Critical but casual approaches to current, past, and future video games six times a week. In addition, guests will periodically share their own aesthetic and personal experiences with games in conversation! Subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/hegelbon if you'd like to hear special patron-only bonus episodes!
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 days 23 hours 14 minutes
No Cartridge 180 - Gaming and The Sluts
A solo episode! I discuss experimental literature while musing on Dennis Cooper's The Sluts and Kathy Acker and ask why we don't have experimental games in the same way. The answer will reveal a bit about how medium expectations impact art in a way I think will be rewarding for all. Or not, but hell, I tried OK.
Viewer discretion advised on this one for some intense descriptions of sexualized violence...
Patch Notes 2.19 - FaZe Clan is NOT for the Children
Da Boyz are back to converse about the news of the week! Gail Simone's dumb comic antics, Meyers Leonard's terrible racism antics, Star Citizen's depressing money laundering antics, and more!
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No Cartridge 179 - Dinner for Shmups (ft. @ marc_normandin)
Series regular Marc Normandin is BACK to chat about RetroXP- his ambitious substack project ranking the top 101 Nintendo-published games.
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Patch Notes 2.18 - Trev and JondaVision
Our boys hop through the news of the week, starting with some dismal comics chat! We also cover EA slowly allowing BioWare to maybe become good again, the ongoing disaster of Hogwarts Legacy, and the "bad death" of Valve's Artifact. Yay!
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No Cartridge 178 - Sean McTiernan and the Creeping Australia
Sean McTiernan (All Units, Hundreds of Pixelated Dead Bodies) stops by for some incisive talk about the mundane and dumb kernel at the core of cost-benefit games criticism, and indeed much of our entire relationship with media in 2021!
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Patch Notes 2.17 - Crazy Miserable Sex Tourism
Trev and Jon return from a brief vacation, President Biden demands PS5s for the masses, Anthem goes to live on a lovely farm upstate, and Bloodlines 2 continues to not exist as a video game. :(
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No Cartridge 177: The Odyssey (Working Title) ft. @illybocean
Boonta Vista's own Andrew "Illybocean" shows up to have an actually interesting version of the Scorsese v. Marvel debate, chat about AAA games that buckle under their own ambition, and how Nintendo may in fact be very good at what they do after all.
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No Cartridge 176: Dia Lacina's Revenge
Friend of the show Dia returns for some chat on FFXIV, as well as plenty of classic NC digressions into FFXI, Ultima Online, MUDs and lots of talk about pissing into a jug.
Anyone who had "Trevor effortlessly explains an MMO's fast travel mechanic as a resolving dialectic" on your bingo card, congratulations!
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No Cartridge 175: Why Games?
No Cartridge Monarch Trevor Strunk does a solo episode to tackle some of the big questions of Cultural Studies, and chart the direction of the show to come in the next few months. What is the origin and purpose of the Western Canon? Is "Is Thor Ragnarok Anti-Colonial?" an acceptable title for an essay? Find out within!
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No Wallscroll - Kyousougiga 7 & 8
Piss and Half-Vaccinated Trevor link up to discuss Kyousougiga episodes 7 and 8. Cool!
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