It's the Weekly Diversion time again, and this week Matt's ranting about the final boss of Shadows of the Erdtree and raving about Vividlope, perhaps the best arcadey puzzler of all-time. News-wise, we've got some more layoff stories. Yeehaw.

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Our breaksong this episode was Vividvista from the game Vividlope, composed by ViRiX Dreamcore (not Baycun as stated in the episode). The entire OST is available on Bandcamp here