This week, we return to the world of Souls comics to see what's been happening since the last time we checked in. We cover the Dark Souls anthology series Legends of the Flame (Part 1 and Part 2), which has a smattering of not very good short stories that are, putat...
2021-12-12 19:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-12 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #5
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using 2021-12-11 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-11 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Shin Megami Tensei V, Endzone: A World Apart, and Spiritfarer.
This week, we finish talking about the main quest of Fallout 4 and talk about the various faction side quests. Next week we'll get in-depth on the rest of the side quests and start talking a bit about the DLC.
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2021-12-09 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-09 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Avengers vs. X-Men #7
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using 2021-12-08 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Poor Billy Quizboy can't catch a break. Just when he thinks he's broken into the world of super science, he's kidnapped to perform ethically messy surgery again... this time for the Guild's super lawyer Monstroso. Meanwhile, Pete marshals the forces of Sphinx to rescue his friend, and has a heart to heart with Sergeant Hatred about his messed up priorities.
Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, 2021-12-07 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-07 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What happens when your toilet is also a living creature who produces waste? We talk about this and more, and unsuccessfully try to not make this episode all about how old television was terrible.
2021-12-06 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-05 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Avengers #29
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using this s...
2021-12-04 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-04 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Galaxy Truckers, and Spiritfarer.
Why does the sun go on shining? Why does the sea rush to shore? Don't they know it's the end of the world because you don't love me anymore?
We begin our discussion of Fallout 4 with beefy generalities and discussion of the first act of the game. Fallout 4 is a big beautiful mess that's simultaneously a bad Fallout game and the best Bethesda game. On the balance, we're more into how its crafting, exploration, and settlement management systems tie together than we're turned off by a trul...
2021-12-02 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-12-02 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wolverine & The X-Men #12
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using 2021-12-01 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! Normally I schedule these for the last Thursday of the month, but in this case that was the Thanksgiving holiday here in America. So we're doing a Jackbox night tomorrow night, Thursday December 2, at 8:00pm Eastern.
As always this will be live on the Duckfeed Twitch channel, and patrons can get first access to the participation codes in the #duckbox-partyquack channel on our Slack.
I hop...
2021-12-01 05:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We have such sights to describe to you. Kirsty barely survived her brush with the Cenobites and the machinations of her stepmother and uncle. Now she's in a mental institution run by a psychopath, and there's not enough skin to go around. This movie makes no sense, but its over the top effects and visual ambition push it over the finish line to make it one of the better horror movie sequels out there, and we have a great time talking about it.
2021-11-30 22:53:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Rusty's self preservation instinct takes a sudden and noticeable dive, and it's up to Dr. Orpheus to venture into his mind to find out what's up. Meanwhile, we see the Monarch is the cause of the trouble, which mostly provides us with an excuse to see Henchman 21 and Dr. Mrs. the Monarch bond over his inert, dream-projecting body.
Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, 2021-11-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-11-30 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A game with an unlikely name has an outsized legacy, weirdly turning into an engine for early 3D first person PC games. But before we hit that, we have to talk about unlikely showbiz rites of passage and a very bad brush with emesis.
2021-11-29 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember, it's only a game. More accurately, it's a movie about a game gone very wrong. This week we talk about the Green Knight, a 2021 adaptation of the classic Arthurian legend directed by David Lowery. Specifically, we look at the movie through the lens of the themes and motifs of the Souls series, looking at the importance of our changing relationships to Arthurian myths as the basis of modern fantasy.
EDIT: Little note from Gary on the ending: I just found out in the original endi...
2021-11-28 23:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey there! It's time for you to help us pick the games we'll cover on December's premium episodes of Abject Suffering. As always, click the links below to see videos if you need more info. Please cast your vote by the end of the day on Tuesday, November 30.
Uncanny X-Men #15
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using t...
2021-11-27 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-11-27 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which 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.
2021-11-26 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Dispatch episode features a discussion of mapping systems in games, as part of a broader discussion about friction that used to be charming but is now kind of tedious. We also read your responses about Left 4 Dead 2, Stardew Valley, and Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty.
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2021-11-25 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Avengers #28
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 see if they have them there! You can find one using this s...
2021-11-24 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post