Podcast: Retrograde Amnesia

Lunar: Silver Star Story | E48: My Power Pudding [Grindery, Part II]

Hey kids, weird day, huh? Days like this include human men delivering victory lines, jerking off after the massage, hacking through romance with a machete, losing the cut-scene, ditching the Vader outer wear, failing to keep up with the lore, forming…

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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E49: Political Power Over God [Flashbacks and Lore]

Nothing can justify what he has done. Nothing except us reacting incorrectly, marrying a child, debating Ghaleon’s power, exhibiting egregious Mega Man 4 opinions, decoding sunscreen, obeying out of fear and not respect, rescuing a puppy, giving up…

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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E50: Giving a Yank [Althena’s Fortress, Part I]

Even if you wanted to make this a twist, there’s nowhere to twist. Before we twist it off, we’re revealing the secret true identity of Laike, speaking of plot elements specifically, giving it a yank, turning into a dragon, realizing the Grindery…

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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E51: Better God-Policy [Althena’s Fortress, Part II]

Do we care about the fate of the world? Hell no. We’re only concerned with exploring the wasteland of the mind, imbibing the sweet nectar of the woman kind, conquering our greatest fears (again), escaping the maze of our wretched inner-selves,…

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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E52: Idealism is Undefeated [Althena’s Fortress, Part III]

I am disgraced yet again. Season seven continues with us listening to a death rattle, making sure the Ocarina is in Alex’s pocket, assigning jealousy as a motive, dumbing ourselves down for women, desecrating her sanctum, fighting for the ones we…

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Lunar: Silver Star Story | E53: Raiding the Unmentionables (Socks) [Epilogue]

The game is over but the game is not over. One our final episode for season seven, we’re smelling the ocean on the breeze, losing all MP, putting faith in our strength, spending our brains out, affirming Ghaleon’s insanity, declaring Jessica Day, requesting an adult, creating an open door policy, realizing Luna has no idea…

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Phantasy Star IV | E1: Love and Friendship Around the Stars [Development History]

Hello and welcome to the first episode of our eighth season! We’re covering Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium for the next 25-to-70 weeks. On this two-parter of an intro episode, we’re peeling the skin off the Fake Net, buying children a $212 videogame, charging more money for more megabits, realizing the Mega…

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Phantasy Star IV | E2: Genesis Mystique [Contemporary Reception & Legacy]

On the second episode of our Phantasy Star IV background info, we’re watching commercials in Japanese, realizing “cels” and “panels” are not interchangeable, looking at print ads, riding for Rick, revealing the dark phallus, appreciating the work of Boris Vallejo, speaking perfect french, traveling beyond history, citing The Cutting Room Floor, pacifying fans, filling batchin’…

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Phantasy Star IV | E3: Beyond Rudy [Piata, The Town of Learning]

I’ve always wanted to go to a Town of Learning, so we can learn to make a podcast of listening. We’re talking about throwing away a cake, tolling the bell, fearing The Computer, Chaz’ing a Rudy, erecting character sprites, rendering a world beyond the Genesis, locking up books, flipping through options, buzzing off, measuring the…

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