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If anyone that listens to retronauts it's worth it beside the debate over MS3 is it overrated
If I wanted to subject my ears to the sonic equivalent of a room full of farts I would listen to this podcast.
Dont get your knickers in a twist princess.It really is a mystery as to why I kinda stopped posting on this forum.
It really is a mystery as to why I kinda stopped posting on this forum.
hey, fuck you too my guyWhile this for sure is a forum filled to the rafters with antagonistic assholes…I don’t think that’s the issue in this case. Lots of people hate gamer podcasts. One of my best friends is a somewhat well known video game podcaster and he knows I never listen and he understands completely. He wouldn’t listen to it either. The shit is torture…
Dont get your knickers in a twist princess.
While this for sure is a forum filled to the rafters with antagonistic assholes…I don’t think that’s the issue in this case. Lots of people hate gamer podcasts. One of my best friends is a somewhat well known video game podcaster and he knows I never listen and he understands completely. He wouldn’t listen to it either. The shit is torture…
@BBH - really cool to see you popping up! Working through my podcast backlog so haven't got to it yet but looking forward to hearing what you say about Metal Slug 3
Not your involvement specifically, in fact not at all but alright Mr. Ego.You decided to take some time to post about how my involvement in a podcast is the "sonic equivalent of a room full of farts". Is this bitching just for the sake of being a whiny bitch? I don't recall having any beef with you, but maybe I pissed you off in some other way.
Retronauts is one of those podcasts I listen to only when they're talking about something that interests me. Some of the regulars are just insufferable.
Not that you give a shit lach but...
The podcast is generally an in-depth discussion about a game/series of games by a panel of game journalists/hangers-on. There's a usual group of 5 or 6 people that cycle in and out as they're available and then they'll sometimes bring in people who have expertise on the topic (like BBH was brought in to talk about Slug). It's been around for like a decade-plus and Jeremy Parish (formerly of 1up, RPGamer? and the NES Works Youtube series) is the main host.
When they have people on who know what they're talking about, it can be fun as those people can fill in a lot of fine details about a game you may not know a lot about and Jeremy is generally very knowledgeable about old games (his Youtube series is more or less a series of mini-documentaries about every game release for a platform that dive deep in to subjects). However, a lot of the other regulars are your typical 21st century game journalism nonces who make everything about identity politics (of the "this 30-year-old game has problematic representations of <insert marginalized group here>" and "cleavage = bad" variety) and rarely have more than a surface-level knowledge of anything they're talking about beyond their personal experiences playing something. Eventually, you get tired of a bunch of halfwit liberal arts majors who are supposed to be talking about Rambo for the NES regurgitating their identity talking points no matter how much of their worldview you would probably agree with in a bubble. Shit's exhausting when the remainder of the show is generally pretty light and breezy and not super fart-sniffy.