Have you ever been so immersed in a game that you didn't want to go back to reality? What if you weren't even sure how to get back? The podcast takes up the stance as enemies of the real and discuss David Cronenberg's 1999 cyber-bone-punk classic, eXistenZ! Cybertember concludes next week, with Kaiba!

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This week, listener Peri helps us celebrate Cybertember by asking, what if you got REALLY into your work?

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Whether you're hacking in or jacking in, we'd love to welcome you back to CYBERTEMBER, our month-long celebration of the artificial, the digital, and the mechanical. To kick things off we've got a deep ghost dive into Science Saru's manga faithful adaptation of Ghost in the Shell! But... is being authentic to the original even something that we want in the first place?

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This week we trade the fisticuffs for friendslop as we examine Gamble With Your Friends and Big Walk! Can our hosts work together, beating long odds and long distances? Can friendship survive losing money at roulette? Can you handle charades with your noodly bird body? Most importantly... how much is five bucks, really?

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It is possible to move beyond button mashing... this week... we mash with INTENT! We hear the cases for and against fighting games, before Nick subjects his co-hosts to bone-crunching virtual action of the 3D , 2D, and Anime varieties!

Games played: Virtua Fighter 5 REVO, Asuka 120% Limit Over Burning Fest, Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

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This week, we settle our thoughts on Nolan's The Odyssey (2026), before being taken in by the mysterious song of Epic: The Musical! Were we taken in by it's spell, or did we need to shove beeswax in our ears? Listen to find out! We're not marking the Odyssey spoilers, you've had 2700 years to get to it.

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We're getting hyperlocal here. We're talking about beefing with a guy down the street about the price of local apple cider. We're talking about a museum in our neck of the woods about old fishing boats, and we have STRONG opinions. This is the end of the Whale theming, but we're not off of the boat yet- Next week we're talking about Epic: The Musical and Christopher Nolan's Odyssey.

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Last week, we read a towering work of art for the show... and this week we read whatever you sent us. There's a movie that's sort of related too, about a guy who sometimes remembers an essay about Moby Dick, so we're going to throw that in there basically for free. Jump in now to hear us complain about something that everyone else forgot about four years ago!

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That's right, it's finally time for the episode we've been chasing with some kind of single-minded obsessiveness for years. I don't even know what you'd compare it to. Something so much bigger than yourself, that you pursue to understand, but you can only communicate through violence, and you're from New England... nope. Nothing comes to mind. You don't need to have read Moby Dick to listen to this episode, but this episode might make you want to crack open the great American novel for yourself!

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Detective Beebo is a game about someone who let personal grievances simmer into a downright haunting murder plot. On this show, our stupid grudges come out in the first segment. Thank you to listener Tess for the final Fanuary in July suggestion! Next week: Moby Dick

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