Show Notes
Marsh and Chris celebrate the new year by poking the wound in our psychic gestalt. Also: are AI tools ethical? Yeah, we solve that one. 100%. Bosh. Done. Also also: space whale visual novel South Scrimshaw, team shooter The Finals, Robocop: Rogue City, mystery game This Bed We Made, Pentiment and Cocoon.
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Alex’s COVID-recovery blogpost. He wouldn’t need to oxygenate his blood if he was a real man.
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South Scrimshaw Part One: a sci-fi visual novel written in the style of a nature documentary about alien whales. It’s excellent!
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The Finals is a very sweaty place for dinguses and a thrillingly dynamic shooter.
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Robocop: Rogue City is a 6.5/10 shooter which is a huge credit to its producers.
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This Bed We Made is a mystery game in which you play a cleaner in a hotel.
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Pentiment is a superb medieval murder mystery.
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Cocoon is a puzzle game in which you are a bug with magic balls.
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