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Cheers, big ears
Remember when podcasts weren’t even a thing? Us neither. This week, you can join us in an ouroboros of podcasting where we, on a podcast about games, talk about games that we play whilst listening to podcasts. Come, stand betwixt these two mirrors with us!
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We talk about the different types of games that may lend themselves to podcast listening - games that are clean, simple, and don’t split your attention, games that are so noisy that you don’t need to pay attention because you’re succeeding at them with every interaction, and games you know really really well. We also, as is our established wont, go off on some long tangents.
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Matthew explains a particular and surprisingly piece of music that is forever associated with war in his mind, for example. Alice tries to share a topical news story about Tiger King for a moment of levity, and is met with embarrassing silence for several seconds because neither of those other two weirdos had watched the series. And can mice be mic’d up to owls? Would Mr Bean eat a shoe? Can Alice ever learn to simulate empathy? Perhaps.
This week’s Big Question was the gamesyouplay whilst listening to pods. Send in your questions and suggestions to us at podcast@rockpapershotgun.com.
You can listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts. You can find theRSS feed here, and you can discuss the episodeon our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat.
LinksWe discuss perennial favouriteWilmot’s Warehouse. Here isa review of it, here isan interview with the developers, and here is anentire separate podcast episode about it, which you could conceivably listen to whilst playing Wilmot’s Warehouse.
Matthew brings up partially-forgotten explodey mutant gemSunset Overdrive, which onlycame to PC a couple of years ago.Matt loved it.
Alice Has played 300 hours ofDragon Age: Inquisitionand should probably stop at some point.
Nate has listened to film podcasts while playingBorderlands 2.
He’s also listened to a lot of podcasts whilst roaming around inRed Dead Redemption 2.
Further reading on Nate’s ADHD can be found at his article “I took medical speed and played Deadliest Catch: The Game”
Mad Maxis the ultimate 7/10 game.
Carole Baskin finally got her hands on Joe Exotic’s zoo(but, in a twist not mentioned on this podcast, a sheriff has now claimedher missing husband’s will is a forgery).
This week, Matthew recommendedThe Locked-room Mysteriesanthology, Alice recommended the many and varied cosy mysteries that can be foundself-published on Amazon’s Kindle store, and Nate sort of recommended his own book again but mostly recommended visitingCrocodiles Of The World.
