It's week three of our Spooktacular Journey on the Spooktacular Express and this week we're pulling in to ComicTown, USA. This weeks Halloween-centric episode has us morphing famous comic arcs into survival horror games. Do any of the debaters know enough about comics to turn them into games? If they do, have they ever played a survival horror game? Only time will tell.

How do you feel about bugs? Because Matt is talking about bugs. Meanwhile, Kyle is only here to remake the second Avengers movie. Todd breaks glass in case of emergency and completes our proverbial Green Lantern EGOT.

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Properties we talked about this week: X-Men, The Brood, Age of Ultron, Blackest Night

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There's a curiousity in all of us. Sometimes that curiousity can spark us to learn a new skill, dive deep into a hobby, or maybe try a new food. And then other times that curiousity can lead us sailing a boat straight into a magical storm wall encircling an island cursed with a demonic plague. Meet Adol Christin, the subject of the Ys series, probably the greatest JRPG series you've never heard of that has been quietly pumping out games since 1987. Adol's wanderlust and penchant for surviving ship explosions leads him to far-off lands, often dealing with some inexplicable ancient magic and/or hidden civilization populated with sentient dinosaurs. Today, we're breaking down every single Ys game to date, ending with the ninth entry that came out earlier this year. Special thanks to "Master Specter" for commissioning today's episode! If you'd like to join the ranks of #buttthwompnation and maybe even commission your own FLAVOR TEXT, check patreon.com/debatethiscast

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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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