Molehill Mountain Episode 456 – Pamela Voorhees Is Doing Her Best

Cut the single mom some slack!
0:00 - We're two weeks away from the Extra Life marathon! Check out my Event Page here: https://dd.extra-life.org/participant/AndrewEisen
7:06 - My rent is going up in January. By like, a lot.
22:56 - Criterion Channel thinks we won't notice that its customer support is run by gen AI bots. Criterion Channel thinks we're stupid.
55:05 - Oddly, my main criticism of the new Friday the 13th series, Crystal Lake, is its characters were so strong that I wanted more of them!
If you missed Saturday’s live broadcast of Molehill Mountain, you can watch the video replay on YouTube.  (A technical issue forced me to split the stream in two.  Second part here.)  Alternatively, you can catch audio versions of the show on iTunes. Molehill Mountain streams live at 7p PST every Saturday night!
Credits: Molehill Mountain is hosted by Andrew Eisen.  Music in the show includes "To the Top" by Silent Partner.  It is in the public domain and free to use.  Molehill Mountain logo by Scott Hepting.
Chat Transcript:
6:59 PM@eathdemon​​ready to fall back a hour a week from sunday🤣🤣🤣
7:06 PM@AndrewEisen​​https://dd.extra-life.org/participant...
7:10 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Highway robbery
7:10 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Good lord and I thought my rent was too high.
7:11 PM@jaredknisely6213​​andrew is too stubborn to move
7:16 PM@jaredknisely6213​​when he could move east and pay half of that XD
7:16 PM@jaredknisely6213​​and need to get a new job
7:18 PM@jaredknisely6213​​one of my friends has a town home and pays like 17...east coast is the way
7:19 PM@jaredknisely6213​​1700 that is
7:20 PM@jaredknisely6213​​which outside of the climate i dont understand people who like living on the west coast
7:24 PM@LeeShowrons​​Hey
7:37 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Boy that sounds familiar
7:43 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Not to change the subject, is anyone else mourning the loss of BioWare and Mass Effect?
7:45 PM@jaredknisely6213​​no
7:45 PM@jaredknisely6213​​its been dead for 10 yearsa
7:46 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Lots, and they kill every franchise they touch. The next Mass Effect was one of my most anticipated games.
7:46 PM@addictedtochaos2​​I’m sure BioWare wasn’t blameless, but it was largely due to mismanagement by EA.
7:47 PM@addictedtochaos2​​2012
7:47 PM@addictedtochaos2​​Yeah, they had a SHORT development cycle.
7:47 PM@jaredknisely6213​​cant keep the lights on if you take 7 years to concept a game
7:48 PM@jaredknisely6213​​aka 7 for preproduction
7:49 PM@addictedtochaos2​​The industry crash can’t come fast enough, only Nintendo, some indies and a small handful of others will be left standing.
7:50 PM@jaredknisely6213​​bioware is 1000's employees so yes something has to happen when you are give a large budget and go nothing with it
7:50 PM@jaredknisely6213​​of employees
7:51 PM@addictedtochaos2​​BioWare was 50 employees.
7:52 PM@jaredknisely6213​​they had over 200 employees in 2019
7:52 PM@addictedtochaos2​​The development of Dragon Age was a 5 alarm fire, the Mass Effect team was pulled off of Mass Effect and made to help on Dragon Age to get it finished.
7:53 PM@jaredknisely6213​​which was when the mass effect game was announced
7:53 PM@addictedtochaos2​​After the failure of Dragon Age, it was downsized to 50 people, Mass Effect and Dragon Age were handled by different teams.
7:54 PM@addictedtochaos2​​You are out of focus.
7:54 PM@jaredknisely6213​​origin was the blood splatter
7:54 PM@jaredknisely6213​​it was part of the cover for the first 3