Episode #93: The Norwegian Heavy Water Plant Sabotage
Featuring: Merve The Kappa Captain Blasto Editor: The Kappa Timestamps: 0:15 – Introduction 14:15 – The Video Game Industry and the Rapidly Worsening Internet 55:45 – Viewfinder 1:05:50 – Pikmin 4 1:17:05 – Adventures in Mobile Gaming 1:31:00 – Persona 5 Royal 1:36:15 – Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access 1:50:30 – Master Detective Archives: Rain Code 2:02:25 – He F***ed the Girl Out of Me 2:06:00 – The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons 2:11:20 – Conclusion Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep93 Podcast header image from Viewfinder . Header font is Special Alphabets 4 . Content warnings: discussions of domestic abuse and transphobia. Spoiler warning: Baldur’s Gate 3 (mild). Linkdump and timestamps for warnings after the jump. Introduction (0:15) Wikipedia article on Friendster . Wikipedia article on GeoCities . Official website for Bluesky . Wikipedia article on Threads . Facebook’s monthly active user count has increased every quarter from Q2 2008 to Q2 2023, with the exception of Q1 2022 to Q2 2022, when it declined slightly. (Source: Business of Apps) Apple app store page for HEY Email . Official website for Hive Social . Official website for Marco Polo . Official website for Zoom . The Video Game Industry and the Rapidly Worsening Internet (14:15) Cory Doctorow’s now famous “enshittification” essay . (Source: Pluralistic) Official website for YouTube . An article about the dangers of perineum sunning . (Source: Allure) Official website for comedian Chris Porter . Wikipedia article on recommender systems . Wikipedia article on generative AI . Official website for Kickstarter . Official website for Stormgate . Viewfinder (55:45) Steam store page for Viewfinder . Wikipedia article on Kim Swift . Pikmin 4 (1:05:50) Nintendo store page for Pikmin 4 . Steam store page for Overlord . Steam store page for Darwinia . The current rating system used by the ESRB. The “Early Childhood” (EC) rating was retired in 2018. (Source: Wikipedia) Multiple corrections: There are two standalone virtual museums based off Assassin’s Creed currently rated by the ESRB: Ancient Greece (based off Odyssey ); and Viking Age (based off Valhalla ). The former is rated E10+, and the latter is rated E. Neither would have been eligible for an EC rating if it had been in use at the time. What The Kappa might have been referring to is the Edutainment content descriptor , which is no longer in use by the ESRB. (Source: ESRB) Adventures in Mobile Gaming (1:17:05) CONTENT WARNING: Mentions of domestic abuse Wikipedia article on Candy Crush Saga . Google Play store page for Dreamdale – Fairy Adventure . Steam store pages for AdVenture Capitalist and AdVenture Communist . The Merge Mansion ad starring Pedro Pascal. (Source: IGN on YouTube) One of the Game of War ads starring Kate Upton (Source: Game of War: Fire Age on YouTube) Google Play store page for King’s Choice . Wikipedia article on Evony . Wikipedia articles on Brain Age and Big Brain Academy . The “doctor character” that The Kappa mentioned was called Professor Kawashima. The Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain ad featuring Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. (Source: GameSpot Trailers on YouTube) Persona 5 Royal (1:31:00) Wikipedia article section on Persona 5 Royal . Baldur’s Gate 3 Early Access (1:36:15) MINOR SPOILERS: Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam store page for Baldur’s Gate 3 . Know Your Meme page for the Baldur’s Gate 3 bear sex scene . Correction: Bears form a taxonomic family, not a genus. (Source: Wikipedia) Correction: Baldur’s Gate 3 is slated to come to PlayStation 5 and macOS a month after its August 3 rd release on Windows PC. Contrary to what Merve said, the game is coming to macOS. (Source: Wikipedia) The Gameological Fantasy Critic league . Correction: Games that are currently in early access are banned from the league. Correction: Fortnite hasn’t been in early access since June 2020 . What allows it to be played online on PlayStation without a PS Plus membership is that its