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Waypoint Radio

Episode 37: Mobile Suit Gamer

Waypoint Radio

VICE

Leisure, Video Game Development, Television, Rewatch, Replay, Tv & Film, Video Games, Games, Movies, Video Game Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Super Bowl was this weekend, and while a just universe would have allowed a team other than the New England Patriots to win for once, 2017 has shown that world is not ours. Congrats, Patriots fans. You won another one.

Back in the world of podcasts, Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau was battling sickness this morning, so Social Editor Danika Harrod joined Senior Reporter Patrick Klepek and Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker to give an update on the search for Donnel in Fire Emblem: Heroes, react to the beta for Ghost Recon Wildlands, discuss how Nioh seems to be separating itself from Dark Souls, and dip into The Question Bucket.



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0:00.0

What's good internet it is February 6 2017 you are listening to waypoint radio

0:23.6

We are coming to you live from lobby one invite sage Q and Williamsburg Brooklyn New York New York

0:29.5

Brooklyn New York New York United States. Yep of America. Yep where Tom Brady is apparently king again

0:35.7

Tom Brady is a garbage man, but not an actual garbage man because garbage men are good

0:40.8

garbage men do a very important work. Yes, I know, but he is like a garbage human. That's what I mean

0:46.3

I was really hoping to come in here this morning and be like wow a thing that feels sort of like justice in a strange way

0:53.0

that I can't quite justify. But instead we had to wake up to the one and only Trump tweeting about Tom Brady

1:00.1

winning the Super Bowl. Anyway, I you know, I think that there's definitely

1:05.8

You know, we just jump into this conversation. I was gonna have that was just try to like sneak this conversation in later

1:10.2

Be like our second topic. Let's talk about

1:13.5

relevancy of games and sports in our lives and no fuck that I want to talk about that right now

1:17.8

We can talk about Neo and Fire Emblem heroes in a minute

1:20.5

It is really

1:22.3

frustrating to me that

1:24.3

I

1:25.5

Found myself caught up in the in the metaphor of that game. It felt so close, right?

1:31.4

I mean it it was scary apt at times and that sucks in a like I don't know

1:38.8

Like I don't know like we do this job where we we write about video games

1:42.4

I'm in park and just wrote a piece for the Guardian this morning

1:46.0

About how the like the lowly life of the game critic of just like your fucking job is writing about video games

1:53.6

Have fun like have fun facing the world and feeling like there's nothing you can do or say that will actually improve life for anyone in any

2:00.7

measurable way you creed and he's writing this as a game critic who feels that himself and struggles with that and

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