Call & Response: WOFF! Dispatch March 2025
Added 2025-03-12 15:23:04 +0000 UTCHey folks, future Gwen here. The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Tues. March 18th, by leaving a comment on this post.
We're looking for two kinds of things:
Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.
Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life in general... You name it.
One caveat we've given in the past: If the question is too personal or gross, we may dance around it and not give a direct answer.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Comments
Love your work guys, particularly Unfilmable. Your most recent episode on Heretic was really interesting to me. As a card carrying Mormon I was excited to hear your take on it. I found something you said at the end Gary, very real to my religious experience. You mentioned that taking all these religious books as straight fact was ludicrous and I couldn’t agree more. I’ve come to peace a long time ago with the idea that factual reality is not what I should be looking for in scripture. Though I ended up on the other side of the whether to believe in God after my own religious questions, I just found your coverage of Heretic and INDIKA very interesting from a faith point of view. It was a great month as Duckfeed for me. On to an actual question, I basically never have a chance to watch horror movies between raising my 2 year old son, my immigration defense practice, and trying to spend some quality time with my wife (she’s not a huge fan of horror films) but I wait with baited breath for the next Unfilmable to drop so I can get a sweet taste of an interesting horror film. Is there any genre/media that you consume almost entirely via secondary consumption like that? Thanks for working so hard to keep us entertained and thinking. PS. I can confirm that Utah is incredibly beautiful even if I feel like I want to strangle half the inhabitants pretty much all the time
Ammon Clemens
2025-03-19 05:02:42 +0000 UTCThanks to Abject Suffering and bargain bins, we know that many popular reality shows have game adaptations no one asked for. Your Hell's Kitchens, your Millionaires, your Survivors, your Fear Factors. But many classic shows never got their turn in the DS slot. "Super Nanny," "Wife Swap," "My Cat From Hell," "Undercover Boss"... all could have blessed us with baffling shovelware. What reality show deserves its own game, and what mechanics would that game have?
Nina
2025-03-17 21:41:53 +0000 UTCHey guys! Does ACAB include Leon Kennedy? Also Kole - what was your Anonymous user name?
Gautam Jayanthi
2025-03-15 18:42:08 +0000 UTCHi guys, I wanted to weigh in on the water carrying scene at the beginning of Indika which I know you both didn't like. Personally, I found it super effective because it invoked one crucial feeling for the story that becomes clearer as the game goes on. After emptying my bucket the first time I thought, "Man this is boring, I sure hope that demon in my head comes back and starts talking to me again!" I also feel like Indika wanted the demon around. Her life was mundane and her inner monologue with the demon was where she questioned her faith and eventually has her philosophical awakening and integration with her true self. But without the water carrying scene, I wouldn't have felt that way from the very start. Glad you guys covered this game. Loved the episode. Thanks for explaining some other things that went over my head in this very mature and great game. Sean
Sean P.
2025-03-14 14:06:56 +0000 UTCHey guys, I've recently had a couple of weeks of bed rest due to a few broken ribs. During that time, I binged older episodes of WOFF, AD, and File Under Water while playing through Persona 5. When you're unwell or in need of some comfort media, what are your go-to games, shows, or podcasts? P.S. The AD episode on Tomb Raider was hilarious—I nearly busted another rib! Thanks for the hard work.
Richard Vincent
2025-03-14 13:25:30 +0000 UTCJust a random quick one for you. In the intro to WOFF you always say "It's a games club podcast". I just wondered if that mean basically a "bookclub" but for games, or if there was some more specific reference/meaning that I wasn't aware of. That's all.
Limowreck
2025-03-13 23:43:14 +0000 UTCWhat’s up Gary, Kole, and Gwen? Long time listener, first time caller. Hey — I’m having my first baby boy at the end of March and I’m constantly thinking about things I want to pass on to him… Arguments about the dangers of screentime aside, what are some games you’d pass on to the next generation? I was thinking Hollow Knight when he’s older, and for some reason I think Mortal Kombat would be hilarious to play with him at some point. He may be “earthside” by the time you get to this question. Wish you all the best!
Andre Wong
2025-03-13 21:07:08 +0000 UTCTwo completely different questions I've been thinking about: 1) (possible topic?) We've sailed so far past the point of diminishing returns on graphics that we spent the last 10 years committing labor crimes to render Arthur Morgan's taint hairs 5% more realistically. My question is, at what point do you think sheer fidelity quits mattering? I M O, the late PS3/early PS4 era is when we solved videogame graphics forever, or at least hit the point where I quit feeling genuine tech limitations and started feeling scope overreach. What do y'all think? 2) I know you're mixed on Vampire Survivors but have also mentioned appreciation of some of its choices. One I think is interesting is how it solves bullshit "+5% damage" style upgrades by flattening the iteration time - you stack levels so fast that even meaningless upgrades can quickly become meaningful rather than feeling cheap or underwhelming. Can you think of any games that take otherwise uninspired systems and recontextualize them to make them actually good?
Drew Edgar
2025-03-13 20:44:08 +0000 UTCRe; straw-personing a “guy” out there… I can tell you that guy exists. It is my father who in his 60s and would not stop bugging me to watch Secret Level and thought every single short should be a feature film. He also watches the film 300 every year. So please go with god and use “a guy out there” all you want.
Nick Sayers
2025-03-13 19:03:57 +0000 UTCCan't forget The Warriors as well :P
Austin Yoozcheck
2025-03-13 17:31:03 +0000 UTCHave you given much thought to what kind of Mad Max/Escape From LA type roving gang you’d be a part of when society collapses? Personally I’ll be joining the Street Popes. Best wishes, Ali in Scotland.
Alistair Cunningham-Gray
2025-03-13 16:32:17 +0000 UTC
