish organized neatly, maine vibes, the horrors, eel time, spookylite, the story, squidfuckers, the summer of sea, summer games fes...

Editor's note: feather screwed up her audio file and we had to pull the Craig backup! First, big ups to Craig, he's got our back (most of the time). Second, there's a few moments where here audio cuts out for a tenth of a second - it's not too bad, but be aware that it's her and not you. I'm not sure there's a bigger divide between reality and their fictional representation than when it comes to t...

Will is out of town this week so it's up to the rest of us to explore this ridiculous and ridiculously detailed house and watch several generations of a family die in weird and unusual ways. Also crying. A lot. In this ep: Dear Esther, Tales From The Crypt, return of a classic, The Unfinished Swan, cinematography, sharks rolling down hills, generational grief, Grover House ~shoutouts zone~ Joseph...

It's a mad week with a wild mullet! We're playing the 2024 boomer shooter, Mullet MadJack and we've only got 10 seconds to live! Give us that dopamine!! ep 95: Mullet MadJack (2024) - Can You Aim Down Sight? in this episode: robillionaires, synthwave the video game, gameplay, wildly unbalanced, the shotgun, will needs dopamine every 10 seconds, take a moment, bad tutorializations, silent protagoni...

Finally, we get (most) of the crew together in one place long enough to face off against the evil herobrine! Through the power of friendship, trapping mobs in corners, infinte respawn, and more than a bit of of creative mode, we successfully defeated herobrine - and his horrible creation, the wither! Or something. Plot isn't the strong point here. Or gameplay, if we're being honest. Mostly, we're...

I'm tired, we're tired, and if I had to take a guess, you're probably tired too. That's why we turn to games like stardew valley: because they suck and when we're miserable it's nice to just tear into a bunch of loser guys who live with their parents and dare to think they're anywhere near the same league as you, a perfect farming god(dess). In this episode: being tired, here is your biweekly egg...

We needed a short game, and we picked something we could talk for longer than the runtime. Made by Crows, Crows, Crows, "Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, And the Terribly Cursed Emerald" gives us at least 20 minutes of converstaion for you to languish in and enjoy, and we'll be back next week with, well, something!   in this episode: stone busts, secret passges, the emerald room, guards, lasers, the vaul...

ite: who should play this, indie devs love stealth sections like [redacted for spoilers] like [also redacted for spoilers], mythos, reality, and reform, trying and failing stay on topic, levels of reality, that's not how the ending goes, ending choices, religion, Will's worldview, Knower and the Guarden, Confirmation and the Sacrements, The Stranger, Parenting, the PRC, Vampire Survivors, Karp did...

Important Announcement! This weekend is Taco De Minecraft! It's our annual community livestream, except way, way more chill - so chill it's just going to be in the voice channels of the Taco Stand Discord . We're going to hang out! We're going to play Minecraft! We might play some other games? The day is full of potential! The only thing that is certain is you should consider donating to the South...

Sphere to square, sisters. In today's communion we will remember what it was like to play a Visual Novel/walking sim where you explore exactly how bad a cult can get. /hj In this episode: Steam Workshop asset flip, consecutive apocalypses, the Horse Room, your typical canadian/japanese school, cool glasses, garlic confit, a game made for Feather, having a cake and not eating it. ~shoutouts zone~ O...

No one's had a chance to really dive into 1000xResist yet, so Gary hijacked the podcast to teach Will/reminisce about Spyro.  in this episode: comfort food and nostalgia, baby's first collectathon, quality of life improvements, sassy spyro, inspirational photos, this ursine sucks, spyro just helps people, very tongue in cheek, oops it's metroid prime now, switch to switch 2 talk, get a wii u, too...

What the heck is left to say about "minecraft?". What are we even doing here? For god's sake, it's so big even microsoft notepad (which has a spellchecker now) knows what minecraft is, inasmuch it wants me to capitalize every instance of the word. I'm manually de-capitalizing this. Capitalization is for corpos, except the title of this episode, becuase while I don't respect trademark laws, I do re...