A is X: A Nintendo Podcast

Special guest Nick from the Friday Night Gamecast challenges Morgan with a serious discussion about video games and their intersection with politics and real life. What's the worst smelling level in a video game? What's Morgan's take on the controversial Last of Us Part II? Which games were you peer pressured to play? Do games need to have good stories?
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Activision Blizzard now belongs to Microsoft. It's a big deal. While every other podcast will pontificate over the details of which games go where, and whether this is a move that will even be allowed by the government, this Pinecone broadcast aims to hit a different topic of conversation. People. Will the work culture be changed just because based Uncle Phil is now in charge? Is it naive to think that one large corpo eating another is somehow something that should be cheered on? What about the creative aspect of all this, will the art suffer? The Captain weighs in.

Guest star Dave (Tales from the Backlog) sits Morgan down and has a frank discussion regarding content creation and burnout. Why do we play video games anyway? Has content creation changed how you consume media? What makes Spyro the Dragon such a perfect streaming game? What challenges do solo podcasters face?
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The Captain suffers a catastrophic hardware failure aboard the ship and is forced to crank out an episode in 3 hours or less. For a pro this wouldn't be a problem, but there are none around. Morgan details his time during the lockdown with PSVR and Skyrim VR. Later, the Captain tries his best to understand the many different nuances of game writing versus movie and book writing. Why is it that games just hit "different?" The Captain concludes with a personal anecdote about butts.

Another day, another studio purchase by a major gaming company. Instead of the fake hype and endless speculation, Morgan spends the episode explaining why he has declared this Console War officially over. Subs versus subs, corpos versus corpos, who will you pick to represent your district? Who will claim the ultimate prize...some distraction from this fading world of man?