The Pitch

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Dragonfable is the long-forgotten followup to Adventure Quest, and somehow it still runs, and somehow you can still play it. Cribbing heavily from the hyper self-aware diction of webcomics in the mid-2000s, this is a repetitive, grindy RPG that's perfectly at home on this show.

This week's Roundtable Roundtable is packed with great stuff. First we interview the podcaster and hip hop artist Open Mike Eagle about Elden Ring and his history with FromSoft's games. You can find OME's website at mikeeagle.net and his Twitter @Mike_Eagle.

For the written interviews, we talk to Dillon Rogers and Dave Oshry of New Blood Interactive, the publisher behind the excellent throwback shooters Dusk, Amid Evil, and ULTRAKILL, and the upcoming banger Gloomwood.

Finally, we round out the episode reading your responses to the Liurnia of the Lakes episode, up through the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

Keep in mind that after last week's episode, the spoiler wall is gone. We won't be gratuitous with references to things happening later in the game, but understand that we'll start putting things into context.

Uncanny X-Men (1963) #210
X-Factor (1986) #9
Uncanny X-Men (1963) #211
X-Factor (1986) #10

Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be sure to check with your local library to see if they have them there! You can find one using this site

Music by Gary, podcast art by our friend Wayne

Basch, Balthier, Ashe, Fran, and two associates continue their quest for magic rocks! Will the princess use the rocks or smash the rocks? Find out as we continue our exploration of this world spanning adventure. Though the dungeons take a wet fart at the end, the dialogue and presentation continue to be first in class.

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Here we are at the end of the series, what was regrettably the finale before the movie was announced. It's time for the Monarch to ascend to a Level Ten villain status, and the Guild puts on a big show about Saphrax and Altheaus, the original villain and henchman, to commemorate it. It's... incongruous. Meanwhile, Dean shares sweet moments with a comatose Hank, while Hank ventures through a psychedelic mindscape, and Brock slaughters tens of henchmen for the first time in a long time.

Special thanks to Joshua Jarett for our cover art, Gwen May for our theme song, and Brayton Cameron for being our announcer.

Everything To Guppy is a weekly comedy/gaming podcast that releases four 15-minute episodes in a single hour-long chunk every Tuesday for reasons that seemed good at the time. Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Gilligan's Island is a hell named after its devil. The incompetent first mate of the S.S. Minnow bumbles about with an efficiency that cannot be accidental, ensuring that the island's flawed inhabitants will never again see another shore. Gilligan's Island is also a corny 60s television show which, for some reason, got an NES game made of it in 1990. It contains multitudes.

This week we conclude talking about the Academy of Raya Lucaria by storming the quad, and then the library, where Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, has been locked up. We spend the majority of the episode talking about the encounter with Rennala, as an aesthetic triumph and as a truly tragic and horrifying tale.

Kole, Dennis, and Jala talk about Into the Breach: Advanced Edition, Late Shift, and Solasta: Crown of the Magister.

• Jala: Contradiction. The Quarry. Late Shift.
• Dennis: Into the Breach: Advanced Edition. Divinity: Original Sin. Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
• Kole: Resident Evil Village.

• Let’s talk in-person gaming events!

• Covid is still messing up the games industry.
• Sony gets rid of feature you never used.
• Steam simplifies game art by outlawing marketing clutter.