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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the Earl of Lemongrab, Moonrise Kingdom, Breaking Bad, and a little bit about Sacrifice.

• Frank Welker

• The Earl of Lemongrab

• Royal Tenenbaums "Needle in the Hay"

• Moonrise Kingdom

• For Your Consideration

• Awful Movie Database - "Preciously Awkward"

• The Binding of Isaac

• H. Jon Benjamin

• American Splendor

• Hope Davis

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross bleed Sacrifice dry upon the altar of Good Taste in Games.

You’re a wizard in a hostile land full of squabbling gods, each vying for the last scraps the shattered earth that float in the sky. You must ally with them and manipulate their struggle in order to save this world… or destroy it. Somehow, this premise is made tedious and awful by the clunky and unwieldy RTS gameplay. If you liked how negative we were during the Abe’s Oddysee episode, you’re in for a treat.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about t-shirt cannons, consoles vs. PC, save states, and a little bit about Bionic Commando.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross latch onto the finer points of Bionic Commando.

Pro-tip: There is no jump button. Instead, you must use your rad bionic arm to swing into the hidden bases of the Badds (NOT THE NAZIS) and rescue your mentor and life-mate Super Joe. In the process, you’ll blow up lightning Hitler and escape a nuclear island by grappling to a helicopter.

• Bionic Commando

• Commando

• Top Secret!

• Pop Secret

• American History X

• Heavy D and the Boyz

• "Ziggy Startdust" - David Bowie

• Junko Tamiya

• Cuckoo Attack

• Dark Souls

• Ikari Warriors

• Rygar (NES)

• Rygar (PS2)

• Bionic Commando (2009)

• Hammer Bros.

• Umbrella Corporation

• Little Shop of Horrors

• Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

• GaGaGaGaGa - Spoon

• Doom 3

• Duct Tape Mod

• "Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee" - WOFF!

• Bionic Commando Script FAQ

• Zen Koan

• The Floor is Lava

• Donkey Kong Jr.

• "Mega Man X" - WOFF!

• Funeral Monologue from Synecdoche, New York

• "Starman" - David Bowie

• The Boys of Brazil

• Brazil (Film)

• Shadow of the Colossus

• Strong Bad Email - "Videogame"

• Bionic Commando Ending (Exploding Hitler)

• Kilgore Trout

• Breakfast of Champions

• Ice-nine

• Project Paperclip

• Bubsy

• Little Nemo: Dream Master

• Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! - "Pork"

• Triumph of the Will

• Ninjas vs. Podcast

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about a particular episode of The Simpsons, Pokemon, the Talking Heads, and a little bit about Psi-Ops.

• Lisa the Vegetarian

• You Only Move Twice

• "Sorry It's Not in Packages"

• Hank Scorpio's Coat

• Gordy Howe

• John Byrne

• Adventure Time

• Zapdos

• Pokemon Snap

• Rule of Thirds

• The New Tetris

• Tetris Attack

• Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"

• Talking Heads - "Stay Up Late"

• Talking Heads - "Burning Down the House"

• Talking Heads - "Building on Fire"

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross hurl mixed praise at Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy… With their minds.

You’re Nick Scryer (GET IT!?) and you can run, shoot, sneak, and bang people against walls like bloody, screaming rag dolls. Or make their heads explode. There’s a bunch of other stuff, with weird bosses and invisible monstrosities from beyond… But that’s all pretty bad. Let’s spend a lot of time talking about how fun TK is.

• Psi-Ops

• Your Head A-Splode

• Good Jorb

• Second Sight

• Sack Lunch

• Uhh Yeah Dude - "Denny's" - GET IT!?

• Scrye Magazine

• 9/11

• Metal Gear Series

• Syphon Filter

• Havok Engine

• Goomba

• Emergent Gameplay

• Dr. Hibbert

• Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

• Dark Souls

• Batman: Arkham City

• Deus Ex

• Door to Before

• Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

• OSHA

• MacGuffin

• Goof Troop

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution

• "Dead Man's Party" - Oingo Boingo

• F.E.A.R.

• Zoolander - Inside the COmputer

• Kludge

• From Beyond

• Look Around You - Sulphur

• Total Recall

• Great Expectations

• The Royal Tenenbaums

• "Needle in the Hay" - Elliot Smith

• Rushmore

• Advent Rising

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross perform Boston chiptunes, sleepwalking, game novelizations, and a little bit about the MacVenture series.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross die repeatedly in their attempt to talk about the MacVenture games (Deja Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate).

Hi! Can I ask you a question? Do you like pointing? Do you like clicking? Then you’ll sure love these three games. Before LucasArts, there was the MacVenture series… a group of games that pioneered the graphical point-and-click adventure genre as we know it. This episode is a rapid-fire revue of three of the four games in the series: Deja Vu, Uninvited, and most famously, Shadowgate.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross grinding, posthumous fame, and Joss Whedon.

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Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross, despite their lack of fitness, survive long enough to discuss E.V.O.: The Search for Eden.

You have 4.6 billion years to turn from a fish into a human so that you can have sex with the planet Earth. And that’s just the beginning of how weird E.V.O. is, which is probably why so many people hold the game so dear. Has it aged well, or should it be sent back into the primordial ooze?

• E.V.O.: The Search for Eden

• Evolution

• Chrono Trigger

• Order of Magnitude

• Pern

• Fantavision

• Spore

• [IGN Article about Spore and E.V.O.]

• Earthbound

• Breath of Fire III

• Simon Belmont

• B.C.

• Unagi

• Stun locking

• P-Wing

• Honey Comb Commercial

• Dino Crisis

• "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" - Elton John

• Natural Lite

• Bros Icing Bros.

• Lotus Pod

• Bot Fly

• Load-Bearing Boss

• Spoony Bard

• Island of Dr. Moreau

• Fiji Mermaid

• Ecco the Dolphin

• Jelly Dildo

• Contra Last Level

• L.A. Noire

• Star Wars: Droidworks

• Will Wright

• Captain Novolin

• "Needy Girl" - Chromeo

• Frank Grimes

• Dross - Definition

• Andross

• Star Fox

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