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All Episodes

Splash Damage — 142 episodes

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Episode 142: Game Dev Claims Goblins in Crimson Desert Are Antisemitic

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Episode 141: The Hypocrisy Surrounding Resident Evil’s Sexy Leon

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Episode 140: Relooted is Another Failure Games Journalists are Propping Up

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Episode 139: Ubisoft is in Trouble

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Episode 138: Lord of the Fallen 2 Catching Heat for Making Attractive Characters

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Episode 137: Revisiting Recent Releases Not Doing So Hot

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Episode 136: Nature is Healing—The Male Gaze is Back, According to CNN

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Episode 135: Game Devs Mock Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

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Episode 134: Faith in Elder Scrolls VI Drops Further as Bethesda Hires Dragon Age: The Veilguard Writer

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Episode 133: Activist Groups, Payment Processors, and the UK Government: The Entities Making a Recent Push for Video Game Censorship

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Episode 132: Wonderfilled Games Proudly Makes a Game that Imagines a Future with No White People

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Episode 131: Stellar Blade’s Success on PC Proves Game Journos as Out of Touch

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Episode 130: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Sales are Dismal

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Episode 129: The Wild Success of Indie Darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Should Mortify the Video Game Industry

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Episode 128: Oblivion Remastered Has Been “Modern Audienced”

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Episode 127: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Isn’t as Successful as Ubisoft Wants You to Believe

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Episode 126: Borderlands 4 is already proving to be a disaster

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Episode 125: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is What Happens When Devs Take the Blue Pill

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Episode 124: Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Sales Bombed, and Assassin’s Creed Shadows is Next

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Episode 123: Watch Out: Witcher 4 Might Be Another Woke Disaster

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Episode 122: The Game Awards Shows the Sad State of Western Games

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Episode 121: Avowed’s Art Director Accused of Discriminating Against White Men

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Episode 120: IGN Backpedals on Dragon Age: The Veilguard Praise

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Episode 119: Surprising No One, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Woke Drek

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Episode 118: Will the Role of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Yasuke be Diminished?

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Episode 117: Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Gonna Tank

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Episode 116: Concord and Other Recent Games Have Been Disasters—Will Devs Learn?

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Episode 115: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is Censored, Because Of Course

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Episode 114: Capcom Pushes for DEI with Goal of Getting More Women in Leadership

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Episode 113: Kotaku Australia is Dead

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Episode 112: Kotaku Writer Compares the Difficulty of Her Life to Shadow of the Erdtree

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Episode 111: Assassin’s Creed Shadows Faces Backlash for Black Samurai

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Episode 110: Farm Folks Dev Caves to the Perpetually Offended

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Episode 109: Stellar Blade Devs Promise Game Won’t Be Censored, Then Censor It

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Episode 108: The New Tomb Raider Won’t be a Tomb Raider

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Episode 107: Dev Admits Blatant Racism as Sweet Baby Inc. Drama Continues

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Episode 106: Gamergate 2. 0? Sweet Baby Inc. is Ruining Video Games, and Gamers are Waking Up

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Episode 105: Tomb Raider Remasters Want You to Feel Bad for Playing Them

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Episode 104: Ubisoft Wants You to Own Nothing and Be Happy

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Episode 103: Final Fantasy Panelist Canceled for Simply Liking Tweets

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Episode 102: Spider-Man 2 is Super Woke—Except in the Middle East

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Episode 101: Wokies Delete Mods that Remove Starfield’s Pronouns, Baldur’s Gate 3’s Lore-Inaccurate Races

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Episode 100: Nerd Stuff is Awesome

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Episode 99: Ding Dong! The Witches Are Dead!

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Episode 98: Assassin’s Creed Take on Feudal Japan Will Feature a Female Samurai and Black Shinobi

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Episode 97: Final Fantasy XVI is Too White for Game Journalists

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Episode 96: Overwatch 2 Celebrates Everyone … Except Straight People

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Episode 95: Where All the Straight Female Characters At?

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Episode 94: Kotaku Does a Racism Over Being Blacklisted

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Episode 93: D&D Creators Think Half-Species (Mixed Races) Are “Inherently Racist”

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Episode 92: Kotaku Really Doesn’t Like Sexy Stuff, Except When They Do

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Episode 91: Retcons and Censorship: Western Entertainment Has Completely Stagnated

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Episode 90: The Harassment of Hogwarts Legacy Players is Out of Control

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Episode 89: Despite Leftists’ Efforts, Hogwarts Legacy is a Huge Success

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Episode 88: Wizards of the Coast is Killing D&D with a New Open Game License

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Episode 87: Kotaku, PC Gamer Believe Every Game Must Include Black People

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Episode 86: EA Apologizes Over Lack of Representation During Sims Presentation

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Episode 85: CD Projekt Red is Doomed

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Episode 84: God of War’s David Jaffe is a Hypocrite

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Episode 83: D&D Uses White Savior Trope IRL to Save Black People from “Racist” Lore

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Episode 82: Spider-Man Mod Banned for Not Being “Inclusive”

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Episode 81: Ben Kuchera Goes on Unhinged Rant Against Polygon

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Episode 80: Rockstar is Killing GTA VI by Making It Woke

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Episode 79: Rippaverse Proves There’s a Huge Market for Non-Woke Media

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Episode 78: TheGamer.​com, Ironically, Hates Gamers

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Episode 77: Kotaku Defends Amber Heard and Compares Her Plight to GamerGate

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Episode 76: Kotaku Has a Weird Definition of “Black”

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Episode 75: Kotaku Called Out by Developer for Turning Story into a Race Issue

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Episode 74: Gaming Industry Freaking Out About Abortion

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Episode 73: Kotaku Praises Game Developers for… Refusing to Leave Twitter?

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Episode 72: Rockstar Caves to Pressure and Censors GTA V

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Episode 71: Game Rant Says Elden Ring Characters’ Suffering is “Gender Coded”

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Episode 70: VG247 Thinks Ghostwire: Tokyo is More “Authentic” Than Ghost of Tsushima

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Episode 69: Polygon is Proud Dungeons & Dragons’ Next Book is Written Entirely by Minorities

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Episode 68: Game Developers Call Lost Ark Female Costumes “Sexist”

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Episode 67: The Verge Says Elden Ring Fails Black Players

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Episode 66: Horizon Forbidden West is Not Racist

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Episode 65: Journalists Claim Sifu is Racist Because It’s Developed by White People

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Episode 64: Kotaku Defends Gamers for Once Instead of Calling Them “Toxic” and “Entitled”

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Episode 63: G4’s Indiana Black Really Wants to Be a Victim

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Episode 62: Kotaku Claims Halo: Infinite Alienates Players by Tracking Scores

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Episode 61: Dungeons & Dragons Sterilized in Pursuit of “Inclusivity”

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Episode 60: IGN Says PlayStation Pedophile Isn’t News, But Conservative Game Developers Existing Is?

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Episode 59: Are the Best Years of Gaming Behind Us?

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Episode 58: Games Media Label Call of Duty: Vanguard as Islamophobic

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Episode 57: Unsatisfied with Just Canceling Five Nights at Freddy’s Dev, Kotaku Calls Him a “Weird Christian Dude”

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Episode 56: Battlefield 2042 Has a Nonbinary Character Because Why Not?

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Episode 55: Waypoint Thinks Itself Too Holy to Play Far Cry 6

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Episode 54: Games Should Not Be Retroactively Censored

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Episode 53: Kotaku Thinks Skater XL is Too White

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Episode 52: Game Dev Loses Job for Being Pro-Life

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Episode 51: China is Oppressing Gamers Like It’s Literally 1984

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Episode 50: PC Culture Claims Another Victim with the Saints Row Reboot

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Episode 49: Geena Davis: The New Woke Scold Blaming Society’s Woes on Video Games

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Episode 48: All-White Game Studios Are an Abomination, Apparently

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Episode 47: Jason Schreier Knew About Blizzard Abuse for Years

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Episode 46: Games Journalist Insists on Reviewing Games on Easy Mode

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Episode 45: People Blast Kotaku for Reducing Gamer’s Achievement to Her Being Black

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Episode 44: Games Journalists Crucify Erik Kain for Reporting the News

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Episode 43: Games Journalists Celebrate Ousting a Republican Developer

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Episode 42: IGN Complains Battlefield 2042 Won’t Take a Political Stance

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Episode 41: Kotaku is Mad About Queer Representation

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Episode 40: Polygon Compares Mass Effect to Modern Policing Politics

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Episode 39: Vice Wants “Ableist” Mass Effect Mission Censored

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Episode 38: Apex Legends’ Diverse Character Roster Isn’t Woke Enough?

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Episode 37: Kotaku Will Never Be Satisfied with Video Game Representation

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Episode 36: This Land is My Land is Not Racist

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Episode 35: Extra Credits Embarrasses Itself Again

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Episode 34: Journalists and Developers Want Joe Biden to Censor Six Days in Fallujah

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Episode 33: Games Journalists Have Already Written Off Six Days in Fallujah for Having the “Wrong” Politics

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Episode 32: Hogwarts Legacy Dev Calls Out Games Media

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Episode 31: Developer Leaves Hogwarts Legacy Project After Games Press Hit Pieces

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Episode 30: Journalists Are Libeling a Developer for Not Being Woke Enough

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Episode 29: Cancel Culture Claims Another Victim: Mandalorian Actress Gina Carano

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Episode 28: Gaming’s Got a Double Standard on Butts

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Episode 27: GamerGate is Being Blamed for the GameStop Stock Situation

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Episode 26: Games Journalists Exist Only to Antagonize Gamers

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Episode 25: Twitch’s New PogChamp Policy Backfires Immediately

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Episode 24: The Capitol Riots Are Being Blamed on Gamers

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Episode 23: CD Projekt Red is Having a Bad Week

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Episode 22: Sophia Narwitz Talks Trans Representation in Cyberpunk 2077

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Episode 21: Cyberpunk 2077 Has Already Triggered Polygon

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Episode 20: Animal Crossing Community Lashes Out Over Player’s “Culturally Appropriated” Hairstyle

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Episode 19: Do Politics Belong in Games?

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Episode 18: Ubisoft Kowtows to Lone Offended Nobody Over Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

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Episode 17: Super Seducer Creator Richard La Ruina Talks Sequel, Games Journalism Woes

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Episode 16: Amnesia: Rebirth Triggers Kotaku in Every Way Possible

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Episode 15: Anita Sarkeesian Acting Pretty Sus

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Episode 14: Sony Turns to Big Brother Surveillance to Ensure Players Are “Safe”

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Episode 13: Kotaku Approves of Space Nazis’ Diversity in Star Wars: Squadrons

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Episode 12: When Are Sexy Video Game Characters Permissible?

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Episode 11: VG247 Libels Gamers as Alt-Right Over Halo 3: ODST Opinions

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Episode 10: Hogwarts Legacy Boycotted Over J. K. Rowling’s “Transphobia”

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Episode 9: Kotaku UK is Dead, So Let’s Discuss Their Worst Takes

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Episode 8: Reactions to Tell Me Why and The Last of Us Part II Prove Games Journalists Don't Want Trans Characters

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Episode 7: Blizzard's History of Censorship is Hypocritical

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Episode 6: Communists Are Triggered by the New Call of Duty

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Episode 5: Grounded's Arachnophobia Mode is Not an Accessibility Issue

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Episode 4: Black-and-White Morality Dumbs Down Video Games

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Episode 3: Destroy All Humans Has Anal Probes and No-No Words

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Episode 2: Ghost of Tsushima and the Alt-Right?

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Episode 1: Abby's Massive Guns and Other Qualms with The Last of Us Part II