Kate is joined by Malady to discuss the yellow lizard scientist/teacher lady, her flaws, relationships, and her place in the worlds of Undertale and Deltarune.
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Episode 36: Thaaaaaat's Politics
Political organizer Samuel Lipson joins Kate for questions about the politics and government of Hometown and a perspective from outside the fandom.
Episode 35: I'm Milklooker
Okay it’s not actually a Milklooker episode. It’s a filler episode. Xtine returns to terrorize Kate for an hour of somewhat Deltarune-related talk. I dunno guys. This one got out of control.
Episode 30: The Flower Man
Kate and Elsie kick off Season 2 with their first reactions to Chapter 5. Full spoilers ahead!
Episode 27: Chapter 1, the March of the Dark King
BQ rejoins the show after discussing playing Undertale but not Deltarune in Episode 19 to react to playing Chapter 1 for the first time. Reactions include gonermaker, religious ska, gender, Greenster, divorce, school experience, the symbolism in the Dark World, and first encounters with every new character, and checking back in with Undertale favorites, immediately picking up on Kris-player dichotomy, and more.
Episode 26: The COOKING CHANNEL!
Kate interviews Shadow of Roserade about Undertale: Cooking with Kindness, a new Undertale fangame about the green Kindness soul, with cooking minigame mechanics. Can you make the greatest restaurant the Underground has ever seen?
Episode 25: The Pen Was Lying There for Them to Pick Up
Kate and Valerie discuss Undertale and Deltarune as art made by a millennial and ask “what defines millennial art?” For this, they define what a generation means as an analytic context, what experiences millennials share that go into their art, and the indie game as the modern equivalent to the personal film.
Episode 21: The Physical Challenge!!!
Kate and Nillin make a pitch: Deltarune needs sports spinoffs.
Episode 20: It's Kind of Like Dragon Blazers!
Griever introduces Kate to the influences the Final Fantasy series has had on Deltarune, and the characters across the series that parallel the main cast. We discuss a variety of — Wait, there’s a DR. GAST???
Episode 19: It's Not Actually "Finished", Yet
Kate has one friend that’s played Undertale but not Deltarune, and another friend that’s played Deltarune but not Undertale. Let’s experiment on them for content.
Episode 18: One Baseball, Please!!!
NowIOnlyWantATriumph joins Kate and Valerie for the first ever UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE BASEBALL DRAFT! Each of us put together a team of 19 Undertale and Deltarune characters to take the field, and it’s up to YOU to decide who wins!
Episode 17: That Robot Was the Embodiment of a Lightner's Dream
Is Mettaton the key to everything? No, but Kate and Valerie talk about him anyway. We talk parallels with Spamton and Tenna, the difference tonally between adults in Undertale and Deltarune, and Valerie blows my mind by suggesting Mettaton and Catty are the same age.
We take questions from our listeners on Discord about our expectations for the future and various goofy subjects, including Jersey Shore. Would you smooch a ghost?
Episode 16: Remember DECEMBER?
Kate and Valerie do some emergency podding about December Holiday, just in time for Christmas. It’s just the start of our talk about the most important absence in the game… We also cover the new newsletter, ARG, and Christmas in the game in general.
Merry Krismas!
Episode 15: Just Waiting for Today Felt Like... Years!!
Kate and Shadow of Roserade talk about the ways the fandom has gone crazy in the hiatuses between chapters. We also chat Alvin, the false dichotomy between theory and fanfic, and then take some incredible detours into Deltarune’s collaborative equivalent of the Zootopia abortion comic and Azzypants.
Episode 14: There's Nothing Wrong With Him He's Just Annoying
That ain’t Falco. Jackie returns to talk Berdly with Kate. We continue the podcast’s grappling with What Gaming Means and the breakdown of the nerd-jock dichotomy.
Episode 11: Maybe Things Took a Weird Route Right Now…
Kate and Jackie talk about the Weird Route, how we can understand Noelle’s motivations and what it all means. What is the nature of the soul? Does an agentic self exist distinct from an essential self? What do Charlie’s Angels even do?
Episode 10: Pump Up the Tunes!
Ash Taylor joins Kate to talk about how Deltarune uses music and sound as part of its story and gameplay, beyond just leitmotif. In part two (41:00), we talk about her upcoming game, CHORDIOID.
Episode 8: 10 Years of Fan Mail Are Past This Door!
Kate and Neptune recap and break down the Undertale 10th anniversary stream in Part 1 and the hit indie RPG OFF in Part 2. New lore and character insights from Undertale after ten years! We then become the first ever podcast to talk about OFF in the context of contemporary French ultraleftist terrorism.
Episode 7: I Was Just Following You In Reverse
This was supposed to be an episode about Undertale’s 10th anniversary announcements. Since that’s this weekend instead, Kate and Xtine do a reverse chronological walk through Deltarune memories, and get extremely sidetracked.
Episode 6: NON-MEN ARE A-OK, TOO!
Is it important that the protagonist of Deltarune is transgender? Kate and Valerie say yes.