Octav1us and Gannon take a spin of some rare gaming vinyl albums, featuring Pac-Man and Conker's Bad Fur Day - with constant interjections from Larry Bundy Jr!

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I'm lucky. Our YouTube channel, on the whole, has never really been the target of any especially nasty comments. We get the occasional one, of course - it's the Internet - and I've deleted the odd comment or two that seemed particularly mean-spirited towards somebody on the channel (never myself, so you know).

I mean, fine if you want to see that as censorship, but I figure I have the right to protect people I care about. If you came into my house and threw handfuls of gravel at my cats, I'd ask you to leave, probably. On the whole, however, it happens a lot less than I was expecting. 

We're a pretty small channel of course. I don't think we're particularly controversial. Plus, we're all SO lovely that how could you possibly have an issue with us?! The only time we ever got a lot of negative attention was when Digitiser The Show first went out. Part of that, I believe, was down to expectation versus what they got. 

We had a lot of people who were new to the whole Digi thing. Plus there was an element of Digitiser The Show that was trying to appeal to two different audiences; the die-hards who were there for Found Footage and classic Digi... and those who wanted a proper, serious, gaming show. And some of those people, because the Kickstarter drew in those who weren't necessarily Digi fans, were backers. They weren't best pleased by the presence of Beautiful Boys and Chart Cats.

Still, I felt the pressure to appeal to everyone, rather than the core audience I prefer to make stuff for. Clearly I no longer care about that when it comes to the Digi Minis. Consequently, they're much more glorious and purely "me" as a result. Suffice to say, even if it means we end up raising less money for projects, that's the starting point next time.

However, that's all preamble. What I want too talk about is Ooblets. 

​Sorry... what?

Yes: Ooblets!

Ooblets...

Politics. It's a minefield. One thing I'd hope all of you reading this will agree upon is that video games are not to blame for the mass shootings in the US over the weekend.

Inevitably, that hasn't stopped Donald Trump promising to end the "glorification of violence" offered by "gruesome and grisly video games".

"It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence," uttered the gruesome and grisly president, who quite probably has never played a video game in his life, and has no evidence whatsoever suggesting that shooter Patrick Cruisius was inspired by games, violent or otherwise. 

"We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately," Trump huffed, in the hollow, meaningless, way that he does. 

It's not the first time he's used this decades-old scapegoat to shirk responsibility for his own rhetoric, views and support for the NRA.

Following the 2018 Florida school shooting in which 17 died, Trump rambled: "We have to do something about maybe what they are seeing and how they are seeing it. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts."

The irony, of course, is that while video games themselves may not be to blame for mass shootings perpetrated by young, disenfranchised, white men... it was gamer culture which helped Trump get elected to a platform in which he could galvanise and stir up the white supremacy which led directly to many of these shootings. 

And that's a fact. More and more people are saying that Donald Trump really shaped young people's thoughts.

Octav1us, Gannon, Larry and Biffo reveal the scariest games they've ever played, debate how James Dean died, and tackle the thorny issue of triple-A games!

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Do you know what doesn't get spoken about enough these days? The fact that Hugo Boss was a member of the Nazi Party.

Hugo Boss - the company founded by Hugo Boss, the man - provided uniforms for the Nazis, including those iconic SS uniforms, and the outfits worn by the Hitler Youth. These were often manufactured by forced labourers, the majority of whom were women. 

Admittedly, the company did eventually express its "profound regret" at all this, but not until 2011, following legal proceedings brought about by Holocaust survivors. 

Anyway. Think about that the next time you're spritzing your gooch with Hugo Boss perfume, or you see an ad with Chris Hemsworth or Gerard Butler looking all sultry in a suit. Hugo Boss was a Nazi. Not one of these "Ha ha - you called me a Nazi, therefore you lose the argument! I invoke Godwin's Law!" Nazis you get nowadays... but an actual Nazi who was happy being called a Nazi.

Because he was a Nazi, and his company designed those funny trousers Nazis wore, with the big pouches in the thighs, which they presumably used for storing knockwurst.

And while we're at it, Volkswagen was created by the Nazi Party under direct instruction from Adolf Hitler himself, IBM provided early computers to help the Nazis with the logistical demands of genocide, and Coca-Cola aggressively promoted itself as a pro-Nazi drink in Germany - with Fanta being created to appeal specifically to Nazi supporters. The original recipe was described as using "the leftovers of leftovers", due to limited availability of ingredients during the war.

That sounds like some weird joke, but it isn't. Fanta is a drink for Nazis. Fact.