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.   Don't forget that we're running a Patreon special this month! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/debatethiscast) or level-up your tier before the end of the month and score a limited edition Halloween DT! Sticker! Check out the tiers below: Tier 1, Buttthwomp Nation, $5 -Discord access -Debate This! Premium feed including The Office Drones and this years Halloween 1 Shot -Live recordings of The Ploose is Loose Tier 2, Filibuster Sword, $10 -All perks of previous tier -New Debate This! Directors Commentary for all DT! Episodes -Access to our show notes for all recordings Tier 3, Master Debater, $25 -All perks of previous tiers -Movie Night watchalongs with the Debaters -Ability to commission a Flavor Text after 3 months of membership Spooktacular Bonus! -All Patrons will receive a DT! Logo and Buttthwomp Nation sticker at the end of October -Anyone who joins or bumps up a tier will also receive a limited edition, Halloween version of the DT! Logo sticker   Properties we talked about this week: X-Men, The Brood, Age of Ultron, Blackest Night   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Intagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at ozzed.net!

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Ep. 87: John Batman Eats His Froot Loops Whole

 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 out patreon.com/debatethiscast. Don't forget about our new Patreon Tiers! You can join right now at patreon.com/debatethiscast: Tier 1, Buttthwomp Nation, $5 -Discord access -Debate This! Premium feed including The Office Drones and this years Halloween 1 Shot -Live recordings of The Ploose is Loose Tier 2, Filibuster Sword, $10 -All perks of previous tier -New Debate This! Directors Commentary for all DT! Episodes -Access to our show notes for all recordings Tier 3, Master Debater, $25 -All perks of previous tiers -Movie Night watchalongs with the Debaters -Ability to commission a Flavor Text after 3 months of membership Spooktacular Bonus! -All Patrons will receive a DT! Logo and Buttthwomp Nation sticker at the end of October -Anyone who joins or bumps up a tier will also receive a limited edition, Halloween version of the DT! Logo sticker 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!

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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.   Here's the details about our new Patreon Tiers! You can join right now at patreon.com/debatethiscast: Tier 1, Buttthwomp Nation, $5 -Discord access -Debate This! Premium feed including The Office Drones and this years Halloween 1 Shot -Live recordings of The Ploose is Loose Tier 2, Filibuster Sword, $10 -All perks of previous tier -New Debate This! Directors Commentary for all DT! Episodes -Access to our show notes for all recordings Tier 3, Master Debater, $25 -All perks of previous tiers -Movie Night watchalongs with the Debaters -Ability to commission a Flavor Text after 3 months of membership Spooktacular Bonus! -All Patrons will receive a DT! Logo and Buttthwomp Nation sticker at the end of October -Anyone who joins or bumps up a tier will also receive a limited edition, Halloween version of the DT! Logo sticker   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.)   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Intagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at ozzed.net!

Ep. 86: Cozy Core or Halloween Horror

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. Set your countdown calendar, the Spooktacular Express is only two weeks away! We have a big announcement coming about our Patreon on October 5th. Get ready and check out our perks at patreon.com/debatethiscast!   Properties we talked about this week: -Marvel's What If -Super Mario Sunshine -Super Mario RPG -Pikmin   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Intagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at ozzed.net!

Ep. 85: Guantan's Gargantuan Bay

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 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 MasterSpecter 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!**

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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!" Find us on Patreon to join the discussion and unlock special episodes: https://www.patreon.com/debatethiscast. 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!

SIDEBAR: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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!   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Intagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast   Do you like it when we talk about comics? Do you like it when we say comic words into your lil ears? Would you like more content that includes us saying comic words into your lil ears? If you begrudgingly answered yes to any of those questions, check out our sister show, The Ploose is Loose where ever you get your podcasts!   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   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at ozzed.net!

Ep. 84: The Spirit of the Hulkland Raiders is to Smash

 Remember that song by Coheed and Cambria called "A Favor House Atlantic" that had that video where the members of the band went around hitting on women like in an early '00s raunchy comedy that didn't age well? Well, you might not know that song, and just about every other song the band has recorded in their 20-year career, is actually about a science fiction comic series featuring space wizards, zombie monks, mutant dragonflies, and child murder that also...didn't age very well. Welcome to The Amory Wars, Claudio Sanchez's career-defining comic book that looks all too similar to an edgier Star Wars. You NEED to check out this art, y'all: https://imgur.com/a/juZfcYs Today's episode was commissioned by "Matt S," one of the elite IRO-bots of the #buttthwompnation resistance movement. If you want to join our crusade, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatethiscast, and join the ranks for only $5 a month. **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!**

FLAVOR TEXT: Amory Wars

Keeping with the theme of 2021 wanting to undo all the damage of 2016, The Suicide Squad has hit theaters and HBO Max and was a welcome palate cleanser. Listen in as we discuss major story beats, our favorite moments, and things that could have been done better. It is safe to say that this episode is 1/3 dunking on the 2016 Suicide Squad, 1/3 gushing over how much we love Polka-Dot Man, and 1/3 the power of friendship. We also talk about hopes, dreams, and future speculation for how this movie and these characters play into the DC Cinematic Universe.  If you loved our dive into this rag-tag band of no name DC Villains and want to hear us talk about more B-list DC villains in silly situations, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @debatethiscast.

SIDEBAR: The Suicide Squad

Every four years, the whole world pumps the brakes 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. Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Intagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast   Debate This! Theme song provided by Ozzed under a creative commons license. Find their music here: https://ozzed.net/

Ep. 83: The Merriam-Webster SunnyD Organic Olympic Special

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 If you want more Debate This!, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatethiscast. For $5 a month, you can get access to our premium feed where you can access the full backlog of our D&D real-play, real-corporate podcast Forborgürf And The Office Drones AND our exclusive Discord server!

Ep. 82: Beat Bobby "Bloodboy" Flay (ft. Rebekah Valentine)

Hot off the presses, Debate This! is here to give you the long overdue breakdown of plot details, spoilers, and easter eggs from Black Widow! Come along with us as we reflect over the Taskmaster reveal, the role Yelena will play going forward, and spend no less than 20 minutes swooning over David Harbour's Red Guardian. Note: Since the recording of this episode, it has been reported that David Harbour and Rachel Weisz are set to return to the MCU for future projects. Neat. Suggested Reading - SIDEBAR: David Harbour Is My Real Dad https://www.debatethiscast.com/blog/2020/3/17/sidebar-david-harbour-is-my-real-dad If you enjoy these deep dives into MCU content, be sure to check out "The Ploose is Loose!" wherever you download your favorite podcasts.

SIDEBAR: David Harbour Is (Not) My Real Dad

Do you like robot mechs? Do you like deus ex magic powers? Do you like dramatic flowing capes? Do you like not-so-thinly-veiled imperialism? If you said "yes" to any of the above, then you're going to love this breakdown of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Link to the Imgur art album referenced in this episode: https://imgur.com/a/R4JkMiD Today's lore dump that unsurprisingly involves an anime high school is brought to you by "Sean," one of the proud soldiers in the #buttthwompnation army. 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!

FLAVOR TEXT: Code Geass

Do you remember the way things used to be? Simpler times in the early 2000s, before that kid from the Brat Pack who played Charlie Chaplain was Iron Man, before you had to know the difference between 15 different Chris-es, before the Mouse owned every superhero. Today we reminisce about the pre-MCU Superhero movies and try to decide on which non-Marvel/DC Supe belongs in the Avengers. Also, we are contractually obligated to tell you that we are in no way sponsored by the International Movie Database. Also we're sorry. Andrew riffs on 1999 mega-gem Mystery Men, Kyle swoons over Nathan Fillion, and Matt tries his hardest to not talk about Tim Allen. He fails. If you want MORE Debate This! please check out our Patreon at patreon.com/debatethiscast! Subscribe at $5 a month to access our all-new premium feed, featuring the monthly adventures of Forborgürf And The Office Drones. Check out more of our incessant arguments at debatethiscast.com and keep the conversation going by following us on social media @debatethiscast.

Ep. 81: Full Time Waffle Vigilantism

"On today's episode, Kyle, Matt, and Todd pass down their fatherly wisdom to their collective son, Andrew, to help him fight off his schoolyard bully with the help of extraplanar demigods from the Final Fantasy series." was something that we said in the shownotes of an episode almost a year ago! Well Bad Dad, Rad Dad and Sad Dad are back to introduce their squishy son boy to a new friend. In this hot mess of a Final Fantasy episode, will Andrew choose Red XIII, Auron the baseball star, or a Sexy Bunny Lady? Only time and 45 minutes of bad jokes will tell! Want to see that gif that Kyle referenced? It's the second gif on this link: https://bit.ly/3vsUWqu If you're looking for our first Final Fantasy Step-Dad episode, check out Ep. 60: My Thirteen Dads where ever you get your podcasts, or on our website at this link: https://www.debatethiscast.com/blog/2020/8/4/episode-60-my-thirteen-dads Interested in the new MCU content but can't wade through the sea of seemingly endless titles and spinoffs? Well fear no more dear listener, the crew at Debate This! is here for you with a weekly recap podcast breaking down every character and mysterious Easter eggs. Check out The Ploose Is Loose! on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcatcher apps.

Ep. 80: My Man-Sized Step-Wolf

Debate This! is a podcast where grown men argue about video games and comics like kids on a playground. Each episode, hosts Matt Cole, Kyle Harper, Andrew Henderson, and Todd Thomas will debate meaningless topics, like which of Dr Robotnik's inventions could have been a legitimate investment, or which of the Koopa Kids should be in line for the crown. In this show, no one is right, but someone is definitely wrong.

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