Heart Piece Podcast

We all know you can't please everyone in the gaming community, but do we really have to ruin the fun for everybody? Everywhere you look on social media these days there are people with opinions and counter-opinions that just leave you scratching you're head asking, "Why?" If you say "I think [insert game/console here] is great!" there'll often be a line of people at the ready to tell you why [insert said game/console here] is bad. Special guest AJ of BattleBuddiesGaming comes on the show to tell us why we as gamers should learn to live and let live and why we should let our inner kid shine bright, like a diamond, in the rough.

BONUS: Snake's Fine Diamond Jewelers
RUNTIME: 58 min

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Today we have a success story all the way from Japan! Jess and Matt, also known as @Tronbonneart and @MegaMat77, come on the show to tell us about how they met at NY Comicon, living the good life in Japan, and how they make their relationship work. Oh yeah and Gunvolt 2 and Gal Gun.

BONUS: Fiy Gieri's Thanksgiving Bucket
RUNTIME: 56 min

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You may have heard talk about the "gaming community" before but how many of us are actually part of a gaming community? What does it even mean to be part of a community? Why is community important for growth? Use the Force and join MasterJoe and special guest Chancellor D as they embark on an introspective journey to answer those questions as well the most important question of all: Batman or Superman?

BONUS: The Origin of Chancellor D, Star Wars Predictions, NC Comicon

RUNTIME: 42 min

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Gamers are incredibly passionate folks, and truth be told, we don't always get along. As much as we love playing games with other people, we can get pretty nasty with each other really quickly. Sometimes feelings get hurt and friendships take critical damage, or worse, crumble completely. How can we avoid this and protect our relationships when our friends go 1-18 in that Halo 5 SWAT match?

Dreweveryday brings the Drewniverse to #HPHQ and takes us to school on the subject of Transformative Mediation. Keep your notepad handy as we talk about how video game characters can set a practical example for how we can address our real world grievances with each other.

 

BONUS: What's up with HPP?, Drewniversal Healthcare Services

RUNTIME: 38 min

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Calling all nerds! Today we welcome our favorite South Florida nerd couple, DJ TONX and Rosemary, to #HPHQ to talk about nerd stuff. Namely, the Nerdporn Podcast and the Facebook community group Nerd Central.

These days it's becoming much more socially acceptable— and even cool —to be a nerd, and yet many of us still hide our passion in the shadows. So we wanted to highlight Nerdporn and Nerd Central for being an awesome community where nerds can be nerds. Did we mention that TONX and Rosemary are our favorite SoFlo couple? Success story inbound! Oh yeah and MasterJoe is starting a new job today, no big deal.

BONUS: New job, Boost or Break, Bars, The Story of Toesmary

RUNTIME: 53 min

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"Find your passion," they said. Well excuuuuuuse me princess but just how the heck am I suppose to do that?! In this episode we strike up a discussion about passion. What are the things that you would do no matter what? What do you care about? What are your pet peeves? Knowing what you're passionate about becomes way more important the older you get, so if you've been trying to figure it out, this episode is for you. Spoiler alert: you may have already discovered it without knowing!

 

BONUS: Loopin Louie, Powerline, 90s Board Games #KSFF2015

RUNTIME: 40 min

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We were so stressed out last week that we didn't get around to recording an episode, so we thought it was only fitting to make today's episode about how to deal with stress. So we enlisted the help of our good friend, Runashleyrun, to help us discuss the following questions. What kinds of stress are there? How do they effect us? How do they effect others? How do we as gamers handle stress and what kinds of games are good for relieving stress? Grab your stress balls and breathing bags, heart pieces. Everything is going to be alright. In fact, we're starting to feel better already!

BONUS: Kickstarter Film Festival, The French Whisperer, Teenage Mutant Giant Raisins, Secret Ending

RUNTIME: 1 hour 14 minutes

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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.heartpieceplus.com

What do you get when you mix a doctoral psychology degree in Applied Experimental Human Factors with video games? That's what Dr. Biscuits means to find out. After all, we all know video games can give us superhuman abilities, but what kinds of video games and just what kind of abilities are we talking about? Grab a pen and some paper because it's time to go to school.

Bonus: Our first mail!, Boost or Break, Otis and Annabelle

Runtime: 1 hour 2 min

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Dave Proctor, co-founder of 13AM Games and producer of the brand new exclusive Wii U indie title Runbow, comes by HPHQ to talk about how the very first 9-player party platformer came to be. He also shares why Super Meat Boy and Brutal Legend are two of his Top 3 favorite games of all-time. We play a special indie platformer-inspired version of Boost or Break, pick Dave's brain on how he balances work and his marriage, how to successfully run a video game company with your friends or family, and talk about exactly what it is that makes Runbow the most fun way to ruin your friendships since Mario Party.
RUNTIME: 55 min
What we talked about:
www.runbowgame.com
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Today, MasterWife and MasterJoe celebrate their 2-year wedding anniversary by talking about video game weddings! From invitations to the aisle, we share some ideas to help get you inspired in your own wedding planning. Despite our best intentions, we somehow manage never to mention the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and its incredibly Japanese commercial featuring the amazing wedding of 2 cardboard boxes. We do, however, share some stories from The Vault about our honeymoon, like that time we pretended to be Jane and Tarzan on a cruise ship.

RUNTIME: 42 minutes

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