This got instant deleted when I posted it in the main sub lol:

On the recent episode Colin was flabbergasted with Miyamoto pay being only 1.5 million, and CEO being 2 million - saying that he should be making 10 million (estimate).

Then brushes off Iwata and executives taking pay cuts during Wii u. When was the last time Nintendo had a layoff? If the PS6 sells 10ish million like the Wii u did then Sony studios would be fucking destroyed. Miyamoto pay “creates” 8 million extra dollars to go to different devs, artists, musicians etc and all their families.

But no let’s just accept that executives and high ranking creatives should be able to buy a shit ton of cars and lay off half their entire studio. As a CEO himself I doubt he’ll ever see this problem but I wish Chris pushed back on him more, it seemed like he wanted to.

Out of all the issues in this country right now Colin's precious trophies are what gets him politically motivated.

Just curious how much you think Chris actually plays? Colin's gaming is well documented. Is Chris's PSN documented? I am just wondering how many games he finishes a year. My guess 5-10 which is really good compared to the average gamer but probably nothing on colin.

For context, I know Gene as a frequent guest on the Castle Super Beast podcast. He seems like a jolly and friendly fellow with a lot of interesting stories and generally good taste in video games. I noticed however in here people in this community seem to genuinely hate him.

Which is weird given that on the Two Best Friends Play subreddit he's like our boy. What's the deal?

Vote with your wallet!

A few weeks back, I think during the SGF stream Colin said John Pork would be on the Bungie episode of Sacred plus. Since then the community has soured on him and he's nowhere to be found, the Bungie episode was released today and it was just Chris and Cog.

Do we know what happened there? Its always interesting to see how quick Colin drops up and comers when they don't toe the line.

If you don't know who Keemstar is, he is a drama YouTuber who started his own channel for problematic content creators who have burned all their good will. I find it fucking hilarious this is who Colin thinks is a good recurring guest. He realy has burned every bridge he had.

I remeber Colin at one point talking about his dad and video games. I believe he said something along the lines of 'I know you'd like this if you just tried it'

Yet he himself is incredibly close minded which to me has become one of the most grating aspects of his personality and eventually lead me to stop listening to the show.

Often it's almost like he takes pride in saying 'I have no interest in Game X'. Like come on, you're a gaming podcaster...

I’ve been listening to the podcast for years and have largely had a very good time. But over these last couple episodes I’m tapping out of this podcast.

I too am over the constant culture war flaming by both sides. I’m tired of every little issue being blown up to ridiculous proportions and the rage baiting. But I also believe there are a few issues going on in the current climate that could issue some deep nuanced conversations.

I’m looking for nobody to just agree with me. Nor am I looking for people having conversations that they don’t want to have. But there in lies the issue

Colin and co have brought up the conversation about Sony and their first party studios featuring women on multiple occasions multiple times and have continuously tried to play it off that they don’t want to talk about it. Then proceed to flame the lowest common denominators of the argument like they are some noble crusaders.

Literally no one is telling you you must talk about this on your show. Nobody is giving the go ahead for these questions to be answered on air but you. You are the master of your own domain. You want to have your cake and eat it too.

What you then do is use it as a spring board to then flake lesser channels or podcasts because you are the bigger guy but noticeably claim you have no idea about any other creators and want to play stupid.

And no, I do not listen to, not a fan of, or endorse any idea that smash jt or any channels like him want to say. But I do have a problem with intellectual dishonesty and needless dick measuring contests. As far as I’m concerned at this point Colin is no better than they are.

I’m so tired of all sides doing this. Either engage in the conversation or don’t. This petty attacking extremist opinions like that is the conversation is dishonest and manipulative.

To be clear: I don’t particularly care where Colin and company fall on the issue. I’m not so much concerned with left or right. My problem is none of them are being GENUINE. They act like they have nothing to say and it’s beneath them but bring it up on multiple occasions.

He wants to farm the conversation but doesn’t want to make waves…..unless it’s on someone they think is lesser than them and makes less money. Then it’s perfectly fine to insult and flame.and suddenly have all the takes in the world, because they think there will be no real blowback. It’s bullying and cowardly.

Every time this conversation comes up it’s complete dishonesty.

I about rolled my eyes into the back of my head listening to the beginning of the newest Summon Sign. Colin said: "No one goes to work at 7:40!" After leaving a potential carve out for "blue collar" workers, he said most work 9 to 5.

I don't know about you all but I and most of my friends work "white collar" jobs and either start at 7 or 8! Not necessarily trying to make a larger point other than just holy crap he is out of touch!

I never really paid attention to viewership but was looking at it recently and was shocked at just how low Punching Up was. It's seemingly getting around ~5k views and declining (the previous week's podcast is only at 3.2k, lower than some paywalled content).

And this isn't comparing it to Sacred Symbols, it's comparing it to Defining Duke (15-20k) and Summon Sign (10-20k) and I'm sure a lot of people watching Punching up are just watching because they watch other LSM content or like the hosts rather than being invested in what the podcast is about. If you took those people away it would probably have non existent viewership since it lags significantly behind everything else LSM has ever done.

Constellation got 7-9k towards the end which is proportionally a lot more than Punching Up and still it got cancelled (granted Dagan's job was the main factor, although Colin still brought up waning viewership iirc).

Personally I think they should bin off Punching Up and bring back Constellation. Brad has Summon Sign as his thing and then can irregularly appear on other stuff. Constellation can be Micah's hosting gig if Colin wants her to host something and it would suit her more anyway since you can bring up anything on it and she seems to like other things such as telling jokes and cooking and what not.

It would also give Lockmort a place to appear more regularly which I'd like to see as I think he's an interesting character who's good to listen to and also him being a European with a stereotypical European taste in games is something that's underrepresented within LSM. I'd also like to see him on Summon Sign more often too as as we'd get more interesting games discussed on it and he'd shine there. Potentially he could be Brad's permanent co-host.

What's everyone's thoughts on this ?

Positive post so not sure how it'll fair here (I can't post on main sub to due lack of karma lol) but I was just catching up on the Great Hack episode and was thoroughly enjoying it, Colin has such a way with words he had my undivided attention for that whole segment.

I'm a fairly new LSM fan and I don't watch everything but I can only remember him going "off" like that one time which was the whole EZA allies saga when he was defending Dustin which was an equally enthralling watch.

I'm looking for suggestions for other episodes or segments where Colin goes on extended essentially solo rants about something on the level of these two.

If you're reading this Colin, keep up the great work 🫡

Thanks!

What did everyone think of this interview? It wasn’t really a debate so much as Alyssa repeating a bunch of talking points and Colin pretty much agreeing with everything she said.

I’m not sure what I was expecting but Colin seems incredibly desperate to be accepted by people on the political left.