GAMERS, we totally skipped our last recording day and today you find out why. Dielan went to go watch Project Hail Mary in theaters while Vic juggled Crimson Desert between his regular duties. We have a lot to say about both of these things, plus more!

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• Nexus Mods policing a user for indirectly plugging Patreon
• Nexus Mods threatening a modding discord admin over Ayaka Mods links
• Gov of NZ threatens DEGMods
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GAMERS, is your favorite fan service game at risk? Can Marathon afford to settle for 2nd place? Is anybody really surprised Highguard is shutting down? Also what the hell are LADS fans doing? All this and more in episode 121.

Stuff referenced:

• Steam Charts

  • How Marathon is doing
  • How Marathon wishes it was doing
  • What Marathon is trying to avoid

• Marathon art references, Skooma sent these to Dielan & Vic while we were talking about Marathon

  • This post has the orange room Vic was criticizing
  • This is reference art for the original Marathon

• RE: The Goon War: Not knowing what we were talking about we had Skooma react to these two videos in this episode

  • A LADS promotional video
  • A marriage scene from Snowbreak for comparrison

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GAMERS, this isn't the first time we've commented on a Discord exodus, but with some luck it may be the last. @Dielan@shitposter.world actually spent a while looking into the state of Discord alternatives, three of which we will go into some depth in this episode.

Stuff referenced:

• Dielan's effortpost
• Discord's verification partner might be evil
• Xbox has a new AI-first CEO
• Our Steam group

THE FOSS ALTERNATIVES:

• Valour - Melonmancy's choice of FOSS Discord alternative
• Fluxer - Some kid in Sweden made a shot-for-shot Discord clone
• Stoat - maybe it's abandonware, or maybe the devs hiding something

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GAMERS, welcome to MP#119, where the tangents were many and it is essentially unchapterable. We did attempt to but a few chapters together for the upload but trust that this episode is all over the place, in the most positive way possible. Turns out a 3rd and 4th Concord-like (as in commercial failure) is on the way and @Dielan@shitposter.world reacts to the trailer in the recording. We also spend some time talking about the audacity of it all that Highguard even has a roadmap. All this an more inside.

Stuff referenced:

• DankPods Linux Summer Olympics
• TW: SLOP - Hunters Gathering trailer
• Xenoblade leak

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GAMERS, Happy new year! It's time to talk about the best games of 2025. Be it drama surrounding the industry shows such as The Game Awards, as well as our own nominations. Here's how the Melonmancy Podcast awards game of the year: since it's unrealistic to always be playing new games at full price, unless you're some paid off corpo journalist, each member of our cast will award the best new game they played this year, be it new or old. It must only be new TO YOU. Please send us boostagrams or post on our forum what was the best new game YOU played last year and we'll talk about it next team, even if the game is fuckin ancient, if its new to you, it's new.

Stuff referenced:

• Former Reddit Moderator thinks he's a celebrity

Melonmancy Podcast cast games of the year (spoilers!)

• Victim's pick
• Skooma Dealer's pick
  • Honorable mentions (early access)
    • Forever Winter
    • Jump Space
    • Barotrauma
    • Quasimorph
• Dielan's pick was a tie between two games
  • One from this year
  • One that was not

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GAMERS, This is our last episode until we return in January 2026. With the Golden Joysticks behind us there's plenty to talk about, also @Dielan@shitposter.world has some first impressions of Expedition 33. Join us for one more episode! We'll be back next year.

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• Asscreed teaser Dielan reacted to
• Asscreed DLC footage Dielan reacted to afterwards

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GAMERS, is Valve about to do the bare minimum again and win by default? What the hell is up with that squid girl? Should Warframe players try out Duet Night Abyss? Tune in and find out!

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• Lab grown, genetically engineered perfection

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GAMERS, once again free and open source drama has broken containment. Today Dielan will be your guide at the FOSS Zoo. Please do not feed the animals.

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• Things Framework is donating money to
• Guess who ISN'T getting any framework money?
• Discord ransom hearsay

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GAMERS, after a crazy success like Megabonk I don't know if the AAA C-suite will ever recover. They really don't understand what we want anymore do they? Come listen while we shoot the shit like always in episode 114!

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GAMERS, pour out a cold one for ComicK and join us while we ramble on about video games. It's a slow couple of weeks for news it's almost like everybody is talking about something else.

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GAMERS, @Dielan@shitposter.world lives! So much has happened since our last episode I don't think we could possibly cover it all, so we'll just talk about whatever we want.

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• DEGA store to be a decentralized replacement for itchio?

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GAMERS, the Canada trip was a huge success! Tennocon was dope and we have quite the story to tell about it. Also what the heck is happing with Visa and Mastercard???

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• MadamSavvy's expose video on Collective Shout
• Rule34 dot xxx webmaster's musings on the prohibitive cost of outsourced verification services

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GAMERS, we accidentally our mumble server so we recorded this one on Jitsi. Since that only gives us a single track of audio we are giving you the raw, unedited audio. No chapters, no mercy. Just like you were in the room with us or something.

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• WTF is Splitgate doing?
• and many other tangents and ramblings

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GAMERS, join us for a shorter episode for a change. Sometimes the universe is kind and people you called out months ago actually face the consequences of their actions for a change. The taste is delicious.

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GAMERS, we're back in the virtual studio for another sophisticated and gentlemanly discussion on the most important topic in the media landscape: huge anime tiddies on the best and baddest Bodytype Bs you've ever seen. I think the VA strike ended too or something.

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• Commentary by Megan Shipman
• Mujin video that shows the leaked discord messages from the SAG discord

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GAMERS, Join us for a vicless episode where we talk about AI for a change and how it has been impacting our lives. I promise it's video games related.

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• Evidence that Marathon stole art

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Finally some good news. Good new games, worthwhile remakes, and bloggers facing the consequences of their actions. Gaming is healing. Let's talk about it!

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It's our podcast and we'll talk about whatever we want. Welcome to a return to normalcy where we cover a variety of subjects instead of just a couple of really long ones. Crack open a beer and chill with us. We're gonna talk about the Galaxy showcase, Marathon, Skyblivion & the leaked Oblivion remake, and a whole bunch more.

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• Adi Shankar is an Asmon fan

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The promised Nintendo direct has come and there is a LOT to say about it. If you ever wondered how such a reveal would be taken differently by a dad, a NEET, and a people programmer this is the episode for you! Also those SAG bootlickers are getting uppity again. All of that and more!

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• Nintendo Online subscribers get to upgrade the zelda games for free for some reason?
• Do Nintendo games ever actually go on sale?
  • Kirby
  • Metroid
  • TOTK
  • Pokeshit
  • EOW
  • there's literally 252 games on sale at VGP right now
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A few days ago, on March 20th 2025 one of the most important releases of the year in video games has taken place - Xenoblade Chronicles X! A few other games came out too and we'll talk about those this time while @Dielan@shitposter.world has time to get through the new Xenoblade.

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• Lying VAs called out by SC
• PC gamer said something reasonable for once re: asscreed

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It's time for the obligatory Monster Hunter episode. Some of the audio is a little messed up towards the end of the episode, sorry about that.

Minus a few relevant tangents this episode is almost entirely about Monster Hunter, I was being serious.

Charts:

• Monster Hunter Wilds chart
• Capcom IR sales numbers for 2024
• Avowed steam chart
• CP2077 Chart

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Another major videogame release happened since we last recorded and it looks like a big stinker, or is it? All that and more in today's episode.

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Promise this isn't normal. It would be disingenuous to not bring it up.

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• Dr Disrespect gives post-mortem on Midnight Society
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A second video game award show has hit the south tower. Also if you have topic ideas feel free to sign up on our forum we decided to not restrict any posts on the idea threads.

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• Selacodev immediately bullied after their trailer was shown at TRGAs for free w/o permission

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Did you miss us? It's that wonderful time of the year where we shit on the yearly awards and give out some of our own!

We're going all in on longer, broader chapters to help segment the show. If you have a suggestion go let us know on our forum

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• Fediverse GOTY Poll
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  • Dauntless
  • Failguard

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GAMERS! We were running late again so this episode won't have as much editing nor chapters, please bear with us. Come chill with us as we shit on Bluesky, obnoxious twitter users, and some guy named Drew.

Don't 5get to sign up on our forum https://melonmancy.cafe to chat with us while we're out. This forum is an investment in the future, we aren't using it much yet, but we WILL see you when you post and it's a great way to keep in touch without having to resort to D*scord.

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GAMERS! We're running a little behind so here's an episode with almost no editing and no chapters. There's lots to cover from the Tokyo Games Show, so relax and give us about two hours of your time.

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GAMERS! The war on pandering continues with another episode of the Melonmancy Podcast! Join us as we chronicle the trainwreck of Sony and Microsoft racing to the bottom, plus more!

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GAMERS we are FEASTING over here. Western bloggers are losing their minds over games they wanted to succeed failing, and games they wanted to fail succeeding. It is delicious. This episode is a long one but that's because we are covering some of the details surrounding Concord, Dustborn, Star Wars Outlaws, Soulash 2, and Black Myth Wukong all in one episode. There was a lot to say about it!

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During the episode we talked about a few things you should probably pull up and read along, they are below:

• EmuDeck Machine
• Great point about Concord's art style
  • Archive
• Palworld CM makes a great point about gamers in Asia
  • Archive
• Savvy's longpost about the Dustborn shitty story
  • Archive
• This article will kill your braincells open at own risk

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We're Vicless in this episode but with him a speedy recovery from the Irish Flu or whatever it's called. Today we turn a new leaf and focus on good news for a change. Besides, most of the bad news in gaming spreads like wildfire are you really hearing about those stories from us first? Let me tell you instead about how cool Evercade is. That and more in MP#93!

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Welcome to Melonmancy Podcast Episode 92! Keeping a light agenda today talking about the Second Wind drama, Bungie layoffs, our own backlogs, and more!

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Episode 91 is here and we've come to shit on Ubisoft once again. Also come hear Vic's first impressions for the latest slot machi..I MEAN Gacha game!

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Everybody and their mother had a video game showcase since we last recorded and it warrants a chinwag (he he). Somehow Nintendo came out on top? News and hot takes found within.

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During the show we compare Joanna Dark's new Buzz Lightyear chin to the video thumbnail of the same trailer, and the xbox 360 game from years past. We reference some specific pictures which you can see here: Link

We also mentioned in the episode a cool conversion mod you can get on Steam for Skyrim. Link here

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Hydroking in the house! We asked Hydro to finally join us since our previous attempt to record episode 89 didn't save right. Expect coverage of Sony State of Cringe, The oral history of the Destiny franchise with Hydro, and more!

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The horrors won't end! Sony and Microsoft compete for worst decisions in gaming, meanwhile Ubisoft might have them both beat. All of this and more in our episode!

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In today's episode Stellar Blade first impressions! Is the story really as predictable as the bloggers say? Dielan gives his predictions based on being 10 hours in. Find out in the episode after this if he was right.

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News concerning DEI in videogames has been winding down lately but content creators who agreed with us seem to be dragging it out on purpose. Is it grift? We'll discuss that and more on today's Episode!

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An article and several tweets were mentioned in this episode, links to them are below:

• kotaku pokemon article archive
• Warhammer leak
• Nick's first tweet about Grummz
• Example tweet showing the Em-8er founder packs
• Nick on being threatened briefly with legal action
• Nick on not being an asshole

Additionally, this episode has FF7 Rebirth spoilers. The chapter in question is clearly labeled. If your podcast player doesn't support chapters get fucked I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Shitposter Club has been reborn as Shitposter World! In today's episode SPW owner & administrator @sun@shitposter.world joins us to give the full scoop on WTF happened and how did we get here.

Additionally, everybody pour out a cold one for Nier 3. What a game. Hear our exhaustive recap towards the end of the episode!

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@dielan@shitposter.club finally beat FF7 Rebirth and has a lot to say, most of which is not good. After that, we have so many updates on gaming news, from Kotaku's death knells to the latest drama surrounding microtransactions. Grab a beer this one is long.

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During the episode we mention a tweet and an article we think you should read, here are the links to those:

• Grummz getting an alleged insider leak at a44games
• Hilarious article about what its like to work for Gamurs

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FF7 Rebirth First Impressions! Helldivers 2 elitists on suicide watch after a single nerf patch! Rooster Teeth is finally Dead! WTF is an SBI?

All of that and more in today's episode.

We referenced an interview when we were reading out the boosts from last episode, this is a link to that

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To everybody's surprise, Helldivers 2 has the world in an absolute chokehold. So we're going to talk about it. This episode is the first episode of the Melonmancy Podcast that uses CHAPTERS! Let us know what you think of the chapters, are they too long? too short? Send feedback to the forum. If your podcast player doesn't show chapters it might be time to get a new one.

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This episode is RAW and UNEDITED because @dielan@shitposter.club forgot to set mumble to multitrack before hitting record. Enjoy our usual variety of gaming topics, including our review of Tekken 8, with all the heavy mouth breathing and awkward pauses you normally wouldn't get to hear!

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In this episode we also mentioned Tachiyomi, which is currently sort-of being sued. We promised during the episode to put this in the show notes, if you want to grab a fork of the extensions, here's some instructions.

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In this episode enjoy as our two cohosts, Vic and Skoomadealer live under rocks and did not know who won the Golden Joystick awards, so we can get their genuine reaction right here and now!

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Vic has returned! Just in time for the writers strike to end, but do you know what it is they actually won? Also Dielan has completely embrased Transfarring, the Kojima lifestyle. Listen to us rant about it.

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We are going to spoil Armored Core 6 and we are going to spend just over an hour doing it. Buckle up, I fuckin love Armored Core. Good thing they didn't make it in Unity.

Our boy Vic couldn't make again, so you're stuck with @dielan@shitposter.club and @skooma_dealer@shitposter.club instead

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How can a single year in videogames have so many bangers? Come one come all for an Armored Core veteran's first impressions of AC6, and an Armored Core newcomer's take on the whole game. Dielan will catch up and finish up the game before the next episode, time doesn't grow on trees. Also what is DE smoking with Warframe 1999?

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Welcome to the KotakuIsOverParty, today we're going to make fun of some articles, give Steam Deck first impressions, and more!

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Back at it again with the hot takes. Come have a listen.

• Dielan beat FF16
• Writers be strikin
• Bitching about Fire Emblem again

We're going somewhere with this I swear.

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This episode is super delayed to get edited. In this episode we give a detailed first impression of Final Fantasy 16, as well as break down with evidence why ShillUp is totally wrong about this game.

This episode took so long to edit because Dielan went on to finish the game before editing the episode. Just could not put it down.

(Dielan is the editor)

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In today's episode (recoded June 6th) The Sony State of Play just happened and today's controversy with Twitch and Reddit had only just started. You can expect updates on those topics in our next episode since things got so much worse after we recorded this. You can also expect our usual ramblings about what we saw at the Sony show, including this bastard of a Marathon reboot. Also fuck Konami.

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In today's episode (recoded May 19th, running a little late on this one) Vic comes up for air with first impressions of the new Zelda game. Dielan recaps his recent vacation and we otherwise shoot the shit like normal. It's going to be a great year for fighting games!

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Vic is back and there's lots of news to cover. In this episode we lament on upcoming vidya games coming out we're looking forward to and what our immediate plans are to play them. Unlike the bloggers at Kotaku, we actually like video games, so get excited!

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In this episode Rick and Dielan give some quick updates about why we haven't uploaded in a while, then continue on like we always do. Poor Vic was too sick to join.

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In this episode we come to terms that our arch nemesis, Silvervale, has been done dirty. So it's time to clean the dirty laundry!

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We promised we wouldn't spend so much time editing these episodes so they would come out on time but our hottakes on this one needed to be extra crisp.

Vast majority of this episode is weighing in on the recent release of Hogwarts Legacy, for the sake of the listeners in 2030 binging our show like some kind of nerd time-capsule we even explained the context!

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Big thanks to everybody who tuned into the show. I know 90 THOUSAND PLAYS isn't much by YouTube/corporate media standards but it means alot to us that somebody is listening to our nonsensical ramblings

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This episode we welcome back our guests Zerrva (Jordan) and Metalchicken (Robbie) from our OG community. Who help us kick off the year with a look back at what the best new games we played last year were. We also spend a lot of time talking shit about Wizards of the Coast.

This episode was not recorded live as we have made our glorious return to Mumble. Livestreams will resume once @dielan@shitposter.club figures out how to install Icecast. If anybody's done that before please tag him on the fedi. On the bright side this gives us an audio track per person again, enabling us to edit out noise, voice conflicts, and silences. Should make for a better experience than the last two seasons. Not taking the easy way out anymore!

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This is a brief set of announcements at the beginning of the recording, followed by about 4 hours of unhinged drunken rambling with multiple guests (Including @dreamcycler@shitposter.club and @helsech@shitposter.club and @ironee212@shitposter.club - thanks so much for coming!)

TL;DR on said announcements:

• We are going on vacation again this year. Our next episode will be sometime in January!
• You can find out when exactly we will return by following @dielan@shitposter.club or joining our forum
• There's no much to see on the forum right now, but we are keeping it up maybe forever so there will be thriving discussion there eventually

No amount of typing on this post about what we talked about this episode will do it justice. If you do choose to listen past the announcements do us a favor and with a modern podcasting app - such as Fountain please make clips of your favorite parts and post them!

See you next year!

Topics include:

• Bayo3 voice actor drama
• Note: after we recorded this episode new information came to light that suggests that Hellena Taylor was lying about the low offer, which confirms our biases that this lady is suspicious
• G4TV put out of its misery
• Fandom acquired gamespot, gamefaqs. giant bomb, metacritic, TV guide, and more - WTF
• Overwatch 2 dead on arrival
• We now accept cash donations on Odysee!

In this episode we dive a little deeper on fewer topics than our norm, but that's ok

Topics include:

• We have launched a new forum. It's empty right now please go forth and fill it with posts!
• Cyberpunk Edgerunners (review)
• Current state of Planetside 2
• G4TV & karmic retribution
• and more!

Topics include:

• Nintendo Direct
• Sony State of Play
• Discord xbox
• Dielan finished Stone Ocean
• Warframe big update
• NEW FORUM (and section 230)
• Cyberpunk anime is out
• Overwatch 2 dead on arrival
• Splitgate news

Agenda:
Topics include:

• xenoblade 3 final thoughts (spoiler free)
• vic beat cp2077
• Atozy got sued
• Reuters attack article on odysee
• saints row flopped
• ps5 price hike
• and more!

Today's episodes deals with a little bit of podcast meta and how we might change things up in the future.

Topics include:

• Some notes about how we used to make the show
• Going back to audio only upload with some editing
• How much editing is too much editing? (We aren't editing enough)
• video games
• some other stuff

Topics include:

• WTF happened last episode
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 first impressions (Only at the beginning of chapter 2 at time of recording)
• Stealing art on the internet
• Powdered energy drinks
• Life as a corpo
• and more!

Today's episode is a little different. Due to missing recording day and going on a vacation, we decided to just invite anybody from our Discord to join in. We only got 3 people to join, but it was pretty short notice. We'll def do this again sometime and see how chaotic we can make it.

Topics include:

• Where did the name Melonmancy come from in the first place
• The current state of some of our old staple games, like Guild Wars 2 and Warframe
• Rippaverse
• The dichotomy of Doomsday Preppers and Homesteaders
• Dielan was looking for some indie stealth game on itch.io and ended up playing Hero's Harem Guild instead
• new show update
• and more!

Topics include:

• Steam Summer Sale
• Hell Let Loose, which is like a WW2 battlefield game that isn't garbage
• Hedon Bloodright
• Ruiner
• Dune: Spice Wars
• Why does every category have a ton of porn games?
• Some first impressions/observations about v4v and BTC maxis
• Sony started a compeditor service to games pass and its so mid it hurts
• Countless tangents and hot takes that weren't on the agenda

UNCUT AND UNEDITED

SHOW NOTES:
(in order of mention in the episode)

fire and ice vid - what herocraft beastmaster was like

shrioku video

airbus pics

DOD - Dome Of Death

Canterlot raid vid

DG melonocalypse

bonus drunken nostalgia

e-e-e-extra bonus!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0W7L7XpwUA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_H78pXmlkE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmXdSQdCQpo
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeMFgu3LDA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09FTBDOveaU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iAg6-4Nczg

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