In a year with too many titles to mention and too few subtitles to distinguish them, Andy, Flask, Greg, John, and Vito namedrop things like Pluribus, Project Zomboid, multiple PlayStation 2 games, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Cronos: The New Dawn, Dark Hours, ROUTINE, Jurassic World Evolution 3, Baby Steps, Valheim, Song Sung Blue, South of Midnight, and more. And as if those weren't enough names, so too do they drop 5 recommendations and 1 un-recommendation from 2025, in the annual 5 Up 1 Down tradition. Would it be a little awkward if multiple people dropped the same titles?…

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In this entirely A.I.-prompted podcast episode, Andy, Erik, and Flask give pat auto-takes on Predator, The Running Man, Frankenstein and more movies, Darkenstein 3D, Little Locked Rooms, ARC Raiders, Valheim, Haha, You Clowns, Old School Runescape, Project Zomboid B42, Fallout, the announced Silksong expansion, numerous news stories about A.I. in the gaming sphere recently, and more.

0:00 - Intro

2:59 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 3:27 - Movies
• 3:56 - Predator: Badlands
• 10:24 - Indiana Jones
• 14:14 - The Running Man
• 17:14 - Frankenstein
• 22:09 - Black Phone 2
• 23:46 - Wake Up Dead Man
• 27:41 - Strange Antiquities
• 33:59 - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• 42:56 - Darkenstein 3D
• 47:23 - Little Locked Rooms

53:09 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 53:21 - ARC Raiders
• 54:36 - Helldivers 2
• 56:50 - Valheim
• 58:18 - Hades II
• 1:00:16 - Haha, You Clowns
• 1:02:22 - Smiling Friends S03
• 1:02:28 - Bugonia

1:04:24 - BREAK

• Steam Winter Sale

1:06:22 - Erik (Roundtable)

• 1:06:56 - Old School Runescape
• 1:09:08 - Hardcore World of Warcraft
• 1:10:03 - Project Zomboid B42
• 1:23:35 - Terminator 2D: No Fate
• 1:36:05 - Fallout S02

1:26:56 - NEWS

• 1:27:16 - Silksong: Sea of Sorrow expansion
• 1:29:08 - Larian CEO comments on Generative A.I.
• 1:29:47 - Clair Obscur A.I. texture controversy resurfaces
• 1:30:13 - ARC Raiders was in the news for text-to-speech
• 1:30:39 - Dan Houser doesn't think A.I. is that useful
• 1:41:12 - Metroid Prime 4 datamining uncovers a lot more NPC dialogue

1:44:40 - Where Winds Meet

1:50:54 - Outro

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