Best Shitposting Podcasts (2025)

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Of Shootings And Shitposts (With Morgan Sung) 1:34:03

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by Morgan Sung of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast to discuss shootings as shitposts and media censorship following the death of Charlie Kirk. While we still don’t know the killer’s precise motive, bullet engravings that reference video game memes and largely nonpolitical Discord activity seem to sug…

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Episode 153 - Detective Conan Movie 5 Brief Review; Nintendo Direct September 2025 Lengthy Review; Games About Ninjas; MAD and Tower Dungeon Manga; Autumn 2025 Anime Preview; Dad Chats With All Bones 1:58:59

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Pic from: Nintendo Power Magazine https://shitposter.world/noyoushutthefuckupdad https://shitposter.world/coolboymew https://www.youtube.com/@all-bonesjones/videos https://…

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Episode 60: On Turning Up [PATREON PREVIEW] 11:55

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Alec and Nick revisit an unreleased podcast from the archive, recorded one year ago, discussing the concept and experience of Turning Up. The episode reprises the idea of the Dionysian in terms of consumption of music, ideas, substances and social activity as these mingle within the interior life and institutional forms of attending, listening, par…

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Rest In Piss, Charlie Kirk (With Denims And MikeFromPA) 1:34:05

9d ago1:34:05

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Riley are joined by two popular political streamers, MikeFromPA and Denims, to discuss how the far-right social media landscape created and ultimately destroyed Charlie Kirk. How do content creation ecosystems on the right and left differ, and why does the political right uplift – and fund – extreme voices like Ki…

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Episode 59: A Special Connection to Classical Music 1:15:06

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Alec and Nick return to podcasting to discuss their special respective connections to classical music. The conversation employs a back-to-basics overview of the form: what is classical music? What is NOT classical music? What was and is it? Taking a zoomed-out approach, the episode spans the culture, mechanics, operations, and evolution of classica…

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Rogue Squadron (With Ryan Gilliam and Cass Marshall) 1:31:00

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by former Polygon writers Ryan Gilliam and Cass Marshall, who just launched a new worker-owned video game website, Rogue. It’s like Aftermath, but Polygonier. We ask them how the project came together, how things are going so far, and what their pie-in-the-sky goals are for the future. Then, after…

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Back To Demonschool (With Brandon Sheffield) 1:11:45

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Luke – remember him? – are joined by Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft to discuss the decision to delay Demonschool, a very promising-looking indie tactics RPG, from September to November in light of Silksong’s surprise release announcement. While Demonschool’s publisher, rather than development team, ultimately made…

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Smooth As Silksong 1:14:15

1M ago1:14:15

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On this week’s episode, Nathan, Chris, and Riley discuss Hollow Knight: Silksong, a game that is finally, actually, really real after years of anticipation (and Geoff Keighley showcase disappointments). It looks like… more Hollow Knight. Cool! Also, the developers have said they will not be sending out pre-release review code, citing concern that i…

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Everyone’s A Critic (With Harper Jay) 1:39:53

1M ago1:39:53

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Gita are joined by their former Kotaku colleague Harper Jay for a discussion of criticism’s role in a world that seems determined to reject it – or at least cast it out of mainstream publications like Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press, as well as many video game publica…

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Episode 152 - Summer 2025 Review For Two Hours (It's a Big Season) (For You); Dankey Kang Bananza; Takopi's Original Sin Spoiler Chat At the End 2:16:58

1M ago2:16:58

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Pic from: Takopi's Original Sin Opening clips from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q02_KercxSM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJDbM7xB6Aw https://shitposter.world/noy…

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Once Boating, Twice Shy 1:33:18

1M ago1:33:18

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Riley – the former of whom has spent the past several days near a beach and the latter of whom just returned from a boating excursion – are joined by Chris “Peg Leg” Person to discuss boats, boating, and a flotilla of related matters. First we talk about Riley’s recent voyage, which involved reading Moby Dick as q…

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It’s Always Sunny In Philabieldia (With Chris Plante) 1:50:32

2M ago1:50:32

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by an additional Chris (Plante) – and also, to complete the bit, Nathan has legally changed his name to Chris. We begin by discussing Plante’s life following his tenure as editor-in-chief at Polygon, which came to an abrupt halt earlier this year for reasons with which Aftermath readers and listen…

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All’s Fair In Love And Warframe (With Isla Hinck) 1:29:30

2M ago1:29:30

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by Isla Hinck of Easy Allies, aka the Aftermath of YouTube. Nathan and Isla met just one week ago, at this year’s TennoCon, the official Warframe convention (yes, Warframe has an official convention), so they regale Chris with tales of their time at a refreshingly positive show attended by fans wh…

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Episode 151 - Welcome to the Glue Factory; Manga About Tampon Sniffers and Boxing Failures; Mario Kart World; Back-and-Forth Steam Game Reviews (Including Some Made By Fediverse Friends) 1:48:13

2M ago1:48:13

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Pic from: Uma Musume Pretty Derby Opening clip from: https://video.tsundere.love/w/w3G2QwqPGM5TyByS7ZWvt5 All opening and closing songs will be RoboWarrior (NES) from now o…

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Hay Is For Horse Girls 1:15:13

2M ago1:15:13

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by award-winning disability reporter Grant Stoner to discuss Disability Pride Month, as well as his own growing body of investigative work in the accessibility space. Not entirely in order, we draw a line from the early days of companies largely ignoring accessibility-related concerns to the momen…

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Kotaku Is So Back, Microsoft Not So Much 1:11:22

3M ago1:11:22

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Riley are joined by Ethan Gach of Kotaku dot com and Garrett Martin of the newly rechristened Endless Mode, two beneficiaries of the only good week for games media in the past century. The former finally managed to wriggle out from under G/O Media’s suffocating boot via a sale to the same seemingly benign company …

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Zohran Mamdani, Gamer Mayor 1:32:10

3M ago1:32:10

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris celebrate the NYC democratic mayoral primary victory of Zohran Mamdani by bringing on a whopping TWO guests: First, Max Rivlin-Nadler joins us to talk about how Hell Gate – a fellow worker-owned publication – punched well above its weight during this election, organizing a town hall that every candidate exce…

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Live From New York, It’s Stream Big 1:30:28

3M ago1:30:28

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We’re off this week because of Juneteenth, but back in February, Nathan released a book! About Twitch! As part of that, he hosted a launch event at Wonderville in Brooklyn, NY with a panel featuring Chris and Gita, as well Polygon’s Simone de Rochefort. It was basically a live episode of Aftermafh Hours, so here it is now, as an episode of Aftermat…

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Summer Game Mess 1:42:01

3M ago1:42:01

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On this week’s episode, Nathan, Chris, and Riley reflect on the latest installment of Geoff Keighley’s mid-year video game advertisement carnival, Summer Game Fest. It was a weird one! High-profile announcements were few and far between, leaving relative no-names shaped kinda like the industry’s heaviest hitters to fill in the gaps. But at least St…

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Episode 150 - The Current Anime Season; Rehashing 00s Console Wars; A Love Live Visual Novel; Two Manga That End on Cliffhangers; Hon Hon Hon of the Year; Switch 2 Chat 2:02:31

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Opening clip from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uVEnJ0FlVQ Opening song from: RoboWarrior (NES) Cl…

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The Satisfying Snap Of A Switch 2 1:19:52

4M ago1:19:52

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On this week’s episode, we are joined by Xalavier Nelson Jr. of Strange Scaffold to talk about the Switch 2 (because neither of us bought one at launch.) We discuss the satisfying click of the magnetic controllers, the strange emptiness of Mario Kart World, and the idea of trying to return to a yesteryear that can never be recaptured. Then, we disc…

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Parrying Is Either The Best Or Worst Thing In Video Games 1:18:28

4M ago1:18:28

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On this week’s episode, Riley, Luke, and Isaiah intend to talk about a lot of topics, but mostly can’t keep themselves from talking about Clair Obscur. We start by talking about two stories Aftermath ran this week: one in favor of parrying in video games, and one against. Those stories kicked off a flurry of discourse on social media, which we foun…

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Polygone, But Not Forgotten (With Nicole Carpenter) 1:50:56

4M ago1:50:56

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Luke are joined by Aftermath’s newest regular contributor, former Polygon senior reporter Nicole Carpenter to discuss her tenure at the freshly gutted games media institution, as well as how she got into journalism in the first place. She also tells us about the time she got to speak to the voice of Barbie for a s…

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The Fedi Files #8 - Special Guest NoYouShutTheFuckUpDad 3:01:17

4M ago3:01:17

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Dad's guest appearance on The Fedi Files on 5/10/2025. Music has been removed to avoid copyright bullshit. https://shitposter.world/users/noyoushutthefuckupdad https://video.tsundere.love/w/dPjx3jgipWj6HfyGGBRuYM ----- 10 Questions: 1. Introduce yourself 2. Why'd you pick your username 3. What vidya have you played recently 4. Favorite music/genre …

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Gianter Bomb (With Jeff Grubb) 1:41:14

4M ago1:41:14

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by Jeff Grubb of the newly independent Giant Bomb, an incredible turnaround from just a few weeks ago when it seemed like corporate meddling had blown the whole operation sky high. We discuss how Jeff and the rest of the Giant Bomb crew managed to buy their freedom and what the future holds now th…

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Episode 149 - Spring 2025 Review: A Not-So-Mediocre Season; Pozzed Shows Can't Keep Us Down; New Best Daughteru Found 2:34:43

4M ago2:34:43

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Apocalypse Hotel Opening song from: Cath Me at the Ballpark Closing song from: Rock is a Lady's Modesty https://shitposter.world/n…

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JoJo’s AI Adventure (With Ed Zitron) 1:50:09

5M ago1:50:09

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On this week’s episode, Nathan and Gita engage in a savvy act of brand synergy by bringing on extremely vocal AI critic and friend of the show Ed Zitron to celebrate the release of Aftermath’s new “Destroy AI” shirt, which we made in conjunction with Kim Hu, an incredible (human) artist, and are very proud of. We eventually get around to talking ab…

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RIP Polygon and Giant Bomb 2:15:36

5M ago2:15:36

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On a very special (for bad reasons) episode of Aftermath Hours, Nathan, Riley, Chris, and Luke convene to mourn the apparent – and horrifyingly sudden – passing of two games media institutions: Polygon and Giant Bomb. None of this was, strictly speaking, necessary, with the former an unqualified success in terms of traffic and regard while the latt…

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BDS Vs TES (With Autumn Wright) 1:30:03

5M ago1:30:03

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Weeb Been Watching Some Anime (With Isaiah Colbert) 1:39:39

5M ago1:39:39

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This week Nathan and Chris are joined by Aftermath’s first-ever regular contributor, Isaiah Colbert, to talk about the latter’s speciality: anime. It does not take long for this to spiral into a fittingly multi-part conversation about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, but we also manage to at least briefly tackle issues pertaining to labor in the anime and…

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Inside Baseball Week II (With Defector, 404 Media, And Hell Gate) 1:53:11

5M ago1:53:11

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To celebrate the return of Inside Baseball Week – during which we publish a barrage of stories about the lesser-known parts of game dev, the ins and outs of games journalism, and other topics so specific no other website would ever touch them – we put together a roundtable about worker-owned media featuring Aftermath’s Nathan Grayson and Riley MacL…

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Episode 148 - Shitposters Do What Nintendon't; We Still Love Vidya; Spring 2025 Anime Preview 1:40:18

6M ago1:40:18

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Mario fanart from the Something Awful Forums (early 00s) Opening clip from: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Opening song from: Robo…

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Donkey Kong Rap 2 (With Mike Drucker) 1:22:40

6M ago1:22:40

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This week Nathan and Chris are joined by special guest Mike Drucker, comedian and writer on shows like Adam Ruins Everything, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, to talk about his new book, Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games. We discuss how games and people’s relationship to them have changed o…

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Big Boy Size Nathan (This Title Was Gita’s Idea) 1:34:22

6M ago1:34:22

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This week Nathan, Gita, and Riley briefly talk about their true passion, shirts, before elegantly segueing into a conversation about Ubisoft’s extremely eventful week: The embattled publisher announced that it’s spinning off its most successful series, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, into a separate subsidiary thanks to a $1.2…

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The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Stabbing (With Yussef Cole) 1:13:01

6M ago1:13:01

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This week Chris is holding down the fort with Luke and is joined by writer Yussef Cole (@youmeyou.bsky.social) who reviewed Assassin’s Creed Shadows for The New York Times. We get into Assassin’s Creed generally and Shadows specifically, what we like and dislike about the game and if it makes good its narrative promise. Is it simply enough for a ga…

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Episode 147 - Winter 2024's Sleeper Hits: Medalist and Orb; Dad Is a Manga Fiend; New Games and a Stupid Freaking Alarm Clock 1:29:25

6M ago1:29:25

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Medalist Opening clip from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi7LcMK3g0 Opening song from: RoboWarrior (NES) Closing song from: Ro…

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108 Out Of 10 (With Aidan Moher) 1:22:42

6M ago1:22:42

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This week Nathan and Chris are joined by freelance writer Aidan Moher to discuss his upcoming book about Suikoden I and II, a pair of sneakily influential JRPGs from the PS1 era that, yes, are very much worth writing an entire book about. Then we discuss news from the eye of the pre-GDC storm: Next week thousands of game developers will convene in …

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Dry January For Waifus 1:28:08

7M ago1:28:08

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This week Nathan, Chris, and Riley overcome a slew of technical issues to bring you the latest news about guys who suck. First we discuss two Twitch dramas that broke containment and produced consequences that reverberated into the wider world: Several female streamers, Valkyrae, Cinna, Emiru, and Amouranth, found themselves in severe mortal peril …

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RIP Monolith 2:04:20

7M ago2:04:20

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This week Nathan and Gita accidentally burst the dam on another wellspring of Riley Lore – perhaps the wildest yet – before we all move on to a discussion of more sobering matters: WB recently closed three video game studios, including Monolith, the makers of quietly revolutionary games like No One Lives Forever, F.E.A.R., and Shadow of Mordor, as …

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Exchanging (Opinions About) Avowed 1:21:18

7M ago1:21:18

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This week Nathan, Chris, and Luke find themselves champing at the bit to talk about Avowed, which they can’t stop playing, but first, The News: NetEase shocked the game-playing public by laying off members of the team behind Marvel Rivals, the biggest breakout success story to come out of the live service sector in years. What happened? Well, decay…

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The Downfall Of Civilization 1:30:51

7M ago1:30:51

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This week Nathan, Chris, and Luke convene on the eve – if we’re measuring in podcast time – of Nathan’s book release (Stream Big, available wherever books are sold) to talk mostly about other stuff. First up, Activision and former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick both got into dustups with CWA, the union that represents over 1,000 workers across Microso…

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Episode 146 - Winter 2025 Review; That's One Huge Bitch; What If Le Demons Were Good; Zelda More Like Celda 2:22:23

8M ago2:22:23

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Tasokare Hotel Intro clip from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Buds-V6Vx8 Opening song from: They Might Be Giants - Too Tall Gir…

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Lovable Rascals (With Rowan Zeoli) 1:41:35

8M ago1:41:35

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This week Nathan and Riley are joined by special guest Rowan Zeoli of Rascal, an independent, reader-supported, worker-owned outlet for journalism about tabletop roleplaying games not unlike Aftermath. The site is celebrating one year of life on the increasingly tumultuous planet Earth with a subscription drive, so we ask Rowan how things are going…

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BioWare-fore Art Thou (With Kat Bailey) 1:21:35

8M ago1:21:35

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This week Nathan and Riley are joined by special guest Kat Bailey, former news director at IGN and current host of the Axe of the Blood God podcast, to discuss a news week that’s certainly been… interesting. First we talk about the entire staff of long-running video game site God Is A Geek quitting after its now-ex-priest owner threw up a Nazi salu…

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Da Movies Baby! 1:39:40

8M ago1:39:40

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This week Gita and Chris talk about the most exciting entertainment news of the day: the announcement of a new Ninja Gaiden game! Oh yeah, and the Oscars. For some reason, Emilia Perez has been nominated for a ton of awards and Chris and Gita fear that this dogshit movie may indeed sweep the Academy Awards. As they go through the nominations, they …

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Woke 2: Good, Switch 2: ??? 1:29:06

8M ago1:29:06

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This week Nathan, Chris, and Luke break down Nintendo’s long-awaited reveal of the Switch 2 – although we use the term “reveal” loosely. After months of speculation, we now know… what it will look like. And it looks like a Nintendo Switch! Some people, Chris included, are disappointed by this. Nintendo used to swing for the fences with its hardware…

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The Gaming Angle (With Chris Bratt) 1:42:26

8M ago1:42:26

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This week Nathan and Gita are joined by Chris Bratt of People Make Games – one of the best investigative outlets in all of video games – to discuss his new video about workplace abuse at outsourcing studios in southeast Asia. We try to get to the bottom of why big video game companies turn a blind eye to these sorts of incidents, which in this case…

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Deck The Halls With Balatros Of Holly 1:28:26

9M ago1:28:26

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This week Nathan, Chris, and Riley convene just before the holidays for the final show of the year. We discuss a little of everything: Our favorite Game Awards reveals (Onimusha, an orb game exemplar, is back, and so is Okami!) as well as some that have us less thrilled (more Neil Druckmann nihilism in Intergalactic: The Heretic, Borderlands 4’s co…

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Episode 145 - A Really Obvious Metaphor; Atelier Animu; Uoh Fio-chan; UFO 50 is GOTY; ALIENS COULD BE HERE; Look Back... At Your Shitty Life! 1:27:28

9M ago1:27:28

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MP3 download here: https://mega.nz/folder/qTZhmIxJ#HWaY1qIn369eAd-BLqTvog Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@dad-spc:1 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dad-spc/ Email us: garbageday AT cock.li Pic from: Drama Queen Opening song from: RoboWarrior (NES) Closing song from: Saya no Uta https://shitposter.world/noyoushutthefuckupdad htt…