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

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

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

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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,

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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

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Lost

Maybe I would’ve picked up on it sooner if I wasn’t so consumed with out-of-body experiences

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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?

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

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