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Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be ...
2021-03-03 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-03-02 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In a remarkable bit of serendipity, this game wasn't a hit because you couldn't hit anything in it. Garry Winnick and Steve Purcell set about creating a quirky little brawler for the NES, and they made a comic to promote it. Then they made an animated series to promote it. And people were excited. Then they played the game an...
2021-03-01 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Zoe joins us to talk about the introduction of Hunter Gathers, Brock's mentor at the OSI. Brock is called away on a special mission, forcing him to leave the Venture family in the hands of a freelance agent... Molotov Cocktease. While Mol attempts to whip the family into shape in the hopes that Brock will leave them for the m...
2021-03-01 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-28 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be ...
2021-02-27 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-27 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Bowser’s Fury, FUSER, and we ask you to pitch some game mashups.
Hello! It's time for you to hurt us more. We have four candidates for March's premium Abject Suffering episodes, and we need your help narrowing it down to two. As always, watch the videos below if you need your memory jogged, and place your votes by Tuesday, March 9.
This month's Dispatch topic is what we're calling "Retro Peril", or the idea that playing a newer entry in a genre would stop you from enjoying classic entries if you went back to revisit them. Would it be impossible to find joy in Torment if you got used to the quality of life improvements in Disco Elysium?
We also ans...
2021-02-25 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-25 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we conclude our series on Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, a great horror comedy anthology show. We look at the last four episodes... "Angel Man" continues the story of Mr. Dimler and the otherworldly singer Scotty. "The Demotion" is about a desperately unhappy air traffic controller who gets a lot of peop...
2021-02-24 22:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be ...
2021-02-24 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hate Floats is an important episode because it sets up the main conflict of season 2, and establishes the Monarch as the second protagonist of the series. The Monarch, having just escaped from jail, sets about putting his operation back together and attempting to get Dr. Girlfriend back from the transparent arms of Phantom Li...
2021-02-23 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-23 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We all know the stereotypical traits of nerds. Thick glasses, nasally voice... narcolepsy? Lester the Unlikely is a cinematic platformer, a la Out of This World or Prince of Persia, that highlights how important good level design is to that kind of game. However, if you're looking for a game that lets you punish turtles, this...
2021-02-22 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
If you step foot in Ash Lake, you'll be struck by the improbability of a sea of trees rising infinitely to a sky you cannot see. And if you've seen Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, you'll think "this looks familiar".
It's impossible to deny that Hayao Miyazaki's work influenced Dark Souls, which is why we decided to...
2021-02-21 19:57:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-21 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be ...
2021-02-20 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-20 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-18 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a late-era PSX game that looks and plays like a launch-era PSX game, and all it has going for it is its sense of humor. You play as Mort, a chicken who must rescue baby chicks from the invading interdimensional cubes from Buillon.
2021-02-17 22:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a fantasy saga of high flying dragons and alien invasions where nothing at all happpens. This episode is our followup to the Companions of Xanth episode, this time featuring a fantasy series from Kole's childhood. Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern is a Dreamcast adventure game based on Anne McCaffrey's books about dragon...
2021-02-17 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Reminder that you can read along with and ahead of the show by subscribing to Marvel Unlimited (we don't get paid for you doing that, so it's not an ad, it's just a cool service). You can also use Comixology, or buy the trades from your local comic book shop (the preferred method, if we're being honest). Be ...
2021-02-17 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This season premiere brings us the first of many new status quos, but not the one you expect. The boys are dead and Rusty is adrift, while Dr. Orpheus is wracked with guilt over what happened. The Monarch is in prison, and Dr. Girlfriend has fled to the arms(?) of Phantom Limb. How do we proceed from here?
Special thank...
2021-02-16 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-16 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The bad news is you only have 22 minutes. The good news is, you have as many 22 minutes as you need. Outer Wilds is a plucky, optimistic game about horrifying circumstances. You stand alone in the footsteps of an ancient civilization, working hard to figure out why your solar system keeps exploding. To do this, you have to fl...
2021-02-15 23:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's Abject Suffering is about an admirable joke game that asks the question: is it possible for a dog to be bad?
2021-02-15 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less...
2021-02-14 07:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks!
So it looks like I'll be on track to start recording again next week. I just wanted to let everyone know what has been going on and to thank everyone for their patience given that early release has slipped on a couple of shows, and Bonfireside Chat skipped a week.
A couple of weeks ago, I got a non co...
