Episode 006: Hugh Jackman's Huge Actin' (feat. Simone De Rochefort)

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## Details

### Episode Guest

**Simone De Rochefort**, Video Producer at Polygon

### Listen

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*Getting bullied at Rack Room Shoes. Charlie Sheen Megami Tensei. Gex-COM. Stomp: The Yard. Guest star Simone de Rochefort.*

## Introduction

Nick begins by saying that last episode’s game, Glasshouse, “Did well” and that it will stick with him for a while, because he will look at his game collection and be sad there is nothing there that he can eat. Griffin shares that he ate a copy of Pokémon Fire Red, choked on it, died, and is now a ghost. Unfortunately all the money went to David Lang, their guest last episode, who apparently both cooked the books and fudged the books, which means he gains all the money but it did give Nick the idea for a new fudge-flavored filament.

## This Week’s Game

A VR game in which players digitally run Musical Theater performances. It features marketing with actor Hugh Jackman who also teaches players the basics of the game in the tutorial, but isn’t seen anywhere in the game after. It features many micro transactions. Players have certain fees they can pay for benefits such as live mic support as part of the audience, virtual fruit to throw at actors, and the ability to replace all the actors models with whatever you want, such as dinosaurs with large male genitalia or furries. To direct a show in which you cast yourself as every part would cost $950. Getting an ordinary part in a show costs $100. The level of what is and isn’t real in the game is unclear due to Simone’s own lack of knowledge of how video games work and their line between reality and fiction.

## Other Ideas Discussed

### Guy Who Became a Ghost After Choking on a Game

not submitted, simply playing off of the fact that Griffin had eaten a Pokémon cartridge and died, Nick thought it wasn’t a bad concept for a game. Aside saying it was an ambitious way to die, it was quickly dismissed.

### A Game With Unlockable Content Similar to Aamibo but with Historical Artifacts

In order to protect historical artifacts and add extra challenge for players, a special barrier modeled after Aamibo boxes that prevent you from scanning without purchase will be placed around historical artifacts. The Security Gaurds at national monuments will also be told to “shoot to kill” if they see anyone holding a Wii U or Wii.

### Charlie Sheen Megami Tensei

Didn’t want to talk about it but Nick brought it up because he felt the pun should be appreciated. Griffin agreed but also said he didn’t want to talk about Charlie Sheen, ever.

### Something Utilizing Blockbuster’s Old Pokémon Snap Printers

Possibly only one printer would be remade, compatible with American Truck Simulator where American Truck Simulator fans go on a “grand pilgrimage” to the one hand existing machine in the nation. Griffin also suggesting targeting the pervert audience. Eventually established a scam in which special editions of games are given out at store events and certain copies held onto to sell back after they skyrocket in value.

### Gex-COM

Capcom but the only playable character is Gex. Gex only has 1 line of dialogue in all but one copy of the game, the special edition instead featuring Gex’s voice actor, Dana Gould, watching your gameplay live and dubbing over it.

### Twitch Controls 2 Actors Locked in a Room Together

A twitch chat would control the actions of two actors locked in a room together. Griffin denied this idea for desire to be creatively original- thinking it sounded to much like a Shia LaBeouf art project.

### Hockey but with Swords

”deceptively simple-sounding.” Hockey, but the sticks are replaced with swords. On top of gruesome sword combat, you can hit the puck with the side of the sword to hit it normally or can hit it with the sharp end to cut the puck in half, essentially creating 2 pucks. To account for this, the rules have been changed to the following: there are no rules. Griffin thought it was a bad game and a bad sport. Nick however thought it was a good game and a good sport.

### Kohl’s F\*\*\*ing Sucks and Gives Me a Migraine Every-time I Go in There and the Other Shoppers are Rude a Lot, too.

Both Nick and Griffin liked this idea, but Griffin was fairly certain the submitter had just needed an outlet for their emotions. They couldn’t figure out what in Kohl’s would be causing a migraine, and Nick suggested the submitter self-diagnose on Web MD.

### I Measure this Foot Everyday

An indie game where you work in a Rack Room Shoes and your school bully makes you measure his feet everyday as if he forgot what size he wears. Also described as an asymmetrical version of Cart Life with 2 guys who both have carts and want to make each other miserable.

### Treasures for Terry 2: Terrible Trouble

Concept never got off the ground due to disagreement about what qualifies as “Terrible Trouble”. Also spent a lot of time discussing whether Terry’s rival was Terrible Terry or Shadow the Terry, and also established the equivalent of Cream the Rabbit in the Terryverse, Darry.

### Duck Dynasty: Fabula Nova Crystallis

Did not want to develop due to dislike of the character on Duck Dynasty. Nick did admit when watching the program he did wonder what it would be like with summons.