Ep 88: Balatro - I Thought I Was Good At This Game

Welcome back to the MOLMF Book Club! Jason and Jim are back for their third and final book club episode all about the many playthroughs of Nier Automata.  Hope you've enjoyed our first MOLMF Book Club. Hoping we'll be back at it again in soon with another limited series for ya.  Thanks for subscribing to MOLMF! We really do appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

Welcome back to the MOLMF Book Club! Jason and Jim are back for their third and final book club episode all about the many playthroughs of Nier Automata.  Hope you've enjoyed our first MOLMF Book Club. Hoping we'll be back at it again in soon with another limited series for ya.  Thanks for subscribing to MOLMF! We really do appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

It's Gwent! It's Sabacc! It's Inscryption! Nope. It's Balatro!!! And boy howdy, is it a fun freaking game. If you like card games or deck builders, you'll probably fall in love with this delightful poker-adjascent game, just as we did. Give it a shot! Hope you enjoy our conversation about it... We chat about well, just about everything for a bit, then eventually get into the gameplay of Balatro (17:15) and play a yummy round of "What's The Beer? What's The Song?" (29:45). They finish things off with a visit to the Recommendation Station (40:30) before talking about next month's game...psst! Shh...don't tell anyone, but we're playing What The Golf next month. Can't wait!  Thanks for listening! We appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

Welcome back to the MOLMF Book Club! Jason and Jim are back and talking about their second playthrough of Nier Automata, and we'll be back in a few weeks with a third installment of the book club. Enjoy! Thanks for subscribing to MOLMF! We really do appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

Corrigan's favorite game! What a pleasure it was to dive into the brain of our dear cohost and find out what makes it tick. Spoiler: lots of death is what makes it tick. Unsurprisingly. Anyway, this game has all the cuteness and death a girl could want so hope you get a chance to play it too. Enjoy! Lots of tomfoolery in this one but after many distractions the Jason-less crew finally gets into some of the gameplay (21:30) before a delightful round of "What's The Drink? What's The Song?" (1:06:45). Then Ben and Corri take a trip to ye olde Recommendation Station (1:14:00) before ending with talking about next month's game...which will be coming out very soon. Sorry for the tardiness! We're working on it. Thanks for listening! We appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

We finally played Journey—one of our longest-awaited games and you should definitely play it. Not to spoil the episode completely, but it's a beautiful game and all three of us (minus one of us) LOVED it, plus it's only like 2 hours long so you don't have any excuses. Get on it! Also this might be our longest MOLMF ep ever, and the first to be longer than the game itself! So yeah. That's fun.  We get into the development after a lot of horsing around off the top (14:15) then very loosely get into the gameplay (30:45) before playing a rousing game of "What's The Drink? What's The Song?" (57:00). After that we get into a rather lengthy (and rambly) segment of MOLMF! In The News! (1:19:30) before unloading all of our recent addictions and binges in a wonderful visit to our dear Recommendation Station (1:39:00).  Thanks for downloading! We appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

We're doing a new thing! We're starting the MOLMF Book Club. And no, we don't books, we play games! We're starting with the iconic Nier Automata as a full blown episode, then the following parts of the Nier book club will be released as Side Quests in between regular monthly episodes. Jason was joined by avid gamer and Nier appreciator Dr. Jim Creel. Hope you get a chance to play the game first, but there's time to catch up with subsequent Nier episodes coming soon! Thanks for subscribing to MOLMF! We really do appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

Happy new month everyone! We're back and better than ever and enjoying our annual visit from none other than Kyo Edmoundson talking all about this month's game: Dredge! Hope you got a chance play it because it's super fun and pretty dang short. Get in here and join us.  We start things off with a little jibberjabber then touch on the development (15:30) before getting deeeeep into the gameplay (24:30). Then we play a cthuvian round of "What's The Drink? What's The Song?" (52:00), take a quick trip over to the Recommendation Station (1:17:15) before talking about next month's game (1:33:00). Enjoy! Thanks again for listening! We really do appreciate you! If you enjoyed this episode please go rate and review it on iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell an influential friend (or twelve) who might just like it as well. Thanks for helping to spread the word! As of course, you can find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon where you can help support us for as little as a dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

Ben's eldest kid, Olivia was on the podcast a few years ago but now they're back and bigger and better than ever and have a carefully curated list of their top 18 video games they're dying to tell you about. Olivia put a lot of time into this list and have very specific notes, so hopefully this episode can help you pick your next fun adventure, or if you're looking for games for your kiddos, this is a great resource for you.  I promise it's a very cute episode too. And for those of you who like to pick and choose, here's the full list (sans timecodes b/c I'm very tired):  1. Pikuniku 2. Spider- Man (1, 2, and Miles Morales) 3. Puppy Island 4. Mario Kart 8 5. Astro's Playroom 6. Abzu 7. Untitled Goose Game 8. Yoshii's Crafted World 9. A Short Hike 10. Calico 11. Donut County 12. Pets Clinic - Cats and Dogs 13. Olli Olli World 14. Rocket League 15. Kena: Bridge of Spirits 16. Dreamlight Valley 17. Spirit of the North 18. Bluey: The Game   If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review it in iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell a nerdy friend who might just like it. Thanks for helping to spread the word! And of course, you can always find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/molmf

We're a little behind the times but the holidays should be celebrated nonetheless. Here's to a great 2023 in the MOLMF Podomatic Universe and another one on the horizon in 2024. See you all in February for the start of our next season!  As always, if you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review it in iTunes or wherever else you're listening to it or better yet go tell a nerdy friend who might just like it. Thanks for helping to spread the word! And of course, you can always find us at the following places: Website: www.MenOfLowMoralFiber.com Twitter: twitter.com/MOLMFpod Instagram: instagram.com/MenOfLowMoralFiber Email: [email protected] And if you have a minute, go check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/molmf