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Living weapons, dark mysticism, and scantily clad protagonists! All that and more are crammed into the subject of this week's Flavor Text: Witchblade. It was one of the top selling comic books of the 90s and early 2000s and it spawned a Buffy-esque TV show that was actually pretty good! It's also got a Christ allegory and talks a lot about the Christian God. So...there's that. Follow along with th...

Sharks, entering the Tank today are three scrappy entrepreneurs. They're each seeking an investment with the hope of bringing their new products to market. Now these aren't just any products. These business owners found the best items video games have to offer and they want to make them consumer grade. So grab your notebook and check under the bed for Mark Cuban because we're doing a Shark Tank ep...

Society is collapsing all around us and 4 out of 5 dentists say it's because people don't have "Third Places" anymore. Everyone has home, the "First Place." Everyone has work, the "Second Place." But so few of us have the mythic "Third Place" that allows us to hang out, unwind and exist without spending an exorbitant amount of energy. Well, in hopes of saving society, we're turning to video games...

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. But, how did we get here? Was the deified head of the Imperium of Man always a rotting corpse sitting atop an actual golden throne? And, how did the universe become littered with zombified men mutating into horrifying flesh demons? It's been a minute, but we're treadi...

If you like to talk to tomatoes, if a squash can make you smile, if you like to waltz with potatoes, then I hope you're ready to learn about tax evasion. That's right everyone, we're doing Veggie Tales! But the execs at DT!HQ have asked that we "do secular Veggie Tales." That's why we're on the hunt for the next great literary work to be adapted by Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. Todd is ri...

Long ago, two races ruled over Earth: HUMANS and MONSTERS. One day, war broke out between the two races. After a long battle, the humans were victorious. They sealed the monsters underground with a magic spell...or so the opening crawl of Undertale would have you believe is the full story. Special thanks to @squirrelmancer for commissioning today's episode! You can commission your own FLAVOR TEXT...

When a podcast records its ninth season premiere, it begins to ponder its relevance. Are people still listening? Are there any debates left to be had? Have we done all the bits there are to do? When these questions begin to plague a podcaster, they return to their roots: Pokémon and formative British literature. Don't worry, we found another bit! This time we're building Pokémon games on a budget....

Here's a trailer for Debate This! Season 9 and what we have on the calendar for this year.  See everyone? It's a trailer! You can start here! You don't have to go back and listen to episode 1. Please don't go back and listen to episode 1. Have you seen our Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Threads? threads.net/debatethis...

2025 has been the year of the LIVE! show at DT!HQ, so we're capping off the season with one more. Back in July, we braved the muggy streets of downtown Pittsburgh, PA and had our largest crowd yet at Tekko! With large crowds comes large responsibility and thus we asked: which IRL job would make the best subject matter for a JRPG? Andrew is marketing, Todd is installing, and Kyle is at home in bed....

DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants/Debate-This After seven non-denominational winter gift exchanges, we here at DT!HQ decided to change things up. We've gifted each other so many ridiculous video game peripherals that we forgot to set aside a game to play! Well we summoned the Ghosts of Gaming's Past, Present and Future to teach us about the winter, non-d...

DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/PodcastersFightHunger Esports may seem like a wild, new phenomenon, but the story of competitive gaming starts in 1972. Sure, they weren't filling arenas or handing out scholarships 50 years ago, but these proto-esports paved the way for the modern industry. From the first women to be called "professional gamers," to the releas...

DONATE TO FEED AMERICA HERE: https://teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/teams/PodcastersFightHunger There's so much pleasure in the simple. The joy that comes from simple, arcade beat 'em up games is unmatched by the AAA gaming experience. Also, the joy that comes from reality TV shows like the Simple Life is unmatched by anything with cultural significance. This week, we're combining two simple things t...

We here at DT!HQ are beyond stoked to team up with our friends across the internet to help fight hunger! We're working with other podcasters, streamers and content creators to raise money for Feeding America. 47 million Americans are facing food insecurity and are losing access to vital support like SNAP. Every $1 raised can provide up to 10 meals through Feeding America. Join us in our #Podcaster...

There's just so much content! Not only is there more content than any one person could ever consume, but the glut of content has also made it difficult for any one property to make a cultural splash. Back in the 2000s, a single TV show or movie could make such a big cultural splash that they would spawn a tie-in video game! It may be hard to believe, but people used like content so much that they...

This month's FLAVOR TEXT has everything: A giant, fighting robot, time travel, parallel universes, That Man and Bad Guy, and a boy bolted to a flying bed who haunts your dreams. All this and more can be yours for the low, low price of listening to our breakdown of Guilty Gear, the most bananas property we may have ever done! Imgur Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/1OZNJVd Special thanks to @zhakhix for...

We're careening towards the Holiday Season which brings quality time spent with family you may or may not love. Well, do you know the quickest way to improve time spent with family you may or may not love? With traditional table games you may or may not love, of course! Unfortunately, traditional table games just don't hit the same in 2025. Luckily, roguelites like Balatro and BALL x PIT have pave...

It's week 3 of the Spooktacular Express and this is, without a doubt, the scariest episode we've ever done. Put on your helmets, tune in and drop out as we take you to the realm of your VR nightmares. To make things even spookier, we've enlisted the "help" of an amorphous, soulless, faceless monster: generative AI. That's right, we're combining a game series with AI Slop(TM) to create the most ter...

The year was 1979 and a scrappy little 16 year old named Richard Garriott started coding his friends' latest Dungeons & Dragons campaign into an Apple II. This is the small domino that fell over to eventually result in millions of players worldwide romancing a bear 30+ years later in Baldur's Gate 3. How did we get there? Well, there's a lot of answers to that question but a predominant step was t...

*Insert train whistle here* Did the Spooktacular Express sneak up on you? Because it snuck up on us! We blinked in January and suddenly it became Spooky Season. Even though we got caught on our heels, we're still confident that we can pull together the best Halloween party the internet has ever seen. To make it happen, we're calling in some friends from Nintendo to buff up the party vibes. That le...

We came here to record a podcast and chew bubblegum, and we're all out of bubblegum. That's why we're recording a podcast about one of the edgiest super soldiers of the 90s and 2000s, Duke Nukem. But the execs at DT!HQ don't want us to remaster an old DN game, they want us to pitch one for 2025. Preferably, one that will make people mad. Todd is getting introspective. Andrew is getting proactive....

Earlier this season, we did a real-life live show in a real-life arcade. Well this week we're doing another real-life live show in real-life Atlanta! They didn't have an arcade, so we brought the games with us. Turn your dollars into quarters and get ready to count your tickets, because we're turning regular games into arcade cabinets. Recommended reading: You can find the PowerPoint at the follow...

In the early 2000s, publishers everywhere were looking for their slice of the YA literature pie. Some folks were writing about magical schools, others were writing about dragons, but 9(ish) people were coming together to write something different. That "something different" was called 'Warriors' and it was different because it was about cats. Clean your pelt and feed your kittypets as we head Into...

It's been a big summer for fans of Detective Comics. James Gunn and his 2025 Superman movie has restarted the DC Comics cinematic universe and it's really good this time, we promise! Well, the execs over at Warner Bros. reached out to the folks at DT!HQ and asked for our help. They want to capitalize on their IP's new popularity by doing what every good IP holder has done. That's right, they want...

Today we live up to our promise. Today, we talk about a DC movie! Superman (2025) is the movie of the summer and it may just be the movie of our hearts. We've given you more than a month to watch David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan fall in love, so here's all of our thoughts on James Gunn's newest superhero flick. Have you seen out Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram?...

When there's a mid-00's cartoon to review, you know who to call. From their studio they can see it all! DebateThis! GO! Join this team as we look at another iconic team in this Teen Titans FLAVOR TEXT, as we go through the cartoon that features an evil school of evil, a father from Hell (literally) and a child-grooming assassin with no real motive. You know, stuff we all dealt with as teens.

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