It's a TEENAGE DIRTBAGS SPECIAL REPORT! Time to end our contract with Christian Slater. We don't mind stealing bread, and hopefully you don't mind listening to this episode.

And a bonus 8-bit version

Alive and dead at the same time, Jake Chambers finds comfort.

This week, Kole is joined by Jeremy Greer and Paddy Smith to talk about "Key and Rose", the chapter that looks at Jake's fate after the events of The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three. He's an ordinary boy living his life in Manhattan in 1977, but he's also a living paradox. Driven insane by the memories of events that never were, he leaves school to find a very, very important abandoned lot.

When I'm old and crazy, shove me in a pommel.

Let's attend to the question of Kole's sandwich paradox.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mai Sinclair whirl through the broad strokes of Nioh.

This is a very cursory glance at a very huge and complicated game. We extend a great deal of thanks to Mai for letting us borrow her expertise!

Links:

• Funzo - YouTube

• Atlus USA Trailer: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness - YouTube

• Thomas Derrick - Wikipedia

Nick and Brayton blast off with FTL and get mysterious with Able Black.

Somehow these are way cooler than they have any right to be?

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about the Far Cry 5 announcement, Hollow Knight, and we ask you if you buy Early Access games.

• Red Dead Redemption 2 delayed.

• Far Cry 5 takes place in Montana.

• Lone Echo has a cool looking VR mode.

• Porn star answers question about Warframe.

• What’s your relationship with Early Access games?

• David: Warframe. Hollow Knight.

• Ben: Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.

• Dennis: Heroes of the Storm. Uncharted 4.

• Kole: Theatrhythm: Curtain Call.

Live from the Midwest Gaming Classic, Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about Nintendo's little-loved Pilotwings series.

Afterwards, we talk about our experience at the convention.

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Warner Bros. signed R.E.M. at the height of their popularity as an alternative rock band. Imagine their surprise when the R.E.M. they got sounded nothing like the R.E.M. that released Document just a couple of years earlier. Peter, Mike, Michael, and Bill had decided to swap instruments around. Peter picked up the mandolin, and a few folk ballads made their way into the mix. Given all of this upheaval, it's surprising that Green is one of the most solid R.E.M. albums, front to back.

Links:

• (2) Title - R.E.M. Bootleg - YouTube

• (2) REM - Title? (1987) - YouTube

• R.E.M. - Great Big (Instrumental) (Green Demo Outtake) - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Green Demos Pop song 89 - YouTube

• R.E.M Stand (demo) - YouTube

• REM- You Are the Everything(Demo) - YouTube

• REM- Get Up(Demo) - YouTube

• REM - Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - YouTube

• R.E.M. - See No Evil - YouTube

• REM - Funtime - YouTube

• R.E.M. - Pop Song 89' (Acoustic Version) - YouTube

• (2) REM MEMPHIS TRAIN BLUES (the lost b-side to STAND) - YouTube

• Skin Tight (Live From Orlando, FL / 4/30/1989) - YouTube

• REM - Ghost Rider - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Dark Globe - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - "Deck The Halls" - YouTube

• (2) R.e.M. I walked with a zombie - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Orange Crush (Official Music Video) - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Get Up (Official Music Video) [Pop Screen Video Version] - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Stand (Official Music Video) - YouTube

• (2) R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 (Official Music Video) [Pop Screen Video Version] - YouTube