60 acast.com Retrograde Amnesia: RealNet Edition https://www.patreon.com/retroAM en Retrograde Amnesia jrpg, xenogears,chrono, cross,final,fantasy Retrograde Amnesia Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective Retrograde Amnesia is a comprehensive podcast where we discuss a classic Japanese Role-playing Game (JRPG), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Each season covers a single game as chosen by our community.


For a complete listing of everything we've produced under the Retrograde Amnesia banner, including a complete listing of seasons, bonus episodes, and miniseries, go to content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 

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]]> Retrograde Amnesia is a comprehensive podcast where we discuss a classic Japanese Role-playing Game (JRPG), chapter by chapter, beat by beat. We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. Each season covers a single game as chosen by our community.


For a complete listing of everything we've produced under the Retrograde Amnesia banner, including a complete listing of seasons, bonus episodes, and miniseries, go to content.retrogradeamnesia.com. 

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]]> true Retrograde Amnesia retrogradeamnesiapodcast@gmail.com 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 retroam https://www.patreon.com/rss/retroAM?auth=WdLw1RFd6Lf1t1G2u6FrnmVbxTL0Cum4 episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41/1643742022872-e000ff9eb74a9a0fba6bfd821512ea24.jpeg https://www.patreon.com/retroAM Retrograde Amnesia: RealNet Edition https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 yes yes The Bouncer: 20th Anniversary Retrospective The Bouncer: 20th Anniversary Retrospective Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:32:24 GMT 2:16:35 60417c18156b90350ceb3c5a false http://www.patreon.com/retroam 60417c18156b90350ceb3c5a 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 the-bouncer-20th-anniversary-retrospective bonus We did a The Bouncer one.


01:11 Intro | 02:12 Development Overview & Personal History | 12:12 Prologue | 21:12 Fate Bar | 37:58 Central Square | 41:21 Train Station | 44:24 MSD Cargo Train | 53:26 Emergency Exit | 55:01 Air Carrier | 57:36 Hanging Garden | 01:02:54 Crystal Dome | 01:14:00 Sion Stage 9 | 01:23:51 Kou Stage 9 | 01:26:55 Volt Stage 9 | 01:28:55 Executive Room | 01:31:20 Rocket Tower | 01:32:44 Rocket Tower Basement | 01:37:21 Rocket Tower Deck | 01:43:15 Air Carrier II | 01:47:39 Galeos | 02:02:32 Epilogues | 02:10:15 Real Net | 02:13:46 Outro 

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]]> We did a The Bouncer one.


01:11 Intro | 02:12 Development Overview & Personal History | 12:12 Prologue | 21:12 Fate Bar | 37:58 Central Square | 41:21 Train Station | 44:24 MSD Cargo Train | 53:26 Emergency Exit | 55:01 Air Carrier | 57:36 Hanging Garden | 01:02:54 Crystal Dome | 01:14:00 Sion Stage 9 | 01:23:51 Kou Stage 9 | 01:26:55 Volt Stage 9 | 01:28:55 Executive Room | 01:31:20 Rocket Tower | 01:32:44 Rocket Tower Basement | 01:37:21 Rocket Tower Deck | 01:43:15 Air Carrier II | 01:47:39 Galeos | 02:02:32 Epilogues | 02:10:15 Real Net | 02:13:46 Outro 

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]]> Xenogears 55: Fei, Dick Out [Epilogue] Xenogears 55: Fei, Dick Out [Epilogue] Mon, 05 Oct 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 40006731 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0b 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0b 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 The wretched will makes us experience sadness and loss. For the final episode of season one, we're meeting our real imaginary savior in space, speaking to ghostface killa, rationalizing villainous activity, getting high off god fumes, spilling soup, accepting fate, rejecting fate, seeking connections, determining the power of love through battle, forgiving genocide, favoring humanity over divinity, running through the dimensional shift, collapsing space time, falling to earth, and screaming in Japanese. Now, there is no more god.


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]]> The wretched will makes us experience sadness and loss. For the final episode of season one, we're meeting our real imaginary savior in space, speaking to ghostface killa, rationalizing villainous activity, getting high off god fumes, spilling soup, accepting fate, rejecting fate, seeking connections, determining the power of love through battle, forgiving genocide, favoring humanity over divinity, running through the dimensional shift, collapsing space time, falling to earth, and screaming in Japanese. Now, there is no more god.


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]]> Xenogears 54: Old Testament [First and Last, Part IV] Xenogears 54: Old Testament [First and Last, Part IV] Mon, 28 Sep 2020 11:00:03 GMT 0 40006590 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0d 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0d 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 I have been playing Xenogears for eight months. In the penultimate episode of season one, we're conducting inadequate preparation, incompleting a map, beating up angels, falling through laser tunnels, flipping tedious dungeon switches, observing basement bass, fighting fighting orbs, sealing divine abilities, time travelling to 1999, intershifting dimensionality, breaking our Gears, destroying fate, and killing god. Yes, we have killed god.



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]]> I have been playing Xenogears for eight months. In the penultimate episode of season one, we're conducting inadequate preparation, incompleting a map, beating up angels, falling through laser tunnels, flipping tedious dungeon switches, observing basement bass, fighting fighting orbs, sealing divine abilities, time travelling to 1999, intershifting dimensionality, breaking our Gears, destroying fate, and killing god. Yes, we have killed god.



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]]> Xenogears 53: The War on Christmas [First and Last, Part III] Xenogears 53: The War on Christmas [First and Last, Part III] Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 40006472 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0e 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda0e 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Have you ever taken a side quest to another episode of a game that will never exist? Today we're not appearing on the world map, recreating 90's cityscapes, fighting walking dragons, marveling at asphalt, manipulating Zeboim culture, using war as a solution to infertility, reading insane lore magazines, winning NBA grand slams, buying Joe-brand parts, purchasing drugs, living through another year, getting outrageously upset at dinner, concluding it won't work, making it work, producing a nanomachine child, and growing into a nanomachine adult. I am a creature waiting to become extinct.


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]]> Have you ever taken a side quest to another episode of a game that will never exist? Today we're not appearing on the world map, recreating 90's cityscapes, fighting walking dragons, marveling at asphalt, manipulating Zeboim culture, using war as a solution to infertility, reading insane lore magazines, winning NBA grand slams, buying Joe-brand parts, purchasing drugs, living through another year, getting outrageously upset at dinner, concluding it won't work, making it work, producing a nanomachine child, and growing into a nanomachine adult. I am a creature waiting to become extinct.


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]]> Xenogears 52: Re-Obsessed with Viscera [First and Last, Part II] Xenogears 52: Re-Obsessed with Viscera [First and Last, Part II] Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 40006340 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda11 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda11 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We'll catch you in the static between sounds, right before we kill god. Today we're investing in Golden Vests, declining Franz' hot sounds, rejecting Margie's advances, locating Chu-Chu, getting bad info from a wiki, comparing hot sauce, beating up Sluggers for no reason, battle rapping dune men, extracting a sword from bones, playing human plinko, fist fighting Wyrms, banging big, changing our jukebox's face plate, and feeding a dog. #HammerDidNothingWrong


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]]> We'll catch you in the static between sounds, right before we kill god. Today we're investing in Golden Vests, declining Franz' hot sounds, rejecting Margie's advances, locating Chu-Chu, getting bad info from a wiki, comparing hot sauce, beating up Sluggers for no reason, battle rapping dune men, extracting a sword from bones, playing human plinko, fist fighting Wyrms, banging big, changing our jukebox's face plate, and feeding a dog. #HammerDidNothingWrong


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]]> Xenogears 51: Men of the Sea Never Say Die [First and Last, Part I] Xenogears 51: Men of the Sea Never Say Die [First and Last, Part I] Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:00:03 GMT 0 39985645 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda12 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda12 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We can actually play this game now. While we’re surviving the apocalypse, we’re also merging flags, buying scam birds, burning books, digging up a jukebox, alienating our dolphin stepson, going down with the ship, fantasizing about The Captain, becoming a landlubber, accepting forgiveness, not adding Ramsus to our party, confirming reality with Zephyr, forging exactly one legendary weapon, and stealing precious Chu-Chu wares. Ding ding, good job. 


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]]> We can actually play this game now. While we’re surviving the apocalypse, we’re also merging flags, buying scam birds, burning books, digging up a jukebox, alienating our dolphin stepson, going down with the ship, fantasizing about The Captain, becoming a landlubber, accepting forgiveness, not adding Ramsus to our party, confirming reality with Zephyr, forging exactly one legendary weapon, and stealing precious Chu-Chu wares. Ding ding, good job. 


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]]> Xenogears 50: Bear with Me Here, Oedipus [Xenogears Wakes] Xenogears 50: Bear with Me Here, Oedipus [Xenogears Wakes] Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 39985291 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda14 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda14 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 The system is awakening. Today we're getting lore from a Jesus cross, contacting the fourth dimension, tapping into the god universe, adventing into this world, instilling a mother's will, nursing an Oedipus complex, dealing with a paradox, playing the Undertaker's Theme, fighting dad as well as my transmigrated ancestor, giving birth to humanity, destroying our remaining advanced military equipment on insane tactical gambles, and awakening Deus as a direct result. Perception is reality and also I'm god. 

  


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]]> The system is awakening. Today we're getting lore from a Jesus cross, contacting the fourth dimension, tapping into the god universe, adventing into this world, instilling a mother's will, nursing an Oedipus complex, dealing with a paradox, playing the Undertaker's Theme, fighting dad as well as my transmigrated ancestor, giving birth to humanity, destroying our remaining advanced military equipment on insane tactical gambles, and awakening Deus as a direct result. Perception is reality and also I'm god. 

  


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]]> Xenogears 49: My Teenage Bedroom [Fallen Star, Part II] Xenogears 49: My Teenage Bedroom [Fallen Star, Part II] Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 39985015 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda16 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda16 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41

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]]>

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]]> Xenogears 48: Fist Imagery [Dreams, Part II + Fallen Star, Part I] Xenogears 48: Fist Imagery [Dreams, Part II + Fallen Star, Part I] Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:00:03 GMT 0 39981860 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda18 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda18 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 This videogame is now a visual novel with boss battles.  Today we're opening our fists to hold people, becoming a symbol, twisting Sophia's words, fading away, seeking power to treat depression, crying in carbonite, walking through snow fields in big robots, sealing away the very meaning of Existence, practicing Contact consciousness, shedding skin, showing down with the Demon of Elru, unifying personalities with Wiseman, and taking a fist full of memories. If only you had power, you could have saved her.


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]]> This videogame is now a visual novel with boss battles.  Today we're opening our fists to hold people, becoming a symbol, twisting Sophia's words, fading away, seeking power to treat depression, crying in carbonite, walking through snow fields in big robots, sealing away the very meaning of Existence, practicing Contact consciousness, shedding skin, showing down with the Demon of Elru, unifying personalities with Wiseman, and taking a fist full of memories. If only you had power, you could have saved her.


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]]> Xenogears 47: Hitherto Presentiment [Dreams, Part I] Xenogears 47: Hitherto Presentiment [Dreams, Part I] Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:00:07 GMT 0 39974726 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda19 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda19 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 You live. You Die. That's all. Before that we're worshipping weapons, falling behind in rapture ascendance, freezing someone in carbonite, dealing with Solaris, watching heroes fall to villainy, defining the Zohar, dissociating identities, going for it, meeting old beefcake Fatimas, offending divine providence, interpreting smiles, delivering triple Bro's,  and waiting for Krelian's final creed. I just wanted the game with the big robot on the cover.


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]]> You live. You Die. That's all. Before that we're worshipping weapons, falling behind in rapture ascendance, freezing someone in carbonite, dealing with Solaris, watching heroes fall to villainy, defining the Zohar, dissociating identities, going for it, meeting old beefcake Fatimas, offending divine providence, interpreting smiles, delivering triple Bro's,  and waiting for Krelian's final creed. I just wanted the game with the big robot on the cover.


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]]> Xenogears 46: Expressing Anger Through Lore [Merkava Calls] Xenogears 46: Expressing Anger Through Lore [Merkava Calls] Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 39971084 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1c 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1c 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 I am fated so as not to be able to kill myself. On this ecstatic episode we're visiting the Ark Park, warning the Elements, imagining nanomachine battles, falling between sculptures, clinging our fists, insulting science experiments, reducing ourselves to one hit point, gazing upon eyeball baskets, detaching Anima relics, not killing immortal villains, shooting our friend, extracting genetic factors, and jumping in a magic pool full of glowstick fluid. Adeiu, boys. 


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]]> I am fated so as not to be able to kill myself. On this ecstatic episode we're visiting the Ark Park, warning the Elements, imagining nanomachine battles, falling between sculptures, clinging our fists, insulting science experiments, reducing ourselves to one hit point, gazing upon eyeball baskets, detaching Anima relics, not killing immortal villains, shooting our friend, extracting genetic factors, and jumping in a magic pool full of glowstick fluid. Adeiu, boys. 


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]]> Xenogears 45: Exegesises on Cruxifixes[Promised Land + Waiting Death] Xenogears 45: Exegesises on Cruxifixes[Promised Land + Waiting Death] Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 38694795 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1d 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1d 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Girl, that hurt.  Today we're crucifying machines and Chu-Chu, negotiating with Krelian, finding our precious birds, doing sick combos, doing even sicker combos, doing the sickest combos, listening to Omen, wondering why we were left alive, deleting digital existence, looking fleshly, aligning pronouns with nanomachines, not going to Cracker Barrel, refusing to listen to reason, and blaming my problems on my girlfriend. Your feelings must be in the right place. That is strength. 


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]]> Girl, that hurt.  Today we're crucifying machines and Chu-Chu, negotiating with Krelian, finding our precious birds, doing sick combos, doing even sicker combos, doing the sickest combos, listening to Omen, wondering why we were left alive, deleting digital existence, looking fleshly, aligning pronouns with nanomachines, not going to Cracker Barrel, refusing to listen to reason, and blaming my problems on my girlfriend. Your feelings must be in the right place. That is strength. 


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]]> Xenogears 44: Circumstances that Led to This Coitus [Above Mahanon + Paradise] Xenogears 44: Circumstances that Led to This Coitus [Above Mahanon + Paradise] Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 38592734 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1f 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda1f 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Don't worry, I won't die. Today we're being a man and confronting the problem, performing an anime kiss, becoming one body, having awkward sex in Maria's room, embracing feminism with Margie, experiencing reincarnation through remote viewing, losing our transformer, paying off references from sixty hours ago, recognizing strange faces in scary places, inheriting instincts, halving hit points, soft-locking with Deus, finding the unthinkable when accessing the data, optionally losing to Alpha Weltall, denying wrath, losing hope, regulating, and reaching our moment of supreme bliss. When wrath appeared in your heart, the system responded, did it not?


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]]> Don't worry, I won't die. Today we're being a man and confronting the problem, performing an anime kiss, becoming one body, having awkward sex in Maria's room, embracing feminism with Margie, experiencing reincarnation through remote viewing, losing our transformer, paying off references from sixty hours ago, recognizing strange faces in scary places, inheriting instincts, halving hit points, soft-locking with Deus, finding the unthinkable when accessing the data, optionally losing to Alpha Weltall, denying wrath, losing hope, regulating, and reaching our moment of supreme bliss. When wrath appeared in your heart, the system responded, did it not?


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]]> Xenogears 43: More Stereo Dripping [The Stars Know] Xenogears 43: More Stereo Dripping [The Stars Know] Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 38591214 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda20 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda20 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Let us unravel the mystery of Shakespearean demises with our animal friends.   This time we're checking in with disc 2, genociding the Croaker Tribe, solving arcane riddles to put rocks in holes, discovering ancient murals, falling through other holes, getting crushed by the ceiling, measuring water levels, suffering the tragedy of Hammer, glitching out, viewing clone violence, being logic and using logic as a logic lord, pissing off the Fake Net, elevating slumbering ships, meeting at dawn, and arguing with our girlfriend in front of all of our friends. Whoever controls it becomes the true dominator of the world. 


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]]> Let us unravel the mystery of Shakespearean demises with our animal friends.   This time we're checking in with disc 2, genociding the Croaker Tribe, solving arcane riddles to put rocks in holes, discovering ancient murals, falling through other holes, getting crushed by the ceiling, measuring water levels, suffering the tragedy of Hammer, glitching out, viewing clone violence, being logic and using logic as a logic lord, pissing off the Fake Net, elevating slumbering ships, meeting at dawn, and arguing with our girlfriend in front of all of our friends. Whoever controls it becomes the true dominator of the world. 


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]]> Xenogears 42: Merge for the Kill[Soul Vessel] Xenogears 42: Merge for the Kill[Soul Vessel] Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:00:01 GMT 0 38590947 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda22 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda22 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Let us join together as we unravel the mystery of interdimensional chair sitting. On this episode we're getting deposited in dungeons, meeting Shopkeeper Johnny, eating death, replacing fuses to open lock A, solving arcane puzzles to open lock B, enjoying the sound of steam bolt locks, acquiring god technology, fighting teen girl squads, watching their Gears combine into one larger Gear, hitting our rivals with psychoanalysis, conspiring to kill Cain with Cain, wishing we could actually see Ramsus' raid of Nisan, being told a fetus can crawl through trash, and suffering verbal abuse by the Gazel. The only way to secure the anima relics is with the power of mathematics. 


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]]> Let us join together as we unravel the mystery of interdimensional chair sitting. On this episode we're getting deposited in dungeons, meeting Shopkeeper Johnny, eating death, replacing fuses to open lock A, solving arcane puzzles to open lock B, enjoying the sound of steam bolt locks, acquiring god technology, fighting teen girl squads, watching their Gears combine into one larger Gear, hitting our rivals with psychoanalysis, conspiring to kill Cain with Cain, wishing we could actually see Ramsus' raid of Nisan, being told a fetus can crawl through trash, and suffering verbal abuse by the Gazel. The only way to secure the anima relics is with the power of mathematics. 


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]]> Xenogears 41: The Ultimate JPEG [Break the Seal] Xenogears 41: The Ultimate JPEG [Break the Seal] Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 38231629 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda24 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda24 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 If only you didn't exist. This time we're continuing to dream, imposing a total sentence of ten years, reacquiring Knight of Fire, shattering Ramsus' absolute confidence, launching nanoparticles into the atmosphere, battling Solarian super weapons, realizing government buildings are ships and robots, mutating into abnormal forms, eating god's apostles, subverting the Gazel, constructing monsters with organic compounds, cinematically merging Elly and Sophia, watching anime for the first time in six months, sharing blood, and torturing AI with pink lightning. They stood like tombstones. It was a graveyard for a people who destroyed each other over pride and arrogance.


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]]> If only you didn't exist. This time we're continuing to dream, imposing a total sentence of ten years, reacquiring Knight of Fire, shattering Ramsus' absolute confidence, launching nanoparticles into the atmosphere, battling Solarian super weapons, realizing government buildings are ships and robots, mutating into abnormal forms, eating god's apostles, subverting the Gazel, constructing monsters with organic compounds, cinematically merging Elly and Sophia, watching anime for the first time in six months, sharing blood, and torturing AI with pink lightning. They stood like tombstones. It was a graveyard for a people who destroyed each other over pride and arrogance.


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]]> Xenogears 40: Being Naked in Tubes Together [Shot Down!] Xenogears 40: Being Naked in Tubes Together [Shot Down!] Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 38225232 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda26 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda26 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Please insert Disc 2. This time we're literally and virtually sitting in chairs, unpacking our own existence, spending quality time painting our partners, exploring our interiority through our reclaimed souls, loving the same soul across epochs of time, exploring the duality of dreaming, waking up naked, forgetting our names, worrying our comatose girlfriend might forget us, controlling Id with a System, debating the path of fate, listening to Mitsuda music from different games, telling women they look like tired mothers, becoming translucent, and threatening digital entities with deletion. Find us on AOL Instant Messenger as xXxDemiUrge69 and Christ420Aeon.


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]]> Please insert Disc 2. This time we're literally and virtually sitting in chairs, unpacking our own existence, spending quality time painting our partners, exploring our interiority through our reclaimed souls, loving the same soul across epochs of time, exploring the duality of dreaming, waking up naked, forgetting our names, worrying our comatose girlfriend might forget us, controlling Id with a System, debating the path of fate, listening to Mitsuda music from different games, telling women they look like tired mothers, becoming translucent, and threatening digital entities with deletion. Find us on AOL Instant Messenger as xXxDemiUrge69 and Christ420Aeon.


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]]> <![CDATA[Xenogears 39: Monotheism is Not on the Menu [Shevat's Move + Broken Ties]]]> Mon, 15 Jun 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 38203039 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda28 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda28 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Let's go, Fei. In this episode we're acting on Emperor Cain's directions, concluding managers are no longer needed, denying mental health issues exist, selecting Ramsus as our favorite tool, realizing we're our own subordinate, registering as tenants in the room of cowardice, using our girlfriend as brain armor, defining The Coward and The Bully, encasing dangerous friends in carbonite, participating in apologetic group therapy, dismissing logic lords, downgrading to Steel Giant, and reading Grahf's sorrow. Don't acknowledge me when I put my headphones on. 


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]]> Let's go, Fei. In this episode we're acting on Emperor Cain's directions, concluding managers are no longer needed, denying mental health issues exist, selecting Ramsus as our favorite tool, realizing we're our own subordinate, registering as tenants in the room of cowardice, using our girlfriend as brain armor, defining The Coward and The Bully, encasing dangerous friends in carbonite, participating in apologetic group therapy, dismissing logic lords, downgrading to Steel Giant, and reading Grahf's sorrow. Don't acknowledge me when I put my headphones on. 


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]]> Xenogears 38: Annoying Handyman [Tears for Fears + Fall of Solaris] Xenogears 38: Annoying Handyman [Tears for Fears + Fall of Solaris] Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:00:06 GMT 0 36956289 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda29 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda29 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Chris didn't know Tears for Fears is a real band. On this episode we're telling Ramsus we're in different situations, putting four people in our party, realizing Emeralda is the original Bayonetta, meeting all of our friends again twice, declining to use our Jugend training, fighting Grahf in person, bungling a sacrifice play, replacing death with the next dimension, unmasking the Executioner, blowing up a bridge, and sorting out intense identity issues. You had no time to say goodbye but, don't worry, we'll meet again on the other side.


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]]> Chris didn't know Tears for Fears is a real band. On this episode we're telling Ramsus we're in different situations, putting four people in our party, realizing Emeralda is the original Bayonetta, meeting all of our friends again twice, declining to use our Jugend training, fighting Grahf in person, bungling a sacrifice play, replacing death with the next dimension, unmasking the Executioner, blowing up a bridge, and sorting out intense identity issues. You had no time to say goodbye but, don't worry, we'll meet again on the other side.


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]]> <![CDATA[Xenogears 37: Unworthy Molecular Machine [Krelian's Lab, Part II]]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:00:05 GMT 0 36956161 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2a 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2a 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 God has given us a right to rule over the universe. This time we're identifying our assholes, getting imprisoned in a CRT Danger Room, suffering betrayal, citing Arch Angels, arking artifacts, enduring an MRI, awakening some other inner-selves, reading three books a day, discovering the urobolus ring, nursing an obsession with our 500 year old girlfriend, defining damn it, fighting for a place where we can belong, going on drug benders, and blinging our sword. Now is not the time to contemplate morals. 


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]]> God has given us a right to rule over the universe. This time we're identifying our assholes, getting imprisoned in a CRT Danger Room, suffering betrayal, citing Arch Angels, arking artifacts, enduring an MRI, awakening some other inner-selves, reading three books a day, discovering the urobolus ring, nursing an obsession with our 500 year old girlfriend, defining damn it, fighting for a place where we can belong, going on drug benders, and blinging our sword. Now is not the time to contemplate morals. 


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]]> <![CDATA[Xenogears 36: This is Reality. Let's Go. [Krelian's Lab, Part I]]]> Mon, 25 May 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 36938789 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2b 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2b 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We're opening our minds and drinking the purest form of nutrition; people. This time we're getting sucked up in a dust chute, destroying ventilation infrastructure, gluttonously gobbling up idle foodstuffs, hacking another computer, eating Soylent in real life, manufacturing memory cubes, liberating mutated prisoners, murdering mutated prisoners, challenging the Bloody Bros, missing with magic, learning facts from holograms, and asking Citan questions he doesn't like. This is reality. Let's go. 


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]]> We're opening our minds and drinking the purest form of nutrition; people. This time we're getting sucked up in a dust chute, destroying ventilation infrastructure, gluttonously gobbling up idle foodstuffs, hacking another computer, eating Soylent in real life, manufacturing memory cubes, liberating mutated prisoners, murdering mutated prisoners, challenging the Bloody Bros, missing with magic, learning facts from holograms, and asking Citan questions he doesn't like. This is reality. Let's go. 


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]]> Xenogears 35: End of the Shitpipe [Escape Solaris + Lone Wolf] Xenogears 35: End of the Shitpipe [Escape Solaris + Lone Wolf] Mon, 18 May 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 36934540 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2d 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2d 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 This is better than Doc's bathtub! In these two chapters, we're loving raw sewage, wrecking security cubes, walking into wealthy Solarian's houses with poop-stained clothes, predicting soylent, telling our girlfriend her mom is hot, putting a shower in our rooms, getting a psycho rod from the maid, hacking our father's computer, desiring a trash chute, reporting our daughter as a burglar, punching out windows, walking out on our girlfriend, @$&%$#!, and evading death squads. Every time my dad caught me doing something I wasn't supposed to, "Fuse" started playing in my head.


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]]> This is better than Doc's bathtub! In these two chapters, we're loving raw sewage, wrecking security cubes, walking into wealthy Solarian's houses with poop-stained clothes, predicting soylent, telling our girlfriend her mom is hot, putting a shower in our rooms, getting a psycho rod from the maid, hacking our father's computer, desiring a trash chute, reporting our daughter as a burglar, punching out windows, walking out on our girlfriend, @$&%$#!, and evading death squads. Every time my dad caught me doing something I wasn't supposed to, "Fuse" started playing in my head.


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]]> Xenogears 34: Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich [Into Solaris] Xenogears 34: Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich [Into Solaris] Mon, 11 May 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 36836094 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2f 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda2f 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We're entering Solaris to beat up all the fascists, kill their leaders, and save the world. Our discussion and activities include wondering why Krelian let Emeralda go, denying the compulsion to adopt Maria, worrying about Hammer time, getting in shipping containers, realizing most of the fictional Solarian hellscape is 2020's actual hellscape, escaping with Samson, removing Samson from the physical plane, engaging The Chewbacca Defense, Entrenstrolling, either killing or returning to Mother God, dying our hair blue, and listening to government propaganda. Our friends will be disposed of in the Soylent System to revive the Gazel of old.


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]]> We're entering Solaris to beat up all the fascists, kill their leaders, and save the world. Our discussion and activities include wondering why Krelian let Emeralda go, denying the compulsion to adopt Maria, worrying about Hammer time, getting in shipping containers, realizing most of the fictional Solarian hellscape is 2020's actual hellscape, escaping with Samson, removing Samson from the physical plane, engaging The Chewbacca Defense, Entrenstrolling, either killing or returning to Mother God, dying our hair blue, and listening to government propaganda. Our friends will be disposed of in the Soylent System to revive the Gazel of old.


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]]> Season 2 Announcement Podcast Season 2 Announcement Podcast Tue, 05 May 2020 16:49:46 GMT 0 36779165 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda30 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda30 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Here's the results and announcement show we recorded as we revealed the results to ourselves, recorded on May 4. Thanks to everyone who participated! Looking forward to the conclusion of Season 1 (which will take 55 episodes) and a new beginning with Season 2!


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]]> Here's the results and announcement show we recorded as we revealed the results to ourselves, recorded on May 4. Thanks to everyone who participated! Looking forward to the conclusion of Season 1 (which will take 55 episodes) and a new beginning with Season 2!


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]]> Xenogears 33: Showing His Samurai Ass [Gate 3: The Deep] Xenogears 33: Showing His Samurai Ass [Gate 3: The Deep] Mon, 04 May 2020 11:00:03 GMT 0 36668617 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda31 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda31 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We did three podcasts in one night. Probably a mistake, but there is no other way to discuss Rattan other than through the lens of a slight drunkenness and exhaustion.

How do you do? This time we're concluding Drunk Elevator Guy is an assigned position, breaking the Fake Net, obtaining underwater gear for our Gears, getting physically wrecked by Mermen, getting mentally wrecked by Rattan, substituting wings for arms, meeting Kim (who is Fei), revealing Solaris from the ether, having moments in the sky, and choosing our own path. You will be hurt. They will also be hurt. If you take their side I'll kill you without a doubt, even from the back.



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]]> We did three podcasts in one night. Probably a mistake, but there is no other way to discuss Rattan other than through the lens of a slight drunkenness and exhaustion.

How do you do? This time we're concluding Drunk Elevator Guy is an assigned position, breaking the Fake Net, obtaining underwater gear for our Gears, getting physically wrecked by Mermen, getting mentally wrecked by Rattan, substituting wings for arms, meeting Kim (who is Fei), revealing Solaris from the ether, having moments in the sky, and choosing our own path. You will be hurt. They will also be hurt. If you take their side I'll kill you without a doubt, even from the back.



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]]> R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 Retrospective R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 Retrospective Fri, 01 May 2020 03:09:10 GMT 1:09:42 36602892 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda32 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda32 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 full  

And now, for something completely different.

Released in North America on May 1st 1999, R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 closed a generation—and a millennium—with character and class. Namco’s signature racing series, once defined by its garish spectacle and manic energy, finally relaxed into a state of confident sophistication.

This podcast is a complete retrospective on R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 written and narrated by Eric Layman.

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]]>  

And now, for something completely different.

Released in North America on May 1st 1999, R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 closed a generation—and a millennium—with character and class. Namco’s signature racing series, once defined by its garish spectacle and manic energy, finally relaxed into a state of confident sophistication.

This podcast is a complete retrospective on R4: Ridge Racer Type-4 written and narrated by Eric Layman.

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]]> 31: Bart vs. Bartholomew [Gate 1: Margie] 31: Bart vs. Bartholomew [Gate 1: Margie] Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 35399907 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda35 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda35 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 A boss battle and a plot device; let's go. We're missing glowing red buttons, observing Grahf's technology and Gate technology, noting Shakhan is a jerk and a punk, not getting it up, blessing up our Big Boy, min-maxing Elly and destroying god, crashing our PlayStation Classic, creating a republic, having sex out of sects, cultivating dread, tolerating Rico's bad ideas, de-committing from Chu-Chu, and trashing Ramsus' trash-ass. Margie's not in this chapter.


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]]> A boss battle and a plot device; let's go. We're missing glowing red buttons, observing Grahf's technology and Gate technology, noting Shakhan is a jerk and a punk, not getting it up, blessing up our Big Boy, min-maxing Elly and destroying god, crashing our PlayStation Classic, creating a republic, having sex out of sects, cultivating dread, tolerating Rico's bad ideas, de-committing from Chu-Chu, and trashing Ramsus' trash-ass. Margie's not in this chapter.


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]]> 30: Bartweiser, The King of Gears [Protect Nisan] 30: Bartweiser, The King of Gears [Protect Nisan] Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:01:00 GMT 0 35399744 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda36 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda36 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 You're really acting absent-minded chu-day. This time we're listening to half the soundtrack, "burning ass" back to the Yggdrasil, committing to Chu-Chu, fighting on a stage set, collecting our thoughts on a bridge, not robbing an abandoned store, exploring an actual spaceship, using our ancestral eyes to open sacred doors, lamenting the mausoleum's whack-ass dungeon, deathblowing each other, bonding pilots with robots, flying saucers, suggesting clergymen should commit suicide, and controlling Gears with our brains. Peace to all of those who come here. Use this giant weapon to murder everything.


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]]> You're really acting absent-minded chu-day. This time we're listening to half the soundtrack, "burning ass" back to the Yggdrasil, committing to Chu-Chu, fighting on a stage set, collecting our thoughts on a bridge, not robbing an abandoned store, exploring an actual spaceship, using our ancestral eyes to open sacred doors, lamenting the mausoleum's whack-ass dungeon, deathblowing each other, bonding pilots with robots, flying saucers, suggesting clergymen should commit suicide, and controlling Gears with our brains. Peace to all of those who come here. Use this giant weapon to murder everything.


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]]> 29: Perfect Robot Body [Intruder Alert! + Raid of Shevat!] 29: Perfect Robot Body [Intruder Alert! + Raid of Shevat!] Mon, 06 Apr 2020 11:00:08 GMT 0 35395316 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda38 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda38 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Unification increases power. This time we're listening to forest music in an air shaft, thinking Maria's combat prowess might be underdeveloped, hopping windmills, conjuring alternative Big Joe truths, listening to villains reveal critical plot machinations, regretting Rico, dealing with our machine father, speculating Billy's infatuation with Boondock Saints, riding Gears instead of piloting Gears, witnessing fantastic animal transformations, practicing telepathy with children, running like Naruto, implanting proximity voicemails in father robots, removing our limiters, and covering everything in cum at the safety party. I'm in that dangerous age right now. Sally forth. 


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]]> Unification increases power. This time we're listening to forest music in an air shaft, thinking Maria's combat prowess might be underdeveloped, hopping windmills, conjuring alternative Big Joe truths, listening to villains reveal critical plot machinations, regretting Rico, dealing with our machine father, speculating Billy's infatuation with Boondock Saints, riding Gears instead of piloting Gears, witnessing fantastic animal transformations, practicing telepathy with children, running like Naruto, implanting proximity voicemails in father robots, removing our limiters, and covering everything in cum at the safety party. I'm in that dangerous age right now. Sally forth. 


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]]> 28: Disagreeable Squirt [Sky City Shevat] 28: Disagreeable Squirt [Sky City Shevat] Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:01:01 GMT 0 35379197 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda39 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda39 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Let's not imagine things. It's not good for your heart. What's real is spilling beverages on podcast equipment, identifying 2018 lyrics in a 1998 song, appreciating Bart carrying plot points across time, squirting, collecting different shaded rocks, encountering Shevat's assemblage of ragtag rebels, parlaying with Chu-Chu's, turning yesterday’s tears into tomorrow's smiles, receiving all of the lore at Shevat Palace, blending our fake religion with Xenogears' real legends, getting gaslit by Yui, and meeting a 5x centenarian. The best part of this game can only happen if you have Bart with you. 


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]]> Let's not imagine things. It's not good for your heart. What's real is spilling beverages on podcast equipment, identifying 2018 lyrics in a 1998 song, appreciating Bart carrying plot points across time, squirting, collecting different shaded rocks, encountering Shevat's assemblage of ragtag rebels, parlaying with Chu-Chu's, turning yesterday’s tears into tomorrow's smiles, receiving all of the lore at Shevat Palace, blending our fake religion with Xenogears' real legends, getting gaslit by Yui, and meeting a 5x centenarian. The best part of this game can only happen if you have Bart with you. 


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]]> 27: Lost Porpoise [Babel Tower] 27: Lost Porpoise [Babel Tower] Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:00:02 GMT 0 35150368 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3a 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3a 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 We've lost our porpoise. On this episode, we're realizing the places we feared as children aren't to be feared as an adult, admiring Krelian's headgear, going over Chu-Chu composition theories, confronting the horror of 1998 physics systems, falling into dank pools, jumping over wreckage, speculating tower origins, obliterating Ramsus' weak ass (again), riding through Traffic Jams, meeting a young anime girl with pilot goggles, recognizing a familiar large Gear, and experiencing two SOL-9000 sequences. There is no escape, but it's only these Road Block guys. We're not on Facebook. 


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]]> We've lost our porpoise. On this episode, we're realizing the places we feared as children aren't to be feared as an adult, admiring Krelian's headgear, going over Chu-Chu composition theories, confronting the horror of 1998 physics systems, falling into dank pools, jumping over wreckage, speculating tower origins, obliterating Ramsus' weak ass (again), riding through Traffic Jams, meeting a young anime girl with pilot goggles, recognizing a familiar large Gear, and experiencing two SOL-9000 sequences. There is no escape, but it's only these Road Block guys. We're not on Facebook. 


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]]> 26: A Wild Second Amendment Appears! [Deep Sea Girl] 26: A Wild Second Amendment Appears! [Deep Sea Girl] Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:01:59 GMT 0 34717021 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3b 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3b 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Are you strong? This time we're dealing with the implications of Citan as party leader, finding Zeal in Xenogears, developing some suspicious Dan suspicions, meeting Id and wondering gosh what the heck is an Id, watching heroes come out of the rafters, LOOKING AT STONE'S FACE OR LACK THEREOF, clarifying a "fake awakening," questioning Grahf's motivations, doing bong rips with Citan, desiring a Jessie manga, laughing at Stone self-identify as an incel, noting the absurdity of suicide Gears, and observing the second amendment. All of this power is fake. 



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]]> Are you strong? This time we're dealing with the implications of Citan as party leader, finding Zeal in Xenogears, developing some suspicious Dan suspicions, meeting Id and wondering gosh what the heck is an Id, watching heroes come out of the rafters, LOOKING AT STONE'S FACE OR LACK THEREOF, clarifying a "fake awakening," questioning Grahf's motivations, doing bong rips with Citan, desiring a Jessie manga, laughing at Stone self-identify as an incel, noting the absurdity of suicide Gears, and observing the second amendment. All of this power is fake. 



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]]> 25: Yoke, Not Yolk [Ocean Floor] 25: Yoke, Not Yolk [Ocean Floor] Mon, 09 Mar 2020 11:00:03 GMT 0 34710312 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3d 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3d 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Oh god. We're missing our dead friends, determining the info line on Chu-Chu, keeping pictures of our house in our house, numbing our fear of Reapers with booze, ratioing/radioing Grahf with Miang, spending a lot of time in hallways and staircases, computing some math problems, watching nanomachine colonies assume human form, organizing the hierarchy of conspirators, figuring out what "yoke" means, and meeting some new Elements. Religion can only be used for wrongdoing. Drunks love to fight. It's ruined now, like some empty and hollow dream. I'm right, and you're the fucker here. 


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]]> Oh god. We're missing our dead friends, determining the info line on Chu-Chu, keeping pictures of our house in our house, numbing our fear of Reapers with booze, ratioing/radioing Grahf with Miang, spending a lot of time in hallways and staircases, computing some math problems, watching nanomachine colonies assume human form, organizing the hierarchy of conspirators, figuring out what "yoke" means, and meeting some new Elements. Religion can only be used for wrongdoing. Drunks love to fight. It's ruined now, like some empty and hollow dream. I'm right, and you're the fucker here. 


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]]> 24: Hacking with Friends [Burning Souls] 24: Hacking with Friends [Burning Souls] Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:00:03 GMT 0 34425901 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3e 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda3e 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Burning Desire, Burning Souls, Burning Rangers. It's been exposed. We spend our time stealing our father's gun, realizing you can't have separation of church and state if the church is also the state, uncovering Solaris' global meddling, watching dying people cough up blood and plot, shattering faith, enduring Bond villain soliloquies, watching Bishop Stone overdo it, and sitting through escalations of lore and plot devices. Current Xenogears toilet count: 2.



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]]> Burning Desire, Burning Souls, Burning Rangers. It's been exposed. We spend our time stealing our father's gun, realizing you can't have separation of church and state if the church is also the state, uncovering Solaris' global meddling, watching dying people cough up blood and plot, shattering faith, enduring Bond villain soliloquies, watching Bishop Stone overdo it, and sitting through escalations of lore and plot devices. Current Xenogears toilet count: 2.



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]]> <![CDATA[Xenogears 23: Various, Pointless Gun Envy [Reaper's Ship]]]> Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:00:04 GMT 0 34268462 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-23-various-pointless-gun-envy-reapers-ship 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda40 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-23-various-pointless-gun-envy-reapers-ship full 1 23 Thank you, my good man. As we board the Transport ship, we're speculating the nature of father and son ethical considerations, telling our garbage sons to quit their bullshit jobs, embracing for sex acts with blood relatives, identifying Bishop Stone as Billy's Citan, pinpointing silence as an indicator of wisdom, selling our bodies to perverts, laughing at Bart's Sideshow Bob-ass running animation, explaining the holy man violence paradox, busting down doors at full speed, and making our monster grow. If God wants me to kill, must I kill god?


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]]> Thank you, my good man. As we board the Transport ship, we're speculating the nature of father and son ethical considerations, telling our garbage sons to quit their bullshit jobs, embracing for sex acts with blood relatives, identifying Bishop Stone as Billy's Citan, pinpointing silence as an indicator of wisdom, selling our bodies to perverts, laughing at Bart's Sideshow Bob-ass running animation, explaining the holy man violence paradox, busting down doors at full speed, and making our monster grow. If God wants me to kill, must I kill god?


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]]> Xenogears 22: God Tolerates Our Heathenism [A Young Priest + The Orphanage] Xenogears 22: God Tolerates Our Heathenism [A Young Priest + The Orphanage] Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:01:00 GMT 0 34092500 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-22-god-tolerates-our-heathenism-a-young-priest-the 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda42 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-22-god-tolerates-our-heathenism-a-young-priest-the full 1 22 It's happened. We've come to value the meaningful and the meaningless information relinquished by Xenogears' localization. We're also justifying Margie as a manager, wondering why machines are gendered, watching the Ripper digest and disappear party members, identifying Ether Doubler acquisition methods, uncovering some ulterior motives at Etone H.Q., questioning Hammer's retention, referring to our biological father as "that man," expanding our nationalistic beef awareness, discovering mystery circles with Henry Mingus, pocketing used toilet paper, and refusing to touch a large turd. We wish happiness to all people of the world, even the house of sinning hermits.


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]]> It's happened. We've come to value the meaningful and the meaningless information relinquished by Xenogears' localization. We're also justifying Margie as a manager, wondering why machines are gendered, watching the Ripper digest and disappear party members, identifying Ether Doubler acquisition methods, uncovering some ulterior motives at Etone H.Q., questioning Hammer's retention, referring to our biological father as "that man," expanding our nationalistic beef awareness, discovering mystery circles with Henry Mingus, pocketing used toilet paper, and refusing to touch a large turd. We wish happiness to all people of the world, even the house of sinning hermits.


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]]> A conversation with Wesley Schantz of Bookwarm Games A conversation with Wesley Schantz of Bookwarm Games Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:36:38 GMT 0 33955547 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda43 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda43 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 Hey everyone,

Last week, we had a great conversation with Wesley Schantz of Bookwarm Games. We discussed the origin story of our podcast and went on to talk about a few big picture topics in Xenogears. 

The podcast is not released on his feed yet, but Wesley was kind enough to encourage us to use the audio as well. Wesley has a great ongoing series on Xenogears and previously did some analysis on Earthbound. I find his work to be quite thoughtful and academic, so please be sure to check out his podcast if you crave more Xenogears content.

The audio is just a Skype call, so it's not great, but I think we had a pretty fun conversation that covered a wide variety of topics (and you'll even get a bit of preview of our thoughts on some parts of the game that have not been covered in our weekly show yet).

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]]> Hey everyone,

Last week, we had a great conversation with Wesley Schantz of Bookwarm Games. We discussed the origin story of our podcast and went on to talk about a few big picture topics in Xenogears. 

The podcast is not released on his feed yet, but Wesley was kind enough to encourage us to use the audio as well. Wesley has a great ongoing series on Xenogears and previously did some analysis on Earthbound. I find his work to be quite thoughtful and academic, so please be sure to check out his podcast if you crave more Xenogears content.

The audio is just a Skype call, so it's not great, but I think we had a pretty fun conversation that covered a wide variety of topics (and you'll even get a bit of preview of our thoughts on some parts of the game that have not been covered in our weekly show yet).

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]]> Retrograde Amnesia Season 2: Building the List [Updated] Retrograde Amnesia Season 2: Building the List [Updated] Tue, 11 Feb 2020 04:27:07 GMT 0 33927742 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda44 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda44 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 So, we've made our list. We recorded our discussion. If you'd like to hear it, please listen. If not, I'll post the list in the comments later! Thanks for your support, please enjoy us blabbering about our respective destinies. 

In the future, you (the patron) will be able to vote on our next game. More to come!

UPDATE: The voting begins on 3/15/2020 and will run through the end of April. At that time, patron modifiers will be added to the totals and we'll announce the winner. 

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]]> So, we've made our list. We recorded our discussion. If you'd like to hear it, please listen. If not, I'll post the list in the comments later! Thanks for your support, please enjoy us blabbering about our respective destinies. 

In the future, you (the patron) will be able to vote on our next game. More to come!

UPDATE: The voting begins on 3/15/2020 and will run through the end of April. At that time, patron modifiers will be added to the totals and we'll announce the winner. 

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]]> <![CDATA[Xenogears 21: Classic Protagonist Incapacitation Sequence [Ramsus' Attack]]]> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:01:00 GMT 0 33881588 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-21-classic-protagonist-incapacitation-sequence-ram 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda45 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-21-classic-protagonist-incapacitation-sequence-ram full 1 21 Ramsus attacks in this chapter, but so does Dominia. And so does Jessie, but only with his words and only at Bart. We're also questioning the ethical responsibility of GameSharks, admiring pirate and salvager bonds of sea and fire, expressing rage with quick camera cuts, missing every mother fucking X attack, noting the time/space error by the Yggdrasil's depth charges, not paying attention to Ramsus' Mirror Stance, conjuring an NPC Doctor Academy FanFic, jerkin' off with Bart, outlining Nisan sect and Etone god compatibility, and discovering what a butt kissin' talker looks like. We will kill god, but can you crucify an invertebrate?

Blitz your ears with Ramsus' folly and get ready for that moment when you lose your guy. Is your guy you? Or are you asleep? 


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]]> Ramsus attacks in this chapter, but so does Dominia. And so does Jessie, but only with his words and only at Bart. We're also questioning the ethical responsibility of GameSharks, admiring pirate and salvager bonds of sea and fire, expressing rage with quick camera cuts, missing every mother fucking X attack, noting the time/space error by the Yggdrasil's depth charges, not paying attention to Ramsus' Mirror Stance, conjuring an NPC Doctor Academy FanFic, jerkin' off with Bart, outlining Nisan sect and Etone god compatibility, and discovering what a butt kissin' talker looks like. We will kill god, but can you crucify an invertebrate?

Blitz your ears with Ramsus' folly and get ready for that moment when you lose your guy. Is your guy you? Or are you asleep? 


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]]> Xenogears 20: Pranks in an Unknown Land [Friends Again + Betrayal] Xenogears 20: Pranks in an Unknown Land [Friends Again + Betrayal] Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:01:01 GMT 0 33678474 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-20-pranks-in-an-unknown-land-friends-again-betraya 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda47 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-20-pranks-in-an-unknown-land-friends-again-betraya full 1 20 It's true; Xenogears and Xeno-adjacent podcast may be our own dark cruel destiny. This time we're dissecting idioms, unlocking abilities through the power of narrative, expressing surprise at some casual abduction, picturing "Malibu Bart," remembering Hammer is on this blasted ship, fantasizing over non-erotic Old Maison fan art, determining the current villain tier list, continuing our adoration of portrait-less doctors, and dabbling in some hypno-programming. You shouldn't play pranks in an unknown land. 

Thanks for your support, get ready for that time in the game where you lose your main character for bit, because that's coming next!


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]]> It's true; Xenogears and Xeno-adjacent podcast may be our own dark cruel destiny. This time we're dissecting idioms, unlocking abilities through the power of narrative, expressing surprise at some casual abduction, picturing "Malibu Bart," remembering Hammer is on this blasted ship, fantasizing over non-erotic Old Maison fan art, determining the current villain tier list, continuing our adoration of portrait-less doctors, and dabbling in some hypno-programming. You shouldn't play pranks in an unknown land. 

Thanks for your support, get ready for that time in the game where you lose your main character for bit, because that's coming next!


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]]> Xenogears 19: Do Men Drink Hard Seltzer? [Men of the Sea] Xenogears 19: Do Men Drink Hard Seltzer? [Men of the Sea] Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:00:05 GMT 0 33468640 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-19-do-men-drink-hard-seltzer-men-of-the-sea 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda49 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-19-do-men-drink-hard-seltzer-men-of-the-sea full 1 19 We. Are men. Of the sea. Or at least we try to be. Between the shards of these emotions we're discovering men who love to drink, clarifying the way to say words, debating more origin species of demi-humans, talking through the safety of combining inebriation and work assignments, learning a new card game, seeing what happens when antagonists are consumed by rage, and recognizing that treasure and people are both treasures. We don't know if the Captain is dosing his crew but we do know that you should never get wasted in an elevator.

Thanks for your continued support. Please stay tuned for additional banter on men, priests, and the monsters they murder.

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]]> We. Are men. Of the sea. Or at least we try to be. Between the shards of these emotions we're discovering men who love to drink, clarifying the way to say words, debating more origin species of demi-humans, talking through the safety of combining inebriation and work assignments, learning a new card game, seeing what happens when antagonists are consumed by rage, and recognizing that treasure and people are both treasures. We don't know if the Captain is dosing his crew but we do know that you should never get wasted in an elevator.

Thanks for your continued support. Please stay tuned for additional banter on men, priests, and the monsters they murder.

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]]> Time of the Bonus 4: Tournament of Gears, Part II Time of the Bonus 4: Tournament of Gears, Part II Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:01:00 GMT 1:27:13 33306051 false https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda4a 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda4a 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 bonus 4 Hello. The Tournament of Gears will now conclude. We're talking through the other half of the bracket en route to crowning the true champion. Which Gear will be the best, coolest, and most impactful based on criteria we set mid-conversation? Listen, find out, and react to our lunacy! Spoilers are abound!. 


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]]> Hello. The Tournament of Gears will now conclude. We're talking through the other half of the bracket en route to crowning the true champion. Which Gear will be the best, coolest, and most impactful based on criteria we set mid-conversation? Listen, find out, and react to our lunacy! Spoilers are abound!. 


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]]> Xenogears 18: Dry, Crumbly Conversation [Escape Ignas + Adrift at Sea] Xenogears 18: Dry, Crumbly Conversation [Escape Ignas + Adrift at Sea] Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:01:02 GMT 0 33278479 true https://shows.acast.com/retroam/episodes/xenogears-18-dry-crumbly-conversation-escape-ignas-adrift-at 5ff8bc737ab58530b3edda4b 5ff8bc63d1bd6937700aee41 xenogears-18-dry-crumbly-conversation-escape-ignas-adrift-at full 1 18 Life is a movie that flashes back between floating platforms and floating ships. Between these dire circumstances we're evaluating Fei's exclusive friendship with portrait characters, sorting out the Ministry's latest AOL keywords, noting Bart and Rico's mutual admiration, learning some Gear aesthetic choices, watching Fei's miserable attempts to fish with his bare hands, accepting more Shevat revelations, and trying to find common ground in Fei and Elly's mutually assured destruction.  Citan isn't a man, he's a concept. And we may be him. Precarious, ominous, whateverous - it's OK not to feel whole. 

Check us next week and we final become persons of the sea! Thank you for your continued support!


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]]> Life is a movie that flashes back between floating platforms and floating ships. Between these dire circumstances we're evaluating Fei's exclusive friendship with portrait characters, sorting out the Ministry's latest AOL keywords, noting Bart and Rico's mutual admiration, learning some Gear aesthetic choices, watching Fei's miserable attempts to fish with his bare hands, accepting more Shevat revelations, and trying to find common ground in Fei and Elly's mutually assured destruction.  Citan isn't a man, he's a concept. And we may be him. Precarious, ominous, whateverous - it's OK not to feel whole. 

Check us next week and we final become persons of the sea! Thank you for your continued support!


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