This week Marsh, Mecha-Tom, Nega-Tom and Chris assemble to assume the guise of death (again) in satisfying reaping sim, Deadbolt, brave LA in Grand Theft Auto V and dive into the manic recursive circles of Circa Infinity.

Also! More on director’s commentaries, alarming tales of bike-related accidents, musing on memes, and the social media phenomenon Marsh would love to see fired into space.

* You can download an alpha build of Deadbolt now from itch.io.

* Watch Tom’s adventures in Deadbolt in this video.

* The shy, sensitive flower that is Grand Theft Auto V.

* GTA V’s variety and attention to detail extends to the way it renders different bushes.

* In the heat of the moment Tom called Flying Lotus Lotus Flower for some reason. FlyLo wrote an entire album about LA.

* Circa Infinity is cool, now looking for upvotes on Greenlight.

* Exploit the very specific phobias of your enemies in Wildfire.

* Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut has great commentary, as does Portal 2, Left 4 Dead and the Half-Life 2 episodes.

* It feels like ages since we mentioned Spelunky. Spelunky, Spelunky, Spelunky!

* Look upon The Social Chain and weep.

The place to discuss this episode is the Episode Discussion forum. You can also listen to it on YouTube, because we have a channel there that also has Let’s Plays and stuff sometimes.

If you have a question for a future podcast, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also leave questions for us on the forum or tweet us @crateandcrowbar.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.