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

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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.

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Special thanks to Young Deuces for joining us on Debate This! today! You should check out Deuces's stuff! He's one fourth of a sick podcast called Geekset, he hosts 1 on 1 interviews on the Geekset YouTube channel, and the Geekset team (Deuces included) are working on a documentary focusing on Black Geek culture.

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Properties we talked about this week: Cult of the Lamb, Michael Jordan: Chaos In The Windy City, ShaqFu, Bill Lambier's Combat Basketball, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Fable, Mirror's Edge, The Sims, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

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FLAVOR TEXT: Social Justice in Comics

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Art imitates life. That is the same with comic books. Over the last few decades of storylines featuring our favorite comic book heroes, there have been plenty of problematic storylines, events, and characters that mirror the same cultural issues we have faced in America. The Comics Code Authority, culturally insensitive propaganda, and the fact that white comic book writers have likely unwittingly ruined a whole bunch of storylines featuring underrepresented populations are just a few entries in the bird's nest that is social justice issues in comics.

Since we know these themes can be problematic, we wanted to point out the following timestamps for specific trigger warnings:
- Violence against Japanese people - 7:40-7:50
- Sexual Assault - 36:55-38:30
- The Ku Klux Klan - 1:10:00-1:12:40
- Chemical Warfare Against a Minority - 1:17:30-1:19:00

Today's educational, informative, and culturally self-reflective lore dump is brought to you by Tommy, AKA "Whomstrodamus" in our Discord! Check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatethiscast if you want to commission your own FLAVOR TEXT for the one-time price of $50!

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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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Episode 69: Mr. Toad's Uncomfortably Horny Journey

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Well, we did it. We made it to the sex number. And what other way is there to celebrate than to make some perfectly wholesome games super horny? Come along with us on this experiment/crime against humanity as we take a class at an anime high school filled with Punch Out! characters, and romance the local fishmonger in a sexy rendition of Marc Davis's Pro Bass Challenge, and do whatever the hell Kyle is having us do in Pokemon: Leather and Lace.

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Image Credit: River Walls

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FLAVOR TEXT: League of Legends

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You know when you get that big ol' 1,200+ calorie burrito bowl from Chipotle and you see all the different colorful ingredient layers? And then you just mash your plastic fork and slosh everything around and the guac turns the whole thing into a murky greenish-brown protein slurry? And then you ladle on hot sauce overtop like gravy on instant potatoes? That's kind of like the story of League of Legends--it's a burrito bowl chock full of knights and wizards, a generous helping of demons, a sprinkle of pirates, and all topped off with a few dashes of Lovecraftian horror. All these things that we enjoy individually somehow come together in one big goopy mess of fun, fantasy nonsense.

There is A LOT to unpack here, so we're focusing on setting up the setting and the world of Runeterra, which is the center of Riot's rebooted lore back in 2014. We're also highlighting a few choice characters and how each of their backstories connect back to the hub world.

Imgur album link: https://imgur.com/a/uIJMpc8

Link to Riot's full League character roster: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/champions/

This episode was commissioned by "zhakhix," #butthwompnation's resident League of Legends aficionado. If you want to commission your own FLAVOR TEXT, check us out on Patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast!

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FLAVOR TEXT: Magic: The Gathering (Pt. 2)

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On Part 2 of our journey through the lore of Magic: The Gathering, we cover everything after The Great Mending up to where the story stands today. Our main focus is the Gatewatch, the unlikely alliance of demi-gods that consists of an All-American quarterback, a lovestruck wizard, a goth necromancer, and one very swole cat.

The art behind Magic is still really tight! Here’s this episode’s rad image album.

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Episode 32: Please Stop Trying to Domesticate My Near-Sighted Son

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Yeah, sure, your pet is your best friend because and they provide you with unrequited love and companionship, yada yada yada. But your dog would be waaay cooler if it could breathe fire. Hypothetical situations like this are what we here at Debate This! do best. And so, we’re taking some of Mario’s most iconic baddies and housebreaking them. Oh no, Chargin’ Chuck peed on the carpet again…

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Episode 22: It Takes Two to Orangutango

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War. War never changes. Except when the latest Fallout game gets bored with its lack of NPCs and decides to incorporate a hipster gorilla, malicious disembodied hands, and a delusional man shouting about “catching ‘em all.” In addition to our pitch for this new, unofficial DLC, we add to our pantheon of false actor gods.

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