Buckle up you spooky nerds, it's Spooktacular Express Season! Our annual month of Halloween #Content starts this week as we attempt to make video games about horror movie monsters. We've turned NPCs into protagonists and we've given horror movie monsters video game power ups, so in the words of the cute little girl from the taco commercials, "Porque no los dos?" (We've also got some major announcements about our Patreon, make sure to scroll down to check those out!)

Kyle comes in hot with a cozy-core game inspired by original goth, Mary Shelley. Freaking Todd brings up freaking metal dracula again, which no one was happy about. Also, Andrew brought Jigsaw to the party, so that's fun.

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Suggested reading for this weeks episode:

The first appearance of Todd's "Metal Dracula" argument - Ep 16 Werewolves Don't Always Wear Jorts (Listen to it in your podcast app of choice or on our website HERE)

Properties we talked about this week:

-Frankenstein and Cozy Core Games (Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, etc.)

-Graveyard Keeper

-Bram Stoker's Dracula and Drac's Night Out

-Castlevania

-Dracula Untold (2014)

-Assassin's Creed

-The Saw Series and party games (Mario Party, Fuzion Frenzy, etc.)

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We find ourselves between movie releases, game releases, TV releases and current events. It's a quiet week here at DT!HQ which means it's time to pull some buzzword balls from the bingo bucket. This weeks buzzwords were "Nintendo" and "What If?" The Debaters are here to slip down the rabbit hole of alternate Nintendo Universes. We've said for years that "no one is right, but someone is definitely wrong" and this week, we proved it.

Matt managed to talk about Mario, War Crimes and Eco-Terrorism. That left the door wide open for Andrew to do a zombies. Todd also talked about Super Mario RPG, a surprise to literally no one.

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Properties we talked about this week:

-Marvel's What If

-Super Mario Sunshine

-Super Mario RPG

-Pikmin

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For the hosts of this show, Homestar Runner represents the earliest internet content that we can recall. Strong Bad emails, Teen Girl Squad, and of course Trogdor: The Burninator. Join us on a dive into the history of Homestar Runner in today's nonstalgia-filled FLAVOR TEXT! Looking for some of our favorite clips? Look no further, fam: Homestar Runner into/first timers: https://homestarrunner.com/firsttime Old intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_3Pf-e7CBQ April Fools 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4cOe8bWOZc Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ&t=2s Techno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I Japanese Cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KqF9G_DQls Crying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1P_hPf-woA Senior Cardgage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87T6jIK9QZg Virus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az49aNuYeJs Everybody to the Limit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFNcStdF_Ok Today's episode was commissioned by MasterSpectre of the #buttthwompnation internet flash game appreciation society. If you want more content that reminds you of simpler times, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatethiscast, and join the squad for only $5 a month. Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net! **Please note, we are pausing Flavor Text commissions for the next couple of months until we can catch up on the backlog. We will let you know when those are back live again soon!**

Matt and Todd from "Debate This!" review the latest MCU movie "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" and deliver big news from DT!HQ headquarters. Join the pair on the inaugural SIDEBAR episode of "The Ploose is Loose!"

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It's discount vacation season baby! Schools are starting back up and the weather is getting slightly cooler, so if there was ever a time to buy a $12 ticket on a Spirit Airlines flight to some exotic land, it's now! But where will you go? Where will you spend these waning days of summer? Well let us here at Esteemed DT! Travel Agency, inc. help you plan your perfect get away to the best fictional comic book vacation destination.

Kyle is here to pull on all your 90s nostalgia and question the greater flaws of capitalism. Todd has, you guessed it, taken us back to an irradiated desert wasteland. Also, have y'all heard of Danny the Street? Please let Matt tell you about Danny the Street. Pack your bags everyone, we're going on an adventure!

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Properties we talked about this week:

-Duck Tales

-Greenland on Planet Hulk from the 2015 Marvel Secret Wars arc

-Danny the Street from the DC Comics story Doom Patrol

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Every four years, the whole world pumps the breaks to come together in friendly, albeit, relatively obscure, competition. Except for this year, when it's actually been five years and realistically it's every two years making this year a three year... We digress. But if you haven't figured out the bit, we're going to the Olympics! On this year of the 32nd Olympiad, we help plan for the future. We've got to recapture that millennial demographic by adding a video game event to the next Summer Olympics.

Andrew reinvents The Floor is Lava, someone talks about Overwatch and it isn't Matt, and speaking of Matt, he brings up dictionaries? Turns out adding sports to the Olympics is pretty complicated.

CORRECTION: We said baseball was not included in the 2021 Olympics and it super is. We would like to formally apologize to the baseball.

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An ancient deity has descended on the quiet shores of idyllic Poughkeepsie, New York. This deity, none other than Iron Chef Bobby Flay, has demanded the aid of our plucky protagonists to assist in a fetch quest. Join the DT! boys and "Video Game Culinary Expert" Rebekah Valentine as they quest for the best video game food item to lead the menu at Bobby Flay's new restaurant.

DISCLAIMER: Any resemblances to real chefs or ancient deities is purely coincidental. All characters and blood boys appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, dead or alive, or other real-life entities, in or out of Poughkeepsie, NY, is purely coincidental.

Hey you! Yeah, you! You should check out some of Rebekah's stuff!

Reb's article on the WOW cookbook: https://www.pcgamer.com/i-tried-all-100-recipes-in-the-world-of-warcraft-cookbook-and-it-made-me-love-the-game-again/

Reb's IGN profile: https://www.ign.com/person/duckvalentine

Reb's twitter: https://twitter.com/duckvalentine

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