214: Bubsy Is a Draft Dodger

The Nextlander Podcast

Hobbies, Leisure

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

This week we get into a young man's first Mass Effect, Brad's tumble back down the Death Stranding 2 hole, Vinny finishing Shinobi, Alex making stern faces at Madden, a portable PlayStation 6 (??), Take-Two's nearly closed deal to pick up Perfect Dark, Saudi Arabia's new ownership stake in Evo, grandfathers who love Bubsy, old jokes that never actually existed, the enduring cultural influence of AMVs, and more.

CHAPTERS

(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.
(00:00:10) Intro
(00:01:32) Alex's App Story
(00:09:04) Revisiting Mass Effect through the youth
(00:28:17) Death Stranding 2: On The Beach | [PlayStation 5] | Jun 26, 2025
(00:54:17) First Break
(00:56:37) Shinobi: Art of Vengeance | [Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] | Aug 29, 2025
(01:03:13) Hollow Knight: Silksong | [Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 04, 2025
(01:05:26) Madden NFL 26 | [Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Aug 14, 2025
(01:08:04) Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Aug 14, 2025
(01:10:37) Second Break
(01:10:42) Sony's possible storage downgrades
(01:15:35) Rumors of a Sony handheld are back
(01:38:33) The story of Perfect Dark continues... for a bit
(01:45:45) Saudi Arabia gets involved in EVO
(01:54:34) Emails
(02:16:52) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:22:56) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:24:24) Nextlander Content Updates
(02:25:38) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to, wow, that was quick, huh?
0:13.7	Wow, I just ran right there.
0:14.9	Hello, everyone.
0:15.3	Welcome back to another.
0:19.4	It's like, it's like developing a callus for your voice.
0:22.4	It's like developing calluses on your vocal cords.
0:25.0	It just comes out.
0:26.5	It's like when you, you know, your feet's, you know how feet get.
0:31.9	You know how feet get.
0:34.3	You know, use mine, so.
0:35.7	Or maybe playing guitar.
0:37.0	You know how those fingertips get playing guitar, right? There you go. Slightly less gross analogy, I suppose. No worry. Let me just swallow some pumice stones and work those through. You know, nodes on your vocal chords. That's a real thing. It's a real thing. It's true. Ask a Dell. Yep.
0:55.2	Hello, everybody.
0:56.0	Welcome back.
0:56.4	We are doing another Nextlander podcast here.
1:00.2	Very micro machines.
1:01.5	It was almost like a Merlock introducing the podcast.
1:07.5	Start all of my podcasts like that from now on.
1:12.3	We are here.
1:13.5	It is now September.
1:15.4	Brad Sheemaker, welcome back to the show.
1:17.8	Happy September.
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