NowIOnlyWantATriumph joins Kate and Valerie for the first ever UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE BASEBALL DRAFT! Each of us put together a team of 19 Undertale and Deltarune characters to take the field, and it’s up to YOU to decide who wins!

Vote now on your phones! Or whatever!

Sources referenced:

Effectively Wild podcast

Baseball Tenna fanart by tappleturks on Instagram

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Is Mettaton the key to everything? No, but Kate and Valerie talk about him anyway. We talk parallels with Spamton and Tenna, the difference tonally between adults in Undertale and Deltarune, and Valerie blows my mind by suggesting Mettaton and Catty are the same age.

We take questions from our listeners on Discord about our expectations for the future and various goofy subjects, including Jersey Shore. Would you smooch a ghost?

Sources cited:

Prokopetz on the tonal difference between Undertale and Deltarune

Episodes 6 (Kris and gender), 3 (the parents), and 16 (December)

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Kate and Valerie do some emergency podding about December Holiday, just in time for Christmas. It’s just the start of our talk about the most important absence in the game… We also cover the new newsletter, ARG, and Christmas in the game in general.

Merry Krismas!

Episodes referenced:

Episode 3 on Carol and Toriel

Episode 6 on Kris and gender

Episode 10 on music

Episode 11 on the weird route

Episode 12 on the Halloween Hack

Sources cited:

ACDS sheet of verified email responses by luizzeroxis

Deltarune and Twin Peaks by LoreFactsTV

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Kate and Shadow of Roserade talk about the ways the fandom has gone crazy in the hiatuses between chapters. We also chat Alvin, the false dichotomy between theory and fanfic, the Deltarune equivalent of the Zootopia abortion comic, and Azzypants.

Sources cited:

Episode 4 on AUs

Episode 2 on Friend

UNDERTALE: Cooking with Kindness

LynxGriffin

CourierNew

“Umriss” and its dramatic reading

“ELEKTIONTRÜCKING”

Azzypants: The Game

Umrizzypants

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That ain’t Falco. Jackie returns to talk Berdly with Kate. We continue the podcast’s grappling with What Gaming Means and the breakdown of the nerd-jock dichotomy.

Topics: Our experiences in the fighting game community. The courage to lose again and again. Ice Climbers discrimination. Krerdly talk. Kate makes a rare statement. We take listener questions.

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Kate is joined by Sarah Zedig and Sam Keeper to talk about the past, present and future of Doctor Who. They review the show’s current Russel T. Davies-led era, discuss what’s gone wrong, and give a prescription for fixing the future of the show…with frequent detours along the way.

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A Pervert’s Guide to Doctor Who (free)

Susan Twist: Word Lord? (free)

Twice Upon a Time: A Review of Hbomberguy’s Review (for supporters)

Doctor Who "Boom" Ending Explained! (What Survives Of Us) (free)

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Kate and Paravellex talk about the 2023 RPG In Stars and Time and what playing it made us think about nostalgia, the prophecy, time and time loops in Undertale and Deltarune.

Topics: The recent elections. Differing temporal experiences. 11 hours or 11 years… A theory about Ralsei. Color in ISAT and Deltarune. The prologue. Some Disco Elysium talk. A trans-normative setting??? Assonance. Speedrunning relationships. For king and country. Deltarune’s king. Battleship Potemkin and Sin City. Sans. Loop (the character). The rest of the story happens in your mind!

Music from the In Stars and Time soundtrack by Studio Thumpy Puppy.

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Kate and Sophia talk about the 2008 “Radiation’s Halloween Hack” and our own embarrassing teenage works. We find a game of surprising quality and discuss the way it presages several core themes of Undertale and Deltarune.

Topics: A correction from last week. Cereal of the dead. Painstaking hand-editing. Brandish. Forum culture. Predictions about Gaster. Yes, I know about Metal Gear. Hot chicks are awesome. “Angry gay guys using super psychic attacks is cool to think about.” Perspectives on queer representation. A return to the concept of the gamer ideology.

Sources:

“SCP-072 - The Foot of the Bed” by Kate

“the halloween hack: a mini-documentary” by miekkon

We reference Episodes 6 (“MANCOUNTRY”), 2 (Gaster), and 3 (Carol and Toriel)

Check out Sophia’s Star Wars podcast “We Have to Talk About Dash Rendar”

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Kate and Jackie talk about the Weird Route, how we can understand Noelle’s motivations and what it all means. What is the nature of the soul? Does an agentic self exist distinct from an essential self? What do Charlie’s Angels even do?

Topics: The anniversary stream. Petscop. Ben Drowned. Comparison to Undertale’s No Mercy route. Noelle the gamer. Dess haunting the narrative. Burghley? That Addison is dead. Spamton’s so creepy! Kate gets Touhou’d again. The ominous stuff the Sword Route tells us about where this is going. KRISMAS!!!! Internalized transphobia, fear, and yes, we talk about comphet.

We reference earlier episodes: Episode 3, on Carol and Toriel, Episode 5, on moon and Episode 6, on Kris and gender.

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What if a gorilla could learn jiujitsu? I think it would go something like this...

The gang dissects the latest Paul Thomas Anderson epic, One Battle After Another, including insights from a real martial arts instructor and a real burnout revolutionary.

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