Your new Insert Credit panel, now including Ash Parrish of The Verge, discusses Dragon Age fanfiction, the best video game music of the last ten years, and a Spice Girls nude code. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Ash Parrish. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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1: Have video games completely realized the concept of importing your data from one game to the next? (20:59 )

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  Assassin’s Creed series
  


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  Legend of Zelda series
  


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  Yakuza series
  


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  Golden Sun series
  


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  Mass Effect series
  


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  Pokémon series
  


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  Dragon Age series
  

2: What do people really mean when they talk about learning curves? (27:46 )

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  Super Mario series
  


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  Metroid series
  


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  Crusader Kings III
  


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  Sid Meier’s Civilization series
  


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  Warhammer universe
  

3: What’s up with video games having “Dragon” in the title and then not having very many dragons? (33:41 )

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  Dragon Age series
  


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  Dragon Quest universe
  


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  Yakuza series
  


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  Drakengard series
  


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  Halo series
  


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  Monster Hunter series
  


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  Dragon Slayer
  


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  Panzer Dragoon series
  


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  Dragon’s Dogma series
  


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  Spice Girls
  


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  Spice World
  


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  The Spice Girls nude in the game Spice World
  


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  Lara Croft
  


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  Double Dragon series
  

4: Which video game character is tattooed on the most human bodies? (38:47 )

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  Mario
  


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  Sonic the Hedgehog
  


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  Pikachu
  


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  Ribbit King
  


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  1-Up Mushroom
  


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  Hylian Shield
  


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  Triforce
  


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  Space Invaders
  


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  Pac-Man
  


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  Squirtle
  


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  Bulbasaur
  


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  Snorlax
  


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  Magikarp
  


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  Mew
  


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  Gengar
  


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  Slime
  


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  Shanghai Dragons
  


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  Overwatch
  


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  Genji
  


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  Hanzo
  

The Insert Credit Quick Break: Puppy Cam! (44:34 )

5: Esther Weinbach asks, what is the most important thing you’ve ever learned from a video game? (45:38 )

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  BioShock
  


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  Bravoman
  


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  Dragon Age series
  


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  Cullen Rutherford
  


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  NieR
  

6: Can you think of a single piece of memorable video game music from the past ten years? (54:37 )

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  Undertale
  


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  Sonic Mania
  


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  Yakuza series
  


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  Baka Mitai
  


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  Gunsport series
  


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  Crossniq
  


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  Border Down
  


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  Shoji Meguro
  


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  Persona series
  


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  Metaphor: ReFantazio
  


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  Masayoshi Soken
  


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  Final Fantasy XIV Online
  


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  NieR: Automata
  


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  Weight of the World
  


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  Street Fighter IV
  


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  Indestructible
  

LIGHTNING ROUND: Celebrity Gamers (01:00:09 )

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:00 ):

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  Brandon: Give your coupons to people who seem like they need them, Monoxide Brothers, Megumi Hayashibara’s The Characters Taught Me Everything
  


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  Ash: Get a puppy, the What is White French Dressing? episode of Aw, Would You Look At The Time
  


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  Jaffe: 52 Pickup, the first three seasons of Slayers
  

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