Brian returns from being sick. He is, however, sick of his dad's crap. (The shed is explained.) Tegan and Rocky accuse Brian of gatekeeping a blue hedgehog. He calls them out on the malarky. You might want to unbuckle your pants for Kickstarter's next big hit and you can leave them unbuckled for Call of Duty. The crew salutes Solitaire before colliding with a bat to destroy the bat.

Join us gentle listeners as Rocky and Tegan throw the purple bad man with the oven mitt into the mountain of doom in order to restore the power of anime and friendship. Rocky also does a Fortnite and a Fortnite Taco Shop while doing an Apex Legends on YouTube! (Lean in real close nerds. I was sick last weekend and have been busy all week. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS IN THIS EPISODE. Let's pretend that stuff I said was right and find out together. Can you ever forgive me podcast children?)

This show has everything you expect from a video game podcast. We deep-dive the romantic comedy genre and identify those responsible for the rom-com crash (Kate Hudson and Dane Cook). We discuss the phenomenon of shipping real people (including ourselves). Rocky reveals a conspiracy theory to Brian which he doesn't have the strength for. Tegan doesn't have the strength for much. By trying to show us they're good Sony may have proven they're bad. Video games y'all.

Come with me into the ketchup filled ball pit as the crew savors the new Star Wars trailer. Video game companies are still very bad. Labo VR is for more than looking up a chicken's butt. I guess the FTC is putting on LootBoxCon 2019. Can't wait to see the cosplay contest. Hopefully someone wears a copper banana hammock.

Gather round friends! You are invited to the cookout. It's a different kind of cookout. It's one earned by defeating the Aztec Deadmaus with the best grandma ever. Rocky, Tegan and Brian present a cautionary tale of ever pretending to be somebody's boyfriend.

First off, we're not sponsored by The Cubicle Company. If we are they need to stop paying us in beached Garfield phones. We talk about old and incomplete freeways, game industry layoffs, Apple Arcade, the odious people of Philly and a bathroom crime scene. This is a video game podcast. Really.

Baba Is You is a very hard video game. Tegan is uninterested in it. There is some question as to whether Bob Ross is alive or dead. Rocky tries to convince Brian that collecting Noodleberries is fun. Rocky does not persuade Brian. Google tries to convince us that streaming video games is fun. Google has yet to persuade the gang. Necrodancer and Zelda had a baby and the gang is peak excited. Pour yourself a glass of bull milk. It's time for video games.

Big Sach stops by for the mix-up! Fools, WE LEAVE YOU GUESSIN'! The team speculates about Google's gaming plans. Tegan tells about Labo VR. Brian worries that too many of the toys in Labo VR could be used to build Human Labo-pede. There's talk about a bird's butt. Brian legally owns the sex cats. Dwarf Fortress made us sad and Discord is classing up the joint.

Brian got stuck in an elevator AND ALMOST DIED. The nightmare idea of a "quality gamer rum" is invoked. His name isn't Fox McCloud anymore but you can smoke drugs with him and layoffs layoffs layoffs. In a world where Valve disappoints and The Pokemon Company delights this can only be a cast iron podded cast.

Friends it is time for another watchalong! This time the crew revisits a personal favorite for every host, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. We all still love it and lots of the characters are great but we definitely have to reckon with Scott himself being kind of awful. Come along for a watchalong that is indirectly gaming related!