Tanya and Jonathan talk about the concept of parenting as a "situational disability", Jonathan and Sons upcoming appearance in a Shovel Knight video, and the promise of Mortal Kombat characters making it to Street Fighter. Guests Lyn and Cherry Bombrs chat about making the Fighting Game Community more queer-friendly with Lapin Labs, and self-shipping Travis Touchdown, respectively.  

Show notes:
0:00:00 - Forgot About It
0:02:44 - A Bald Beige Guardian Angel
0:03:29 - I'm In Love with Sonya Blade
0:04:39 - Are Kids a Situational Disability?
0:09:19 - Analysis of Representation in the Fighting Game Community with Lyn
0:43:37 - Could Jonathan Be a Part of the Video Game Community?
0:44:24 - More Fighting Game Crossovers Are a Good Thing
0:47:59 - Cherry Bombrs' Self-ship with Travis Touchdown
1:19:25 - Loving Characters Means Love of Creators
1:20:33 - Wrap Up/Plugs/Thank You Patrons!
1:24:47 - I'm Pooped Out

Check out Lyn's games here:
https://langstonian.itch.io/apotheosys
Join the Lapin Labs Discord here: https://discord.com/invite/jcYbX4TmVv
Check Cherry Bombrs here: https://cherrybombrs.carrd.co/


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Self-shipping Travis and making EVO more queer

We're talking about Metaphor: ReFantazio on this month's Currently Playing with guest Shy Fox of the Fix Your Heart or Die Podcast. Fox has been exploring connections between the work of David Lynch and other media for the last few months on his podcast and while Metaphor doesn't really fit that mold, we're happy to chat about it here. Daniel is completely unfamiliar with the Persona/SMT format of this game so we get into the details of how these games work for complete newbies and discover that perhaps Metaphor: ReFantazio is a great place to start if you've always been curious but daunted by the Atlus formula. Later the pair discuss their thoughts on Transistor and Fox challenges Daniel to play Sword of Vermilion on the Sega Genesis.

0:00:00 - Welcome to the Show, Shy Fox!
0:09:40 - What Are You Playing? - Metaphor: ReFantazio
0:42:38 - Backlog Recap - Transistor
0:48:23 - Backlog Challenge - Sword of Vermilion
0:52:02 - Wrap Up/Plugs

Check out Fix Your Heart or Die Podcast on Spotify, featuring Jonathan Off Road Rules: https://open.spotify.com/show/5stt5kNgqOKhlPs4jh7UoU
Check out Fix Your Heart or Die Podcast Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/c/FixYourHeartPod/posts
Follow Fix Your Heart or Die on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/fixyourheartpod.bsky.social
Listen to the Fix Your Heart or Die Podcast Original Soundtrack by Daniel (we didn't mention it on the show but the soundtrack will add more songs as the podcast evolves, and it will eventually come to Spotify): https://thesanford.bandcamp.com/album/fix-your-heart-or-die-songs-from-the-podcast
Donate to the Crips for Esims for Gaza bundle here: https://itch.io/b/2965/crips-for-esims-for-gaza-bundle
Follow the podcast feed on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ttwav.bsky.social
Follow Daniel on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/douibyorthst.bsky.social

Currently Playing - 10 - Metaphor ReFantazio with Shy Fox

The debut episode! Jonathan talks to a pole dancing cat enthusiast about the latest videogame news. Rambo skin by MGreat ~ https://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/rambo-2613956/

Rambo Minecraft Kombat Smash

The Redneck Tonberry joins the show! The bad takes of a Google Stadia guy lead to good things. Blaseball is dissected and the validity for thanking God for your good fortune is questioned.

Cannibal Animal Blaseball Crossing

Casey Explosion, The Redneck Tonberry, and Emma Schaale, author of How Games Get Made join Tanya and Jonathan for discussions on Rutger Hauer's last game, the pros and cons of David Cage, and who Ready Player Two is really about. 

Twitter handles for the guests on this episode-
Casey - @CaseyExplosion
Tonberry - @ATonberry
Emma -@sparrowtrooper

A link to Emma's book! - https://www.amazon.com/How-Games-Get-Made-Stories-ebook/dp/B08PVXF1K5/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=how+games+get+made&qid=1607440753&sr=8-1

Currently Playing - 10 - Metaphor ReFantazio with Shy Fox

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