Year: 2017

Joe finishes off Thomas Was Alone, then moves on to one embarrassing disaster and one nostalgic mother of a genre while taking questions and talking politics with a brief foray into Game of Thrones chat.

Joe unloads on the ‘Resident for defending Nazis not two hours before the show began, then pivots into calmly (for a time) playing this delightful and adorable puzzle game about AI becoming sentient.

In the wake of Charlottesville, Joe gives his feelings on literal Nazis marching in 2017, then calms down long enough to play a fantastic fan-made nostalgia trip, Super Mario Crossover.

Joe revisits a childhood favorite with amazing music for a, frankly, very boring stream wherein he learns that when there isn’t much substance to the game, you’d damn sure better have an active audience so there’s something to talk about. Go ahead and skip this unless you’re into Secret of Mana.

Joe plays an incredibly adorable puzzle platformer about AI programs getting to know one-another and learning to cooperate. It’s a very charming game featuring some very Douglas Adams writing with a bit of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, but six of one, etc.

Joe plays the original Legend of Zelda and tries to beat it in three hours? Think he can get it done? Check it out.

Hot off his car wreck and his first day at a new job, Joe checks in for the briefest of streams to play through a classic beat-em-up. Topics include damseling and the stream-of-consciousness of a man on his 14th consecutive hour of work. We’ve also made a very radical change to the game video that we think you’ll all love!

Joe sits down with what may technically be the very first MetroidVania game shortly after very nearly dying in a car accident and talks mortality (ironically not tying that into the vampire theme), and, eventually, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, branding in politics, health care, insurance, how it’s not the end of the world that our favorite things are problematic, and how important, and why, it is to tell people we love them.

This was a very fun and life-affirming show for me. I love you all.

Thank you to everybody who showed up, and who watches in the future.

Joe sits down with a seminal and often-overlooked Metroidvania game based on an intellectual property it almost entirely abandons, pitches his hypothetical contractually-obligated sequel to The Goonies movie, pops some bubbles as a dragon, and punches some faces as a boxer from Brooklyn.