Life is a movie that flashes back between floating platforms and floating ships. Between these dire circumstances we're evaluating Fei's exclusive friendship with portrait characters, sorting out the Ministry's latest AOL keywords, noting Bart and Rico's mutual admiration, learning some Gear aesthetic choices, watching Fei's miserable attempts to fish with his bare hands, accepting more Shevat revelations, and trying to find common ground in Fei and Elly's mutually assured destruction. ...
2020-01-20 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello today. We begin with a routine check to see if this podcast is enhancing our damaging our love of Xenogears. We move on to lose faith in the acumen of our favorite doctor, determine the best air-jacking sequence in role-playing games, make sense of Deathblows, become suspicious of Hammer's connections, appreciate framing and directing decisions, acknowledge airship feints, hat-tip Grahf's non-stop flexing and insistence on remaining "fucking awesome," and shake our heads at a cert...
2020-01-13 12:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It's about that time, players. We're discussing giant robots and the feelings people are feeling while inside of them as we wipe the floor with villainous stooges, recognize the necessity of equipping items before a boss fight, question Citan's concern for the innocent, observe Rico's declining mental state, watch Elly turn face, and witness how much Fei loves heart-to-heart conversations before, during, and after serious conflict. Heart stopping mysteries are solved, robots fall in slow moti...
2020-01-06 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy new year! It is time to make some declarative statements about this podcast.
The Xenogears series will end sometime in 2020.
Sometime around September 2020, we're going to complete our run of Xenogears. At the time of this post, we've recorded conversations up through the "Protect Nisan" chapter. That's gotten us through about 30 episodes of the show. Much of this is still in production. We're currently estimating that the show will take about 50 episodes.<...
2020-01-05 19:33:16 +0000 UTC
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We live in a new room. It has a playlist of one song. It never stops. We're also talking about Kislev's strength-based merit system, meeting a new candidate for Best Doctor, receiving advice from a toilet nun, interpreting Kislev's iconography, sending Rico's brain to hell, shutting Hammer up, jumping on a moving train without committing suicide, and being amused by Fei's resolve to "just go wild." Fei denies he cares about Rico but due to classic male insecurity he cannot admit he cares abou...
2019-12-30 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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We're growing, and we thank you for supporting the podcast.
It's about time to refresh our tier benefits to better fit the structure of the show and community. We aren't removing or moving any content from any tier, but we want to add some stuff!
Here's what the structure looks like today:
- Community-driven feedback show (Public): You may have already heard our rather scatterbrained comment and question show. We think that'll eventually morph into...
2019-12-23 20:35:09 +0000 UTC
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Behold the introduction of a brand new segment: Egregious Oversights and Corrections. After that we're bebopping back into Nortune’s D Block where we try to avoid talking about Citan's deviancy, attempt to trash talk our arena battling opponents, use our weakness as strength, and listen to some D Block poetry. We also realize Hammer might be playing us, and determine Gundam is patient zero for mech fiction. Then Wiseman literally drops in and solves inscrutable riddles from previous anime f...
2019-12-23 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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What's the best way to determine which Gear in Xenogears is the best gear? Well, a 64-robot tournament, of course. And if you're thinking this is scientific, well, then you're dead wrong. Anyway, this is just a dumb little idea to create discussion around the mecha of Xenogears. Thank you for your continued support and of course let us know what you think in the comments!
Links & References:
This episode has been released to the general public, but we wanted to make sure it was posted here for those of you who are subscribed to the patron-only feed. We only got through four episodes of comments and feedback. That was before we really had very many active patrons, but as we move along, your questions and comments will be prioritized for discussion! Thanks!
December's bonus episode on Gears/Mecha is in production, please look forward to it!
2019-12-20 15:24:46 +0000 UTC
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It's episode 13, the best number. We begin with an outrageous Blue Guy/Red Guy Digital Thunderdome sequence before moving onto the Battle Arena and discovering someone tried to make a fighting game in the middle of this role-playing game. We also find Hammer The Supplier in our modern society, get body shamed by French cooks on a planet that doesn't have France, question whether Rico seeks justice or recruitment, stomp out grotesque monsters in the sewer, experiment with vertical platforming,...
2019-12-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey. We're in Nortune now, which means everything is different until it becomes the same again. Enigmatic forces of questionable benefit are everywhere. Prison initiation rituals are unavoidable. There are suspect choices on diversity and representation. Fei finally sleeps a lot. We also discuss pretentious attempts at creating introspection, our wish for a D Block Animal Crossing spinoff, bomb collars in popular fiction, Rico's clear origins in Blanka, and bro'ing out Hammer The Supplier. At...
2019-12-09 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
It's Episode 11, our 12th episode. We open with Ramsus' nightmare and try to determine who's pulling the most strings. We battle with Elly's Loser Squad and watch Elly get dosed with space racism. We witness Vanderkaum realize his destiny, watch Ramsus transition from Powerful to Pathetic, note strong directorial decisions with archaic assets, identify who desires the power, and wonder if there really is a Mother God. Finally, the "Demon of Elru" debuts with monstrous, awestruck-dre...
2019-12-02 12:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Goals: We reached our $40/month goal! This means that you'll be hearing from us soon about the process for Season 2. Obviously, still a long way to go before we start recording that, but it's good time to drum up ideas and announce the selection process, which of course, will include input from patrons. More to come on that!
We've added a new $100 goal, and when (if) we reach that, we're going to do a patron-only series on the Perfect Works.
2019-12-01 20:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Schöne Grüße. Xenogears is a Japanese role-playing game, which means we have to wind up in a church. After poking around in Nisan we spend some time in its cathedral. Here we learn incest is an aspirational fantasy, contemplate the morality of genociding the Gonzales clan, and speculate Gnosticism’s influence on Sophia, the Ethos, and Nisan. Later, we discuss Solarian abductions, conduct operations for an all-out assault against to recapture Aveh, and what happens when we meet characters...
2019-11-25 12:34:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello and welcome to our second Patreon-only bonus episode.
This time, we're covering the confluence of events that lead to the creation of Xenogears. Along the way, we talk through the careers of the major players that developed the game, the legacies and influences they drew from, and everything else that comes up along the way.
Though we're not talking specifically about Xenogears, we do made some moderately-spoilery references to scenes and characters that we haven't cov...
2019-11-21 23:33:25 +0000 UTC
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We've made it. It's now time to put together everything we've learned and do the Combo.
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2019-11-18 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Good day! It is time to make several more Dragon Ball references.
Subscribe: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | 2019-11-12 02:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Salutations! Old Maison is about to dump some lore, so we would like to dump a podcast in your ears.
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2019-11-05 02:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Thanks again for your continued patronage. Here's a few behind the scenes updates of where we are at with the production of the show.
Where we're at with the weekly show:
As of today, we've recorded content for 22 episodes of the weekly show. Many of these are still going through the production and editing process, but we're really happy with where we are in the overall process. These episodes take us through the introductory chapters with Billy. In terms...
2019-11-01 18:11:12 +0000 UTC
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Greetings! It is finally time to spend some quality moments with our good son Bart.
Subscribe: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | 2019-10-29 16:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
The Time of the Bonus is upon us! For October's bonus podcast, we're taking a peek at the Xenogears demo disc that was included with Parasite Eve. This a more off-the-cuff type of podcast where we just turn the mics on, play through the demo, and chat about the differences between the demo and the final game in real time. The format also gave us an opportunity to look back at the early moments of the game with new context from our ongoing playthrough.
Along the ...
2019-10-25 22:02:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi. Welcome to our room of floating JPEGs.
Before spending an entire episode on Xenogears' Desert Attack chapter, we inventory the accumulation of foreshadowing and its primary distribution method, Citan Uzuki. We go on to debate the logistical fallacies of Grahf's costume, spin our propeller-hats at Citan's conversation with "Emperor," and meet a surely band of sand pirates. We must find god's resting place and resurrect him. That is our final prayer.
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2019-10-23 23:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello! A special, hearty, and slightly drunken thank you to all of our patrons! This episode we're covering the chapter of Dazil.
Subscribe: Apple | Stitcher | 2019-10-15 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hello!
Thanks to our early patrons! Your support is really encouraging and we think you'll be pleased with the incremental improvements we've made on the weekly show going forward.
As we've hinted, we're going to start putting together a monthly bonus episode for our patrons ($3 tier and above). We've been kicking around a few ideas, but before we start, we'd like to solicit ideas from our patrons.
In terms of our current replay of Xenogears, we're about at the Thames chapte...
2019-10-11 17:08:59 +0000 UTC
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We'll continue to roll out various benefits for our patrons as we go along, but as a small token of our appreciation, all patrons will be able to enjoy episodes a few days early. Specifically, we'll release episodes Friday morning here on our Patreon page (instead of Monday).
If you've never used the patron-only RSS link, Patreon has a h...
2019-09-29 15:55:11 +0000 UTC
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First of all, thanks to everyone who has already subscribed to the podcast and helped spread the word. It means a lot that so many people are excited to hear the show. Due to the quicker-than-expected ramp up, we're starting a few weeks early.
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | 2019-09-28 17:33:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey, thanks for checking us out. Our weekly show will release on Monday, October 14 and will be available on several major podcast services and YouTube.
Subscribe to the podcast at any of the platforms below or listen in a browser.
Apple Podcasts | 2019-09-21 17:12:16 +0000 UTC
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