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Kinda big, a little hair, not as dumb.

It's a classic RPG that established many of the norms for a huge series. Does it hold up to modern scrutiny? This episode covers the generalities, and the events of the game up through Cecil's trial at Mt. Ordeals. Final Fantasy IV was released in America for the SNES in 1991 as "Final Fantasy II", just a short year after the first Final Fantasy reached our shores. Timed to coincide with the relea...

Our second letters episode also looks at two MTV Unplugged performances, separated by a decade.

Kole recently suffered a head injury that leads him to think really bad RPGs are just fine, so this episode is slightly contentious. Well, not really. That would be too complicated for foreign audiences, so we dumbed it down real good.

Big, hairy, dumb.

Kris and Kole talk about live music, historical reenactment, and the best way out. ALSO: Wait for the Oh Boy. Okkervil River Concert. Ducks have taken a dark turn. Stuck in ATM, send help. Colonial Williamsburg is in trouble. Fidget spinner porn. Moon hut. Euthanasia Coaster.

An unreleased non-classic keeps rolling on the river while we revisit the topic of Buffo, the strong clown we admire.

We go to bat for an oft-maligned slimy genius of the sea.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mitch Benes look back at Demon's Souls and offer their final summation.

Hello JuggerDucks! Gary and Jeremy are here to talk about some X-Men cartoons! First up: Cyclops works out all his Daddy issues with Corsair in Orphan's End . Then it's onto The Juggernaut Returns , where Jeremy says the word "NerdJug" too many times to count. We're almost at the end of season 3, so be sure to get that feedback in soon! Thanks for listening, everyone.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about AI that optimizes games, Kingsway, and we ask you which games helped you emotionally. The Brief: The most-watched Twitch clip. AI has figured out Ms. Pac Man. Optimizing Breath of the Wild. Uncharted: The Lost Legacy exists. The Multiplayer: Which games helped you the most emotionally? The Grind: Ben: Hexcells. OVIVO. Kingsway. Fidel Dungeon Rescue. Dennis:...

Break beauty down to its component parts, for profit.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in this final extrasode. Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Emerge from the pile, young steed.

Tick tock, Blaine is waiting. The horrors of Lud have come to bear, as Chase Greenlee, Murph Murphy, and Evan Jones Thorne come along to talk about the Tick Tock Man and the first appearance of Blaine (who is both a pain and a train). Listen to find out if Roland can help Jake, and if Eddie and Susannah can untangle the twisted mess of Blaine's psyche.

Let's get our hands dirty, it's the junk food half hour.

Don't stand still long enough for them to make you a baby bag.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Randy Walker read your responses, prompts, and other musings on the Souls series. Links: Dark Souls Ambient Sounds - Tomb of The Giants (Caverns) - YouTube TerraMantis - YouTube Iron Pineapple - YouTube MoonlightButterfly - YouTube How to Beat: The Bosses of Dark Souls 2 - MY LIFE IN GAMING - YouTube yung maestro - YouTube In Defense of Dark Souls 2 - YouTube Dark...

Kole, Jala, and David talk about the Sega and Atari retro console announcements, WASTED, and we ask you what mundane game tasks you can’t help but indulge in. The Brief: Atari and Genesis are getting retro consoles. Undertale is coming to PS4 and PS Vita in August. Steve Bannon ran a gold farming company. The Multiplayer: What mundane or grindy video tasks can you not stop yourself from doing? The...

Snake men with agency and spells.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the final portion of Metal Gear Solid 2. Or do they? Support Watch Out for Fireballs! Links: Fight Club Ending - YouTube Abject Suffering on Cherry Tree Comedy Club available here The greatest simpsons shitpost tweet thread of all time.

Why, oh why, did it have to be another boring 16-bit fighting game? Ultraman's storied history doesn't mean much of anything if you don't have affection for the kaiju genre. So, we quickly lose focus and talk about Gary's massage experience and the wonderful qualities of CBD.

One last hurrah for the boys as we knew them. Hot off the Monster tour with some recordings in hand, R.E.M. was ready to make their best album in years. New Adventures in Hi-Fi meanders in all the right ways, keeping you on your toes with new ideas and unconventional choices. "E-bow the Letter" as the lead single? Great. "How the West Was Won and Where it Got Us" as the opening track? Hell yeah. B...

One night I had the weirdest dream where I walked into a cave, and I saw a snake with a human head wearing a vest, rolling a donut.

Kris and Kole talk about deliverance, arctic comfort, and robocops. ALSO: The anatomy of a raisin. Flashlight demo. Just the tip. The Trump family origin. Murphy beds are terrifying. Robot cops for real. A depressing cop story. We don’t understand fidget spinners.