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Our adventures in the world of Wizardry continue! We were so excited to all
be playing the same game that we had to do a whole podcast about it. We
uncover the finer points of the game's thoughtfully brutal dungeon design,
and we think through the surprisingly deep narrative possibilities of
old-school RPGs. Watch out for Temple Healthcare Reaganomics, because
there's no such thing as free loot. Don becomes a corpse retrieval
specialist. Tof creates Six Dwarf Lords in Their Halls of Stone. Nate broke
his ankles so you could run. We all got bushwhacked.

Nate, Samantha, and Luis do their best not to get lost in the hall of
mirrors as they think through various types of self-referential games,
covering everything from product tie-ins and Fortnite (it's bigger on the
inside) to critical hits like Inscryption, The Stanley Parable, and There
Is No Game.

Friends! We are still living, still playing, still podcasting onwards. Nate, Don, and Christian go on an epic journey through the eldritch void in this one, starting with Don’s take on World of Horror: a guy in a red is going around chopping off some feet. Christian’s been playing Spider-Man 2, answering the question on everyone’s mind: “Does Venom eat the lobsters?” Nate and Christian play Super Mario Wonder and argue about talking flowers; Don rides the Mario Kart ride. We can’t reach consensus about the Mario movie, but we do agree that Diablo IV is TV. Take note, gentle reader, that the episode is not called Butt Echoes… but it could have been.

Friends! We are still living, still playing, still podcasting onwards. Nate, Don, and Christian go on an epic journey through the eldritch void in this one, starting with Don’s take on World of Horror: a guy in a red is going around chopping off some feet. Christian’s been playing Spider-Man 2, answering the question on everyone’s mind: “Does Venom eat the lobsters?” Nate and Christian play Super Mario Wonder and argue about talking flowers; Don rides the Mario Kart ride. We can’t reach consensus about the Mario movie, but we do agree that Diablo IV is TV. Take note, gentle reader, that the episode is not called Butt Echoes… but it could have been.

In a blast from the past (and by that, we mean early 2023), this episode of the Gamers with Glasses Show features Don as he delights in the pure semiotics of Akka Arrh. Christian plays Season, “non-dystopian, post-apocalyptic bicycle scrapbook game” in which anxiety over the future doesn’t necessarily have to mean panic. We talk about Dredge and reminisce on fishing minigames of times gone by, because fishing is golf.

We offer some predictions about what Tears of the Kingdom will be like, because it wasn’t out yet. All our predictions were 100% correct, of course. Roger talks Dead Cells and Castlevania, Nate complains about the Unbearable Lightness of Mario, and we all get to share our favorite long falls in video games. Don wins the podcast: “If Cuphead and Flamehead got together, they could make Crème-brûlée-head.”

Join us for a very special episode of the Gamers with Glasses Show featuring Caroline Delbert and Taylor McCue, organizers of the Queer Games Bundle 2023. Tune in to learn about ways to support the queer games community (including but not limited to buying the bundle!) and for game recommendations from the bundle organizers. Conversation topics range from game bundles as wealth redistribution, to teddy bears who really want you to like strapons, to butthole physics. Speaking of, if you would like a reference to this episode’s title, stay tuned at the 40 minute mark. This is one of our favorite episodes we've done so far, but be aware that it is recorded with adult ears in mind.