We've already talked about most of the B-sides, so instead we turn to the mail bag to read your R.E.M. thoughts.

Links:

• DEAD LETTER OFFICE | R.E.M.HQ
• EPONYMOUS | R.E.M.HQ
• R.E.M. - "Jazz Lips" 1981 Drive-In Studio Outtake - YouTube
• R.E.M. - "September Sang" Rare Song 1982 - YouTube
• REM - Ha!(We Get Paid For It) rare track 1981 (audio) - YouTube
• Golden Palominos (feat. Michael Stipe) - Boy (Go) - YouTube
• Omaha by The Golden Palominos with Michael Stipe (1985) - YouTube
• Golden Palominos (feat. Michael Stipe) - Clustering Train - YouTube
• 10,000 Maniacs A Campfire Song - YouTube

Kris and Kole talk about the value of education, podcasting procedures, and heists.

ALSO: UYD show and cops. Testing for lag. Let’s sell some chicken. Graduation and the value of education. These hash browns are well below par. Operation Vandelay Industries. North Korea’s cardboard planes. The heist to steal Enzo’s bones.

The parade of uninspired demihumans continues!

Beep beep, I'm a robot on wheels.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Richard Pillbeam talk about the Dreg Heap... the first part of the Ringed City DLC.

Here we are, the beginning of the end. Next week will be an extra-long episode about the Ringed City proper.

Links:

• In Defense of Dark Souls 2 - YouTube

• Jerks Sans Frontieres - YouTube

• The End of Evangelion - Wikipedia

This is exciting. The animated series is finally tackling one of the most popular X-Men stories of all time: The Phoenix Saga. Except, it also covers a bunch of nonsense in the meantime. Including, but not limited to: Evil Xavier, Beast and Wolverine going to the club, and Gambit's secondary mutation. Gary and Jeremy talk about all of this and more in this week's episode of Days of Future Cast.

Episodes covered:
S03E03 - The Phoenix Saga Part 1: Sacrifice
S03E04 - The Phoenix Saga Part 2: The Dark Shroud
S03E05 - The Phoenix Saga Part 3: Cry of the Banshee

Nick and Gary take a look at The Flame and Flood and HEARtREAD. A not entirely successful survival game and a almost entirely unsuccessful indie game with a good gimmick. Also, stay tuned to the end for a special announcement.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about driverless cars learning from Grand Theft Auto V, Drawn to Death, and we do a Freeplay Multiplayer.

• People are dipshits about game design.

• Driverless cars are learning from Grand Theft Auto V.

• Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is excessive and necessary.

• PS4 Slims now ship with 1 TB hard drives.

• Day of the Tentacle dependency graph.

• Free play.

• Kole: Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

• Dennis: Horizon: Zero Dawn. Drawn to Death.

• Ben: Among the Sleep.

• David: Warframe.

• The Day of The Tentacle: Dependency Graph Analysis | The Website is Down Dev Blog

• PS4 Slims will have a 1TB hard drive in North America going foward

• The most joyful thing on YouTube right now is Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator - Polygon

• Developers, don't mock people for being amazed by game dev techniques (update) - Polygon

• L.A. Noire requires you to read subtle facial cues to tell if someone is lying - YouTube

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross feel their way through Super Princess Peach.

After two decades of being rescued, everyone's favorite princess finally gets a star turn as the hero. Super Princess Peach is an incredibly easy game with some (ahem) problematic elements. But the saccharine trappings hide a mechanically complex game that tries and fails to be a followup to Yoshi's Island.

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Links:

• Retronauts Episode 80: Famicom Boom-era Developers | Retronauts
• Director Don Dimello (Andy Daly) - YouTube
• Umbra Staff | The Adventure Zone Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia
• Garfield - I'm sorry John, I was so hungry - YouTube
• Snow Dragon Origins
• Trappist Abbey | Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey
• [Full GamePlay] Quackshot starring Donald Duck [Sega Megadrive/Genesis] - YouTube
• Destiny is Gaming's "Law & Order" - Video Game Comfort Food - Extra Credits - YouTube