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:

1. Can games be used as tools for mental health? (03:00)
2. Why does every MMO feel so bad to play, and can that be fixed? (07:04)
3. Are emulation hobbyists saving or destroying video games? (11:26)
4. Who are the nicest, most well-adjusted people in video games? (15:53)
5. What do most people not know about running a convention booth? (20:06)
6. Dirtbag Spencer asks: How can we make gamers care less about brands and more about the people who make video games? (23:57)
7. Has a video game ever satisfactorily addressed a complaint you had with it while you were playing it? (29:08)
8. 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)
9. 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.