Melonmancy Podcast

<p>I never want to rip another CD again, but I know I will.</p> <p>GAMERS, let me influence you in kicking Spotify to the curb. Also what the hell are those Steam Deck prices? All that and more in today's episode. We tried to keep it short.</p> <p>Stuff referenced:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://shitposter.world/notice/B6ZkcknNCByRfZ4Vea">Dielan really did rip all those CDs</a></li> <li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4197610/Librarian_Tidy_Up_the_Arcane_Library/#app_reviews_hash">Not even disclosing AI use can make people hate this</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/michael-jackson-top-movie-songs-chart-michael-premiere-1236260597/">Unbelievable charting</a></li> </ul> <p>Obligatory:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/listen">Listen to the new episode here!</a></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.cafe/d/167-season-9-megathread">Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM</a></li> <li><a href="https://feeds.fountain.fm/ZMCauvjIMRoUrXcIrkzX">Get the RSS and Subscribe</a> (this is our new 2026 <a href="http://fountain.fm">fountain.fm</a> feed, but the old one redirects here too!)</li> <li>Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at <a href="http://newpodcastapps.com">newpodcastapps.com</a></li> <li>Or listen to the show on <a href="https://melonmancy.cafe">the forum</a> using the embedded <a href="https://podverse.fm">Podverse</a> player!</li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/contact-us">Send your complaints here</a></li> </ul> <p>Reminder that this is a <a href="https://value4value.info/">Value4Value</a> podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!</p> <p>Our show is now hosted directly on <a href="https://fountain.fm">Fountain FM</a>!</p>

<p>It's been a big two weeks for [Skooma<em>Dealer](<a href="https://shitposter.world/users/Skooma_Dealer">https://shitposter.world/users/Skooma</em>Dealer)</a></p> <p>GAMERS, we have a new game of the year contender on our hands. Cheap, indie, emotional, fun, and it's a solitaire game? Meanwhile corporate bloggers are raving about some cringe piece of shit called Mixtape. Has the world gone insane? Was the new Mortal Kombat movie any good? Why did we bring up fighting games again? This episodes' all over the place, which is exactly where it needs to be.</p> <p>Stuff referenced:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/Forbidden_Solitaire/">FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE aka PEAK GAMING</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.ph/JgsPT">Kotaku hates normal women</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YejsikLDLF4&t=1842s">A link to the Shoe video with timestamp they made Dielan watch</a></li> <li><a href="https://suno.com/song/f2ff20d8-262c-4673-b78a-01bdbcee7a57">That Suno AI song</a></li> </ul> <p>Obligatory:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/listen">Listen to the new episode here!</a></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.cafe/d/167-season-9-megathread">Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM</a></li> <li><a href="https://feeds.fountain.fm/ZMCauvjIMRoUrXcIrkzX">Get the RSS and Subscribe</a> (this is our new 2026 <a href="http://fountain.fm">fountain.fm</a> feed, but the old one redirects here too!)</li> <li>Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at <a href="http://newpodcastapps.com">newpodcastapps.com</a></li> <li>Or listen to the show on <a href="https://melonmancy.cafe">the forum</a> using the embedded <a href="https://podverse.fm">Podverse</a> player!</li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/contact-us">Send your complaints here</a></li> </ul> <p>Reminder that this is a <a href="https://value4value.info/">Value4Value</a> podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!</p> <p>Our show is now hosted directly on <a href="https://fountain.fm">Fountain FM</a>!</p>

<p>How did Sony and MS even get to this point man</p> <p>GAMERS, we missed our last recording day only to come back to see the absolute comedy of how PS vs Xbox is going. Also apperently NTE has HANDHOLDING BEFORE MARRIAGE? Scandalous. I also never want to see a magnet again.</p> <p>Stuff referenced:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://x.com/NTE_GL/status/2013432684853502249?s=20">Gacha waifu ass so fat Vic is becoming monogamous</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstation-users-report-new-online-license-checks-for-digital-games/1100-6539651/">Corporate journos running defense for Sony again</a></li> </ul> <p>Obligatory:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/listen">Listen to the new episode here!</a></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.cafe/d/167-season-9-megathread">Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM</a></li> <li><a href="https://feeds.rssblue.com/melonmancy-podcast">Get the RSS and Subscribe</a> (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!)</li> <li>Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at <a href="http://newpodcastapps.com">newpodcastapps.com</a></li> <li>Or listen to the show on <a href="https://melonmancy.cafe">the forum</a> using the embedded <a href="https://podverse.fm">Podverse</a> player!</li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/contact-us">Send your complaints here</a></li> </ul> <p>Reminder that this is a <a href="https://value4value.info/">Value4Value</a> podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!</p> <p>Our show is now hosted directly on <a href="https://fountain.fm">Fountain FM</a>!</p>

<h2 id="turnsoutsubversionisntrequiredtomakeagoodmovie">Turns out subversion isn't required to make a good movie</h2> <p>GAMERS, we totally skipped our last recording day and today you find out why. Dielan went to go watch Project Hail Mary in theaters while Vic juggled Crimson Desert between his regular duties. We have a lot to say about both of these things, plus more!</p> <p>Stuff referenced:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://x.com/HobbyR34/status/2036091433724338214">Nexus Mods policing a user for indirectly plugging Patreon</a></li> <li><a href="https://x.com/AyakaMods/status/2039899903397077356">Nexus Mods threatening a modding discord admin over Ayaka Mods links</a></li> <li><a href="https://x.com/DEGMods/status/2027404029827977651">Gov of NZ threatens DEGMods</a></li> <li><a href="https://steamdb.info/app/3321460/charts/">Crimson Desert charts</a></li> </ul> <p>Obligatory:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/listen">Listen to the new episode here!</a></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.cafe/d/158-mp112-the-dragon-quest-of-movies">Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM</a></li> <li><a href="https://feeds.rssblue.com/melonmancy-podcast">Get the RSS and Subscribe</a> (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!)<ul> <li>Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at <a href="http://newpodcastapps.com/">newpodcastapps.com</a></li> <li>Or listen to the show on <a href="https://melonmancy.cafe">the forum</a> using the embedded <a href="https://podverse.fm">Podverse</a> player!</li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/contact-us">Send your complaints here</a></li> </ul> <p>Reminder that this is a <a href="https://value4value.info/">Value4Value</a> podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!</p>

<h2 id="begunthegoonwarshave">Begun the goon wars have</h2> <p>GAMERS, is your favorite fan service game at risk? Can Marathon afford to settle for 2nd place? Is anybody really surprised Highguard is shutting down? Also what the hell are LADS fans doing? All this and more in episode 121.</p> <p>Stuff referenced:</p> <ul> <li>Steam Charts <ul> <li><a href="https://steamdb.info/app/3065800/charts/#48h">How Marathon is doing</a></li> <li><a href="https://steamdb.info/app/1808500/charts/">How Marathon wishes it was doing</a></li> <li><a href="https://steamdb.info/app/4128260/charts/#max">What Marathon is trying to avoid</a></li></ul></li> <li>Marathon art references, Skooma sent these to Dielan & Vic while we were talking about Marathon <ul> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/1rh60xr/what_a_gorgeous_game_man/">This post has the orange room Vic was criticizing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/13rqqyh/the_original_marathon_art_by_craig_mullins/">This is reference art for the original Marathon</a></li></ul></li> <li>RE: The Goon War: Not knowing what we were talking about we had Skooma react to these two videos in this episode <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4o5gaNTY9c">A LADS promotional video</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCx4OnquONU">A marriage scene from Snowbreak for comparrison</a></li></ul></li> </ul> <p>Obligatory:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/listen">Listen to the new episode here!</a></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.cafe/d/153-mp120-firebomb-your-computer">Discuss this episode on OUR NEW FORUM</a></li> <li><a href="https://feeds.rssblue.com/melonmancy-podcast">Get the RSS and Subscribe</a> (this is a new feed URL, but the old one redirects here too!)<ul> <li>Get a modern podcast app to use that RSS feed on at <a href="http://newpodcastapps.com/">newpodcastapps.com</a></li> <li>Or listen to the show on <a href="https://melonmancy.cafe">the forum</a> using the embedded <a href="https://podverse.fm">Podverse</a> player!</li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://melonmancy.net/contact-us">Send your complaints here</a></li> </ul> <p>Reminder that this is a <a href="https://value4value.info/">Value4Value</a> podcast so any support you can give us via a modern podcasting app is greatly appreciated and we will never bow to corporate sponsors!</p>