Bad Bethesda. Bad, bad Bethesda!

33:09 – Bethesda advertised a nice canvas bag for its Collector’s Edition of Fallout 76 but sent gamers a cheap nylon bag instead

46:05 – The ESA makes an absurd, lie-filled statement about Loot Boxes

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Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by E. Zachary Knight and Andrew Eisen. The show is edited by Andrew Eisen. Music in the show includes “Albino” by Brian Boyko. It is in the public domain and free to use. Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.

Chat Transcript:

6:47 PME. Zachary Knight​Hello Everyone

6:58 PMeathdemon​so what did you think of the anime you watched andrew

6:58 PMeathdemon​neir should be your next game

6:58 PMHeiwa’s Tea​HELLO

6:59 PMeathdemon​about 30 hours

6:59 PMeathdemon​30 to 50

6:59 PMeathdemon​all of them

6:59 PMHeiwa’s Tea​Start an ASMR channel lol

6:59 PMeathdemon​all 5 of them I should say

7:00 PMeathdemon​30 is mainline 50 if yoyu do a bunch of side quests

7:02 PMlugiae​Hi!

7:03 PMaddictedtochaos​Hello

7:03 PMeathdemon​nah I will be in bed

7:04 PMlugiae​It’ll be at 8:00 for me.

7:05 PMaddictedtochaos​Your tweets covered it rather well.

7:05 PMaddictedtochaos​The ESA

7:08 PMlugiae​The Castle B-Plot really overtook the rest of the season, yeah. Finale was nice, though.

7:10 PMeathdemon​I mean seasson 3 the forge guy will be the villan

7:10 PMeathdemon​bad guy

7:12 PMlugiae​You’ve played more Castlevania than I have. (read: none)

7:15 PMeathdemon​the first 4 were a pilot

7:15 PMeathdemon​disney is taking their ball and going home to their own streaming service

7:16 PMlugiae​so dumb.

7:16 PMeathdemon​I mean disney wants their own streaming service

7:17 PMaddictedtochaos​Disney has said no rated R content on Disney + and the Netflix shows are all pretty rated R

7:17 PMlugiae​Who will buy Disney Channel again, tho? You cut cable for a reason.

7:17 PMlugiae​this is why Cable’s going down.

7:18 PMeathdemon​there were roumers they were going to try to start geting anime to help fill it out, but I think they relized most wont meat their family standerds

7:18 PMlugiae​Glad Pokémon ain’t stuck w/ Disney’s crap.

7:18 PMeathdemon​ganaric name, good show

7:19 PMeathdemon​a op slime, the most op slime ever

7:21 PMlugiae​sounds good. Where should I watch Slime?

7:21 PMeathdemon​and he can take skills by eating his enamies

7:24 PMeathdemon​havent seen it, from what I heard about the first epasode, it put me off the show

7:25 PMeathdemon​I like dark, but it seems like that scene was un needed

7:25 PMeathdemon​and I like very dark ashows

7:29 PMlugiae​Congrats!

7:30 PMeathdemon​aparently they are redubbing it

7:30 PMeathdemon​I am ok with that since late 90s/oos dubs werent great

7:30 PMaddictedtochaos​Never could get into Neon Genesis

7:30 PMeathdemon​we dont know

7:31 PMeathdemon​they havent said

7:31 PMeathdemon​as to why

7:32 PMlugiae​Not looking forward to LA Bebop. The old one’s still great!

7:32 PMeathdemon​its one of the most influential anime odf the last 20 years for good and ill

7:32 PMaddictedtochaos​Bebop is a good anime made great by a stellar soundtrack

7:32 PMlugiae​I liked Space Dandy.

7:33 PMaddictedtochaos​Faye isn’t meant to be a very likable character

7:34 PMlugiae​They don’t mix together too well, no.

7:34 PMaddictedtochaos​They tolerate her. That’s about it.

7:35 PMlugiae​Ah, Bethesda trying to weasel out of that class-action, huh?

7:36 PMaddictedtochaos​Their games are only good 6-8 months later after they patched everything.

7:36 PMeathdemon​that was a beta bug

7:37 PMaddictedtochaos​That is a problem with Bethesda, they aren’t devs, they are just glorified modders.

7:37 PMlugiae​I’ve never really felt the appeal of collector’s editions.

7:38 PMlugiae​Also, no disc, iirc! A cardboard “disc” with a download code! Correct me if I’m wrong.

7:38 PMlugiae​Don’t quite know.

7:40 PMlugiae​Accepting those atoms waives your right to sue Bethesda, too. It’s “compensation”.

7:41 PMlugiae​It’s grounds for an actual false-advertising lawsuit.

7:44 PMlugiae​Still a lawsuit, though.

7:45 PMlugiae​the Infinity Eggs? Heard about them.

7:48 PMaddictedtochaos​Doom and Wolfenstein are made by id and only published by Bethesda

7:48 PMeathdemon​they speck for companies

7:49 PMlugiae​oh god

7:52 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​agreed. Unless if the reward is consistently of equal or greater value to your wager then it’s still gambling

7:53 PMlugiae​For Pities sake, ESA, you can gamble in Pokémon! You don’t need real money to gamble!

7:57 PMlugiae​Gacha game.

8:01 PMlugiae​You can increase Stars from base now in FEH, actually.

8:03 PMSusanne Christ​good evening ^·^

8:03 PMlugiae​Hey, Susanne.

8:03 PMSusanne Christ​oh hey! ^·^

8:03 PMlugiae​What’s your opinion on lootboxes?

8:05 PMSusanne Christ​depends. if its cute fru fru eh charge as much as u want. if the game stops “working” w out it or incomplete so not cool

8:06 PMlugiae​It’s less carrot-and-stick and more being-beaten-with-a-carrot.

8:08 PMSusanne Christ​and ur alergic to carrots xD

8:08 PMlugiae​I can’t take credit for that one – I got it from a webcomic called Freefall.

8:08 PMeathdemon​what do you think of the changes to steams rev split? $10m or less still 30% 10m to 50m 25% 50+ 20%

8:12 PMlugiae​Does the ESRB do it for new DLC?

8:13 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​in-game purchases on the back of a game box probably wouldn’t have nearly as much of a negative implication as violence or nudity in the eyes of parents either

8:13 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​maybe if the descriptor was gambling or paid gambling instead

8:14 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​oh really I had no idea

8:15 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​that makes sense yea

8:16 PMlugiae​You have to buy those?

8:18 PMlugiae​SAME

8:18 PMSusanne Christ​00!! lol

8:18 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​thats cool

8:21 PMaddictedtochaos​Speak for yourself, lol

8:21 PMlugiae​Sorry, Chaos.

8:22 PMjordan thompson​Andrew Zach not everyone with OCD is a super spy I don’t think there’s a need to worry

8:23 PMjordan thompson​ever heard of the 23 enigma

8:24 PMjordan thompson​I was expecting you to say you ran into the same deer in the mall, imagine uf you did

8:24 PMeathdemon​dude I got a dell, yes I am old

8:24 PMeathdemon​lol

8:24 PMlugiae​deer > kids

8:24 PMeathdemon​j/k

8:24 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​lol how would you know its the same deer jordan

8:25 PMlugiae​Yay

8:25 PMeathdemon​​what do you think of the changes to steams rev split? $10m or less still 30% 10m to 50m 25% 50+ 20%

8:26 PMjordan thompson​so lets say the deer were at the verizon kiosk and andrew walked by locking eyes with the deer, you know it was the same based on how you both reacted its in the eyes

8:26 PMlugiae​I think that was a specific subset of the program, the whitelist.

8:27 PMeathdemon​well indie devs arent threatening to leave

8:28 PMeathdemon​I hope a bunch of devs do, but I doubt most devs will share info

8:29 PMeathdemon​or maybe file size since bandwith is expensive

8:29 PMeathdemon​ubisoft still sells on steam

8:30 PMeathdemon​acording to steam spy guy valve pays 3c a gig

8:30 PMjordan thompson​you know indie devs existed in some form or fashion forever, like all the shovelware games on the NES, yes those developers licenced the game though Nintendo but those devs are now long forgotten

8:31 PMeathdemon​so if you download a 50 gig game, costs valve $1.50

8:31 PMUpdog’s Music Dump​about 10 valuable ips actually lol

8:32 PMSusanne Christ​good night guys! thanks for the podcast ^·^

8:33 PMlugiae​I’ll be up.

8:33 PMjordan thompson​your gonna make me wake up at 7am to watch you for 3 minuets …. Andrew youre pushing it!!!

8:35 PMjordan thompson​is the video gonna be up later after 6am

8:35 PMlugiae​It’ll still be up.

8:35 PMAndrew Eisen​Yes, once it premiers, it will be live for everyone on my YouTube channel.

8:36 PMAndrew Eisen​So no worries if you don’t wake up in time!