Better Buddies

This week the Buddies discuss ways to upgrade the next generation of televisions, dystopian data collection, environmental science communication, books, and how often to stay in touch with male friends. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: Science Communicator Astrid Lundberg (influencer, @oddpride), Platform Decay (book by Martha Wells), Somewhere Beyond the Sea (book by TJ Klune)

This week the Buddies discuss the near infinite knowledge at our fingertips, simulate a quest to acquire frogs, discuss some meaningful books we've read, and how to shop for clothing as a teenage boy. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: My Friends - book by Fredrik Backman, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest - book by Stieg Larsson, System Collapse - book by Martha Wells

This week the Buddies discuss annoying machines they have to regularly deal with, a cool puzzle video game, theater shows, subtle gay love stories, helping men with their collars, the Virgina Coal Wars, and the in-universe historical implications of the Cars franchise. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: Tunic (Video Game, 2022) (and also Archipelago's: https://archipelago.gg/), Broadly: Go see a play, it's a good time.  Specifically: Taking Sides (Play, 1995 by Ronald Harwood), Fugitive Telemetry (Novella, Murder Bot Diaries, 2021 by Martha Wells), The House in the Cerulean Sea (Book, 2020 by TJ Klune), The Second American Civil War You Never Learned (Podcast - Behind the Bastards), The Coal Wars Never Actually Ended (Podcast - Too Many Tabs)

This week the Buddies discuss if they would ever partake in space tourism, what it would take for them to go, the Grinch, current events, new ways to ruin collectible hobbies, and how manly it is to get passed by a Jeep. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: The concept of, maybe I'm just unaware, a trading card stock market (activity? we think?), Changes (Book 12 in the Harry Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, 2010), Baking (activity), Pokemon Black and White (video game), Mario Kart 8 - specifically 8 player local co-op mode (video game)

This week the Buddies discuss brands that heartlessly betrayed them, frozen waffles, the same book for the third week in a row, being treated differently in relationships, and dealing with chafing. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: Someone You Can Build A Nest In (See the previous two weeks), Exit Strategy - the 4th book in the Murder Bot series (Martha Wells, 2018), The Golden Enclaves - the conclusion of the Scolomance series (Naomi Novik, 2022), The Magic the Gathering Reality Fracture prerelease, Honorable Mention to Pokemon 30th Anniversary TCG

This week the Buddies discuss problems unique to them, an in-depth fiction on colonizing Mars, cities as people, Jack Reacher being a dork, and how to figure out who you are. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: Red Mars (Book, Kim Stanley Robinson 1992), "The City We Became" (2020) & "The World We Make" (2022) (The Great Cities book series by N. K. Jemisin), The Maltese Falcon (Audio Book, Originally written 1930 by Dashiell Hammett), Running Blind (Book 4 of the Jack Reacher series)

This week the Buddies discuss the things that waste our time the most, terrible knock off animated movies, the Stardew Valley board game, romance stories, and why some men choose the model of a woman in video games. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: The Stardew Valley Board Game (2021), Someone You Can Build A Nest In (Book 2024, John Wiswell), Celia's Stupid Romhack - A Pokemon FireRed Romhack

This week the Buddies discuss major and minor things that make us roll our eyes, a fantasy book, Renaissance Faire costumes, and behaviors in men that make us not trust them. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: A Deadly Education (book by Naomi Novik), Renaissance Faires (events)

This week the Buddies discuss things everyone should experience in their life, the effects of mind-altering substances on the human body, the world's most famous bouncer, two moving books, and how much money to spend on dating. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: Roadhouse (1989 movie), A Gentleman in Moscow (book by Amor Towles), Braiding Sweetgrass (book by Robin Wall Kimmerer) 

This week the Buddies give out compliments to intelligent and creative people in their lives, discuss a board game adaptation of a video game, two books, and a movie on uncovering a scandal. We also gave advice on what to do if a friend isn't responding to your requests to hang out. Share with a friend!

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Recommendations: The Slay the Spire Board Game (2024), Ice Planet Barbarians (2015 book by Ruby Dixon), Pre-Switch Pokemon Games (RIP Pokemon Bank), The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020 book by TJ Klune), Spotlight (2015 movie)