The Love and Deepspace fandom woke up to chaos — Infold officially cancelled Valko's launch 9 days before release, and they actually apologized. Nikki Tea (20-year gaming industry vet, currently 6 days post-surgery and running on fumes) and Mama Void (your emotional damage correspondent) go LIVE to process the news in real time as a live Episode Recording!

Why did Infold pull the plug? Was this the right call or corporate damage control? And what does cancelling a character mid-launch mean for the future of LADS?

⏱️ Timestamps

0:00 — Pre-show chaos & Nikki's post-surgery intro

9:10 — Episode 26 begins: "Welcome to this very special episode"

15:00 — Mama Void intro & Discord Big Feelings channel

20:30 — The Valko timeline: June 22 teaser → June 28 showcase → June 30 cancellation

25:00 — Mama on fandom toxicity, death threats, and dehumanizing the dev team

28:00 — Nikki on games industry layoffs & the human cost of cancellation

35:50 — Protests at Paper Games offices: funeral wreaths, curse banners, heightened security

37:50 — The money breakdown: China = 60% of revenue, $453.8M of a $750M game

39:50 — Why a Chinese boycott is existential for Infold

41:00 — State media coverage, legal escalation ladders & the King of Dark Knight precedent

44:00 — The 30-wish appeasement package decoded: retention math dressed as compensation

46:10 — Mama's PSA: check your sources, avoid racism, theory-crafting vs conspiracy

52:05 — Can they release Valko globally but not in China? Regional builds explained

56:00 — "I am available for hire, Infold" — Nikki's global PR crisis management pitch

58:30 — Nikki's personal history with the LADS dev team & why she started playing

1:02:00 — 1 million followers lost in China in 24 hours

1:03:40 — Does the global voice matter? The marketing answer vs the player answer

1:06:50 — AAA game economics: billion-dollar cost, $10 margin on a $60 game

1:08:50 — Angel's email template & how to make your voice heard effectively

1:16:40 — "We will never have another love interest again" — Mama breaks down the panic in that letter

1:19:50 — Shareholder power: who really forced Infold's hand

1:23:50 — The permanent base deck disparity: Sylus/Caleb vs the OG3

1:27:20 — Was Valko going to be the start of a "new three" vs the OG three?

1:30:30 — Lore implications: who absorbs Valko's plot points?

1:37:00 — NPC, future game, Battle Bad Suit Everman — all the options on the table

1:45:30 — Closing thoughts: keep doing what you love, play the games you love

1:48:00 — Outro & Mama's "geometry of Caleb's ass" promise

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Valko just dropped out of nowhere and the Love and Deepspace community is in absolute shambles. We're breaking down everything — the Super Moon watching event that left us spiritually bereft, the marketing strategy behind this reveal, and why the real villain here might be the drip marketing schedule, not the new boy.

Nikki Tea dusts off her brand management credentials and climbs onto the soapbox to explain why this launch might have been rushed by leaks, competitor pressure from Silent Whispers, and the chaotic attention economy of gacha games. Mama Void falls down the Valko simp pipeline in real time, nicknames him "Wolf Daddy," and starts hoarding diamonds. We also get into Blue Ocean strategy, white space marketing, and why corporate buzzwords are the real emotional damage.

Then things go completely off the rails. Combat predictions for Valko? Hand-to-hand brawling. Jiggle physics. Nipple weapons. We said what we said.

Plus: Abyssal Walker's leather situation in the desert, the CIA apparently wants Nikki, merch ideas nobody asked for, and a very important PSA about treating game devs like actual human beings.

If you're wondering whether Valko was designed to capture Western audiences, whether this reveal was botched on purpose, and whether ice beam nipples are a viable combat kit — this is your episode.

Chapters:

0:00 — It’s as Hot as Abyssal Walker's Desert Leather 

2:54 — We're on Apple Podcasts Now (Go Subscribe) 

3:24 — Card Check: Mr. Darcy, Sylus, Caleb & Emotional Damage Roundup 

5:19 — Nikki's Very Normal CIA Anecdote 

13:34 — ENTER VALKO: The New Love Interest Everyone's Losing It Over 

14:47 — Valko's Stats, Metalization Ability & Mama Void's Simp Origin 

18:57 — Does Valko Pass the "Morally Ambiguous" Test? 

22:41 — Hair Critique, Diamond Hoarding & Wolf Daddy Nickname Acquired 

24:30 — The Super Moon Watching Event Was... Not It 

28:58 — NIKKI'S MARKETING SOAPBOX: Drip Marketing, Leaks & Silent Whispers 

35:39 — Community Frustration Is Misdirected at Valko (He Didn't Choose This) 

37:17 — Dev Timelines, Game Research & the Gacha Attention Economy 

42:08 — Is Valko Built for Western Audiences? 

44:04 — White Space and Blue Ocean Strategy Explained in Small Words (and it sucks) 

50:53 — Silent Whispers as Competitor & Why Competition Is Actually Good 

54:09 — Valko's Future: Banner Anxiety & the Precise Wish System Dream 

1:00:25 — Passion, Constructive Feedback & Why Data Talks Louder Than Rage 

1:04:14 — Combat Predictions: Hand-to-Hand, Jiggle Physics & Sylus Gladiator Myth?

1:07:23 — Nipple Piercings as Weapons: The Ice Beam Hypothesis 

1:10:01 — The Unhinged Sign-Off

Music provided by Chillhop Music

Shin-Ski - In Your Arms

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Nikki Tea and Mama Void are back with a packed episode covering every new outfit, event, and Promise card — but the real moment is Nikki's full breakdown of the win-back promotion strategy targeting lapsed players. Mama Void issues a formal apology for manifesting Sad Caleb, and somehow Jane Austen, Casablanca, and flower-crown Dionysus all make the agenda.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Red dots, aggressive UI, and an apology Stacy from marketing

03:26 — Film production event breakdown: "Between Scenes, Not Sheets"

06:08 — New outfits: Combat Medic Zayne, Sheathed MC, Unspoken Lens hat

09:10 — Xavier's British accent: surprise or inevitable?

14:32 — Mr. Darcy Zayne deep dive: the nervous gesture, the Colin Firth pond energy

16:39 — Titanic Rafayel: Gilded Age energy and generational trauma

19:14 — Casablanca Sylus: the eternally closed trench coat tragedy

20:45 — Caleb's boring outfit and the French ghost film connection

25:33 — Pride, Prejudice, and Wanderers: Jane Austen meets Wanderer apocalypse

28:00 — Promise Cards: Yearning for Your Voice Zayne & Beach Body Xavier (thigh watch begins)

34:15 — Gift of Plenty flower crowns: who wore it best?

40:21 — Sports outfits: street-ball Xavier, reluctant cardio Zayne, "fellow youths" Sylus

43:42 — Quality of life update: bulk stamina spending finally arrives

46:00 — 🎯 Win-back promotion deep dive: how gacha games deploy 30-day exile and bigger bait to re-capture churned players

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Caleb's birthday event is here and we have THOUGHTS. 🍎✈️Mama Void recounts her dramatic gacha pull saga (spoiler: Caleb said "not today"...to himself?) while Nikki Tea's Game Dev Battle Girlie persona breaks down why Love and Deepspace's new player onboarding is designed to make you accidentally spend money. We also cover: why Caleb is the ultimate passenger princess, Gideon's MVP wingman energy, and which outfits absolutely should have been in this event but tragically were not.Plus: Nikki delivers an impromptu eulogy for E3 and Mama Void questions whether her bestie's driving counts as a combat sport.⏱️ Chapters00:00 Introduction to Spoopy Vocabulary01:07 Celebrating Caleb's Birthday09:13 Gideon, Best Wingman13:49 What do the Boys Drive?17:45 Cost of a Happy Memory?22:31 The Fashion World of LADS25:13 What Jane Austen does Caleb Read, really?28:23 Sylus would own Rafayel's Art31:51 Wrapping Up Caleb's Bday Event35:13 A Kitty Interlude: Henry, the Void Cat38:38 Back to Caleb's Outfit...42:19 LADS Onboarding Experience: Purposely Confusing to Spend Monies56:02 The "Big Spoopy Update" woooooo01:00:38 The Real Question...01:06:21 10 Days with You + Brocco Bird01:09:01 Unhinged Signoff🍎 Love Caleb? Hate level locking? Tell us in the comments — and subscribe so you don't miss a single chaotic episode.Music provided by Chillhop MusicShin-Ski - In Your Armshttps://chll.to/299a28b3

This week we're assigning Pokémon types and evolutions to the LADS boys, and the results are unhinged. Is Rafayel a fire-type who "doesn't even need a reason to kill you with fire"? Is Sylus just a legendary who punches things in the face? We have opinions.

Then Nikki Tea puts on her Game Dev Battle Girlie hat and breaks down why Japan's LADS revenue is surging while downloads drop; the economics of gacha spending in a recession are weirder than you think. Plus: the "June 4th lockdown" in Chinese gaming. What it is, why social features get shut down every year, and how it affects global servers. If you've ever wondered why your profile randomly breaks in a gacha game around early June… this is the episode for you.

Also covered: the evolution of the boys' voice acting from first-kiss cards to now, why cloth simulation and soft engine physics make LADS look better than its competitors, and a brief but deeply scientific detour into why romance novel anatomy makes zero sense. (We cite Planned Parenthood. It's that kind of episode.)

⏱️ Timestamps: 

0:00 Sylus's ratio. We start here. 

3:03 Pokémon typing the LADS boys 

10:09 "I choose you, Relentless Conqueror" 

14:43 Reading habits exposed!! 

18:37 The Planned Parenthood citation incident 

25:54 First kiss cards with Entwined Shadows & voice acting evolution 

30:14 Tangent: One Time with Paul Bettany

38:01 Rafayel's best look (naked in body paint, obviously) 

41:55 Soft engines, cloth physics & why LADS looks so good 

46:35 LADS revenue deep dive: Japan's spending explosion and the May 2026 Gacha Revenue Numbers

55:51 Why game companies avoid holiday releases 

1:05:52 The June 4th lockdown explained

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Sylus: Kitten Included finally dropped and somehow Infold looked directly into the fanfic archives and said yes, all of it. In this episode, Mama Void spirals into full kitten-mittens chaos while Nikki somehow also delivers a legitimate academic lecture on butt physics. Yes, with citations. Because that's who we are.

This week we're breaking down:

• 🐱 Sylus: Kitten Included: the Billionaire Boyfriend trope, the kindled scene, the Cat Caretaker callback
• 🍑 Jiggle physics, explained, no really, from a dev perspective: secondary animation, Verlet Integration, bone-spring rigging, and why butt physics is harder to animate than breast physics (Team Ninja said it, not Nikki!)
• 🎮 Does working in game dev ruin games? Nikki Tea cannot look at denim the same way
• 🏆 The “Soft Engine” Rankings: Mama Void ran the experiments. She has the data.🩺 Breast density, explained: not just for jiggle physics! All four levels per the American College of Radiology. PSA: check your boobs, y’all.
• 😼 Sylus has chicken legs with a small ass and Nikki Tea will die on this hill.Someone worked hard for that cat to jiggle Sylus’s butt. We celebrate them here.

Chapters:

• 00:00 The Gauntlet has Been Thrown
• 07:56 Kitten Included Review and Reaction
• 30:21 The Important Conversation: Jiggle Physics from a Dev Perspective
• 51:53 The Hypothesis of the Jiggly Butt aka The Soft Engine Ranking
• 55:32 Health Awareness: The Importance of Breast Density

Additional Sources and Reading for Fun:

Secondary Animation. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_animation

What are Jiggle Physics, and How Do I Set Them Up in Godot? Codernunk: https://codernunk.com/tutorials/godot-jiggle-physics/Software: Breast Physics.

Handwiki: https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:Breast_physicsGames with Butt Jiggle Physics.

Backloggd: https://backloggd.com/u/PlamzDooM/list/games-with-butt-jiggle-physics/Butt Jiggle, Concept.

Giantbomb: https://giantbomb.com/wiki/Concepts/Butt_Jiggle

Dead or Alive Xtreme PC will downgrade boob physics on low-end hardware.

PCGamesN: https://www.pcgamesn.com/dead-or-alive-xtreme-venus-vacation-pc-specs

Jiggle Physics. TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JigglePhysics

The new 5-star Sylus solo card "Kitten Included" drops May 22nd — and somehow Infold looked directly into the fanfic archives and said yes, all of it. In this episode, Nikki Tea and Mama Void spiral into full kitten-mittens hysteria while somehow also doing real analysis about the…death of the solo banner? Caleb Promise Angst! Game Economics?!. Because that's who we are.

This week we're breaking down:

• 🐱 Sylus "Kitten Included" — what's in the banner, the Meow Meowpark kitty cafe, and yes, you also become a kitten

• 💸 Solo vs. multi-banner vs. rerun vs. myth — what each banner type actually means for your wallet and your FOMO

• 📉 Cumulative wish reward changes — are we getting less? We did the math so you don't have to (sorta).

• 💔 Caleb's promise card decoded — Nikki Tea goes full game dev analyst, Mama Void builds a house of angst

• 🎨 Rafayel's promise card — the graffiti era, the chaotic energy, and the moment he said “homie”

• 🐾 Catleb predictions — when is the cat boy Caleb card dropping and are we manifesting it right now? Join us for a group manifestation exercise.

Whether you're a whale, an orca, or a broke fish trying to budget your deep space wishes — this one's for you.

Chapters:

00:00 OMG We're a Cat in Sylus: Kitten Included

11:38 Cumulative Wish Rewards and Game Mechanics

26:03 Fewer Solo Banners? A theory on the Games Economic Shift

44:42 The Infold IRL AU?

46:24 Caleb and Raf's Promise Cards - Are they Angsty?

01:00:06 Unhinged Sign-Off and Final Thoughts

Rafayel ripped Mama's heart out before we even hit record. Episode 19 is here, and we are not okay — but we showed up anyway, and we brought chaos.

We kick things off mid-trauma as Mama Void recovers from a Rafayel story event that had her crying before the podcast even started. Sylus gets called in for emotional support. Henry attacks the microphone. It's fine. Everything's fine.

Then we get into the cards and we have OPINIONS. Caleb's Lingering Lust gets a full breakdown including: apple basket logistics, chain kink confirmation, the Ghost pottery wheel scene but make it a mechanical arm, and what is now officially called his G-spot. Mama also recounts the floating island Garden of Eden arc, a lonely little robot, a vine that is definitely a metaphor, and the moment Caleb punched his V card. It's plot. It's accurate. It makes sense. 

Then Zayne shows up with a pool cue and Nikki Tea accidentally confesses to an entire era of her life. Chalk, lacquer, small towns, debate team, Renaissance art. We will not be elaborating. The internet lives forever.

We also cover the King of Darknight rerun — is it worth your pulls post-Lingering Lust bankruptcy? Nikki breaks down R1 vs R2 vs R3, battle resource management explained live with a confused Mama as the test subject, and why Lumiere is actually her spirit companion. Plus the full Daddy taxonomy: Star Daddy, Snow Daddy, Shadow Daddy, Ocean Daddy, and the simultaneous jinx that gave us Apple Daddy.

We close with EDS Awareness Month, because we contain multitudes, and Mama's outro is somehow the most coherent thing said in the entire episode.

This is Love and Chickspace — where the analysis is real, the chaos is mandatory, and someone should have chalked their cue.

Chapters

00:00 Heartbreak and Humor

04:59 Caleb's Apple Bottom in Lingering Lust

25:19 Lingering Lust Final Thoughts and Delights

28:22 Exclusive Tutorial & Pool Cue Fun

39:22 King of Darknight Rerun and Xavier Companions Overview

45:47 KOD and Understanding Battle Resource Management

51:57 Lumiere vs KOD

55:54 The Unhinged Signoff

The boys hit the hot springs and we absolutely lost our minds. Episode 18 is here, y’all, and we have data, drama, and towel physics discourse.We also get into the Hot Springs event — Zayne, Sylus, and Caleb are out here making choices, and we have opinions about all of them. MANY opinions about them, and their little towels too… The Zayne Exclusive Tutorial event drops May 8-15 and we are braced for impact while NIkki learns she may have a…vibe…for certain cards. Exclusive Tutorial, No Defense Zone…She needed spreadsheets to recover from that revelation, so the April revenue report and Love and Deepspace pulled $40.7 million... and still fell to third place. We break down what happened, who's winning (Honkai Star Rail had an anniversary and it shows), and what the spending trends actually mean for the future of our favorite gacha boys. Plus: iOS vs Android revenue gaps, Chinese market dips, and why December is still the GOAT month. Then things get serious: YouTube is coming for Love and Deepspace content, and Nikki Tea breaks down exactly why she thinks it's trolls triggering automated takedowns — not Papergames. We also get into the age rating conversation: is a “PG-13 rating” (as Mama calls it) actually appropriate for this game anymore? We have thoughts.Plus: Mama Void recounts her hard pity trauma (13 cards, 740 pulls, zero chill), Nikki Tea survives 140 wishes with two cards and her dignity mostly intact, and we celebrate hitting 500 subscribers with the unhinged energy you would expect from us.This is Love and Chickspace — where the analysis is real and the chaos is mandatory.Chapters00:00 Welcome to a Live Recording!03:01 Navigating YouTube's Censorship and Content Creation Challenges10:09 Exclusive Tutorials and Upcoming Events14:27 Understanding Gacha Mechanics and Pity Systems22:15 Sylus and Zayne's Lingering Lust Cards Review33:04 Towel Clothing Logistics47:12 April 2026 Gacha Revenue53:39 Game Ratings and Content Appropriateness01:01:47 Unhinged Sign Off ;)

Hooooly Cupcakes…Lingering Lust is here and the towels are smaller than ever.

This week, Nikki Tea and Mama Void break down every outfit on the new banner– from Zayne's suspiciously tiny towel (and his lifelong obsession with neckwear, finally abandoned) to Caleb's mesh belt that can only be described as an “apple bottom protector.” Sylus brings a magical hoop chain and questionable towel logistics. Rafayel is serving full body-chain fashion. Xavier is also there between MC’s legs…again. We have thoughts.

Nikki also has her marketing professional theory on how the stick figure marketing came to be. Shout out to Stacy, wherever you are girl.

Then we pivot to the next Promise Event featuring Caleb: Spotlight Gaze and Rafayel: True Heart Flip. Mama walks you through her exact pulling strategy, protocore count trauma, and why her personal banner ranking is absolutely correct (Sylus stans, come fight her).

Nikki Tea closes with a real talk segment on Mental Health Awareness Month, why it matters in the gaming community, and how sometimes the healthiest choice is pixelated men.

New here? We are two besties who have been arguing about games for 25+ years. One of us is a 20-year industry veteran who breaks gacha monetization like a job. The other one chases emotional damage and thirsts over pixelated boyfriends with scientific precision. 

Full episodes every Thursday.

Chapters

00:00 Mama's in trouble

05:40 The Unhinged Story of these Hot Springs Cards

14:20 Lingering Lust Marketing

17:19 Lingering Lust Banner Overview and Tips

29:36 Raf and Caleb Promise Coming

34:36 Zayne's got a neck thing

44:18 Rafayel Always Looks Fabulous

46:19 A Final Fantasy Interlude?

50:54 Nikki and Rafayel Judge People Together

54:18 A Harem Girlie's Advice for a Multibanner

56:39 Legit: Mental Health Awareness Month