Episodes

  • This is it. This is goodbye to ICB, and hello to Infinite Cities. We're officially dropping the Blaseball, and moving on to our future of "good games, and better friends." It's bittersweet, wrapping up everything we've been doing these past three (almost) years, but that doesn't mean we're going anywhere. In fact, you might not even notice the difference.

    in this episode: our next project, explaining blaseball, pretty much only good games, sickos mode, ICBee, super mario battle royale, that's the premise, hole score, welcome to only holes, the unspisciest podcast, one last time

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Infinite Cities by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, and Rebecca Snedeker

    The New Infinite Citites Podcast!

    Infinite Cities Podcast Discord Server

    Infinite Cities on Twitter

    Infinite Cities on cohost!

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us in the Infinite Cities Discord!

    You can find us on Twitter, and cohost! and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecities.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings, willofchris, karpskryparn, and thegaryroby, and we are Infinite Cities. 🌆

  • Blaseball will not be returning.

    In a lot of ways, this isn't different than a month ago - we didn't have Blaseball then, and we still don't have Blaseball now. Our last regular season episode was thirty-nine. But in more meaningful ways, the world is a little less cool. Even though we gave up talking about blaseball a while ago, this still sucks.

    Join us as we figure out if there's anything left to say, and keep watch with us as we look forward to a new beginning.

    In this episode: the final moments of the great blaseball discord, the physical world is unchanged, we're not going to stop podcasting, miracles, rest in violence, change the world, thank yous.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    The Game Band Is Shutting Down Blaseball - Destructioid

    Closing Thoughts - Blaseball News Network

    You have two weeks to get your blaseball cares orders in

    Shout outs to you, reader of the episode notes.

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

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  • Despite everything that's gotten in the way for the past few weeks, Will, Karp, and Gary have been devoting their time to being the Hero of Hyrule.

    in this episode:

    will has played the least of us, our formative zelda years, rediscovering 3D zelda, those sheikah duds, doing everything in a weird order, going to hyrule castle, ~~link's~~ zelda's house, plunging towards hyrule, engineering, our best friend sidon, being a journalist with penn, temple problems, spirit mech, breath of the wild: sad mode, korok torture, building as puzzles, no more tests of strength, scratching the surface of the depths, lets talk about the plot, the hero of hyrule, zelda eats it, the master sword

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Tears of the Kingdom Title Drop

    Remap Radio

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Disco Elysium is somehow (still) so much more than we could have anticipated, but we're finally wrapping up our conversation from last week with the endgame! Feather's still doing too many drugs, Gary has thoughts about the hole, Will's complaining about tech, and Karp is still just better than you.

    Content warning: this episode contains discussions of hard drugs, alcohol, violence, suicide, murder, philosophy, and politics

    in this episode:
    raphaël ambrosius costeau, where'd we left off last time, bashing political ideologies, dance teens, romance in disco, wompty-dompty dom centre, klaasje, cw: drug use, ruby, the tribunal, sad fm, one last door, dolores dei, we should talk about the world, the hole, philosophy, the deserter, the insulindian phasmid is real, shoutouts to cuno, the pale, thoughts about The World, the kim theory, will's tech corner, clearing out side quests, the hole at the center of everything, the pessimism is baked in, the world isn't doomed, disco elysium is dancing in the face of oblivion

    ~shoutouts zone~

    A Compilation of Articles about Disco Elysium

    Sacred and Terrible Air by Robert Kurvitz

    People Make Games Disco Elysium coverage - released after we recorded but before we released (somehow) but the best research into the out of game situation

    SadFM by @patientno7 on twitter

    SadFM by AntonSavinov on DeviantArt

    SadFM in game

    The Stained Glass Window of Dolores Dei by @cardo_de_comer

    What Kind of Cop Are You?

    Kim's Photo of the Phasmid

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Wow, Disco Elysium is a lot. It feels a bit late to be getting to this game, but we're finally in the dark (metaphorically and physically), dank (same) city of Revachol! Gary found books to read, Feather's trying to solve being sad through chemistry, Will is having a hard time finding his place and Karp is just better than you. This game is so big, this one is just the first half of the game!

    Content warning: this episode contains discussions of hard drugs, including the use of drugs by a minor, alcohol, violence, and racism.

    This episode contains spoilers for the first half of Disco Elysium, beginning vaguely at about 00:30:00, and getting more detailed and spoiler-y as this episode progresses.

    In this episode: Tears of the Kingdom, what's your build, you will respect feather's authority, fuck Cuno, giving up drugs for feminism, the least comfortable chair in the universe, this game does not like you.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Some of Gob's incredible Blaseball modifiers rendered as Disco Elysium stat portraits (and more of them)

    Behold! The Inland Empire

    Detective, it's Wednesday

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Taco D3 Mayo might be behind us, but it still looms large in our heads - and T4co De Mayo is just around the corner! To settle our minds, friend of the show Deejay burst into our podcast and sat us down for an interview. How did TDM go? Who was it for? And, why in the name of christ did we go to 3pm on Saturday?

    In this episode: kool-aid man morality, thank you/apologies, the importance of style guides, 24 hours is a long time, BACo: Origins, King of the Castle was awesome, Rat Batson vtubing.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    The VOD is lost to the ether - Twitch changed their VOD policy from 14 days to 7 days a few months ago, and we never noticed. If you're hearing this, sorry!

    The gofundme is still live!

    Lolo's style guide for T3M, and also TDM 1

    The stream carrd

    No Effort Allowed

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • This Friday, May 5th (actually Cinco De Mayo this time!) we're kicking off our annual 24-hour charity marathon livestream extravaganza! If you like ICB, or if you hate ICB and enjoy seeing us suffer, tune in from 3:30 pm Pacific, May 5, through 4:00 pm Pacific, May 6th!

    The stream will be live at https://www.twitch.tv/infinitecitiesblaseball

    Stream info is at https://tacod3mayo.carrd.co/

    Donate at https://gofund.me/6c6450ee

    See you there! 🌶️


  • This week, we're continuing our playthough of One and Ninety-Eight! The Erie Sunfish continue to struggle to find a foothold in the Major Leagues, despite everyone's best efforts to improve themselves.

    our characters:

    Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "call me double-o". Guy fieri shirt. Jealous of leather jacket. James bond by way of greaser. He/Him.

    Whitty Mayday (she/her) - human, tall, mixed complexion, keeps her curly hair up in a tight ponytail, artist, free-spirited, always covered in splatters of paint

    Sink Goggles: A biomechanical hyperrealistic 3 foot tall rat in green boottlecap steampunk goggles wears a long purple leather trenchcoat and a bowler hat. He is mainly an eephus pitcher, although throws a knuckle ball slurve and 2 seamer. they/them

    Bumble Couchsurf (he/him) - human in his midtwenties, easygoing, dressed as a hipster without being one, always carries a harmonica on his person. Dislikes beds

    in this episode:

    we have mbmbam spoilers, we will never fix it in post, pizza by the square inch, what good is one hit, it's hard to take care of yourself, bumble's appreciative words, we used to be the best, a big dumb speech, a THE D4, erie sunfish hit it big, but feather redid how pitching works, a big dumb messy fight, bad coaching, sink europe, good coaching, big dumb paddle boats, a weird erie, paddle boats shred, a small sad speech, double on, all in, unplaytested endings, square pizza surpemacy, party time vibes, rollercoasters shred, blaseball out of sync, future pitches, taco d3 mayo

    ~shoutouts zone~

    taco d3 mayo

    infinite cities on twitch

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Titanfall 2 might not have a lot to say, but we certainly do! From our favorite titans (Scorch is da best, ignore the rest of those losers on this show) to a confused rundown of the plot, we had such a good time talking about a good time that maybe we forgot to explain, say, what an R-201 is. Who cares! Certainly not Titanfall 2.

    Content warning: extended discussion of guns, Titanfall 2 spoilers, for the entire duration of the episode.

    In this episode: BT stands for Best FrienTd, there isn’t much of a story but we still fail to summarize it, why is everyone shooting my face with delicious strawberry jelly, we go down every mission because they’re all so good, effect and cause, I got the arc tool and suplexed a dude and everyone clapped and obama was there, the most OP weapon is in my head for some reason, a game with not much to say.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Hyper Demon

    Taco De Mayo is in TWO WEEKS

    Join us in playing our next video game book club game, Disco Elysium!

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Another week has come and gone and we are still without blaseball to discuss, so we're playing another ttrpg! Feather has been designing games for a while now, and this is our first time playing the first game she'd published, One and Ninety-Eight!

    our characters:

    Double-O Forever: Hotshot star batter, very fast, finger guns, slicked back hair. "call me double-o". Guy fieri shirt. Jealous of leather jacket. James bond by way of greaser. He/Him.

    Whitty Mayday (she/her) - human, tall, mixed complexion, keeps her curly hair up in a tight ponytail, artist, free-spirited, always covered in splatters of paint

    Sink Goggles: A biomechanical hyperrealistic 3 foot tall rat in green boottlecap steampunk goggles wears a long purple leather trenchcoat and a bowler hat. He is mainly an eephus pitcher, although throws a knuckle ball slurve and 2 seamer. they/them

    Bumble Couchsurf (he/him) - human in his midtwenties, easygoing, dressed as a hipster without being one, always carries a harmonica on his person. Dislikes beds

    in this episode:

    ascension, hapless animals, erie sunfish, moments, feather likes gmless games, glass dice, erie pennsylvania, san jose, onomancer, creating characters, bee bee king, a james bond greaser, a paint splattered artist, a harmonica playing couchsurfer, and a biomechanical rat pitcher walk into the major leagues, eephus pitching, double-slow, bad day colors, smoke on the water, feather changing the rules while we're playing should make me angry but she wrote it so it's fine i guess, 1-2 is certainly better than 0-51, wiggly field, snakes

    ~shoutouts zone~

    One and Ninety-Eight: Life In The Major Leagues

    Misty Mountain Gaming Glass Dice

    Pumpkinseed Sunfish

    Dice on the Cob

    Erie, Pennsylvania

    Onomancer

    Eerie, Pennsylvania

    StarshinePerigee on Itch.io

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Night in the Woods is a dense game, with a lot to say. It should be no surprise that we have a ton to say about it also! In this monster episode we try to come to terms with possibly the most literary work we've played thus far - so literary, in fact, that Feather thinks maybe this one should have just been a book? It's complicated, there's no good answers, and everyone is sad!

    content warnings:
    mention of suicide and abuse from the start to 0:02:00. Discussion of death, violence, mental illness, and disassociation throughout the episode. Night in the Woods story spoilers (but not ending spoilers) throughout the episode, with extended detailed ending spoilers beginning at 1:10:30.

    In this episode: getting right into it, are foxes dogs, Feather's monitor might have just been too dark, perspective dissonance, getting personal, being 20 sucks, bringing yourself into a story, germ is cool ok, DEMONTOWER, constellations, post-mortem heart to hearts, hole implications, the tooth. That's a whoppah!

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Nevada, by Imogen Binnie

    Join us in playing through our next entry in the Video Game Book Club: Titanfall 2!

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    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Feather and I are just vibing tonight so, congrats.

    in this episode:

    nonsense, pedro pascal, idle games, layoffs, transitioning, coming out, other stuff

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Pedro Pascal's Triangle of Prestige

    Nic Cage Filmography

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • We're really struggling to come up with content during the non-video game book club weeks, but that's not gonna stop us! This week, we're talking about our ideas for a Blaseball LARP! What's this game look like? How do we play it? Does wearing a Mike Trout jersey mean you're cosplaying?

    in this episode:

    please imagine finger guns, 1v1 blaseball, playing real baseball, will is predisposed to kanjamming, tarps are expensive, the price is right, nobody can say tarp target, turning fantasy baseball into a fanfic generator, please dont ship real people, recinded shoutouts, take your jessica telephone cosplay to the game, every time you wear jeans and a tshirt, you're cosplaying a character in a harem anime, big buckets, this is the good timeline, bean bags, blaseball with real death mechanics, wiffle ball is the answer to all of our problems, you have to sign the waiver, annual blasecon, major league wiffle

    ~shoutout zone~

    Kan Jam

    Pilot Teacher goes to the Bambi Bucket Factory

    Japanese Playing Soccer with Binoculars

    Salmon Weather

    MLW Wiffle Ball Rule Book

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Last Video Game Book Club pick was way, way too long to play in a week (Gary is still playing CrossCode!) so this week we've picked something shorter: titularly shorter, in fact. A Short Hike is a tiny, perfectly cut gem of a game, and we're too distracted sharing everything we've found to level more than one or two criticisms at it. Play it, and then join us on this mountaintop hot spring!

    Content warning: spoilers for A Short Hike throughout the entire episode, CrossCode spoilers in the post-pod (after the outro music).

    Also, as a reminder - always feel free to skip the post-pod. Or the post-post-pod. My cohosts are maniacs and told me to leave it all in. Blame me for saying I wanted the ep to be longer than the game. ~feather

    In this episode: this isn't a walking sim, favorite NPCs, the corrupt world of sand castle politics, pixel crunchiness, the merits of maps, podcasting bird says flying is good, ending spoilers, Will gives a game design lecture, feather interrupts, Gary professes a love for Gregg.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Midwinter Soup Frenzy

    Dueling Peaks vista

    Liyue Harbor vista

    Feather is editing this one so have another Genshin vista (it's Sumeru City)

    Avalon City, in the best open world game (literally just going outside)

    Join us in playing our next game as part of our video game book club series: Night in the Woods

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • There's been plenty of team rankings running around, but as a crew of mostly-tacos, we needed to settle everyone's relative standings on the most important of axes: if your team was a taco, how good would it be?

    The answer is this good: https://imgur.com/a/Xi6FyLA (spoiler alert)

    Content warning: discussion of food for the entirety of the episode.

    In this episode: a lot of nonsense, Will does not have tickets to the backstreet boys reunion tour, stretching the definition of a "taco", arguing that things are bad, does the chocotaco really belong to the Kansas City Breath Mints, welcome to mobile game sad club, a podcast within a podcast within a podcast about beefy boys, don't trust any restaurant if that restaurant's owners also run two other restaurants of different ethnicities, E grades, I wish i was eating tacos right now.

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Team edibility meme

    "Love" spice tin (it's empty!)

    25 thousand dollar choco taco

    In this episode feather says she's going to put a terrible mobile game in the shoutouts zone but it doesn't deserve it so have a gif of baby jellyfish instead

    "The Place" Karp mentions is Taqueria Jocotepec

    Sancho's Tacos, Breckenridge

    nopales

    ropa vieja

    the Wild Wild West giant robot spider (courtesy of the Evil Wiki??)

    Wings Ole, featuring some particularly bad clipart

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at https://infinitecitiesblaseball.libsyn.com/!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • For our second entry in our Video Game Book Club, we played CrossCode, a wonderful love letter to they heyday of MMORPGs! And what better way to pay our own homage to this era than by trying to play a 40 hour game in two weeks? Maybe this was a bad idea! Or maybe we just aren't in high school anymore? Either way, we (mostly) had a great time, and now we're ready to sit down and talk about it!

    In this episode: MMO experience, I play too much Zelda to have a silent protagonist like this, we fail to explain what CrossCode is for 10 minutes, if the game wants me to stop it'll have to tell me to stop, gamepad vs mouse & keyboard vs secret third option mouse & gamepad??, this love letter to MMORPGs plays a lot like Zelda, we really tried to do a 40 hour game in two weeks, too many shoutouts (sorry not sorry?)

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Space Cowboy Online got bought and sold a bunch of times and apparently you can still play it?

    Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates! Is also still kicking, god bless

    Mark Wahlberg's 40-day Challenge

    Blaseball Not-So-Grand Siesta’s Speed Dating: Team Capsule Rundown and Review

    Join us in playing A Short Hike!

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel.

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at blaseball1.com!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • blaseball is sleepy and so is icb, but don't worry, we'll never stop podcasting. we dont know how!

    in this episode: we're not doing blaseball this week, ping role, the most sickos shitposters of the taco stand, the definitely real one hundred percent authentic shrek season, the nuances of being fully illegal, a gullible person with a tiny brain, blaseball has patch notes now, something fun and exciting, cheesy will, taco de mayo, the hero's journey of blaseball, it's important to belong to a place, what to do while blaseball is sleepy, even baseball has patch notes

    ~shoutouts zone~

    pi(e) day

    crosscode

    infinite cities blaseball on twitch

    time of empires

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel..

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at blaseball1.com!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • The siesta is still ongoing, and frankly ICB isn't sure what we have to talk about. Video Game Book Club will continue next week with CrossCode.

    in this episode:
    blaseball?

    ~shoutouts zone~

    Blaseball

    CrossCode

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel..

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at blaseball1.com!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • The first game in our "Video Game Book Club" is here! We get the crew together to play Rain World: an atmospheric survival exploration platformer, first released in 2017. Is it painfully beautiful, or beautifully painful? Or just pain? We weren't sure, and even after spending an hour and a half talking about it - I don't think anyone's mind is truely settled. One thing is clear: this was a fantastic first pick!

    Note: this episode contains minor spoilers for the mechanics and first few areas of Rain World, a game which emphasizes discovery. The postpod (beginning at 1:04:00, after the outro music) contains major explicit story spoilers. We warn in the audio before we begin discussion of major spoilers.

    In this episode: fancy pants adventure is old and so are we, metroidvanias, games that aren't fun, clunky controls?, Feather regrets her decision to stop swearing, you are invited to die, did we make this too hard for ourselves (and can we blame someone else), correction: feather collected every red strawberry in celeste so calibrate your evaluation of her skill accordingly,

    ~shoutouts zone~

    DeeJay said he'd post his tattoo in our server chat but didn't so we also didn't get to see it so if you're reading this ping keeper_wicket and ask to see his tattoo design

    Demon Turf

    NetHack was updated just two weeks ago?!?

    Polygon's Rain World review

    Rain World Movement Guide

    Swarm Lake

    Te Marie plant

    Rain World longplay

    Curious Archive: The Most Complex Ecosystem in any Game

    Join us in playing Cross Code!

    ~~~

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

    Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode is discussed in the #podco-truck channel..

    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at blaseball1.com!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️

  • Blaseball is back, but it's Shrek themed again? Didn't we do this already? Can we like, stop doing this? (Actually no, please keep being weird Blaseball, we love you)

    in this episode:

    hero characters return, dvd extras, we need to talk about blaseball, shrek histories, the potion wiggler, the big button, the dronkeys, yeet prince charming, shoe thieves finally steal some shoes, single season buffs, a very speedy capri-sun, drury lane, shrek is the best player on the mills, manipulative nobility shit, leaving the shrekiverse

    ~shoutout zone~

    shrek 2 dvd menu walkthrough

    shrek 2 on youtube

    shrek 2 but it's only kyle scenes

    rain world

    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto.

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    Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at blaseball1.com!

    We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball. 🌶️