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Fields of Mistria has finally hit 1.0 after a couple of years in Early Access on Steam. Does the “official” release rise to the level of Stardew Valley? Or is this anime-inspired small town simulator doing something different? And is 1.0 just a new beginning? We discuss all of that and the hot new handheld! Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!
¿Estuvo en algún accidente de tránsito? ¿Una IA le arruinó la vida robándole su trabajo? ¿Una mega corporación tiene a su querida propiedad intelectual y no se la quiere devolver? El estudio Hood y Asociados (nuevo sponsor de Café Fandango) está para ayudarle. No dude en comunicarse a pequeñojuan@Hoodyasoc.com y utilice el cupón "Hansondelmediosiempre" para un 3% de descuento y un café gratis en su primera consulta. Además de vender nuestra alma a nuestro primer sponsor, en el episodio 620 de Café Fandango lo tenés a Gus que le cuesta salir del limbo entre juego y juego, y a Edu que decide finalmente abandonar el Pragmata, sigue con el Football Manager donde tuvo un encuentro muy amistoso con su anterior equipo y, finalmente, considera brevemente a los asesinos piratas pero los abandona para quedarse con ladrones más modernos con el Persona 5 Tactica. Después pasamos a las noticias donde sale una nueva expansión gratis para el Quake 1, se anuncia una versión física del Stardew Valley para Switch 2, Sam Barlow anuncia su próximo juego, Aspyr publica nuevamente un juego del Señor de los Anillos del 2011 y cerramos con un juicio a Sony por sus conductas monopolísticas. Finalmente, con la Pregunta Fandango nos dedicamos a resolver las injusticias videojueguiles más importantes.
Just as players in Stardew Valley inherit an overgrown, unfamiliar farm, Esther found herself taken and placed in a royal palace against her own design. Both stories show us how to navigate unexpected and unwanted seasons of life with faithfulness. Watch to discover how showing up in your ordinary days prepares you for extraordinary purpose.Stay up to date by following us on your favorite social networks.Facebook | Instagram | YouTube Have questions or comments? Email us at contact@kingofkings.org. Thanks for listening!
On this week's episode, Nathan and Riley are joined by game developer, consultant, and general industry luminary Rami Ismail to discuss his new Levelling The Playing Field series of courses aimed at making “the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars.” These come at a time when the industry is in a massive state of flux, to put it lightly, with layoffs and closures ravaging triple-A studios while indies are forced to appease the ever-changing whims of Steam and penny-pinching publishers. We talk about what it means to release something like this now and whether chunks of it are potentially outdated on launch, as well as the ways indies and publishers—in their attempts to head money troubles off at the pass—often play it too safe and doom themselves to obscurity in the process. Speaking of doom, we then move on to Saudi Arabia's deal to purchase EA, which finally went through this week. What will this mean for the company and the many studios under its umbrella? Obviously the future is vast and unknowable, but the answer is layoffs. Finally, we speculate as to what would happen if the world ended tomorrow and, eons later, aliens dug through the ruins (they'd correctly ascertain that Stardew Valley slaps).Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Riley MacLeod, & special guest Rami Ismail- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that's too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris' frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don't know what else to tell you; it's a great time. Simply by reading this description, you're already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
No episódio 350 do Passa de Fase Cast, eu (Mauro Junior), Fael e Mandi deixamos a ação de lado para conversar sobre um gênero que conquistou milhões de jogadores: os games cozy. O grande destaque do episódio é Stardew Valley, um dos maiores fenômenos dos games independentes. Falamos sobre como um jogo aparentemente simples conseguiu criar uma comunidade apaixonada, influenciar uma geração de desenvolvedores e transformar atividades do dia a dia, como plantar, pescar e cuidar de uma fazenda, em uma experiência extremamente viciante. Mas a conversa vai além. Debatemos o que realmente define um game cozy, por que esse gênero cresceu tanto nos últimos anos e como títulos focados em relaxamento, exploração e criatividade encontraram espaço em uma indústria acostumada a grandes desafios e muita adrenalina. No fim das contas, descobrimos que, às vezes, salvar o mundo pode esperar. Afinal, tem plantação para regar, amizade para construir e uma comunidade inteira para ajudar. E agora queremos saber: qual é o seu game cozy favorito? E a pergunta mais importante: quantas horas da sua vida o Stardew Valley já roubou?
Sometimes you just gotta let people grab the ball and run with it. Andy Savage gets to explain the history of Wrestling Games and comes up with some amazing facts about a genre we didnt think much about.10:34 What did you play? papa - 007 First Light, G-Rebels Demo.Gabriel continues Chrono Trigger. The phantom Hourglass. Witcher 3 and back with Stardew Valley.Andy - WWE2K2438:37 - The world of wrestling games.Title music - Knucklebumpers - Javen and Kiv Sanchezcontact: mrivensanchez@gmail.com
It's baaack. That's right – a mere 20 months later, we're revisiting one of our most chaotic episode ideas, and it's one where our listeners get to play along! If you weren't here yet in November 2024, you can go back and listen to Episode 27 to familiarise yourself with our totally-original-we-swear indie game draft picking process; or you can just take my word for it that it's basically fantasy football with indie games and that Liam as ever gives a good explanation of the rules in the episode and that's why I'm glossing over that bit… honest. It's not because I'm still a bit confused or anything. This time around we've done away with the framing concept of "we're building our own consoles and choosing the launch titles" in favour of… well, honestly, we just kind of each assemble a list of great indie games based on some loose themes while yelling at each other a lot in a very friendly way, and we felt like that was probably enough? Oh, but this time around everyone gets one betrayal card, and you can imagine how that goes… As a reminder, this is one where you can go to our lovely listener Discord and vote on who you think should win – and also, if you don't want spoilers, please go and listen first and then come back to this description once you're ready. I'll wait, don't worry. … Hi, nice to see you again! Okay so here are the three "teams" – remember to go and vote for your favourite! Liam's Team: Ballistic Zen, The Beginner's Guide, Blue Prince, Crow Country, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Night in the Woods, Orbitals, Promise Mascot Agency, Stardew Valley, Unpacking Rebecca's Team: Bad Magpie, Camp Palut, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, Mouthwashing, Outer Wilds, A Short Hike, Slay the Princess, Strange Horticulture, Thank Goodness You're Here, Tiny Bookshop Rachel's Team: 1000xRESIST, Citizen Sleeper 2, Deltarune, Gorogoa, Jump the Track, Mediterranea Inferno, The Séance of Blake Manor, Signalis, Slay the Spire, Toem We'll leave the poll open for two weeks, so listen in for the results and our reactions during our next LIVE(ish) and in-person episode, coming in August! Even though the structure of this episode is just a little difference, hyperfixations remain as our constant final segment. Rachel has – of course – been playing The Mermaid Mask at long last, so look forward to her reactions in a future episode! Rebecca has finished reading underrated dark fairytale The Curator by Owen King, and also enjoyed a feminist horror double-bill of Evil Dead Burn and Obsession at a mercifully air conditioned cinema. And Liam has been happily binging another South Korean reality show, The Devil's Plan. Our music was written and performed by Ollie Newbury! Find him on Instagram at @newbsmusic. Meanwhile, you can find us at indieventurepodcast.co.uk or wherever you listen to podcasts. Don't forget that you can now join our dedicated Discord too, and be sure to check out our new Steam Curator page if you simply still can't get enough of us!
Send Vikki any questions you'd like answered on the show!This week we're thinking about community and relationships! So many people feel isolated in academic and like they "should" have more of a community than they do. In this episode, I talk about the benefits of having a community inside and outside of academia and the barriers there might be to building a community. I then go through some really simple tips to help you build an academic community, step by step. If you liked this episode, you might also like this episode on Ten lessons I learned about doing PhDs by playing Stardew Valley (no particular connection but I love this episode!****I'm Dr Vikki Wright, ex-Professor and certified life coach and I help everyone from PhD students to full Professors to get a bit less overwhelmed and thrive in academia. Please make sure you subscribe, and I would love it if you could find time to rate, review and tell your friends! You can send them this universal link that will work whatever the podcast app they use. http://pod.link/1650551306?i=1000695434464I also host a free online community for academics at every level. You can sign up on my website, The PhD Life Coach. com - you'll receive regular emails with helpful tips and access to free online group coaching every single month! Come join and get the support you need.
The gang are all back together at last after our various summer hols, and we're happy to welcome the return of Liam after his absence from our last episode. Naturally, our first order of business is to get him all caught up on what he missed during the mid-year check-in, so we begin with a quick-fire chat that takes in Mina the Hollower, El Paso Elsewhere 2, Denshattack!, Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!, The Mermaid Mask, and – not indie, but unignorable given who we're talking about – Resident Evil Veronica. Then it's onto the main topic of this episode and, unbelievably, despite being co-created and co-hosted by a lifelong obsessive Simmer, it's taken Indieventure almost three years to put together an episode dedicated to the life sim genre. However, the early access launch of Paralives a few weeks back has given Rebecca the excuse she's always needed to go off at length about her excruciatingly detailed knowledge of life sims, how they work, how they're made, and how the genre has developed and adapted to the changing gaming landscape over the past quarter-century. Many thanks to Liam, Rachel, and you, our lovely listeners for indulging this semi-interactive TED talk, and be sure to check out the Sims Community interview quoted in this episode! Naturally you can expect some illegal AAA chat here too as it's more or less impossible to discuss Paralives in context without regularly referring back to The Sims franchise as well as InZoi; but don't worry, we also circle back to perennial Indieventure favourite and underappreciated indie life sim Tiny Life while we're at it. There might even be a Stardew Valley cameo in there somewhere, too. And like a cooling dip in the pool during Britain's third consecutive heatwave, we round off with our latest hyperfixations. One of Rachel's favourite manga series – The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All – is getting an anime adaptation early next year soundtracked by Nirvana, so there's plenty to get excited about there already even if we're six months away from seeing the thing itself. Liam has broken a bit of a dry spell in his gaming enthusiasm by getting very, very invested in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. And Rebecca has achieved her pledge to "sit by a pool and do nothing but read a stack of books for two weeks", having read nine novels on her recent break with a reading list comprised of authors Mie Takase, T Kingfisher, KJ Charles, Becky Chambers, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Owen King, and Chuck Tingle. Our music was written and performed by Ollie Newbury! Find him on Instagram at @newbsmusic. Meanwhile, you can find us at indieventurepodcast.co.uk or wherever you listen to podcasts. Don't forget that you can now join our dedicated Discord too, and be sure to check out our new Steam Curator page if you simply still can't get enough of us!
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Fred Neuen, Annabel Schoellen, Daniel Klautsch and Monica Serban on the LVGA, indie hits, cosy science games and why everyone is secretly a gamer. Video games are now the biggest entertainment economy on the planet, bigger than music and film combined, and Luxembourg is quietly building its corner of it. I welcomed four guests who each see it differently: Fred Neuen, president of the Luxembourg Video Game Association (LVGA) and the Luxembourg Film Academy; Annabel Schoellen, Secretary of videogames.lu; indie developer Daniel Klautsch of Team Iota; and game developer and environmental economist Monica Serban. I began this interview a reluctant gamer and left convinced I had simply never noticed I was one (in a very tiny capacity). Fred founded the LVGA in 2024 on three pillars: developers, education and the events and e-sports scene. Expecting a handful of local names, he found a thriving ecosystem. Some Luxembourg studios already succeed abroad: Rooftops and Alleys has sold hundreds of thousands of units across PC, PS5 and Switch, while retro specialist Sebastien Kotzka sees his work in Japanese arcades. If Fred is the structure, Annabel is the heartbeat. Through videogames.lu she runs the GamingCafé, a free, near monthly event built around the motto "spill mat," Luxembourgish for "play with us." She was candid about the abuse women still face online, recalling comments like "go back to the kitchen" while leading raids in Guild Wars 2. Yet the room she describes is the opposite of the stereotype: wide ranging in age, increasingly female, and visibly welcoming to its queer crowd. Daniel offered the founder's view. With BTS Game graduates Julie Fies and Steven Van Dorp, he formed Team Iota and released Sacrifice For Sale on Steam, then Switch, PS5 and Xbox. His hardest lesson was that making the game is the easy part, and that zero budget marketing is the steepest climb. The breakthrough came from collaboration, not cash. On AI in coding, he offered a framing worth keeping: "Treat it as a very enthusiastic intern. They will make progress fast, but the accuracy of it will not always be there." Daniel Klautsch Monica made the case for games as a force for change. A screenwriter and lifelong gamer, she uses the cozy live sim format, in the spirit of Stardew Valley, for real scientific communication. In Scarletto Beetle and the Unseen World, built with the Museum of Natural History, the player is a ladybug learning how pollination and ecosystems work. After a Climate Futures game jam, she is now in a French German accelerator and heading to Gamescom in August. What united all four was a sense of standing at a frontier, from gamified education, with professors already using Assassin's Creed to teach history, to the harder questions of addiction and manipulative design. Fred's boldest dream is a curated, Cannes style festival for games, hosted in Luxembourg, possibly next year. "We are all pioneers right now. It's like the Wild West, something to explore." Fred Neuen His definition of a gamer is wide enough to include his own mother, who plays daily Sudoku on her phone. On paper, he admitted, she games more than he does, and I suspect the same is quietly true of many of us. Links and where to follow the guests LVGA (Luxembourg Video Game Association) https://www.lvga.lu Fred Neuen, president of LVGA and the Luxembourg Film Academy Radar: https://thisisradar.com FDI Group: https://www.fdi-group.eu Luxembourg Film Academy: https://filmakademie.lu Annabel Schoellen, Secretary of videogames.lu https://videogames.lu/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/videogameslu Daniel Klautsch, indie game developer, Team Iota Team Iota on X: https://x.com/TeamIotaGames Team Iota on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/teamiota.bsky.social Press kit: https://team-iota.klautsch.lu/press/ Sacrifice For Sale on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2809090/Sacrifice_For_Sale/ Monica Serban, game developer and environmental economist LinkedIn post on the Science Center event: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-monicaserban-2a085419_climatechange-euclimatepact-biodiversityactivity-7435435012902039552-QABg
On this week's episode of ECG, Ellie ruins the peaceful settlement of Stardew Valley, Guy ruins Pokémon's Kanto region and Chris is ruined from a big weekend down South!This is a Frank Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Featuring: Ace, Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen This week, we record one of our shortest shows because, quite honestly, we did not have a ton to talk about. That said, I feel like there were a lot of fun discussions. We start off talking about Forza Horizon 6, as Tam has discovered how fun this series is. After that, we talk a bit about Voidling Bound, a game that a lot of us were not following but are now interested in. Ace discusses Fields of Mistria and talks about how it is very adjacent to Stardew Valley. We also briefly talk about how good Spirit Crossing is. There is this weird new feature in Path of Exile II where a player can sacrifice themselves to give every other player a bonus passive point, and we talk a bit about this design space. Bel talks a bit about Raven RF, and how it does not quite work well, but is completely viable. We have a few quick topics, one of which is how good Pokémon Horizons: Rising Hope has been. Topics Discussed: Forza Horizon 6 Voidling Bound Fields of Mistria Path of Exile II Player Sacrifice Raven Righteous Fire Pokémon Horizons: Rising Hope
Följ med Fredrik och Poki på GOTY-resan, där vi återvänder till klassiska – men fortfarande moderna – spelår och ser hur väl titlarna står sig i dag. Har tiden gett dem en ny innebörd, eller cementerat deras legendariska status?Den här gången är det 2016 som står i fokus. Dags att utse årets bästa spel – retroaktivt.Upplägget är som vanligt:Vi börjar med att lyfta årets bubblare, fortsätter med våra personliga topp 10-listor och avslutar med det tuffaste momentet av alla – att enas om en gemensam topp 5. En lista av spel som ska stå emot all kritik och förbli ohotade över tid.Och högst upp?Ett spel som för oss definierar året. 2016 års Game of the Year.
Alex is back from Los Angeles to talk about the games he saw at Summer Game Fest like Control Resonant, Resident Evil Veronica, Silent Hill: Townfall, Onimusha, and many others, plus we note a bunch of the notables from the week's events, including FF7: Revelation, Persona 6, the Ocarina of Time remake, scads of cool indies, Doom Guy's questionable helmet removal, and plenty more.CHAPTERS(00:00:00) NOTE: Some timecodes may be inaccurate for versions other than the ad-free Patreon version due to dynamic ad insertions. Please use caution if skipping around to avoid spoilers. Thanks for listening.(00:00:10) Intro(00:04:42) Alex's LA and SGF experience(00:12:12) Control Resonant | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 24, 2026(00:27:13) First Break(00:32:36) Resident Evil Veronica | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2] | 2027(00:39:58) Silent Hill: Townfall | [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Sep 24, 2026(00:45:11) The Lost Wild | [PlayStation 5] | 2027(00:49:47) Mr. Records | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(00:53:39) Star Wars: Galactic Racer | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Oct 06, 2026(00:54:22) Grave Seasons | [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Q3 2026(00:56:55) My Arms Are Longer Now | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | 2026(00:59:15) Screenbound | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 10, 2026(01:00:59) Turok: Origins | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2] | Q4 2026(01:04:09) Onimusha: Way of the Sword | [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 25, 2026(01:07:55) Saw: Genesis (Early Access) | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(01:12:41) Blood Message | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(01:14:16) N Plus Infinity Times Two | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2] | 2027(01:15:56) Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 | [PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Q3 2026(01:17:15) Super Yooka-Laylee Kart | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(01:20:55) Second Break(01:20:56) Even more games!(01:21:19) El Paso, Elsewhere 2 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | TBD(01:21:48) 2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces (Early Access) | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Jun 07, 2026(01:22:07) Stage Tour | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Q4 2026(01:23:02) Truck-Kun Is Supporting Me From Another World?! | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 29, 2026(01:23:25) Star Trek: Outposts Unknown | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(01:23:33) Star Trek: Shadow Frontier | [PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch 2] | 2027(01:24:11) Tupac in Stranger Than Heaven(01:30:57) Final Fantasy VII Revelation | [PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Q2 2027(01:33:23) Microsoft and their showcase and direction(01:40:31) Senua | [PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5] | 2027(01:42:24) Whole lot of sequels out there(01:43:11) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | [Nintendo Switch 2] | 2026(01:48:52) Star Fox | [Nintendo Switch 2] | Jun 25, 2026(01:51:52) Blood Dungeon | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Q3 2026(01:52:34) Carcass Clad | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | TBD(01:53:29) Exodus | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | 2027(01:54:33) Some themes during the showcases(01:57:00) Persona 6 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | TBD(01:57:50) Guild Wars 3 (Beta) | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5] | Q4 2027(01:59:25) Final Fantasy Resonance | [Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Oct 22, 2026(02:00:57) Tenebris Somnia | [Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Oct 16, 2026(02:02:09) Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations | [PlayStation 5, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S] | Jul 07, 2026(02:02:58) Mighty Cuphead Adventure | [Sega Master System/Mark III] | TBD(02:04:09) Big Walk | [Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2] | Aug 04, 2026(02:05:16) Noticeable absences(02:07:51) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox Series X|S] | Oct 23, 2026(02:09:00) Are there TOO MANY games?(02:12:09) Some hard choices about future hardware(02:18:14) Wrapping up(02:19:11) Watchcast(02:21:05) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts(02:23:37) NXL Content Updates(02:27:10) See ya!
This week's episode is 1) the last time I'll be talking about Stardew Valley (I promise) and 2) all about how Stardew Valley has weaseled its way into my top 100 games of all-time.
This week's episode is all about my continued love affair with Stardew Valley, with a little bit of Forza Horizon 6 on the side.
This week's episode is all about Stardew Valley and how it's become my surprising comfort game while I go through a difficult time in my real life.
Hey HBs! It's the final part of this book! You better get ready to find out who the murder is! Bonus Content: Sabrina putting the mystery's puzzle pieces together in real time, and so much more! Mel: Hoopla! OMG! Librarian HBs, if you know of a way for Sabrina and other rural HBs to get Hoopla, email us! Sabrina: space operas with giant, complicated, overarching plots. Inspired by The Zion Warrior series by Regine Abel, Susan Trombley, and more. This Friday on PATREON, I tell Sabrina all about KISS THE VILLAIN by Rina Kent! Y'all. There's so much SA it's bananas. Also, this Friday on PATREON is a LIVE HANG! Come play with us on Discord at 8pm ET (May 22) because we're setting up our Stardew Valley farm! Want to support the show? Rate and review us on your favorite podcast app! It super helps the algorithm connect us to new listeners. Credits: Theme Music: Brittany Pfantz Art: Author Kate Prior (her newest release MATED TO MY EX is out now!!) Want to tell us a story, ask about advertising, or anything else? Email: heavingbosomspodcast (at) gmail Follow our socials: Instagram @heavingbosoms Tiktok @heaving_bosoms Facebook group: the Heaving Bosoms Geriatric Friendship Cult The above contains affiliate links, which means that when purchasing through them, the podcast gets a small percentage without costing you a penny more. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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¡El humo blanco sale de las chimeneas y los mozos están en las heladeras! ¡Fandangus Papam! Viva Eduardo I. No todos los episodios tienen tantas menciones a su máxima santidad, pero sí muchos episodios tienen una estructura similar a la del programa 607, que arranca con Maxi Carrión contandote del Legendary Pilots y Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, sigue con Seba que jugó al Modern Warfare III que le sacó el buen gusto que le había dejado el Modern Warfare II, además de arrancar el Alan Wake 2. Y finalmente, Gus estuvo siendo aplastado por la IA del Mario Tenis Aces y nostalgiándola con el Gauntlet Legends. Luego pasamos a las noticias donde arrancó un evento de Alan Wake en el Phantasmaphobia; la Switch 2 finalmente subirá de precio; hay gente jugando al Forza Horizon 6, días antes de su lanzamiento; se publicaron los nuevos integrantes del salón de la fama de los videojuegos y cerramos con un posible parche para el Stardew Valley que haría que todos te odien. Por último, con la Pregunta Fandango confesamos quienes fueron los NPC que más maltratamos.
This week Julius introduces us to Cozy Stickerville, a cooperative sticker legacy game about building out a village over a 10-year campaign. You draw cards, make decisions, and place stickers on a mounted board, with the whole experience being mostly about narrative and atmosphere over challenge or strategy. Julius loved it (as a family experience), comparing it to a physical version of Stardew Valley. I played the demo with my son and we were bored by the end of it, The episode ends with a question that pretty much sums it up: is this a board game, or just an activity? Cozy Stickerville (BGG), Unexpected Games)
Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Stardew Valley idea, Worms History, Gavin's clip, Geoff's troubles, bugs, AC, diverticulitis, seven baths, foreshadowing, Andrew's Baby Games, Geoff's recording, Celtics, Gurple shoes, uberhaxornova, James Hoffmann, sports starter kits, F**kface Off Season 2, Anniversary, Gurple Jacket, CPAP vs diverticulitis, and bov CPAP. JOIN US for our Second Anniversary Stream on Monday May 11 @ 6:01pm CT on twitch.tv/theregulationpod Sponsored by Ridge Wallet. Upgrade your wallet today! Get 10% Off @Ridge with code REGULATION at https://www.Ridge.com/REGULATION #Ridgepod #sponsored Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:30:13 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Another Sight, Cyber Pool, Inbento, Goat Simulator Remastered, Guns Gore & Cannoli 2, Super Battle Golf, X4 Foundations, Dragon's Dogma 2, Stardew Valley, Marathon, Saros. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Geoff, Gavin and Andrew talk about Twin Peaks, David Lynch, coffee pot, Titanic, catchphrase, Portal, Stardew, note, Stardew Valley of Interest, PHOGS, Man on Fire, subtitles problems, one cable, TVs vs monitors, burn in, eye mask, burgersphere, Arby's, rat traps, no graphics card, tech support, million dollar bed, Tides of Tomorrow, myasswet, Tomodachi Life, Mario Party March in April Finale, and Anniversary. Sponsored by Mint Mobile. Make the switch! MINTMOBILE.com/REGULATION Support us directly at https://www.patreon.com/TheRegulationPod Stay up to date, get exclusive supplemental content, and connect with other Regulation Listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:11:47 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about X4 Foundations, Dragon's Dogma 2, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:20:38 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, MLB The Show 26, Dragon's Dogma 2, X4 Foundations, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Sapphy helps us figure out all the prospective marriage candidates we can have in Stardew Valley, and a little about each of them. Join us as we Lore together! Contact us: Instagram: https://instagram.com/loretogether BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/loretogether.bsky.social Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/LoreTogetherPod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LoreTogether Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/LoreTogether We're proudly part of the Boss Rush Games Network! Check them out, and the rest of the podcasts over at https://bossrush.net/ where you can also join our own Lore Together discord channel on their discord server. Music: "Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:40:54 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, Shy Cats: Hidden Tracks, DPS Idle, Idle Storm, MLB The Show 26, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Dragon's Dogma 2, X4 Foundations, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
We deploy Critical Harvest Theory in this episode, when we ask: What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies? We then try to answer this question by looking at two video games: Stardew Valley (2015) and Citizen Sleeper (2022 & 2025) Going into the ways of how these games create their realities and end up surviving in or attempting to sideline capitalism, which will surely go well, right? Right? That, and more, in this episode about capital, land, time and space! Enjoy! If you can and are interested in early episodes and our bonus content, soon to be plenty more, check out our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Also! If you're not there already, feel free to join our Discord! https://discord.gg/J2wgG3yrPN Outro Music: Don't Leave! · El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. From the Album: Zareef ℗ 2006 El-Funoun
Spieleveteranen-Episode #441 (16-2026) Besetzung: Heinrich Lenhardt und Jörg Langer Aufnahmedatum: 08.04.2026 Laufzeit: 1:43:54 Stunden (0:00:15 News & Smalltalk – 0:33:43 Zeitschriften-Zeitreise) Wenn die Spieleveteranen mit der Zeitmaschine vorfahren, ist euch klar: Es geht wieder Jahrzehnt um Jahrzehnt zurück in die Vergangenheit, um zu ergründen, was die Redaktionen der Spielemagazine dereinst bewegt hat. Passenderweise finden sich diesmal schon bei den News und den jüngsten Spielerlebnissen allerlei Verbindungen zu Hardware aus früheren Tagen. Nachdem auch die Hörerpost bearbeitet wurde, geht die Reise los. Vor 10 Jahren begegnet uns ein bis heute stetig gepflegtes Indie-Gewächs, schon ganze 20 Jahre ist das vorletzte Solo-Abenteuer auf dem Kontinent Tamriel her, und vor 30 Jahren regnete es reichlich Wertungssternchen für eine grandiose Strategiespiel-Fortsetzung. Für die Patreon-Unterstützer schalten die Veteranen im Bonussegment in den Overdrive: Vor 40 Jahren bei der Happy-Computer angekommen, erwartet einen der beiden eine inquisitorische Befragung bezüglich eines gewissen Rollenspiel-Meilensteins. Unterstützt die Spieleveteranen und hört das volle Programm: https://www.patreon.com/spieleveteranen 00:15 News & Smalltalk 01:48 Gemischte News: Impossible Mission 3 erscheint bald für C64, ZX Football Manager Revisited bringt die Fußball-WM auf den Spectrum, Frédérick Raynal kickstartet ein Mega-Drive-Spiel mit Spezialcontroller, das neue Evercade-Handheld Nexus kommt im Oktober 2026, die von GOG optimierten Originalversionen von Resident Evil 1-3 landen auf Steam. 16:07 Zuletzt gespielt: Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics, People of Note, Tomodachi Life (Demo). 29:31 Hörerpost von Toandoi und Araukaria. 33:43 Zeitschriften-Zeitreise: April 2016, 2006, 1996 34:19 GamersGlobal und GameStar 5/2016, u.a. mit Stardew Valley, Dark Souls 3 und Star Fox Zero. 53:18 GameStar 5/2006, u.a. mit The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Spellforce 2 und The Godfather. 1:09:05 PC Player 5/1996, u.a. mit Civilization II, Fantasy General und Zork: Nemesis. 1:41:28 Abspann.
Modern games like Kirby and the Forgotten Lands and Pokemon Pokopia have put a new twist on post-apocalyptic media. These games combine the bleak realities at the end of the world with cute, cozy gameplay and aesthetics. What inspired this fresh outlook on the end of days? Who knows! But we here at DT!HQ are ready to capitalize on the trend. This week we're prepping for the collapse by rebooting old game franchises as cozy, post-apocalyptic tales. Todd is ready to surprise you with a casting you forgot. Kyle is ready to depress you with an economy you remember. Matt brought cryptids? The title of this week's episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! If you want to help us choose the next one, join our discord, and/or get some bonus content, become part of #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast! Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/@debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com MERCH! We have that! Right now you can go on the internet and order things that say Debate This! On them! All you need to do is head to MerchThis.net and give us your money! Ever wanted socks with the DT! logo on them? Well now you can get em! One more time that website is MerchThis.net! Properties we talked about this week: Pokemon Pokopia, Spyro the Dragon, Wario Land, WarioWare, Skylanders, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2011, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013, Happy Feet, Stardew Valley, Paper Mario Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!
In today's episode, Matt and Kolby dig into what's actually working in audience building right now — fandom vs. impressions, the channels that actually build real community, and why frameworks are the ultimate cheat code for creator brands. Chenell Basilio (Growth in Reverse) joins to talk pop-up newsletters, cross-promotion strategy, and what's next after email. Plus, the guys debate whether Mr. Beast is the next BuzzFeed and what the rise of AI slop means for creators who actually give a damn about their craft.Want to get your first 1,000 newsletter subscribers in 30 days? Click here: https://www.newsletteroperator.com/subscribeWatch on YouTubeTimestamps:00:00 Stardew Valley and the Indie Creator Model 05:31 Fandom vs. Impressions: What Actually Builds an Audience10:52 Cross-Promotion Strategy with Chenell Basilio16:09 Pop-Up Newsletters and Re-engaging Churned Subscribers30:01 Why Every Creator Needs a Framework41:17 What's Next: SMS, Live Events, and YouTube46:55 The Case for Live Streaming in B2B Media01:02:05 Is Mr. Beast the Next BuzzFeed?01:12:15 Betting on Emerging Creators01:17:32 The Culturalist and the Future of Thoughtful Content
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:25:40 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about DPS Idle, Idle Wizard, Smart Moves 2, A Game About Digging a Hole, ARC Raiders, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Side Quests is back and so is host Ashton Ruby! He is a podcaster, editor, producer, streamer and someone who just inherited their deceased grandfather's farm! The game he is talking about today is Stardew Valley by ConcernedApe. You can also find his work here, here and here! We have a Patreon! Gain access to episode shout outs, bonus content, early downloads of regular episodes, an exclusive rss feed and more! Click here! You can find the show on Bluesky, Instagram and YouTube! Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Rate us on Pocket Casts! Wanna join the Certain POV Discord? Click here! Episode Art by Case Aiken Episode Music by Gen Moonen
Michael is back in Skyrim with a fresh Gate to Sovngarde playthrough and a brand-new Argonian alchemy merchant character, while Ray shares his full impressions of the Septimus mod pack after an extended stay in California. Plus: the Genesis mod overhaul for Starfield transforms Bethesda's space RPG into a full Star Wars experience — and it weighs in at 500 gigabytes. Victor hops in later in the episode to join all the talk. Topics• Septimus Skyrim mod pack impressions — 2,000+ mods, Legacy of the Dragonborn, Beyond Skyrim• Gate to Sovngarde mod pack: no-HUD Argonian merchant playthrough with custom attributes• Alternate Start / Living Another Life — starting as a merchant on the Pale Pass border• Alchemy and poison builds in Skyrim — skill tips and trade-off perks• Argonian survival mode: why Argonians are the hardest race for cold weather survival• Bathing in Skyrim — iNeeds / survival mod tips and the swimming-as-bathing workaround• Wabbajack mod loaders: Septimus vs. Genesis install comparison• Genesis mod for Starfield: full Star Wars conversion — factions, lightsabers, 500GB install• Starfield TerraNaut Armada DLC and Free Lanes space interaction update• Fallout TV show Season 2 — New Vegas fan impressions and the 'middle act' problem• Fallout New Vegas Roundtable: DLC order, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road• Valheim bear update in the Black Forest biome — new creature AI behavior• Valheim deep north and 1.0 release speculation• Stardew Valley multiplayer — what to know before joining a friend's farm• Minecraft hardcore (permadeath) worlds — the appeal and the heartbreak• Cairn mountain climbing game — simulating real rock climbing with limb-by-limb controls• Listener emails: Classic Classes & First Signs mod recommendation, new Daggerfall veteran playing SkyrimThanks for listening to this episode from ASAPodcasting. If you have a moment please consider leaving a review on iTunes. http://www.asapodcasting.com/#/skyrim/The Butcher, Baker and Candle Maker in Spaaace: A No Man's Sky podcast: https://anchor.fm/butcher-bakerThe Fallout Feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/138919.rssVault Talk: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/asapodcasting CONTACT: askyrimaddictpodcast@gmail.com Join our Discord:https://discord.gg/cVSN65jFor Merchandise please visit the Tragically Optimistic store here:https://optimistic.threadless.com/collections/asapodcasting-showsPatreon Patreon.com/asapodcasting A big thanks to the UESP, Elder Scrolls Wiki and Imperial Library for their incredible resources. Until next time…
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:17:43 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Touchdown Pinball, Lord of the Clicks 5, ARC Raiders, Super Battle Golf, X4 Foundations, Stardew Valley, Marathon. PS5 prices are going up again Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Welcome to the Backlog Busters, Season 9 - Episode 12. Mathman, Matt, and Mike discuss yardwork, driving lessons, visits from parents, doing taxes, new mattress, and getting a Switch 2. At the end of the episode we dish out top secret tips for Indy Racing 2000 for the N64. We also played some games...Hootz - Monster Hunter Wilds, Pokemon Fire RedMike - Dacoma, Stardew Valley, Celeste, Unicorn Overlord, Mario Paint, Final Fantasy: TacticsRyan - Stardew Valley, Octopath Traveler 0, Slay the Spire 2, PictoQuestIf you were a patron, you would hear all the stuff we talk about before and after the theme music. You never what you'll hear!If you would like to have more of the Backlog Busters in your life, head on over to the socials and follow these fine folks:Blue SkyBacklog BustersMathman1024BlazeKnightSkinnyMattAlso, don't forget to join the Discord and be part of the fun.Patreon link -->patreon.com/BacklogBustersSkinnyMatt's Extra Life page --> here
It's the last episode of the season and the thing Luke has been waiting for happens. LMAO. We talk about: ICE Iris, RE9, Stardew Valley, Of The Devil, Deadlock, Luke Is A Netrunner Bastard, Myst, Pyst, Dumb Action, Ashley STEALS Luke's Post, The Hobbit, Pokopia, Molly's Mystery Movie, Hari Kiri, Can't Be Cute, Cut Away Action, Stamp Stuck, Writing In 2016, Schrodinger's Do Something, DHS, Hillary Cut, Better Or Worse Than Season One, Luke's Advice, Tar,
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 1:42:24 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Dragon's Dogma 2, X4 Foundations, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
Welcome to the Backlog Busters, Season 9 - Episode 11. Mathman, Matt, and Mike discuss cleaning out the garage, chemical disposal, more birthdays, the Stardew Valley concert, time at the library, and the movie "Your Name." At the end of the episode we dish out top secret tips for Command and Conquer for the Sega Saturn. We also played some games...Matt - Stardew Valley, Infinite Wealth, UnderMineMike - Stardew Valley, Baldur's Gate 3Ryan - Stardew Valley, Octopath Traveler 0, Slay the Spire 2, MoonlighterIf you were a patron, you would hear all the stuff we talk about before and after the theme music. You never what you'll hear!If you would like to have more of the Backlog Busters in your life, head on over to the socials and follow these fine folks:Blue SkyBacklog BustersMathman1024BlazeKnightSkinnyMattAlso, don't forget to join the Discord and be part of the fun.Patreon link -->patreon.com/BacklogBustersSkinnyMatt's Extra Life page --> here
It's time once again for the best game on this show - Guess That Zelda Character! The premise is simple, we have 16 yes or no questions to guess a Zelda character from any game in the series! Come play along as we try to stump each other! All this, PLUS some Pokemon Pokopia and Stardew Valley talk! Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda XL featuring Andy and Gooey”! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM
This week, as we move on from the Zelda series' 40th Anniversary, we're catching up on all the recent happenings in the world of Nintendo - from the Indie Direct, the reveal of Pokemon's 10th generation games (Winds & Waves) and the release of Pokemon Pokopia, to Nintendo's recently filed lawsuit and even some Stardew Valley anniversary discussion! There's a lot to cover this week, followed by some daily debate talk for old times sake! Support The Zelda Cast on Patreon! Subscribe to receive the monthly bonus show ‘The Zelda XL featuring Andy and Gooey”! Follow The Zelda Cast! The Zelda Cast (@TheZeldaCast) Andy Spiteri (@Spiteri316) Alasyn Eletha (@AlasynEletha) Twitch x Facebook x Discord x Tik-Tok x BlueSky Advertise on The Zelda Cast! See Options Here! Subscribe to The Zelda Cast! Apple Podcasts x Podbean x Spotify x iTunes x Google Podcasts x iHeart Radio x PlayerFM
Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, Paul "Moonpir" Smith, and Alexander "TheNimp" Jolly Running Time: 2:01:36 Music by MusiM: Homepage | Bandcamp Livestream Archive: YouTube This week on That Video Game Podcast (TVGP) we chat about Touchdown Pinball, Super Ninja Miner, Card Storm Idle, ARC Raiders, Super Battle Golf, Stardew Valley, Marathon. Highguard Is Shutting Down Xbox Confirms Project Helix Become a patron of TVGP for just a few dollars a month at E1M1's Patreon Page! Get two month early access to Critical Misses, uncensored outtakes, and much more for just $5/month!
This week, Kris has no news and Tara tells all about her latest boob squishing appointment. Get your boobs squished, y'all. It's important. They also talk about the Olympics and other current topics like the Newhart series finale. Official Recommendations From Kris: The 'Burbs (Peacock) Kris's official recommendation this week is The 'Burbs, a new TV adaptation of the 1989 movie starring Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Kris found herself late to the Keke Palmer party, but now she's here and loving it. From Tara: Moonstone Island (Studio Supersoft) Tara's official recommendation this week is Moonstone Island, an indie game described by Tara as a mix of Stardew Valley and Pokemon. Works/People Discussed The Night Agent (Netflix) Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model (Netflix) RuPaul's Drag Race (World of Wonder) RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World (BBC Three) The Boyfriend (Netflix) The 'Burbs (1989) Support & Follow the Show Buy us a Ko-fi Facebook Instagram Threads Bluesky TikTok YouTube Get all our links on Linktr.ee
This episode, Keepers Bridgett & Evan are joined by special guest, Pippa Walton, intimacy choreographer and coach! Tonight we’re going to discuss sex in horror gaming. We’ll unpack topics such as why people may want to engage with sex in gaming, why sex and horror compliment each other so well, how to handle consent, what the experience may look like and more! Recent Gaming Recent Gaming is where we talk about the games we're playing. This episode was recorded 2/25/2026. So whatcha been playing? Patreon Plug & Update Dear listeners! We have patreon. Our patreon is how we pay our editors, our hosts, our editing software, the podcast hosting service, the podcast recording service, spam filters, and more. I know that we don't like to discuss money, but it costs money to keep this show alive. Our Patreons literally keep the lights on and make this show possible. So if you love this content, and you want to keep it alive, we ask that you visit patreon.com/MUP and subscribe to be a backer. And if financial support isn't in the cards right now, you can spread the good word of MUP in your communities by sharing a link and heaping glowing praise upon us where others can see. And furthermore, you can hang out with us on Discord! The Discord Plug Our MUP Discord and we are all there! We invite all of our listeners to come and enjoy the community of horror gaming and cute pet pics. Link in the show notes: MU Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/vNjEv9D And thank you to our editor Ben for editing this episode. Main Topic Welcome to the Main Topic everyone! Tonight, we're going to discuss sex in horror roleplaying games. We're going to approach this topic with respect, curiosity, awareness, and sensitivity. That being said, we're about to discuss how to introduce and navigate sex in gaming spaces. This content will not be explicit in nature, but we're not going to run from it. So if this content isn't your cup of tea, there are 343 other episodes to enjoy, and more incoming! Questions: Why would people want to explore sex in gaming? Why does sex and horror go so well together? What does sex in role-playing games look like? Personal experiences How can it be handled safely and respectfully? Tools and perspectives to be mindful of. Ways to introduce sex and have fun with it! What role can sex have, any particular advantages/disadvantages, thematic elements that are fun to explore, things like that? Resources, books, games, workshops, etc., to review for homework. Special Guest Spotlight Pippa Walton (she/her) has been involved in live performance through theatre since her first stage management job in 2015, and her work in the scene has spread into multiple mediums and expanded to include directing and intimacy coordination. Live action role play has become a treasured space where she uses her background in intimacy and fight work to help tell higher stakes stories with different kinds of emotional investment, and has been one of the most rewarding applications of her work. Her passions include gender-based analysis of theatrical practice, adapting her intimacy and consent practices for Live Action Role Play, being entirely too enthusiastic about musicals, and doing everything in her power to make theatre an equitable, comfortable, and uplifting space for the people around her. Her favourite video game to play is Stardew Valley, which can be considered horror media if you check how many hours she's logged. Homework Does sex have a place in your tabletop roleplaying? Yes, no, maybe?
On this week's episode, the guys kick things off with an engaging discussion about the popular life simulation game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. They dive into the various strategies and tips for starting a brand new island fresh, especially in light of the latest updates that have been rolled out. The conversation covers essential aspects like choosing the perfect location for your island, selecting the right villagers to invite, and maximizing the use of new crafting recipes and features introduced in the updates. This lively exchange naturally transitions into Cody sharing his excitement about an upcoming cozy game that he's eagerly anticipating, titled Pokopia. He describes it as a delightful addition to the cozy gaming genre, which has gained immense popularity among players seeking relaxing and charming experiences. As the discussion unfolds, Cody takes the opportunity to reflect on some of the other cozy games he has enjoyed outside of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. He elaborates on titles that offer similar vibes, such as Stardew Valley, where players can cultivate their farms and build relationships with townsfolk, and Spiritfarer, which beautifully combines exploration with heartfelt storytelling. Each game brings its unique charm and soothing gameplay mechanics, which Cody enthusiastically shares with Joe, highlighting the importance of these games in providing a comforting escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life. Shifting gears, Cody then reveals that the much-anticipated Scream 7 is on the horizon, generating a buzz of excitement, particularly for Paige, who has been a long-time fan of the horror franchise. He discusses the latest developments in the series, speculating on potential plot twists and character arcs, and how this installment could further evolve the iconic slasher narrative that fans have come to love. The anticipation surrounding the film adds an exciting layer to their conversation, as they ponder the impact of horror films in contemporary cinema and what Scream 7 might bring to the table. To wrap up the episode, Cody shares his recent experience of starting High On Life 2, a game that promises to deliver a unique blend of humor and adventure. He expresses his enthusiasm for the vibrant worlds and quirky characters, particularly mentioning the inclusion of Spencer's and Spirit Halloween within the game. This revelation sparks a discussion about how video games can creatively incorporate elements from popular culture, enhancing the gaming experience and providing players with familiar references that resonate on a personal level. The episode concludes with a lively exchange of thoughts and opinions, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating their next gaming adventures.Official Website: https://www.comesnaturallypodcast.comOfficial Merchandise: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/comes-naturally-podcast/iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/kqkgackFacebook: http://tinyurl.com/myovgm8Tumblr: http://tinyurl.com/m7a6mg9Twitter: @ComesNaturalPodYouTube: http://tiny.cc/5snxpy
Follow The Trophy Room Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pstrophyroom Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/2PglU1a Discord: https://discord.gg/wPNp3kC Twitter: https://twitter.com/PSTrophyRoom ****** This week on Let's Square Up the News, we break down the biggest gaming industry headlines shaping the future of PlayStation, Xbox, and PC gaming. AMD leadership signals that Microsoft's next-gen Xbox is progressing toward a potential 2027 launch window, lining up with the typical console lifecycle as current hardware approaches its seventh year. Meanwhile, Valve's upcoming Steam hardware push is expected to begin shipping new devices powered by AMD chips, expanding the Steam gaming ecosystem. We also dive into Sony's controversial generative AI patent, which proposes personalized gaming news podcasts voiced by PlayStation characters using player data and LLM technology — raising questions about voice actor rights, AI ethics, and the future of gaming media. Plus, we unpack Take-Two's response to rumors about GTA 6 skipping physical release at launch, the latest confidence signals around the game's roadmap, and what it means for collectors and physical media fans. Also in the episode: • Obsidian confirms no plans for The Outer Worlds 3 after the sequel underperformed • Marathon ranked mode leak details and progression system explained • Overwatch drops the “2” and launches new heroes to revive the franchise • Helldivers 2 major update adds vehicles, weapons, and new war content • Stardew Valley 1.7 update adds new romance options • Fallout TV countdown disappointment explained • The Last of Us TV future and God of War casting updates If you care about next-gen consoles, gaming industry trends, PlayStation vs Xbox strategy, and major upcoming releases like GTA 6, this is your weekly gaming news hub.
There was a time, just before the pandemic, when folks would say “Twitter isn't real life” as a means of dismissing the horrors of social media. This was a cope, a way to ignore the worst political and cultural actors who now dominate our psychic landscape. Now those people are in charge and they've manifested Twitter into real life in a way previously thought impossible.The White House is posting Stardew Valley memes about whole milk. A Customs and Border Patrol official is asking people if they're triggered when they respond with empathy to the murder of a woman. Laura Loomer, one of the most online gargoyles to ever live, is a serious policy player in administration. The Secretary of War has a video game tattoo.How did we get here? Michael Senters, a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, is here to explain how online culture became the culture.It's all for the postsA YouTuber comes to townWhat, exactly, does it mean to be terminally online?The right goes all in on identity politicsThe pandemic drove us all crazyTurns out the post-modernists were correctPosting yourself into a different form or realitySurvival tips for the extremely onlineDepraved art and Hearts of Iron IVDeus Vult?Video games as propagandaWe should have been harder on the online NazisJohn Romero will make you his bitchA brief history of Something AwfulFighting the performance regimeHow Fraud Swamped Minnesota's Social Services System on Tim Walz's WatchSix Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's WidowDo you have stairs in your house?Fuck You And Die: An Oral History of Something AwfulSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.