Episode five

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Description

Welcome back to another episode!

What you've got to understand is that time flows differently here, or I guess sort of the same but regressed by about a year from standard "non-Cubic time". But also kinda catching up to your Earth timeline, so I suppose it's quicker comparatively until it equalises? Perhaps the inside of The Cube will see the year 2027 before you will, I don't know how it works and I don't know why you asked in the first place.

Anyway, this time we're finishing off our talk about some of the games that came out this year that should at least have a foot in the door for GOTY 2024

Please excuse the echo, but check out this chapter select:

• Absolute Fern Gully (07:44)
• Getting award season ready (13:36)
• Can I get a spoon? (15:33)
• The man that covets the barnet, a chronicle (16:59)
• Christmas movies (29:00)
• Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (35:53)
• The Chinese mafia (40:17)
• More wealth (45:23)
• Turn based games (48:49)
• Took to the tux tuck tuck TUC Tuck (50:31)
• The upcoming charity no-nut run (52:09)
• The story of the Bōryokudan Dattai-Sha (56:16)
• Sujimon - Super Jittery Monsters (59:50)
• The plight of Ichiban Kasuga (01:04:10)
• Silent Hill 2 (01:10:35)
• Leon Kennedys alternate universal self (01:12:34)
• James Sunderlands Hottest Holiday Locales (01:14:31)
• The gift of guilt, an introspection (01:17:02)
• The real reason Mike loves Silent Hill 2 (01:23:04)
• Astro Bot (01:26:00)
• Robot cosplay (01:28:26)
• Clean gaming, reprehensible rumbles, and difficulty spikes (01:31:30)

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All movies, games, TV series, celebrities, directors etc. that were mentioned in this episode.

Some items mentioned in passing, others are discussed in more detail. All are trapped in the cube.

Movies

1. Fern Gully and sequel
2. Aladdin and sequels
3. Return of Jafar
4. Nativity series
5. Christmas Chronicles and sequel
6. Home Alone
7. Muppets Christmas Carol
8. Die Hard
9. Elf
10. Batman 2
11. Iron Man 3
12. Back to the Future 3
13. The Mummy
14. Yakuza: Like a Dragon
15. Rush Hour series
16. Lord of the Rings
17. Oppenheimer
18. Barbie

TV Series

1. The Simpsons
2. Futurama
3. Aladdin TV series
4. Yakuza
5. Hawaii Five-0
6. Fallout

Celebrities

1. Christopher Walken
2. Tim Curry
3. Don Bluth
4. Robin Williams
5. Dan Castellaneta
6. Brendan Faser
7. Chris Tucker
8. Jackie Chan

Directors

• Shane Black

Games

1. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
2. Armored Core VI: Fires of Vimto
3. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
4. Silent Hill 2 (Remaster)
5. Yakuza series
6. Like a Dragon: Ishin!
7. Yakuza: Zero
8. Yakuza: Dead Souls
9. Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
10. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
11. Sonic the Hedgehog (specifically one that can be played on an arcade machine in a Yakuza franchise game)
12. Virtua Fighter 3 & 5
13. Driver: Parallel Lines
14. Persona
15. Final Fantasy series
16. Baldur’s Gate 3
17. Demon Souls
18. Parappa the Rapper
19. Dead or Alive
20. Crash Bandicoot: Warped
21. Spyro: Year of the Dragon
22. Pokémon franchise
23. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
24. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
25. Divinity: Original Sin
26. Fallout franchise
27. Fallout 76
28. Resident Evil franchise
29. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
30. Devil May Cry
31. Astro Bot
32. Destiny
33. Tomb Raider
34. Stellar Blade
35. Suicide Squad

Comics

• Absolute Batman

Products

• Terry’s Chocolate Muffin

Lore & Theories

• Special guest Shaggy was found washed up on the beach in the cube
• They put him back on the beach at the end of the recording session and hid him in the sand to protect him from the albatross
• Shaggy may return
• Sound doesn’t travel through the cube. This includes the sound of incorrect opinons.
• The albatross is a skilled drag performer
• All newcomers to the cube must survive their first tucking from the albatross
• As punishment for not finishing recording on time, the albatross inflicts a wide variety of tucks upon the hosts
• These include being taken to, tucked in, tucked back, wearing a tuxedo, and being offered a Tuc biscuit
• After being tucked back, the albatross appraises you with the keen eye of a drag competition judge, and when satisfied flies away again
• The albatross sports the tonsur haircut made famous by Friar Tuck, and is sometimes also wearing a tuxedo (unclear if the outward appearance of the albatross is the same each time)
• Mike is in the cube as a punishment for a crime he committed as a child
• In many ways, Silent Hill is like the cube
• The cube is its own dimension or pocket reality
• However, unlike Silent Hill, the interior of the cube is quite peaceful as there are no bricks in tumble dryers

Mike’s Hot Takes

• Shaggy's takes on Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero and Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon aren't that hot
• Tim Curry as Hexxus sings a sexy sexy song
• You don’t need two sausage barms
• You’re not getting my hair
• Bethesda: Update your fucking engine and make a fun game
• Mike likes Silent Hill 2 because he’s done bad things
• Barbenheimer shocked Mike to his core
• They put guilty spooks in the Astro Bot controller for the best vibrations