Total Playtime: Sink The Business Belgrano Within You
Total Playtime is a Patreon-supported podcast about videogames, hosted by Alice Bell, Jon Hicks, Brendan Caldwell and Nate Crowley. Jank has partnered with them and we'll be posting new episodes each week.
Once again the crew waited for me to be away before addressing a topic that I have a lot to say about, which this week is the magical world of B2B conferences. Yes, it's another bit of high-concept nonsense and just to make it extra surreal there is a quiz about Lord of the Rings as perceived by Nate's seven-year-old daughter.
The quiz is a remarkable challenge for the listener alone to face, but the conference programming calls for your input. Alice, Nate and Brendy have all cast their dream B2B lineup, for a very specific prescription-painkiller type of dream, and are turning to the Total Playtime listeners and the Jank readers to vote on which is the best (details on that below). Plus: Quiet Egg, chasing the sock dragon, and a candidate for the Madonna of videogames who I can guarantee you will not guess in advance.
You can listen to the episode right here or find it on Patreon or Spotify.
To cast your vote for the best lineup, email totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, entering the total-playtime channel in the Jank Discord, or just by leaving your comment here - but only vote in one place lest Alice becomes confused.
Brendy's choices
Leadership: Emmanuel from Subnautica: Below Zero
Branding and content: Bion from Psycho Patrol R
MC of gala dinner and awards: Ratbag from Shadow of Mordor
Keynote: Kiryu Kazuma from Yakuza Kiwami
Voice of God: The Narrator from The Stanley Parable
Nate's choices
Leadership: the Blue Eyed King from some of the Age of Empires II loading screens
Branding and content: Handsome Jack from some of the Borderlands games (principally Borderlands 2)
MC of gala dinner and awards: Winston off of Overwatch
Keynote: the Dragonborn off of Skyrim
Voice of God: the Narrator off of Darkest Dungeon
Alice's choices
Leadership: Captain Price from Modern Warfare 2
Branding and content: Doctor Robotnik off of Sonic
MC of gala dinner and awards: the dwarves from Deep Rock Galactic
Keynote: Sylvanas Windrunner from World of Warcraft
Voice of God: the announcer from Team Fortress 2
Recommendations this week are the movie Primitive War, the other movie Burn After Reading, and the tv show How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.
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