The Pitch

Skald - n. a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds. While you can't recruit a Skald in your party, oddly, you can hone and craft a party of heroes in this updated retro-style Blobber. It wants to introduce you to a genre that's generally unfriendly to newcomers.

This episode is a quick announcement to let you know that the way you get Duckfeed's premium content is changing.

Patreon now offers individual feeds of all of our backer-only shows. This gives you control over what your podcast player downloads, and what you ultimately listen to. Since Patreon itself has this feature, we will no longer be using the individual show feeds on Fireside for our premium content. Those feeds will no longer be updated.

Here's what you need to do: You will now need to subscribe to each show you want to listen to individually through Patreon. The process is very simple, just go to the Membership tab on our Patreon page. I've also created a detailed guide for you in the pinned post on our Patreon page.

The delivery of public episodes isn't changing at this time. (So to get both the public and premium episodes of Watch Out for Fireballs!, you will need to subscribe to both the feed provided on Patreon and the public feed on watchoutforfireballs.com. I apologize for this duplication, there just isn't a way to handle it better at the moment).

Very little else is changing at the moment. You will still get email notifications about every episode we post, regardless of what shows you subscribe to.

If you miss the combined feed of all of our shows, what we called the firehose, we're sorry that it went away. You can recreate the effect either by using an RSS feed combiner service, or using features in the podcast app you already use to group shows together into one list of episodes. This feature is called Stations in Apple Podcasts, Overcast calls it Smart Playlists, Podcast Addict calls it Playlists. Pocketcasts doesn't have an option for this as far as I know.

Patreon's multi-show RSS feature is still in testing, and there may be hiccups. This is also just one of many changes Patreon is making to make podcasting on their platform better for everyone, so expect more features in the near future. If you have any feedback about the experience, please write at [email protected].

To sweeten the pot if this change makes you want to back us for the first time, or to become a patron again, use the code MULTIFEED (all one word) to get 20% off the first month of a new subscription.

Gary goes clear and reads about Scientology, Kole plays RimWorld, Gwen got recognized in public.

One Monster, 17 Ads (one of which is a monster)

Hey folks, Herc’s Adventures is actually kind of a good game. Made by the Zombies Ate My Neighbors team at LucasArts, it expands on that formula with some neat ideas like its novel death mechanic and its open world. But to be honest, a lot of this episode is informed by residual Guppy Energy left over from recording the Sonic 3 Adaptation Decay with Will.

In this episode we stage a labor strike at the steel foundry and take down Gortash.

Other Segments:

• Sage Advice: Talk about explosives

• Legends and Lore: Gortash

• Deities and Demigods: Bane

This week, we conclude the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC by talking about the divine tower of the Hornsent, Enir-Ilim, where the final showdowns of the game take place. First, Miquella’s followers have kind of a Civil War thing going on, and then we learn the truth about what Miquella was really after…

His name is actually Walter White, but he wants them to say Heisenberg. Somebody really goofed up on this one.

We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about LOK Digital, Kiosk, MOTHERGUNSHIP, and much more!

The Grind:

• Dennis: New racing gear. iRacing. Archero 2. MOTHERGUNSHIP.
• Jala: Second Thoughts. Potato Survival. Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One.
• Ben: Heroes of Hammerwatch II. LOK Digital.
• Kole: Kiosk. Rimworld.

The Multiplayer:

• What game mechanic or beat did you not discover until way too late?

The End Boss:

• Punch Out record
• Video Game History Foundation
• PSN slop removal
• PSN outage

Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved.

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