SURVEY_PROGRAM: A podcast about DELTARUNE

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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SURVEY_PROGRAM theme music by hywell, now on Bandcamp!
In this episode: “SMART RACE (Cristata Vs Hywell Mix)”

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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.

This is the second episode of Green Room, bonus episodes from the SURVEY_PROGRAM podcast. At least once a month, join Kate and the panel for a looser discussion of broader topics.

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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)

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This episode’s music, “JUDGEMENT,” also by hywell.

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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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Ash Taylor joins Kate to talk about how Deltarune uses music and sound as part of its story and gameplay, beyond just leitmotif. In part two (41:00), we talk about her upcoming game, CHORDIOID.

Topics: We react to last episode’s TOME. Kate feels old. Undertale mashups and remixes. Wagner OWNED. Omega Flowey. Donkey Konga. The courage to cut. Kris’s piano playing and self-expression. Deconreconstruction. Unique RPG battle systems. Gamedev is hard. Birdbrain!

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Intro music: “RAISE UP YOUR BAT” by Ash Taylor
Mid-roll music: “Sam’s Theme” from CHORDIOID: Volume 0 by Ash Taylor

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Sources discussed:
”10 Hotels, 50 Hotels, 100 Hotels” from Undertale Mashup Collab
”Waters of Megalovania” by BotanicSage
”BIRDBRAIN (w/ OK Glass)” by Jamie Paige feat. Kasane Teto

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A VIDEO VERSION OF THIS EPISODE IS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE.

Lucretia gathers Kate and Valerie to reveal the most important character in Deltarune. The one who is connected to every mystery. The one with the deepest lore. The one we all want to learn more about. The one who speaks in hands.

That’s right…

No. It can’t be. It can’t be him. Is it too late to delete the episode

Read The Tome or see it on Google Drive

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Music by hywell (new album out now!)

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Kate and Neptune recap and break down the Undertale 10th anniversary stream in Part 1 and the hit indie RPG OFF in Part 2. New lore and character insights from Undertale after ten years! We then become the first ever podcast to talk about OFF in the context of contemporary French ultraleftist terrorism.

Part 1 topics: Old forum friends. Sans/Alphys hetslop (it’s good). HR violations. Gerson’s life-changing lines. Clairevoire drew dog food. My sweet little chocolat. The lesbian tutorial.

Part 2 topics: Russell T. Davies. The origin of the family, private property and the state. The Invisible Committee. The diegetic player and its influence on Deltarune. Is is right to end a broken world? Changes in the remaster, including the new soundtrack.

Sources cited:
Undertale 10th Anniversary Stream Day 1 and Day 2
OFF 2025 Remaster on Steam or original release (free)
”The Coming Insurrection” by the Invisible Committee
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story

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Music by hywell (new album out now!) and Alias Conrad Coldwood from OFF.

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“I’m gonna trap you here in my yaoi realm.”

This was supposed to be an episode about Undertale’s 10th anniversary announcements. Since that’s this weekend instead, Kate and Xtine do a reverse chronological walk through Deltarune memories, and get extremely sidetracked.

The spider girl. Chris’s Movie. Clocked as gender-ish. A rhyming antonym for “itty.” We didn’t like Paprika. Gaster’s gooners. Touhou talk. Armpit talk. Noelle has the sauce. Deltarune’s premier yaoi. Getting owned in a strip club. Has Susie lost her edge? Hockey fans. Trant Heidelstam. Papyrus. Final Fantasy XV.

Sources cited:

“AN UNDER’S TALE” by XTRATUNA
“Crickets.wav” by ItsTheGoodstuff on Freesound
“Ran Ran Ru” by Wagnarock (Digitalis)
“Overdrive”

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Music by hywell (new album out now!)

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