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Today on Evaludate, Scarecrow experiences a Hallmark Movie Christmas, Shu displays terrible trigger discipline and is also just very rude, Bustafellows flounders around with the criminal justice system AND mental health, and the truth of Madelyn's Official Bustafellows Kin-Assignment (thalassophobia) finally rears its head. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: As a general warning...

Today on Evaludate: Scarecrow is bullied by a cat (and by us), Teuta gets a moment in the spotlight doing Cool Shit, and video game friend-groups are so mean to each other for no reason. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Choking / Strangulation: 21:17 - 21:40 Gun Violence: 49:59 - 50:02

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn mercilessly bully a video game boy, Scarecrow doesn't know what a landlord is, and everyone has a lot to say about Scarecrow's fashion choices. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: While brief, this episode does involve the discussion of a fictional/hypothetical school shooting from the timestamps of 38:19 to 39:42. Please take care when li...

Today on Evaludate: We finally wrap up Helvetica's route, are increasingly shocked by Bustafellows' understanding of medical ethics, get incandescently angry at Helvetica's Side B story, and read some bad poetry. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Helvetica's route involves a lot of discussion of drug addiction and human trafficking throughout, please bear this in...

Today on Evaludate: Bustafellows continues to have some really shitty opinions about class, poverty, and crime, Helvetica's dad sucks and is a bad doctor, and Helvetica is still very naked in increasingly uncomfortable ways. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Helvetica's route involves a lot of discussion of drug addiction and human trafficking throughout, please bear this...

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn are tired of Helvetica's shit and also just tired, Helvetica has a lot to say about bootstraps, and pulling yourself up by them, and is also just. very naked, all the time. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Helvetica's route involves a lot of discussion of drug addiction and human trafficking throughout, please bear this in mind when lis...

Today on Evaludate: Air is on the floor, Madelyn is on the ceiling, and Helvetica is already on our last nerves. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Discussion of school shooting: 37:27 - 37:58 Discussion of child abuse: 37:27 - 37:58

Today on Evaludate: Bustafellows Makes It Weird, Air and Madelyn walk into a bad ending on purpose, and we endure the tonal whiplash of all time. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Knife violence: 2:59 - 3:35, 25:21 - 25:25, 26:10 - 26:20, 51:57 - 52:05 Gun violence: 26:21 - 26:29 Discussions of suicide / suicidal ideation: 7:03 - 7:52, 22:30 - 23:49 Kidnapping/abduction: 21:41 - 22:...

Today on Evaludate Air and Madelyn are forced to reconsider the answer to a previous audience question, realize this time around the game IS about grief, and enjoy the Interesting localization choices. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Gun violence: 30:22 - 30:48 , 49:38 - 50:29 ,  Discussion of misgendering: 31:34 - 33:25 Discussion of transmisogyny: 34:49 - 35:19 Discussion of Sui...

Today on Evaludate, Madelyn says Schrodinger when she means Chekov, Anime Hannibal assigns us a Bustafellows kin, and the game continues to view the police through incredibly rosy glasses. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Gun violence: 18:00 - 18:44, 24:54 - 26:16, 30:00 - 30:50, 33:06 - 34:03 Discussion of school shooting: 24:54 - 26:16 Discussion of child abuse: 24:54 - 28:54

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn spend a full hour discussing the first chapter of Bustafellows despite their best intentions, fawn over the protagonist for loving shitty beer, and lose their minds over The Car CG. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Gun Violence: 13:12 -13:23

Today on Evaludate: Why move the plot forward when you can do another flashback monologue? If you have to say technically it isn't grooming, that's not great. Neither Air nor Madelyn remember to say the line, but they do spend about an hour discussing how they would have fixed this game. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Mention/Discussion of pedophilia and grooming: 20:47...

Today on Evaludate, Misyr's lies collapse around him but it's only fun for like 10 minutes,  Otomate's racist writing rears its ugly head again, and Otomate are cowards afraid of letting you date Real monsters. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Mentions of / Discussions of anti-black and orientalist racism: 12:00 - 14:15 , 23:50 - 25:50, 28:11 - 30:23, 41: 52 - 42:30...

Today on Evaludate, Madelyn and Air discuss confirmation bias and feedback loops as they mourn the Secret Good Misyr Route in their heads, realize Rindo is even more pointless than initially thought because Misyr has Creepy Older Guy status on lock, and really, really, REALLY can't wait to play a new game. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Spoiler Warning: While we are discussing Misyr in the ne...

Today on Evaludate: Ascending the heavenly panopticon to fight pipe organ God; Diversity win! The angel murder basement-ing your love interest is gay!;  Heaven is unbearably cishet. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: While we cannot say whether or not Otomate wrote Il with the intention of him being read as neurodivergent, a lot of elements of his character, the way he interacts with...

Today on Evaludate, we once again encounter Otome Heroine Selective Gender Amnesia, gush over a particularly outstanding example of visual novel direction, and finally come face to face with the Epic Divorce Man, himself. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: While we cannot say whether or not Otomate wrote Il with the intention of him being read as neurodivergent, a lot of elements of h...

Today on Evaludate: Otomate no-homos found family,  Air and Madelyn wonder if Otomate is writing a neurodivergent character on purpose, and we are all very excited for the looming promise of Epic Divorce Man. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: While we cannot say whether or not Otomate wrote Il with the intention of him being read as neurodivergent, a lot of elements of his character,...

Today on Evaludate: What if you wanted to go to heaven, but God said, "You played Amnesia.", Air and Madelyn get to go on as many tangents as they want, for better or worse--and relate just so so much to their little pogchamp. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn say screw it and go for an hour and forty minutes so they don't have to talk about Rindo again, accidentally drop the name of a spoiler character 10 times, and really, REALLY wish we were dating this guy's much cooler sister instead. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: Because of the nature of the relationship explored in this episode--that...

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn discuss: Incredibly non-creepy ways to talk to teenagers, avoiding your podcast responsibilities by doing chores, Mr. Toei's Abandoned Warehouse, and, mostly, a boring middle-aged man with no redeeming factors. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn

Today on Evaludate. . . . . . . man. Air and Madelyn just do their best to trudge through the rest of Ignis' route, hate Dromi more than ever, love nameless supporting characters, and call bullshit on Demon Beast anatomy. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings:  Appropriation of indigenous cultures/use of indigenous stereotypes: This is something that is thematic of Ignis' route...

Today on Evaludate, join us as we once again lament how much it sucks to be Ignis, Air recounts their adventures in eating things that are not food, Madelyn compares otome tongue shinyness, and we both just have a terrible time with a character we love. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warnings: Cannibalism / Unwitting Cannibalism: While we do not get to the part of Ignis' route that co...

Today on Evaludate: Air and Madelyn jump into a  character they both really like! Whose route they both really hate .  They also try and fail to not talk about fairy gender again, discuss the Girl Boss Move of dodging child labor laws, and fail to disguise their contempt for the route villain before he is revealed as such. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: Emetophobia, unsanitary:  2...

Today on Evaludate, join us as Madelyn is a total hypocrite, Air keeps jumping several routes ahead, Cafe Enchante does not trust its players with just one point of view, and we finally wrap up our discussion of Canus.   Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: Discussions of cissexism and misgendering: 54:22 - 54:27 , 58:41- 58:54

Today on Evaludate, Air and Madelyn are stunned to realize just how much they underestimated the discussion time required for Canus' route, get very mad about gender for 10 minutes, and forget important world-building lore. Follow Us: Podcast Air Madelyn Content Warning: Discussions of cissexism and misgendering: 32:27 - 41:41