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Louis and DK scored 99s on the AFQT

Louis and DK respect the Lord's freedom fighters

Louis and DK acquire waifus

Louis and DK git gud

Louis and DK propose Mariupol DLC for the new Combat Mission

Louis and DK aren't going to fight in WW3

Louis and DK analyze the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from a cultural-critical perspective

Louis and DK discuss Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard and other recent news in the gaming industry

Louis, DK, and very special guest Mike Enoch discuss XCOM, modding, politics in the gaming world, and much more

Louis and DK purchased the interlocking brick system in a toy shop, but that doesn't mean the interlocking brick system is a toy

Louis and DK ring in the new year with a brief roundup of gaming news followed by a discussion of the Netflix original "Don't Look Up"

Louis and DK discuss breastmilk theft at Blizzard, IGN's bombshell article on Destiny, and psycho girlfriend ASMR

Louis and DK explore a middlebrow science fiction universe with their AI waifu

Louis, DK, and special guest Dark Enlightenment are in your base killing your dudes

Louis and DK take a knee

A massive crossover event with the cast of Ctrl-Alt-Right (including Comrade Courier and Neo Atlas along with Randbot) and NIGR

Louis and DK discuss "walled gardens," the death of modding, Call of Duty: Vanguard, and more!

Louis and DK are cloned by Ixians and replaced by ghola with good takes

Louis and DK learn that their podcast is in another castle

Louis and DK get tangled up in jew

Louis and DK discuss the newly announced Super Mario Bros. movie, the release of Windows 11, the GPU shortage in the context of Chinese politics, and the hygiene of the Super Smash Bros. community

Louis and DK will return next week with fresh new content. In the meantime, whether you're a new listener who hasn't heard the back archive, or a recent subscriber to the RSS, you're sure to enjoy this discussion of the XCOM series!

Louis and DK see no harm in running "jenna jameson civilization 2 the matrix.exe"

Louis and DK round up recent developments in the industry, including the resignation of Tripwire CEO John Gibson, China's based gamercaust, and the end of the first round of the Epic v. Apple battle

Louis and special guest Spectre revisit Skyrim as Todd Howard announces yet another HD remaster

Louis and DK hope that this time the RNG will provide them with proper weapons right off the bat

Louis, DK, and very special guest James Allsup expel the (((Thalmor))) and reclaim Skyrim for the Nords

Louis and DK use their status as 90s gaming industry rockstars to awkwardly hit on impressionable young female colleagues

Louis and DK sign up for Governor Fedpoast's New Model Army

Louis and DK cast Expellijewmus "The Death Eaters and the IRA":  http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Fanfic/Britrefs.htm#IRA

Louis and DK discuss the People's Console

Louis and DK drop hard Rs, for SCIENCE

Louis and DK stay warm in their Uncle's comfy chair

Louis and DK trudge through the dregs of what remains of the gaming industry in the Current Year

Louis and DK sit in a pair of Uncle's comfy chairs as they push to Moscow

Louis, DK, and special guest Korbo discuss the late Kentaro Miura's post-modern epic

Louis and DK send all available power to forward shields

Louis and DK discuss the most iconic American firearm of the past half-century

Louis, DK, and special guest Doomer Marty (@Doomer_Marty on poa.st) discuss The Sims MARTY PLAYS THE SIMS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI6J_PneHV3mh7e7dUbQmqA GAMASUTRA INTERVIEW WITH WILL WRIGHT: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134754/the_replay_interviews_will_wright.php?print=1 PCGAMER ARTICLE ON SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SIMS: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/unearthed-the-sims-design-docs-show-the-debate-over-same-sex-relationships/ SOMETHING AWFUL PROTO-"LET'S PLAY" ON THE SIMS 2: https://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/week-life-ithe-2/1/

Louis and DK discuss the video game adaptations of Frank Herbert's magisterial novel Links: PLAY HERZOG ZWEI IN YOUR BROWSER: https://www.ssega.com/play/herzog-zwei/781 PLAY DUNE 2 IN YOUR BROWSER: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/dune-ii-the-building-of-a-dynasty-1e7/play-1e7 DOWNLAOD DUNE 2000: https://gruntmods.com/dune_2000_gruntmods_edition/

Louis and DK discuss the latest developments in the console gaming world

Louis and DK discover the truth about Andrew Ryan

DK and Louis talk old school arcade games

Louis, DK, and special guests Pikraft and Borzoi kick off their discussion of JRPGs with Chrono Trigger

Louis and DK discuss recent developments and "controversy" surrounding the highly anticipated release of Six Days in Fallujah

Louis and DK discuss the Gears of War series of tactical third-person cover shooters

Louis and DK discuss the rise and fall of one of gaming's most iconic studios

Louis and DK discuss Borzoi's collection of essays, "Cultured Grugs" 

Louis and DK stumble through the Treyarch fever dream

Louis, DK, and special guest Bronze Bund discuss the Company of Heroes series of real-time strategy games

Louis and DK discuss the Mass Effect series. LINKS: Shamus Young's Mass Effect Retrospective: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=27792 Mass Effect as "Sex Simulator": https://web.archive.org/web/20080116082011/http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2008/01/13/the_sex-box_race_for_president

Louis and DK discuss, compare, and contrast the grand strategy games of Creative Assembly's Total War franchise and Paradox Interactive

Louis and DK discuss the $GME madness and its implications for the moobment

Louis and DK discuss the rise, fall, and untimely death of gaming on Shockwave (later Adobe) Flash

Louis and DK discuss the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games

Louis and DK talk about all sorts of things more interesting than Cyberpunk 2077, such as the storage capacity of 3.5" floppy disks

Louis and DK discuss the Halo series of First Person Shooters

Louis and DK discuss the XCOM series of strategy games