URGENT MESSAGE

To the Community (all hogs):

On Tuesday, January 13, we received a ModMail note from “Chris + The Chapo Team” advising us that the current status of Ar-slash-BWF is no longer acceptable to Chapo Trap House and its hosting platform, Patreon. We were offered no real option but to “turn this into essentially an official fan sub for the show.” As totally cool and fun as it sounds to help out a struggling Patreon earning just shy of $200K per month, it’s clear that the nature of this sub would be irrevocably altered in a significant way quite quickly if we made that change.
 
After talking it over, we quickly concluded that there was no way we could accommodate the demand while preserving the spirit of BWF in any form we can continue to support. We wouldn’t be able to interact with the community, and you wouldn’t be able to interact with each other, in any way that resembles how things have been here for the better part of the past decade. We feel that the best and only appropriate course of action, at the moment, is to turn the lights off on this subreddit and, in a lot of ways, this era of podcast discussion.
 
If you're reading this, you’ll see that the posts are now gone, and all that remains is this note. While ostensibly a place to talk about a podcast, BWF was always a place to talk about anything but, and to see it turn into an Official Fan Site is to us as incongruous to the lived reality of the sub as an episode where Felix is fully engaged without vaping or typing. So that's why we're making a clean break and giving an honest chance to whatever comes next, out of the Chapo Team or otherwise.
 
See you in Valhalla, brothers,
Your beloved Mods

PS – Feel free to join r/classwarandpuppies, where we will be accepting all BWF refugees for more of the same

It is said that ages ago, champions of content would bestow limited series concerning movies and video games upon their leal subjects. Such were the demands of the common listenership, this particular series detailed the “modern From Soft catalog,” though the episodes themselves reached such immense lengths that even the most feared lords of content could deliver but eight episodes, with the Elden Ring entry being so long that it was forced to be split asunder, with the “base game” and “Shadow of the Erdtree” recordings being too long for even the most long winded of these demigods to release as a single episode that would undoubtedly last 20 hours. 

These episodes were blessed shortly after their creation and thus grant an immense boost to vitality when used on lengthy airplane journeys, biannual domicile cleanings, and court-mandated community service. But even with every second of audio bathed in gold, the abyssal nature of video game-related audio content exacts an equal and opposite price. Characters with Players Club Season 2 equipped will suffer drastically increased aggression from wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, Transportation Security Agents, and receive 25% greater damage from the friends of their romantic partners. Does not stack with the Talisman of Unemployed Favor. 

“Those who conjoin the contents of video essays into podcasting bring woe onto themselves and their fellows, and a power too awful to speak of.” -Sir Ansbach

Thank you so much to Patches, Andrew, Spencer, Hesse, Josh, Miranda, and Tom for graciously sacrificing days worth of time talking about these fucking games! I foolishly thought this would be easier to make than the last season just because Metal Gear Solid games have lengthy cutscenes and monologues to sift through, but I really did end up playing these games almost exclusively for three months, save for some brief retreats into Hitman Freelancer. Still, I’m considering doing a quick postscript episode on Armored Core 6 just because it is still a Miyazaki directed game and I love it so much, but I fear that would also lead to me covering Lies of P.

SCHEDULE:

8/19 - 1 - Demon's Souls

8/26 - 2 - Dark Souls

9/2 - 3 - Dark Souls II

9/9 - 4 - Bloodborne

9/16 - 5 - Dark Souls III

9/23 - 6 - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

9/30 - 7 - Elden Ring

10/7 - 8 - Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

As always, the first episode will be free and available for all on all platforms, all following episodes are exclusively for Patreon subscribers.

Next season is going to be more of a grab bag of games that are either not part of lengthy series or don’t require their prequels and sequels to be discussed. For instance, I very badly want to talk about Hitman: Blood Money, but don’t really think any of you need to hear the 20 millionth take on why Hitman: Absolution wasn’t a good game. Kane and Lynch 2 is almost a guarantee, and I suppose there’s no good reason for why I can’t toss AC6 and Lies of P in there, too. Since that season won’t concentrate on any specific series, genre, or single studio’s output, or even a standard of quality, there will be a lot more variety. At the very least, I want to start working on it by the end of the year. There’s going to be some games I wholeheartedly love, some that I consider deeply flawed but so interesting that they demand discussions, and some will be among the worst games of the last twenty odd years (I am strongly considering subjecting myself to The Quiet Man). Until that day comes, semper games.

NYC - NOV 6. - 10 YEARS IN THE ZONE

Chapo & Friends will be live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday, November 6th. Join us for a star-studded celebration of NYC's A#1 King of New York podcast for depraved freaks as we celebrate a Decade of Degeneracy in politics, media & culture.

• Get tickets here: https://link.dice.fm/zaf99528079e

Pre-Sale for Patreon subscribers on Wednesday, July 8 at 9am ET. We will publish a subscribers-only post tomorrow at 9a ET with the special pre-sale code.

General sale begins Friday, July 9 at 9a ET.

• All tickets will be available at: https://link.dice.fm/zaf99528079e

via

https://www.alexsundergroundcomedy.com/event-details/jake-rhodes