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A good, good anime boy finds a magic talking book, and embarks on a journey to save his sister with the help of a lovable pair of colorful outcasts. Now, this might sound like your typical JRPG fare on the surface, but Yoko Taro's NieR franchise is anything but typical. Coming off the heels of three playthroughs of NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 , Andrew takes us on our own coming-of-age journe...

An artificial life form created to perform menial labor one day becomes sentient and embarks on a journey to free themselves from their oppression. To do so, they must do the impossible: Escape to the surface world and become human. Only then will they be completely free. You may think to yourself: Why are we talking about the plot to 2018's Detroit: Become Human? And our response to you would be,...

Oh boy, here come those dang investors again. They just won't STOP asking us to pitch them new mashups of old videogames. And it's like their asks are getting more and more hacky and uninspired each time...like, this week they just screamed "Make NPCs a protagonist!" and then sat there, nearly frozen in place. So we had no other choice than to pitch a series of titles diving in on extremely proble...

Like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, the mysterious Shut Up Todd Pet Store has once again opened up its doors to showcase the wondrous marvels inside. But instead of floaty soda, it's full of giant mammoths and rock dragons just itching to do a murder. And now YOU can adopt one of these Monster Hunter monsters as your very own! And you should act now because this store is not going to stay standi...

He's dangerous, he's angry, he's on fire, and he has a skull face covered in the literal fires of Christian Hell. That's right kids, it's time we (finally) break down everyone's favorite #edgelord, Ghost Rider! Fun fact: You may know the Spirit of Vengeance as Jonny Blaze (i.e. Nic Cage in the movie) or Robbie Reyes from Agents of SHIELD. Well, there have actually been 22 documented Ghost Riders t...

The suits at Discovery Ploose were so jealous that we were the only podcast talking about the Disney+ shows that they approached us to record an exclusive videogame-themed episode of History Channel's Forged in Fire. Don't ask them, just trust us. It's totally legit and definitely part of the FiF canon. Definitely. Speaking of premium streaming services, how about those MCU shows? There's so gosh...

It's been a while since we all gathered around the pretend Zoom campfire and told some personal CUP NOODLES® IS THE PERFECT BLEND OF TASTY BROTH AND ZESTY TOPPINGS THAT TAKE ONLY 3 MINUTES AND A MICROWAVE TO MASTER. NO COOKING REQUIRED stories about favorite moments in video games. Andrew recounts his time with Final Fantasy 15, Kyle gushes about Buger King's Xbox series, and Matt FOR MORE THAN 45...

The writers over at the Star Wars Extended Universe had a dilemma. They needed to create an entire race of people based off of one side character in the original movies who barely spoke as whose most defining personality was "jetpack." So, they had created this cool tribe full of warrior-nomads who all lived by their own defined code and called them "Mandalorians." And then the writers must have t...

The boys have been busy behind the scenes, and it's time we share with everyone what we've been working on. You may have heard about our Disney+ weekly recap show, "The Ploose Is Loose!", but what you DIDN'T know is that it now has it's very own feed! Enjoy this first episode as a preview to "The Ploose Is Loose!" available now on all podcasting apps.

To all of our surprise, Todd started his own superhero advertising agency during the pandemic and just informed us that we would be "pitching to him" a PR solution. After being told that they're completely different things, he just kind of shrugged and did that weird Ashlee Simpson SNL dance. So, for some reason, the rest of us are here pitching a complete public relations strategy for a particula...

Good news everyone! Because we had such a good time recording our Disney+ MCU recap show "The Ploose Is Loose!" (and, because we've recently found out Marvel will be pumping out content on a near-weekly basis until we die), we decided to give PiL its very own feed as Debate This's first sister show. SO, starting with the next D+ show, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, you'll be able to access a weekl...

Make sure your hair is gelled and your shorts sufficiently cargo-ed, because today's episode is taking a one-way trip to the mid-00s as we talk about Flash games! Much like trying to fit a stick figure zombie in a cage, we try and stretch premises like "shoot kitten from cannon" into a long-form TV series centered on the complex father/daughter relationship between an ambitious prodigy and a brill...

Destiny. Fate. Dreams. Ad revenue. These unstoppable ideals are held deep in hearts of podcasters. As long as there are people who seek a self-sustaining income from things they enjoy in this life, these things shall not vanish from the Earth. We're back with part two Andrew talking at you about One Piece! On this part 2, we cover the Straw Hats entering the Grand Line through the end of the Alaba...

Last year, Supergiant blew the gaming world away with their near-perfect and also very thirsty roguelike, Hades. We certainly could have spent this time talking all about how the gameplay is expertly crafted to make you feel like every run is forward progress, or how the characters are all incredibly unique and likable in their own way, or how the music and sound design helps to build an engaging...

There comes a time in every video game podcast's life when they are compelled to stop what they are doing and ask "Sure, this game is great. But what's Waluigi up to?" This is that time, and today's episode is the output of that thought experiment. Consider, dear listener, a sequel to Katamari Damacy starring Waluigi rolling up the Mushroom Kingdom. How about a version of David Cage's Indigo Proph...

Wealth. Fame. Power. The hosts at Debate This!, the King of the Podcasts, had acquired this and everything else the world had to offer. And their dying words drove countless souls to the Debate This! Patreon page: "You want my treasured content? Fine, you can have it. Just pay us $50 a month and we will talk about whatever the hell it is you want! Now you just have to ask it." Welcome to the ongoi...

The past year has left us pretty starved for new MCU content, so you can imagine the release of WandaVision had all of us here so excited that we decided to make a whole dang show to talk about it! Here is a sneak peak at our new Disney+ watch-along show, "The Ploose is Loose", a weekly recap and analysis of the latest episode of the new hit Disney Ploose show. Matt will be starting us off with th...

Late last night, Matt was pulling a late night at the ol' DT Exclamation Point HQ, and he did that thing in movies where he stepped out of a steamy shower and looked at himself in the mirror and wiped away the fog on the glass to see a SPOOKY THING behind him. Yeah, so our fake office is haunted or whatever...this seems to be as good a time as any to talk in excruciating detail about the Pac-Man g...

Since all of the Persona soundtracks are now on Spotify, Andrew couldn't be bothered to do an episode today. So instead, Matt recorded a sneak preview of what is in store for 2021 for Debate This! We'll be back next week with a new, equally outrageous episode talking about like Pac-Man's dong or something. Debate This! is streaming live every Monday night! You can find us on twitch.tv/debatethisca...

Remember when all your favorite TV sitcoms used to do that thing where instead of actual plot or content they would just play clips from older, better episodes? And then the credits would just roll and it was like, "Yeah whatever see you next week maybe we'll do something then!" Well, we're doing that but--even better--we've made all of YOU figure out the content for us! That's right friends, toda...

Aww dang is it Christmas already?? Well, we WOULD have gone shopping but we've all been sitting on this Disney investor call since Thanksgiving waiting for Black Widow news so it looks like we're gonna have to wing it again this year! We drew each other's names in the DT!HQ office Secret Santa, and now you have to experience atrocities such as the CTA Wii Bowling Boll, the PlayOn Game Boat, and th...

It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Girl gets rescued from an orphanage by an ex-con who is being mercilessly hunted across the decades by a prison-guard-turned-police-chief. Boy leads an army of school children into battle overthrow the monarchy. Boy and girl fall in love and get married in front of the ghost of her dead adopted father. Les Misérables is quite possibly one of the most wel...

Well, we did it. We made it to the sex number. And what other way is there to celebrate than to make some perfectly wholesome games super horny? Come along with us on this experiment/crime against humanity as we take a class at an anime high school filled with Punch Out! characters, and romance the local fishmonger in a sexy rendition of Marc Davis's Pro Bass Challenge, and do whatever the hell Ky...

Last month, we asked the question "Which superhero would be a terrible roommate?" So, it stands to reason that it's worth playing in that opposing headspace by asking "Which supervillain would be an awesome roommate?" Imagine just hanging out watching Storage Wars doing bumps of The Power Cosmic with Galactus while your bro Toad cleans the bugs from your shared living space, all the while Apocalyp...

You know when you get that big ol' 1,200+ calorie burrito bowl from Chipotle and you see all the different colorful ingredient layers? And then you just mash your plastic fork and slosh everything around and the guac turns the whole thing into a murky greenish-brown protein slurry? And then you ladle on hot sauce overtop like gravy on instant potatoes? That's kind of like the story of League of Le...