
Self-Actualizing in Perfect Tides w/ Remy Siu
02/24/25 • 98 min
Today we're talking about Perfect Tides by Three Bees! A game about growing up in a resort town and living a life on the early internet.
Get Perfect Tides on Steam, GOG, or itch! Check out Meredith Gran's other work on her website and follow her on Bluesky! Wishlist Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam!!!
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Follow Remy on Bluesky! Check out his work on his website! Check out sunset visitor 斜陽過客's website! Buy 1000xRESIST on Steam or Switch!!!!
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Discussed in the episode
- Perfect Tides (Original Soundtrack) by Daniel Kobylarz on bandcamp
- Nextel Chirp on YouTube
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton on Drawn and Quarterly
Additional links
- Meredith Gran on YouTube
- Fireside Chat featuring Meredith Gran and Tony Howard-Arias by Fellow Traveller on YouTube
- Meredith Gran Interview | Perfect Tides: Station To Station by Cressup on YouTube
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Check out The Worst Garbage Online!
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Art by Tara Crawford
Theme music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:
- (00:00) - We're renaming Early Access
- (00:29) - A normal episode that we are feeling normal about!!!!!!!!!!!
- (01:38) - What is Perfect Tides?
- (02:57) - Why Remy chose Perfect Tides
- (06:24) - Point and Click games
- (09:41) - The game is honest
- (19:40) - Shilling for Perfect Tides
- (21:17) - Perfect Tides by Daniel Kobylarz
- (21:53) - Mara's family | Spoilers
- (30:50) - Lily | Spoilers
- (35:52) - New Reunion by Daniel Kobylarz
- (36:20) - Lily | Spoilers
- (40:54) - The Narrator | Spoilers
- (43:04) - The Jason of it all | Spoilers
- (48:06) - Staggle and The Internet | Spoilers
- (01:04:14) - Timothy and Judaism | Spoilers
- (01:09:38) - Final Fantasy VII Spoilers (for real) | Spoilers
- (01:12:38) - Calling out a few more specific things | Spoilers
- (01:14:24) - Big Takeaways
- (01:15:01) - Chase's Big Takeaway
- (01:19:46) - Kim's Big Takeaway
- (01:22:16) - Remy's Big Takeaway
- (01:29:14) - AJ's Big Takeaway
- (01:33:57) - That's Perfect Tides!
- (01:34:17) - Thank you Remy!
- (01:36:04) - Thank you so much for listening<3
- (01:37:15) - Tides Punk by Daniel Kobylarz
Today we're talking about Perfect Tides by Three Bees! A game about growing up in a resort town and living a life on the early internet.
Get Perfect Tides on Steam, GOG, or itch! Check out Meredith Gran's other work on her website and follow her on Bluesky! Wishlist Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam!!!
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Follow Remy on Bluesky! Check out his work on his website! Check out sunset visitor 斜陽過客's website! Buy 1000xRESIST on Steam or Switch!!!!
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Discussed in the episode
- Perfect Tides (Original Soundtrack) by Daniel Kobylarz on bandcamp
- Nextel Chirp on YouTube
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton on Drawn and Quarterly
Additional links
- Meredith Gran on YouTube
- Fireside Chat featuring Meredith Gran and Tony Howard-Arias by Fellow Traveller on YouTube
- Meredith Gran Interview | Perfect Tides: Station To Station by Cressup on YouTube
---
Check out The Worst Garbage Online!
---
Art by Tara Crawford
Theme music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
---
Timecodes:
- (00:00) - We're renaming Early Access
- (00:29) - A normal episode that we are feeling normal about!!!!!!!!!!!
- (01:38) - What is Perfect Tides?
- (02:57) - Why Remy chose Perfect Tides
- (06:24) - Point and Click games
- (09:41) - The game is honest
- (19:40) - Shilling for Perfect Tides
- (21:17) - Perfect Tides by Daniel Kobylarz
- (21:53) - Mara's family | Spoilers
- (30:50) - Lily | Spoilers
- (35:52) - New Reunion by Daniel Kobylarz
- (36:20) - Lily | Spoilers
- (40:54) - The Narrator | Spoilers
- (43:04) - The Jason of it all | Spoilers
- (48:06) - Staggle and The Internet | Spoilers
- (01:04:14) - Timothy and Judaism | Spoilers
- (01:09:38) - Final Fantasy VII Spoilers (for real) | Spoilers
- (01:12:38) - Calling out a few more specific things | Spoilers
- (01:14:24) - Big Takeaways
- (01:15:01) - Chase's Big Takeaway
- (01:19:46) - Kim's Big Takeaway
- (01:22:16) - Remy's Big Takeaway
- (01:29:14) - AJ's Big Takeaway
- (01:33:57) - That's Perfect Tides!
- (01:34:17) - Thank you Remy!
- (01:36:04) - Thank you so much for listening<3
- (01:37:15) - Tides Punk by Daniel Kobylarz
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Buy Donut County on Steam, Playstation, Xbox (also available with Gamepass), GoG, the App Store, or Google Play! Check out Ben Esposito's other work on his website!
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Discussed in the episode
- Donut County (Original Soundtrack) by Daniel Koestner on album.link
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Check out The Worst Garbage Online!
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Art by Tara Crawford
Music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Check out The Worst Garbage Online!
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Art by Tara Crawford
Music by _amaranthine
Additional sounds by Boqeh
Produced and edited by AJ Fillari
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Timecodes:
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