we’re playing the wrong song until WerqKween submits the right song
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True enough lol. I just noticed i put the end placeholder song at the beginning somehow. I wonder if i flipped them both 
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This week’s question is Retcon, Remove, Remain: Big the Cat, Silver the Hedgehog, and the Deadly Six. Which character(s) should be retconned? Which character(s) should be removed? Which character(s) should remain untouched?
Let us know too if you have pitches for future installments of Retcon, Remove, Remain. I went with Mario, Sonic, and Resident Evil because I figured they were prolific enough that everyone would know the characters. But now that we’re all familiar with the premise, maybe we can go in wilder directions!
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So, just to clarify some of the stuff I spoke about on the 'pod;
- HERE’s a list of how I’d rank the various Sonic games.
- Yes, 99% of the reasons people put forward for Sonic Adventure being bad actually come from the terrible DX “remaster.” See THIS amazing site for all the things DX stuffed up.
- In regards to Sonic continuity/ lore and retconning, I don’t know if I could personally fix it (although I’d love to try) but I DO think the elements which you need to do so already exist. I have an in-progress document HERE I’ve been working on explaining this (cause I’m a loser
). - If you’d like to know why I didn’t like Hollow Knight (I don’t hate it, I was exaggerating on the show, I just didn’t enjoy it as much as most did) my review is HERE.
- A quick note on the “gypsies” thing; in the UK there are many jokes about all the regional accent differences; no one is singled out, everyone is made fun of equally. I couldn’t find the exact clip Ureshi was speaking about, but here’s a clip from Hot Fuzz that is basically the same idea.
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THIS is the show Utopia I mentioned. Should give you an idea of the show.
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To George’s comment about history being written by the winners; which console continues to receive new games, peripherals and mods and has a killer home brew scene, hmmmmm?
Any other questions I am more than happy to answer. 
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I looked into that a bit more after the record. In the show its an irish group they call the Travelers or “Gypsies”. The offensive connotation seems to directly point to the Romani people who were displaced from india and southern asia, at least from what i could find.
Either way, my apologies for my ignorance on the subject, i didnt know it was considered an offensive term.
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Maybe don’t watch Snatch.
In regards to the audio, it seemed pretty good to me this time, although I sound a bit muffled so I’ll have to try to get a proper mic next time.
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Looove Utopia. Such a funny show! Fun fact, last week I went to the US consulate in Melbourne for my visa interview and saw the actor who plays Scott with who k assume is his partner!
Edit: well, maybe it’s not so fun, after I read it.
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Music Integral to a game?
The various themes, including character, location and boss themes in Chronotrigger.
The ending/credits music in Indika is a perfect way to wrap up that weird game.
The music in Farcry 3 Blood Dragon is a perfect 80s action movie synth track.
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Also the cross-examination and big evidence reveal music in the first five Phoenix Wright games. I didn’t like the music in the later games.
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I haven’t finished the episode yet but @JoeyPajamas Kath and Kim is hilarious! There was an American version but it wasn’t popular.
The only other Australian show I got into was Spicks and Specks, did you watch that? I wish we had fun quiz shows over here. Let alone musical ones!
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Didn’t the US Kath & Kim get canned after one episode? A US version would be very, very different as the original is so steeped in Australian culture I don’t really know how it could be translated.
Yep, Spicks & Specks was essential viewing in my house. 
If you enjoy it look up Adam Hills’ stand up on YouTube. The bloke is hilarious.
If anyone is after more great Aussie comedy, YouTube All Aussie Adventures and Russel Court. It’s the same show, but goes under both names on YouTube. Very clever show.
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No, there was a whole season.
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Oddly enough, I don’t particularly care for him.
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dubdu dub dududu dub
Hello Georgy, hello Ureshi!
Dog poop, samurai and cat shit… we are off to an interesting start. 
Hello Roach, hello Joe nice to hear your voice for the first time! Hah I pronounced your nick right!
GangstaPajamas!
This episode is all about down under 
and that’s great!
I googled “Halo percussions” and this came up and I totally get the drive and push forward of this (never played Halo):
“WHAT THE HELL!” Georgy and Ureshi perfectly synchronised for a moment and then went back to banter.
I too unlike timed missions… the pressure! I only like rogue-like-light because there is some progress that stays. If I loose everything I get frustrated.
MiSide has a demo on Steam, nice.
Horror games in VR … nope big N O P E. I do not need monsters surrounding me. They need to stay in the monitor, then it is rarely too scary but it can be too gory for my taste sometimes or too violent if I feel the violence and gore is only there for the shock value and has no deeper meaning.
I found screaming Mum I think, yeah I would react the same and completely forget what the controls are and strangle myself with the cables or crush the room.
I hated A Little To The Left too. There were so many occasions where the game had a completely different idea on how to arrange things that I felt violated. I needed it to be the other way but could not make it work. It is one of the games where I think it was triggering my (mild) form of OCD and made things worse, when in other games I like sorting things when they let me find my own solutions for it. I wanted it so much to be for me 
Bird Alone, I started too… tears incoming, I am sure.
And there everyone pretends Nintendo makes family games and in reality it is all tears and screaming! 
THE THEME - Grouveecast is blue and fast today!
Very interesting to hear how the book was born.
If they ever make a Sonic-XCOM-like game I promise to play it! Now I want that…
Oh no the Americans do it again! 
THE GAME! Retcon, Remain, Remove!
I literally only know who Sonic is… we need to keep him or I am completely lost on this game, but maybe make him green. You can’t remove cats from games your lap EVER - the cat stays, so whatever the Deadly Six are need to go.
Nabbit looks cute…, Luigi with long hair is fine so the third needs to go who/what ever it is.
Aaand lost about these. As long as Leon stays because he is the only RE character I know. Yeah retcon RE games into XCOM games, fine with that! Poor Moira just vanished from the world, what has she done to you???
I have a feeling I really want XCOM 3, it’s on my mind lately all the time
I always heard overlord instead of overworld and it made so no sense. 
“Dudes jumping around with swords” That’s exactly as much as I know about these games, Joe.
OMG! No one expects the Spanish Inquisition the jungle vagina! 
Yes, more different countries in gaming please!
Wallace and Gromit 
South of Midnight is a game I really hope for and I hope they take from southern US’s folklore uncompromisingly like the Witcher games did from Eastern Europ’s folklore and not “sweeten it down too mainstream” - not sure if I can explain what I mean. I already fear that they go a bit too much into comedy and less into the gory gothic aspects, but I only ever have scratched that kind of folklore on the surface. I am fine with the movements being their own thing. I feel already there is too much samy stuff in games that we expect now, how a game feels, moves, looks… I want them to make their thing. I guess that also comes with the problem that games that DO their own thing often do not well enough in the industry. 
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - a French try at JRPG - a FRPG - I am not sure it is for me, but if they get the French tones across it could be revolutionary (!) 
All I want from this Doom game is an iconic gif like the one where Doomguy is fist bumping his toy. I am not playing it, but I need something that makes me smile like that.
Elmo Musk is always the worst and the car is called swasticar now. 40% sales of Tesla are down in Germany.
Silksong gets delayed every time someone mentiones it. Did I say Silksong?
Not buying a 100 $ game in this life, no matter what. Not even the next Witcher and as long CEOs get millions for nothing we do not need to talk about smaller games or game prices - we need to talk why these guys get paid so much while developers get laid off and customers need to pay more. This money is NOT going into game development, ist is only going into CEO and shareholder pockets and on top the AAA+ industry also avoids taxes like the plaque.
I very much enjoyed the podcast! Thanks for making me laugh a lot and I am looking forward to the next episode.
Yeah, signed copies are a must.
We will NOT forget you Roach. Looking forward to hear all your travel stories and see the pictures of all the things you have bought. 
God bless America dub dudud dub dub
My question:
Retcon, Remain, Remove!
Redfall, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Marvel’s Avengers
Gollum is my remove. From the beginning I was questioning if one can do a game about him as a main character. Marvel’s avengers gets retconned into a single player game with focus on story bits. Redfall can stay - I don’t understand why but it found some people who like it well enough now that they did some patches - still not a great game but it is what it is.
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Why would you make Sonic green?!? 
I also don’t think I really got to explain my Retcon, Remove Remain well, so here goes;
- Retcon - I said Sonic in the ep, but I only meant in terms of sorting out his - and everyone else’s - lore.
- Remain - Big. His gameplay in Adventure might be a bit naff, but he’s a lovely guy.
- Remove - 2006. All aspects and characters that were introduced in that game go on the bin.
South of Midnight is a game I really hope for and I hope they take from southern US’s folklore uncompromisingly like the Witcher games did from Eastern Europ’s folklore and not “sweeten it down too mainstream” - not sure if I can explain what I mean.
I think what you mean is making it “Disneyfied.” Basically taking out any teeth to the story or anything at all that might even be slightly unpalatable to a Conservative-leanin ingrate so religious fanatics won’t come after it. Am I close?
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A perfect word for it, yes!
I like green and I knew it would make you go WHAT!
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Right now, thinking about music and all that. What if we did a game akin to something like this? Thinking of the name “Grouvee’s Grooves” or Grouvee Tunes". Can be done on Discord with an external soundboard.
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Y’all should let me host the next game music trivia 
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So i can lose? No thanks XD maybe next time youre on
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I’ve picked up Kim and Kath. This is the absolutely funniest thing in television:
Such a dumb joke elevated to a new level by the way it’s so subtly inserted in the scene. A+
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Glad you’re enjoying it!
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