Just goes to show you: The angle is everything.

Links:

• Crustacean, Giant (Monstrous Manual) — Giant crustaceans are peculiar mutations of crabs and freshwater crayfish. The first inhabits saltwater regions, while the latter is found only in fresh water.

Cave Man Boy is back, and he's going to have his say, god damn it.

Links:

• Crocodile (Monstrous Manual) — The crocodile is a large, dangerous predatory reptile native to tropical and subtropical climes. It spends most of its time submerged in swamps, rivers, or other large bodies of water.

It's our most upsetting episode opening to date!

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Bob Mackey talk about the first portion of Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, up through Pontiff Sulyvahn.

We're full bore on spoilers now. Listen at your own risk.

• Retronauts

• La Maluna

• Bob's Tweet

• Dennis Dyack isn't best

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about the tiny little NES, INSIDE, and we ask you what's most important in games: Gameplay, Narrative, or Atmosphere.

INSIDE spoiler chat begins at 1 hour, 30 minutes, and proceeds to the end of the episode.

• GameStop's "Song of the Deep" released, reviewed.

• Games that make you think of sex.

• No Man's Sky delayed on PC, but won't require PS+ on PS4.

• Tiny little NES is coming.

• What's most important to you: Gameplay, Narrative, or Atmosphere?

• Jala: Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 6. Virtue's Last Reward.

• Ben: Her Story. Kentucky Route Zero. INSIDE.

• Kole: Final Fantasy Record Keeper. INSIDE.

• Stephen's Song of the Deep review

• 5 Games That Will Make You Think About Sex

Animated, disembodied hands aren't as cool as you'd think!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross groove to Elite Beat Agents and Rhythm Heaven.

This summer, we decided to let our listeners decide which rhythm games we should play. The resounding winners were to non-peripheral Nintendo DS rhythm games that couldn't be any more different. Elite Beat Agents is soaking in charm, but we find a lot of problems with it mechanically and musically. Meanwhile, Rhythm Heaven is drenched in charm, and manages to be in the upper echelon of games we've played for the show.

• [Teenage Dirtbags Lit](duckfeed.tv/tdb/my-own-worst-enemy-by-lit)

• [Mega64 EBA](www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXZGzhsS-5I)

• [Nick Fury Enemies](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpio_(comics))

• [Joey Chestnut](www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0E8ImL4aXY)

• [Diarrhea Planet](www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsZzeLlXTQ)

• [EBA all 4 difficulties at once](www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POsLGnIr…L0008802F0A1600FD)

• [Don Hertzfeldt](www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7sxPLhOQk)

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What's more Summery than a nice bike ride? But you gotta ride safe, we're begging you please.

The Monstrous Manual takes a left turn... Instead of making the Crabmen another orc stand-in, they've created a morally nuanced ethical test. A very tasty ethical test.

Links:

• Crabman (Monstrous Manual) — Crabmen live as simple hunter-gatherers, subsisting primarily on carrion and algae.

This entry on the Couatl was written by a Couatl.

Links:

• Couatl (Monstrous Manual) — The couatl are feathered serpents of myth and lore. It is believed that they are distant relatives of dragons, although this remains unproven.