Episode 14 - Q&A: Pollen Count Edition

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Living together in a group is a strategy many animals use to survive and thrive. And a big part of what makes that living situation successful is listening. In this episode, we explore the collaborative world of the naked mole-rat. Threshold is nonprofit, listener-supported, and independently produced. You can support Threshold by donating today . To stay connected, sign up for our newsletter . Operation frog sound! Send us your frog sounds for an upcoming episode. We want you to go out, listen for frogs and toads, and record them. Just find someone croaking, and hit record on your phone. It doesn’t matter if there’s background noise. It doesn’t even matter if you’re not sure whether or not you’re hearing an amphibian—if you think you are, we would love to get a recording from you. Please also say your name and where you are in the world, and then email the recording to us at outreach@thresholdpodcast.org…

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Roses falls in love with Disco Elysium and Matt goes frickin' ham discussing Marvel Midnight Suns. We take a ton of audience questions and discuss a variety of topics. Text Adventures, games that we hated after we loved but thought we'd hate, "That doesn't work!", genre distinctions in games, "The Power of Cheese", and an EXHAUSTIVE dissection of Detective Games.

Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7Wg

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Disco Elysium
Midnight Marvel Suns
Breath of the Wild
Majora’s Mask
Siberia
A Space for the Unbound
The Last Door
The Legend of Skye
Contradiction
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus
The Cat Lady
Burnhouse Lane
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Softporn Adventure
Portal & Portal II
Sanitarium
The Monkey Island Games
The Dig
The Invincible
Chants of Sennaar
Strange Horticulture
Papers, Please
What Remains of Edith Finch
Kathy Rain
Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Journey Man Project 3
The Laura Bow Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Case of the Golden Idol
Paradise Killer
The Sexy Brutale
LA Noir
The D'avekki Studios Games

(btw these are relatively in order, but it's unlikely we'll ever go through the exhaustive work of putting timestamps on our YouTube videos, so... sorry about that. BUT if ya'll wanna do it in the comments, we'll shout you out on the show)

Thanks for listening!

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Episode 14 - Q&A: Pollen Count Edition

Save Your Game

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Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7Wg

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

Disco Elysium
Midnight Marvel Suns
Breath of the Wild
Majora’s Mask
Siberia
A Space for the Unbound
The Last Door
The Legend of Skye
Contradiction
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus
The Cat Lady
Burnhouse Lane
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Softporn Adventure
Portal & Portal II
Sanitarium
The Monkey Island Games
The Dig
The Invincible
Chants of Sennaar
Strange Horticulture
Papers, Please
What Remains of Edith Finch
Kathy Rain
Mixed Up Fairy Tales
Journey Man Project 3
The Laura Bow Games
Return of the Obra Dinn
Case of the Golden Idol
Paradise Killer
The Sexy Brutale
LA Noir
The D'avekki Studios Games

Thanks for listening!

55 episoder

#Video Games #Lifestyle #PushingUpRoses #Save Game #Adventure Games #Graphic Adventurers #Narrative #Games #LucasArts #Sierra #Indie Games #Retro Gaming #Classic Games

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A very sleepy Matt and a very inspired PushingUpRoses welcome an incredible guest onto the show to talk about one of the weirder games we've ever played. Musician, video producer and hella talented dude Neil Cicierega is on the show to talk about playing adventure games as 90's kid -- your dad bringing home shareware adventure games to install on your Windows 3.1 PC and the entire family puzzling over it over weeks, months, and years -- and how to pass that experience on to your kids. We also do a surprisingly DEEP dive into a bizarre 1993 game Cliff Bleszinski designed in Visual Basic when he was 17, called Dare to Dream. It goes... places. Like literal Hell. Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Games Mentioned: King Quest VI Icon Architect 1.0 Dare to Dream Hugo’s House of Horrors Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist There Is No Game Unforeseen Incidents Day of the Tentacle The Dig Wanderstop Blue Prince Palace of Deceit Jazz Jackrabbit Curse of Monkey Island Monster Breeder…

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Episode 51 - Freddy Pharkas and Meredith Gran 1:22:35

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Episode 48 - Gaming As We Age and Dave Gilbert 1:31:58

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Episode 47 - Sanitarium 1:30:12

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Episode 46 – Cabernet and Adventure RPGS 1:38:05

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Episode 43 - Best Games of 2024 1:57:55

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PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp welcome you into their trans-dimensional Christmas cabin to play a bunch of holiday-themed games with them and their amazing guests. We play a cat game with Crimson Diamond's Julia Minamata! We play an obnoxious boy game with Alasdair Beckett-King. We play a creepy depressing game with Francisco "Grundislav" Gonzalez. And wrap it all up by playing a demon game with Party of One's Jeff Stormer. There's also talk of nog, window-jumping, wassail, and much much more fun! Happy Holidays, everyone! We hope you had fun and enjoyed this extra-long episode and we'll be back early 2025! Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com Julia: https://www.juliaminamata.com/ Alasdair: https://www.abeckettking.com/ Francisco: https://www.grundislav.games/ Jeff: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/ Games Mentioned: Christmas Nightmare Lonely Christmas Crimson Diamond Milo and the Christmas Gift Milo and the Magpies Watch Over Christmas Scribblenauts Rosewater Last Christmas Still Life…

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