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Episode 75: Stalin vs. Martians

Where do mimes come from? How do you undertake to make fun of a clown so that he really stays made fun of? Jenni Polodna from Video Games Taco (@lycrashampoo) joins us to find out.

Stalin vs. Martians was only available for purchase for a few months in 2009. It was released with all the fanfare inherent in its ridiculous premise, and then pulled from the market when its terrible strategy gameplay was ridiculed. What's left is a bizarre art project that's almost impossible to make fun of. But here we are.

Episode 74: Xenophobe

It was the year 2170 and Detective Jack Cyber looked out his window at the fossil fuel burning cars on the street below. Teeming throngs of citizens on roller blades frequented the payphones below. Jack's pager buzzed insistently on his desk, right as a beautiful dame walked through his office's door, past the pneumatic tube document carrier. "There's a techno dragon on the loose, Jack, and you'll never guess what it shoots from its tail." "I'm going to need at least 5 more megabytes of RAM to handle this, sweet cheeks." The femme fatale faxed the purchase order, reluctantly.

(Special thanks to our guest Riff Conner from the Video Games Hot Dog podcast.)