Ep. 442 - Even More Questions Too Stupid for the Dirtbag, with Esper Quinn

Editor and media critic Esper Quinn joins Ash and Brandon in answering more questions from the insert credit forum.

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

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Insert Credit Flavored Questions that are too stupid for the Dirtbag

1: marurun asks, who is the most pointlessly bland fighting game character? Moreso than “guy in a karate gi”. (03:17)

Divekick

Goiken Muyou: Anarchy in the Nippon

Fighting Vipers

Comix Zone

Streets of Rage series

Super Smash Bros. series

Fire Emblem series

2: ana asks, what’s the most common hidden gem? (05:55)

Rupee

Celeste

Cult of the Lamb

Deltarune

NiGHTS into Dreams…

Radiant Silvergun

Panzer Dragoon

Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

3: yeso asks, has anyone ever cried at one of the Leisure Suit Larry death scenes? (07:48)

Leisure Suit Larry series

Omegaverse

Ron Jeremy

Pamela Anderson

Carmen Elektra

Maxim

4: SteveWithaB asks, is it time to retire the term “gamer”? (11:06)

Call of Duty series

Halo series

5: Tradegood asks, if Xbox is Mountain Dew and Doritos, and Nintendo is Coca-Cola and Pringles, what is Sony? (13:40)

Xbox

Mountain Dew

Doritos

Nintendo

Coca-Cola

Pringles

Sony

Pepsi

Lay’s

Black & Mild

Blunt

Bong

Candy cigarette

Dr Pepper

Sega

Jaguar

RC Cola

Konami

Amiga

Dreamcast

Ramune

Hamburger

French fries

6: Death_Strandicoot asks, who should be the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Video Games? (16:16)

The Hague

Geoff Keighley

David Cage

Shigeru Miyamoto

Mario

Pac-Man

Pong

7: Mnemogenic asks, how would you adapt a 10 yen game into a big budget AAA video game? (18:24)

10 yen coin

Call of Ponchy : Mahjong Warfare

Frogger

Dragon Quest

Web3

8: Taliesin_Merlin asks, design an Amy Rose video game based on one of the following novel premises. (20:41)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I, Robot

The Name of the Rose

I, Claudius

I, Tonya (2017)

The Name of the Rose (1986)

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic and the Black Knight

Lollipop Chainsaw

9: Tom asks, what are the seven basic game genres? (23:33)

The Seven Basic Plots

10: mtvcribs asks, what happened to thong-era final fantasy (26:19)

Final Fantasy X-2

Final Fantasy XIII

Tetsuya Nomura

Final Fantasy XV

Cindy Aurum

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Final Fantasy XVI

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Clive Rosfield

Jon Snow

Game of Thrones

11: mack41 asks, is Google Maps cop warning alert a strand game? (29:07)

Death Stranding

Dark Souls series

12: beets asks, if you were going to make a table from videogame hardware, what would you use? (30:53)

BattleTech pod

Xbox One

PlayStation 2

Logan Paul

13: rootfifthoctave asks, is sega the company that gets the most “[not-sega game] feels like a [sega] game” comments spoken about it? (32:24)

Soulslike

Treasure

Ubisoft

Assassin’s Creed series

Stardew Valley

14: KingTubb asks, how often do the following characters change their bed sheets: (35:11)

Solid Snake

Naked Snake

Venom Snake

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Jack Bauer

Liquid Snake

Raiden

Princess Peach

Heavy Rain

Harvest Moon series

Deadly Premonition

15: PassionQuotient asks, what’s the video game equivalent of reading all of Shakespeare? What about James Joyce? (38:26)

William Shakespeare

James Joyce

WarioWare series

Dragon Quest series

Final Fantasy series

Geoffrey Chaucer

Kingdom Hearts series

Dune

Atari 2600

16: Kiki asks, what’s Jollibee? (41:07)

Jollibee

Jollibee x FINAL FANTASY XIV Collaboration Campaign

Watch_Dogs 2

17: YellerDog asks, what game is the most fun with the worst graphics? What game is the least fun with the best graphics? (42:58)

Dwarf Fortress

Rogue

MindsEye

Grand Theft Auto VI

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