Crusader Kings 3 (PC), Wasteland 3 (PC), Board Game Arena (PC), Paradise Killer (Switch), Paper Mario (Switch), The Last Campfire (PC), Shipping in Video Games and Media, Your Emails, Announcements, and More!
Amanda and Rich are joined by guests Lara and Karla to discuss shipping in video games and media.
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00:01:25 Crusader Kings III
00:08:00 Wasteland 3
00:14:57 Board Game Arena
00:21:52 Paradise Killer
00:26:50 Paper Mario
00:33:29 The Last Campfire
00:40:47 Shipping Video Game Characters
01:15:16 Your Emails
Crusader Kings II: Have a horse become the Byzantine Emperor.
Crusader Kings III: Eat the pope.
I wish you guys would stop encouraging him.
EvilHomer3k wrote:You are an evil, evil person.
Baron Of Hell wrote:YOU VILLAIN!
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines gave me a gut punch twice.
Spoilers?
Oh my gosh, this episode. I'm so in love with, I want to ask it to marry me even though I've sworn I'd never do that again. Please, please, please, PLEASE have Lara and Karla on more often, they're the best.
I'd been told about Paradise Killer a week or two ago (apologies, can't remember exactly whom, I think Pyxistyx, but I'm only 90% certain) and I'm sold, that looks right up my alley.
As for the topic. Oh gosh, I LIVE for shipping and for the fandoms. It's this deep, deep rabbit hole I've fallen into, this comfortable, warm, bubble of joy. It's actually the reason why I haven't been playing actual games anymore, just reading and writing and watching media of or adjacent to certain fandoms, because that's just what I need right now. And it brings more joy than any triple A game ever will.
Lara may have not come out and admitted it outright (though she fooled no one! ), but I've been writing fan fiction for nearly fifteen years (twenty if you count that Zork: Nemesis tidbit I actually wrote for lit class in middle school). I did write that 16k fan fiction about two characters desperately in love with each other (Elder Scrolls) and I'm OWNING it. I have a bazillion ships (they're all not super inventive ships, though, F/M because my kink is a loving relationship between a man and a woman that isn't abusive, fancy that). However, much like Karla, I'll ship anything and anyone if the art is lovely enough or the writing and characterizations are solid.
Speaking of mods, this has been going on as far back as the early 2000s, if I recall correctly. I was super involved with the modding scene for all the Infinity Engine games (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale), and was part of a group dedicated to translating these mods from English to French. I singlehandedly translated Kulyok's Xan for BG2 mod which has nearly 60k lines and helped translate other mods. That one in particular took a small, somewhat anecdotal NPC of BG1 and just... ran with it. The grumpy elf now has a full romance route in BG1 & BG2, interjections, flirts, friendships. It's bananas. Kulyok has my unending admiration, and I adore and respect her.
That's just how powerful that kind of stuff is. It's a bigger, brighter sandbox than any Bethesda game will ever be.
Anyway, I've gone on long enough, but I just wanted to express how much I enjoyed this week's episode, and how I really felt seen and heard and represented just so, so much.
Although I really can't stay quiet about how y'all totally botched the pronunciation of Carcassonne, but that's okay, I still love you all.
Great panel, fun episode! Fascinating discussion of a topic I had no clue about ... well done all!
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Bluesky: @lancecalhoon.bsky.social
Rich is wrong about the smoochability of different Paradise Killer characters. It's more of a brief fade-to-black thing, but it is possible.
Hell yes!
It is now a perfect game.
This might become my new sig.
LastSuprise: Destroyer of Wallets would be an excellent tag and/or third handle for you.
https://twitter.com/theharpomarxist
Thanks for making me google 'eating the pope.' Probably on another list now.
I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks. - Sarah Moore Grimké
Such as fun episode! My contribution of a pairing in game would be Shepard with anyone. Anyone at all. What I mean would probably become clear as you read on.
As to gut punching moment: Have to give that to the Mass Effect Trilogy.
I mean... I wasn’t going to mention Mass Effect, but since Cladmir chimes in (and BLESS YOU for it!!! ^^).
Obvs, surprising absolutely no one, FemShep-Kaidan is my OTP (shopping slang, OTP is one true pairing, OTL is one true love), but I’ve seen the sweetest fan art of other ships, especially MaleShep-Kaidan.
About that playthrough, Cladmir... ooooof. That must’ve been so rough. I was in tears in ME3, I can’t even imagine what that must’ve been like. Though I did watch GameSpot’s Saddest Party on the Citadel, that must’ve come close.
Out of curiosity, did you ever go back and give it another, happier, playthrough?
I lol at the Saddest Party on the Citadel when I saw Shep's face.
I have not replayed the ME series, although every once in a while I do get the urge to replay it. There were just so many questions left unanswered, character plot lines that were never explored, lives Shepard thought she had time to get to know that were cut short, relationships that ended before it really began...
But the end result of all of that was somehow beautiful. What I experienced with Shep was the life of a soldier who gave it all and asked for nothing in return. She had many triumphs, experienced countless tragedies, and in the end and despite all odds she accomplished what she set out to do.
I am not sure if I ever will replay the series. While I did manage to have some closure by the miracle that is youtube, the ME series has a special place in my heart because of how it all went down, and as stupid as it sounds I don't want to risk ruining the memory of that bittersweet tale.