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No timestamps this week but I talk about Activision firing a bunch of its workers after bragging about its best financials in its history, Jump Force’s bad trailers, a Twitch streamer who has maybe decided to stop using slurs, a Chucky VS Annabelle video, and the latest Nintendo Direct.
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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
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6:59 PMmatthew wilsonhi
6:59 PMSusanne ChristHi!!! ^·^7:00 PMmatthew wilsonnintendo clearly has the best line up for the year, the direct didnt even include their 2 biggest 2019 games
7:00 PMaddictedtochaosHello7:00 PMmatthew wilsonyup7:01 PMmatthew wilsonanimal crossing isnt my thing, but pokemon is7:01 PMmatthew wilsonalso astral chain hype7:02 PMmatthew wilsonaparently its good7:03 PMmatthew wilsonaparently it sticks prity close to the menga
7:03 PMjack caymanhello i am here7:03 PMjack caymanI miss anything?
7:04 PMjordan thompsonwith current events this is as good as time as any to say this, I dont always make it to streams but molehill mountain and the channel shows the brighter side of the world making everthing better7:04 PMjack caymanapex legends7:04 PMjack caymanit now surpasses fortnite by 157 million7:04 PMjack caymanare we seeing a fortnite killer?7:05 PMSusanne Christkeep looking!!! ull find something better ^·^7:05 PMmatthew wilsonrespawn7:05 PMaddictedtochaosRespawn7:05 PMmatthew wilsonold cod devs7:05 PMjack caymanpublisher is EA7:05 PMaddictedtochaosYes7:05 PMmatthew wilsonyes titanfall devs7:06 PMjack caymanand from the context clues, I’m guessing you’re looking for a new job andrew?7:06 PMjack caymanman I work some shitty security job7:06 PMjordan thompsondid you watch the new Nintendo direct7:07 PMjack caymanI’m paid $8.10 to watch over drunks7:07 PMmatthew wilsonI mean BR is the hot genre right now. hell nintendo made a tetris BR, and somehow its good7:08 PMjack caymanwhatever your current job is, its alot safer than having to work security at a EDM festival7:08 PMSusanne Christthat game is so awesome!!!7:09 PMjack caymanits just the usual PvP Tetris stuff but on a massive scale7:09 PMmatthew wilsonits 98 other people, and the more you ko, the more blocks your drop7:09 PMjordan thompsonthe idea of a tetris movie has been floating around for a while, the only decent idea I could come up with was a legal drama based on the copyright lawsuits that happened in the 80s7:10 PMmatthew wilsonyou drop
7:10 PMotritzuIt’s Battle Royal Tetris. The only Battle Royal type game I’m going to paly.7:10 PMjack caymanyeah that job seems alot safer, your manager doesn’t tell you to go watch for a guy high on PCP7:10 PMjack caymanthat night SUCKED7:11 PMSusanne Christhaha sounds like how my job handles stuff7:12 PMjack caymanPFFFT7:12 PMjack caymandidn’t they lay off a ton of people not long after they said that7:12 PMSusanne Christ8007:12 PMjack cayman”haha WE ROLLIN IN THE CASH”7:13 PMjack cayman”hey kid you’re fired”7:13 PMaddictedtochaosTranslation: we didn’t make ALL the money.7:13 PMjordan thompsonis brand loyalty, human decency and integrity dead7:13 PMSusanne Christnot…”fired”…”let go” lol7:13 PMotritzuThey looked at their payrolls and said “Holy crap we’re paying these jokers too much.”7:14 PMaddictedtochaosAgreed7:14 PMaddictedtochaosBobby Kotick is a cancer on the industry7:15 PMaddictedtochaosSome of them will undoubtedly land on their feet at another developer.7:15 PMjack caymanI want a viva pinata BR game7:15 PMjordan thompsondoesnt the term “letting” in letting go insinuate that your getting permission to not work there as if the comany owns you7:17 PMaddictedtochaosMore like Dragon Ball Xenoverse, with more than just Dragon Ball characters.7:18 PMjack caymanjump force is that fighting game that has characters from tons of other shows n anime7:18 PMjordan thompsondo any of the JUMP games do 3rd party anime guest characters7:18 PMjack caymanif I’m correctly ruby rose is in it and so is some of the p5 cast7:18 PMaddictedtochaosHad the game preordered, then saw footage from the game that gave me pause. I’ll buy it eventually once it drops in price.7:19 PMjack caymanthat’s why you don’t preorder games7:20 PMjack caymanwell that’s why I don’t preorder them, in always afraid the game will come out shitty or was waaaay below the hype that was built up7:20 PMaddictedtochaosI always preorder games I want, just canceled it and moved it to Mario Maker 2.7:22 PMjack caymansounds like a ninja meltdown7:22 PMSusanne Christif you cant twitch nice, u cant twitch at all xD7:22 PMjack caymanyou can indeed get very creative7:22 PMmatthew wilsondid you see what atlus did with remake of cathrine?7:22 PMjordan thompsonyeah I mean theres always the N word7:22 PMjack caymanhey Andrew, YOURE A SNOODLING TOE LICKER7:23 PMaddictedtochaosGeorge Carlin was my professor of swearing.7:23 PMmatthew wilsonthey doubuled down on homophobic themes7:23 PMmatthew wilsonin a new ending7:23 PMjack caymandoesn’t the new Catherine have a trap in it?7:23 PMjack caymanbut the most important question is, can we date the trap?7:24 PMmatthew wilsonsory not homopbic theme anti trans theme7:24 PMjordan thompsontheres an old art form of social standards called CONTEXT that now a dead aspect of life we need to bring it back7:26 PMjack caymancontext is bad7:26 PMjack caymanaccording to SJW’s7:26 PMmatthew wilsonyup7:27 PMjack caymanthey’re heavily hinting that the third character is a trap7:27 PMjack caymanwhy cant game companies make good LGBT characters?7:27 PMjack caymanlike look at VA-11 HALL-A7:27 PMjack caymanit has LGBT characters in it and they’re all well written, I want more of that7:29 PMjordan thompsonAndrew Andrew think think real hard name another creepy killer doll than those two its slim pickins im that category7:29 PMSusanne Christthe one front twilight series ^·^7:30 PMaddictedtochaosThe killer Krusty doll from The Simpsons Halloween7:30 PMjack caymanactually IMO arcade ganon is probably the best portrayal of a gay character in a video game7:30 PMjack caymanbut that’s just me7:32 PMjack caymandid I just get ddos’d…?7:32 PMjack caymanI just missed most of what Andrew said because my internet went out7:32 PMjordan thompsonI always wanted to see freddy vs pennywise they are similar in nature they both use fear to kill one does it in real life the other does it in dreams7:33 PMaddictedtochaosMay also be a cultural thing.7:33 PMjack caymanyeah that mostly ends up with a LGBT character that doesn’t have a personality besides “he’s a gay character”7:33 PMjordan thompsonthen you also get people that cant help but write stereotypical gay people7:34 PMjack caymanlike arcade ganon is just a really well written character and it shows7:34 PMaddictedtochaosWho is arcade Ganon?7:34 PMjack caymanalso I’m like 30 seconds behind because i think my ISP is throttling me atm7:34 PMjack caymanarcade ganon is a character from fallout new vegas7:35 PMjack caymanhe’s a enclave scientist that joins the followers of the apocalypse and he has a pretty deep back story and has amazing character development7:35 PMjordan thompsonjust waiting for the day everyone is a genderless grey faced and dressed in all grey dystopian future7:36 PMjack caymanthat’s what SJW’s want7:37 PMSusanne Christunless they are expressly straight…how do u know they arent gay o.o7:38 PMjordan thompsonjust wait till we see a lesbian trans muslem woman in a wheelchair, now thats divercity7:38 PMjack caymanwell the main focus of a character shouldn’t be that their gay, I feel like their sexuality just comes second,7:38 PMjack caymantheyre*7:39 PMjack cayman*cough* sonicfox *cough*7:39 PMjordan thompsonheres how I see it, as long as you dont stuck it in something underage or not your species we have no problem7:40 PMjack caymanhey Andrew look up arcade ganon, he’s a really well written character7:42 PMjack caymanAndrew cry of fear KINDA does that7:42 PMmatthew wilsonok so nintendo direct opinions lets get off this land mine of a topic, should never have brought it up7:42 PMaddictedtochaosIt’s part 27:42 PMjack caymanyou’re only in a wheel chair at the end though7:42 PMaddictedtochaosAgreed7:43 PMmatthew wilsonthe quite man was a awful game though7:44 PMjordan thompsonnow I wanna see someone attempt to make a POV video game of a blind person7:44 PMjack cayman@Jordan an indie game is doing that7:44 PMjack caymanyou move around by making sound, the sound waves bounce off objects and that’s how you ‘see’7:45 PMaddictedtochaosThere was an indie game that did that. For the life of me I can’t remember the name.7:46 PMmatthew wilsonmario maker 2, alstral chain (new platnuim game), fire emblem, and link’s awakening remake hype7:46 PMjack caymanpeople are mad that the links awakening game isn’t being remade into a gritty reboot7:48 PMmatthew wilsongive me ability to make world (colection of lvls) in mario maker 27:48 PMmatthew wilsonwords7:48 PMmatthew wilsonworlds7:48 PMjordan thompsoneveryone : we want legend of zelda maker or metroid maker /Nintendo : ok how about just a massive update on the last game7:49 PMjordan thompsondo you think framers play “office job simulator”7:50 PMmatthew wilsonI doubt building coop will happen, but would be very cool7:50 PMmatthew wilsonstanley parable7:51 PMjordan thompsonhow did you not address gaymers in the last subject7:52 PMjordan thompsonwell andrew the alternitve is a box with tits andrew a bow seems more family friend in the grand sceme of things7:52 PMjack caymanJOKER IS IN SMASH BABEEEEEEE7:53 PMjack caymanWEEGEE DRONES BTFO LOL7:53 PMmatthew wilsonjust a callout til smash players saying more news is coming
7:54 PMScottyJayManBox boy should have a package7:55 PMjordan thompsonan X rated game disigner you perv7:57 PMjordan thompsonwhen is Nintendo gonna deny the existance of the Wii u like they do with the virtual boy8:00 PMjordan thompsonhow did Nintendo expect people to think of the falic nature of the Wii the thing even came with a condom8:01 PMaddictedtochaosDragon Quest looked fine to me.8:01 PMaddictedtochaosCame with8:01 PMmatthew wilsonastral chain (new platinum game) by most of the neir anamata people8:01 PMjordan thompsonI’m pretty sure mine did I could remember wrong8:02 PMjordan thompsonno andrew it cam with 😉8:03 PMjack caymanAndrew I wanna 1v1 u in roblox8:03 PMaddictedtochaosLost Sphear8:03 PMjordan thompsonjack where you going with this8:04 PMjack caymanI just wanna 1v1 Andrew in roblox8:04 PMjack caymanis that so bad?8:05 PMmatthew wilsontbf awakening was a 3ds game8:05 PMmatthew wilsonmemory budget guess8:05 PMaddictedtochaosYeah but Fates characters had feet8:07 PMScottyJayManAll fire emblem games are 3DS8:07 PMjack caymanive yet to spend money on mobile games8:07 PMaddictedtochaosNope hasn’t been a console Fire Emblem since Wii.8:08 PMotritzuYes it does.8:08 PMjordan thompsonwhats funny id belive that it may actually be the 99th tetris game made8:08 PMotritzu’s not like Tetris 99 takes much space, anyway.8:08 PMjack caymandeltarune was okay8:09 PMjack caymanits nothing TOO special8:10 PMaddictedtochaosThey should have called the demo “Demo X Machina”8:10 PMjordan thompsondo you think the switch would offer anything that would warrent a decent Mario paint sequal8:11 PMScottyJayManMario Maker is Mario Paint 28:12 PMjordan thompsondo we need a non existant blood code for the mortal kombat switch edition8:12 PMjack caymanI want Nintendo to make visual novels8:12 PMjack caymanimagine the smut8:13 PMaddictedtochaosRidiculous they are charging $20.99 for FF IX.8:13 PMmatthew wilsonyup by the neir people8:14 PMScottyJayManNintendo do own a porno8:14 PMaddictedtochaosRule 348:15 PMjordan thompsondo you think Nintendo could make a original I.P. that is strictly adult8:15 PMjack caymanMario! peach yells as Mario sticks his 1-up mushroom into peaches pipe8:15 PMmatthew wilsonand extra buttons8:15 PMjack caymanall while Luigi watched in horror, after all it was his mansion they were defiling8:15 PMmatthew wilsonthe gameboy only had 2 buttons8:15 PMScottyJayManThere’s a porno called “super horino bros” with Ron jemery. Nintendo sued and got the rights to stop distribution8:16 PMotritzuAlmost like Metroid: Samus Returns.8:17 PMaddictedtochaosNever played the original Link’s Awakening so I’m definitely getting the remake.8:17 PMjack caymanron Jeremy as mario?8:17 PMjack caymanwhat a lovely visual8:17 PMotritzuI’m interested in what they changed when they upscaled it.8:18 PMmatthew wilsonnintendo has a killer year. my fall release prodiction is animal crossing oct, pokemon nov, links awakening dec8:18 PMmatthew wilsonpokemon is always nevember8:18 PMaddictedtochaosI imagine Luigi, Animal Crossing, Pokemon will be at E3.8:19 PMmatthew wilsonNovember8:19 PMjack caymanbut that’s me being a pessimist8:20 PMjordan thompsonhow much you wanna bet Nintendo makes a new F Zero game 50 years from now when that core audience is either dead, has deminshai or arthritis8:21 PMmatthew wilsonyup EA8:21 PMmatthew wilsonand ms does there stuff off theE3 floor8:22 PMjack caymanI want a game that lets me go crazy with character customization8:22 PMmatthew wilsonthere is a intreasting thread on resetare, so I will ask it here. should nintendo buy platnuim games?8:22 PMjack caymanlike c’mon game devs, I don’t wanna play a handsome chad, I wanna make a deformed fat goblin8:23 PMaddictedtochaosYes, Nintendo should.8:24 PMjordan thompsonI wanna make a game that had an extensive character creator that takes a good while to design your character then in the first cutsence that character dies8:24 PMmatthew wilsonat this point platnuim is a second party at this point8:24 PMaddictedtochaosNintendo needs a few more devs in their Stable and Kamiya said he would like to be a Nintendo 2nd party.8:24 PMmatthew wilsonthough neir did save platnuim games8:24 PMmatthew wilsonoutright8:26 PMjordan thompsonits bound to happen when we gonna see Mario vs mickey, Disney vs Nintendo8:27 PMmatthew wilsonthey said as such, neir doing as well as it did saved them8:30 PMotritzuGo get some sleep. If you’ve got the bags under your eyes stop and sleep.8:30 PMjordan thompsonI’m playing through the time eater series know as kingdom hearts currently half way through kingdom hearts 28:31 PMjack caymanAndrew unleash the inner gamer in you8:31 PMjack caymandon’t sleep, drink mountain dew and rage8:32 PMaddictedtochaosWorking on Crackdown 3 myself. Loving it so far.8:32 PMjordan thompsonno andrew you are my dancing monkey do more podcast and make the masses laugh jk youre awsome8:32 PMaddictedtochaosYes we did.8:33 PMaddictedtochaosThat game is the reason I bought my Xbox One.8:33 PMjordan thompsonwhat do we pay you for8:34 PMjack caymanfallout 4 is the only game I know where i can fly via generator