Discussing Our Dissertations

On this week’s show, we talk (maybe too long) about Sony and Microsoft’s recent financial reports, lament being too poor to “buy games when they’re new if you like them,” chat about what we’ve been playing (the Resident Evil Village Castle demo *drool*, Tender, Planet Zoo, Fallout: New Vegas), and we discuss each of our respective dissertations (see show notes for titles). Contact us: [email protected] Joey’s on Twitter: @Losperman 00:00:21: Boom. Bella purrs, right off the bat 00:02:25: Sony and Microsoft’s respective financial reports 00:13:33: PlayStation Plus’s May games and overall offerings 00:16:43: [Mreow] 00:17:10: Super Mario Party gets online play 00:20:00: Cyberpunk 2077 gets a new patch and Tab is hopeful 00:22:22: Mortal Kombaaaaaaaaaat is released. We want to see it 00:26:32: The “you should buy games at full price if you like them” debacle 00:30:58: Joey plays the Resident Evil Village Castle demo and some Fallout: New Vegas 00:35:39: We both play a lil indie game called Tender (iOS) 00:44:27: Tab’s still investing time in Planet Zoo 00:51:30: A brief/general overview of “the dissertation” 00:58:00: Tab’s dissertation: “Moderation as Resistance: A Study of Aggression and Response on Twitch.tv” 01:19:00: Joey’s dissertation: “Soft Power-Up: Japanese Video Games as Cultural and Rhetorical Exports” Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com