We're back! (?) We catch up on everything that's been going since the hiatus before starting another hiatus. Minor spoiler warnings for The Last Jedi, Detroit: Become Human, and probably some other stuff. Also a little E3 happened (this was recorded before the Sony/Nintendo stuff).

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Beef and Tie talk about video games.  I do not know how to state it more succinctly.

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Long time fans will be thrilled at the return of Dave O, then intrigued to hear about his quest to save us all.  As far as recent fans?  He was a funny guy who did videos with us, sheesh!

You can find him at http://twitch.tv/ogdave_o

I also put an easter egg regarding him in the translation for Policenauts.

Beef and Betus have a long overdue duo cas' sesh and discuss new ideas, new games goings-on, and share a feel good story.

Music by Jonny McBane: https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane

Coming off the RTX panel, we digest our latest con experience and catch up from months of not releasing our conversations into the digital world.

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Beef, Betus, and TurboC return from another con journey and discuss panels! Games! Cosplay! Craigslist!

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I (slowbeef) am away in Colorado on business and it turns out so is thevoiceofdog. Also our buddy PA Master lives there, so we threw all the rules out the window and said screw it, let's talk about games for like an hour or less!

We've got a good list of topics to discuss, so let's toss all those away and talk about a TV show for an hour.

Music by Jonny McBane: https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane

Beef and Betus dish on Undertale and Phantom Pain a bit. No significant spoilers-we talk about stuff that you'd hear from press info/reviews, but if you're the sort who loves pure blind runs, you should flee this ep and exfiltrate the podcast zone.

Intro by Jonny McBane: https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane

Beef and Betus give you the only RTX recap you'll ever need. Also Dark Souls.

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slowbeef and TieTuesday set a new PB recording a sub-90 podcast about SGDQ.

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slowbeef plays Chat Roulette with people on Twitch oh my.

It's been too long! Let's talk about social media and getting tough, meaningless achievements.

Double the dose of Pax, double the dose of Craigslist!

Background music in the beginning courtesy of Mustin (mustin.net)

Intro/transition by Jonny McBane (https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane)

After an offsite intro assessing the encountering needs of cas people in Boston, Beef and his motley crew of con goers discuss their exotic travels and preview some convention.

Background music in the beginning courtesy of Mustin (mustin.net)

Intro/transition by Jonny McBane (https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane)

From now on we've established a regular update schedule of every 30th Thursday.

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69 episodes, we did it. Here's to another 351.

For a nominal fee of two dollars we will provide a completed, bug-free version of this episode.

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We return from a lengthyish hiatus to bring back the thrilling mundane conversation you've been missing!

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Betus and beef go live on Twitch for a long overdue debrief of the RTX Panel, discuss our recent milestone, shumps, etc.

Voidburger and Tortoiseontour join me and we had an agenda of things to talk about that broke down into Silent Hill chat for about an hour. Also I liked The Room, Silent Hill and otherwise.

Intro by Jonny McBane.

The LP gang (slowbeef, Diabetus, Cherrydoom, TurboC, heytallman, PAMaster) recap day 1 of RTX.

Diabetus and fellow RTX attendees Cherrydoom & TurboC recap a convention day where no convention or anything else has really happened.

Diabetus and his much southerner pal chat about E3.

I (slowbeef) play Alien Soldier LIVE! as we take questions about Let's Play, Retsupurae, and surveys.

We spend the hour untangling Shadow of Destiny and making total sense out of it with the help of our pal Hannah/E1ke.

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It's 12 people!  slowbeef, Diabetus, Rick, Zellus, voiceofdog, TurboC, drasticactions, Psychedelic Eyeball, Paul Ragny, Nexttime000, Kung Fu Jesus and Kabanaw!

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Nine Persons, One Hour, One Podcast?  (We planned on eight more hours and podcasts, but...)

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Betus and I bring along our pals Zellus, thevoiceofdog, and drasticactions to hang out and talk some pre-PAX stuff.  I am so tired... zzzzz....

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Beef and Betus talk shop about video games and let's play while Volgarr the Viking happens in the background for no real reason.

Video games reviewer and poet laureate Jim Sterling joins in for a real talkdown spectacular.

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Concerning friendship and play, ours was the very best. Are we part of the Zaibatsu now?

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Continuing from last week's chat, beef and betus move onto other topics like Twitch Plays Pokemon (this was recorded before it was finished), meta talk about let's play, and how investing in bitcoin is a pretty great idea.

slowbeef and Diabetus have a debrief on the Souls experience in soulful anticipation of Dark Souls 2: The Hollower.

Here's the Vanguard image we talk about near the end for reference: http://i.imgur.com/0ySPoK1.png

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The words "Copyright" "Crush" and "Saga" are copyright Retsupurae, Inc. Please pay 99 cents or tell 3 friends on Facebook if you want to use these words in your daily life.

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The biggest announcement that no one will care about ever. Also totally related but we'll never stop playing Dark Souls.

Please enjoy the conclusion of our grand idol-hunting adventure with our intrepid heroes Romero (slowbeef), Bohan (Diabetus), Carl (Chip Cheezum), Samuel (General Ironicus), and our DM 100 HOGS AGREE.

Woolie from the Super Best Friends Play Zaibatsu (or Two Best Friends Play) podcasts with slowbeef about Kill Bill, video games, the "rules" of Let's Play, MAGFest, and more!  Hear!  Here!

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slowbeef returns from a very French journey and offers up a debrief, then the conversation turns to much more important topics like Dark Souls.

Diabetus and Cherrydoom bring in various guests from the Skype universe to talk about favorite and not-so-favorite happenings from the happening year that is/was 2013.

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Diabetus and Cherrydoom bring in various guests from the Skype universe to talk about favorite and not-so-favorite happenings from the happening year that is/was 2013.

Intro provided by Jonny McBane: https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane

We've talked about doing it for a long time, but General Ironicus finally strong-arms us into sitting down and playing a round of Dungeon World. Led by dungeon master 100 HOGS AGREE/heyboots, we (slowbeef, Diabetus, Chip Cheezum, General Ironicus) embark on a grand adventure.

We chat about the universally praised VGX show, YouTube's new content ID matching blitz, and thoughtfully reflect on recent RP uploads.

YouTube businessman and jovial fellow AllShamNoWow joins the podcast to talk about Saw canon, Internet discourse, and these things called "video games."

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Beef n' Betus chat about the next generation of consoles, the next generation of let's play, and solve all of the Internet's problems.

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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: slowbeef and Diabetus talk with Michael and Ray of Roosterteeth/Achievement Hunter about assorted nonsense in this total bro-out.

Diabetus welcomes LP pals (let's pals) Doctor Roosevelt and chuuurls and have a very unstructured/unagenda'ed conversation. This is what you can expect when slowbeef is too busy!

The aptly named supergreatfriend joins the podcast to talk about his experiences with pro-level LPing, the Ouya, Oculus Rift, and more!

Intro provided by Jonny McBane: https://soundcloud.com/jonny-mcbane

A guestless podcast gives slowbeef and Diabetus a chance to catch up on their fast paced gaming lifestyles, debriefing on some recent longplays, the talk show-like future of Retsutalk, GTA5, and critical reviews of Arkham Origins.

slowbeef achieves his dream of being accepted by a guy who reviews video games more popularly than he did. Diabetus might've been there too.

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Now that the Harvester wrongpurae is complete, it's time to reflect, discuss what we witnessed, and still come away completely clueless. We then talk about another controversial YouTube celebrity and come away completely clueless about that too.

Dear Richard, this was a trainwreck.

slowbeef and Diabetus...sound off!

slowbeef licks the heels of someone who is "YouTube Important"

We once again rely on the audience to inspire us with amazing new podcast content.

slowbeef and Diabetus return to the usual cas' format and chat in front of another live Internet audience about oodles of stuff.

And here's what happens when slowbeef gets put in charge of a live streamed podcast.

We're back to the standard format with beef n' betus doing something very chatlike.

Diabetus and co-cost Cherrydoom tackle the first livestreamed Retsutalk with a smorgasbord of exciting guests representing just about every gaming-related topic that exists. Originally streamed at http://www.twitch.tv/the_betus

slowbeef and Diabetus have a (knights of the) round table discussion on ROMhacking and Final Fantasy for some reason.

We're back from podcast hiatus! Beef and Betus catch you up on what's going on with the thrilling world of weird Flash games, weird anime games, and weird Internet personalities.

Returning guest Proton Jon joins slowbeef and Diabetus to chat about the latest in their exciting gaming lives and then have some real talk about all this Nintendo brouhaha.

Welcome to the very first...guestpurodcast?!?!?! Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus, recording onsite in Chicago, recount their experiences at C2E2 (The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo).

AM transports Beef n' Betus into a hellish scenario in which they must debrief about Harlan Ellison's 50-year-old short story turned video game. There's also some light chat on Bioshock Infinite (don't worry, there are no spoilers!), Sleeping Dogs, some additional PAX chat, and streaming.

Big thanks to Joe Roman who did the music for this episode's intro, and also to JohnSullivanMusic who provided a very chill jazzy outro!

We bring ALL OF PAX with us for the day 2 recap.

slowbeef, Diabetus, and Cherrydoom reflect on their day 1 PAX experience.

See, it's post-pre-PAX chat but it's still before PAX...

Beef n' Betus have a quick chat before they travel to PAX to navgtr the complex the nerd landscape of video games. The duo has a brief retsublitz post-mortem, and slowbeef wants to get back into doing LP instead of just punishing people for it! For some reason they also talk about smoking.

Announcement: RetsuBlitz (™) Is Not Limited to YouTube

Happy Holidays! As a gift to the Dangan Ronpa readers out there, an extra-long interview with orenronen, author of the Dangan Ronpa LPs. NOTE: THIS PODCAST ENTIRELY SPOILS DANGAN RONPA. DO NOT LISTEN IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FIRST THREAD!

Thanks again to orenronen for staying up late and doing this. Sorry I'm a terrible interviewer and maybe now I can finally stop talking about this fucking game on the podcast.

Our podcast adventures continue as Proton Jon talks to us about a strange day in nerd history, slowbeef remarks on some difficulties with uploading videos, and it's determined that the Mayan calendar's prediction to armageddon lines up with PewDiePie and TobyGames popularity. Finally, Gabriel Knight's a pretty cool game as I understand it.

slowbeef returns from his honeymoon to tell Diabetus and podcast newcomer/Let's Play French Canadian ambassador Psychedelic Eyeball about his times abroad, which were mostly spent playing 999 sequel Virtue's Last Reward. Psychedelic Eyeball also talks about puddles.

Diabetus brings back friends of the show Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus of chipandironicus.com fame. The gang digests Thanksgiving food while talking about fun times during the holiday season. Chip offers his first impressions of the Wii U and tells us about the dumbest person in the world. Ironicus jerked off a goat or something.

Diabetus brings in old pals Dectilon and Phiggle to talk about hard games and why we loathe ourselves by playing them.

slowbeef talks about all the BREAKING NEWS in his very hectic life! Diabetus is there too.

Slowbeef and Diabetus screech expletives for an hour to gain your approval and thousands of new subscribers...and talk about the latest in Internet controversy. This was recorded before General Ironicus wrote an excellent blog post on this topic, so please check that out (Google "Chip and Ironicus" and you'll find it) as it summarizes everything very well and eliminates the need for us to have even talked about any of this! 

Slowbeef and Diabetus have a quick pow-wow as an excuse to show off an amazing new intro from cool fella SegaSky that pretty much upstages everything. The duo chats about Snatcher and Policenauts, lparchive.org, some retsucontroversy, and they tackle more of your Tweeter questions! 

Retsutalk finally treads international waters as the gang welcomes overall nice guy and con/panel enthusiast Proton Jon. Slowbeef plays Binding of Isaac throughout the entire podcast (so blame him for the occasional keyboard clicky sounds), Jon tells us a bit about his con experience, Diabetus recommends Peace Walker, and Dave_O goes to the bathroom (US) / washroom (Canada)!

Slowbeef, Diabetus and Dave_O are so tired of doing all the hard work of coming up with topics for conversation that they turn to Twitter for help. Unfortunately the first half of this recording was lost but enjoy what was salvaged. Also slowbeef was sick or lost his voice or something whenever this was recorded.

Proudly representing different regions of the US, a first-time retsu foursome appears to dish on a whole mess of random topics for an hour. Join slowbeef (east), Diabetus (south), Dave_O (west) and new guest Chip Cheezum (north) of chipandironicus.com fame as they discuss a bit more about the Wii U and Minecraft. New territory is also covered with such topics like No More Heroes 2, Deadly Premonition (WARNING: SPOILERS ON THIS GAME), Dangan Ronpa, LP moderating, new games everybody's into, and weird fan emails that Chip gets. Chip also opens up for the very first time ever about the origin story of his partnership with previous podcast guest and Metroid: Other M apologist General Ironicus. Dave_O gushes on Baldur's Gate a little bit, the gang chats about Dead Rising, co-op in general, Other M, and Final Fantasy/Square Enix. Pretty sure each topic listed gets maybe like 30-60 seconds of coverage, it's chaos!

The Beef, the Betus and the Dave_O celebrate their first trio podcast with another trio podcast, i.e. another amazing hour-long chill session. What started as a well-outlined agenda quickly goes out the window once slowbeef abandons all sense of professionalism by letting crickets join him during the recording. The gang talks about a whole host of stupid crap like card counting, Batman (WARNING: MILD DARK KNIGHT RISES SPOILERS BUT NOTHING TOO SERIOUS SO DON'T YELL AT US ABOUT IT), Superman, weed (duh), the weather again, Street Fighter, Spacechem, our buddies and hopefully future friends of the show The Freelance Astronauts, plus we briefly discuss a super popular YouTube person who pretends to be scared at video games. It's a jam-packed hour so strap in and prepare to hang out.

Slowbeef catches Diabetus up on business school and reveals that he will be the future mastermind behind the Wii U's marketing strategy. Diabetus wants to discuss his Steam sale acquisitions but realizes that it'll fall on deaf Mac ears. The conversation goes downhill fast, so who will save Retsutalk? A surprise 3rd guest comes out of the woodwork and the chat turns towards Minecraft and scare cams and probably some other garbage. Also huge thanks to nrich for the great intro!

In an entertainment industry oversaturated with sequels, Retsutalk seizes the opportunity to follow suit and make a follow-up podcast to Sidekick Chat. It would be a minisode if it weren't almost twice as long as what we've done so far! Ironicus returns for more and receives tenure as he lectures his way through the entirety of Dungeons and Dragons history. We go into a little more sidekicky type stuff since we somehow skipped that in the actual Sidekick Chat episode. Then for whatever reason Kickstarter, the Metal Gear Solid franchise, and Dr. Who all get brought up. It's a hail mary of conversation topics so Ironicus won't ever need to come back again!

It's a landmark day in podcasting as two sidekicks come together for the first time [citation needed] in episode 3 of Retsutalk. General Ironicus lends his sidekick-like talents to ChipCheezum's LP catalog as well as their RP YouTube channel that is clearly a total ripoff of what is ours, because we alone have the privilege of making fun of video game clips in our spare time. Now Ironicus joins Diabetus for a pleasant conversation about their respective geographies, Dungeons and Dragons, Footloose, and what it's like to be years behind in gaming. 

We experience a sophomore slump in podcasting as we hopelessly try to find interesting things to dish on in episode 2. It's a free-for-all of random topics as we intensely discuss the Jersey Shore, New Orleans, iPhone games (and games games), business school, Pokemon (????), and more LP forum lore. Still working on that whole "structure" thing, but at least we keep it all spoiler free this time! I feel we should reiterate that we still have no idea what we're doing or why. 

In an exciting new media venture, slowbeef and Diabetus explore the world of podcasting! Listen as they dish on Prometheus and chat a little about LP lore, all without the influence of outside videos! We have no idea why we're doing this.