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Ep. 416 - Impulse Rifle
🕑 Added 2025-11-24 06:36:18 +0000 UTCA game historian, a game journalist, and a game developer discuss Half-Life 3, The Game Awards, and mpreg.
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
SHOW NOTES:
America’s Test Kitchen: How to Make Brussels Sprouts Taste Good
Brandon’s Vegetarian Gravy
Start with a roux
Add milk (oat is probably fine)
Add nutritional yeast, soy sauce, herbs like sage and thyme, cumin, beer if you want
Just keep cooking it up until it tastes tangy
Optional: add a smidge of vinegar
Ash’s Greens
Sautee Turkey necks until kinda brown
Add chicken stock, sauteed onions, garlic, whatever
Braise meat until tender
Add greens (not kale)
Add seasonings (bay leaf, thyme, sage, pepper, mustard powder, smoked paprika, garam masala, whatever)
Boil another 20-30 minutes
Add a little apple cider vinegar but not too much
1: What happens at an independent game development studio immediately after they release the game they’ve been working on for years? (13:18)
2: What are the best possible conditions under which to play a video game for review purposes? (16:22)
3: What can we say about Rebecca Heineman? (22:28)
4: What video game would have the best lipstick and nail polish line? (31:13)
5: Low Guppy asks, if you could take the assets of any videogame and make a completely different game with them, which game would you use and what would you make? (36:59)
6: BreadyToDie asks, how hard should a game push a player to play a certain way? (39:08)
7: What effect does The Game Awards actually have on video games? (43:47)
8: How are they going to one-up the Gravity Gun? (49:22)
LIGHTNING ROUND: One Sentence Review but it kind of also becomes Name Design halfway through (54:52)
Recommendations and Outro (01:00:57):
Brandon: All Those Moments by Rutger Hauer, please review Demonschool on Steam if you’ve bought it
Frank: Windswept, review the games you like
Ash: Let the people in your life know you love them, Sailor Moon Abridged
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I'm in my "recording these in addition to having a full time job" era -jaffe
AbandonedRocketship
Ash in her "I do the lightning round how I wanna do it" era Rest in peace to Rebecca, happy to be learning about her later rather than never.
Dustin Reno
You can really feel Alex's sanity starting to unravel by the end of that intro haha Loved the memories and positivity in question 3. Like Ash, Rebecca was someone I only learned of recently but so glad I did. She seemed like such a wonderful person.
