Episode 395: This Episode Sucks

August 13, 2015| Jonah Falcon| 0 Comment| 7:50 pm

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No, really, this episode is one of the worst ever released – boring news, stilted dialog, bad jokes. At least the first news item allowed the crew to rip Pixels. So bad Jonah didn’t bother editing it.

The news items include:

Anti-piracy group hits indie creators for using the word “pixels“
Rare Replay studio’s first UK chart-topper since Banjo-Kazooie on N64 in 1998
More Diablo is coming
Games for Windows “wasn’t the right approach” says Microsoft

No Listener Feedback or Question of the Week either. That’s how bad this episode was.

0 thoughts on “Episode 395: This Episode Sucks”

Fluttershy says:

August 17, 2015 at 5:52 pm

Why was isn’t the past season any good?

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Bobby X says:

August 17, 2015 at 5:55 pm

Do you like building by yourself in Minecraft or do you have friends helping out?

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