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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross slather themselves with Phazon and talk about Metroid Prime.

An ancient evil springs of a meteor, a verbose race of bird people leave you notes, and a classic series is taken to 3D. Neither of us beat the game this time around, but we played enough to know that it doesn’t succeed on a lot of levels.

• Metroid Prime: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroid_Prime

• Metroid Timeline: metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Metroid_timeline

• Zelda Timeline: zeldawiki.org/Zelda_Timeline

• Slave 1: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Slave_I

• Bauxite: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauxite

• Why do vampires count rice? wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_vampires_count_rice

• Ernest in a Neck Brace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhwKqq0j1S8

• Arkham City Opening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQGGQbrummg

• Spinal Tap Drummers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZrqC5LL_oo

• Alf Pogs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CCbnpMCdds

• The Subspace Emissary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtWJrI_2GE

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about Roger Ebert’s death, gym class, dying young, and a little bit about Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

• Jeff Goldblum on SNL: www.funnyordie.com/videos/25633d24…jeopardy-5-9-98

• Kurt Braunohler Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/309790…s-cloud-project

• Gamers.txt: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p…pagenumber=6

• In this Friendly Friendly World: www.youtube.com/watch?v=41n3mwCcZQ4

• Battlefield Earth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0R_FR9pD2k

• Snake’n’Bacon: video.adultswim.com/snake-n-bacon/

• Newsies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqPuGMgT6yw

• Earthball: cdn.wl.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploa…ks-gym-ball..jpg

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross sprint through Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

Something about emeralds, something about robots, something about going real fast. There's some measure of debate over what the best Sonic game is, but Sonic 3 and Knuckles is probably the grandest expression of what "Sonic" is all about. We vacilitate for a while before ultimately concluding that the game ain't bad, it just has high highs and low lows.

Note: The sketch at the beginning of this episode is probably one of the funniest, and also most unsettling things we've ever done. Fair warning.

• [Rasterbation](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled_printing)

• [Pump Up the Volume](www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuhHPQxS2nQ)

• [Mean Bean Machine/PuyoPop](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Robotnik's_Mean_Bean_Machine)

• [Sonic Cartoon Tonal Differences](www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIgM9S8A7c)

• [Grant Morrison The Invisibles](www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/explo…sons-the-invisibles)

• [Sonic Spinball](www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUaHgUsdUs)

• [Infamous Cylinder](www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3-3yjE-2c)

• [Jon Benjamin Has a Van](www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRb4Ok-drY)

• [Minecraft Mushrooms](www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Biome#Mushroom_Island)

• [Robert Paulson](www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCi_PIz5ekU)

• [Scott Weiland](www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode…wsitemID=28814)

• [Sega Advertisements](www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEESjUQPhws)

• [Tower of Terror](img.photobucket.com/albums/v432/dbs…TowerofSega.jpg)

• [Sonic the Floathog](www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PTe43-xLe4)

• [The Cutting Room Floor](www.tcrf.net/)

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Gary Butterfield explains why there isn't a new episode of WOFF! today. Kole Ross is in an iron lung at the Mayo Clinic after getting into a car accident. We will return next week with our previously scheduled Sonic 3 and Knuckles episode.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about Orson Welles, Transformers, we spoil the shit out of the Walking Dead, and say a little bit about Resident Evil 2.

• Resident Evil 0

• Resident Evil Novels

• Orson Welles Frozen Peas

• James Adomian Orson Welles

• Pinky and the Brain Frozen Peas

• Transformers Dance Party

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross experience an outbreak of positive opionions toward Resident Evil 2.

Thousands have died, but don't worry... they're back again. Raccoon City is overrun with zombies and the ultimate bioweapon is on the loose. We join a biker girl and a rookie cop as they uncover a massive conspiracy, in what is one of the best games we've played for the show so far.

• [Resident Evil 2](www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00003…=stunthdottran-20)

• [Tank Controls](tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TankControls)

• [Zapping System](fettuc.blogspot.com/2012/04/game-a2…ing-system.html)

• [Tom Waits](www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfamPW3Eaw)

• [Resident Evil 1.5](www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qAlyZXJm8Y)

• [Daryl Dixon](www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjAV6-5djc)

• [My uncle works at Nintendo](www.somethingawful.com/d/news/e3-unc…-nintendo.php)

• [Child Who Just Lost Balloon Begins Lifelong Battle With Depression](www.theonion.com/articles/child-w…ng-battle,31519/)

• [Resident Evil 2 Shotgun](www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0rBXQiwCq0)

• [DOOM Shotgun](www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtAVdzIqcJ0)

• [Retirony](tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Retirony)

• [Raccoon City Police Department](residentevil.wikia.com/Raccoon_City_…ce_Department)

• [Avoision](oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition…lish/avoision)

• [Paul Blart Mall Cop](www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-fGUgMK9bI)

• [Beaver Boys](www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mocLWLVgQk)

• [Thirty Flights of Loving](store.steampowered.com/app/214700/)

• [Goro](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goro_(Mortal_Kombat))

• [Gaping Dragon](darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Gaping+Dragon)

• [Object Permanence](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence)

• [Dan Birlew RE Plot Guide](www.gamefaqs.com/ps/198458-reside…evil-2/faqs/2204)

• [Hunk Action Figure](www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid…_sacat=0&_from=R40)

• [Alternate Resident Evil 4](www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRZwypXMFg)

• [Dowsing](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing)

• [Resident Evil Zelda Mod](www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTJRPP0ON8)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about kidnapping, David Fincher’s low points, poorly explained memes, and a little bit about the last half of Final Fantasy Tactics.

• HP Lovecraft Film Festival: www.hplfilmfestival.com/

• Shanghai Tunnels: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghaiing

• The Game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kqQNBR09Rc

• Alien 3 Original Concept: www.empireonline.com/features/alien…wooden-planet/

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross summon up the courage to talk about the last half of Final Fantasy Tactics.

Ramza is a heretic, and the political intrigue we once knew is being replaced slowly by demon possession. FFT is still an amazing game that we would recommend, but its back nine is decidedly inferior to the front.

• [Mark McGrath: Look at this douche bag.](www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6ldKYVDbg)

• [Cruise of Shit](www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013…y-over/62174/)

• [Luso Cut Scene](www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQJYRJ88-1Q)

• [Time Enough at Last](www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8lF4TS-BgQ)

• [What do you have against Mel Gibson?](www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGPLjm-fjo)

• [Drizzt](forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Drizzt_Do'Urden)

• [Corpse Flower](www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHhDsJSXOI)

• [Room 101](www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3U83QLoATU)

• [Audible Link to Murakami](www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_10?as…362308628&sr=1-10)

• [Dirge of Cerberus](www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Cl-s1qZbQ)

• [Demon Stone](www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFuT_lZvy84)

• [Sky Funeral](www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6hSK8CluxQ)

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about death, backlogs, how to say an interrogative, and a little bit about the first half of Final Fantasy Tactics.

• Meteor videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI

• Xenosaga Episode 1: amazon.com/dp/B00005BW7Q

• Phil Lamarr: www.imdb.com/name/nm0482851/?ref_=sr_1

• Welcome to the Jungle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg

• Shackler’s Revenge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIqBA3UAO3E

• Mike Patton: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PyST9Ps_DE

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross calculate the best way to make a podcast about the first half of Final Fantasy Tactics.

A bitter war of succession, flowery prose, and grid-based combat. In what might be our most technical and considered podcast ever, we dive into the particulars of this storied title to find out exactly why Ramza’s quest has such lasting appeal.
We play up through the end of Chapter 2. The next episode will see us talking about the last half.

• Final Fantasy Tactics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Tactics

• Final Fantasy Tactics Sound Novels: www.oocities.org/tuffydabubba/

• Tactics Ogre: amazon.com/dp/B003YVK5T8

• Engrish: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish

• Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions: amazon.com/dp/B000SSPH3E

• FFT for iPhone: itunes.apple.com/us/app/final-fan…id446760220?mt=8

• FFT for iPad: itunes.apple.com/us/app/final-fan…id500098096?mt=8

• Vagrant Story: amazon.com/dp/B00004SPW9

• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: amazon.com/dp/B00009WAUK

• Final Fantasy Tactics A2: amazon.com/dp/B001A01FD0

• Final Fantasy XII: amazon.com/dp/B000F5IH2I

• The War of the Roses: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_war_of_the_roses

• The War of the Roses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebv3i_9Ltc

• POGS: www.complex.com/art-design/2011/0…pogs-from-the-90s

• Argath: finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Argath_Thadalfus

• Snake: zeroescape.wikia.com/wiki/Snake

• Kwyjibo: www.hulu.com/watch/29524

• Coven: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4jdzVpCV4

• Swiss Miss Girl: brandingsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/swi…istory.html

• Time Cop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuujAfDRSfc

• Dungeons and Dragons Tactics: amazon.com/dp/B000K9WNIS

• Welcome to the Jungle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg

• Amano art: kotaku.com/5917619/the-beautif…-of-yoshitaka-amano

• Final Fantasy VII Summon Animations: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQcIwL5CG8Y

• Stand by Me Leeches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbA-B5Qtch0

• Basalt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basalt

• Quiche: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiche

• @Horse_ebooks: twitter.com/Horse_ebooks

• FFT Complete Patch: ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=2686.0

• Metroid Prime Trilogy: amazon.com/dp/B002ATY7JE

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