In which we probably get cancelled by both the right and the left for the first five minutes.

Wherein we get to the meat of our problems with Squid Game seasons 2 and 3. And they're pretty meaty.

Josh and Kris finally talk about Squid Game, and talked about it so much they had to split it into two episodes.

In which we put characters from beloved children's stories into stories that uh... Aren't so child-friendly...

Wherein we talk about gritty reboots more and better!

We talk about rebooting and adapting some of our favorite intellectual properties as gritty HBO series.

Josh thinks Buffy is bad. This starts us down a rabbit hole about the Chosen One trope and how that applies to both media and RPGs.

We take some traditional folklore and randomize a descriptor to see what ideas we can come up with. Gross selkies, Baba Yaga but queer-coded, cutesy chupacabras and the like.

Sometimes this shit gets away from us, man. I don't know what to tell you. We had an idea for what to talk about and then we barely talked about it for a half hour.

Sometimes we spend a lot of energy trying to come up with a cool premise or the Big Idea for a new game. But stupid premises can be a lot of fun and have surprising depth to them, too.