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We can do so much better than triangles.

• 0:44 – The ideas behind Portal 2’s new mechanics are better than their execution
• 6:25 – ESRB adds a new descriptor for monetization mechanics such as loot boxes
• 31:05 – Woman goes on a road trip with a living sex doll in the new movie. The special effects are shocking bad
• 39:32 – The Crimson Kimono features the worst love triangle ever put to film
• 50:56 – The demo for Final Fantasy VII Remake is okay!
• 59:30 – Uncharted 3’s gunplay is somehow even worse than the first one’s
  

If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night on RandomTower!

Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted 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.

Chat Transcript:

7:01 PMjordan thompson​hi

7:06 PMmatthew wilson​portal 2 is great

7:08 PMmatthew wilson​rogue like card dongen crawler

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​that content descriptor is nothing but word salad

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​nother more than word salad

7:09 PMmatthew wilson​nothing

7:10 PMmatthew wilson​I would pregfer they just say lootboxes

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​prefer

7:11 PMmatthew wilson​yeah no way I want goverment anywhere near that

7:12 PMmatthew wilson​who knows maybe esa goes bankrupt, and the esrb gets spun out

7:22 PMjordan thompson​lootboxs take advantage of dopamines like solt machines, you brain hope for a nice surprise

7:25 PMjordan thompson​AO is a rating for a reason

7:29 PMjordan thompson​I recently got team sonic racing and it was dishearting I had to use in game currency to open lootboxs for car upgrades, you cant use real world money to buy them but its still disappointing

7:33 PMjordan thompson​in regards to ratings I cant help but believe most parents just dont care and buy 10 year old timmy GTA, but shouldnt we at least try to protect childhood innocence for as long as we can

7:36 PMjordan thompson​Andrew are you gonna pay for the thearpy I need after seeing that

7:39 PMjordan thompson​I’d be funnier if it wasnt a doll and just a human dressed and posed like a doll meant to look like one

7:45 PMjordan thompson​imagine the police call, I think my girlfriends gone unhinged she skipped town and stole my sex doll

7:51 PMjordan thompson​a few years ago I had a Korean girlfriend and a friend of mind ask which one she was ….. that sure was a fun question

7:52 PMjordan thompson​north or south

7:54 PMjordan thompson​a friend gave me civilization 6 for the switch, I’m beginning to rethink our relationship

7:55 PMjordan thompson​what did you think of the browsers castle toy picture I sent you

8:09 PMjordan thompson​youre giving me flashbacks of the Tomb Raider reboot and now I totally wanna playthough it again, there goes my weekend thank Andrew at least the games pretty awesome

8:15 PMjordan thompson​I want to bake cookies in my tomb raider games

:16 PMjordan thompson​disembodied mouths are totally in now