Jul 29, 2020

#177 – Dungeons and Dragons (and other tabletop RPGs) can sometimes be daunting because it requires someone to be a dungeon master (to DM). Jack recently DM'd a game, and he's here to turn his life experience into Internet Content™, because, this hour, we're going to break down DMing and proffer unsolicited...

Jul 22, 2020

#176 – Sombra: what kind of pants does she wear? These, and other questions, we gamely tackle in this hour of DOWNERS THE ONLY PODCAST ABOUT SADNESS AND KOREAN FOOD. Jack and Hao read out descriptions of Overwatch characters; Kate tries to figure out which one she would most likely "main," which is a gaming term...

Jul 15, 2020

#175 – Jack has never read Bill Watterson's CALVIN AND HOBBES, if you can believe it, so, in this episode, we tie him down and subject him to some Content from the Past™. The beloved comic strip was well known for its refusal to talk down to its target audience as well as its lessons in humanism and parenting. Along...

Jul 8, 2020

#174 – Kate's gone this week, so we have to figure out what to do! The central conceit of the indie darling video game THE OUTER WILDS is that you live your life on a twenty-two minute loop. What if your real life were like that too?? That is just one of the many hard-hitting questions we ask on an episode of Downers...

Jul 1, 2020

#173 – Cats! They're not our friends, but sometimes they can be our pets. We ask Kate what's going on with her two new cats in our critically acclaimed, much beloved Follow-ups Corner. Also: the ending of season one of The Outlander, which Jack watched with horror. Then, it's onto our main topic of the hour: infinity....