Atari
Yes, I'm paywalling my trauma. It's been a year since you've been gone. I love you. On the last day you scratched and kicked so hard my skin broke. You dug grooves into the face of my watch. I love you. You could barely
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Oops All SMT
When the world needed him most, he returned. To talk about very long video games that came out last year as long as they were produced by Atlus. If you needed me for that specific criteria I've got just the half hour for you. I'm back
I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well
I turn 31 today. Last January, during a routine doctor's appointment and while getting blood drawn, the nurse asked me what it was like being 30. I had been 30 all of a handful of days at this point, so I said, "About the same as being
More Like Yawntrail, Amirite?
Final Fantasy's latest expansion Dawntrail has been out for a couple of months now. How did Yoship and the team at Creative Studio 3 manage to follow up the conclusion to a 10 year long saga that left most players content? Poorly. They did poorly. In this longtime
Did You Just Yada Yada 9/11?
As promised here's a little Spring 2024 movie and tv roundup. Basically everything Bill watched while he couldn't record for three months. Consider this our Beautiful Cinema catch up episode. We discuss Baby Reindeer, Fallout, Godzilla Minus One, and Civil War. Have thoughts about any of
Get Adobe Out of My House
Sometimes the madness really hits. This episode's Mountains of Madness explores what it's like to be a digital hoarder when it feels like the infrastructure of the internet is crumbling a bit more each day. Also, Adobe's awful practices have led creatives (and the
Pictomancer Better Be Good
Sometimes you gotta let the anger out and bit a bit of a hater. On this one I might have had a little too much haterade. But the good news is that Square Enix gets the brunt of it, so can you really blame me? Our first topic is about
Do Kids Still Flash ROMs?
It's the first episode of Season 4. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. Feel like the end of days for anyone else? No? Just us? Well, anyway that's got us feeling a little nostalgic for simpler times. Like 2016. Bill found
Momento Mori
The arcana is the means by which all is revealed. Hope you wanted an almost 3 hour analysis of Persona 3: Reload, because this is an almost 3 hour analysis of Persona 3: Reload. Covering what's new, what's changed, and answering some important questions that matter
Review: Nostalgia by Cori H. Spenzich
Nostalgia by Cori H. Spenzich, out May 24th from Story Influx Press, tells the chaotic tale of Ted Bundy (not the one you have in mind) after a bizarre car accident allows him to travel through time during each bout of his newly-gained narcolepsy. Wearing the influences of Vonnegut and
Fintech For Truckers
The DeadEndRoad Show celebrates 100 episodes the only way we know how: by getting really confused and then really sad. We've brought back Dating is Dead, and we already wish we didn't. We found the new way to post personal ads online, and calling them unhinged
Less of A Bummer
It's episode 99, which we have decided is the arbitrary penultimate episode of the season. What does that mean? Not much, it turns out. Ian really needed to explain how Love is Blind works though. Our big story is an update and conclusion to last episode's
And The Award Goes To...
We've got some more publishing industry drama on deck this week, where we dare to ask the question: what the hell happened at the Hugo Awards? TL;DR: stop asking questions it's all fine, and if it wasn't fine, yes it was. Suspicious votes,
XIV Reasons Why
Welcome to Did it All For The Moogle, a very serious podcast. Listen to this first episode to find out why one man would lose his sanity by devoting his free time to 100 hour video games and Fred Durst. After a quick rundown of just what the hell this
Lost
Maybe I would’ve picked up on it sooner if I wasn’t so consumed with out-of-body experiences
Digital Homunculi
New year, new reasons to realize the internet was a mistake. In Dead Letters, this dude keeps emailing me his book. So I decided to finally take Levar Burton's advice. I took a look. Mountains of Madness has us discuss the doomed virtual reality dreams of Facebook/Meta,
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New Year, New Site
Lots to be excited about this year, more to come from the publishing side, the audio side, and more.
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Babylon Function
I think chemistry is a strange little lie
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Walking A Tightrope
This is the back half of our final recording session of the year, which is now our final episode of 2023. We discuss David Fincher's The Killer, Oppenheimer, and Sam Esmail's Leave the World Behind in that order. Apologies for the weird breathy audio in certain
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Literally Going to Be Sick
We've got a publishing industry-focused episode this week, as we take a look at the YA author who tanked their career over Goodreads sock-puppet accounts and attempted to cover for it in the goofiest manner possible. But before that, can anyone help explain this strange email? It'
Podcast Hulk
We are in fact alive and back with another helping of watching the internet crumble all around us. Ian's down in the dumps and I don't think this week's topics will help him out much. Our main story concerns the tragic passing of hockey
The DeadEndRoad Show #93: A Man of Infinite Jest
You've heard of the classic "red flags" for dudes: the Pulp Fiction dorm room poster, liking Fight Club a little too much, an unopened copy of Infinite Jest on the nightstand. But what about anime red flags? Is something as hyper-specific as Ergo Proxy really a
The DeadEndRoad Show #92: 5g Zombification
We’ve got a particularly mad Mountains of Madness for you this week, as we talk about a brave landlord protecting his tenants from turning into zombies from that scary emergency alert that came and went. Then we get into why Google search is so awful now, straight from Google’
The DeadEndRoad Show #91: Real Life Anime Woman
It’s spooky season, and that means our Horror Harvest is back again to bring you the scares and movie takes you’ve come to know. Which are worse for your health? This time we’ve got Evil Dead (2013), and it’s hard not to compare it to the
The DeadEndRoad Show #90: Krack My Back
We’ve got some bookish stories for you in this one. First up, what the hell is going on with these scammy ebook apps on the Google Play Store? Our SEO/AI-driven hellscape continues unabated. Then we discuss the Seattle Kraken BookTok incident. When fandom becomes harassment in an arena
The DeadEndRoad Show #89: 9/11 Music
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) circulated a list of songs to all of its radio stations that were suggested to not be broadcast. Some of the picks make sense, others absolutely do not. We go through the list, a time capsule of the thought
The DeadEndRoad Show #88: The Pallbearers Club
In our first Book Club episode we discuss Paul Tremblay’s The Pallbearers Club, the pseudo-memoir novel filled with New England dread, medical anxiety, vampire orbs, and 80s punk. What did we think of the unique formatting and hyper-focused interiority of the narration? Give it a listen to find out.
The DeadEndRoad Show #87: Numbers Go Up
Here with a solo pod, because I have some stuff I want to talk about. Like the new Ari Aster movie, Beau is Afraid, and how it’s a 3 hour long nightmare for the paranoid among us. Specifically me. Later I’ve got an anime check in, as a
The DeadEndRoad Show #86: Final Fantasy-A** Final Fantasy
We’ve got a packed show for you this week. In Mountains of Madness we talk about Twitter clones and where we’re all supposed to go now that our 20s are over. We can’t keep making accounts forever. In Worst Beats in the World we discover the song
The DeadEndRoad Show #85: Shelved
Sometimes we just shouldn’t record. But once we press that shiny red button, all bets are off, for better or worse. In any event we’ve got the latest Persona 3 Reloaded updates after the game’s official unveiling. And Atlus had still had one more trick up their
The DeadEndRoad Show #84: Burn My Dread
All the rumors and leaks were true. The Persona 3 remake is real, and in this episode I give my first impressions and reactions to the news, as well as some in-depth analysis of the trailer and what we know so far about Persona 3: Reloaded. I have some concerns.
The DeadEndRoad Show #83: King of Wands
Sometimes we never learn from our mistakes. Toddlers learn not to touch the hot stove, but we didn’t remember why we stopped doing tarot readings in the opening of the show. Oops. Later, we discuss the children’s author who sought a little too much real world experience, the