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The Nextlander Podcast

Just a Game-Ass Game

4/16/20262 hr 34 min

Many beautiful video games are blooming along with the Spring flowers this month, including Pragmata, Final Sentence, Dosa Divas, and Replaced, all of which we play and discuss! In the news, Epic's Disney's extraction shooter, pricing changes (maybe) coming to Game Pass, a Bloodborne movie is on the way, and more. Plus, your emails!

CHAPTERS

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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:11:53) Pragmata  |  [Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), Pl...

Clips

‘Game Pass Is Too Expensive’
Disney x Epic, But Make It Extraction
Pragmata Exceeds Expectations
The Puzzle-Shooter Hook
Will Zelda Break The Bubble?
Fable’s GTA Dilemma
In Praise of Mid-Scale Games
The End Of The Early Honeymoon
Accidental Difficulty Switch
Villain Brief: ‘Mads With Flair’

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Vinny Caravella· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello and welcome back to another Nexlander podcast. Here we are in the middle of April. April 15th, as some would say in the United States, it is officially tax day. Hope, hope you got your stuff. Is... By the time you're listening to this, eh, it's probably too late. Alex Navarro- Mm-hmm ... how are you?

  2. Alex Navarro· Co-host0:30

    Yeah, if you are listening to this and you have not filed your taxes, then the tax man shall cometh. [laughs] Like the fucking evil priest from Poltergeist II showing up at your door just being like, "You all gotta pay in there."

  3. Vinny Caravella· Host0:42

    Yeah.

  4. Alex Navarro· Co-host0:42

    "You all gotta pay."

  5. Vinny Caravella· Host0:44

    [laughs] Uh, and then, uh, Brad Shoemaker... Wait, I... Oh, I can never remember if you've seen Poltergeist or not. Uh, yes?

  6. Alex Navarro· Co-host0:51

    That's a Poltergeist II joke.

  7. Vinny Caravella· Host0:52

    Yeah, I watched it. Yeah, yeah.

  8. Alex Navarro· Co-host0:53

    But yeah.

  9. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host0:53

    I watched one last October.

  10. Vinny Caravella· Host0:55

    Okay, right. Yes. So- We talked about it a bit on the Ramblecast.

  11. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host0:57

    I have not seen two.

  12. Vinny Caravella· Host0:58

    Okay. Well, how about, uh, as the, as that happens, there is no diving into your TV. There is no escape.

  13. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:04

    Mm. Nope.

  14. Vinny Caravella· Host1:05

    Uh- You still ain't paid 'em. What?

  15. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:07

    As of 10:51 AM on the 15th.

  16. Vinny Caravella· Host1:10

    What?

  17. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:11

    By, by 'em, I mean Q1 of 2026 estimated taxes, as we've discussed ad nauseam.

  18. Vinny Caravella· Host1:16

    Oh. Oh, okay.

  19. Alex Navarro· Co-host1:18

    Yeah.

  20. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:18

    Not, not last year's return.

  21. Vinny Caravella· Host1:19

    Yeah, yeah.

  22. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:20

    As we've said many times, we have to pay for it... Any self-employed and freelance and so forth has to pay four times a year.

  23. Vinny Caravella· Host1:25

    So you have not put the check in the mailbox yet?

  24. Brad Shoemaker· Co-host1:26

    I have not, I have not. Well, I pay online for the, for the quarterly.

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