Episode 281 - Double Dragon Gaiden Preview, FTC vs Microsoft, Aliens Dark Descent, & FF16 'OR' Giving People What They Want, S*x With A Bear (Literally)

The Platformers: A Video Game (and Nerd Culture) Podcast

In this episode, Brian Barnett, Kris Cornelisse, and Will Borger discuss cooking bacon, the FTC vs Microsoft case, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, Total Annihilation, & more. Enjoy!

CORRECTION: Brian forgot to mention that Dark Souls 1 had a great boss fight in the DLC; Black Dragon Kalameet. And potentially the Gaping Dragon, etc. in the main game. Good dragons are around!

TOPICS & TIMESTAMPS:

• Intro / Will Being Late, Getting Cooked - 0:00 |
• Aliens: Dark Descent - 8:52 |
• Sound Issues! - 12:00 |
• Cooking & Meat Innuendo Discussion - 15:00 |
• Aliens: Dark Descent (Continued) - 19:21 |
• Final Fantasy 16 - 46:38 |
• Total Annihilation - 1:15:20 |
• Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons Preview - 1:21:00 |
• FTC vs Microsoft -1:34:08 |

POTENTIAL EPISODE TITLES (EACH "+" IS A HOST VOTE):

• Only Brian Is Now Dead |
• I Had My Audio Off, I Was Cooking |
• I’m About To Pop It In |
• All Boys Have Been Created |
• It’s Will’s Fault We’re Late |
• Under The Bus He Goes |
• I Volunteered To Be Thrown Under The Bus |
• In A Show Of Solidarity, It Was My Fault Last Week |
• If We’re Not Gonna Be On Time, We Can At Least Be In Solidarity |
• ++Bros Across The Hemispheres |
• ‘You Better Have Won Those Matches, Man.’ ‘No, I Got Cooked’ |
• +Brian Drinks To Will Getting Cooked |
• You’re Gonna Suck |
• Sucking At Something Is The First Step Of Being Kinda Good At Something |
• +The First Draft Of Anything Is Shit, So Write Your Shit |
• I Can Sing! |
• I Can’t Actually Sing For Shit |
• Cooking Krabby Patties |
• The Rashers |
• You Say It So Much Cooler Than We Do |
• Middle Bacon |
• Comparatively More Meaty |
• When I Lift Up My Meat, I Want It To Be Stiff, Not All Floppy |
• I’m Just Here To Shit Talk American Bacon |
• +I Like My Meat Hard, Mikey |
• +Please Don’t Leave Your Stiff, Floppy Desires Out There |
• If You’re Giving Me Meat, I Want It To Be Hard, Because That’s When I Like To Put It In My Mouth |
• If You’re Into That, I’m Sure It’s Preferable |
• +I’ll Take My Meat How I Can Get It, Thank You |
• +Listen To Brian Talk About The Type Of Meat He Does And Does Not Like In His Mouth |
• I Came Back To Hear Brian Talking About Floppy Meat. Good Timing
• +The Platformers: The Official Floppy Meat Podcast |
• +For All Your Floppy Meat Needs |
• We Only Need One Open World Game, & It’s Watch_Dogs |
• +That’s A Dumb Hill To Die On, But At Least You’re Dead |
• We Do A Little Bit Of Trolling, Just For Fun |
• ++If You Play RDR2, You Can Really Feel People Missing Their Children’s Birthdays |
• More Impressive Than Actually Good |
• Final Destination With Aliens |
• +Maybe Don’t Stick The Demon Rock In Your Skull |
• +Ifrit The Jobber |
• The Heart Wants Smoke & Sexy Style |
• +I’m Gonna Kill This Tree |
• That’s A Beautiful Mothercrystal You’ve Got There, It’d Be A Shame If Something Happened To It |
• +I Am The Bad Thing |
• Clive The Disrupter |
• +The Year Of Ralph Ineson |
• I’m Playing Final Fantasy 18, Living In The Future |
• +We Precision Sic The Joke |
• +This Episode Has 17,000 Endings |
• ++As Narratively Satisfying As The Ending Of Mass Effect 3 |
• You Won’t Just Choose A Door |
• I Shall Suffer In The Not Knowing |
• Kris’ Poor Little Socialist Heart |
• ++$5, A Dream, & Some Duct Tape |
• +We Have Bears To Lay Down By The Fire |
• ++Giving People What They Want, Sex With A Bear (Literally) |
• ++I’m Not Sure, But I Think There Was Dolphin Sex In It |

[The Platformers Video Game Podcast is created, hosted, edited, written, & streamed by Brian Barnett on Twitch.tv/Ribnax]

TAGS: #ff16 #doubledragongaiden #ftc