FunFactor
Hosted by Ty and Aidan · Ty Schalter & Aidan Moher
5.0from 39 ratings
- 50
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 39
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 3K
- YouTube views
About FunFactor
Ty Schalter (VICE, FiveThirtyEight) and Aidan Moher (WIRED, Vulture) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become professional journalists, authors, and critics—and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games. New episodes drop every other Tuesday!
- Publisher
- Ty Schalter & Aidan Moher
- Category
- arts · leisure · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2025
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 50 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 62 - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus [S2E13]
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hyper 110 - Morrowind (The Elder Scrolls III) [S2E12]
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
GamePro 170 - Super Mario Sunshine [S2E11]
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Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 62 - Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus [S2E13]
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Imbuing sort of character in the game itself, like holistically. You know, it's almost like, I don't know, like they look at like Sly Cooper is, you know, like Ratchet and Clank. Ratchet's a Lomax or whatever. and clank's a robot jack and daxter whatever banjo and kazooie banjo and kazooie are like a bear and a bird but like none of that really means anything whereas like sly cooper being a thief really seems to define so many elements of the game so many of the reward structure being like hey if you're a good thief you're gonna like acquire more interesting stuff whether that's new skills through the thievius raccoonist book or it's developer commentary because you're becoming such a highly skilled thief I think that that, like, John spending so much time in this review focused on, like, hey, this game kind of, like, makes me feel like a good thief. […]
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- YouTube views
- 2,528
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 31 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 8 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 64
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 68
- Engagement
- 85
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