Eden and Peter talk about what they've been consuming lately — Peter is deep on Meshuggah's newly remastered catalog while Eden is watching way too much seasonal anime. The main event is a deep dive into Of the Devil, a stylish cyberpunk visual novel where you play a defense attorney who is also the serial killer. They also wrestle with the state of the games industry, why they're buying indie games over AAA behemoths, and why "shorter games with worse graphics" is a genuine consumer philosophy.

Show Notes

• Of the Devil is a cyberpunk visual novel / Ace Attorney-style game where you play Morgan, a defense attorney who may be more than she first appears. Episodes 0, 1, and 2 are out now.
• Eden finished Long Awaited Feelings, a ~2,600-page web novel from the Feelings series — time loop, yuri romance, creatively titled author.
• Peter is playing Forza Horizon 4 and 5, catching up on Modern Family and cautiously warming to Community.
• Meshuggah released 30th and 20th anniversary remasters of Destroy Erase Improve and Catch Thirtythree — the former sounds so ahead of its time that the thin production is the only tell it came out in 1996.
• Haken released their first music since guitar/bass departures earlier this year — leaner, stripped-down British prog.
• Psycroptic dropped The Pulse of Annihilation, a tighter, leaner technical death metal follow-up to Divine Council.
• Protest the Hero released Within — a 30-minute tight blast of chaotic post-hardcore/prog.
• Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell (2026) adaptation leans into the manga's goofier, flirty tone — first episode looks like a bajillion dollars, episode three already showing budget strain (reminiscent of the Uzumaki adaptation's notorious one-episode budget collapse).
• Eden is also watching: Chainsmoker Cat (a gross-out comedy about addiction and poverty in Japan wrapped in a big-titty catgirl body), A Witch's Life in Mongol (historical fiction set in 12th-century Central Asia, animated by Science Saru), I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day (dark fantasy about child soldiers who can't die), and original anime Goodbye, Lara (a Little Mermaid reincarnation story by Kinema Citrus).
• Eden visited Newbury Comics in Providence and was devastated to find it's no longer a real comic shop — four times as many Funko Pops as comics, no back issues, and a still-priced Thundercats Valentine Special from February.
• East Bay Comics was the opposite problem: all back issues, none of them organized, mostly vintage junk.
• The conversation on indie vs AAA gaming: Peter and Eden both bought Of the Devil episodes 1 and 2 sight-unseen to support small teams, echoing their broader philosophy that consumers should put money behind the kind of games they want to see made.
• PowerWash Simulator 2 Star Wars DLC dropped — Eden is currently cleaning an AT-AT on Hoth.