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It's time to collect your submissions for Love & Respect and Workout Buddies for this week's Easy Allies Podcast. On the desk this week will be Brad and Huber.

Workout Buddies

Welcome friends, it's time to get Dawn Romantica into shape. It's up to you to submit a video game character for us to work out with each week.

I'm looking for four things in particular:

1 - The name of an existing video game character to train with. If it's obscure, please include some context.
2 - Which workout activity we'll be doing together.
3 - Our workout buddy's encouraging catch phrase.
4 - And which stat that activity will raise.
(Think strength, agility, mind, stealth, persuasion, etc. Feel free to go outside the box, but there may come a time that we'll end up combining similar stats. Also, please limit stat gains to +1 for a single stat. An associated -1 is cool too though.)

Last week, we suffered through a gauntlet of obstacle courses with a bean from Fall Guys, giving Dawn +1 Defense and -1 Speech.

Love & Respect

Type your question, topic, or game in the comments below. Be sure to include your preferred name if you don't like the one here on Patreon. If your entry is not selected, feel free to submit it again the following week.

These submissions will be collected by 1 PM PT this Thursday. To make it into this week's podcast, please post before then.

We appreciate your support and are grateful for each and every submission, if we're able to include them in the podcast or not.

L&R
Bloodworth

Comments

Anonymous

Hey Allies, Given the Stadia news this morning, I thought I’d throw and extra Love and Respect your way. Simply put, how can Google hope to launch any new products when they continue to feed their track record of closing down services that don’t meet expectations? Are Google just paying billions of dollars at a time just to damage their own brand? Will their ever be a successful Google product launch? Love and Respect, Harrison

Anonymous

Hey there Allies, I’ve been thinking back to Rap Rabbit recently. What was Rap Rabbit you may then be asking yourselves? Let’s go back to 2017. The creators of Parappa the Rapper and Guitaroo Man came together on Kickstarter to develop a brand new project. The goal was to make a new rhythm-rap game set in Japanese history and drawing from the country’s cultural legends starring a rapping rabbit and his cool frog friend on an adventure. Unfortunately, the game fell far short of its goal, making only around $200,000 of its close to $1million target. Rap Rabbit will never be. The story has gotten me thinking about a concept though: right game, wrong time. This announcement and failure came shortly after the release of the largely unloved Mighty Number 9. In what may or may not have been reactionary, gaming trends were largely moving away from the developer Kickstarter successes stories of Shovel Knight and Bloodstained among others. But maybe, if history were different and Rap Rabbit were announced tomorrow, things would be different with the public’s changed perception of Kickstarter projects and a shift in desire for more relaxing, jolly games in recent years. I can think of this happening in other instances as well – I wasn’t able to handle Last of Us Part 2 until several years after the fact due to COVID and the state of the world paralleled in the story it presented. Could that game have had more success and less of a surrounding of vitriol if it had been first released at the same time as Part 1, not years earlier? What are some games that may have been the right game, but may have just been at the wrong time? Love and Respect, Brian from Happy Gaming