Best Chrono Cross Podcasts (2024)

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Final Fantasy Tactics E15: Brother's Blood in My Eyes [Lesalia + Underground Book Storage, Part I] 1:05:38

1h ago1:05:38

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What nonsense is this? Well, it’s an audio variety show where we’re playing Dycedarg’s theme for a meeting with Zalbaag, wondering if Zalbaag is dumb, failing to avoid Alma, proving truth words, fighting a heresy examiner, perverting into the Lucavi, profaning the gods, cutting a deal with Alma, rumoring Elmdore’s death, storing books underground, …

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Final Fantasy Tactics E14: Precursory Games of Thrones [Chapter Three Intro] 55:51

1d ago55:51

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Mentally, are you becoming a coward? Vocally, we’re entering a pope meeting, pronouncing “Orlandeau,” feeling lost in the sauce, using a prisoner’s confession as an excuse to kill a guy, recognizing Orlandeau’s prowess, showcasing multiple councils, haggling over war logistics, closing the borders, going against the big tide, performing the forbidd…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E13: Belly Based Goblin Teeth [Lionel Castle] 1:04:26

10d ago1:04:26

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Think of us simply, as allies. Allies who are not touching our supper, expressing a shit head belief system, revealing a princess as false, laying out different scenarios, figuring out scenes were added to the PSP release, swearing vengeance to killers, granting Wiegraf a second act, finally 1v1’ing Gafgarrion, feeling cold, thrice damning Gafgarri…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E12: Wrong Doing [Gologrand Execution Site] 1:02:44

12d ago1:02:44

1:02:44

Stop looking at girls, stop looking at rocks. Instead, look at us with your ears as we’re warning Ramza off the criminal conspiracy, reading six books, wondering who pilled Delita, realizing the nobles and the clergy are united in corruption, sniffing out a fake, losing another princess, preferring Dragoon to Samurai, falling for a gallows-based sw…

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Do HD-2D Remakes Exploit Nostalgia for Profit? | Turn Based #9 58:10

28d ago58:10

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based, I'm joined by some new friends to discuss the importance of nostalgia when looking at HD-2D remakes. Are companies running out of ideas? And did gaming and media peak in the 90s? Find The Failsafe here: https://wearethefailsafe.com/By Erek Ladd

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Final Fantasy Tactics E11: In Spite of Objective Holiness [Machine City Goug] 57:07

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Just when I thought this fen could grow no fowler, we’ve cast another pod. Indulge us as we’re believing in god to get through a gate, identifying the manipulator, vexing with such worryment, listening to myths and legends, understanding auracite as everything magic, listening to the church’s perfect pitch, murdering the dead, appearing clergy and …

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Final Fantasy Tactics E10: The Most Religious Man Available [Zaland Fort City] 1:05:37

26d ago1:05:37

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Those who live by deceit are the first to die by it. Those who listen to this episode will hear tales of jumping in first-person, rescuing a pony-tailed squire, blinging the magic rocks, climbing walls and talking shit, bringing a gun to a wizard fight, realizing we’re in Final Fantasy XII’s future, losing patience with Mustadio, finding Christ wit…

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Why We Love JRPGs! | Turn Based #8 1:02:50

30d ago1:02:50

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based, I had the great opportunity to chat with Paige aka FemTrooper who is a fellow Earthbound enthusiast, parent & YouTube content creator. We chat about why we love JRPGs, some of our favorite games and series, what JRPG is perfect for the little ones in our lives and why side quests are SO bad. Yo…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E9: The Taste of Lies [Zirekile Falls] 51:42

1M ago51:42

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The day grows lovelier by the hour. Just like us, as we’re eavesdropping on a conspiracy, threatening a heretic brand, wonder which magic spell hurts the worst, rescuing a large bird from goblins, gouging eyes out, climaxing at a waterfall, realizing Gaffgarion’s true nature, writing the scenario in real time, refusing to step over dead guys, under…

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Is Chrono Cross A Bad Game Or Just A Bad Sequel? | Turn Based #7 1:06:35

2M ago1:06:35

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based, I’m joined by my friend and Chrono Cross expert Seth from the Frame Skip Podcast as we discuss the intricacies of Chrono Cross. What makes it a bad sequel, if it even can be considered a sequel? And is it a good standalone game? Check out Seth's podcast here: https://youtube.com/@frameskippod V…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E8: The Father's Keeping [Fort Zeakden] 47:50

1M ago47:50

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It’s about time you learned about difference. The difference between battling under the threat of crimson snow, taking hostages, shooting the hostage, mongering flowers on a street corner, looking for a woke, losing ourselves to vengeance, flitting a forked tongue, igniting the gunpowder, debating the merits of new-fangled cut-scenes against old sc…

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How This Team Gave Us The Real Final Fantasy VII Remake | Turn Based #6 1:02:09

2M ago1:02:09

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based, I'm joined by Tsuna from Tsunamods, a team dedicated to breathing new life into some of our favorite classic games with graphic overhauls & voice acting. I wanted to learn more about his journey, how he got into modding Final Fantasy VII and how Tsunamods has become the face of the Final Fantas…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E7: To Pill Others [Lenalia Plateau + Fovoham Plains] 58:01

2M ago58:01

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Fighting is the only way out. Listening to this episode is the only way we can start listing Chris’ top three tactics, aligning with Dycedarg, swallowing Dycedarg’s shit, realizing the rich won’t save the poor, criticizing common blood, speculating Argath is a radicalization agent, understanding a meager fate, realizing Milleuda is willing to die f…

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This JRPG Was Funded Within 48 Hours?! Here's Why | Turn Based #5 54:12

2M ago54:12

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Send us a Text Message. There's a brand new JRPG on kickstarter right now called Alzara: Radiant Echoes and it was funded within 48 hours! I had the great opportunity to interview Emma, the creative director of Studio Camelia (the developer of Alzara) to discuss the development of this game, what exactly goes into putting a game on kickstarter, and…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E6: Who Will Lick the Boots? [Thieves Fort] 55:41

2M ago55:41

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Animals have no god. But they have us, and so do you, as we’re correcting the marquis, nesting menus, rending equipment, interpreting the kindness of time, being false on another’s behalf, once again realizing knights are cops, wasting strength and vitality, wondering if executing a scenario requires executing a god, demanding more than an apology,…

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Why This YouTube Success Story Is Like an RPG | Turn Based #4 1:01:46

2M ago1:01:46

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based I'm joined by YouTube creator Kevin Kenson to discuss his journey with games and how his YouTube channel has amassed almost one million subscribers. From gaming accessories to lifestyle tech, Kevin has a unique perspective on what he does and how he's managed to sustain it for so long. You can f…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E5: Here for Politics [Dorter Slums + Zeklaus Desert] 45:02

2M ago45:02

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Welcome to the rat cellar. A beating has loosened our tongues, allowing us the chance of identifying the wrong song, speaking false to a knight, getting a guy muddy, discovering an actual Dune reference, endlessly reviving Ramza, employing an ineffective mage, configuring the proper Post Up, beating up prisoners, bearing a ribald tongue, filling di…

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How Religion & Mythology Shaped JRPGs | Turn Based #3 54:53

2M ago54:53

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Turn Based I'm joined by The Well Red Mage from YouTube channel GameLogica to discuss religion and mythology in JRPGs, how they're presented and at what point they started to appear in these games. Find his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@GamelogicaYT Subreddit mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E4: For Want of Coin [Igros Castle] 50:57

2M ago50:57

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Mayhap your ears not fail you. For, if they do, you wouldn’t hear us telling the same stories, loving our brave lads, creating a time paradox, seeking justice for a waylaid marquis, hunting down a whoreson, shitting into Argath’s mouth, being assigned to guard the base, chatting on a thinking bridge, throwing a rock into a pond, bursting a sister’s…

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From Concept to Console: How To Make A JRPG | Turn Based #2 1:04:40

2M ago1:04:40

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Send us a Text Message. In todays episode of Turn Based, we’re joined by Joshua Hallaran from Critical Games, the developer of 8 bit adventures 1 & 2 to get an inside scoop on what it takes to make an RPG, the ups and the downs of game development and what’s next for him and his studio! Video versions available @ https://youtube.com/@erekladd Find …

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Final Fantasy Tactics E3: Heroes & Wizards [Magic City Gariland + Mandalia Plains] 55:34

3M ago55:34

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Honest work would see us die old in bed. Instead of that, we’re flashing to a different back, hearing of the Corpse Brigade Death Corps, teaming up with the cops to murder homeless veterans, randomly generating soldiers, getting on the roof, name-dropping our nobility, learning from the computer, droppin’ crystal, crafting a homely bar scene, readi…

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What Is A JRPG Challenge Run? | Turn Based #1 55:51

3M ago55:51

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Turn Based! In the inaugural episode we're joined by YouTuber & content creator Tantacles to get some insight on interesting ways to change the way you play JRPGs! Wether it's single character runs or limiting your play-throughs to no items, there's a lot to learn so come on in and join us! Watch the podcast over …

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Welcome In | Turn Based Podcast Trailer 0:50

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Send us a Text Message. Hi everyone, I’m Erek and welcome to Turn Based - a podcast dedicated to JRPGs, RPGs, videos games, life and the experiences that go along with it. Here we celebrate the games we love, the people that create them and the people that play them. In this program I’ll be interviewing a diverse range of guests including content c…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E2: Anarchists & Blasphemers [Orbonne Monastery] 1:09:46

3M ago1:09:46

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Join me in my search to uncover the answer. This quest for truth includes actions like turning our consoles on, engraving vanishing memories, attracting mode, skipping a tutorial, defeating the war, yearning to be known as a blaspheming anarchist, aspiring to just be a guy, riding birds through war torn country, nailing Jesus to something else, pre…

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Final Fantasy Tactics E1: Class Warfare [Introduction] 1:34:27

3M ago1:34:27

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Hello! And welcome to the sixth season of Retrograde Amnesia, where we’re covering the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics and The War of the Lions. In the opening, information-loaded episode, we’re determining who is playing which version, ignoring Tactics Advance, pronouncing “Ivalice,” buying the mobile version, leaving Quest en masse, fra…

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Xenosaga E33: Narrative Malpractice [Finale] 1:42:29

3M ago1:42:29

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Kindness is something I don’t want or need. In the final episode for season five, we’re doing all this for Rubedo’s sake, simultaneously blaming Rubedo for everyone's sake, installing Sonic Adventure’s Chaos as the final boss, tormenting for fun, consulting Brady, detaching subcompartments in one whole minute, worrying Chaos, denying Ziggy his need…

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Xenosaga E32: Will to Power, Bad? [Proto Merkabah, Part II] 57:52

3M ago57:52

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I’d accompany you to the very depths of hell. That task includes making sure we have company approval, wondering if Junior or KOSMOS is a bigger liability, god blessing the dungeon music, shifting bridges to solve a puzzle, celebrating the voiceless cut-scene, observing a hologram, locating satan, prototyping Dora, relieving goods, blacking out Los…

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Xenosaga E31: God Slayers vs. Tanks [Odds and Ends] 1:10:13

4M ago1:10:13

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You know what awaits you if you are defeated in a gunfight, boy? Consequences include detailing the Dumb Virtual On, coming to terms with CCG’s, checking in with some folks one last time, nabbing the final robot part, drinking to cope, realizing friendship is the key to building the Erde Kaiser, maturing into a man, knocking all the boxes off the t…

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Xenosaga E30: Father, Son, and the Holy Sh*t [Proto Merkabah] 1:03:50

4M ago1:03:50

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We were made to discover the true form of the universe. You were made to discover us asking masked men relevant questions, amnesia’ing away Virgil, realizing Junior has failed, summoning even more fucked up shit out of space, going way off villain plan script, hallucinating heroines, ejecting a science lab into space to rebuild a knowledge daughter…

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Xenosaga E29: Suffering of Robot Based On Lecherous Jealousy [Song of Nephilim, Part III] 1:06:10

4M ago1:06:10

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Don’t be vague in the Y data. Join as as we’re crystal clear about slicing the head off our statue throne, suffering a Momo asset swap, receiving a cheese massage, longing for reality, reconsidering Nietzsche as a “little bitch,” inserting hands into jellybellys, regrowing another head, blaming nanomachines (son), exploring brain memories, laughing…

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INFINITE PERFECT 002: Photo Negative [Space Harrier] 32:06

5M ago32:06

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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 pastal wastes to figure out how in the hell Eric believes all of this must …

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Xenosaga E28: Her Brain Items [Song of Nephilim, Part II] 1:12:08

5M ago1:12:08

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Why is she trying to sell stuff when she has nothing to sell? Join us as we’re (well, Albedo is) abusing a robot child for information, clarifying additional censorship, arguing over if dad can save daughter or if boyfriend can save girlfriend, receiving weapons in email, blowing up vending machines, learning about space graves, wondering if robots…

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Xenosaga E27: Poisoned by the Holy Spirit So Hard [Song of Nephilim, Part I] 1:08:20

5M ago1:08:20

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Are you worthy to shed such tears? Cry with us as we’re cackling incessantly, letting Momo out of our sight, wasting vital shuttle transports, arguing about where Momo is, seeing a false daddy, friending a dead sister, blaming Helmer, rebuilding Sakura as a robot, performing a memory hand transfer, experiencing robot depression, defining an uncomfo…

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Xenosaga E26: Die in the Trash [Attack on Kukai, Part II] 1:00:22

5M ago1:00:22

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My goodness, this feels like a dream. This episode feels like we’re welcoming Hyper Assistant Scott, remembering Angels and Elements, flexing while wasted, playing with toys too hard, vibrating the water, shaking off premonitions, preventing gnosis incursion, blooming Luty’s flower, sliding down a roof, turning city sectors into people puzzles, pre…

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Xenosaga E25: The Christ for Robots [Attack on Kukai, Part I] 1:04:50

5M ago1:04:50

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Well, it looks like we all managed to make it back. Now we’re relentlessly drawing a connection to Xenoblade 2, laughing through illusory worlds, existing in the subconscious, fighting energy with energy, vaporizing a gas giant, issuing the many worlds theory, pasting in a picture of space, disarming subconscious domain protection, denying a hug, e…

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INFINITE PERFECT 001: Watch it Move [Burning Rangers] 45:53

5M ago45:53

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Hello and welcome to Infinite Perfect, a new periodic Retrograde Amnesia podcast series built to assemble the devastating anecdotal happenstance that connects one of the hosts to their favorite games. Our debut episode covers the Sega Saturn's Burning Rangers, a game that is either horrendous to the senses or dazzling to the eyes. It all depends on…

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Xenosaga E24: The Time for Feasting Has Come [Old Miltia, Part II] 1:09:00

6M ago1:09:00

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Joyful memories form only one half of the whole. Form the other half by becoming child soldiers, shooting Udo with machine guns, interpreting blood spatter, living a robot’s genetic memory, witnessing Kevin’s sacrifice, blowing a head off, returning to sewer, passing through train cars, quoting Revelations, flaming out, extracting soda from mechani…

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Xenosaga E23: The End Comes Beyond Kevin [Old Miltia, Part I] 1:03:02

6M ago1:03:02

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Would you shut up for a second, I’m in the zone right now. Get in your zone as we’re speculating Gundam names, shulking to ourselves, requiring only scenario guys, alluding to Udo and Zohar(s), losing nukes, deepfaking a space battle, figuring out how to edit truth video, fetishizing a cyborg knockout, finding strength in gloves, spotting a cop at …

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Xenosaga E22: Theologically Problematic [Kukai Foundation, Part III] 1:10:34

6M ago1:10:34

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This place permeates some kind of fondness for the past. Permeate your present by answering trivia questions from a kiosk, vibrating with kinky excitement, learning dream fragments are robot parts, demanding a lady’s measurements, introducing new sunglasses guys, equating the Y Data to a McGuffin, lore diving for Simeon and Nephilim, sharing perver…

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Xenosaga E21: There's a Ludonarrative Dissonance in This Town [Kukai Foundation, Part II] 1:03:16

6M ago1:03:16

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Mom doesn’t understand how a man feels. But we feel like revisiting the world map concept, observing the global hum, cranking off, reading the signs of an obvious dungeon, getting high off of explosions, dumpster diving, loading a bar with fuckheads, assigning virtue to Purple Hunchman, understanding King to be a farce, chatting up Pink Bug, extrac…

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Xenosaga E20: Central Bottom Hole [Kukai Foundation, Part I] 1:04:43

6M ago1:04:43

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Hey, who’s an illegitimate son? Maybe it’s us, maybe it’s you, maybe we’re inserting the Durandal in the bottom hole, wondering of space flower cities are common, as you know’ing to oblivion, finding another palm tattoo guy, A-posing like an asshole, hinting at an anime ability, debating beach anxiety, admiring a soviet pistol, failing to comfort S…

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Xenosaga E19: Identity Diffusion, the Eternal Dilemma [Durandal, Part II] 56:37

7M ago56:37

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Identity diffusion: the eternal dilemma. Diffuse your identity with us as we’re wondering if child robots are programmed to hate a biological dad father, running like a big goober, bombing a pick-up line, discovering a gambling-addicted populace, begging for dig-b abuse, stealing signage, considering a fan club, telling Momo that robot fireflies ar…

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Xenosaga E18: The Bodies of Jesus Christ and His Superstars [Durandal, Part I] 1:09:32

7M ago1:09:32

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Will feeling pain make me complete? Complete your own pain and listen as we’re not supplied for a gnosis attack, freaking out on the bridge, dialing up the KOSMOS contemplativeness, talkin’ bout momma, scanning transfection course, deciding it’s Kevin’s hand at work, failing the yearly review, wondering if computer mom has a virus, falling into a h…

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Xenosaga E17: Ethical Consumption [Cathedral Ship, Part II] 1:04:48

7M ago1:04:48

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I alone can take humanity to its next natural state of evolution. Together alone, we’re inducing a tilt-shift effect, defining PS2 ladder controls, going to the mall, curing women’s diseases with herbs, softening the hardness of mother, running a doomed op, hallucinating wife and child wife, meeting Hamburger Hook, suffering the ultimate sense of p…

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Xenosaga E16: A Miserable Pile of Nucleic Acid [Cathedral Ship, Part I] 56:48

7M ago56:48

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Why? Why not joins us as we’re sleeping in our work clothes, steaming the breath, defining “ghost shit,” foreboding ominously, penetrating the space column, spreading the Hilbert Effect to Ultra Wide, estimating our 10K times, staring down a door, honoring goldfish, becoming a brand new person, igniting the forehead glyph, fetishizing the aquarium,…

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Xenosaga E15: This Game is Apolitical [Dock Colony] 58:22

8M ago58:22

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Are you enjoying life? We’re certainly enjoying reading the obvious signs of an apolitical game, inventing more things to haunt Cherenkov, cleaning to impress men, dunking on Allen, hiding the fish detector, threatening members of the military, turning and coughing, weighing ourselves, making it weird in the basement, getting our asses kicked in an…

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Xenosaga E14: Don't Sext Your Kaiser [U-TIC Battleship] 1:06:30

8M ago1:06:30

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Pierce me with your hatred. Pierce your ears as we’re referencing The Wizard of Oz, activating false memories, introducing a southern belle and a goth princess, making a sword into a spaceship, suspecting Momo’s abduction was an inside job, wondering if —they— will come, determining Albedo’s whole deal, debating AWGS vs mech, killing the Woglinde a…

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Xenosaga E13: Anime Moment of the Lord [U-TIC Attack] 1:07:07

8M ago1:07:07

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There is no need to divert more personnel to this location. At our location, we’re figuring out if Andrew Cherenkov is a character, performing sick tricks in the space column, skittering off the column wall, avoiding obligations for either a tunnel shooter or a crane game, counting on Allen, recognizing Chaos’ interest in souls, misunderstanding Bo…

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Xenosaga E12: The Wrath of Jesus [Still on the Elsa] 55:08

8M ago55:08

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We have scenarios, so we have to have keys. The keys to this episode include disappointing the real human robot child, wondering where the Y Data is hidden, sealing off space, realizing there is an even higher council, hiding the map from Tony, receiving correspondence from Kazuya, performing the wrath of Jesus, wondering if the UNM lady is a robot…

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Xenosaga E11: Eating Neatly [Back on the Elsa] 1:02:34

9M ago1:02:34

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Now, where does the real you exist? As we exist, we’re applying the rules of characters to our characters, sharing curry instead of a campfire, noting the lack of estrogen as applied to sexist stereotypes, sleeping with food, witnessing Allen go down in flames, crawling with mutants, directing eyeballs, throwing guns all over the bed, rubbing couch…

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