Ep. 104: Skimming the Slime Out of the Bottom

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07/19/22 • 52 min

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"Oh boy, here come those dang investors again. They just won't STOP asking us to pitch them new mashups of old videogames. And it's like their asks are getting more and more hacky and uninspired each time...like, this week they just screamed 'Make NPCs a protagonist!' and then sat there, nearly frozen in place." is what we wrote in our shownotes on May 4th of 2021. Well here we are fourteen months later and hot dog we're going again! This time we ask literally the exact same question as last time, "What NPC deserves to be the protagonist in their own game?

Kyle reflects on his Barista-Era and brings an old friend from Animal Crossing to the table. Matt picked one bit this week and boy does he lean into it. Andrew takes us all on a weird, horny adventure and, you guessed it, everyone disliked that.

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Properties we talked about this week: Animal Crossing, Brewster's Millions starring Richard Pryor, Portal, Portal 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball

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Yes, indeed. In the Age of Internet Video the world of Content Creation was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of dancing babies, epic meals, and Star Wars kids. But then there was Podcasting and with Podcasting came disparity. De-monetization and ad revenue, Copyright strikes and brand deals. Then from the dark, they came, and found of the Sponsorships of Lords within the code. Quibi, the First of the Dead. Best Fiends and their daughters of Chaos, spelled like "friends" without the "r". Blue Apron, the Lord of Sunlight, and their faithful knights Butcher Box and Hello Fresh. Thus began the Age of Podcasting. But soon, the ad revenue will fade and only Content will remain.

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Look I'm just going to be honest with you, we forgot to record an episode this week. We broke the "in case of emergency glass" and we've put together a clip show slash preview of some of our recently released premium episodes! If you're not a member of our Patreon, this is all brand spanking new content for you! In case you haven't heard, we've been running pilots of some new show formats all summer long on our premium feed under the banner of our "Summer 'O' Pilots!" This DLC episode will give you a Costco-sized free sample to hopefully entice you to walk down aisle 7 and grab a box of meatless balls! But, like Costco, we're not here to tell you what to do, just to give you free stuff!

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Editor's note: The end of this episode states that DT! Ep 106 comes out next week. That is a lie. It'll be DT! Ep 105.