There's always a joker in the pack, and the joker is me.

Or at least, that's what my inner circle would have you believe after I doled out the simoleons for the PS5 Pro, a mid-generation upgrade to the Sony PS5 home console entertainment system. While not a revolutionary upgrade, we have had fun revisiting titles with the latest enhancements.

After comparing our frames per second, we turn to a different kind of FPS as Porter shares his thoughts on Activison's Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. We also think of ways to ruin the cartoon antics of Mario and Luigi: Brothership by pondering what a Mario RPG would be like if the brothers were allowed to verbalize their thoughts in anything other than pseudo-Italian gibberish.

And to all the scalpers who tried to hoard PS5 Pros thinking it would pay off, I leave you with the wise words of Mo'Nique:

"See, when you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite."

"Time Marches On, And The Age Of A New King Draws Nearer..." or a new president, as we vent our U.S. election eve anxieties by discussing the excellent Metaphor: ReFantazio - developed by Atlus/Studio Zero and published by Sega.

We have a "poggers" time (Thanks Chuck!) as we entertain ourselves with some of the worst presidential candidate impersonations ever, complaining about Dragon Age: The Veilguard (née Dreadwolf), and thinking about how no matter what happens over the next few days, at least we will probably still get to play Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake. Probably.

So, get out the vote! But only if you plan on voting for the face on the big floating rock in the sky that I want to win...

We are so smart, clever, and witty that we played a horror game near Halloween, because it was released the month before Halloween, and now we can talk about it on Halloween. Now THIS is podcasting!

Obviously we are discussing the artistic genius of Shadow Generations...Is what I tried to make happen, but instead we are actually discussing the Silent Hill 2 2024 remake developed by Bloober Team and published by Konami.

Join us as we praise everything but the combat in what turns out to be a very deftly executed remake of one of the genre's best titles. Of course, we cannot help but veer off topic into the upcoming Game Awards (oh, how I do hope we have a special Muppet guest appearance this year) and spend some time reminiscing about Splatoon for no real reason other than the Wii U was mentioned (Xenoblade Chronicles X!!) and we are legally obligated to talk about Splatoon when that happens.

"What was that? ... Okay, James!" ~ Wendy Williams