Episode 100 with Special Guest Asterios Kokkinos

100 EPISODES

Can you Adam and Eve it? We made it to 100 episodes, and it’s been an amazing journey. Thank you all for listening in and getting in touch. And here’s to another 100 episodes, eh?

Players

Squidge

Jay

Asterios

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Content Warning

Honestly, we went through this episode and produced a “clean”

i.e. bleeped

version. But the bleeps killed the flow. We’re still going to list the time stamps here, but we’ve thrown caution to the wind and kept the un-bleeped version of the episode. Please, please, please listen responsibly.

At 2:21, Asterios says:

Asterios

Ah, let’s bitch about video games

At 4:37, Asterios says:

Asterios

That got caught in the f*$king photocopier

At 21:47, Asterios says:

Asterios

You know what? F*$k it

At 22:47, Asterios says:

Asterios

It’s just a f*$k… it’s just

At 23:03, Asterios says:

Asterios

I’m f*$king trapped here

At 24:50, Asterios says:

Asterios

I’ll have sex with a bat lady

At 25:01, Squidge says:

Squidge

You can have sex on the back of a unicorn

At 27:10, Asterios says:

Asterios

Cops are a bunch of pussies

At 29:28, Asterios says:

Asterios

Platformer bull$h!t

At 35:15, Asterios says:

Asterios

Part of the mechanic was that you had to keep your $h!t together

At 35:31, Jay says:

Jay

Oh, what the f*$k is this?!

At 38:20, Asterios says:

Asterios

It’s like, we’re real f*$ked over here, boys. We’re real f*$cked

Please listen responsibly.

Show Notes

As I noted in both the intro to the episode and in the Content Warning section above, please listen to this one responsibly folks.

With that said, we’ve reached 100 episodes! Seriously, this is an amazing achievement. And as such, I reached out to Internet comedian, podcaster, corn maze enthusiast, and occasional bee impersonator Asterios Kokkinos for comment. Strangely enough, he said that he’d love to be on the show. in fact, his email to us about it read

Asterios

F*$K YES I WANT IN ON YOUR SHOW

I’ve censored this quote, obviously

So we had him on, as much for our own enjoyment as for yours, dear listener / reader / person / thing / corporeal entity (delete as appropriate).

Asterios

In America they call me "The Corn Maze Guy"

Since some people won’t know who Asterios is, I present you with “The Loudest Podcast”. It’s not to everyone’s tastes, but I enjoy it. It’s the right level of madcap insanity for me. And if you’re not into TLP, then I’m convinced that you’ll be into Jacked

which Asterois announced to the world on our podcast, but since we record months in advance….

which is a Cyberpunk pen-and-paper adventure podcast. If you’re interested in the new Cyberpunk game and podcasts then you will be into this!

Because Asterios didn’t have a huge amount of time, we decided to do a whistle-stop tour through some of our segments. So we went straight into

Recent Games

This is where we usually take some time to talk through each of the games we’ve recently been playing, and discuss whether we think it’s worth other people picking them up. But, again, whistle-stop, so…

Asterios’ Recent Games

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

This is one of the most beautiful games that I’ve ever played, and I totally agree with what what was said about it. And as much fun as the quests are, I agree with Squidge:

Squidge

What I always enjoy doing is surfing down a hill on my shield that broke half way down, and face-planting the rest of the way

Or as I call it “fast travel”. And

Squidge

I would throw a chicken at the boss, the chicken would get hurt, then the boss would be ambushed by chickens

which is genius, and forever attributed to Squidge - even though he didn’t create it

Jay

That’s how it works in podcasts: you hear something from someone, they are the person who created it.

Jay’s Recent Games

• Detention

I’d picked this up shortly before the episode was recorded

we recorded on October 18th, in case you’re interested

and loved it from start to finish. It’s a character driven horror story, but one without any jump scares. Then again, it does have this as a start screen:

Squidge’s Recent Games

• The Outer Worlds

Which is quite similar in humour to Fallout ‘76

without the horrendous reviews, bad limited edition products, or terrible gameplay issues hopefully

The Thunder Plain Games

For those who are new to the pod, we have a section called “Thunder Plain Games” which might be vaguely reminiscent of a certain programme on BBC Radio 4

but for copyright reasons, it is completely different

The usual rules the Thunder Plain Games are:

• You have been trapped in the Thunder Plains
• You will get help, at some point in the future
• Before you are sent there, you can pick a number of video games to take with you
  • You can have an Internet connected game, if you wish
  • But you cannot tell anyone that you are stuck in the Thunder Plains or ask for help

Although Squidge and I have taken this challenge before, on several episodes, we all decided to answer this one. Round-robin style.

Asterios’ Choices

• Tetris 99

T-Spins for the win

• Persona 4

Because being trapped on a desert island is the only time that someone in their 30s might legitimately have for playing a game with a 72 hours long story.

I attempted to avoid answering a question about whether there’s any nudity in Persona 4 by driving, full speed, past the question into more detail about Persona 4. But Squidge and Asertios catch up to me and force an answer out of me

so I "won"?

• The Witcher

Jay’s Choices

• Peggle

For those who might not know the reference that was made, here’s the Snood Wikipedia page.

• Streets of Rage 2

For reasons which should be obvious

as in "it’s the best side scrolling beat ’em up ever"

and the fact that we burnt out our copies of it several times. And Asterios’ description of the 90’s side scrolling beat ’em ups is on point:

Asterios

I’m gonna eat turkey legs off the ground and punch enough people until I get my daughter back.

I mean, if they printed that on the box, they wouldn’t have been able to make copies fast enough.

Squidge’s Choices

• Resident Evil Gaiden

Which we’ve talked about a huge amount on both the pod and our streams. In fact, Squidge has played this on stream a few times

here’s a link to one of the times he’s played it on stream

and he came up with a reason for it being canon.

Asterios

Look, if they made a comic book to justify it, it’s canon.

Which lead us to a conversation as to the canon status of the Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball games. You know, the game which gave us this commercial:

We only ask the most important questions on this podcast, clearly.

• The House of the Dead

Although there was some minor controversy when Asterios asked:

Asterios

Is there any reason you didn’t got for Time Crisis instead?

And Squidge is then challenged to describe all of the House of the Dead games, one after the other.

External Links of Interest

• Support us on Ko-Fi
• Our Facebook page
• Us on Twitter
• Asterios on Twitter
• The Loudest Podcast
• JACKED! Episode 1
• Snood
• Resident Evil Gaiden Stream
• Persona 4 on “How Long To Beat”

Music

Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they're amazing tracks by awesome musicians.

• Intro music is Among The Stars, from the Cosmos Music Pack by Muz Station Productions
• Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
• Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay
• Thunder Plains © Square-Enix
• Outro Music is I N e e d Y o u 私の側て by G.H (removed from BandCamp)