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This week is the final episode of Bonfireside Chat until we start covering Nightreign, but we think it’s a good one! We interview the AV Club’s Will Hughes to talk about how he felt about Shadow of the Erdtree, and then we read your responses to the DLC’s endgame.

Kole, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about Elden Ring: Nightreign, Psychroma, The Thing: Remastered, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: Psychroma. Kole: Elden Ring: Nightreign. The Thing: Remastered. Dennis: Slay the Spire: Downfall. Trackmania. Jala: Fire Emblem Heroes. Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One. The Multiplayer: What’s your favorite romance in games? The End Boss: Sony’s February State of...

Skald - n. a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds. While you can't recruit a Skald in your party, oddly, you can hone and craft a party of heroes in this updated retro-style Blobber. It wants to introduce you to a genre that's generally unfriendly to newcomers.

This episode is a quick announcement to let you know that the way you get Duckfeed's premium content is changing. Patreon now offers individual feeds of all of our backer-only shows. This gives you control over what your podcast player downloads, and what you ultimately listen to. Since Patreon itself has this feature, we will no longer be using the individual show feeds on Fireside for our premiu...

Gary goes clear and reads about Scientology, Kole plays RimWorld, Gwen got recognized in public.

One Monster, 17 Ads (one of which is a monster)

Hey folks, Herc’s Adventures is actually kind of a good game. Made by the Zombies Ate My Neighbors team at LucasArts, it expands on that formula with some neat ideas like its novel death mechanic and its open world. But to be honest, a lot of this episode is informed by residual Guppy Energy left over from recording the Sonic 3 Adaptation Decay with Will.

In this episode we stage a labor strike at the steel foundry and take down Gortash. Other Segments: Sage Advice: Talk about explosives Legends and Lore: Gortash Deities and Demigods: Bane

This week, we conclude the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC by talking about the divine tower of the Hornsent, Enir-Ilim, where the final showdowns of the game take place. First, Miquella’s followers have kind of a Civil War thing going on, and then we learn the truth about what Miquella was really after…

His name is actually Walter White, but he wants them to say Heisenberg. Somebody really goofed up on this one. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about LOK Digital, Kiosk, MOTHERGUNSHIP, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: New racing gear. iRacing. Archero 2. MOTHERGUNSHIP. Jala: Second Thoughts. Potato Survival. Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One. Ben: Heroes of Hammerwatch II. LOK Digital. Kole: Kiosk. Rimworld. The Multiplayer: What game mechanic or beat did you not discover until way too late? The End Bo...

Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved. Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Can you feel life moving through your mind? Looks like it came back for more. Can you feel time slipping down your spine? You try and try to ignore. Gary's note: We need to know you can hang before you listen to this. Can you hang? Are you going to be cool?

Important: Here's the Guess Who? board so you can play along: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QYAAAOSw7IpdJR0s/s-l1600.webp

Once you’ve played Lemonade Stand, you start seeing Lemonade Stand everywhere. This week’s game is like that, but the Lemonade is trucks. And the rainy day is a drunk driver careening into you for no reason, ending your cross country haul. Which inspires us to rank vehicles by how scary they would be to drive.

This week we go tour the many parking garages of the Ancient Ruins of Rauh, a beautiful area that we wish had more narrative and gameplay interest. It’s a pileup of a number of civilizations, all searching for the truth of the Crucible, but ultimately overwritten by the Scarlet Rot and its saint, Romina.

In this episode we stage a daring rescue attempt. Other Segments: Legends and Lore: this Iron Throne Deities and Demigods: Gond Complete Artificier's Handbook: Technology

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about Heroes of Hammerwatch II, Citizen Sleeper 2, Rimworld: Anomaly, and much more! The Grind: Ben: Heroes of Hammerwatch II. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector. Jala: Be Like a Crow. Mad Father. El Hijo: A Wild West Tale. Kole: Rimworld. The Multiplayer: What video game trope will you never get tired of? The End Boss: Treyarch cofounder pleads guilty to crashing a drone...

How can a movie also be a game? The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror tries to answer that with the experimental Bandersnatch, which weirdly feels archaic in many ways even as it tries to break storytelling boundaries. There is some neat stuff in here, but does it add up to anything more than cheap twists? Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

One monster but a lot of Night Court talk

Everyone’s seen the warning they put on cans of soda: Don’t photograph this or it will ejaculate all over the place. That universally acknowledged fact is the basis for the joke of OnlyCans: Thirst Date, a free comedy game where you take pictures of sexualized pop cans and are graded on how good they cum.

In this episode we pay tribute to the bitch queen of the sea. Their words, not ours. Other Segments: Deities and Demigods: The aforementioned queen Alternate Realities: Siding with Gortash Up on a Soapbox: Revisiting Baldur's Gate 1 Fiend Folio: Vampires AND Werewolves

This episode, we head up the Jagged Peak in order to do the last of the optional content in Shadow of the Erdtree. We’ve heard tell of a tyrant atop of the volcano, Bayle the Dread, a draconic betrayer so hated by Placidusax that the practice of Dragon Communion was created to bring him down.

Deaclan's here! Guys, Deaclan? He's finally here. We've been waiting. We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kole, Ben, Jala, and Moxie talk about Butcher’s Creek, If on a Winter’s Night, Four Travelers, Digseum, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Fire Emblem Heroes. Streets of Rage 4. The Complex. If On a Winter’s Night, Four Travelers. Kole: Butcher’s Creek. My Summer Car. Moxie: Dying Light 2. Ben: SNKRX. Liar’s Bar. Digseum. The Multiplayer: What’s your favorite nonstandard health system in a game? The...