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Icons & Eikons: 81 - Schween Scáthach [Mhach III]

This week, just like every time the game has to end a plotline, everything falls apart, as placeholder bosses give way to placeholderer bosses, Space Jerry Falwell gives an impassioned speech about his glock, and holy-elemental Dragoons undo the Legacy of Kain. Plus, there were heroic sky pirates who might actually have never stolen a single thing, as I look back on the story? I forget if they were falsely accused, it's been two months. Whatever, I got goth fanservice goals out of the whole a...

BNS S08B01: In the Arms Deal of an Angel

Say goodbye to Chris forever as the Boku no Stop merger begins with this bonus, where we round out the Gundam: IBO season with Gundam: War in the Pocket. Hear Matt's opinions on Zeon! Listen to discussions of how this series is pointing the finger back at every single viewer and asking "DID YOU GET IT?!". And, of course, hentai comes in somehow. It's neo-BNS. "We're horny now" wasn't a joke.

Icons & Eikons: 80 - Goth Gamer Nation [Mhach II]

This week, everyone realizes that "supervillain" and "superweapon" share the same root as you can't take either seriously without that prefix, and we wrap? the Mhach storyline, strip-mining the franchise's past for a sweet hit of between-expansion nostalgia until the checks clear on new content. If I had a titty for every time Eorzea had a fallen empire of Hot Topic goths and scene kids, I'd look exactly the same as I do now, because apparently this happens twice according to this discussion?...

Icons & Eikons: 79 - Caitney Sithelton [Mhach I]

This week, somehow a story about airship hijackings and shitty bosses neither of our hosts wanted to help became Sky Pirates of the Carribean, as a haunted ship full of moon-evil unleashes Ken Penders' demonic children upon the world. (Actually, I think that means we're due for a followup on this arc right about now. Calling it here: Dawntrail patch cycle is going to involve more echyd'nyas. You heard it here first.) Final Fantasy XIV, full of the only goths even Sibyl won't touch - nofap BRI...

Icons & Eikons: 78 - Like Concrete, But Tackier [Warring Triad III]

This episode is about uhhhhhhhh Zurvan, I had to look that up. He's a dog who summons meteors and wears limb-bling. This is the most lost I've ever been at following the story as the editor of this show. Our hosts talk about this being a side-quest where the story makes more sense if you don't play it, and to them, I, your editor, would like to state: what if the Empire has master tactical strategists in play, and it realizes something neither Chris nor Ryan did? What if the Empire has stoppe...

Icons & Eikons: 77 - Eat a Daughter [Warring Triad II]

Hot on the heels of Pummel Me Papa comes the next Warring Triad boss fight, Peg Me Pelosi, the Avatar of Centrism. Is there some interesting world-building involved in the edges of the event? Yes. Is this whole sequence effectively just someone trying to nag you into the cold, logical comfort of a Spock cosplayer's embrace in the convention hotel room? Also yes. I'm not projecting, you're projecting.

You would not BELIEVE how many tangents about an "ethical 9/11" were cut out of this ep...

Icons & Eikons: 76 - Binding Coils for Dads [Warring Triad I]

Have you given birth*? Finding it harder to get invested in a full raid cycle anymore with the little ones around? FFXIV has heard your pleas, and there's now Content for you again. Keep up with the boys at a simpler pace. Finally, the boys' club can be completed by the boys, not just the men. Come join our hosts this week and learn about the easing in of casual raiding to the FFXIV experience with the rise of the Warring Triad**.

* We know who did the real work, her body was on autopil...

Icons & Eikons: 75 - Supernatural Rendition [Alexander 10-12]

The Alexander cycle is put to a much-too-late bedtime this week, but it's okay, technically it went to sleep early, because we're in full-on Time Shit territory. Learn about Goblin OSHA, ask yourself what synonyms there are for extraordinary, and flash back to the PS2 when Chris says the words "Lava Scorpion" and you can only think of Devil May Cry. Let's all spread our time wings together like the little goblin angels we lost...

Icons & Eikons: 74 - Everyone is Seventeen in the Past [Alexander 7-9]

As New Hampshire once taught us, you never let libertarians run your city planning. As Final Fantasy XIV tells us, it doesn't go better when you give libertarians a wishing ring either. Journey into the most hostile architecture imaginable for the most TOTALLY NOT FILLER content in this entire raid series, and answer the question: if steel bars or steel spikes could stop you from logging on, are you really a gamer anymore?

(This description originally involved jokes about "White Jail", ...

Icons & Eikons: 73 - The Littlest Libertarian Legend [Alexander 4-6]

FF14 leans in on developing the goblin lore with amateur hour this week. Did you know that artifacts are aware of the invisible hand of the free market? Also: the environment grows back if you let it have a refractory period. Find out how a robot made nature nut, and how a goblin's desire to follow it ruined the planet, this week on Icons & Eikons!

Radio Manga 005: Gag Hentai

cw: gaslighting, sexual assault/exploitation, violence, self-harm, racial insensitivity, bestiality

This month is another shotgun episode, with both hosts bringing a variety of things to bear. We've got the first show anti-recommendation (as you might be able to guess from the warnings above!), and a whole lot of discussion on US manga history and some stars of the medium. And stars. Like, literal stars, I bet you never thought we were going to bring up Courtney Love on...

Icons & Eikons: 72 - Give Hondurans Metal Gear [Alexander 1-3]

The game decides to remind us why half of the voice actors are British-coded this week, as every NPC goes full Chris Dawkins on us over goblins finding religion. No, not that way, the wrong way, the one where they wear suicide bomb backpacks and have divine geometry, nothing polite like marrying cousins for God. Chris and Ryan take to pugging the first tier of Alexander's trials, and along the way, someone says the words "give Grimes a robot" without pausing to spit.

Radio Manga 004: Finally, Gay Stuff

Sibyl and Matt return for another "deep dive", but this time it's a much shallower series, the yuri tokusatsu comedy Superwomen in Love: Rapid Rabbit and Honey Trap! Learn how each host came at this with very different experiences just based on which half of the equation hooked them more, find out if it's worth your time, and then listen to some general manga chat to round out the hour, as well as important White People News!

I&E Special: Woof (Not Like That) [Jin-Roh 1999]

CW: Gun violence, child death

This podcast was never truly about an MMO, it was just an excuse for Chris to talk about colonial issues and fascism and you've all been boiling in the pot too long to notice. With that, listen to your hosts warm back up themselves after a hiatus, and discuss Mamoru Oshii's "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade", a tale of What If Operation Paperclip, But Not Enough? 

Radio Manga Episode 3 - Sexual Death Note (Derogatory)

Matt and Sibyl talk about love in all it's forms: war, doujinshi, combining robots. Also, we finally finish the rollercoaster ride that is Last Gender.

Sibyls 1st pick: Kaguya-sama: Love Is War by Aka Akasaka (00:01:23)

Matt's 1st pick: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano (00:12:42)

Sibyl's 2nd pick: Getter Robo Devolution by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi (00:29:47)

Matt's 2nd pick: Still Sick by Akashi (00:45:10)

The last chat for Last Gender (0...

Lightning Strikes Thrice Bonus: Wolfstride Developer Interview with Ota and Paulo Imon

We chat with the Director/Writer Ota Imon and Lead Animator Paulo Imon of OTA IMON Studios about the development of Wolfstride. We learn the lore on mecha influences, animation challenges, deep-cut references to the band WEEN, and the team's upcoming rougelike deck-builder Zet Zillions. You better listen, trash!

Icons & Eikons: 71 - Ghost Neck Killah

In this one we start 3.3 and it's actually a blast. We hang out with Baemeric, see Hraesvelgar, throw an eye off a cliff, and beat up some moogles!

Icons & Eikons: 70 - No Non-Civilian Casualties

We wrap up 3.2! There's the grand melee, a lot of jingoism and Emmanelain gets punched.

Icons & Eikons: 69 - Fantasy Vibes

Icons & Eikons: 68 - Hard Times at the Arson Factory

Chris's audio is bad :/

In this episode Chris and Ryan start patch 3.1. In this episode: we try to make peace with the dragons for like the thirtieth time (but it works this time????), meet the Warriors of Darkness, finally link back up with Thancred, and put down a right wing revolution.

Radio Manga 002

Content warning: frank discussions of sexuality and the discovery thereof

Sibyl and Matt return once more for an in-depth discussion of Mari Okada/Nao Emoto's O Maidens in Your Savage Season. Both hosts took a liking to it but had very different takes on some of the character arcs, and then, as a light mignardise, a revisit of last episode's Last Gender: When We Are Nameless in light of both hosts now being deeper into a series that gets slightly less ...

Icons & Eikons: 67 - My Struggle (Continued)

We finally wrap up Heavensward!

Boku no STOP! Free S7 Bonus 3: Afro Samurai

Or, "I Can't Believe It's Not Appropriation!"

We have a full crew once more for this very special discussion of a very cursed franchise. Do you remember Spike TV? Or the debut of streaming anime on the Xbox marketplace thanks to this weird little company called "Funimation"? Afro Samurai does. It is so much of a specific time and place that it basically begged a custom Zune skin into existence. Get ready!

Icons & Eikons: 66 - Show Us Your Eyeball Loser!

In this one we get to Azys Lla. Will the plot move forward at all? Listen to find out

Ryan had an audio issue, I'm sorry.

Boku no STOP! Free S7 Bonus 2: Speed Racer

Or, "The Editor Is Sorry".

This may be a new record for how completely unhinged the discussion gets compared to the alleged topic. Unfortunate if you wanted a very focused discussion of the Wachowski Speed Racer adaptation, delightful if you love watching a pod flip over the rails at minute five and continue skidding through a crowd for an hour.

Most Repellent Pitch Drop Host 2023

Blame Chris for this, he wanted a bracketed tournament but I'm just going to cut the crap and put the obvious candidates on here to save three weeks of this. Picture unrelated. Happy Halloween.

Boku no STOP! Free S7 Bonus 1: Clerks III

Or, "Kevsmitha Stole The Precious Thing".

This week, you're going to hear probably the most intellectual discussion of a piece of media on the entire Pitch Drop network in its history, which is completely wild considering that the topic is Kevin Smith's 2022 disaster Clerks III. Enjoy.

Icons & Eikons: 65 - Sometimes You Gotta

In this episode the game just kinda fucks around for a while and basically nothing happens again. We didn't make the game okay? At least the dungeon music rips.

Icons & Eikons: 64 - Wow, Cool Fascists!

In this one Chris and Ryan FINALLY stop trying to solve the Dragonsong War which no one gives a FUCK about and instead decide we need to hang out with a naked cat girl.

Icons & Eikons: People Forgot Ham (MCH 50-60)

I have no idea what happened in this one because Sibyl edited it. Presumably we discuss the machinist job story from 50-60 and Stephanivien is there.