Brokusatsu

AKA Hachi Machi AKA Not Great For Your Racism AKA Harry rants for like an hour about why the removal of the funny octopus man betrays the show's total failure to properly adapt the source material while Sam politely listens   Sam left his G-D fan on through his whole recording, and I'm still more mad about the episode

Hopefully I edited out all the keyboard clacking?  But not the existential dread because that keeps happening regardless.

 I KNOW ARLONG ISN'T A WARLORD, I MENTION THIS IS A MISTAKE IN THE NEXT EPISODE   Anyways, time for a delightfully remixed Black Cats fight, along with Zoro's largely unchanged backstory.

Wherein we cover the first (sorta) and second episodes of Netflix's One Piece adaptation!  Despite all our expectations it turns out to be quite good, so in an attempt to supply the expected incompetence Sam decides to shoot our podcast in the foot by changing our coverage and re-mixing timelines on the fly.  He's lucky I'm stuck with him.

We did a commentary track and the results convinced us to immediately stop doing those.

We finish GoBusters!  It's pretty good.

Wherein the heroes begin the greatest struggle of their lives... as well as one of the hosts.

Wherein we discuss self-harm through discount cake, rant about Christmas at a doomed retailer, and discuss whether the perfected form of orphan is just a kid with parents.  Oh, and the second of three climaxes of the series happens!  Neat!

Ep 41 sucks, but then there's a decent one with a cool train!  TRAINS!  THE PODCAST IS BIG ON TRAINS!

Because the thing to do when you're producing episodes slower is to... make less of them?  Whee, some decision making there.

at this point we're winging it   but yeah, in theory gaming around 7-8 pacific time on friday?  https://www.twitch.tv/ohheyitsharry

This one gets weird.

Good episodes return!  And I know I owe y'all for the missed week, I'll figure something out.  A christmas special, perhaps?

Crossover episodes!  They're terrible!

Just me saying there's an ep coming tomorrow!  Might delete this later

Holiday pass!  Not doing anything!

Wherein Sam and Harry discuss some of the things they've been up to in the massive break, that MAY be ending?  I mean this one is out a week after the last?

AND NOW WE CAUGHT UP, BABY!  This one is only... one month old!  Who knows what the future holds? Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

"Maybe we won't mention how long ago we recorded this one," I hoped, "and people won't know how long I sat on it in a big ol' depressive funk."  Then we opened the ep by talking about our 4th of July plans.  Ah, the folly of hope. Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

So this was actually recorded the LAST time we came back from a long disappearance but I was kinda lacking the motivation to keep going with this, a little worried that we'd lost all our listeners.  But I saw Paul Nichols posted on the Facebook page, and that was enough to spark things back up for me.  LET'S GOOOO

WE KEPT DANCING I SWEAR

Just a brief thing saying that we went away for tangible but non critical reasons, and we're going to be releasing eps again

can't it be episode 26 yet ugggh   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In the first episode this week, we get a repetitive boring main plot with some decent but thing subplots.  In the next, we get an incredible romance across time and a child screaming as she watches her soul burned to ashes.  Hotel del Luna keeps us guessing!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Brain Damage" by Pink Floyd. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

So immediately after recording this podcast for ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL REASONS my fridge broke and I had to deal with a mess to clean it out, and then I had a rough as heck day helping my sister with her husband's surgery (everything went fine, it just got harrowing) so I didn't feel like editing this as rapidly as planned.  I still owe y'all two weeks worth of content, and I'll get that to you!  But I don't want that to backup regular updates.   Also these episodes don't need to be built up anymore?  A fun but uneventful farce with our characters worrying, then a bad one that introduces a female villain barely foiling a grade schooler's plot to SWAT himself.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

Look I had some stuff this week and ran out of time, I'll edit together something in the next couple days, but so that I TECHNICALLY post content on Sunday I'm just going to read some spam I got shortly before recording.

In which I barely remember to edit out some personal information as we discuss a couple of episodes of GoBusters!  A quality episode which brings about an argument about the nature of "filler", and another where the villains trap a chunk of the city in a perpetual state of agony as the GoBusters realize they've kind of done the same to themselves!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

The Delta megazord arrives!  Can it be stopped?  Well there's an episode 18, so probably yes.  ...I'm feeling kinda tired tonight so no long blurb, let's all just settle down for some Drill Redemption.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

The big introduction of our Gold and Silver GoBusters, Masato Jin and Beet J Stag!  Their personality and effect on the group speaks for itself, so instead I'll mention that Sam named his audio file "crotched to death" and I'm not happy about that.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "Boost Up! Beet Buster", by Hideaki Takatori and Shoko Fujibayashi

Time for a two-parter that maybe didn't need to be one?  It's a fine competent plot, just stretched out some, and if what they choose to insert are things like Enter's adorable costumes, I say all for it.  Then we talk about Twilight Imperium some more, but like, as an actual part of the episode.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

At Sam's request, we watch episode 1 of the Netflix supernatural romance drama Hotel del Luna!  Then Sam lies, he lies and cheats and ruins everything AND SOMETIMES THESE DAYS ALL I CAN HOPE FOR IS TO BE ANGRY FOR THE RIGHT REASON   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Brain Damage" by Pink Floys. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

Bleh, pretty much the only thing interesting about this episode is the fact that the numbers of the eps we covered can kind of be combined together to make this podcast's number?  Also my mouse clicks really loud in this one, gotta fix that ASAP.  Just go listen to an old ep, the one where we get mad at JJ Abrams is pretty funny.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In the episode before we even know it!  Enter notices some small-time crooks performing a kidnapping, and decides to butt in!  Our heroes manage to stop him, so he stops, thinks about it, then IMMEDIATELY does another kidnapping but way more dangerously, with better mechs, more hostages, blackjack and hookers.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam    

After severely insulting some listeners, we cover a couple of episodes of GoBusters that, quite honestly, don't impress us as much as we've seen so far.  Not that there isn't plenty to cover, with a deeper dive into the vast force behind the GoBusters' military machine, and a engineer who really needs to sit down and think about what he's looking for in a work experience.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

Our heroes encounter hidden dangers at every turn.  Does the government have veto power over all billboards?  Will Harry poop himself to death?  Do the three robots do the thing and become a big robot?  FIND OUT, TODAY!  LET'S PODCASTING!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

The GoBusters fight the forces of Vagras at a hospital!  Systems failing, patients suffering, doctors overwhelmed!  In a country and time frame where these things are not commonplace!  ...Bleh, made myself sad again.  Let's drown it out with some nice pizza, and competent mecha action!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

We're back baby, and actively avoiding the Zeitgeist once more by covering a decade old sentai, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters!  The evil virus known as Vagras is threatening the modern world, and it's time to oppose it with the power of child soldiers!   ...wait, what?   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Transformers Theme", by Lion. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

So as you might have noticed we've subtly moved to a biweekly release schedule, Sam's work is pulling him in for all kinds of extra hours these days so we're spacing out our episodes occasionally.   With that said, it's time to completely ignore the plight of our helpers, huff some herbs with an old wizard, and flip some dang levers as we close out the Cavers of Kalte!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In this episode, we face possibly our most difficult challenge yet: with a dwindling number of choices, can Sam pick the least useful Kai Power available?  All signs point to yes!  Oh, and we get our companions killed but that almost doesn't register anymore.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

Wherein we finish our War With the Evil Power Master no less than twice, getting more and more confused each time.  Perhaps this can explain some of our off the cuff "decisions" about the ranking system we come up with at the end?   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

This week, we begin our sampling of a more modern product!  Which is, slightly confusingly... an older product!  It's the reimagining of War With The Evil Power Master, in a hybrid gamebook / board game format.  We begin the first half of our epic struggle with voice acting, instellar political discourse, and figuring out what the hell tone they were going for here.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In this ep, Lone Wolf concludes his quest for the Sommerswerd!  Can our three brave podcasters properly guide him past the last obstacles between him and saving his kingdom?  Nnnnnope, because Sam's terrible choices have literally put us into a no win scenario!  To go forward, we must go back... and GET THAT SPEAR.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Episode image from Project Aon, an online source for freely available Lone Wolf books!  Enjoy! Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

A brief summary of why we went offline, and some changes to our content going forward.  And since I didn't make it clear, we will finish season 1 of Doom Patrol sometime soon.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends.

A special in this episode: a guest not related to us by blood or marraige!  Our friend Nate (not the nice Nate who messages us on facebook, a different one) joins us under slightly false assumptions about what we're covering, and has a good time with us as we continue our surprisingly lengthy quest to retrieve the Sommerswerd!  But you know who doesn't have a good time?  EVERYONE WE MEET, AS WE CARVE A BLOODY PATH ACROSS THE SOMMERLANDS.  OH GOD, OH GOD.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Episode image from Project Aon, an online source for freely available Lone Wolf books!  Enjoy! Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In addition to the usual "Harry got lazy" and "depression is a real one sometimes" reasons, this episode was delayed considerably by data glitches.  Eventually they got resolved, and... sometimes, the error is trying to stop you for your own good.  We're big arguing idiots.  And Sam was totally wrong, but regardless, wow.   But hey, three good episodes of this show!  We talk about it!  Oh, and Alligator Blood was the song name, not the band.  It was okay.   Next ep should be in two days, max!   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "The Mask", by MF DOOM feat. Ghostface Killah. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam.

The king immediately recognizes we need help, and sends us out to retrieve our culturally vital, devastating powerful megaweapon that we kinda just... loaned out to a neighboring kingdom?   At least we got a nice seal in the process.  Anyway, we have 40 days to retrieve the Sommerswerd, and at this rate we're going to spend half of them lying concussed in gutters.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Episode image from Project Aon, an online source for freely available Lone Wolf books!  Enjoy! Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

In which our heroes make probably the best decision they could, and just sit down and talk about all their problems.  It does take a whole episode.   Then, an episode that deals with one of Jane's more troublesome personalities taking hold, while Larry and Vic meet Danny Street, and we encounter one of the hardest-hitting emotional scenes you'll find until... the next few episodes that we've since watched.  WOW this show does not pull punches.   Then we argue about Karaoke, a game so self-expression based that I don't slam Sam for picking terrible choices.  Then a random number generator beats us.  Great.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "The Mask", by MF DOOM feat. Ghostface Killah. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam.

We played the worst, now we begin with one of the best.  The Lone Wolf series of gamebooks is beloved, and it's time for our humble brothers to test their wits against the perils before them.  Except Sam is running the show for this one, so he's intentionally picking terrible skills and abandoning children to their doom.  GREAT.  ADVENTURE HOORAY.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Episode image from Project Aon, an online source for freely available Lone Wolf books!  Enjoy! Intro: "I Think I'm Paranoid", by Garbage. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam

The world is ending, how do we stop it?  With the help of a nemesis VERY annoyed that the heroes are letting the world get destroyed by somebody other than him.  Also involving time travel, cults, Bruce Springsteen, and a cute dog.   But it's not all fun and games, and it may be time for our heroes to realize that they aren't the first Doom Patrol that tried to take on Mr. Nobody.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "The Mask", by MF DOOM feat. Ghostface Killah. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam.

Hey, this show sucks.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)", by The Offspring. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam.

Doom Patrol!  Still good!  We start of with a lot of Nazi killing, and although some of our protagonists are dismayed at the outcome, I think it's pretty clear that it's more in the general cosmic sense.  Especially since we spared the life of the podcast's new favorite character, ANIMAL-VEGETABLE-MINERAL MAN!   Then, our (not really a) team is interrupted in their search for their mentor when an apocalyptic cult threatens to destroy the world!  It's down to these heroes to - oh god they already messed it up.  Welp.   Send comments, corrections, or questions of literally any sort to brokusatsu@gmail.com ! And if you like what we're doing, spread the word with some of your friends. Intro: "The Mask", by MF DOOM feat. Ghostface Killah. Outro: "An Ordinary Day In The Life Of A Superhero", by Linden Killam.