Ep. 208 - How To Correctly Pronounce Ocarina, with Jackie Cole

Community Manager for Singularity 6 Jackie Cole joins the panel to cover the dark truth behind convention booths, not letting the gacha getcha, and Call of Looney. Questions this week: Can games be used as tools for mental health? (03:00) Why does every MMO feel so bad to play, and can that be fixed? (07:04) Are emulation hobbyists saving or destroying video games? (11:26) Who are the nicest, most well-adjusted people in video games? (15:53) What do most people not know about running a convention booth? (20:06) Dirtbag Spencer asks: How can we make gamers care less about brands and more about the people who make video games? (23:57) Has a video game ever satisfactorily addressed a complaint you had with it while you were playing it? (29:08) Where would be the point in a documentary series about game companies where a still flips to a photo negative and the voiceover goes “And that’s where it all went wrong?” (33:15) Is there any way for Call of Duty to redeem itself ethically? (37:29) LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamer Tags (41:57) Recommendations and Outro (49:18) Quickly, discuss this episode in the forums, before they get you! A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED: Zero Wing Puss N Boots: Pero’s Great Adventure Swery’s The Good Life Monster Hunter: World Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Stardew Valley Depression Quest Sky: Children of the Light Journey Brain Age: Train Your Brain In Minutes A Day! The Insert Credit Dot Com Forums Metroid Dread Is Already Running On Switch Emulators Players Have A Ton Of Complaints About Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games C418 2 years of failure by C418 The World Famous Vincent Anita Sarkeesian Insert Credit’s Own Ash Parrish Victoria Tran Indie Megabooth Noclip Documentaries Higurashi series NieR Destiny 2 Tomak: Save the Earth, Again Tomak: Save the Earth, Again’s reviews page on Mobygames, which calculates mostly based on Brandon’s 2002 insert credit review Gunhouse Deadly Premonition Star Wars: Battlefront II The uncomfortable truth of Call of Duty’s latest marketing campaign by Kazuma Hashimoto Battlefield 2042 Castle Wolfenstein series Insert Credit Recommends: ACTION BUTTON Reviews Cyberpunk 2077, the 1-6 Route Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.