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The Chain of Memories LP is Live!

Sora, Donald, Goofy, and a lot of their friends are back as we make good on the last moments of the KH1 LP and continue on to its first sequel. We're playing the PS2 remake with full 3D environments and voice acting that the GBA original did not have.

If you'd like a refresher on the important parts of the first game, a viewer has you covered with this handy-size compilation

Cut Commentary Playlist

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Hello! You can now hear an MP3 version of our game of LAST SHOOTING by @Gen_Ironicus! And if you ALREADY watched the game live, take note: There's NEW CONTENT in this recording, starting at 03:23:00. So def check it out.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/63382543

1:29 PM PT • 04 March 2022 (Source)

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Space Puppets is complete!

Early last year we began Bizarre Podcast: Space Puppets, a podcast walking through television's cult classic Farscape. Last week, after a 53-episode run, it ended. You can find it all here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/383131/

The other big announcement is it's all free. This started as a premium show, which is why it's hosted on Patreon in the first place, but as a special gift we decided to drop the paywall and commemorate Farscape's 26th anniversary and open the show to all. Please, take a listen. Please, share the show around. We go wide, deep, and long. That's a show with dimension.

You can also find Space Puppets, along with every other podcast on the patreon feed, in this RSS feed.

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New Podcast!

Grant and his wife Alaina launched a new show about one of her childhood joys: seaQuest DSV from 1993. Each week we're talking about an episode of the finest near-future, submarine-based adventure and "Science Fact-ion" that NBC and Steven Spielberg had to offer. Yes, this is the one with the talking dolphin.

seaQuest DSV was an ambitious show that had a lot riding on it, and never found its audience. At least, not enough of one to be financially viable. So it was continually tinkered with to the point each season is essentially a different show. We're telling those stories, and connecting them to the end result broadcast into people's homes. And every few weeks, we visit one of the films of legendary actor Roy Schieder to see what led him to take the starring role of Captain Nathan Bridger.

Look for it Thursdays on its RSS, or Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you choose to listen.

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Grant's Recent guest spot roundup!

The first four guest spots I’ve done to spread the word about The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne have come out. (First five technically, but that one will kick off the second roundup). Let's take a look!

Do You Remember Robotech Episode 33: [A Rainy Night]'s Knight For A [Rainy Night] Plight We compare the 33rd episodes of SFD Macross and Robotech, and find a lot to say about how slight differences lead to large divergences. Also, my fullest retelling of the saga of Pie Girl.

Lightning Strikes Thrice: Radio Manga: Ghost in the Shell We talk about one of the best examples of a “guy explains the cool thing he read to you” book, with a mix of fantastic art, action, and ideas that never manage to gel into something that meets its potential. That's what the adaptations are for, I guess.

Flash in the Pan Episode 110: A Soupçon Of Hitler Flash videos! Star Wars! Branded content and CGI Dragon strangling educational media! What is the difference between making a fan video out of love and making one out of mockery?

Out This Guy ep 46 - Big Chest Exposed Knees This one is a treat for 6FU listeners, and hopefully entices a few people to become listeners. I'm talking about the big blue boy: Izer Munn. He's grumpy, he's got skeletons in his closet, and he's bad at emotions. But doggone it he's there for his crew. And for those listeners in the know, there are some previews of coming attractions in Izer's yet-to-be-posted future adventures.

These, and those to come, have been so much fun to make. But please remember, this whole tour is in service of spreading the word about The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne and its currently live Kickstarter to make a full season. Give it a listen! Spread the links! And please, add your pledge so we can deliver on what the premiere episode promised.

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Final Warning! 48 hours remain!

As I write, automated reminder emails are being sent to everyone who hit the "remind me later" button on the Kickstarter campaign for The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne. What will they find? A fully funded campaign! That's right, we now have the necessary funding to make an additional 7 episodes for a full 8-part season.

But we're already knocking on the door of our first stretch goal to make that a 9-part season. With your continuing support we can reach even beyond that in these last two days. Our story is a mystery, it's character based, and there's a secret world to explore. All of those things benefit from a little extra room in the run, a little more time to sit and experience and take the side roads. That's what is so exciting to me about hitting the stretch goals and lengthening our series.

So again I implore you: take a listen to the show, take a look at the KS page. And please, share this with anyone you think might be interested. Let's make this show the best it can be, together.

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An auction-based, single-session tabletop game based on genre films. Play as the actors in a fictional film of your own creation.

Grant’s writing a game! Well, part of one. Final Bid is a GM-less RPG that uses an auction-based system to shape the narrative the players create. It has 5 playbooks for different genres so far, and the first expansion will be by our very own General Ironicus. When the following tweet gets 200 retweets, his expansion will be added to the base game. You can help him be an actual published tabletop designer, and then play something he made for you!

https://twitter.com/Veliministriari/status/1002418707736530945

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31 Things We Learned in Gextra Life 2017

Over Labor Day weekend we played games for 24 hours straight to raise money for Hurley Children’s Hospital in Flint, MI. The entire stream has been mirrored to YouTube here, and you can still donate to help the sick kids here until the end of the year.

So now, a list of things each game during the stream taught us:

The entire Metal Gear Solid universe is a remix of a visual novel nobody’s ever heard of

Ringtones used to have a cultural cachet that is inexplicable in today’s world

The least entertaining part of fighting games is the fighting game

Contrary to popular belief, the more Jaws you see the better

Croc can go to the store all on his own, like a big boy

Manatees can talk. It’s getting them to shut up that’s hard

Dave Seville had talent, but has been coasting on the work of others for an unconscionable amount of time

The Bee Movie Game can melt brains

Cat food is people

Tasmanian Tigers went extinct due to their poorly adapted jaws

Games made in one English-speaking territory still need localization before going to another English-speaking territory

Fan art can make any game adorable

Streamers can make any game filthy

“Grunting in the manner of Matthew Broderick” is a valuable job skill

Blinx is canonically non-binary

Sometimes the best designed games are the worst to stream

Ben Afleck is the secret illegitimate son of Alec Baldwin

There are more Ratchet & Clank games than you thought

Space is disgusting

Ancient animals had small brains, the simplest of things were too deep for them

Picking a carrot and mucking a stable are equally notable acts

Penguins mate for life when they perfectly cancel each others’ momentum

Animal Farm would have been better with race cars and flatulence

Dogs elicit an instant emotional bond, including digital ones

People who say they want a new Pokemon Snap should be careful what they wish for

“Watering Can” is a hint

Dogs can die from being incel

...Maybe don’t play your first 3D platformer ever while sleep deprived, for a live stream audience

...Maybe don’t even play a game your familiar with while sleep deprived, for a live stream audience

Bubsy 3D really is that bad, though

The N64 version of Gex 2 is the best one because there’s the least of it

And a surprise bonus fact:

32. Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) is a legally required to be in every marathon stream

Thanks again to everyone for coming out to join us and helping us smash our goal yet again!