Contains Moderate Peril Podcast

Contains Moderate Peril Podcast episodes:

• 02.21.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 186 Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games, Again

  Show notes:Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games, Again [Starts 01:12] Brian and I continue our discussion about MMORPGs. The genre is far from dead but the definition needs to be revised. So many games now include MMO mechanics.Theme (Quick Thinking) by...

  
• 02.14.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 185 Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games

  Show notes:Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games [Starts 01:12] Brian and I discuss five of the MMORPGs that we’ve played over the last decade. We share our thoughts on their respective strengths and weaknesses and how well they’ve aged.Theme (Quick Thinking)...

  
• 01.24.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 184 The Lord of the Rings Online

  Show notes:The Lord of the Rings Online [Starts 01:31] Brian and I return to a perennial favourite subject; the MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online. Brian shares his experiences as a returning player, who has been absent for 3...

  
• 01.17.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 183 Ask Me Anything

  Show notes:Ask Me Anything [Starts 01:11] Brian and I answer a selection of questions from our illustrious listeners. These include such diverse subjects as our thoughts on existential dread, why did we start a podcast (again) and what is the...

  
• 01.10.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 182 Star Wars and Fandom

  Show notes:Star Wars and Fandom [Starts 01:05] In many ways Star Wars fandom is a microcosm of everything that is both good and bad with fandom per se. In this episode Brian and I reflect upon the impact of Star...

  
• 01.03.2022

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 181 Working in Video Games is Cool?

  Show notes:Was 2021 the year where the myth that working in video games is cool was finally shattered? [Starts 00:16] Brian and I discuss the various debacles that have plagued the triple A video games industry in 2021, especially the...

  
• 01.11.2019

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 180 Mainly There Again

  Show notes: Ongoing Adventures in LOTRO [Starts 01:05] Brian and I discuss our ongoing adventures The Lord of the Rings Online and how we decided to roll new alts on Laurelin, rather than remain on the Legendary Server, Anor. Live...

  
• 11.27.2018

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 179 Anime Bullshit

  Show notes: LOTRO Legendary Severs. [Starts 01:40] Brian and I discuss returning to The Lord of the Rings Online. Anime Bullshit [Starts 41:49] Is Anime just a style of Japanese animation or more? A broad discussion of the genre with...

  
• 12.21.2017

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 178 A Guide to Surviving the Christmas Holidays

  Show notes: Gifts. Travel. The Office Party. Coping With Family. Eating Excessively. Faith. Theme (Quick Thinking) by Neil Cross. Voiceover by Eric Holloway. Guest contact details: Brian.

  
• 11.30.2017

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 177 Culinary Badinage

  Show notes: Bacon and Eggs [Starts 1:48] Fruit and Vegetables [Starts 32:42] Theme (Quick Thinking) by Neil Cross. Voiceover by Eric Holloway. Guest contact details: Brian.

  
• 10.29.2017

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 176 Koala Juice

  Show notes: Loot boxes, algorithms and making money. [Starts 1:39] Is games monetisation becoming to egregious? Read the Label [Starts 41:23] Games, TV and movies are all rated. Yet some consumers choose to remain ignorant and are shocked and outraged...

  
• 09.27.2017

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 175 We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges

  Show notes: The "average gamer" and games development? [Starts 1:30] Is the so called "average gamer" still the focus of games development by studios? Simultaneous Release [Starts 20:11] Is it time that the movie industry embraced the concept of cross...

  
• 08.03.2017

  Contains Moderate Peril: Episode 174 Bad Penny

  Show notes:“Exposure” or pay? [Starts 3:05] Is offering content providers “exposure” a comparable alternative to pay? Jimquisition: ExposureAre MMORPG players a minority in their own genre? [Starts 31:19] Massively Over Thinking: MMO players have become a minority in their own...