Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross give Tomba! a stone age beatdown.
Evil Pigs have taken your grandpa’s watch and cast a curse over the entire world. It’s your job to… Wait, I can’t do this. To treat it seriously would be lying to you. Tomba! is a fondly remembered 2.5D platformer, but...
2012-11-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here is a special Halloween surprise: a dramatic reading of a piece of fiction I did for Insomnia Press.
Sorry about the interuption to the regular feed. DIV syndication will continue next week!
2012-10-31 14:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about samurai, reptiles, and perversion.
That's a show. An intermittent Kole. Blind elderly samurai. Sunscreen burn. Coupon-funded first dates. Reptile Van. Talk to the freezer. THE SCIENCE ZONE: Put that good poop in your ...
2012-10-30 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Videogame: The Game, Don't Look Back, and play a game surrounding the brands of guns in Borderlands 2.
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross play Action Castle, talk about the most recent season of Breaking Bad, and talk a bit more about arcades.
Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about Jungle Jim's, celebrity sex, and conspiracies.
Robot Podcast. Jungle Jim's. Liz Taylor, Ronald Reagan, Vivian Vance, Frank Sinatra, and Unsolved Mysteries. Roaches for Glory. "Some girls __ easy". Meningitis Sex Line....
2012-10-24 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks innocent but know that only misery lives here.
Merry Christmas! I arranged a Christmas version of the song! This show was weekly! I don't want to sound like I'm tooting my own horn or to belabor the point but man, the time this thing would take, I tells ya. It's almost as if someone m...
2012-10-22 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross grab the sticks and get to the bottom of why arcades are the best.
This episode is in the same vein as Episode 30. Recorded in person, both in-studio and in the field, Gary and Kole talk about arcade experiences in their entirety… from their smoky childhoods...
2012-10-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The longest Kris. Expanding and contracting. Skidmark Dora. Kole got an iron. The Drudge Factor and the Huffpo'boy. The Day the Beats Died. The law that outlawed smiles. Stay off the liquid nitrogen (Gastro-Dub). Return of the Butt Chug. When the internet hugs you. When the internet tattoos you. ...
2012-10-16 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Will they discover the secret of the scepter?
Here's the third episode, ya mugs! Controversial! This is when I started sort of putting episodes together with themes in mind. It's also the first time I recorded a song specifically for the episode. Think about how labor intensive that is!
... 2012-10-15 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about the sparse fall release schedule, TVTropes, and Resident Evil 6.
Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and the attendees of the Portland Retro Games Expo talk about Super Mario World.
This episode is a bit of a different beast than our previous outings. Normally we play a game, then talk about it, and pepper in your thoughts. For this, we set up a booth at the Port...
Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about courage under duress, the last circus, and routines.
Cinder block rights. Corn maize. Kris's basement disaster. Missing adults. Two cars in every garage, and a chicken in every mailbox. Fois gras on a toothpick. A dan...
2012-10-10 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
FUCKING FERAL.
Episode 2 is where things take off, I think. A lot of things that make the show what it is first show up here. Repurposing editing mistakes, lists, improvised conversations and my pitch perfect Macy Gray impersonation. A coworker once got ahold of the podcast and said, "What ...
2012-10-08 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Borderlands 2, FTL, and starting areas from games.
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross investigate Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
It’s no secret: We love adventure games. And we’ve done a lot of them recently. However, we’ve never done a Sierra adventure game, of which Gabriel Knight is probably the best. Funky accents aside, it’s ...
2012-10-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Excuse the audio quality in this week's episode. We couldn't record, so we had to dig up a lost episode. We did the best we could. Sorry.
The lost. 86. A spoiled little emperor. How pandas piss. Terminally awesome. Indian giving. Looking for myself. Has Any...
2012-10-03 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Never fear! The Cosmic Fool is here!
This is it! The beginning! The first episode of Dead Idea Valhalla! Me, being who I am, created the beginning of a new show by focusing on the past. The beginning features a lengthy treatise on the end of the 2012-10-01 18:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Ron Gilbert talk about bicycle safety, the way of the future, the horror of silence, and a little bit about Maniac Mansion.
GRAPES! WHERE ARE MY GRAPES!
Here it is! Hello! You in the back, skootch closer. Don't be shy. This is the first episode on Dead Idea Valhalla to appear on the Duckfeed flock of podcasts. My name is Gary Butterfield and you probably know me as one half of Watch Out For Fireballs! In additio...
2012-09-24 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole, Dennis, and Ben talk about everything but video games.
We didn't really play anything this week, so instead, have a Links of Note. Midnight Releases. FedEx and normal people. Dennis's dangerous neighborhood. Feelies. Blacklogs, or "Kloggin'". Border...
2012-09-22 01:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Ron Gilbert achieve critical mass regarding Maniac Mansion.
In a first for the show, WOFF! has the creator of a game in to talk about it. Maniac Mansion was foundational for both Gary and Kole, and it was a huge honor to have Ron Gilbert onto the show. If yo...
2012-09-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about radiant heat, rapping dogs, and toddler pugilism.
Acrylic Mink. Warming my hands on your genitals. Toddler Fight Club. An endless digression about Parappa the Rapper. Social Security hollow points. Innocent child back...
2012-09-18 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Dust 514, wrap up Silent Hill: Downpour, and play a game about game taglines.
Dennis: Dust 514. Ratchet and Clank: Full Frontal Assault. Soundshapes.
David: K...
2012-09-17 23:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about Maniac Mansion, steak, PAX Casual Encounters, and a little bit about a year of doing this show.
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2012-09-13 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wherein those damn Ross kids talk about old TV shows, obsessing, and fears (again).
BITS. What a to do. Kole messed up. Shoot the moon. Winnie Cooper is a math lady now. Oktoberfest in danger. Scientologists take Nam. Detergent pod danger. The chicken blood ...
2012-09-11 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostKole and Ben talk about the others behind their backs, more Civ, and more Slender.
Ben: Civilization: Revolution.
Kole: Slender. Gravity Bone. Walking Dead Episode 3.
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross celebrate WOFF!’s anniversary by talking about bad old NES games, retraux games, and transient game experiences.
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about color in games, linearity, sarsparilla and a little bit about the second half of EarthBound.
Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Sound Shapes, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and guess more game quotes.
Kole: Sound Shapes. Yesterday. Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
Dennis: Sound Sha...
2012-08-24 14:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post