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Critical but casual approaches to current, past, and future video games six times a week. In addition, guests will periodically share their own aesthetic and personal experiences with games in conversation! Subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/hegelbon if you'd like to hear special patron-only bonus episodes!
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We are back on our grind as Piss, Em, and I dive into another wonderful day with the Lagoon Corp crew. There are vampire children to be discussed and a lady forger who might find love with our favorite burnout, Jewish activist, hacker, and Floridian Benny. And there's the chainsaw lady!
Really, just a lot to love.
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This one has had a chance to mature as I got my act together, but it's a real gem as Liv and I cover Grand Theft Hamlet, a truly wonderful exploration of theater, COVID, sociality, and community. Genuinely an amazing piece and I hope you enjoy our conversation about it -- you can watch it on mubi!
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Me and Piss and Em are back again and that's right -- we're talking about maids and cigarette kisses and all sorts of other great stuff! A real murderer's row of episodes that will keep you on the edge of your seat as we break them down.
Go listen to Em over at Giant Robo FM
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Liv and I return for more GG No Reread, this time in a first time experience of covering a game and a book of the same exact name. That's right, it's the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson and the monumental if less well known Commodore64/Dos/Amiga game Neuromancer! We absolutely go in on adaptation, accessibility, insights about the future, the ways books and games differ in their expression, and more and more. Cyberpunkers, unite and jack in!
PS: Go watch a Let's Play hero, GamerForFun play this game at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzapyB2VHw
PPS: Head over to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE90qAx_yNM at Wednesday Feb 4 at 930 PM EST for a live show follow up with me and Liv!
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We welcome back long distant and now returned friend Andrew (Piss) to the show along with our equally fond friend Emily (SpaceQueenEm) to talk about the phenomenal cult classic Black Lagoon -- a Madhouse special, and a true treat. Rock, Revy, and the rest killing Nazis and ramping Torpedo Boats: get ready and get excited.
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We welcome back past beloved guest Jack King-Spooner (Dujanah; Mashina; Judero) to talk about his new game Abide and extreme media, specifically the oft-banned videogame Horses. A wide-ranging, philosophical conversation I think is well needed and timely!
Keep your eyes peeled for the kickstarter for Abide!
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We welcome Jacob of Workers' Lit on to talk about the best games we've played in 2025! A fantastic run of beautiful work released in this year and others as well brought to you by two handsome, intelligent, aesthetic gurus...what could be better?
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We welcome the wonderful Aysha from Workers' Lit and All My Maidens podcasts to talk Sekiro, lore, beauty, intention, and much much more! Find out why this game is probably the Souls game I most remember and Aysha most cherishes!
Links to both Dia Lacina articles referenced in today's episode are: here and here. Follow Aysha at ayshaufarah.bsky.social, and find my work anywhere you find No Cartridge, including the patreon at patreon.com/nocartridge. Apologies for the long layoff in episodes this month -- technical difficulties! But much more to come before the end of the year!
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Liv and Trev reconvene to put two totems of their respective forms in conversation with one another: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch; two works with many commonalities outside of the core premise of "what if a house was fucked up" (sorry I don't know how to do the blue text thing on here).
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This week we have Alex Haus from Haus of Decline talking about just about everything under the sun, but also video games, art, music, queer artistry, the golden age of webcomics, Sluggy Freelance and more more more. She was a fantastic guest and y ou should go check out her patreon at patreon.com/hausofdecline !
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We finally get our stuff together and welcome Cameron Kunzelman of The World is Born From Zero, and Ranged Touch, and games journalism, and the upcoming Everything is Permitted to the show! We kind of have a lot of fun with this one, and I'm hoping you all have as much fun as us -- stick around to the end to hear some more about Cameron's new book on the Assassin's Creed series, and pop in up top for nickname discourse, facts on who read or purchased my book, and a series of sitcom pitches.
Follow Cameron on Bluesky at ckunzelman.bsky.social and find his new book here, and follow us at nocartridge.bsky.social and patreon.com/nocartridge. Thanks!!
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Liv and I link up to talk about the biggest cinematic event in the 8-13 set in Five Nights At Freddy's! For the first time ever, we expect horrible work and get...perfectly fine work? Enjoy watching our brains twist around this one and how much Henson puppets can make the difference!
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Liv and I are back covering some of our favorite things in the world: indie video games! The creators of Smile for Me are back with a new one in Great God Grove and Liv and I cover it happily here. How's it compare? How's it play? What do we think? You must listen...to find out!
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We welcome the wonderful Will Jobst to the podcast to discuss their new TTRPG framework and homage PLASMODICS. And we talk game design, play, DMing, and so so much more. This is a classic folks, dig in please!!
Will's work can be found at https://willjobst.itch.io/! Buy Plasmodics, it's amazing. Art by Zach Hazard!
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We welcome Santo (Santo.bsky.social), of Cosmo Champs, CybeRRRevolution, and more! They talk with us about games writing, writing about imperialism, the importance of mechs and magical boys, and even more! If you love queer mech stories, Saint Seiya, or both, this one’s for you!
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Liv and I review the absolutely lovely, relaxing, dare I say ARIA-ESQUE Animal Crossing film! Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori, released in Japan only, is available through the magic of the internet, and boy is it lovely. Kick back with us and reevaluate the joy of ol Tom T Nook.
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Hello! Sorry for being a bit absent this month, but we are back and recharged, and ready to tell you all about what we're planning to do with our podcasting talents in the near and far future. Enjoy hearing some previews about the future (the long future!) of No Cartridge!
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Liv and Trevor dig into the delisted but wonderfully dark and intriguing HEATWAVE by DeadDeadDeath -- check out the rest of their work, free to download at https://deaddeaddeath.neocities.org/index.html. This is a fantastic glimpse into a wonderful visual novel that is dark, sexual, political, and intensely different. Trigger warnings abound, so if you're at all triggered by sexual violence or abuse, it may be one to skip. But otherwise, a truly compelling dive! Enjoy!
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On the eve of the second ending episode posting on the patreon, this solo episode drops on the main feed! A thorough examination of visual novels, the nature of 100 line as an intervention into the genre, and what I expect from finishing 100 endings bit by bit. Enjoy!
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Liv and Trevor wade into the extremely disappointing but also kind of promising but mostly disappointing WING COMMANDER. Thrill at Matthew Lillard and Ginny Holder (of Death in Paradise fame) being asked to save an entire movie's plot! It's all here!
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