No Cartridge Audio

Hey! Double episode today, produced by me. Welcome to the new project I'm planning for the patreon -- daily recordings, varying in length, focus, approach, quality, etc, as a way to get all the thoughts I'm desperate to get out...well, out. As long as I can manage it, we're doing daily stuff, keeping the favorites you love on the main and premium feed. And if you're not a patron yet, it's patreon.com/nocartridge and five bucks gets you all of these that are fit to print! Music is Yaphet Kotto - "First Meetings Agreement" Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonny and Trevvy spend the WHOLE DANG EPISODE*** discussing everybody's favorite website named Giant Bomb, Giant Bomb. ***not counting nearly twenty minutes of nonsense at the front Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul from Utopian Horizons stops by for an enlivening conversation about objects in games: the trad-masculine assumptions of meat as a health restorative, the tyranny of the obligatory minimap, and a surprisingly earned pivot from Fortnite to police militarization. photo credit: Tom Napper Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Piss and I return to discuss more of our favorite times with our favorite teens...wait let me restart that. Teenage life as only the perpetually funny and inventive Daily Lives of Highschool Boys could bring it to you, with production by Julian! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and Trev engage in some lovely cross-promo by reviewing a game by a former main show guest- Doc Squiddy's Adios. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ape Connoisseur himself, Felix Biederman makes his triumphant return to the show with an extended discussion of From Software's most-podcasted-about series. We've got Souls chat, we've got Bloodborne talk, we've got Sekiro seshing, and a rewarding meditation on what the Blighttown of NYC is. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More Trev, more Piss, more coffee, more Lives, more High School Boys. Episodes 4-6! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon and Trev discuss the resplendent B-Game-ness of Outriders, 2021's sparse calendar in general, Days Gone, The Epic Metaverse, and tons of other stupid garbage. Enjoy! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miri (@scarlettmiracle) joins us to chat about Othercide, an extremely Aesthetic tactical roguelike that you may have unjustly overlooked! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trev and Piss return! This week we are embarking on a NEW ANIME PROGRAM. The Daily Lives of High School Boys episodes 1-3! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello! We are light on episodes this week so I thought why not give everyone a treat now that the book is done. One of my fav Q&A's from way back when with Leon @leyawn Chang is here, in full old 2017 quality and style. Would people like these to return? They could! Love ya Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone's pal Liv (@aveyclub) returns to the After Dark to talk exploration in gaming! PHYSICIAN'S WARNING: Contains a non-trivial amount of Australia Chat. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the appeal of non-translated works? Is it a way of exoticising something in an othering way? Or is it a way of divorcing parts of a story from themselves? And do videogames do this in a way that would differ from other media? In other words, is there something outside of the regressive gawking at the "other" in our enjoyment of untranslated work, or is it simply not all that interesting at all? Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trevor says the phrase "My daughter's karate dojo teamed up with a local dermatologist". Sony unceremoniously murders the PS3 and Vita store. Activision fucks with CoD matchmaking. Warner Bros. makes a Looney Tunes gacha game. Reality continues to unravel. Snyder Cut. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A solo episode! I discuss experimental literature while musing on Dennis Cooper's The Sluts and Kathy Acker and ask why we don't have experimental games in the same way. The answer will reveal a bit about how medium expectations impact art in a way I think will be rewarding for all. Or not, but hell, I tried OK. Viewer discretion advised on this one for some intense descriptions of sexualized violence. Production also by the one and only Julian! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Da Boyz are back to converse about the news of the week! Gail Simone's dumb comic antics, Meyers Leonard's terrible racism antics, Star Citizen's depressing money laundering antics, and more! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Series regular Marc Normandin is BACK to chat about RetroXP- his ambitious substack project ranking the top 101 Nintendo-published games. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our boys hop through the news of the week, starting with some dismal comics chat! We also cover EA slowly allowing BioWare to maybe become good again, the ongoing disaster of Hogwarts Legacy, and the "bad death" of Valve's Artifact. Yay! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean McTiernan (All Units, Hundreds of Pixelated Dead Bodies) stops by for some incisive talk about the mundane and dumb kernel at the core of cost-benefit games criticism, and indeed much of our entire relationship with media in 2021! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trev and Jon return from a brief vacation, President Biden demands PS5s for the masses, Anthem goes to live on a lovely farm upstate, and Bloodlines 2 continues to not exist as a video game. :( Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices