Breakup Gaming Society

 

“Thank you, I will check it out,” and other lies.

Drink of the Week (2:43)
Trying to hear what my mouth is telling me about Corralejo Extra Añejo tequila.

Game of the Week (5:28)
Before he left this earth, a friend of mine on Twitter launched a massive retro JRPG on Steam called The Great War of Jorth. May you fight long and well.

Track of the Week (11:16)
Blown out of my chair by my late discovery of Allfrumtha 1’s “County Jail.”

Rest in Poetry (15:08)
”Three Elegiac Poems,” Wendell Berry

Episode 54: An Elegy for The Magician and His Final Spell

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A bleak look at the near future of AI and an intro to @OfftopiaCult, which is not a cult, but rather another member of my podcasting family.

Drink of the Week (4:19)
You got me, Tincup American Whiskey. Your merchandising strategy beat me. Publicly taking my L.

Game of the Week (5:38)
We get futuristic and crunchy with Sean Lee, the bright and passionate creator of Cytress, an innovative upcoming board game about managing your destiny horizontally, vertically and strategically in a vicious cyberpunk future.

Track of the Week (25:31)
You’ve somehow managed a semblance of living up until now without Breeze’s “T.Y.S.O.N.” — but that’s all about to change.

Episode 53: Climbing the Stratus with Sean Lee, Creator of Cytress

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Meet some more members of my podcasting family, Justin & Carter, during my intro, in which various drinking injuries are reckoned with.

Drink of the Week (4:48)
A guy who talks about board games so much shouldn’t be so averse to reading instructions, so here is Attempt #2 at Axe and the Oak’s Spicy Moonshine Margarita

Game of the Week (8:27)
A paean to A Couple of Drakes’ Dead Belt: A Solo RPG for Space Cowboys

Track of the Week (17:22)
I was indecisive, so I let my little sister pick a track, and she picked The Roots.

Twitter Poem by Jade (22:52)
I keep telling her she’s a genius, but I don’t think she believes me.

Episode 52: We’re Not Going to Space McDonald’s, We Have Despair at Home

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Herein:

• Dropped in an ad for Fuck My Work Life (@fmwlpod), which was so compelling that I told my boss to eat my ass

• I try my hand at making the Spicy Moonshine Margarita, a recipe using Axe and the Oak’s Pikes Peak Hill Shine instead of tequila

• Game of the Week: unearthing the insane narrative system I built to keep me glued to Neuroshima Hex for more than 10,000 plays

• I highlight just three things that make “Now That Whodini’s Inside the Joint” a monster good time

Episode 51: That Time I Turned Neuroshima Hex into an RPG

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50th Episode. If a piece of crap like me can do it, so can you.

• Showing some love for @DecayinWtb, the most recent addition to my irreplaceable podcast family

• I drink some Suerte Añejo tequila, which is very good

• Game of the Week: notes from my early experiences with @GreyGnomeGames’ charming solo dungeon crawler, Tin Helm

• @avoidthehanoid and I give none-too-rehearsed love to Pete Rock’s remix of Public Enemy’s “Shut Em Down”

• 50 EPISODES BITCHES

Episode 50: In Praise of Lovely Little Friends

 

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Ooookay, lot going on here:

• Promo for my new fave podcast discovery, @thecultworthy, who is a nice person and doesn’t deserve to be juxtaposed with the horseshit that follows

• Widow Jane bourbon review. Bourbon is excellent. Review segment is…*rubs temples slowly*

• Cap’n Cato and I talk about what makes Z-Man Games’ Merchants & Marauders such a rollicking, hateful good time

• We go back to Run-D.M.C.’s King of Rock LP and highlight the gem, “Darryl and Joe (Krush Groove 3)

• I read my original poem, “Flaptoast”

Episode 49: A Mendicant, an ESL Student and a Fetus Walk Into a Bar

 

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Brendan Costello of the excellent @UnChefed podcast adroitly manages my volatile tangents.

He also walks us through how to make the Moneygun Hot Toddy, I bend his ear about a card game set during the Battle of Hastings, and he displays his excellent hip hop palate by adding People Under the Stairs to our Track of the Week list.

Episode 48: Brendan of UnChefed is Fielding My Frito-Lay Complaints

 

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I say goodbye to my ex-wife and my post-divorce romance, both with a heavy heart.

When all else fails, I paint miniatures to pass the terrible hours and, at the end, Kardinal Offishal is there to give a lift.

Episode 47: Grieving on the Mic and Painting Miniatures Again

 

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Dow Jones, the man who made our theme music, comes through and tells us a story about being on tour with Digital Underground in Colorado.

The JK divines the vortex of despair hiding inside Plaid Hat Games’ Battlelands.

Corzo Reposado is grabbed at random and enjoyed at length.

Episode 46: Which One of You Dirty Wookies Stole Humpty’s Nose

 

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Benjamin Schmauss, who contributed designs to the wild-looking Stationfall heist game, describes how his group in London played two simultaneous games of The Resistance: Avalon while drinking.

Rum is discussed.

I play an old Kool G. Rap song.

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Episode 45: Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Mindbending Chaos

 

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