Ep. 186 - Dirtbag Strikes Back, with Alex Jaffe and Mathew Kumar
Added 2021-05-24 03:44:32 +0000 UTCWith our regular host recovering from vaccination, Riot Games’ Alex Jaffe steps in along with Insert Credit correspondent Mathew Kumar to dig into our Dirtbag of Patreon subscriber submitted questions.
Questions this week:
- What should Brandon do with all these copies of TV Sports Football and Hockey? (06:37)
- TheFragranceOfDarkCoffee asks: Whats the best heist in video games? (12:17)
- Yeso asks: What personal problem in your life would make a good Yakuza sidequest? (17:57)
- Shun asks: Design a Kanye West-focused Nintendo game (23:53)
- Ravioli asks: What video game attack move would you want to be killed by? (28:23)
- Billy asks: Name two video games each in ten seconds each, then rank those games (34:29)
- Kyle in Montreal asks: if the main character of a game were to become the director of a sequel to that game, what would it be like? (40:14)
- Skebump asks: What would a new Panzer Dragoon game look like in 2021? (44:34)
- Shin asks: What is the most engaging video game credit sequence? (49:13)
- Sam B asks: Who is the Marcel Proust of video games? (53:49)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Emptying the Dirtbag (54:36)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Project L
- Friend of the show Patrick Miller
- Alphabear
- Road Not Taken
- Steambirds Alliance
- Bushido Bear
- Alex Jaffe's GDC talk, Cursed Problems in Game Design
- TV Sports: Football
- TV Sports: Hockey
- Cody at Pink Gorilla
- 22cans
- 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians
- Corpse Killer
- Maniac Mansion
- Monaco: Whats Yours Is Mine
- Shots by LMFAO ft. Lil John
- Due Process
- Frozen Synapse
- Grand Theft Auto Online
- Tender
- Major Minor's Majestic March
- Blazing Lasers
- Ninja Spirit
- THE TOP SIX GAMES OF QUESTION 6:
- Super Mario Bros.
Sensible World of Soccer
Mega Man 2
Earth Defense Force 2017
Android Assault
Cuthbert Goes Walkabout - Frank's Cuthbert tweet and game covers
- WarioWare series
- Antstream
- Panzer Dragoon: Remake
- Moebius
- The Incal
- Sable
- Space Harrier
- Katamari Damacy ending credits
- Super Monkey Ball ending credits
- Metal Slug ending credits
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Jonathan Blow's jar of pee (warning: photo of jar of jonathan blow pee)
- Esper Note: the correct answer to question 9 is NieR: Automata. No I'm not going to link it, go beat NieR: Automata.
- Marcel Proust
- David Cage
Recommendations:
Mathew: Check out decolonizepalestine.com, BDS, donate to Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Brandon: itch.io Solidarity Bundle for Palestine
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
Alex Jaffe, Alex Jaffe, David Jaffe, and Al Jaffee (while he's still alive)
garret
2021-05-26 05:00:19 +0000 UTCBTW we found out that "walkabout" is a colonizer term for an aboriginal practice and that it's often used derisively when people are late, or things like that, so we changed the episode name everywhere but here! We had no idea about this with our lack of australian awareness so we'll mention it on the next show.
insert credit
2021-05-25 19:23:19 +0000 UTCyou may get your wish
insert credit
2021-05-24 21:14:22 +0000 UTCOh, we didn't address it!! We should figure it out.
insert credit
2021-05-24 21:14:02 +0000 UTCI look forward to the inevitable "Oops! All Jaffes" episode in the future
garret
2021-05-24 18:19:13 +0000 UTCmathew kumar DMed me after the show to say “hey can you make sure that part at the end where I say I don’t hate the listeners makes it in? I don’t actually want to get voted off the island” so I’m very sure he’s happy to hear that. -Esper
insert credit
2021-05-24 17:07:44 +0000 UTCI am here for guests of the show, and even the hosts, having utter contempt for the dirtbag listeners.
George Rohac
2021-05-24 14:21:09 +0000 UTCWow, what a reference to mariomonsters.com! That was the very first thing I was ever involved with online, when I was in fact still a little kid. A guy named David drew the pictures, but I wrote a lot of the entries!
Alex Jaffe
2021-05-24 14:13:06 +0000 UTCyeah this was a great episode. the discrepancy in brandon and frank's memories of the IGN "shots" walk-out music was particularly fun, did you not settle that in-episode or did i miss it? hope you address it in a follow-up next week if not!
coughsoda
2021-05-24 13:20:53 +0000 UTCI loved this! Ever since I saw the guest host Alex Jaffe's GDC talk I had hoped you'd somehow acknowledge his existence, and you did so in an unimaginably fun way. And congratulations to the regular Alex Jaffe for getting his second vaccination round!
Dan Cantu
2021-05-24 11:43:52 +0000 UTCI would love to hear a double Alex Jaffe podcast in the future!
Robert Rostant
2021-05-24 11:39:11 +0000 UTCwould be so good if alex jaffe subbed for alex jaffe for any future absences as well
coughsoda
2021-05-24 10:41:33 +0000 UTC
