The Pitch

Let's get our hands dirty, it's the junk food half hour.

Don't stand still long enough for them to make you a baby bag.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Randy Walker read your responses, prompts, and other musings on the Souls series.

Links:

• Dark Souls Ambient Sounds - Tomb of The Giants (Caverns) - YouTube
• TerraMantis - YouTube
• Iron Pineapple - YouTube
• MoonlightButterfly - YouTube
• How to Beat: The Bosses of Dark Souls 2 - MY LIFE IN GAMING - YouTube
• yung maestro - YouTube
• In Defense of Dark Souls 2 - YouTube
• Dark Souls 2 Critique - YouTube
• Dark Souls 2 - Series Strengths and Sequel Changes - YouTube

Kole, Jala, and David talk about the Sega and Atari retro console announcements, WASTED, and we ask you what mundane game tasks you can’t help but indulge in.

• Atari and Genesis are getting retro consoles.
• Undertale is coming to PS4 and PS Vita in August.
• Steve Bannon ran a gold farming company.

• What mundane or grindy video tasks can you not stop yourself from doing?

• Jala: Vermintide. Guild Wars 2. Sky Dancer. Final Fantasy Tactics. WASTED.
• David: Vermintide. Guild Wars 2. Warframe.

Links:

• RAK Graphics Chakan Books Page
• Steve Bannon And Trump's Relationship: A 'Shakespearean Irony' Told In 'Devil's Bargain' : NPR

Snake men with agency and spells.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the final portion of Metal Gear Solid 2. Or do they?

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Links:

• Fight Club Ending - YouTube
• Abject Suffering on Cherry Tree Comedy Club available here
• The greatest simpsons shitpost tweet thread of all time.

Why, oh why, did it have to be another boring 16-bit fighting game? Ultraman's storied history doesn't mean much of anything if you don't have affection for the kaiju genre. So, we quickly lose focus and talk about Gary's massage experience and the wonderful qualities of CBD.

One last hurrah for the boys as we knew them.

Hot off the Monster tour with some recordings in hand, R.E.M. was ready to make their best album in years. New Adventures in Hi-Fi meanders in all the right ways, keeping you on your toes with new ideas and unconventional choices. "E-bow the Letter" as the lead single? Great. "How the West Was Won and Where it Got Us" as the opening track? Hell yeah.

But it's not all happy... stick around to the end to hear the sad tale of Bill Berry's departure from the band.

Links:

• R E M Only in America - YouTube
• R.E.M. - I will survive - YouTube
• REM - Live For Today - YouTube
• Revolution - YouTube
• Tricycle (Instrumental) - YouTube
• Wichita Lineman by R.E.M. (Live in Houston, 1996) - YouTube
• R.E.M. - Be mine (Mike on bus version) - YouTube
• Love is all around by R.E.M. (1991) - YouTube
• R.E.M. New Adventures In Hi-Fi interview 1996 (The New Music) - YouTube
• REM - The Passenger @ Stockholm - 1998 - YouTube
• R.E.M. - How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• R.E.M. - E-Bow The Letter (Official Music Video) feat. Patti Smith - YouTube
• R.E.M. - Electrolite (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• R.E.M. - Bittersweet Me (Official Music Video) - YouTube

One night I had the weirdest dream where I walked into a cave, and I saw a snake with a human head wearing a vest, rolling a donut.

Kris and Kole talk about deliverance, arctic comfort, and robocops.

ALSO: The anatomy of a raisin. Flashlight demo. Just the tip. The Trump family origin. Murphy beds are terrifying. Robot cops for real. A depressing cop story. We don’t understand fidget spinners.