Melonmancy Podcast

Turns out subversion isn't required to make a good movie 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! Stuff referenced: 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 Crimson Desert charts Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Begun the goon wars have 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 Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Plz join my Steam group (and try Valour) 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 Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Notice how Gaben isn't in the files 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 Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

We are so back 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 Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

SEE YOU IN 2026 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. Stuff referenced: The unbelievable nominees for Indie Game Awards Asscreed teaser Dielan reacted to Asscreed DLC footage Dielan reacted to afterwards Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to

THE GABECUBE IS REAL 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! Stuff referenced: co-founder of Wikipedia rage quits 48 seconds into interview over being accurately called co-founder instead of founder Lab grown, genetically engineered perfection Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Does Omarchy rhyme with Monarchy or with Archie? 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. Stuff referenced: Things Framework is donating money to Guess who ISN'T getting any framework money? Discord ransom hearsay Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Plz forgive the static background noise, I am not a robot 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! Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Randy Pitchford threatens to release another game! 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. Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Sorry we're late, I had dick surgery 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. Things cited: DEGA store to be a decentralized replacement for itchio? Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

I've known this man for 15 years and we just met in person for the first time 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??? Things cited: ACLU petition to do something about Visa and Mastercard MadamSavvy's expose video on Collective Shout Rule34 dot xxx webmaster's musings on the prohibitive cost of outsourced verification services Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Unedited, unhinged, hitting it raw 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. Topics include: WTF is Micro$oft doing? WTF is Splitgate doing? and many other tangents and ramblings Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

I don't think it's a grift, that dude is just an asshole 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. Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Dielan try not to get tipsy talking about anime tiddies challenge: IMPOSSIBLE 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. Stuff cited: SB steam charts Commentary by Megan Shipman Mujin video that shows the leaked discord messages from the SAG discord Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

What did you think we meant when we called him a People Programmer? 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. Stuff cited: Look at the bags under the Marathon guy's eyes Evidence that Marathon stole art Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

I'll take my vindication in a bag to go please 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! Stuff cited: Expedition 33 reviews Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Do you think those Marathon robots might be fully functional and anatomically correct? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 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. In the opening of the episode we get Vic's reaction to a really specific trailer, if you want to follow along, this is the link to that video Other stuff cited: Switch 2 isn't changing price after all? Adi Shankar is an Asmon fan Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

It's time to buy a Steam Deck 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! Sources cited: 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 SAG agreement you can read for yourself SAG literally says on their website to go audition for non-union roles and then strongarm them into going union if they wanna keep you Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!

Finally, asscreed criticism from someone who actually played the previous games (but not this new pice of shit) 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. Some links to stuff we talked about: EA Open Source & GPL'd C&C Lying VAs called out by SC PC gamer said something reasonable for once re: asscreed Obligatory: Listen to the new episode here! Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM Get the RSS and Subscribe (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!) Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at newpodcastapps.com Or listen to the show on the forum using the embedded Podverse player! Send your complaints here Reminder that this is a Value4Value podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!