🎉 “WELCOME BACK TO CAMPING THEM SOFTLY, THE ONLY DEAD BY DAYLIGHT PODCAST THAT CHECKS ITS ANALYTICS AND SAYS ‘NAH, LET’S MAKE IT LONGER AND LOUDER.’” 🎉

Episode 76 opens with Toxic trying to be a responsible content adult: shorter episodes, better retention, appease the algorithm gods. Within 60 seconds he’s smashing wrestling soundboard clips, forgetting what he was saying, and accidentally proving why the show always bleeds listeners after an hour. Perfect start.

Nicky “Noodle Arms” A.I. Dente rolls in arguing with Victor about whether pumpkin spice belongs in gravy (it doesn’t), while Toxic launches into a rant about American biscuits, white gravy, and why his entire extended family is spiritually 700 pounds. From there we slide straight into the new format angst: Nicky’s furious about trimming runtime, promising to “condense his genius into intellectual McNuggets” while Toxic questions when any adult with dignity last ate a McNugget.

Then we get status updates from Nicky’s life:

dodging subpoenas, tweaking his red sauce recipe with a pinch of spite, and filing yet another complaint with BHVR because Vecna allegedly has more cosmetics than The Twins. Anti-Italian discrimination, Mercury retrograde over Little Italy, the whole thing.

Toxic announces the Arc Raiders rat podcast is officially happening – a dedicated show for extraction rats, betrayal enthusiasts, and people who understand that “pretend to be friendly then shoot them in the back” is a valid lifestyle. At the same time, he’s reading X posts about a proposed Arc Raiders faction called “Civilians of Sparanza” – non-PVP medics who want to exist in a war zone without getting shot – plus topside sheriffs who want to enforce good vibes. It’s like DbD survivors demanding killers not touch them, but in space.

Then it’s time for TOXIC FUCKING NEWS – full 80s Rocky-style rock sting and all – as they break down the Dead by Daylight 9.3 community stream:

• BHVR is walking back the tunneling and slugging changes
• Camping reduction is still going live, but the resolve radius is dropped back to 16 meters
• Survivors can now see each other’s resolve bars from anywhere, meaning solo queue can tell if the killer is near hook and just stay on gens
• Tunneling/slugging system “did not meet the desired positive impact” (no shit)
• Survivors still get buffed with 15 seconds of basekit endurance and haste off hook, even while BHVR claims they heard the feedback

Nicky calls it training wheels on a horror game, compares it to trying to “unburn marinara by adding more tomatoes,” and points out that killers got threatened, then half-placated, then survivors still walked away with more power. Toxic calls it death by a thousand cuts, nine years of slow killer bleed-out, and admits he’s exhausted but still too addicted to quit.

We boomerang back to Arc Raiders and the “civilians” nonsense, which gives Nicky one of his all-time best lines: in an extraction shooter you’re either loot or a looter. There’s no Switzerland, no neutrality, no “please don’t kill me, I’m a medic.” If you log into a war zone and demand special protection, you’re volunteering as content.

Then comes the moment that might actually end up on merch:

Toxic reads a tweet from @LunarGirlX screaming:

“EMBRACE TUNNELING. Survivors are going to be assholes no matter how kind you play. HOT GIRLS TUNNEL. Go into the Fog today and tunnel at 5 gens.”

Nicky immediately adopts her as his new patron saint. We get a full sermon on how survivors will teabag you no matter how nice you are, why tunneling is self-care, and how “Hot Girls Tunnel” needs to be embroidered on a pillow so Victor can use it as a tiny body pillow in his lazy boy recliner. Which spirals into a whole fake merch line: “Slug ‘em if you got ‘em,” “Tunnel like you mean it,” “Tunneling is self care.”

Then it’s time for Where the Fuck Are the Viewers From? – this week in Jönköping, Sweden – complete with Fake Earl Grey pronouncing it and explaining it’s a chill lakeside town that Nicky would immediately convert into a SABAM conspiracy zone.

Naturally, Nicky has a Jönköping incident:

2019 food expo, portable sauce station, Victor in a little chef hat. A Swedish critic says his marinara tastes “too aggressive.” Victor meatball-missiles the guy in the face, triggers the sprinklers, floods the hall, and sends the sauce stand floating into the IKEA showroom next door. Black vans show up, confiscate 40 gallons of “biohazard” sauce, and soon a Stockholm restaurant opens with mysteriously familiar “Italian-Swedish fusion” marinara. Nicky insists the Swedish government stole his sauce and claims he had to flee the country hidden in a Billy bookshelf.

This leads straight into a full-on IKEA horse meatball rant: Nicky calls them horseballs, glue spears, and accuses IKEA of using his sacred sauce to cover up Mr. Ed in a meatball. Victor now refuses to even drive past an IKEA, and instead buys all his mini furniture from a shady Italian upholsterer behind a cannoli shop. He’s got a tiny custom red leather lazy boy with a built-in grappa shot-glass holder and enough rage to stab a “Hot Girls Tunnel” pillow out of principle.

Finally, Toxic demands an outro genre, not another whole song. Nicky surveys the chaos – DBD 9.3 walkback, Arc Raiders PVE delusion, Swedish sauce conspiracy, IKEA horseballs, Victor’s lazy boy and body pillow – and declares the only answer is late 70s / early 80s British punk: raw, anti-establishment, short, punchy, perfect for algorithm-friendly runtime and flipping off BHVR, Arc Raiders civilians, and Swedish sauce thieves in one go.

Episode 76: still unhinged, still killer-main-brained, now with extra horseballs.

NICKY’S BODY COUNT – EPISODE 76

Tally:

• 1 failed attempt at a “shorter” episode
• 4 wrestling soundboard clips deployed before the intro settles
• 3 hours of off-screen arguing about pumpkin spice gravy
• 700 metaphorical family pounds blamed on biscuits and white gravy
• 1 new Arc Raiders rat podcast announced
• 2 fake factions roasted: Civilians of Sparanza and Topside Sheriff
• 1 killer-main meltdown about resolve bars and global hook info
• 2 full rounds of tunneling/slugging design walked back by BHVR
• 15 seconds of basekit endurance and haste reluctantly accepted under protest
• 1 perfect extraction-shooter line coined: “You’re either loot or a looter.”
• 1 tweet of pure wisdom crowned canon: “Hot girls tunnel.”
• 3 new killer-main slogans invented for merch (minimum)
• 1 tiny Victor lazy boy recliner with a grappa slot
• 40 gallons of alleged Swedish-stolen Dente sauce, still missing in action
• 1 Jönköping food expo flooded, 1 IKEA showroom invaded by meatballs
• Infinite resentment toward IKEA horseballs

Fu Categories (no details, just carnage):

• 9.3 Walkback Whiplash Fu
• Basekit Endurance Bullshit Fu
• Camping Reduction Resolve Bar Fu
• Arc Raiders PVE Civilian Fu
• Topside Sheriff Delusion Fu
• Hot Girls Tunnel Pillow Fu
• Jönköping Sauce Heist Fu
• Swedish Horseball Conspiracy Fu
• Victor Lazy Boy and Grappa Fu
• British Punk Outro Algorithm Fu

(00:00:00) Shorter Episode, Same Chaos

(00:05:00) Pumpkin Spice Gravy and McNugget Genius

(00:15:00) Arc Raiders Rats and Civilians of Sparanza

(00:30:00) DBD 9.3 Walkback and Killer Rage

(00:47:00) Hot Girls Tunnel and Killer Merch

(01:00:00) Jönköping Sauce Heist and Ikea Horseballs

(01:15:00) British Punk Outro and Wrap-Up