Molehill Mountain Podcast

I got work stuff to do tonight but I can fit in an abbreviated podcast. 0:00 – The Extra Life charity marathon is next weekend! Unfortunately, my sister Keleigh won’t be here 5:27 – Masahiro Sakurai and the endless Kirby Nintendo Directs 11:46 – Pikmin 4 is getting a free content update! Over two years ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 419 – Quicki...

My precious, fragile little feelings. 0:00 – Throw a magic baby at it! 7:47 – Monster Hunter Wilds is still fun. So I’m still playing it. 22:26 – I organized one of those silly games you play on corporate Zoom calls. You know, team building and stuff? Anyway, one of the teams used AI to ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 418 – AI Hurt My Feelings&#8...

Not a euphemism. 0:00 – I’m afraid I’m unlikely to be able to answer specific questions about a game I played 13 years ago. 2:25 – The trauma imposed by flipped manga 14:08 – How can I function with a broken Peacock? 24:16 – Yeah, I beat Savage Omega Planetes in Monster Hunter Wilds. With ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 417 – Broken P...

And Dark Souls. Who knew? 0:00 – The weird and dumb computer reason I canceled last week’s podcast 5:04 – Ninja’s are known for their silence so it’s an odd name for a blender 7:56 – My silicone has gone solid 11:15 – I’m not leaving YouTube but… 40:17 – Stellar Blade has the same ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 416...

I like these games but you’ve probably never heard of them. 0:00 – Stellar Blade (adventures at Walmart and very early impressions) 26:17 – I-Ninja 29:26 – Shadow of the Empire 36:55 – Ace Attorney Investigations 38:56 – Body Harvest 43:26 – Hybrid Heaven 48:03 – Aggressive Inline 52:21 – P.N.03 55:45 – Starfox Adventures ... Continue rea...

I may not know a good game if it bit me but if a game bit me, I’d say it’s a bit of a jerk. 0:00 – Ico/Shadow of the Colossus 18:25 – Katamari Damacy 29:17 – Muramasa: The Demon Blade 30:14 – Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System 31:36 – Metal Gear Solid ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 414 – Good Games Don’t Bite’ &#187...

No matter how bad you mess up in life, you will never mess up THIS badly. 0:00 – YouTube only recommends new videos from my favorite creators after I’ve already watched them. That’s dumb. YouTube is dumb and should feel bad. 2:58 – Behold! The dumbest political mailer I’ve ever seen! 7:17 – 352 hours ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 413 &#82...

Movies, games… little else! 0:00 – Wo Long, Wukong, Wuchang, and Woochi 3:38 – Gameplay footage of Jurassic Park Survival is apparently 65 million years in the making 7:22 – Capcom showed us all the positive things people said about their controlled demo of Pragmata. Were there any less-than-positive impressions? Surely not, you trust the ... Continue reading ‘Molehil...

Dino butts! 0:00 – I owe South Bay Drive-In an apology 10:08 – Butts or dinos? Why not both? 34:02 – Monster Hunter Wilds’ DLC is way overpriced 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 ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Epi...

Unfortunately, it changes nothing. No timestamps this week as I spend the entire episode bemoaning generative AI. Don’t worry, it’s very therapeutic! For me. 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 ... Continue reading &#...

Overestimating GTA VI sales for fun and profit! 0:00 – Horse girls and ads in Spanish. It’s like the algorithm doesn’t even know me! 24:00 – Despite what venture capital would have you believe, GTA VI is NOT going to sell 85 million copies in two months 49:42 – Video game anthology Secret Level has ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 409 – VC G...

Monster Hunter. Because no living thing will stand in the way of fashion! 0:00 – Some musings about Superman 23:35 – Astro Bot adds Square Enix bots! And Susan Yōtei. 28:45 – Ghost of Yōtei looks pretty neat! 35:24 – I’m still having fun with Monster Hunter Wilds! If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 408 &#82...

I watched some movies this week. 0:00 – I hit 12k subscribers! 8 years after hitting 11,332 subscribers! Which itself took six years! 13:16 – Madisynn should be in every Marvel project! 20:15 – I paused The Day the Earth Blew Up twice to clean my bathroom! 37:07 – K-Pop Demon Hunters is pretty darn ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 407 – Couch Pota...

So I read the Clown In a Cornfield books… 0:00 – Raging bigot is also bad at geography 5:52 – How many squirrels is a concerning number of squirrels? 10:32 – I drove a rental for the past few days 28:38 – YouTube is recommending exclusively Dead Meat’s Kill Count videos 38:46 – Donkey Kong ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 406 – B...

Game previews galore but sadly not terribly much that’s calling to me. 0:00 – The new Predator animated anthology is pretty cool! 7:28 – Catch Me at the Ballpark! is a charming anime so far! 13:05 – The Switch 2, like its predecessor, is a great platform to play worse versions of old games 27:25 ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 405 – Mostly Only P...

Maybe they should try plot armor! 0:00 – YouTube continues making everything worse 4:32 – Games are more expensive these days; the total cost simply isn’t the entirety of the initial purchase price 33:18 – Storm Trooper armor offers no protection 43:04 – I can’t get into Kowloon Generic Romance because the protagonist is inexplicably ... Continue reading ‘...

This podcast has nothing to do with the fact that I haven’t had a burger in years. 0:00 – Sometimes, movie trailers are good! 12:25 – Can we crack the code of the inexplicable popularity of Gemma from Monster Hunter Wilds? 26:38 – I watched Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines on a whim and it’s ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 402 – Little Ado...

Still super annoying though. 0:00 – I accidentally ripped off my dentist 2:54 – Incredibly, YouTube manages to make its platform worse 8:10 – For next year’s Oscars, the academy members will have to actually watch all the films in a category to vote 15:36 – TV shows. Do I prefer all episodes released at ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 401 –...

To celebrate the landmark achievement of reaching an arbitrary but no less round and impressively large episode number, and certainly not due to simple, serendipitous happenstance, we’re spending this week’s episode talking shop with YouTube musician extraordinaire, RafScrap and her producer/collaborator Gezeus! Check out their channels: RafScrap – https://www.youtube.com/@RafScr...

Nintendo Switch 2. I have thoughts. 0:00 – Monster Hunter is like Jell-o. There’s always room for more. Unless you’re full. Or just don’t like it in the first place. 28:14 – Nintendo’s expensive new console has expensive new games! If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on ... Continue reading ‘Molehill...

It’s not the solution, it’s the journey. 0:00 – Yahoo can’t design a website, YouTube can’t stop ad blocking software, and Facebook doesn’t care about it’s own Community Guidelines 9:42 – I thought Marvel’s five hour live stream revealing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday was kinda dumb… but it grew on me 13:40 – Nintendo ... Continue...

Daredevil, Monster Hunter Wilds, and not much else. 0:00 – There’s this movie where a samurai fights off 400 dudes in one 77-minute unbroken cut! I could only sit through 17 minutes 11:58 – Daredevil is off to a good start but the third episode didn’t really work for me 38:40 – Technical issues aside, ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 397 – D...

Watch where you’re not looking, jerk! 0:00 – There comes a time in every adult’s life where you must poop in an envelop and send it through the post 8:11 – Monster Hunter Wilds is a lot of fun but yikes are there some issues with the visual presentation 1:06:24 – Sometimes, ogling attractive people ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 396 – Caug...

Free marketing! 0:00 – “10 Things You Need to Know” videos are mostly just reading publisher-provided fact sheets. Darn shame that YouTube has engineered its platform in a way that forces creators who make videos for a living to pad their output with this fluff, as clever and well-made as some of it can be. ... Continue reading ‘Molehill Mountain Episode 395 – 10 Thin...

The best part of Valentine’s Day is the subsequent sale on candy! 0:00 – I couldn’t find any Valentine’s Day candy so I bought a giant Valentine’s Day cookie 13:00 – Yahoo Mail’s redesign is objectively worse 26:30 – Capcom’s marketing blitz for Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t always presenting the game in the best light ... Continue reading &...