Well, I stayed up all night, now I have a reason not to fall dead asleep till 9 Also, from the first few minutes, did some tester open their mouths?

That was really enjoyable! Good idea to maximize the content.

Nice to get a narrative of cyborg's sex life too. Though I have to say, as regards Temp, I'm hype as fuck for Kotal and I'm gonna main his Sun God.

I can see Temp and I becoming fast friends.

When is the next episode guys ?

Probably Wednesday morning

Netherkast usually records Tuesday or Wednesday nights, based on availability/convenience/news. So we'll probably be recording Wednesday night, but I'm not sure exactly.

The 2nd Graveyard Shift is up. This one took place a couple hours after the last one. And it is the opposite side of the coin from the first episode, and is akin to what you're usually going to get from the Graveyard. It's weird, it's stupid, we're delirious, but it can go anywhere. If that's the type of stuff you like, you'll like this.

Graveyard Shift: The One With The Roster Swaps

I would buy an all ninja MK game\

And with that game thingy

MK1: I'd replace Kano with Jarek. Jarek can have a fresh moveset and then kano would be introduced in MK4 with good fan following due to the whole metal plate thing

MK2: Switch Jax with Kai

MK3: Sheeva with Fujin

MKT: Chameleon with Tremor

MK4: Tanya with Kenshi

MKDA: Nitara with Skarlet

MKD: Shujinko with Taven

MKA: Daegon with D'Vorah

Any similarities to the episode is coincidental

Alright, game thing, here we go;

MK1: Johnny Cage, Kano, Raiden, Liu Kang, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Kitana

MK2: Liu Kang, Kenshi, Johnny Cage, Reptile, Sub-Zero, Shang Tsung, Sonya, Jax, Mileena, Baraka, Scorpion, Raiden

MK3: Shang Tsung, Sindel, Jax, Kano, Liu Kang, Kitana, Stryker, Smoke, Sub-Zero, Kai, Sektor, Nightwolf, Sheeva, Kenshi, Kabal

MK4: Cyrax, Raiden, Shinnok, Liu Kang, Reptile, Scorpion, Jax, Reiko, Johnny Cage, Sareena, Tanya, Fujin, Sub-Zero, Quan Chi, Kitana

MKDA: Shang Tsung, Bo Rai Cho, Quan Chi, Li Mei, Scorpion, Kitana, Kung Lao, Mavado, Johnny Cage, Sub-Zero, Kano, Kenshi, Skarlet, Drahmin, Hsu Hao, Frost, Jax, Sonya, Raiden, Reptile, Kai

MKD: Kung Lao, Jade, Scorpion, Mileena, Baraka, Sub-Zero, Daegon, Sindel, Raiden, Hotaru, Kabal, Ermac, Nightwolf, Bo Rai Cho, Noob-Smoke, Shujinko, Li Mei, Ashrah, Dairou, Kobra, Darrius, Kira, Liu Kang

MKA: Two new entries; Taven as hero, Havik as antagonist. That way, Daegon gets an extra game exposure as to being the leader of the Red Dragon and thus more interesting than Taven while Havik could be a total kick-ass villain.

How dare you replace Cyrax with Kai, forcing him to only be in MK4 and Armageddon. Ew.

LOL I knew you'd end up saying something and your reaction gave me a huge laugh. Anyways, I have my reasons as I thought the entire thing out from a story perspective cause I have way too much free time like that. Anywho, my reasoning;

Kitana for pretty much the same reasons you guys said. Kenshi moved to MK2 to develop his rivalry with Shang Tsung a little earlier, make it have more punch, more depth and to take a little bit of the pressure off of the Scorpion/Sub-Zero thing without having it go stale. Kai in MK3 only because I wanted to move Cyrax to MK4 for the reason that Cyrax, in my opinion, is the more interesting cyborg at that point in time. Smoke and Sektor have grown since then but we're talking before all that took place. I always felt MK3 had one too many cyborgs so moving Cyrax to MK4 should've given him more room to grow, have a personality outside of the other two and maybe start off a good guy, like one who was deemed "faulty" by the Lin Kuei and found by Sub-Zero and reprogramed to help fight off Shinnok. If I could've, I would've given him a spot in DA to help explore him helping Sub-Zero once he becomes Grandmaster but that sadly wasn't part of the rules. lol

Solid reasoning. Especially for Kenshi.

Who is the retrospective for tonight?

Okay, I haven't listened to the end of the Roster Swap episode, and I have no clue what I gave for my answers, but I'm going to play this game again right now and then see how close it is to the sleep-deprived, blitzed version of me.

MK1: Swap Sonya for Kitana

MK2: Swap Johnny Cage for Bo Rai Cho

UMK3: Swap Kano for Fujin

MK4: Swap Jarek for Sareena

MK5: Swap Reptile for Nightwolf

MKD: Swap Sindel for Rain

MKA: Swap Shujinko for Cassie Cage


Super Kudos to Cyborg, especially if you came up with this game on the fly dude. Really cool game. Really weird how scared I was about that Sonya shit though. o_O

I put the games that the incoming character would inherit next to their names.

MK1: Kano (MK3, A) replaced with Stryker (MK1,MK3,MKDA,A)

MKII: Shang Tsung (MKDA, MKD, MKA) with Bo Rai Cho (MK2, MK3, MKDA, MKA)

MK3: Sindel (MK4, A) with Reiko (MK3, MKD, MKA)

MK4: Jarek (MKTE, MKA) with Sareena (MK4, MKA)

MKDA: Hsu Hao (MKD, MKA) with Hotaru (MKDA, MKA)

MKD: Dairou (MKA) with Taven (MKD, MKA)

mk1 swap out liu kang for jade
mk2 swap out jax for quan - chi
mk3 swap out stryker for shinnok
mk4 swap out jarek for skarlet
mkda swap out mavado for onaga
mkd swap out kira for kratos
mka swap out taven for freddy
mk9 swap out rain for fujin

dont know how that would work but i gave it a shot. thats my take on roster game swap.

Apparently I did the game wrong up there. I give up. Im just too dumb.

The Netherkast has reached adult age!

Someone take it to a strip club.

lol Come Episode 21, I fully expect them all to drink. lol

I am going to start watching in a few minutes.

Listened to the first part of episode #18, paused before the comic discussion, will continue tomorrow probably.

As for the variations, I really dislike Reptile's Noxious. I just hate the auto-damage thing and find it stupid that you're taking damage while pressuring him with block strings or combo'ing him. Hopefully they do something about that in time...

I was curious on what your guys thoughts on Kitana's X-ray were. I don't think you talked about it, or did I miss it? It's interesting how it's not a projectile anymore. I like it a lot, except for the final knee hit, that one is kind of generic/meh, but it's not a deal breaker. I thought most of her concept art was bad, so the alternate could have been even worse (hopefully it'll look a bit better in game). The primary is awesome, and considering I didn't like most of her concept art, I'm even more happy with how her primary turned out.

Line of the episode so far: It's a soft 'v' by Shadaloo. LOL'd so hard!

I liked the podcast but I have to say you guys was hard on poor Kai. I like him and the rip in half fatality will always be a classic. Okay enough ranting from me. The rest of the podcast was amazing.

Good shit as always, loved the episode. I liked the graveyard shifts as well, you guys were so out of it on the second one lol.

I really don't like Reptile's variations as much, he looks too similar to his MK9 gameplay honestly. + that noxious variation looks broken as fuck.