oh my god am i blogging

so.

The money I depend on to do things like pay my bills and feed myself has not deposited itself in a timely fashion and my attempts to contact my bank have not thus far been successful in finding out what the fuck! I have bills due within 24 hours at the earliest and by Monday at the latest, so I throw myself to the mercy of the internet!

Our goal is 650$ to cover all my bills and buy groceries. Thank you so much, I'm sorry. paypal is kajichan AT gmail DOT com https://ko-fi.com/moepuff

heres the thing, obsidian used to work on a weird kind of business model where they would make games on a budget for certain companies and if they met a certain review quota they would get a bonus.

new vegas missed the quota by 1 point.

1 point because bethesda didn’t give them enough money to make one of, if not the best game in the franchise, and rushed them continuously through production

this isn’t new drama

this is obsidian finally getting its vindication after bethesda robbed them and almost sent them into financial ruin

Non-Alcoholic cool potion recipe:

1 bottle of ur fav Gatorade or Juice of your choice

A splash of ur fav energy drink (optional)

Luster dust (cake decorating kind) to preferred shimmer

A cool bottle

Combine to become a wizard instantly

THIS WEEK: The trio introduce Gel-Shocker, who are… about as competent as the old Shocker, but with more ruthlessness added to the mix. In addition, we have an honest and earnest discussion of the differences between Nazi ideology and general-purpose fascism; Gel-Shocker’s combatmen work off college rules; Alexa loses her shit over monster names; we get to see Ishinomori’s personal hand directing the show, and take note: Show up at the fight quarry in thirty minutes if you want an ass-kicking!

(Note: We are still relying on Craigbot this week, with some unavoidable clicking due to connectivity issues. We’ll return to microphone recording as soon as we can.)

TOPICS:

Kamen Rider (1971) 80-85

Ganikomol, Scorpionlizard, Jellyfishwolf, Inokabuton, Anemonejaguar, Morayturtlez

Looking Ahead: Kamen Rider Zi-O

New Combatmen

Fashion choices

Shocker shedding its identity

General Black

Wolfenstein: The New Order

The Death of Kamen Rider!? (no)

OH NO JC A BOMB

Nazi ideology vs fascism in Shocker

Yet another electricity monster plot

Wheel skeleton!

Ishinomori’s brand of cinematography

Pollution-based toku monsters

Artisanally crafted sludge

Rider Youth orphans

Let’s Go Kamen Riders

The Headless Horseman

Listener question: South American Cyborg 009

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

Ron Wasserman – “Go Go Power Rangers (Zeo Version)” – Power Rangers Zeo

Masato Shimon – “Let’s Go! Rider Kick” and “Rider Action”

THIS WEEK: Shocker is dismantled and gone forever! Or are they??? (Spoiler: No they’re not.) Van and Sven talk about the end of Ambassador Hell’s arc as the show revisits some older concepts. In addition, our tabletop past briefly comes to haunt us; the show briefly remembers Hongo’s actual occupation; eight-year-olds go around unsupervised; one of Taki’s disguises actually works, and do you remember what today is, Jack?

TOPICS:

Kamen Rider (1971) 74-79

Shiracuras, Roseranga, Seadragon Trio, Newtgeth, Urchindogma, Ganikomol, Rattler/Garagaranda

The Boys’ Rider Squad

Blood theft (bleft)

Goro vs Naoki & Mitsuru as supporting cast

Monster design tangents

Metal Gear Solid 2

Trepanning

Terrible parenting in the Rider Squad

Kunisada Chuuji reborn!!

Shocker’s growing bodycount

Sven’s continual mispronunciations

Tachibana’s bad luck

The fundamental ineffectiveness of Urchindogma

Rattler’s costume

The Worst Plan Ever™

Foley work

Double-crossings and counter-ruses

The Shocker Commanders, ranked and reviewed

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

Quincy Jones – “Ironside (excerpt)” – Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack

Masato Shimon – “Let’s Go!! Rider Kick” and “Kamen Rider No Uta”

it begins to dawn on you that everything you will do may have been a colossal waste of time

THIS WEEK: Van and Sven rant about time travel and bad parenting. Guess which topic is going to make them angrier! In this stretch, we’re introduced to a new antagonistic quartet; we discuss the origins of the word “cyborg”; we get corrections coming from inside the podcast; Ivan Whisky is stone fucking cold; and the hosts betray each other just as much as the 00-cyborgs dump on Jet.

Minor correction: “2222” and “2020” are mentioned as the year Rina comes from, the correct one is 2222. Nuclear devastation is not actually coming in two years. Hopefully.

Content warning: There’s some rather frank (and heated) discussion about parental abuse and the tactics abusers use at the end of our coverage, the bulk of it from 1:44:24 to 1:50:10 .

TOPICS:

Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier (2001) S2E13-S2E16

Kline & Clynes’ Astronautics article

The Mutant Warriors (Rina, Phil, Cain, Mii/Mai)

Cain and Mai’s manga counterparts

“FOX…DIE!” (pt. 2)

Dr. Gamo Whisky (Asimov?)

Ending themes

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Time labyrinths

Clap your hands if you believe in the sync warp

The terrible no-good very bad future

Jet & Francoise’s friendship

Joe’s breakdown

Van desperately tries to find a silver lining

Dr. Gamo vs Dr. Gilmore

Having faith & losing faith

Walkbacks and backdowns

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

“Kagerou Days” – Jin ft. Shouichi Taguchi – Mekakucity Actors

“The War Still Rages Within” – Jamie Christopherson – Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Chiaki Ishikawa – “Taga Tame Ni”

THIS WEEK: Ambassador Hell is so very desperate to jump the gun and announce that his underlings have killed Kamen Rider. He’s wrong every time. Also, Sven wants you to know headscissor takedowns are NOT hurricanranas. We contemplate the similarities between Showa Riders and Geralt of Rivia and discuss the evolution of the show; Rider nearly falls prey to his greatest weakness once again; Dr. A. Cula comes back to sabotage his replacement; Hayato might be slacking on the job offscreen; Sven hates X-Ray plots; and don’t forget to sign the Shocker yearbook!!

TOPICS:

Kamen Rider (1971) 57-62

Poisonmondo, Poison Lizard, Earthworm Jim, Owlmn, Catfishgiller, Hedgehoras

Making the most of prop skelemans

Hongo’s goodboy act vs Hayato’s lateral problem solving

Video game HUD vision

Lazarus pit technology

Wrestling trivia

Shocker friendship amulets & bomb switcharoo

Explosive X-rays; or, Hongo is not a medical doctor

The Great Time Bomb™

Shinigami’s return from the astral plane

Loading up elementary schoolers with 50,000 volts

Catfishgiller is but a pawn in petty office politics

The Boy’s Kamen Rider Squad

Drone/bomb/poison needles

Kamen Rider can teleport, much to Sven’s displeasure

No, really, why do we like toku?

Shoutout to Kaijucast; for Godzilla coverage, check ’em out.

If you want to follow our descent through E3, our twitters are lexihollow, svensationalism and satangivensong.

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

Masato Shimon – “Let’s Go! Rider Kick!” and “Kamen Rider no Uta”

THIS WEEK: Sven and Van reach the midpoint of Season 2 of Cyborg Soldier, encountering ethical dilemmas and time-cops along the way. In addition, we discuss how we would restructure the second season; Joe Shimamura continues to gently disengage from reality; Dr. Gilmore doesn’t know thermodynamics as well as he knows robotics; things get lost in translation; Black Ghost finally returns (again) (for the umpteenth time); the crew rants about Black Ghost not understanding teamwork, and Sven’s G.B. impression could really use some work.

TOPICS:

Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier (2001) S2E9-S2E12

Midseason review

Our second glimpse into 007/G.B.’s past

Sand sirens & colonialism

Japanese-translated Shakespeare strikes again

Ancient Incan space-time technology

snek

Sven gets mad about glaciers

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Tanabata!

Joe’s wish

The historians talk time travel

The old (young) Isaac Gilmore

Black Ghost’s cyborg soldier program

Co-host betrayal (pt.2)

Gamo Whisky’s mutant warrior project

002 & 004’s original dynamic (manga vs. anime)

The advent of Gilmore’s conscience

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

Chiaki Ishikawa – “Taga Tame Ni”

THIS WEEK: The Historians put the focus on “strangeness” of their mission statement with this stretch of Rider ’71. In addition, we are treated to a myriad of extremely stupid callbacks; someone’s been playing too much Monster Hunter; Taki is a jealous boyfriend; Shocker’s running out of warm bodies for their evil science; unicorns aren’t real; Sven wants to push The Rider’s New Groove; and Dr. Shinigami has a PhD in ABJECT WIZARDRY.

TOPICS:

Unicorns!!!

Kamen Rider (1971) 46-51

Bearconger, Sealgiller, Leechguerilla, Sea Anemone, Turtlestone, Unicornos

Sven has complaints about Shocker plot naming schemes

BearConger is stymied by a six year old

Villain PTA meetings

Return of the revenge of the reckoning of dog hearing

Recycled toku locations: then & now

Hayato’s (poor) survival skills

Sven doesn’t like leeches

The Vore Episode™

Gay Cowboy Hongo Takeshi

Wizards.

“Citation needed.” “We are the citation! That’s the problem!”

Russian taunts

Special effects!!!

Tachibana’s character & encouraging Hayato’s recklessness

Fossilized unicorn blood transplants

Petrified Medjeds

How hard Hayato’s getting his ass kicked

The escalation of Shocker’s machinations

Driving safety with Van

MUSIC:

“Fight! Seven Riders!! Showa Rider Taisen” – Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Megamax

Masato Shimon – “Let’s Go! Rider Kick!” and “Kamen Rider no Uta”