The Pitch

Beyblade is like Digimon but it's about spinning tops. It's as dumb as it sounds.

So much stuff happened in season 4, so you've got some thoughts. Did the show start to get too cartoony? Did it lose the thread? What does the color purple mean?!

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

It felt right to take a break from our normal programming (talking about things that don't matter) to process our feelings about what just happened this week in American politics. It's not our expectation that you share our exact values when it comes to electoral outcomes, but our bet is that you're pretty similar to us in feeling pretty bad about Trump winning a second term. If that's the case, we hope that this is of some value to you in helping you figure out a way forward, to make a positive difference for the people closest to you.

Related to this, please save the date for DuckStream 2024. The weekend of December 5-7, we will be holding a 48 hour streaming marathon to benefit the TransActive Gender Project out of Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. It will be broadcast live on the Duckfeed Twitch channel, which you can follow now to get notifications. More details about the event will be coming shortly.

We're not going anywhere. We'll keep doing our best to be entertaining and distracting for when you need that. We stand with the marginalized and vulnerable, and wish you all the good fortune and resolve to be in the fight for as long as possible.

Can you capture the magic of Who Framed Roger Rabbit in a point and click adventure game? Combing FMV and cartoon animation, Toonstruck plays with cartoon logic as it's main sense of humor. The game itself is somewhat jokefree, weirdly.

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O.D.T.: Escape… or Die Trying is a game with a confusing title. The O.D.T. is short for O.D.T.: Escape… or Die Trying or Die Trying. It’s a botched attempt at a Tomb Raider-like third person action game with theming and a story that are sure to put you to sleep. So we instead talk about how unfair the concept of Mario and Sonic competing in the Olympic Games would be.

In this episode we coronate Enver Gortash and go to prison. Yaay!

Other Segments:

• Alternate Realities: What if we fought Gortash now?

• Legends and Lore: Flaming Fist

• Fiend Folio: Steel Watch

Charo’s Hidden Grave is a region that is true to its name, resting above, but out of reach from, the Cerulean Coast. But once you get up there, you learn a little bit more about this cosmology’s relationship with death, and find a dirty little secret that the Hornsent tried to hide away from themselves.

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Don't think of these as leftover questions, think of them as bonus questions. Dessert questions.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the Case of the Golden Idol DLC, Monster Train, and much more!

The Grind:

• Ben: SNKRX. The Case of the Golden Idol: The Vampire of Lemuria.
• Dennis: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
• Moxie: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
• Kole: Monster Train.

The Multiplayer:

• What’s your favorite way of griefing in multiplayer games?

The End Boss:

• Harris/Walz gaming stories in the final stretch.
• No Man’s Sky developer fixes fan’s 611 hour save.
• Balatro is playable in Dave the Diver.
• The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker 2 announced.