October is behind us but the horrors persist; the Spooktacular Express has pulled into the DT! Station for a bonus week! To celebrate, we're running it back on an episode topic from a few years ago. In 2022, we attempted to turn edgy, gritty games into edutainment experiences. Well to celebrate this bonus week of Halloween-adjacent content, we're attempting to turn horror games into edutainment experiences!

Todd is here to vehemently defend his beliefs. Kyle is here to efficiently fix-up his domicile. Andrew is here to passionately promote a service that does not sponsor our podcast.

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Properties we talked about this week: Obsession, Night Trap, Observation Duty, Five Nights at Freddy's, Alien: Isolation, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, The Typing of the Dead, Warhammer: 40000 Boltgun - Words of Vengeance

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While we here at Debate This! are not the biggest fans of cops, we are HUGE fans of dusty, old men investigating crime in rural towns. So, imagine our surprise when Jimmy Gunz came to the office and told us he's got a sick, new series starring Kyle Chandler investigating crimes in a small, Nebraska town? AND, he buried the lede by leaving out this just so happens to be a Green Lantern series that doesn't even reference The Blackest Night.

Yeah, so Lanterns is real good. It's fun, it's interesting, and it feels so much different than what's been on Disney+ lately. You should give it a watch. We did.

Let's begin this FLAVOR TEXT with a question: What distinguishes a free man from a slave? Enderal: Forgotten Stories is a total conversion mod of everyone's favorite ubiquitously-available demigod simulator, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. 

But, Enderal is not Skyrim. There's no sweetrolls or Fus-Ro-Dah-ing or NPCs directing you to the Cloud District. Enderal is a completely original, standalone RPG set in the dark fantasy world of Vyn. Where Skyrim exists to make you feel like a dragon-slaying superhero, Enderal exists to force the player to question their reality and what it means to be the "Chosen One". 

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The year was 2018 and four cis, white guys said, "You know what this world needs? Another podcast!" And here we are, 8 years and 200 episodes later. Whether you've been with us since the beginning, found your way here through a FLAVOR TEXT, or are listening to your first episode of DT! right now, thank you! None of us thought we'd still be doing this, but hot dog, we're glad we are. So take a moment to reflect with us as we ask ourselves, "Which DT! episode deserves a relitagation?"

Kyle is setting us up to make people mad. Matt is setting us up to make people learn. Todd is setting us up to do the exact same thing a second time.

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• Debate This! Ep. 15: How Many People has Waluigi Killed?

• Debate This! Ep. 55: Let the Kabodies Hit the Floor

• Debate This! Ep. 111: Re-Education (Through Kickflips and Guns)

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Properties we talked about this week: Smart House, Kabaddi, Power Slap, Postal 2, Kirby

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The DT! crew braved the home of the Braves for a second year in a row at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo in Atlanta, GA. This time, we put our polygonal pedals to the medal and asked, what modern streaming series could live on as an early 00s-era kart racer? Andrew re-treads all too familiar ground with The Last Of Us, Kyle plays with short term memory less with Severance, and Todd takes advantage of a captive audience to talk at us about The Boys.

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A massive thank you to the folks at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo for having us a second time! Mark your calendars and get the info for next year at https://gameatl.com/

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Properties we talked about this week: Severance, The Last of Us, The Boys, Power Drift, Pole Position, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Crash Team Racing, M&Ms Kart Racing, Twisted Metal

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Despite everything, it's still you. Or at least that's what we were told in Undertale, but now we're picking up from the ending of our Undertale FLAVOR TEXT where we talked briefly about Deltarune and are now diving into chapters 1-5. 

Find out what an alternative reality world looks like for your favorite Undertale characters like Toriel, Sans, and Alphys. Then, accidentally fall into a portal to the Dark World to meet your newest friends with very normal names like Lancer, Rouxls Kaard, and Ralsei whose name is an anagram for Asriel which I'm sure is just a coincidence. Join Todd as he takes Matt and Kyle to his Castle Town all the way up to where they meet their dad's best friend, Jarona! 

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Todd also made a playlist he has called Deltarune Bangers, so here's that as well I guess: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tQ93LujdbrLJIBkEdscNZ?si=UIzf4QtTSSeS1kuZeLGDvw 

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The latest installment in James Gunn's DC Universe has come to streaming in all of its glowing, green glory. Even though moviegoers were introduced to Guy Gardner as the Green Lantern in 2025's Superman, HBO Maxers(?) have the opportunity to watch Hal Jordan train John Stewart in the new show, Lanterns. Here's the kicker, Lanterns is pretty good! Because this new show has proven that adding power rings to a series makes it good, we've decided to follow suit. This week we're out to determine which scripted show of the past would be improved with a Green Lantern!

Andrew is doing impressions. Kyle is doing optimism. Matt has to go back.

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Properties we talked about this week: Lanterns, Seinfeld, Parks and Recreations, Lost, Green Lantern (2011), Superman (2025), The Blackest Night

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Trading card games are so hot right now. You've got Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-OH!, Riftbound, One Piece, Lorcana, Flesh & Blood, and, like, a dozen more. The whole economy around TCGs has only been accelerated by millennial nostalgia. With 90s kids cresting into their 40s, they now have the funds to chase that foil Charizard they've always wanted. Well we're on a mission to break into that market. This week we're pitch nostalgic TCGs based on properties that have never come to cardboard.

Matt is appealing to a particular type of gamer. Todd is appealing to a particular type of athlete. Kyle is appealing to himself in particular. 

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Properties we talked about this week: Thomas the Tank Engine, The Railway Series, Thomas and Friends, American Gladiators, Animorphs, Ticket to Ride, Magic: The Gathering Arena

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Image Credit: “Jake, Reclucant Leader” trading card created by our very own Kyle Harper.

It's been three years since our last Magic: The Gathering FLAVOR TEXT. In those last three years, a lot of things have happened in the MtG universe. Also, we all got REAL into Magic: The Gathering.

Join Kyle as he walks us through the modern MtG lore and helps us all prepare for the upcoming set, Reality Fracture. If you're curious how we got here, you can check out Parts 1 and 2 of our MtG FLAVOR TEXT series in Seaason 2 of Debate This! and Part 3 in Season 6.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day has proved to be a brand new banger for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, Tom Holland's latest outing has Peter Parker has us all asking the question, "Are we back?"

Join Andrew, Todd and Matt as they chat through spoilers, cameos, and, of course, the Sadie Sink of it all.

This episode was recorded LIVE at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo! A massive thanks to GenXGrownUP for sponsoring the Creator Corner! Check them out at genxgrownup.com. 

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