We begin with a punchy discussion about the September 2025 Nintendo Direct and Nintendo’s place in the industry, then weave into other news items such as developments in the ongoing litigation between The Pokémon Company and Pocketpair, rumors of a new Drakengard project, the Panzer Dragoon II Zwei remake, and the Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection!
Then, we move on to personal game journals! John’s continuing his Digimon Story quest with the Time Stranger demo, Lilith reports her experiences with Trails SC and Artis Impact, and Nikolas played Sonic Racing Crossworlds!
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Here’s a transcript from Crystal:
Crystal: SCPs and creepypastas are communicated in a digital format, which is why it’s clever to interpret them as Digimon. What other things communicated in a digital format would you like to see reinterpreted as Digimon?
Nikolas: Is that what Digimon are supposed to be? Little mon-ified versions of online ideas and stuff?
John: So. Kinda. Kinda. The one time that they tried to make it very direct was when they did Appmon, and that almost killed the franchise. There is a Digimon in the Appmon franchise that is called Tweetmon, and it is supposed to be Twitter.
Lilith: Is he like a horrible, hateful creature?
Nikolas: Well no, cause he’s named Tweetmon, which is before it got that bad.
Lilith: Let’s not pretend Twitter was anything more than what it was. It was not a fallen soldier, that place was always a shithole.
Nikolas: Yeah, but, you know, very extreme shithole difference.
Lilith: I mean, does it matter if the shithole gives you cholera or gonorrhea? They’re both bad.
Nikolas: They are bad, but hey, the old shithole is one I made friends on. And the new one, all my friends left, so now I just use Bluesky.
Lilith: It always befuddles me—and I know we’re moving off the track of the question in the first place—but I never understand the social media apps, because in general I don’t understand how people form an economy of social interaction. Because odds are, if I talk to someone more than one time in a row in a reply thread, I will think to myself: “And now they’re justified to kill me.” And then I will never speak to them again.
John: I don’t know about that one.
Lilith: Having social anxiety and being an extrovert is really stupid, I’ll have you know.
Nikolas: What I did was just, “Oh, these are people that I’ve talked to, and they reply every so often, I should send them a message in the DMs function of ‘Hey, do you use anything like a Discord that would be easier to talk to you with?’”
And then they either ignore me, and I know I don’t have to pursue them further, or they say “yes” and now I talk to them consistently. And that rocks, I like that. It’s just one message to have to send out, and either you’ve made a friend, or you can just basically tell them “okay, fuck off” in your own brain.
Lilith: See, that’s fair. I, like the black mold in my Steam library, just kind of manifest in people’s servers, and then they struggle to get rid of me.
But, to answer Crystal’s question, things that I think could be subsequently digitized… here’s the thing, I don’t mean to punt straight away, but there is a targeted demographic of cryptids on the internet. Like, dude who exclusively wants to post about trains, or whoever operates very very niche wikis. So, give me whatever it is the Digimon equivalent of someone’s entire vested knowledge catalog of the steam train.
