Listen, sometimes life gets you down. Especially when you think of all those wasted tears. That's why we bring you the Mope-Ped.

Nobody has ever used these things in a campaign, and I wouldn't believe you if you contradicted me.

Kris and Kole talk about opiates, justice, and excess.

ALSO: Improving your experience. A maker society. Toddler generals and existential fishing stories. Arrest my toddler. Solid gold toilet. Congressman Teddy Ruxpin eats his foot.

It's an also-ran on the level of Sparkster and Bubsy, an attempt to cash in on the mascot craze with the ugliest hero imaginable. It's Aero, the Acrobatic Bat.

You happen into a clearing and discover a small, pearlescent egg. This isn't an episode of Abject Suffering, but your world is about to change forever.

Links:

• Elemental, Air Kin (Monstrous Manual) — Three months after conception, the sylph lays a pearly egg in a special nest, and summons an air elemental to guard it.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and James Carter talk about Irithyll Dungeon and the Profaned Capital.

• Cane and Rinse

• Retrofit

• Big Red Potion

• Richard's Excellent Youtube Series

• Midnight Resistance

• Patrick Moore...omg

• Storm King

• Not mentioned in the show, but here's another take on Seig that Gary likes but disagrees with

• The post where Sean references Seig a lot

• Gary's essay on DS3 NPCs

• King Under the Mountain

This week, the Comrades explore two extremes: Factorio, which is a crunch crafting, optimization, and survival game... and Abzu, which is a serene exploration game with ThatGameCompany DNA.

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about Mad Max, the game judgin' algorithm, and we ask you why you play games.

• Algorithm might detect whether or not a game is good.

• Followup on Steam reviews.

• Valve delists game after developer subpoenas for player information.

• Berserk and the Band of the Hawk gets a release date.

• South Park delayed.

• Why do you play games?

• Ben: Mad Max. Rocket League Rumble.

• Jala: Steins;Gate.

• Jackbox 2. Obduction. Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice

If you kidnap a planar dummy, don't be surprised if he burns your life down.

Links:

• Elemental (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — Elemental creatures are composed of one of the four classical elementals of air, earth, fire, or water.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Starflight and Toe Jam & Earl.

• 1979 Revolution: Black Friday

• This is indistinguishable from actual dialogue in Juno

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