Episode 433: In the Right Lighting, That’s Chaucer, Baby

The Crate and Crowbar

Chris and Marsh discuss disappointing children’s entertainment, disappointing sales figures, anti-mnemonic naming choices, the rulebreaking delight of card game Balatro, the dishonourable cheeses of Honor Mode in Baldur’s Gate 3, and return once more to Night Country.

• AI wrote cheques that Willy Wonker simply could not cash.
• Immortals of Aveum may not have sold well, but it really opens up your pores.
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is fine, probably, but it isn’t Balatro.
• Balatro is Balatro, and Balatro is all.
• Apart from the large part of all which is made up of repeated, ever stranger playthroughs of Baldur’s Gate 3.
• 20 Small Mazes and Sheepy: A Short Adventure are free and good.
• True Detective: Night Country is on HBO Max or whatever it’s calling itself now for tax reasons.
• “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin.
• “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.