Can A Boss Fight Ruin A Game?

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Ahoy hoy True Believers and Nerd of Mouth Breathers, get those thumbs into working shape as we download episode 2 into our brains and ask “Can a boss fight ruin a game?” We will bring up video game memories from the darkest depths of our souls and share the boss battles that have helped define our very Personas! Plus Holden tells us all to get better, Jake makes like an evil CEO and pits bosses against each other, and in this week’s lasso of shame we learn never to incur the wrath of Sulu! Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd of mouth.
0:02.0	Hey there and welcome back to Nerd of Mouth, your weekly, geekly look at all the things that makes us slightly ashamed but weirdly excitable.
0:28.1	I'm your host Jake Young. With me is Holden McNeely.
0:30.7	What's happening, everybody? It's Holden. Back for more, baby.
0:34.5	And Mike Lawrence. I don't know how geekly wasn't a failed streaming service.
0:40.1	It was only available in Guam.
0:43.6	And it led to 18 different coups.
0:46.5	The government now functions on bottle caps like Fallout.
0:50.1	I mean, if you bomb and Guam, there's nowhere else to go.
0:53.9	I will say there was an unfortunately titled,
0:56.1	it might still be around Match to the Gathering Board Game Shop in Astoria called the Geekery.
1:00.6	Oh.
1:02.7	That's just like middle school is where the geeks are made.
1:08.0	I went wanting to get fishheads.
1:10.2	They didn't have any.
1:12.3	But we open our show as we do every week with the lasso of shame.
1:17.4	That's right.
1:18.0	A moment of clarity, a moment of healing where we just lay out a, I don't want to say
1:24.6	traumatic, but a slight regret during our journey through life.
1:28.8	Mike, I believe you are wearing the lasso this time.
1:31.3	Yes, I am wearing the lasso.
1:33.4	I would like to share the story.
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