Episode 67: Swipe Right for Frost Mages (ft Eiya)

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You know how when you wistfully watch people play World of Warcraft, and silently wish to yourself that you could just somehow find the nerve to join the worldwide phenomenon? Longingly watch from the sidelines no more, dear listeners! We, the expert marketers at Debate This! have partnered with Big WoW, Inc to organize the biggest collab in the game's 15+ year history. We are partnering with real-life, actual sports teams to turn their beloved mascots into mounts that players can ride and show off to their friends. We have a bipedal ant dripping with machismo, a Midwestern kangaroo with very white Asics tennies, and a divorcee living out their flirty 50s.

Special thanks to our *actual* WoW expert, Gillian "Eiya" Long! You can watch Eiya on GCDTV (twitch.tv/gcdtv) covering all things competitive WoW as the current Arena World Championship (AWC) host and also as a sideline reporter. You can also find her on Twitch at twitch.tv/eiya, and on Twitter and Instagram @EiyaWoW.

Link to the images referenced in this episode: https://imgur.com/a/f4fDKFi

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DLC EPISODE: Scoobert Doolittle and the Curse of the Gourd Lord (ft Zak Schneider)

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The 5th Tuesday is now! As a bonus Halloween surprise, Kyle led the gang through a spooky, ooky one-off D&D adventure! Sir Frederick and his gang of spunky, teen mystery-solving adventurers have to solve a mystery along with a very lovable dog named Scoobert who can talk and likes...Scoobert Snacks. Do you see where we're going with this? It's fun, not-at-all contrived Halloween hijinks!

Special thanks to Zak Schneider from Around the Monitor for jumping in to fill up the Scoobert Gang! You can find Zak on Youtube, Apple Podcasts, and streaming live on Twitch.

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FLAVOR TEXT: Studio Ghibli

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The Spooktacular Express decided to give us a break from the madness and dropped us off in the idyllic Japanese countryside to talk about the whimsical world of Studio Ghibli. Instead of diving real deep on one IP, our latest commissioned FLAVOR TEXT instead highlights ten of the studio's most well-known films across their 35-year history. We'll go through the setting and major themes of each movie, and then the initial beats to set up the story completely spoiler-free. Just watch at least one of these movies and you too will be asking yourself: Where has hot anime birdman Christian Bale been all my life?

Link to images mentioned in the episode.

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This episode was commissioned by Nicole Bouchard, a card-carrying member of #butthwompnation and long-time Ghibli enthusiast. If you want to commission your own Flavor Text, check us out on Patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

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Episode 66: Pumpkin-Spiced Ghost Rider

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If you look out of your window, fellow spooky passengers, you'll find a desolate wasteland ruled by mobs of zombies. Fun! Before we disembark, make sure to grab one of the non-zombified superheroes that are just hanging by the exit. Fortunately, we have a friendly demon with an aptitude for magic pulled straight from the depths of Hell. Unfortunately, he only speaks in rhymes. Also more bad news, the only other superheroes left are the Human Torch and a mutant who has BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME.

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SIDEBAR: Videogame Creepypastas LIVE(ish)!

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Our tradition of collating the greatest in internet-sourced amateur horror fiction about video games continues in our very first live episode! And, of course by "live," we mean "streamed on Twitch." This year's collection of free, unregulated creative writing exercises includes a glitched ROM of Metroid 2, an urban legend about a secret Numbers Station in Fallout 3, a massively-multiplayer murder simulation, and an experimental system that connects to your brain stem creating a situation where...say it with me...If You Die In The Game, You Die For Real.

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Episode 65: All Quiet On the Western Face

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The Spooktacular Express is back for its third annual spooooopy voyage! Come in and find your seat, get your ticket punched, and then don the complimentary VR headset that will be waiting for you on your seat. Your in-ride entertainment during this first leg of the journey will be 1 of 3 FULLY IMMERSIVE spooky virtual reality experiences. Survive a harrowing climb up a forbidden mountain in Ice Climber, where your next meal may be your last. Experience the horrors of war first-hand in Call of Duty, a historically-accurate retrospective of life on the front lines of World War II. Or, you can trek across the cartoony plains collecting floating puzzle pieces representing your fragmented soul trapped in a low-poly purgatory with Banjo-Kazooie.

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Episode 64: 99 Bottles of My Cat's Amoxicillin On the Wall

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Well good morning and a fine how-do-you-do folks! Have the regular aches and pains of daily Wild West-era life got ya down? Looking for a cure for that small case of Being Eaten By a Coyote? Step on up and see for yourself the wonder and majesty of a spray bottle that can cure the wounds of animals and Pokémon gods alike. Experience an exotic concoction smuggled from the far reaches of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that is made of vegetables and bugs. Force this murky bathtub liquor down your frail gullet that was made in the war-torn apocalypse that is the Fallout wasteland!

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Episode 63: Mr. Sinister’s Second-Hand Lobotomy

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Has anyone ever stopped to think about how X-Men is basically just The Real World But With Explosions? Yes, the ever-evolving war between Human and Mutant is interesting or whatever...but it's time we know more about the minutiae of co-habitation with a mutant who has godlike powers. How much hair would be strewn about Beast's apartment? How does Colossus not break every couch he sits on? And, how many dang TVs does Gambit have to blow up before it comes out of his half of the security deposit?

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FLAVOR TEXT: The Sandman

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In November of 1988, DC Comics published the first issue of The Sandman, a revival of a shortly-run series in the 70s of the same name--originally inked by Comics God Jack Kirby. Gaiman's version quickly gained notoriety for its dark and mature themes and its incredibly unique art style. The series has a ton of critical acclaim over time and is to-date only one of a few graphic novels to be featured on The New York Times Best Seller list. Gaiman later went on to write other novels adapted into movies and series you've heard of like Stardust, Coraline, and American Gods.

The Sandman represents a series of graphic novels that follow Dream, who is one of the seven "Endless." The Endless are a pantheon of gods who are as powerful and as petty as the ancient Greek Gods. And...man...this shit is as DARK it is METAL.

Here's a link to the NSFW images we referred to during the show.

This episode was commissioned by Brenda Cole, a first-generation member of #buttthwompnation who also happens to be a blood relative to one of our team (you'll never guess who!). If you want to commission your own Flavor Text, check us out on Patreon.

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Episode 62: The Sovereign Nation of Bob-Omb Battlefield

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Mario's world might look like it's all hyper-saturated sunshine and rainbows, but under that candy-coated exterior lie some real sinister themes. Like, while that cartoon-y manta ray boss in Super Mario Sunshine might seem like happy fun at first, it's pretty disturbing when you consider that it's literally a shadow that is slowly devouring all living matter in its wake. That gigantic 8-ft walking bomb might have a silly mustache, but it is also a gigantic 8-ft bomb filled entirely of gunpowder and loose ethics. This week, we take a look at the darker side of some of Mario's more enigmatic boss encounters.

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