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We bring you this one-shot from the meat-locker to cover for issues getting the next Borrowed Light out on time... or at all... Some of the audio has been massaged, but still isn't easy to hear -- fortunately, because the game this time is no-top-to-be-over math-em-up TEN MILLION HP PLANET, so lots of what there is to hear is the most exciting thing of all: MATH! As the poet once said... "Welcome to the End" by Riff Kitten. TEN MILLION HP PLANET is by Liam Ginty, JN Butler, and Dee Pennyway. "Ready Aim Fire" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Noise Attack" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Theme of the Dice Punks" is by Drew. Cover art by Joanne, aka AnythingSews! Visit us on the web at dicepunks.com and on Tumblr & BlueSky at @dicepunks, or email us as dicepunks@gmail.com! Our Patreon is www.patreon.com/DicePunks — backers can gain access to our patron-only Discord, Dice Peeks after-show, and more!
Brieana imagines what it would be like to give script critiques to Adam Driver with the help of a few dice rolls. After all, every artist is sensitive to criticism! You Are Quarantined With Adam Driver was created by Liam Ginty, Gabriel Komisar, and Henry Guth for Sandy Pug Games Show theme music by @gisulamusic --Background music-- Talk Back by Elliot Holmes, provided by Epidemic Sound
Mike Ferdinando runs Diana, Geoff, Jim, and Michael through a rollicking super-powered cosmic adventure where they literally punch an evil planet into submission. 10MHPP is a TTRPG by Liam Ginty and published by Sandy Pug Games.
Hacking The reality of most hacking: social engineering. Hackers vs Sneakers. The 90s as the best period for hacking in fiction, back when people understood even less how computers worked. A review of Hacking in media. Free Software Free as in speech, free as in beer, etc. Freedom-respecting social network alternatives and the dream of critical mass. Mastodon. How the USGS uses Twitter data to track earthquakes. The impossibility of competing with YouTube. Appreciating Free software and open source and collaboration. Unicode things hooray Ranting about a user experience failure with Instacart. Text encoding, Unicode, emoji, and non-Latin writing systems. Emoji standardization. Lesbian emoji activism and the new beaver emoji! Tattoos Stephen Wolfram and Arrival Heptapod logogram creation. Ravens. Figuring out how to spell “Bomberman” in Heptatpod. RPGs Dungeons and Dragons is fun! The positives and negatives of play-by-post. A review of our (Chris’) failure with Decipher RPG. A desire to try again! Liam Ginty. Monster Care Squad: A Ghibli-inspired tabletop adventure of healing Monsters and solving local problems in the gentle world of Ald-Amura Percent! “Percent” is literally just latin for “per hundred” and Christopher was this many years old when he realized this! And then we learn about per mille and per myriad and have to promise not to start using them. Spotted dick A rewarding pun-tastic etymological romp. Also it was really tasty! Attribution “Six dice of various colours” used in episode image - by Diacritica CC-BY-SA-3.0 Decipher RPG Mirror illustration commissioned for Decipher Media by Amber Lee Jones Monster Care Squad: A Ghibli-inspired tabletop adventure of healing Monsters and solving local problems in the gentle world of Ald-Amura: Kickstarter Hackers: social engineering, Kevin Mitnick, and hacking before the internet w/ Brian Epstein: Decipher SciFi Splatmoji - Quickly look up and input emoji and/or emoticons/kaomoji on your GNU/Linux desktop via pop-up menu.: GitHub.com Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #1: Decipher SciFi Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #2: Decipher SciFi Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #3 (the finale!): Decipher SciFi The hilarious, extremely convincing proposal to make a beaver emoji.: Slate Support the show!
Welcome to Pen & Paper People, the podcast about tabletop games, the people who make 'em, and what we can learn by discussing games in different ways! ----- Today, we're talking to Liam about Mosnter Care Squad, creating things in trying times, and Game Master Player Characters! https://twitter.com/SandyPugGames https://spg.crd.co/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sandypuggames/monster-care-squad ----- http://indie-bytes.com/ http://rpgpeople.com/ https://twitter.com/indiebytesyt https://twitter.com/ForkTwenty https://www.patreon.com/indiebytesyt
Marx interviews Liam Ginty of Sandy Pug Games about the community zine Open Mic Aid, their next game Monster Care Squad, and about cycles of discourse in the TTRPG space.Marx Shepherd on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/IAmPhophosMarx's games: https://blue-golem-games.itch.ioYes Indie'd Pod: https://www.yesindiedpod.com/Donate: https://www.patreon.com/yesindiedpod or https://www.ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod Sandy Pug Games on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/SandyPugGamesOpen Mic Aid: https://sandypuggames.itch.io/open-mic-aid-zineMonster Care Squad team: https://www.twitter.com/commolluskhttps://www.twitter.com/Leafiedrawshttps://www.twitter.com/CDGuanzonhttps://www.twitter.com/hellotenbearhttps://www.twitter.com/Hierodule Logan Bright-Crown on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Ink_And_StoriesMusic from https://filmmusic.io • "Bit Quest" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) • License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Support the show (https://www.ko-fi.com/yesindiedpod)
5Calls.org: https://5calls.org/ – Stance: http://takeastance.us/ – ResistBot: https://resistbot.io/ – Swing Left: https://swingleft.org/ This show is a proud member of the Stop, Hack, & Roll podcast network. This episode of Game Closet was edited by Taylor LaBresh. Show music was composed by Corv Leary. Game Closet: interviewing LGBT+ people in tabletop gaming, creators, fans, anyone! Interviews talk about personal experiences, games with (or … Continue reading Game Closet 49 – Liam Ginty →
We’ve got a special guest today: Liam Ginty, of Sandy Pug Games! We talk at length about his new game, Americana, but especially: inclusivity in notoriously exclusive settings, getting everyone […]
Our heroes make a real mess of an airship or two, and FINALLY Bodyguard Chris manages to turn the tables and make something of his repeated failures. Emperor Colbert tries not to die before the end. (This podcast is the finale of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Previously: Part 1 & Part 2) Support the show!
Emperor Colbert dresses down and bodyguard Chris rediscovers the joy of the bidet and the German shelf toilet. Then: daring aerial maneuvers! (This podcast is the second part of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Previously: Part 1) Support the show!
This podcast is the first of three episodes of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Here is part 2! After some particular fun with character creation, Emperor Colbert’s coronation is interrupted by a sudden attack. With RPG-Colbert still entranced in his ceremonial mask, his bodyguard Chris rushes him to safety, but… airships! Support the show!
Will Smith He’s the best! Alien life And the forms that it takes. Arthropoids. Cephalapoids. The names we give the aliens and the names they give themselves. Aliens and stimulants Coffee! Humanity’s beverage history And in particular how wonderfully wonderful caffeine is. Dwarf Fortress and ale supplies. Depressants vs stimulants and the shape society. The “real” Men in Black Frustration with being made a joke. Human gestation and intelligence Evolution, hip size, and cranial size. Bipedalism. Early homo adaptations and social assisted delivery. Earth as universal backwater Alien advocates for the ethical treatment of dumb humanity. Memory wiping Possible unreliable narrators. Neuralizers vs “memory sticks.” This is my roofie stick. Short term and long-term memory “wiping.” A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage: iTunesAmazon Mirror - A single-page PnP micro RPG for you and your friends by Liam Ginty: DrivethruRPGItch.io Support the show!
Episode 4 - Hang the DJ The one with the dating. Like The button, but instead of one person it’s thousands. And instead of a million dollars you get a date. And still only maybe. Calculating Black Mirror horribleness for comparison between episodes. Massive data-crunching techniques. Episode 5 - Metalhead The one with the robot thing. Comparison with the new SpotMini. Episode 6 - Black Museum The one with the museum. Weird sex stuff. Don’t touch my nipples! The Schmidt Pain Index. The value of actually doing and recording research. Black Mirror trashy romance novels. Pleasure buttons. Sensory mapping. Consciousness partitioning. Liam was on Turn with this dude from this episode! Diffuse vs localized brain injury. Communicating with locked-in patients. Split brains! You Are Two! Waiting for law to catch up with dystopian technology. Liam's appearance on "Turn: Washington's Spies" AMC STudios ARR Voices from L5: Voices From L5 Problems with Mind Uploading by exurb1a: YouTube You Are Two by CGP Grey: YouTube Blindsight by Peter Watts: iTunesAmazon Support the show!
Episodes 4-6 San Junipero, Men Against Fire, Hated in the Nation San Junipero Happy endings. Consciousness uploading. Children of the 80s, idealistic recollections and the English lens. Continuity of self. Crippling fear of death. Men Against Fire How we get people to do things for us and how technology can make that even more terrible. Hacking visual input. Creepy Watson sex dreams. Hated in the Nation Covered in beeeeeees. Drone swarms. Social media hate. Support the show!
Episodes 1-3 Nosedive, Playtest, and Shut Up and Dance Nosedive Slow motion train wreck. Meow-meow beans. Chinese social credit system. Real life is this episode. Nuance and charity in judging other people. Playtest Backpacking fantasy. Christopher’s beard jealousy. Working while traveling via the internet. Hideo Kojima. Near-death experiences, dream experiences, and neurological speed. Death spike hallucinations. American Psycho Hideo Kojima. Shut Up and Dance Integrity. Liam’s butt. The worst of the worst. Anonymous. Support the show!
Gravity and Black Holes More Kip Thorne. Wormholes. Detecting gravitational anomalies. Time Dilation Einstein. Train rides. Relativity. Frames of reference. Frame dragging. Time as an expendable resource. Crazy Planetary Adventures Water planet is the stuff of Christopher’s nightmares. Frozen clouds! So Many Dimensions Abstraction of extra dimensions into fewer. Tesseracts. Carl Sagan’s genius powers of explanation. Time Travel Paradoxes Predestination paradox? Self-consistent single timelines. Love Multidimensional beings and the power of love. Social utility and bonding, etc. Space Settlement O’Niell cylinders. Another call-in from Liam Ginty of Voices From L5. Flatland & The Fourth Dimension by Carl Sagan: YouTube The Science of Interstellar w/ Kip Thorne: YouTube Support the show!
Is Batman science fiction? Short answer: yeah, sure. Featuring a voice clip from Liam Ginty, space nerd. Batman’s detective work CSI bullet reconstructions. The trappings of science. Batman’s Bondian Gadgetry All kinds. The skyhook. Sonar Phones Prerequisite technologies. Zero day vulnerabilities and phone hacking. Distributed computing to combine the massive data. Google’s Project Tango. Law, Fairness, and Chaos Batman and his enemies in the film. Batman Chooses His Voice by Pete Holmes: YouTube Batman The Animated Series: iTunesAmazon Heart of Ice from Batman TAS: YouTube Support the show!