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Panzer Dragoon Saga E8: Big Slurp Potential [Black Ruins]

There’s no need to hurry back to your personal vendetta. As we try and locate the chemical toilet, we’re revisiting the psychic time tunnel, trusting our opponent in a moment of peril, lingering in the spaces between action, injecting mechanical noises, slaughtering science experiments, shifting pallets through the underground, finding dragon prototypes, discharging plant juice, trading elevator confessions, falling parallel to our dragon, performing a dramatic mid-air rescue, and reevalu...

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Streaming some Panzer Dragoon Saga, Disc Three!

Okay. Let's disc three. That's a verb now.

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E7: Crash Bandicoot Angles [Uru]

I’ll kill you. As we ride this dragon cool, we’re witnessing obscure dialogue, laying eyes on a gorgeous ocean, ripping the skin off a whale, locating Protect Keys, flipping a whale, overheating the Reaper, annihilating annihilators, finding keys, resting our stonker, casting the sky in a dusk orange, rising the black ruins, judgment daying the Black Fleet, wrecking an ancient guardian, breaking the final seal, shattering the physical plane of reality, blasting Atolm’s aerods, directing...

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Now live for a Panzer Dragoon Saga podcast recording session!

We're about to do the next few pods! Come take a peak behind the scenes and delightfully troll us. Live at 7PM Eastern!

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E6: CG Cutscene in the Hole [Georgius]

I heard they dug up some horror from the past, so I came to check it out. As we lift ourselves up with tornadic energy, we’re defying intruder removal systems, descending into the tornado, delivering shit parts, accessing the hole, blowing a spy mission, resisting flame torture, benefitting from an improbable rescue, hauling off an ancient horror, sending this monster back to its grave, debriefing with Gash, tinkering with tools, remote viewing sunken southern ruins, and destroying a one-of...

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Live for a Panzer Dragoon Saga stream

We're working our way through Uru and seeing what lies beyond! Come say hi!

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E5: Soylent Green is Monsters [The Village of Zoah]

Dragons are God’s only other creation. After our vacuous intro, we’re extracting illumination rocks, reading from the Dragon Bible, entering the town of Zoah, finding kinship with hunters, raiding Jared’s shop, starring in pornography, reading four books, listening to an old man talk lore, observing neon alcohol, killing kenny, diving in a well, hiding out from grandpa, giving Abner money for some food, trading around a verato pipe, witnessing several varieties of zealotry, acing a hunt...

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Panzer Dragoon Saga | Podcast Recording Session | E5-E6

Going live for a recording session soon. Come see the sausage! 

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E4: Please Let Me Morph Dragons [Forbidden Zone]

He may look shady, but he is a man you can trust. Trust us, we’re petting our dragon husband, being mistaken for a hunter by a child, laying down arms upon the site of Gash’s pendant, taking time with conversations, extracting revenge, pulsing campfire light, selling the mauler, gaining the trust of the caravan, paradoxically entering the Forbidden Zone, morphing our dragon into a beeftank, fighting off bio technical terrors, launching into the sky, boarding a flaming ship, bleeding from ...

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Chris is live for some more Panzer Dragoon Saga (Disc 2!)

Hello! I'm streaming my prep for the next few episodes of the PDS miniseries. Come say hi!

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Going live to play some more Panzer Dragoon Saga!

It's disc two! Let's sit in a chair!

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E3: All Kinds of Philosphersizing [Garil Desert]

Revenge is as good of a reason as any. Before we plot that course, we’re wearing nice slacks, reveling in the tranquility of the world map, allowing the six button controller to confound our senses, visiting Conana’s Nest, engaging the campfireside chat, triple dosing CG cutscenes, naming our dragon, blasting the bug queen, flying through secret worm family passages, fighting the most disgusting thing alive, shifting mucus, feeling worm sympathy, razing a desert oasis, harming the peacefu...

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Panzer Dragoon Saga | Podcast Recording Session (E3-E4) | 10.13.2022

Stop by and say hello! Chatting on Discord and YouTube. We'll be covering the remainder of Disc One. Full edit for episode three will be available as early as next week!

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E2: My Boss? You Mean My Dad? [Excavation Site + Canyon Deep Gulch]

The one who controls Edge, what is your name? While you figure that out, we’re firing a gun at work, operating an RPG in a JRPG, indiscriminately killing workers, falling down a chasm, nuking the capital, putting our name in the game, becoming an orb, staying outnumbered, getting saved by hot dragon fury, reentering the psychic time tunnel, realizing the dragon understands me, derailing flight, boomerang lasering items, reading the Leader’s Note, remaining impressed with the battle system...

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Going live for another Panzer Dragoon Saga stream!

Stop by and see the power of the science! Or say hello! Or not! 

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Panzer Dragoon Saga E1: The Dream of a Salary Man [Introduction]

It’s time, we’re actually covering Panzer Dragoon Saga now. As we practice saying the word “Azel,” we’re explaining why this game is $1200, testifying that the struggle is worth it, clarifying the localization for idiot Americans, projecting youthful energy, losing the source code, going full 3D, blowing the advertising budget on an Edge mask in EGM, giving away the first disc, dissing the US audience, confusing the release date with Burning Rangers, observing the power of Uru, read...

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Archive | Podcast Recording | Panzer Dragoon Saga E1-E2

This week was a little wonky in terms of scheduling, and I forgot to push a notification that we were recording, while simultaneously leaving the stream viewable to the general public. So hopefully between that and Discord people were able to catch the stream if they were wanting to!

Anyway, here's the archive. We keep up the two most recent streams before moving them to the cellar!

Thanks!

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Pods of Destiny II: Suikoden Character Tournament

In Suikoden, there are 108 Stars of Destiny. And some other people who were not destined to be stars. We fight off sleep and each other for two big boy hours to produce the ultimate star of the only destiny. And we filed away a top sixteen, who will enter the Tournament of Champions and battle the best sixteen characters from Suikoden II. All but the most elite human brain minds will struggle to comprehend the breadth of cataclysmic character clashing. I love alliteration, I fear nothing.

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Going live for some more Panzer Dragoon Saga

Continuing the podcast prep tonight for a bit. Stop by and say hello!

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Panzer Dragoon Zwei E1: Hot Dragon Fury [Full Game]

Zwei means two in German. As we cover Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, we’re adding context to the Sega Saturn’s place in time, running at 28.6 mhz, transforming sprites into polygons, implementing a hidden difficulty slider, having balls (???), sparing a mutated khouriat, beginning destiny, crawling through a canyon before we can fly, soaring in blissful isolation, going berserk on that ass, dividing our routes, cruising through the forest of taboo, making full use of bone claw hands, evading a r...

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Chris is going live on for Panzer Dragoon Saga stream!

Come join!

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Livestream | Podcast Recording Session | Panzer Dragoon Zwei

We're going live soon for a recording session! Chat's in Discord, but also feel free to use the YouTube chat if you're not a Discord user. See you there!

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Panzer Dragoon E1: My Dragon Knows the Way [Full Game]

Hi. Welcome to our Patreon-exclusive Panzer Dragoon miniseries. On the first episode, while covering the original Panzer Dragoon, we’re identifying what a rail shooter is, reading relevant quotes from developers, creating context sensitive music, crossing over with Mega Man, riding coolias, stretching water across an infinite plane, mashing buttons as fast as possible, soaking in a lore bath, shooting projectiles out of the sky, sniffing out our opponent, double transforming through layer s...

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A Chat with Aidan Moher, author of Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West

In this special episode, we sit down and chat with Aidan Moher on his upcoming book, Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final FantasyDragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West. We talk about the writing process, the history of the JRPG genre, and the pioneers and innovators who created the games we love.

For more on the book, go to www.fightmagicitems...

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Going live to record the Panzer Dragoon podcast tonight!

At 7PM ET, we're off and running (flying?) on our Panzer Dragoon miniseries. Tonight, we'll be recording the first episode covering the original Panzer Dragoon (1995). 

Please look forward to the final episode, which will be out as soon as we complete it at the $5 tier. (probably within the next 1-2 weeks).

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Livestream | Podcast Recording Session | Suikoden II | S4E40 & S4E41

We're about to go live in about thirty minutes! Join us on YouTube and Discord!

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We're going live for a Suikoden II recording session

See you there!

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Interview with Arnie Roth, conductor of Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

A special interview with Arnie Roth, conductor of Distant Worlds. Interview performed by ssdninja.

Distant Worlds is a concert series centered around the Final Fantasy franchise. Produced by AWR music and debuting in 2007, Distant Worlds brings the music of Final Fantasy to audiences around the world.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of Distant Worlds and the 35th anniversary of Final Fantasy. The concert series pr...

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We are currently recording some pods!

Join if you can! Sorry about the late notification.

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Ask Aidan Moher, author Fight, Magic, Items, a question about the upcoming book

Aidan Moher, author of Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West will be joining us soon to dicuss his upcoming book, which happens to align with our collective interests.

If you have any questions that you'd like us to ask him about the book during the conversation, please post in the comments!


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