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Episode 93: Jet Set Radio Feb 05, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross dig through the ditches of Jet Set Radio.

It's gang warfare in its most stylish and innocent form. It's also a gleeful tribute to free expression in the face of corporate oppression. It's got one of the best soundtracks in any game, ever. Difficulty issues aside, this is a unique game that's worth playing if only to see the kinds of strange things that happened in the Dreamcast era.

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Extrasode: Brave Fencer Musashi Jan 29, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Brave Fencer Musashi.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[These guys. Don't watch this](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0_oPPK6eA)
[Malabar Farm](www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42yI287qD4)
[Treehouse Cuts](www.yelp.com/biz/the-tree-house…nd-toys-new-york-2)
[Palace music](www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJ8ZrQ0DyQ)

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Episode 92: Brave Fencer Musashi Jan 22, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross absorb Brave Fencer Musashi.

What happens when a young swordsman is summoned into a world built entirely around food puns? An episode that splits our hosts on whether or not Brave Fencer Musashi stood the test of time. This won our Winter Action RPG 2015 poll, and Kole sincerely hopes he doesn't offend any listeners by saying mean things about this game.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Musashi](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi)
[Musashi Samurai Legend](www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6c4ltTvDOU)
[Malediction Prophecy](twitter.com/liartownusa/status/304839693458092032)
[Flame Mammoth](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q0TtnNZ1Rg)
[Steve Blum](www.steveblumvoices.com/)
[Time Makes Fools of Us All](www.imdb.com/title/tt0584442/quotes)
[Frieza](www.youtube.com/watch?v=njvgKUSR8Ss)

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Extrasode: Rock Band Jan 15, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Rock Band.

Links of Note:

[Gneiss Schist](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schist)
[Guitar Hero Arcade](guitarhero.wikia.com/wiki/Guitar_Hero_Arcade)

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Episode 91: Rock Band Jan 07, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross jam on Rock Band.

Music games used to be massive, but now they barely exist. Those plastic instruments helped us feel like we could play music. For me personally, these games helped me get better at appreciating music, and encouraged me to learn more instruments myself. Rock Band was the king of the heap, in quality if not always in sales, and now you can hear us jaw about music for three hours.

Links of Note:

[Counting Blue Cars](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM)
[Drum Notation](www.google.com/search?espv=2&tbm…1&biw=953&bih=848)
[Rock Revolution](www.youtube.com/watch?v=656yWb3hjc4)
[Rock Band 3d Printing](www.pddnet.com/articles/2009/10/…ck-band-figurines)
[Hole Guitar Isolated](www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-xUwDARVb4)
[RHCP2014](rhcp2014.com/)
[Role Models](www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bst-K65RpI)
[Money City Maniacs- Sloan](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXh81JTt0ng)
[The Way - Fastball](youtu.be/b0wfu3tOrtQ)
[For Real - Okkervil River](www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlB2XLmA4Ec)
[Venus - Television](www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3d5ZdE4vY)
[Digging For Something - Superchunk](www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvdXEHlz-Qg)
[Shangri La - The Kinks](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt0IXkIVvo4)

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Extrasode: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Jan 01, 2015

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Links of Note:

[Pollos Hermanos](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQ2F3T1ydM)
[Greatest Mod of All Time](www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF-XMtNEudQ)
[LGNPC. Look at these fonts!](lgnpc.org/)
[False Dmitriy](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitriy_I)
[KOTOR iOS](www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYFO1ESyJzA)

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Episode 90: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Part 3) Dec 25, 2014

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross meander through the remaining quest lines in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

This is the final chapter of our Morrowind adventure. Things take a religious bent as we look at the Tribunal Temple and the Imperial Cult, then we get a little martial with the Imperial Legion. We ask which Great House is the greatest, and decide that building your own house is kinda dumb. Finally, we serve the occult by doing the Vampire and Daedra quests. It's a show 'n' tell grab bag of the rest of the best.

LINKS OF NOTE:

[Onion Romantic Comedy](www.theonion.com/articles/romanti…an-arrested,757/)
[EC on MMO Quests](www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAkP5VjIv8)
[VVVVVV](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxuacwotoQw)
[Cool World](www.youtube.com/watch?v=q32xMkroUwE)

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Episode 89: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Part 2) Dec 18, 2014

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross profess ambivalence about the guild quests in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Sure, the world is in danger... but there's rats to be slain. Also, corrupt and inept guild leaders to oust. Part 2 of our Morrowind series dives into the Fighters, Mages and Thieves guilds, along with the Morag Tong (Assassins). This is where the game falls down a little bit, and the "go here, kill thing, grab thing, return with thing" quest structure starts to wear thin.

Links of Note:

[Lamarckism](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism)
[Percious Mercious, Vvardenfell State](www.youtube.com/watch?v=gODZzSOelss)
[The Peter Principle](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle)
[Liartown](liartownusa.tumblr.com/)

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Episode 88: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Part 1) Dec 11, 2014

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross expand upon the main quest of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

It's the biggest game we've ever done for the show. It's so big that it's immune to our usual treatment. This isn't a text you can read from front to back. Instead, it's a world you inhabit. This episode sees us completing the main quest of Morrowind, fulfilling the Nerevarine prophecies and defeating the evil Dagoth Ur. But that's only one part of the story. Next week, we will look into the various guilds of Morrowind.

Links of Note:

[Elder Lore Podcast](elderlore.wordpress.com/)
[Mod we used](www.ornitocopter.net/morrowind-overhaul/)
[Linda Carter in Skyrim](www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLSbQ72mHE)
[Renraku Arcology](shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Renraku_Arcology)
[Banhammer](www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiII8z_KK7g)
[Sometimes when you're searching for Mojo, you find miracles](www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLzZITnwVLk)
[Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKcIG8D8FOY)
[Vivec Essay](fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/10/2…d-part-3/)
[Space Jockey](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_WJLptNNE)