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August 13, 2025
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Our 200th Episode Extravaganza!

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The crew celebrates eight years and two hundred episodes!

PLAYERS:

SHOW NOTES:

  • 0:00​​ – Housekeeping
  • 3:40 – We Reminisce
  • 16:30 – Voicemails from You!
  • 24:30 – The Locks for the Essential List of LBGC Games
  • 26:15 – Hitman & Hitman 2
  • 29:00 – What Remains of Edith Finch
  • 32:35 – Portal
  • 34:55 – Celeste
  • 37:20 – Undertale
  • 43:15 – SOMA
  • 44:35 – The Wolf Among Us
  • 49:05 – Death Stranding
  • 55:15 – Bloodborne
  • 58:05 – Hotline Miami
  • 1:01:20 – Hades
  • 1:02:20 – The Best of the Rest
  • 1:03:25 – Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
  • 1:05:45 – Yakuza 0
  • 1:08:40 – P.T.
  • 1:10:30 – Psychonauts
  • 1:13:00 – Chrono Trigger
  • 1:17:50 – Virginia
  • 1:21:40 – Emily is Away
  • 1:22:30 – Doki Doki Literature Club
  • 1:23:25 – Luigi’s Mansion
  • 1:24:50 – Florence
  • 1:27:00 – Spec Ops: The Line
  • 1:27:30 – To The Moon
  • 1:29:05 – The Last Two Slots (Night in the Woods & Shadow of the Colossus)
  • 1:34:30 – A Sacrifice for Gone Home
  • 1:36:00 – The Future!
  • 1:43:30 – Outro

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The Final List of Essential Games/Episodes of the LBGC:

  • Hitman: World of Assassination
  • What Remains of Edith Finch
  • Portal
  • Celeste
  • Undertale
  • SOMA
  • The Wolf Among Us
  • Death Stranding
  • Bloodborne
  • Hotline Miami
  • Hades
  • Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
  • P.T.
  • Psychonauts
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Virginia
  • Emily is Away
  • Doki Doki Literature Club
  • Luigi’s Mansion
  • Florence
  • Spec Ops: The Line
  • To The Moon
  • Night in the Woods
  • Shadow of the Colossus
  • Gone Home

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February 27, 2019
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057: SOMA

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We question mankind’s remaining humanity in SOMA.

Developer: Frictional Games | Publisher: Frictional Games | Release Date: September 22, 2015

Jacob, Moe and special guest Jessica Fantauzzo look through everyone’s personal effects, dodge monsters, curl up into the fetal position and question everyone’s motives. Also, we flip a coin.

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Players: Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi) and Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt)

Special Guest: Jessica Fantauzzo (@jfant)

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Show Notes (spoilers):

  • 3:00 The origins of SOMA
  • 8:30 SOMA’s Toronto connection
  • 9:15 A very explicit spoiler warning…
  • 10:10 Simon Jarrett’s start in Toronto
  • 12:00 The brain scan
  • 14:40 The physicality in the game (and Edward Scissorhands)
  • 18:30 What do you mean… they can use doors (like Resident Evil 2’s Mr. X)?
  • 21:20 The first enemy and friendly encounter
  • 26:45 Carl Semken and moral choice
  • 29:25 First contact with Catherine Chun and her “heavenly robotic voice” aka “Pokedex Catherine”
  • 31:05 The room floods… and we question everything…
  • 33:35 Meeting Catherine
  • 37:15 Where we are, what happened to Earth
  • 39:50 Moe made so many notes
  • 41:40 The ARK
  • 44:25 The WAU
  • 46:00 Sarah Lindwall
  • 54:45 “A brand new you”
  • 1:00:50 “Flip a coin”
  • 1:03:35 The “cat buttholes” scattered throughout the game, structure gel and Dr. Johan Ross
  • 1:09:00 Walking on the ocean floor is super dope
  • 1:11:00 Moe wants a kick or a punch in this game (and we sneak in some anime)
  • 1:16:00 Finding Catherine and the final sequence of the game
  • 1:21:20 The ARK survey
  • 1:25:30 The “mirror moment”
  • 1:27:10 The WAU’s end was disappointing
  • 1:29:50 The Left Behind Quiz Corner
  • 1:36:00 Wrap-up

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