Episode XI: Extremes

Official description
Last week, Thumbs invited 2k Marin's Steve Gaynor to help pre-record a low-key cast on nuclear plant sims, traffic sims, sewage construction sims, bus sims, boat sims, and ghosts. Riveting stuff.

Games Discussed:
Persona 4, Minotaur China Shop, Hitman: Blood Money, The Last Express, Penumbra, Sim City iPhone, Retro/Grade, Cities XL, Sonic & the Black Knight, Three Mile Island, Energy Czar, Ship Simulator 2010: Extremes

Synopsis
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YouTube Timestamps

 * 00:32— Theme
 * 01:03 — Intro - Don't call him Hot Scoops
 * 01:50 — Podcast From the Past - Or at least more in the past now that it's been a few years
 * 02:29 — Persona 4 - Slow story build-up
 * 06:12— Persona 4 - Grind a sweet ghost
 * 07:10— Quitting Games - Because you're not a real gamer
 * 07:53 — Hot Scoop - A searing knife of catch-phrase repetition
 * 08:30 — Jake's Been Awake for 36 Hours - And spins us a yarn
 * 09:21 — Minotaur China Shop - From the makers of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari
 * 11:16 — QWOP - Procedurally generated animation
 * 12:04 — Minotaur China Shop - Engaging Insurance Rage Mode
 * 13:05 — Minotaur China Shop - An incredible simulation of being large and unwieldy
 * 14:36 — Minotaur China Shop - Special moves
 * 15:40 — I Like Doves - What do you think about their tails?
 * 15:50 — Hitman: Blood Money - Screwing up that pin-drop moment
 * 16:45 — Hitman: Blood Money - Attempting to drop crates (and pianos) on people
 * 19:58 — Hitman: Blood Money - Throwing coins at people while they're watching
 * 20:44 — Hitman: Blood Money - A literal murder simulator
 * 21:53 — Hitman: Blood Money - Hard and soft failure states
 * 23:36 — Hitman: Blood Money - The suburban level
 * 25:56 — The Last Express - Exploring small spaces
 * 29:41 — Animal Crossing - Your own little half-mile by half-mile town
 * 30:33 — Penumbra - Interacting with hand-scale objects
 * 31:29 — Peter Molyneux - The Emily Dickinson chair game
 * 33:09 — Peter Molyneux - His Nobel Prize-winning game
 * 33:25 — Spore - Custom figurines
 * 34:49 — Rock Band - Steve's creepily accurate avatar/figurine
 * 35:39 — Spore - Feasibility of creating accurate figurines
 * 37:07 — Jake is barely awake - And a snappy gamer
 * 37:52 — SimCity (iPhone) - Basically SimCity 3000
 * 39:27 — SimCity (iPhone) - Controls
 * 40:56 — SimCity (iPhone) - Render speed
 * 42:08 — SimCity (iPhone) - Sewage
 * 43:18 — SimCity (iPhone) - Now with traffic jams!
 * 44:50 — Goatse - Chris sees it everywhere
 * 46:29 — Cities XL - The MMO city-building game
 * 51:02 — European Gamers - They like sims, I guess
 * 52:30 — Break
 * 52:29 — Sonic the Hedgehog - Not just about running fast
 * 53:28 — Best Buy - The Guitar Hero: World Tour warehouse that sells camcorders
 * 54:55 — Old, Dry Sim Games - Run a nuclear reactor using only Morse code
 * 59:42 — Ship Simulator Extremes - And it's creepy trailer
 * 1:01:30 — Gaming on the Periphery - There are people from all over making all sorts of games
 * 1:02:12 — Bus Driver - Be a bus driver, but not in a Crazy Taxi sort of way
 * 1:03:30 — The Put-Upon Bus Driver Trainee - Chris' harrowing anecdote
 * 1:05:02 — Master Drive and Slave Drive - Chris' other harrowing anecdote
 * 1:08:18 — Reader Mail - Retro/Grade - Parallels with Slaughterhouse-Five and development history
 * 1:13:13 — Outro - This podcast is an audio-log found in a post-apocyliptic wasteland