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Ep. 420 - The Weed Episode, with Patrick Miller

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Show Notes

Insert Credit Fighting Game Correspondent, author, and cannabis connoisseur Patrick Miller joins the panel to answer questions Jaffe wrote while stoned, and play another round of Smokey Bong Bluntry.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Patrick Miller. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

House

HIPAA

Cannabis

“The laws of this castle require that your friends be transformed into cards.”

patreon.com/insertcredit

Memento (2000)

Boredoms

Polaroids

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium

0: How does smoking weed or other drugs affect playing video games? (07:05)

League of Legends

StarCraft

SiSTer FPGA

Psilocybin

Battle Chef Brigade

Pinball Hall of Fame

The Bally Game Show

1: Are video games art? (13:16)

Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics

2: Apart from military or law enforcement, what are the most suitable professions for a video game character to have?(14:39)

Mario

Major League Baseball

Fall Guys

Kazuma Kiryu

Minecraft

Steve

Fortnite

Pipemania

Frank West

Dead Rising

Marvel vs. Capcom series

Umamusume: Pretty Derby

Marvel Spider-Man series

J. Jonah Jameson

Travis Touchdown

Metal Wolf Chaos

Sol Badguy

Sakura

The Great British Bake Off

Balrog

R. Mika

3: How do you sell Densha de Go to Americans? (20:45)

Densha de Go! series

Gunpla

Nex Playground

Kinect

Wii Fit series

Milwaukee

Circuit City

Wii

Dhalsim

American Truck Simulator

4: Take a title of a Western Video Game, pretend it’s a Japanese Video Game, and then localize the title for a western audience. (24:06)

Dragon Age series

Dragon Warrior series

The Last of Us

Horizon series

Under Night: In-Birth

Maniac Mansion

Injustice: Gods Among Us

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

Batman

Superman

Secret Wars

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Vampire: the Masquerade

Warhammer 40,000

The Insert Credit Quick Break: Videolamer.com (31:32)

5: Moshworld asks, design a Yakuza side story about weed (32:54)

Yakuza series

Goro Majima

Budtender

YakuZaZa

Anyway You Want It

moonlight desires

Let’s Restart from Tonight

Perfumed Words | Where Your Love Lies

6: Has a game company or game series ever had more than just one good logo design? (38:19)

Capcom’s logos

Sega’s logos

Taito’s logos

Konami’s logos

Final Fantasy’s logos

the Final Fantasy II swoopy logo they’re talking about

Nintendo’s logos

Panzer Dragoon Zwei

Panzer Dragoon

Street Fighter’s logos

The King of Fighter’s logos

Kia’s logos

7: Who are the Phineas and Ferb of video games? (44:21)

Phineas and Ferb

Perry the Platypus

Cheech & Chong

Jay and Silent Bob

Floigan Bros.: Episode 1

Master Chief

Cortana

Halo series

Naruto

Sasuke

Penn & Teller

ToeJam & Earl

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

Beaker

It Takes Two

Kane & Lynch series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Smokey Bong Bluntry - Hard Mode No Zeldas (49:43)

that short of Brandon rattling off all them damn games

Recommendations and Outro (54:56):

Brandon: Kamikaze Girls (2004), Azumanga Daioh, The Outfoxies, Check out old websites, play Christmas NiGHTS and Blue Stinger

Frank: Check out the Video Game History Foundation, play Raw Danger! and Sonic Adventure

Patrick: Play golf at the Montclair Golf Course, From Masher to Master 2: The Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Fighting Game Player

Ash: Take your PTO, put a coat on that baby

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