This Month In Retronauts: March 2023 edition

Belated, but yes, I got it. Thank you.

Stuart Gipp

But I bet Stuart won’t! 😅

BlueWeaselBreath

I had to look this one up to get the pun

Diamond Feit

My ice cream flavor is “Oh No! More Lemons”. You can only take a few bites, and then it becomes too hard to eat.

BlueWeaselBreath

I'm favor of Pikmint. More than that, I demand it.

Luis Guillermo Jimenez Gomez

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Luis Guillermo Jimenez Gomez

My ice cream flavor is "Pikmint" - a green mint ice cream with chocolate swirls and funfetti sprinkles. I also asked my wife and she immediately responded with "Banjo-Cashewy" - chocolate ice cream with swirls of cashew butter and chocolate birds and bears.

My ice cream pitch: Final Fanta-sy A collaboration between B&J, Square Enix, and the modestly popular soda brand Fanta. It’s just an individually wrapped novelty orange creamsicle stick shaped like the buster sword

James Ryall

To continue my burgeoning, parasocial, one-sided bromance with Stuart - Many of your British references and songs are also doubtlessly triggering Gen Y Aussie listeners (and probably other Commonwealthers too). The smattering of local Australian video game magazines I read in the late nineties/early noughties also included all the foul and tasteless humour as Stuart describes, aimed at that ripe demographic of 13 year olds. There were also plenty of UK magazine imports too on our newsagent shelves. Remember how much monthly fan art of game mascots butchering each other Itchy-and-Scratchy-style they published?

Wood Duck

100% with you Stuart, the prevelance "sexed up 14yo" in so much anime is revolting and maddening. You really have to wonder if it continues because there's a percentage of teenage consumers who think "eh this is fine and normal, I'm a teenager too" then continue to think like that as they age up? It's sad that you even have to reasonably expect that The Mob will come after you for expressing an opinion that "teenage r**** is not appropriate or funny". Whoops, behold - Stuart rants inspire new rants!

Wood Duck

No need to apologize, Stu. That shit grosses me out as well.

WeazelTooth

Is it just me or is Diamond significantly louder than Stuart on these? Makes it tough to listen to.

Christoph

Keeping with the Chrono Trigger theme for another monthly question: Cone o' Trigger. Strawberry ice cream with shattered time egg fragments (waffle cone pieces) and blue(berry) time portal swirls.

Phoequinox

seldom does any ice cream survive that long in my house

Diamond Feit

DelEAT This Ice Cream Within 24 Hours

Craig

“Big Apple Pie, 3AM!” Who turned the lights out? Satisfy your late-night cravings with chunks of apple pie and caramel turtle pieces, chaotically mixed with shreds of cinnamon and splintered pecans in a vanilla ice cream base. Just be sure to grab it In Time, before your friends do. (Ben & Jerry’s is not responsible for any poisoning resulting from eating food found on the street.)

Julian

I'm not clever enough to come up with an ice cream flavor. I think I'm warming to the format and enjoy listening to the fan comments. Thanks for reading my comment on the February episode. If you can think of a game that depicts being a foreigner in a strange land better than Morrowind, please do share. It sounded like there was some enthusiasm to find a game to fit that category.

CapNChris

Awesome. Glad to hear you're enjoying it.

Stephen Collins

I'm loving the RE4 Remake. It wasn't out yet when this was recorded, so they're all pre-playing impressions. :)

Stuart Gipp

Sorry to hear that you guys aren't enjoying/aren't interested in the RE4 remake. I picked it up a few days ago and am enjoying it quite a lot. I have to admit that, while I understand what Stuart is saying about the disconnect between graphics and gameplay on an intellectual level, I just don't see how that is a problem, I guess? And, Diamond, yeah, I don't think I could play the remake on controller, either. Mouse and Keyboard feels much better. I think you will find it much easier to hit your shots. Also, just get through the first village section. It is a bit of a hump, but it gets easier afterwards.

Stephen Collins

I have a couple of Ben & Jerry's flavors. First: "Aerith's Death by Chocolate." A Vanilla ice cream with chocolate swords, made with spoiled milk. Pitch 2: "Conker's Bad Fur Day Presents, The Great Mighty Poutine." It's just "Wavy Gravy" with corn kernels in it. An operatic medley of taste, in you mouth.

Nuno Amaral