The Pitch

Don't get it twisted: We like this game.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the generalities and Northern area of Hyper Light Drifter.

The next episode will cover the remaining three areas and the end-game.

Links:

• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery Steam Launch Trailer [HD] - YouTube

• Enter The Gungeon - Gameplay Trailer - YouTube

• ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ - Inside the Video Game Inspired by a Life-Threatening Illness - YouTube

• Owlboy Trailer - Release NOV 1st 2016 - YouTube

• Attack On Titan: Trailer - YouTube

• X-Men vs Cable - YouTube

• Planetary: Making a Masterpiece - YouTube

• Show Me What You Got | Rick and Morty | Adult Swim - YouTube

• Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Official Video) - YouTube

Reverse mythological beasts always do the opposite of what you expect.

Kole, Ben, Jala, and David talk about Resident Evil 7, some PAX South experiences, and we ask you about your favorite video game demos.

• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age releases July 11.

• Resident Evil 7 speed runs are down to 94 minutes.

• Resident Evil movies gross over $1 billion.

• Jala’s PAX South breakdown. (Earthfall, The Shrouded Isle, Mages of Mystralia, and others)

• What’s your favorite video game demo?

• David: WarFrame. Vermintide.

• Ben: Resident Evil 7 Demo.

• Kole: Resident Evil 7.

• Jala: More PAX South stuff. Shadow Over Westminster.

•  Jala Prendes  (@jalachan) • Instagram photos and videos

• EARTHFALL

• The Shrouded Isle on Steam

Nick and Gary talk about the future of their favorite game (collectively, at least), with the last bit of official content, and a sign that the fans will take care of the rest.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross discuss the biographies of R.E.M.'s members, and the earliest years of the formation of the band.

The links below are a comprehensive listening list, and we encourage you to listen to them before, alongside, and after the podcast.

The next episode will be about the Chronic Town EP.

Links:

• Pylon - Volume (1980) - YouTube — Here's a live show by Pylon, a band that was active in the Athens scene at the time R.E.M. came up.
• Pylon - Crazy - YouTube — This is Pylon's big single from 1983, which R.E.M. would later cover.
• LOVE TRACTOR - SPIN YOUR PARTNER - YouTube — This is a video and single from Love Tractor, the band that Bill Berry left to join R.E.M.
• The Power of Independent Trucking: R.E.M.: "Cassette Set" (1981 demo tape, RARE!!!) — A writeup about the earliest known live show bootleg.
• Invisible Hits: The Earliest Known R.E.M. Bootleg | Pitchfork — Another writeup about the bootleg, with embedded YouTube links.
• R.E.M. - Narrator - YouTube — A very strange early song.
• Radio Free Europe - Hib-Tone Single - 1981 - YouTube — The song that started it all. Compare it to other versions of the song... Producers matter!
• R.E.M. Do Not Open Hib Tone Demo Tape - YouTube — The demo tape that the band sent out to venues to get gigs.
• Meeting - YouTube — A song from Michael Stipe's German noisepop band.

Of all the monsters we grappled with and bested, it took the humble halfling to break us entirely.

Kris and Kole talk about toys, violence, and aviation.

ALSO: Loofah. The chronicle of Sgt. Slaughter. Toy followup. Superheroes and violence. Monopoly piece vote. The loneliest bird. The curse of the monkey god is real. Frontier inoculation.

When you go to the toilet, make sure it's a toilet.

The season of the witch continues as we make a case for Hags being the very best.