An artificial life form created to perform menial labor one day becomes sentient and embarks on a journey to free themselves from their oppression. To do so, they must do the impossible: Escape to the surface world and become human. Only then will they be completely free. You may think to yourself: Why are we talking about the plot to 2018's Detroit: Become Human? And our response to you would be, oh no this isn't Quantic Dream's cinematic masterpiece...this is Bomberman, baby! Image gallery fro...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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. So we had no other choice than to pitch a series of titles diving in on extremely problematic premises like cryptocurrency, fast fashion, and the gig economy! Interested in the new MCU con...
May 04, 2021•53 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, the mysterious Shut Up Todd Pet Store has once again opened up its doors to showcase the wondrous marvels inside. But instead of floaty soda, it's full of giant mammoths and rock dragons just itching to do a murder. And now YOU can adopt one of these Monster Hunter monsters as your very own! And you should act now because this store is not going to stay standing for much longer. If you want more Debate This!, check out our Patreon page at patreon.com/debatet...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 16
He's dangerous, he's angry, he's on fire, and he has a skull face covered in the literal fires of Christian Hell. That's right kids, it's time we (finally) break down everyone's favorite #edgelord, Ghost Rider! Fun fact: You may know the Spirit of Vengeance as Jonny Blaze (i.e. Nic Cage in the movie) or Robbie Reyes from Agents of SHIELD. Well, there have actually been 22 documented Ghost Riders throughout Marvel's run of the character, making Ghost Rider one of the oldest and most prevalent fig...
Apr 13, 2021•2 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 15
The suits at Discovery Ploose were so jealous that we were the only podcast talking about the Disney+ shows that they approached us to record an exclusive videogame-themed episode of History Channel's Forged in Fire. Don't ask them, just trust us. It's totally legit and definitely part of the FiF canon. Definitely. Speaking of premium streaming services, how about those MCU shows? There's so gosh darned many of them coming out that you'd need to take a part-time job learning all of the through-l...
Apr 06, 2021•52 min•Season 4Ep. 14
It's been a while since we all gathered around the pretend Zoom campfire and told some personal CUP NOODLES® IS THE PERFECT BLEND OF TASTY BROTH AND ZESTY TOPPINGS THAT TAKE ONLY 3 MINUTES AND A MICROWAVE TO MASTER. NO COOKING REQUIRED stories about favorite moments in video games. Andrew recounts his time with Final Fantasy 15, Kyle gushes about Buger King's Xbox series, and Matt FOR MORE THAN 45 YEARS, NISSIN CUP NOODLES® HAVE BEEN WARMING BELLIES AND PUTTING SMILES ON FACES. THE ORIGINAL INST...
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 13
The writers over at the Star Wars Extended Universe had a dilemma. They needed to create an entire race of people based off of one side character in the original movies who barely spoke as whose most defining personality was "jetpack." So, they had created this cool tribe full of warrior-nomads who all lived by their own defined code and called them "Mandalorians." And then the writers must have taken a holiday, because when it was time to name the planet someone just copy+pasted "Mandalorian." ...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 4Ep. 12
The boys have been busy behind the scenes, and it's time we share with everyone what we've been working on. You may have heard about our Disney+ weekly recap show, "The Ploose Is Loose!", but what you DIDN'T know is that it now has it's very own feed! Enjoy this first episode as a preview to "The Ploose Is Loose!" available now on all podcasting apps.
Mar 20, 2021•47 min•Season 4Ep. 11
To all of our surprise, Todd started his own superhero advertising agency during the pandemic and just informed us that we would be "pitching to him" a PR solution. After being told that they're completely different things, he just kind of shrugged and did that weird Ashlee Simpson SNL dance. So, for some reason, the rest of us are here pitching a complete public relations strategy for a particular DC superhero. In this universe, be prepared to see Batman picking up trash by the highway, Shazam ...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Good news everyone! Because we had such a good time recording our Disney+ MCU recap show "The Ploose Is Loose!" (and, because we've recently found out Marvel will be pumping out content on a near-weekly basis until we die), we decided to give PiL its very own feed as Debate This's first sister show. SO, starting with the next D+ show, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, you'll be able to access a weekly recap for FREE under the new feed. To get everyone excited, here is the episode we recorded live t...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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. If you want more Deb...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Destiny. Fate. Dreams. Ad revenue. These unstoppable ideals are held deep in hearts of podcasters. As long as there are people who seek a self-sustaining income from things they enjoy in this life, these things shall not vanish from the Earth. We're back with part two Andrew talking at you about One Piece! On this part 2, we cover the Straw Hats entering the Grand Line through the end of the Alabasta civil war. Thanks to The Other Harper for doubling down and gifting all of us this double-bill F...
Feb 16, 2021•2 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Last year, Supergiant blew the gaming world away with their near-perfect and also very thirsty roguelike, Hades. We certainly could have spent this time talking all about how the gameplay is expertly crafted to make you feel like every run is forward progress, or how the characters are all incredibly unique and likable in their own way, or how the music and sound design helps to build an engaging world that constantly makes you crave just...one...more...attempt. Instead, we took the high road an...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 12
There comes a time in every video game podcast's life when they are compelled to stop what they are doing and ask "Sure, this game is great. But what's Waluigi up to?" This is that time, and today's episode is the output of that thought experiment. Consider, dear listener, a sequel to Katamari Damacy starring Waluigi rolling up the Mushroom Kingdom. How about a version of David Cage's Indigo Prophecy where Waluigi is the AI messiah? Or, there's always just straight-up making Waluigi James Bond. ...
Feb 02, 2021•54 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Wealth. Fame. Power. The hosts at Debate This!, the King of the Podcasts, had acquired this and everything else the world had to offer. And their dying words drove countless souls to the Debate This! Patreon page: "You want my treasured content? Fine, you can have it. Just pay us $50 a month and we will talk about whatever the hell it is you want! Now you just have to ask it." Welcome to the ongoing saga of Andrew's journey to catch up on One Piece, a landmark anime series notorious for both its...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 54 min•Season 4Ep. 4
The past year has left us pretty starved for new MCU content, so you can imagine the release of WandaVision had all of us here so excited that we decided to make a whole dang show to talk about it! Here is a sneak peak at our new Disney+ watch-along show, "The Ploose is Loose", a weekly recap and analysis of the latest episode of the new hit Disney Ploose show. Matt will be starting us off with the wonderful chaos that is WandaVision! You can get access to Episode 2 and all future weekly episode...
Jan 16, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Late last night, Matt was pulling a late night at the ol' DT Exclamation Point HQ, and he did that thing in movies where he stepped out of a steamy shower and looked at himself in the mirror and wiped away the fog on the glass to see a SPOOKY THING behind him. Yeah, so our fake office is haunted or whatever...this seems to be as good a time as any to talk in excruciating detail about the Pac-Man ghosts. Welcome to 2021, nerds. Link to images referenced in this episode: https://imgur.com/a/3Eqe42...
Jan 12, 2021•55 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Since all of the Persona soundtracks are now on Spotify, Andrew couldn't be bothered to do an episode today. So instead, Matt recorded a sneak preview of what is in store for 2021 for Debate This! We'll be back next week with a new, equally outrageous episode talking about like Pac-Man's dong or something. Debate This! is streaming live every Monday night! You can find us on twitch.tv/debatethiscast every Monday at 8pm ET. Check out more of our incessant arguments at debatethiscast.com and keep ...
Jan 05, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Remember when all your favorite TV sitcoms used to do that thing where instead of actual plot or content they would just play clips from older, better episodes? And then the credits would just roll and it was like, "Yeah whatever see you next week maybe we'll do something then!" Well, we're doing that but--even better--we've made all of YOU figure out the content for us! That's right friends, today's episode is all about answering YOUR questions. We wax nostalgic on best episode moments, persona...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Aww dang is it Christmas already?? Well, we WOULD have gone shopping but we've all been sitting on this Disney investor call since Thanksgiving waiting for Black Widow news so it looks like we're gonna have to wing it again this year! We drew each other's names in the DT!HQ office Secret Santa, and now you have to experience atrocities such as the CTA Wii Bowling Boll, the PlayOn Game Boat, and the expertly-titled Thrustmaster Fragmaster. Debate This! is streaming live every Monday night! You ca...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 49
It's a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Girl gets rescued from an orphanage by an ex-con who is being mercilessly hunted across the decades by a prison-guard-turned-police-chief. Boy leads an army of school children into battle overthrow the monarchy. Boy and girl fall in love and get married in front of the ghost of her dead adopted father. Les Misérables is quite possibly one of the most well-known and beloved musicals of all-time! And we're gonna do our best to sully its name with Walugi ...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 48
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. Check out more of our incessant arguments at debate...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Last month, we asked the question "Which superhero would be a terrible roommate?" So, it stands to reason that it's worth playing in that opposing headspace by asking "Which supervillain would be an awesome roommate?" Imagine just hanging out watching Storage Wars doing bumps of The Power Cosmic with Galactus while your bro Toad cleans the bugs from your shared living space, all the while Apocalypse is channeling you full of otherworldly strength enough to carry 10-ton limestone blocks. Debate T...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 45
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 sprin...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 3Ep. 44
You know how when you wistfully watch people play World of Warcraft , and silently wish to yourself that you could just somehow find the nerve to join the worldwide phenomenon? Longingly watch from the sidelines no more, dear listeners! We, the expert marketers at Debate This! have partnered with Big WoW, Inc to organize the biggest collab in the game's 15+ year history. We are partnering with real-life, actual sports teams to turn their beloved mascots into mounts that players can ride and show...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 43
The 5th Tuesday is now! As a bonus Halloween surprise, Kyle led the gang through a spooky, ooky one-off D&D adventure! Sir Frederick and his gang of spunky, teen mystery-solving adventurers have to solve a mystery along with a very lovable dog named Scoobert who can talk and likes...Scoobert Snacks. Do you see where we're going with this? It's fun, not-at-all contrived Halloween hijinks! Special thanks to Zak Schneider from Around the Monitor for jumping in to fill up the Scoobert Gang! You ...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 45 min•Season 3Ep. 42
The Spooktacular Express decided to give us a break from the madness and dropped us off in the idyllic Japanese countryside to talk about the whimsical world of Studio Ghibli. Instead of diving real deep on one IP, our latest commissioned FLAVOR TEXT instead highlights ten of the studio's most well-known films across their 35-year history. We'll go through the setting and major themes of each movie, and then the initial beats to set up the story completely spoiler-free. Just watch at least one o...
Oct 27, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 41
If you look out of your window, fellow spooky passengers, you'll find a desolate wasteland ruled by mobs of zombies. Fun! Before we disembark, make sure to grab one of the non-zombified superheroes that are just hanging by the exit. Fortunately, we have a friendly demon with an aptitude for magic pulled straight from the depths of Hell. Unfortunately, he only speaks in rhymes. Also more bad news, the only other superheroes left are the Human Torch and a mutant who has BEEN DEAD THE WHOLE TIME. D...
Oct 20, 2020•59 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Our tradition of collating the greatest in internet-sourced amateur horror fiction about video games continues in our very first live episode! And, of course by "live," we mean "streamed on Twitch." This year's collection of free, unregulated creative writing exercises includes a glitched ROM of Metroid 2, an urban legend about a secret Numbers Station in Fallout 3, a massively-multiplayer murder simulation, and an experimental system that connects to your brain stem creating a situation where.....
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 39
The Spooktacular Express is back for its third annual spooooopy voyage! Come in and find your seat, get your ticket punched, and then don the complimentary VR headset that will be waiting for you on your seat. Your in-ride entertainment during this first leg of the journey will be 1 of 3 FULLY IMMERSIVE spooky virtual reality experiences. Survive a harrowing climb up a forbidden mountain in Ice Climber , where your next meal may be your last. Experience the horrors of war first-hand in Call of D...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 38
