SIDEBAR: Product Placement in Games

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It's been a while since we all gathered around the pretend Zoom campfire and told some personal CUP NOODLES® IS THE PERFECT BLEND OF TASTY BROTH AND ZESTY TOPPINGS THAT TAKE ONLY 3 MINUTES AND A MICROWAVE TO MASTER. NO COOKING REQUIRED stories about favorite moments in video games.

Andrew recounts his time with Final Fantasy 15, Kyle gushes about Buger King's Xbox series, and Matt FOR MORE THAN 45 YEARS, NISSIN CUP NOODLES® HAVE BEEN WARMING BELLIES AND PUTTING SMILES ON FACES. THE ORIGINAL INSTANT RAMEN IN A CUP WITH NO ADDED MSG. CUP NOODLES®: IT'S FAMILY IN A CUP recalls Mario Kart.

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FLAVOR TEXT: Mandalore and the Mandalorians

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The writers over at the Star Wars Extended Universe had a dilemma. They needed to create an entire race of people based off of one side character in the original movies who barely spoke as whose most defining personality was "jetpack." So, they had created this cool tribe full of warrior-nomads who all lived by their own defined code and called them "Mandalorians." And then the writers must have taken a holiday, because when it was time to name the planet someone just copy+pasted "Mandalorian."

And then when it was time to name the generations of clan leaders responsible for uniting the tribes into a nation someone just dropped the "ian" and said that every leader has the name "Mandalore." And then when fictional historians went back to name the specific wars fought against these people they named each of the 3 separate wars spanning thousands of years "The Mandalorian Wars." So here you are, America. We did a Star War and it's all about the Mandalorians, a race of intergalactic space cowboys who wear full body armor and wield space-flamethrowers.

This episode was commissioned by "NathanLV", an esteemed member of the West Coast chapter of #butthwampnation. If you'd like to commission your own FLAVOR TEXT, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

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Episode 75: A Fairly Balanced Pair of Bat Nipples (ft Alyse Knorr)

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To all of our surprise, Todd started his own superhero advertising agency during the pandemic and just informed us that we would be "pitching to him" a PR solution. After being told that they're completely different things, he just kind of shrugged and did that weird Ashlee Simpson SNL dance.

So, for some reason, the rest of us are here pitching a complete public relations strategy for a particular DC superhero. In this universe, be prepared to see Batman picking up trash by the highway, Shazam teaching kids the dangers of underage drinking, and Negative Man embracing his inner positivity.

Special thanks to our guest Alyse Knorr for joining us in our stupid, pretend board room! Alyse is a published writer, poet, professor, AND podcaster! Check out her Boss Fight Books work on Super Mario Bros. 3 and her podcast Sweetbitter which is currently exploring the life of Sappho among the poets of ancient Greece.

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Episode 74: The Fusty and the Furious

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Make sure your hair is gelled and your shorts sufficiently cargo-ed, because today's episode is taking a one-way trip to the mid-00s as we talk about Flash games! Much like trying to fit a stick figure zombie in a cage, we try and stretch premises like "shoot kitten from cannon" into a long-form TV series centered on the complex father/daughter relationship between an ambitious prodigy and a brilliant scientist who's fallen from grace as a result of his search for the truth.

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FLAVOR TEXT: One Piece (Pt 2)

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Destiny. Fate. Dreams. Ad revenue. These unstoppable ideals are held deep in hearts of podcasters. As long as there are people who seek a self-sustaining income from things they enjoy in this life, these things shall not vanish from the Earth. We're back with part two Andrew talking at you about One Piece! On this part 2, we cover the Straw Hats entering the Grand Line through the end of the Alabasta civil war.

Thanks to The Other Harper for doubling down and gifting all of us this double-bill FLAVOR TEXT commission! If you want to commission your own FLAVOR TEXT, check us out on Patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast.

Link to image gallery: https://imgur.com/a/WRlD7HI

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Episode 73: Abraham Lincoln's Army of the Damned (ft. Eric Silver)

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Last year, Supergiant blew the gaming world away with their near-perfect and also very thirsty roguelike, Hades. We certainly could have spent this time talking all about how the gameplay is expertly crafted to make you feel like every run is forward progress, or how the characters are all incredibly unique and likable in their own way, or how the music and sound design helps to build an engaging world that constantly makes you crave just...one...more...attempt.

Instead, we took the high road and pitched a fake DLC with sexy Jesus, a man with a 2x4 shoved down his pants, and a certain former president with a penchant for reanimating flesh.

Special thanks to our special guest, Eric Silver! Eric is the host and DM of Join The Party, a D&D real-play podcast. You can also find him streaming on Twitch under HouseBreakfast on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm ET and Saturdays at noon ET, and he also lives on Twitter @El_Silvero.

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Episode 72: A View To A WAAHHH

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There comes a time in every video game podcast's life when they are compelled to stop what they are doing and ask "Sure, this game is great. But what's Waluigi up to?" This is that time, and today's episode is the output of that thought experiment.

Consider, dear listener, a sequel to Katamari Damacy starring Waluigi rolling up the Mushroom Kingdom. How about a version of David Cage's Indigo Prophecy where Waluigi is the AI messiah? Or, there's always just straight-up making Waluigi James Bond. I mean, nothing matters anyway, right?

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FLAVOR TEXT: One Piece (Pt 1)

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Wealth. Fame. Power. The hosts at Debate This!, the King of the Podcasts, had acquired this and everything else the world had to offer. And their dying words drove countless souls to the Debate This! Patreon page: "You want my treasured content? Fine, you can have it. Just pay us $50 a month and we will talk about whatever the hell it is you want! Now you just have to ask it."

Welcome to the ongoing saga of Andrew's journey to catch up on One Piece, a landmark anime series notorious for both its exceptional quality and its 20+ year (and still going) run. In this first episode, we dive deep (haha, get it??) into the East Blue saga, which consists of the first two years of the show's run.

This episode was commissioned by Derek Harper, long-standing member of #butthwompnation and confirmed Better Of The Two Harpers. If you want to commission your own FLAVOR TEXT, check us out on Patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

Link to image library from this episode: https://imgur.com/a/lCcTl7t

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Episode 71: Use Promo Code "Stygian" at Checkout

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Late last night, Matt was pulling a late night at the ol' DT Exclamation Point HQ, and he did that thing in movies where he stepped out of a steamy shower and looked at himself in the mirror and wiped away the fog on the glass to see a SPOOKY THING behind him. Yeah, so our fake office is haunted or whatever...this seems to be as good a time as any to talk in excruciating detail about the Pac-Man ghosts. Welcome to 2021, nerds.

Link to images referenced in this episode: https://imgur.com/a/3Eqe42m

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Update and Season 4 Preview

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Since all of the Persona soundtracks are now on Spotify, Andrew couldn't be bothered to do an episode today. So instead, Matt recorded a sneak preview of what is in store for 2021 for Debate This! We'll be back next week with a new, equally outrageous episode talking about like Pac-Man's dong or something.

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