FLAVOR TEXT: Apex Legends

September 13, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comedy, comic, comics, podcasts, video games, videogames

A space marine gets marooned on a distant planet after a catastrophic spacecraft explosion and discovers a weapon based on ancient alien technology that has the ability to decimate planets. Together with his new A.I. buddy, this physically enchanced "super soldier" race against an army of space zealots to secure control of the superweapon.

No, we already *did* Halo. This is Titanfall, and it's totally different because it leads in to the real "combat evolved"...the Mad Max-esque bloodsport that is Apex Legends! Soldiers, murderers, mercenaries, thieves, and friendly robots alike emerge from across the universe to compete in a 30th century gladiator-like arena, full of guns, explosions, and--most importantly--a whole lot of cooldowns.

You can find the imgur gallery here: https://bit.ly/3BDAs4E.

Special thanks to #buttthwompnation's own Space Legend, "@zhakix" for commissioning today's episode. If you're interested in comissioning your own FLAVOR TEXT, come check out our patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast.

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Episode 107: The Tim Bit of '83 (ft. Young Deuces)

September 06, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comedy, podcasts, video games

This season of Debate This! has braved the waters of some uncomfortable topics, but today we venture to truly uncharted seas. Lace up your shoes, strap on your pads, and do other sports related things because today we're talking IRL sports! Now we're not here for your Maddens or your 2s-K, we're here for Chaos and we want it in the Windy City. Today we embark on a journey which asks, "Which athlete should star in their own non-sports game?"

We asked Kyle to talk about sports and he told us about donut history. Todd takes a page from the WKRP in Cincinnati book. Andrew, to no surprise, is bringing us to the year 20XX. Obviously we needed someone on this podcast who actually understands sports, so we drafted Young Deuces of the Geekset podcast (@Young_Deuces on Twitter) to lead our team to our franchise-first championship.

FLAVOR TEXT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

August 30, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comics, anime and manga, comedy

Cowabunga dude! Join us today as we stuff you full of 90's nostalgia and New York style pizza as we do a deep dive into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on todays FLAVOR TEXT! Come along as we have answer the questions like "were the 90's turtles the best?" and "why were the 90's turtles the best?" Stick around long enough and you'll get to hear all about the major misstep taken in introducing the first new turtle, Venus de Milo.

Special thanks to a budding hero of #buttthwompnation, "BaconBitBehemoth" for commissioning today's episode! You would have been our first choice in casting a true to form Casey Jones if they had asked our opinion.

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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!

Episode 106: Tucker Carlson Comes From the Mouth

August 23, 2022 by Andrew Henderson

WARNING: Hey, it's me again, telling you for now a third time this season that if this is your first time listening to Debate This!, maybe pick a different one! This episode is a bit. It is a joke. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, on our earth or on 616, is purely coincidental.

Join Yucker Carlson as he brings together a group of "influencers" from the across the multiverse to have an intellectual discussion. Today we are here to decide what is truth and what is fiction as we debate the most plausible conspiracy theories within the MCU.

The title of this week's episode was NOT selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community because we didn't want to spoil the bit! BUT if you want to help us choose the next one, join our discord and/or get some bonus content, become part of #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast

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Properties we talked about this week: Just every Marvel Movie to come out since 2008. SEO also dictates that I write also write Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones and Jordan Peterson here, but I'm not happy about it.

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Image credit: I don’t know I made it.

FLAVOR TEXT: Young Justice

August 16, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comedy, comic, comics, podcasts

Take one part Justice League, add in one part plucky youths, and you've got yourselves Young Justice. Aqualad, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Superboy, and a plural number of Robins all come together in Young Justice to get down in the dirt with your favorite B- and C-list DC villains and today's FLAVOR TEXT is here to tell you all about it! Join us as we discuss the supporting cast and the plot of seasons 1 and 2. Listen in today to find out about your favorite DC hero proteges, stick around to hear us talk about Dennis Rodman.

Special thanks to a budding hero of #buttthwompnation, "Dr Garlicbutter" for commissioning today's episode! You may not be part of the Justice League yet, but we wouldn't force you to train under Green Arrow.

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Episode 105: Hang Em High at Mt. Winkybunion

August 09, 2022 by Andrew Henderson

Is there a cultural touchstone that has been as wildly touched as MTVs Making the Band? Probably! But to continue our season of ripping ideas straight from Music Television, we're pulling a Diddy and crafting the next musical supergroup. Plenty of characters have touched an instrument throughout the history of video games and that's the only requirement for them to be considered for our bands! So grab your headphones, crank your tunes and jam out with us as we decide which video game characters should form a band!

If Dreamtheater and Tool are your speed, then Todd's band will be for you. Maybe you prefer the stomping and clapping of Florence and the Machine or The Mumford and Sons. If that's your vibe then you can get tickets to Kyle's band! And then there's Matt's band. Hope you like bits and bluegrass...

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Coming to the ear holes attached to your face, this summer is a "Summer o' Pilots" on the DT! Patreon! We're putting our real-play TTRPG show on hiatus and producing a new show format each month of the summer. We're almost through the summer and our first three pilots are available to all patrons for as little as $5 a month! Give it a listen and catch up on our first premium show, The Office Drones, at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

Properties we talked about this week: Parrapa the Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy, Brutal Legend, Eternal Sonata, Portal 2, Witcher, Animal Crossing, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Majora's Mask, Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie, Red Dead Redemption 2, Psychonauts 2

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!

Image Credit: Brutal Legend screenshot from this Games Radar piece via Double Fine

DLC EPISODE: Summer 'O' Pilots! Clip Show

August 02, 2022 by Andrew Henderson

Look I'm just going to be honest with you, we forgot to record an episode this week. We broke the "in case of emergency glass" and we've put together a clip show slash preview of some of our recently released premium episodes! If you're not a member of our Patreon, this is all brand spanking new content for you! In case you haven't heard, we've been running pilots of some new show formats all summer long on our premium feed under the banner of our "Summer 'O' Pilots!" This DLC episode will give you a Costco-sized free sample to hopefully entice you to walk down aisle 7 and grab a box of meatless balls! But, like Costco, we're not here to tell you what to do, just to give you free stuff!

If you enjoyed these clips today, consider joining the ranks of #ButtThwompNation over at patreon.com/debatethiscast! You can join our exclusive Discord server and gain access to full-length Summer 'O' Pilots episodes for as low as $5 a month.

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Editor's note: The end of this episode states that DT! Ep 106 comes out next week. That is a lie. It'll be DT! Ep 105.

Image Credit: The very niche “A Pup Named Scooby Doo” reference I originally pulled the Summer ‘O’ Pilots name from via Scoobypedia

Episode 104: Skimming the Slime Out of the Bottom

July 19, 2022 by Andrew Henderson

"Oh boy, here come those dang investors again. They just won't STOP asking us to pitch them new mashups of old videogames. And it's like their asks are getting more and more hacky and uninspired each time...like, this week they just screamed 'Make NPCs a protagonist!' and then sat there, nearly frozen in place." is what we wrote in our shownotes on May 4th of 2021. Well here we are fourteen months later and hot dog we're going again! This time we ask literally the exact same question as last time, "What NPC deserves to be the protagonist in their own game?

Kyle reflects on his Barista-Era and brings an old friend from Animal Crossing to the table. Matt picked one bit this week and boy does he lean into it. Andrew takes us all on a weird, horny adventure and, you guessed it, everyone disliked that.

Recommended reading:

Want to listen to our first run at this prompt? Check out Ep. 78: We Live in a Shorts-ciety here: https://bit.ly/3IRLJ3G

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Coming to the ear holes attached to your face, this summer is a "Summer o' Pilots" on the DT! Patreon! We're putting our real-play TTRPG show on hiatus and producing a new show format each month of the summer. We're half way through the summer and our first two pilots are available to all patrons for as little as $5 a month! Give it a listen and catch up on our first premium show, The Office Drones, at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

Properties we talked about this week: Animal Crossing, Brewster's Millions starring Richard Pryor, Portal, Portal 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball

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!

Image Credit: A Garrus Vakarian throw pillow from RedBubble by designer Eldorys which we may or may not have purchased…

FLAVOR TEXT: Dark Souls

July 12, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comedy

Yes, indeed. In the Age of Internet Video the world of Content Creation was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of dancing babies, epic meals, and Star Wars kids. But then there was Podcasting and with Podcasting came disparity. De-monetization and ad revenue, Copyright strikes and brand deals. Then from the dark, they came, and found of the Sponsorships of Lords within the code. Quibi, the First of the Dead. Best Fiends and their daughters of Chaos, spelled like "friends" without the "r". Blue Apron, the Lord of Sunlight, and their faithful knights Butcher Box and Hello Fresh. Thus began the Age of Podcasting. But soon, the ad revenue will fade and only Content will remain.

Special thanks to devoted skeleton of #buttthwompnation, "mgrum54" for commissioning today's episode!

Image Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/AJlL7yU

Dark Souls content creators:
- VaatiVidya: https://www.youtube.com/c/VaatiVidya
- Fextralife: https://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Dark+Souls+Wiki
- Dave Control: https://www.youtube.com/user/DaveControlLive
- Illusory Wall: https://www.youtube.com/c/illusorywall
- Bonfireside Chat: https://www.bonfireside.chat/

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!

Episode 103: Come and Funge It

July 05, 2022 by Andrew Henderson in comedy, video games, comics

Here at Debate This! Capital Partners, LLC, we are disrupting the fintech market with our strategic approach to innovation. We are innovating approaches to future-proof propriety Web3 technology that will break down the walls of how people view innovative digital decentralized currencies. Our apes? Bored as heck. Our cats? Cooler than yours.

Want to know how we are changing the world through cloud-based blockchain technologies? Invest now in your very own cryptocurrencies inspired by collectables from video games, and you too can go :rocketship :rocketship :rocketship to the moon! Your future investment portfolio could include the likes of a very manly coin inspired by Duke Nukem, a color-coded token economy inspired by Donkey Kong 64, and a community-driven, audio-themed NFT inspired by Super Mario Galaxy.

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Thanks to podvoices.help for providing this list of abortion links and resources:

https://abortion.cafe/ - this is a collection of abortion resources
shoutyourabortion.com - this is a campaign to normalize abortion
https://donations4abortion.com/ - donate to support abortion funds by state
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/supportabortionfunds - donate to the national network of abortion funds (donations split between 80+ abortion funds)
https://usow.org/repro/volunteer/ - this is a list of abortion clinics across the country that need volunteers
https://dontbanequality.com/ - this is language for companies to use to stand against the ruling
https://plancpills.org/ambassadors - here are early abortion access pills you can store in your cabinet
https://prochoice.org/ - this is an abortion access hotline
https://natalist.com/products/early-pregnancy-test-strips - buy early pregnancy test strips
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control - get info on types of birth control
https://choice.crd.co/ - this is a collection of these above links and more. Managed by @starplanes - DM them on twitter to add more
https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe - abortion policy by state as of June 1, 2022
More in-depth version: https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy

Properties we talked about this week: Duke Nukem, Donkey Kong 64, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy, Guns n' Roses' Chinese Democracy, Arctic Monkeys, Morbius, Final Fantasy XIV, Microsoft PowerPoint

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!