It’s time for another episode of The
Weekly Stuff Podcast with Jonathan Lack & Sean Chapman, a weekly audio
show that explores the worlds of film, television, and video games. You can
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this link.
It’s a grab-bag style episode this
week, as offer topics ranging from serious and topical to silly and only
tangentially topical. Sean and Jonathan both talk about great recent indie
games, including Into the Breach and Celeste, recap the Oscars and this week’s
Nintendo Direct news, and cover some various odds and ends. We then have a
serious talk about the absurdity of ‘violence in video games’ still being
blamed for school shootings some 20 years after Columbine, in reaction to the
nonsensical White House meeting this week, and what a gross function this
rhetoric serves in distracting from real solutions. And finally, in honor of
March 10 – “Mar10 Day,” or “Mario Day,” as Nintendo has coined (pun intended) –
Jonathan ranks, on the fly, every single Super Mario Bros game in one of our
sillier and less substantive recent segments.
Enjoy!
Time Chart:
Intro: 0:03:05
Sean Talks Into the Breach: 0:03:05 – 0:09:18
Jonathan Talks Celeste and other stuff: 0:09:18 – 0:31:14
News, including Oscar
reactions: 0:31:14 – 1:17:40
Nintendo Direct
recap: 1:17:40 – 1:46:42
Violence in Video
Games: 1:46:42 – 2:06:09
Mario Day
‘Celebration’: 2:06:09 – 2:41:03
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Weekly Stuff Podcast Episode #228
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