Remap Radio 137 — Critical Hits

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4.9 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 210 minutes

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Summary

We’re delighted to welcome our old friend and colleague Renata Price to discuss her new project, Crit Build! Ren joins Patrick, Rob, and Janet to discuss launching Crit Build, Microsoft dismissing the head of its Israeli subsidiary, GameStop’s eBay bid falling apart, and what the heck happened with all that Mixtape discourse. Plus, we’ve got plenty of games to talk about, including Forza Horizon 6, Phantom Brigade, the incredible Ayn Thor handheld, and initial Steam Controller thoughts. Somehow, all of this took us nearly four hours. Five stars, baby!

Reminder: Last year, the pro-Palestinian human rights movement BDS that’s pressuring Israel by promoting boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the country added Xbox to its boycott list. Learn more here: https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott-microsofts-xbox

Links: Crit Build, EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid, Head of Microsoft’s Israel branch to step down after inquiry into dealings with Israeli military, C L E A R Y O U R M I N D, All This Over… Mixtape?

Discussed:

00:00:23 - Crit Build

00:34:04 - EBay Rejects GameStop’s $55 Billion Takeover Bid

00:50:44 - Head of Microsoft’s Israel branch to step down after inquiry into dealings with Israeli military

01:23:32 - Forza Horizon 6

02:16:06 - Mixtape Discourse

02:37:06 - Steam Controller

02:50:44 - AYN Thor

02:56:42 - Xenogears

02:57:02 - Vagrant Story

03:15:31 - Phantom Brigade

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Remap Radio.
0:12.1	I'm your host, Rob Zakeney, and this is episode 137 for May 15th, 2026.
0:17.9	Today we are joined by Janet Garcia.
0:20.0	Hello.
0:21.1	Patrick Kloppick.
0:38.9	Hi. And welcome back. Renata Price. Now of CripBuild, Patreon.com slash critbill. Or you can go to cripbill.org. We got the dot org domain. It's the dot org. It's the dot. No hyphen, no underscore. None of that bullshit. it. It's just critbuild.org.
0:54.7	Also, my new email extension. I'm really excited about it. I'm really, really excited about it. Dot org. That sounds important, too. Exactly. We're really building something over here. Exactly. I was like, I was. But not for me. For the world. For the world. Exactly. For the people. This is an organization. Yeah.
1:05.2	I, I, I messaged Tessa, my co-founder, and I was like, okay, we can get a dot org, a dot net for about $3 or a dot zone for 40.
1:13.3	Can you believe the dot zone inflation that has happened? I can't believe that Google, at least Google domains.
1:18.4	They probably learned that people were doing it for bits. I think at a certain point you realize that enough people are getting some domain extensions for comedy that you're like,
1:22.7	well, we can, no one's using these out. No one's using the dot zone for its intended purpose.
1:26.9	So we can probably crank up the dial on for its intended purpose, so we can probably
1:27.6	crank up the dial on this one a little bit. We can probably just like twist it just to twinge more,
1:34.4	just to kiss more. But yeah, we managed to securecrypbill.org, which I'm really excited about.
1:41.7	I would love to eventually have enough money to have a website. That'd be cool. But that is a very, that's in the distant future. That's in the, we got, we have very little money right now. And not enough to pay a web designer. Because if I'm going to have a website, I'm going to have a big girl website. God damn it. not just going to, is blog spot still a thing?
2:01.5	Have you heard of Squarespace?
2:03.3	Yeah, I have.
2:04.8	A lot of podcasts claim it's great for building websites.
2:09.2	I've heard this.
2:09.9	I've heard that.
2:10.3	Actually, I used to do,
2:11.7	so I was in,
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