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God Hand E2: The Dark Souls of Double Dragon [Stage 1]

It’s us, the Have Fist Will Travel Rambler. Now that we’re playing the actual game, we’re powering on the PlayStation 2, scaling difficulty to player performance, applying a Nelly bandaid, wondering what the hell year this is, finding a town with nothing but bars, killing a satan, valorizing the pimp lifestyle, honing in on ass, keeping Kick Me on our back, meeting a new council of fucked up guys, unleashing a poison chihuahua, skipping a climb animation, regretting 2006’s depiction o...

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 12]

Our tragic trauma is at an end, as we’re seeding a backstory for the kirschwasser, realizing the 99 series was a prototype, seeing the Canaan cameo, knowing when the pieces are aligned, believing in something, animating a tentacle slap with alarming prowess, shooting at jpegs, looking for a clean shot on Momo’s sister, ingesting androids, loving all this goo, removing a sacrifice from KOSMOS, finding a will of our own, and showing an ass to prove a life. Jpegs can’t take damage. But our...

God Hand | Recording Session #2 | STAGE 2 & 3

Last night's stream. For some reason, the post didn't go up, I swear it's only 85% my fault! -Chris

Final Fantasy Tactics | Recording Session #2, Episode 2

Let's tactic. 

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 11]

What terrible decision will I have to make? You have made the decision to hear us talk about lifting the veil off secret space labs, blaming poor direction for bad moments, reliving the Junior vs Ziggy Caring Showdown, taking a side against analytics, trying to buy the Elsa, doing pandora’s box shit, becoming a jerk off pilot, giving purpose to the kirschwasser, referencing the vessel of anima, running robots like shit, rejecting contamination theory, entering the Momo mind palace, screamin...

God Hand E1: Gay Heroes (Non-Derogatory) [Introduction]

Hello and welcome to our fifth miniseries, which is covering God Hand! In the introductory episode, as we go over God Hand’s background, we’re loving creativity, releasing digitally only on PS3, valuing the experience over ownership, remembering P.N.03, making God Hand right after Resident Evil 4, living in the new, regarding Final Fight Streetwise as “shit,” using company money to make whatever we want, reading manual lore, slicing off a head, turning into gay heroes, filling our pla...

Final Fantasy Tactics | Recording Session #1 | E1

Hi, it has begun! Come join us on Discord for the first recording session of Season Six. 

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 10]

What terrible decision will I have to make? You have made the decision to hear us talk about lifting the veil off secret space labs, blaming poor direction for bad moments, reliving the Junior vs Ziggy Caring Showdown, taking a side against analytics, trying to buy the Elsa, doing pandora’s box shit, becoming a jerk off pilot, giving purpose to the kirschwasser, referencing the vessel of anima, running robots like shit, rejecting contamination theory, entering the Momo mind palace, screamin...

God Hand | Recording Session #1 | STAGE 1 & 2 (maybe)

A new era has arrived. GOD BLESS THE RING. 

Recording Session | Xenosaga Character Tournamnet

This was recorded on Friday. I forgot to post a notification on Patreon because we were running late. Here is the archive for those who would like to see it! Fully edited episode will be out near the end of the Xenosaga season. 

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 9]

I will make you never leave me. Other compulsions-on-demand include swatting a glass out of a hand, Big Eye Twitching on the floor, losing control, shaping up to face the past, recapping plot points in the shower, emotionally slipping the tongue, meeting Virgil’s inevitable fate, once again stating broad character and plot themes out loud, 1v1’ing a whale gnosis, reminding Virgil of The Horrors, dropping a Feb, and admiring the rearrangement of Virgil’s participation in the plot. The fa...

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 8]

I’ve been tarnished by the filth of this world. Become tarnished with us as we’re chatting with Mark about anime, meeting Jin in the astral plane, witnessing young self with dead dad, becoming a time moderator, letting rocks upset us, applying the flashback filter, glowing up Pellegri, suffering illusory pain, conflating UDO with URTV, severing the neurolink, revealing time’s vulnerability to interference, remaining off the grid, adding sexual tension to Jin and Chaos, and toasting eith...

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 7]

We’ll dream together, to make that quest come true. Quest objectives include introducing a giant robot fantasy, forcing the hungover into work, referencing a UTIC fight that we did not see, aiming real guns at fake children, requiring a tailor, cracking Junior’s head skull, lending out KOSMOS, worrying about a UTIC infiltration, seeing AAA data encryption, desiring Ziggy’s full body beating, name dropping an E.S., expressing faith as a robot, flashing back to Feb, and using moves from t...

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 6]

You’re gonna be my scenario executor. Before that can happen, we’re drawing Gaignin five different ways in five different seconds, extending the neck a few inches, imprinting Mizrahi memories into a robot brain, giving a child boy man a pistol, hoping there are no undocumented emulators, playing volleyball without a net, fearing artificial thunder, sharing a perverse taste in hobbies, drawing unto madness, learning not to judge others based on physical appearance, observing the fucked rab...

A Steady Influx of Bonus Stuff is Coming

We only have one more episode to record for Season Five, so be ready for a steady influx of cool bonus stuff in the coming weeks. 

Anime on DVD will be released on Fridays as long as we have episodes to release. To date, we have a total of eight episodes completed, with five already released. We do plan to record the final four episodes pretty soon. 

The GOD HAND miniseries will also be recorded pretty soon, and we'll release episodes on...

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #19 (Episode 31-32)

Recording a podcast, who'd a thunk it?

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 5]

Are sandwiches anime? Are we? Well, we are powering a ship with a Zohar, sucking the gnosis into lady abs, ignoring a Momo fascination, vibrating pupils, getting prejudice instead of racist, relating anxiety to the pizza portal, realizing Jimmy Johns functions with society, accelerating Allen’s arc, clarifying emulation devices, reproducing the Zohar Room scene like 1:1, visiting Betty, finding more salt, failing to contain curiosity, doing an empathy, stalking other party members, and play...

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #18 (Anime 7-9)

ANIME!!!!!!!!!!!

Anime on DVD: Xenosaga - The Animation [Episode 4]

You don’t have to see your coffin to know you’re dead. You don’t have to see this podcast to know when we’re flashing back to the past for Ziggy and Momo, busting Margulis’ shit up, denying the want of mother, ramming plot through the narrative, referencing the Dock Colony, detecting a marker, calling KOSMOS a robo-skirt, adding a KOSMOS sabotage angle, savoring every moment with Virgil, accenting “Kukai” differently, realizing we’re all doomed, and wondering if pain will make...

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #17

It's anime night, and we're covering episode 4, 5, and 6 of Xenosaga - The Animation

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #16

Join us once again for a live recording session. This is the raw, uncut  version of the recording session without edits, music, or FakeNet  interactions. This video will be up for about two weeks.

CLOSING IN TWO HOURS! | FINAL POLL | Season Six: The Tactics Season

Which game should be the subject of season six of Retrograde Amnesia?

Cool Updates & Cool Announcements

Hi RealNet! Nice to see you. As always, we appreciate the support over the years. Here are a few updates on what's going on over here.

Xenosaga Episode I production is wrapping up! We still have to record a few more episodes (2-3), rounding out the season out at about 30 episodes. Then, we'll be ready to move back into production on the Anime on DVD: Xenosaga the Animation ser...

CLOSING SOON | POLL #2 | Pick a Season Six Game

Which game would you rather us cover for season six?

For games with different versions and enhanced remakes, all will be considered in our coverage of the game.

Results of this poll are not final, there will be other options in subsequent poll and there will be a final round to determine the ultimate winner.

Poll will be closed tomorrow when we start recording around 7PM ET. 

POLL #1 | Pick a Season Six Game

1.10.2024: I've seen enough — Final Fantasy Tactics moves on to the final round.

Which game would you rather us cover for season six?

For games with different versions and enhanced remakes, all will be considered in our coverage of the game.

Results of this poll are not final, there will be other options in subsequent poll and there will be a final round to determine the ultimate winner.

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #15

Join us once again for a live recording session. This is the raw, uncut  version of the recording session without edits, music, or FakeNet  interactions. This video will be up for about two weeks.

POLL | Let's Make a Sixth Season

We're torn on which direction to go for the next season of the podcast.

We're either going to continue to slog through Xenosaga for another game or do a season covering a tactical JRPG (Final Fantasy Tactics, et al). 

Pick one:

Xenosaga Podcast Recording Session #14

Join us once again for a live recording session. This is the raw, uncut version of the recording session without edits, music, or FakeNet interactions. This video will be up for about two weeks.

INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier]

Our second episode of Infinite Perfect finds the intersection between the bizarro world of film negatives and the fantasy zone of Space Harrier. It's the same place at the same time, and one cannot exist without the other. Ride the cycloptic mammoth through the checkerboard pastel wastes to figure out how in the hell Eric believes all of this must be true.

Xenosaga Recording Session #13

Well, hello there. Let's podcast!