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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 05/06/2026

What’s something from a video game you say in real life? insertcredit.com/show/443

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 07/05/2026

Is a Nail Bat a blunt weapon? insertcredit.com/show/439

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 27/04/2026

Ep. 438 - We Will Not Be Kept in Your Balls Your Insert Credit Panel discusses the future of Xbox, the difference between dad games and mom games, and weird little guys. (until server issues cease, you can listen right here archive.org/details/inse...)

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 13/03/2026

Why was that guy launching copyright takedowns against Cookie's Bustle anyway? Find out at insertcredit.com/show/431

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 27/01/2026

Which Mario is *your* Mario? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkf4...

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 09/01/2026

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Taliesin_Merlin says, I have ventured deep into the friendslop perhaps because I was playing similar games before friendslop was a term. Not all of them, obviously (no time for that), but enough that after listening to the slop discussion I went through my Steam library to catalogue my journey in the friends-play-games-together genre. Then I brainstormed a list of key concepts I see related to friendslop. My underlying claim is that what we call friendslop has existed in its component parts since at least the indie boom,in an undercurrent of multiplayer-focused experiences whose threads came together sometime after Among Us and Phasmophobia.

andrewelmore says, I feel like “friendslop” sorta comes from the same place as like, “eurojank”, but zoomery. The difference though is that “slop” has a specific connotation now with Computer Media that denotes a sense of junk food guilt that sort of inherently puts an expiration date on the genre by making it explicitly a Trend instead. I feel like odds are, either some new thing comes out that blows up out of nowhere and pivots into something else, or we never hear about a game called (something)-Crew again.
it’s not a term of endearment you apply to games as a social experience, it’s “single digit player count with some kind of vague collective goal and proximity chat that will run on a toaster. you can get your stoned coworkers to play it with you so they play something other than stardew or fortnite for a few weeks.”

Girard says, I think there’s a generational thing going on here re: reading the word slop as mean. It feels like it’s part of a language trend among younger Zoomers and gen alpha kids (brain rot, sludge content, friend slop) that is reclaiming language used to denigrate unproductive activity, but using it in a positive way?

I’m an old Xennial, so it runs me the wrong way, but I stop short of complaining about it because I worry I’m like one of those old-timers saying “I don’t think this groove is ‘wicked,’ ‘bad,’ or ‘gnarly’! In fact I think it’s quite well done!”

chazmaru says, Great stuff.

It resembles (and streamlines!) a similar presentation I have been brainstorming during the holiday break to explain the significance of Peak and why I thought it was the game of the year to my perplexed colleagues who had eyes for more traditional console experiences and/or the budget-effective production notes of Expedition 33.

There’s something to dig further about the manifestation of social gaming spaces, wherein a previous generation (cf. the TV show Community) used to create gaming spaces within physical locations – turning a bedroom or living room into a different world, creating the constraint that the floor is lava etc. – that would be echoed in physical gaming networks : from two players being connected to the same game console through the wires of their controllers, to acquaintances bring their PC towers to LAN parties, to the appropriation of third spaces in the mid-2000s Japan with ad-hoc Monster Hunter on PSP and Streetpass (which truly started with Dragon Quest IX and Nintendogs on the DS being being systemized on the Nintendo 3DS).

Progressively, as the masses are losing the economic battle for an access to the proverbial but less and less realistic “living room”, and younger generations are prohibited (either by society’s changes, modern times pandemics or their own parents’ fears) from accessing traditional social spaces, we have been digitalizing the access to social gaming spaces from being exogenous to endogenous (i.e. it is not the social space that gives access to the game, but the game that gives access to the social space).

Thinking about the future which was promised to us about ten years ago, I think there is also some (superficial?) relation between this transformation, the relative failure of VR (“my living room can become anywhere”) and conversely the success of the Switch concept (“anywhere can become my living room”) into reappropriating physical social spaces within the constraints and opportunities o…

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 09/01/2026

Is "friendslop" a negative term?

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 31/12/2025

How do you make a funny video game? insertcredit.com/show/421

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 09/09/2025

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 28/06/2025

What's that mysterious ooze all over Bluesky lately? Insert Credit has the answer insertcredit.com/show/395

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 23/05/2025

everybody needs to talk about petting the dog less so we can enjoy petting dogs in games again (from Ep. 390 - Fix Your Kingdom Hearts or Die, with Liz Ryerson insertcredit.com/show/390)

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 16/05/2025

From Ep. 389 - Middle Kick Button, with Any Austin Which video game do you wish you could scrub the memories of everyone in the world except for you? insertcredit.com/show/389

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 24/04/2025

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 21/04/2025

as has become tradition, we now present Video Game Titles Changed To Be Weed Jokes

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 14/03/2025

TUTORIAL: HOW TO SCAM GAMERS insertcredit.com/show/380

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 07/03/2025

What's it like playing Knuckles' Chaotix with your romantic partner? Find out in episode 379 of Insert Credit Show insertcredit.com/show/379 (sound on)

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 27/12/2024

Are we finally safe from VR? The answer to that in episode 369 of Insert Credit Show, with special guest Chris Remo insertcredit.com/show/369

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 20/12/2024

@frankcifaldi.bsky.social explains how to escape a dungeon by selling your pants insertcredit.com/show/368

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 14/12/2024

How do you design a boot screen for the PlayStation 6? The answer to that and more in episode 367 of Insert Credit Show insertcredit.com/show/367

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 21/11/2024

Krakoa-era X-Men author and recovering game journalist @kierongillen.bsky.social time travels to 1996 to help design one last classic Squaresoft SNES RPG, featuring the X-Men. watch the full episode at insertcredit.com/show/364

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 15/11/2024

Why are games with “Dragon” in the title never really about dragons? Is the Spice Girls PS1 game nude code real? The answer to both of these questions in episode 363 of insert credit show: insertcredit.com/show/363

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 08/11/2024

Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi.bsky.social) details the greatest console design of all time, an enhanced NES clone known as the ZDog

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 31/10/2024

What are some last-minute DIY Halloween costumes you can get together? Find out in this week’s episode of Insert Credit Show, with special guest @merrittk.com insertcredit.com/show/361

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 18/10/2024

Tim Rogers introduces you to a form of hip-hop you’re probably unfamiliar with, and ranks a few other genre-related items in this week’s Insert Credit Show, guest hosted by Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social insertcredit.com/show/359

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