Ep. 419 - Half-Life 3: Rd Person
🕑 Added 2025-12-15 11:26:38 +0000 UTCGuest host Esper Quinn asks Frank, Ash, and Brandon about Xbox’s Black Friday failure, The Game Awards, and creative uses for soy sauce.

Hosted by Esper Quinn, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
SHOW NOTES:
1: Vanessa B asks, what is the most ridiculous fighting game outfit you've seen and what about it irks your nerves? (04:51)
2: You guys see the Nex Cube outsold the Xbox on Black Friday? (09:29)
3: If you ran a video game history foundation, what would you do with an unreleased NES game? (18:30)
4: Given that we record this show on the Thursday before it’s released, recap what happened at The Game Awards (23:46)
5: Yeso asks, if video games had a currency, who would be on the $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills? (30:05)
Insert Credit Flavored Questions that are too stupid for the Dirtbag
how do you politely tell a hookup that they have massively overstayed their welcome?
6: What age should a person play their first video game? (37:27)
7: What is the soy sauce of video games? (41:04)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Even More Magic the Gathering Cards (45:39)
Recommendations and Outro (52:47):
Frank: The Video Game History Foundation’s Winter Fundraiser Calendar of Events
Brandon: Bullets Over Summer (1999), Jai D - Keichitsu Vol.1, Yoshie Kashiwabara - Luster, please review Demonschool
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Comments
Esper Quinn
didn’t wanna guild the lily on this one, and I thought “Half-Life 3” in the title would get more clicks 😎
Dustin Reno
We've been wondering when the whole "video games" being a thing happens with our kiddo. I go out of my way to not play stuff around our kid, and the only thing we've ever done together is "Donut County" on the ipad for a long airplane flight. Kind of just waiting for them to ask or bring it up and go from there. Agree with Ash, the internet is a way more daunting thing I'm NOT looking forward to hah. Goodness, that question 7! Ash is the best hahaha Great job steering the ship this week, Esper
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(brandon:) I'm glad we didn't name this ep anything to do with soy sauce. gotta give the kids an audio surprise