Idle Thumbs 319: Ruination Online April 2018

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Tv & Film, Videogames, Idle Thumbs, Video Games, Pc Games, Indie Games, Comedy, Console Games, Games & Hobbies, Idlethumbs

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Enjoy this bonus episode drawn from the Idle Thumbs Patreon Ruination Online! Each month, we do a livestream where all topics have been posed by high-tier backers of our Patreon campaign: patreon.com/IdleThumbs.

Due to popular demand, we're releasing the audio of that stream to the main podcast feed for easier listening.

As usual, we'll be back with a regular episode of Idle Thumbs soon!

Discussed: Our purchasing habits of boxed versus digital games, having a physical library of things you love or worked on, dedicating the Earth's finite resources to preserving your garbage, the allure of designing a board game, modern board games taking from video games, how do you explain Important If True, it's impossible, the "wits" path of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, a machine to erase the memories that make you cringe, an infinite cringe spiral, YTMND, snoopkirby2, headshots, making an extinct creature real, making Jar Jar Binks real, making an ideal new social network, committing to an arduous task even after you realize it is insane, is sci-fi or fantasy better, petty crimes, stupid crimes, crime, the worst food to put ketchup on, the overlap between Important If True and Idle Thumbs listeners over time, Studio Ghibli, things we love about San Francisco, what is the Tech Corner?

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0:00.0	All right. I guess I'll use a timer on my phone. Why not?
0:04.0	Sure. Said it to something obnoxious. There we go. That's it.
0:17.0	That's it. Welcome to the Bruination online for April 2018. This is the stream and
0:37.3	podcast on which we answer questions posed to us by high-tier patrons of our Patreon campaign at Patreon.com
0:45.0	slash idle thumbs. For idle thumbs I'm Chris Remo. I'm Nick
0:48.7	Precken and I'm Jake Rodkin and hello and hello everyone and hello if you're watching us live on
0:55.5	on switch or still hello if you're not hello either way so shall we get
1:02.0	started immediately with the questions?
1:04.0	Yes, let's do it.
1:05.0	All right, we're going to keep these to three minutes each this time for timing reasons.
1:09.0	I'm going to start the timer.
1:11.0	I'll start the timer after I read the question.
1:13.4	Alex Schroeder asks, what are your current opinions on digital versus physical games?
1:20.2	Do you think working on digital only games like Firewatch has changed set opinions?
1:24.6	Timeer on.
1:27.6	I've only ever worked in digital only games since the first place that I got a job in the
1:31.6	games in the games industry was at Telltale
1:32.9	games. Because of that, for me it was always really special when we got a boxed version of a game.
1:37.9	But I don't think I've actually purchased a boxed game in quite a while, even stuff for like PS4 and switch. I don't know what you guys think about that.
1:46.0	I mean also I have not purchased a boxed game in quite some time. I don't know if I have a strong opinion about that.
1:52.0	I don't know if I have a strong opinion about that.
1:53.0	I don't really miss it, honestly.
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