Breakup Gaming Society

Breakup Gaming Society

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Breakup Gaming Society episodes

  • Episode 74: Wasteland Express Delivery Service Revisited

    I persist in my attempts to teach you how to party.

    Drink of the Week (2:35)
    The Fetid Haze, built around Pikes Peak Hill Shine and one of the five recipes in Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends.

    Game of the Week (8:53)
    Staring back into the charred and radioactive eye sockets of Wasteland Express Delivery Service. I still love her.

    Track of the Week (13:12)
    Focusing on Tha God Fahim’s and Black Thought’s inspired verses from “Pravda,” a drumless posse track from Your Old Droog.

    28 min
  • Episode 73: Pocket Book Adventures Hits the Target

    Be the death of the party with “Chaotic Shots and Cocktails That Will Hurt Your Friends,” a booklet with four original shots and one cocktail recipe, all poured on the show.

    Drink of the Week (1:45)
    Had to drink home remedy tea because I got real sick the same week the cocktail booklet came back from the printer. I blame you.

    Game of the Week (6:13)
    See what I found on the first few maps of Pocket Book Adventures, a solo dungeoncrawler from Grumpy Spider Games.

    Track of the Week (13:12)
    The flawless studio instincts and lethal pen of DJ Quik.

    18 min
  • Episode 72: Handsome Boy Close-Support Air Squadron School

    Celebrating the end of the holidays, a.k.a. America’s Triple Crown of Suicidal Ideation.

    Drink of the Week (2:48)
    Does an arbol chile, a stick of cinnamon, and several days of solitary confinement do the same magic for Jim Beam that it did for Tin Cup Whiskey? Let’s find out.

    Game of the Week (5:33)
    Chronicling my ongoing attempts to learn Thunderbolt Apache Leader, the solo wargaming classic from Dan Verssen Games.

    Track of the Week (11:00)
    I am a male model. Not a male prostitute. (Modeling just sucks.) They made me take off my top.

    15 min
  • Episode 71: Bird Dog, Bohnanza and Street Platoons

    After I happily reported all the Mr. Beast cookie displays had been pulled from the Trinidad Safeway, they put one back out. I’m so pissed.

    Drink of the Week (2:35)
    Zero complaints from me or my pals upon knocking a big dent in a fifth of Bird Dog’s 7 Year Old Small Batch Bourbon.

    Game of the Week (5:37)
    Bohnanza, the bean farming game, still hits the sweet spot for pace, thinkiness and sociability. Broke it out with a few pals at Frontier Geeks on Main St.

    Track of the Week (9:40)
    I saw one bad set by them in the ‘90s. It wasn’t their fault. I thought they were bad. They were, in fact, good. Let’s revisit “The Killing Fields” by Psycho

    16 min
  • Episode 70: Various Ass-Whippings, On and Off the Game Table

    Hogs will be cranked in celebration of a heroic Colorado Congressman.

    Drink of the Week (3:28)
    I used Tin Cup as a base for infusing my own l’il jar of cinnamon whiskey. I’m never going back to off-the-shelf cinnamon whiskey and neither should you.

    Game of the Week (7:07)
    Remembering board games with my intense Pappy, beginning with Stratego as a boy and ending with Splendor as a man.

    Track of the Week (12:22)
    Five reasons why Heavy D’s “Don’t Curse” — feat. Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Kool G Rap, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane and Q-Tip — is, for me, the apotheosis of the Golden Era.

    20 min
  • Episode 69: Drinking Bourbon, Building Decks and Catching Wreck

    My friends at Trap Queen(TM) tease their new product, Flav-R-Stompt Fish Dinners.

    Drink of the Week (3:27)
    I drank two bottles of Yellowstone Bourbon this summer and I loved them.

    Game of the Week (7:56)
    Ever had a casual game group where one player practices it on their downtime and shows up at your table in beast mode? That’s what happened with our lunchtime Dominion group.

    Track of the Week (17:42)
    We’re focusing on Track 39 of “50 Hip Hop Golden-Era Deep Cuts You Simply Must Experience”: Mad Kap’s “Da Whole Kit and Kaboodle.”

    27 min
  • Episode 68: Meet My Sworn by Ghostlight TTRPG Character

    I got in trouble with my sponsor, Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders, for omitting their theme song, so this week I sang it for them.

    Drink of the Week (3:13)
    I’m on a little dryout, but we’ll have lots of things to say about Yellowstone Bourbon next episode.

    Game of the Week (5:15)
    The story so far of Achille Kickx, the character I made for the GM-less Sworn by Ghostlight TTRPG — and a few thoughts on the charms and challenges of this subgenre.

    Track of the Week (22:15)
    I finally got to a place where I could do a little eulogy for Trugoy the Dove. “Change in Speak” from De La’s first album is the work at hand.

    29 min
  • Episode 67: I Drink Cantaritos and I Know Stuff

    We’d like to thank our latest sponsor: Trap Queen(TM) Crab Remainders.

    Drink of the Week (3:14)
    China down at the Market Bar on Commercial St. put me up on game with her Cantarito recipe. I remember only fragments of the rest.

    Game of the Week (6:21)
    Playing a stripped-down version of Trivial Pursuit by phone with Augustus Crimes in the wee, bleary hours.

    Track of the Week (10:04)
    Discussing the powerhouse “Do It Up” from Erick Sermon’s solo 1993 slab, No Pressure.

    19 min
  • Episode 65: Reflections on Hundreds of Sagrada Solo Plays

    Hey, there are still “thank you” gifties available as part of my June fundraising drive.

    Drink of the Week (2:49)
    The simple charms of the Banquet Beer and Dulce Vida tequila.

    Game of the Week (6:06)
    I’ve now played Sagrada in solo mode hundreds of times. Here’s why I like it.

    Track of the Week (10:29)
    The Lord Finesse tracks will continue until morale improves

    Outro (13:51)
    In review: Watch my short Sagrada solo video and give me some money.

    15 min

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