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Hey folks, I have a quick favor to ask for my own purposes. We have no way of gauging downloads from Patreon. I wish they gave us that tool, but alas. Instead, I want to get a pulse check on premium shows so I know what to promote and how.

So here's the ask, and it will only take ...

October Schedule and Subscription Billing

I forgot to post a schedule last month, so here's one for October! There's also a small announcement.

Patreon recently offered a new kind of billing called "Subscription Billing". This means new patrons will be billed right when they subscribe, and then on subsequent months their billing date will be the same date they subscribed. So, say you pledge on the 10th, you will be billed on...

Abject Suffering 473: Razor Freestyle Scooter

You had to be around in the early '00s to know exactly how hard Razor scooters were being pushed on us. These were collapsable metal scooters meant for radical teens to ride to class. And they made a game about them, a not entirely terrible Tony Hawk clone. So we spend some time talking about the gimmick shoes that were foisted on us as kids.

Bonfireside Chat 229: Bestial Sanctum and the Divine Tower of Caelid

With all of the Scarlet Rot in Caelid, it's easy to overlook the other forces at play in the region. Namely, the Black Flame, Deathroot, and other forces associated with the Destined Death. In this cleanup episode, we head to the Bestial Sanctum to learn about Gurranq the Bestial Clergyman, and then we head to the Divine Tower of Caelid where we find the Godskin cult tucked away in the basement.

Next week we head to Redmane Castle to begin working to handle Starscourge Radahn himself. 2022-10-02 20:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post

The Level 430: Triple A-ness

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Dome Keeper, Trombone Champ, Timberborn, and much more!

The Grind:

• Ben: Timberborn. Dome Keeper.
• Kole: Trombone Champ.
• Dennis: Deathloop. XCOM 2.
• David: Deathloop.

The Multiplayer:

• What piece of DLC do you think was better than the base game?

The End Boss:

• Metal: Hellsinger custom music mods look silly and fun.
• A fan has made Super Mario Bros. 5. 0G9-XN...
  2022-09-30 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Kids' Media

We've narrowed down some of our distaste for certain popular games, especially from the past: they were made for kids. And kids' media can be sublime! But what makes a piece of kids' media, game or not, good or bad? What turns us off? How do they approach issues of ethics or morality? How much do they condescend?

We also answer your questions and read your responses to September's games: BugSnax, Metal Gear Solid V, and Carrion.

October's games are:

• Devotion
• Str...
  2022-09-29 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Unfilmable 43: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

No one in the world needs to be told that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an important movie, but sometimes you need to be reminded that it's a good movie. A van full of teens is on a roadtrip into the vast empty stretches of Texas, and they find themselves wrapped up in the murderous affairs of a family of cannibals... and their mute hatchetman Leatherface. And you'll never guess what weapon he uses.

It was a great deal of fun to look back at an undeniable classic and find that...

Jackbox Night for September

Hey folks! I apologize for the late notice, but we will be having September's Jackbox Night tomorrow, Thursday Sept. 29, at 8:00pm Eastern.

Come on by and play funny streaming games! It's a good time. We stream live for everyone on the Duckfeed Twitch channel, and Duckfeed patrons get first crack at participation codes in the #duckbox-partyquack channel of our Slack.

Everything to Guppy 874: Dogma (Item) - Purgatory - Stitches, Tainted Isaac

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 472: Cookie Clicker

People love incremental and idle games. Kole's ambivalent. Gary hates them. Somehow this turned into an extremely on-topic mini-WOFF! about the genre at large, with Cookie Clicker as the starting off point. Welcome to Hell!

Bonfireside Chat 228: Millicent and Greyoll's Dragonbarrow

Edit: There was a problem with the first version of this that is fixed now. If you hear overlapping audio at the start you can delete and re-download. I apologize for the error! - K

This week we pick up on the road above Sellia, to the cliffs above to save the poor girl Millicent at the behest of the strange sage Gowry. Then, we proceed northward beyond the giant skull to Greyoll's Dragonbarrow, a slightly less-blighted portion of Caelid, which is now a sanctuary for the remann...

Best Quality Vacuum is here!

We're excited to share the first episode of Best Quality Vacuum, our new show about Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul. It's episode zero, and it's a broad summary of Breaking Bad, our history with the show, and how we plan to approach the subject matter.

The website is up and running, and the show will be available on iTunes and Spotify soon. We'll let you know when that happens, so you can leave rat...

Best Quality Vacuum 0: Episode Zero

Welcome to the introduction! In this episode we take an opportunity to introduce ourselves, the show, and how we plan to approach Breaking Bad with our commentary. We also describe our own histories with the show, and give a rundown of how Breaking Bad got picked up, along with an introduction to the main cast. It's an eventful episode, to be sure.

New episodes release every other Saturday, so we will be back next time with the Pilot.

We would like to thank 2022-09-24 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Exquisite Suffering 149: Baby's Day Out

When a baby is on a girder, you KNOW Gary Butterfield is on the scene. This unreleased prototype of a Lemmings-like game where you play as an angel stopping a baby from crawling into calamity is actually not terrible, just bizarre. Also bizarre? The movie "Baby's Day Out" was popular enough in India to warrant three different adaptations in different languages... including one named, and we're not kidding 2022-09-23 20:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post

The Level 429: Santa Water is Peppermint Schnapps

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Rocksmith+, Fallout 76 Expeditions: The Pitt, Timberborn, and much more!

The Grind:

• David: Fallout 76 Expeditions: The Pitt. Destiny 2.
• Kole: Steam Deck impressions. Vampire Survivors. Skinwalker Hunt. Rocksmith+.
• Dennis: XCOM 2. Opus Magnum.
• Ben: Fall Guys. Timberborn. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

The Multiplayer:

• Think of a favorite video game franchise. What i...
  2022-09-23 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Watch Out for Fireballs! 371: Carrion (Premium)

How far can an excellent premise carry a game? Looks like it's more than 2 hours but less than 5. Carrion has an unbeatable premise, a hall of fame premise, and aesthetics to back it up. Why on earth is it not more fun to play? Listen and find out!

Everything to Guppy 873: Bot Fly - Meat Cleaver - Evil Charm - Nuh Uh!

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 471: Flushed Away

Say what you will about stop motion animation, there's an undeniable degree of difficulty associated with it that makes it a little more impressive than CGI emulating the clay sculpture style. This is the core hubris of the "Wallace and Gromit " people hooking up with Dreamworks to make "Flushed Away", a story about a posh surface rat getting flushed down the toilet to fight a frog king. And then they made a game about it. And then we mostly talked about Jackass, and a bizarre YouTube channel...

Bonfireside Chat 227: Sellia, Town of Sorcery

Sellia is a town in Caelid that holds many secrets, sealed away behind an impenetrable puzzle that involves lighting three torches. A strange sage named Gowry acts as our guide, sending us to the Aeonian Swamp to recover a cosmic artifact before directing us to the heart of Selia to learn where these people came from, and why the Golden Order had turned a vicious eye toward them in the past.

Abject Suffrage: September 2022

Hey folks! It's time for you to help us pick the nominal topics of October's premium Abject Suffering episodes. As always, we have four options, and the top two vote-getters will get episodes. Click the links below to see gameplay videos if you want your memory jogged, and cast your vote by Friday, September 23.

• Chakan: The Forever Man (Genesis) 
• 2022-09-18 21:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Days of Future Cast 335: Mutant Massacre: Part 3

On this episode, we cover: Power Pack #28, X-Factor #11, Uncanny X-Men #212, Daredevil #238. And boy, that Daredevil issue. Dubya Tee Eff.

Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local library to se...

The Level 428: Goth Paraphernalia

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Immortality, Live a Live, Taiji, and much more!

The Grind:

• Kole: Immortality. Live a Live.
• Dennis: God of War (2018). Death Stranding. Opus Magnum.
• Ben: The Planet Crafter. Taiji.
• David: Destiny 2.

The Multiplayer:

• Free Play!

The End Boss:

• PlayStation Stars look like NFTs even though they aren’t.
• Pacific Drive looks rad as hell.
• Nintendo shows...
  2022-09-17 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Call and Response: WOFF! Dispatch September 2022

Hello! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Monday, September 19 by leaving a comment on this post.

We're looking for two kinds of things:

1. Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.

2. Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life in general... You name it.

One cav...

Watch Out for Fireballs! 370: Metal Gear Solid V (Part 2)

Venom Snake still has some fights to fight, as we pick up Skull Face's trail in Afghanistan to experience the majority of what the Phantom Pain has to offer. As a genuine heads up, this episode might not be for you if you adore this game or Hideo Kojima's whole vibe. We clown on things while gushing about the play, which some people take us as completely hating the whole experience. If you will take that personally then please consider yourself forewarned.

Thanks again to our executive ...

Adaptation Decay 66: Game Over

Take comfort. You do not know about "Game Over", and you will not have to know about "Game Over" at all after this episode is over. There is no hidden gem here. Instead, it's one of the lowest things we've covered on this show, a UPN CGI sitcom about the lives of video game characters when they're off the clock. Do not be fooled by that premise, which sounds like it has possibility. This i...

Interest Check

EDIT: The people have spoken, I'll give it a go. I want to get a little headmount for my camera phone though, so I can flip handsfree. I'll start uploading then.

Also, a word about depth: This is going to be a casual flipthrough and impromptu thing. I'm not going to do a lot of research for this project, as I have to fit it in between everything else.

Thanks for the words of support!

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Would you watch a patron only mini series...

Everything to Guppy 872: Key Piece 1 - Key Piece 2 - Death Certificate - Ultra Famine

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Abject Suffering 470: An American Tail

Better late than never, right? Even if it's 21 years too late. 1986 saw the release of "An American Tail", a Don Bluth-animated film about a family of mice that fled Russia to head to America... 1986 being, of course, one of the last times that an optimistic story about immigration could be told in America. Then, in 2007, some weirdos decided to make a licensed game about it. One that even manages to make Monkey Ball mechanics un-fun!

Bonfireside Chat 226: Caleid, South

This week we continue our journey along the Caelid Highway, down further into the wilds of the rot-blighted land. Starting at the Smouldering Wall, we venture into Fort Gael and the prison complex beneath it, before reaching the swamps and dragons of the southern reaches.

Next week we will turn northward into Selia and the Aeonian Swamp, ground zero of Malenia's blossoming.

Watch Out for Fireballs! 369: Metal Gear Solid V (Part 1)

Thank you Jade!

What do you do when there's a Kojima about? What do you do when a game has some of the best stealth action in video games, one of the most satisfying loops in video games, but punctuates it with some of the worst boss fights and clumsy exposition and plotting? It's a complicated game that gives us complicated feelings! Listen in if you want to hear us wrestle with Kojima's legacy, both as critics and as one current and one former fan.

And if you want to support m...