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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• RIP Anthony Head
• Movie overload
• Coping Mechanism: The Onion Print Edition

43:19

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Actually did a build stream! Ordis!
• Recent builds: Ordis, and a goblin wizard!
• Ordis? Ordis.
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

53:59

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• SUMMER GAMES FEST AAAAAH just kidding it's all ads and some crimes against humanity
• Sony's State Of Play is... fine.
• Game streams back! Warframe check-in, TennoCon is in sight

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• Genre media is in rough shape
• Coping Mechanism: This specific picture from the Bloodywood Instagram, Swan Boy

39:07

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Recent builds: Greeblee commission and an ogre
• Sale still on the direct shop!
• Wanna buy a frog?
• More-is Ordis
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

54:03

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• Honourable mention: Bellular News
• Wanna buy a watch? Probably a bad idea
• Now that is a bad EULA
• Diablo IV eh?
• Jedi follow up
• 🫡 Destiny 2. The future of the franchise? Uh... well...
• Game streams got interrupted but will continue! And: Warframe check-in

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• Unions. Good.
• Coping Mechanism: This post from the Bloodywood subreddit, Shizuka Anderson

22:36

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Recent builds: LDC Nephew and a very pink monster
• Build streams on hold for... reasons.
• Related: sale on the direct shop!
• Ordis
• The Oracle has burst the bubble
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

37:41

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• A new game tried to kill your SSD
• Lots of games are coming out
• Jedi: Fallen Order talk
• Star Fox 64! Oh nooo uncanny valley
• Diablo IV!
• Game streams continue to continue! Also: Warframe check-in: Church of Warframe intro
• Hope you don't want a Steam Controller. Also: Steam Machines imminent?
• Even if you don't switch, the Great Linux Migration is being felt by Microslop

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• Michael, why? Money, duh, but is this the end of media?
• A whole ass movie got leaked six months early
• Coping Mechanism: The Onion taking over Infowars, We Have Always Existed: Transgender History

42:00

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Recent builds: LDCA done, Two Greeblees
• The next episode of The Oracle is... out!
• One build stream kinda happened!
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

56:46

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• Deck Nook? More like Dead Nook
• Game streams continue! Also: Warframe check-in: Dev stream today, new update detailed!
• Game reviewing is dead again
• Game pass is cheaper now! Have fun with that
• AC Black Flag remake, why? Money, duh. Also, shanties!
• D4 expansion!
• Some actual good tech news, what? Valve dev Natalie Vock creates major performance boost on Linux for AMD cards with smaller VRAM

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• We back!
• Rock and Rule BTS Kickstarter
• Coping Mechanism: Spanakopedia and Shoutout The Gamers Tavern

21:53

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Recent builds: second purple monkey, a goblin, beginning Hooman commission and LDCA general sale
• The next episode of The Oracle is... written!
• Build streams continued!
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

32:47

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• Game streams are back, baby!
• How bad is it for Microslop? This bad. MicroSlightlyLessSlop. Update: Nope, just a sneaky rebrand
• Shitty Web3 Dev is Shitty
• AI slop is everywhere, even the Caribbean
• Esquire interviewed an AI version of an actor
• No Man's Sky releases an update just for Andrew: No Man's Legally Distinct Pocket Monster
• Warframe releases an update just for Kevin: Voruna Prime

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro (hellos and stuff)

• Wait, didn't we just do this?
• Coping Mechanism: Alan Lomax's Blues Archive available online; Ryan George

24:55

The Puppet Pit (puppet workshop and video catchup)

• Recent builds: Yet another purple monkey
• No build stream this week, next week TBD
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

29:51

Pixeltown (tech, gaming and related stuff)

• Deck Nook: Certified Refurbs can actually be obtained! (briefly)
• Hey I know, let's move to Europe
• So, about DLSS5...
• A great look at how broken mobile sites are
• Crimson Desert is a lot, unless you have an Arc. And it's got AI art in it. Of course.
• Marvel Heroes Server 1.0 out TODAY! Project T.A.H.I.T.I. is on it!
• Warframe check-in: uh, Warframe got hacked. Yes really. DE is, of course, on it.

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro

• SLOPPELGANGER lol (Regarding Grammarly's AI bullshit)
• Coping Mechanism: You Will Fail: the Story of Digital Extremes. ; post 10

37:23

The Puppet Pit

• Recent builds: Smols and a purple monkey
• Build streams did, in fact, continue!
• We talk Ordis
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

51:18

Pixeltown

• Nook-adjacent: "Hey buddy, got any RAM?" -- Valve, visibly shaking
• SOMEBODY got a switch 2 (not me)
• RE9 on Switch 2 is fine
• Kevin's been thinking about Diablo
• Marathon is good, actually?
• Crimson Desert is good, actually?
• Fortnite raised prices! Oh no!
• Marvel Heroes Server EMU nears 1.0, Project T.A.H.I.T.I. holding stress test NOW!
• Warframe check-in: Happy 13th, new 5 Minute Meditation video

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro

• Paramount is the devil
• Coping mechanism: Ask a Historian: Why Does It Feel Different This Time? by Nicole Rudolph; Andrew discovered Mitski

31:37

The Puppet Pit

• Recent builds: What if there was a Greeblee related to Grover? And a very pink monstor.
• Build streams did not, in fact, continue but a new tutorial video is up
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

51:38

Pixeltown

• Deck Nook: Can you believe the Steam Deck was 4 years ago? Insert "only" if appropriate.
• PSSR! Sure why not.
• Bluepoint wanted to make a Bloodborne remake, but FromSoftware said no
• Resident Evil 9 is, um, popular
• Shoutout The Gamer's Tavern
• Xbox? More like Ex-box. Seamus has notes.
• Destiny 2 is on life support, Marathon looks interesting
• Tie FIghter Reimagined? Yes please!
• Discord is vewy vewy sowee, pleez don be mad. Oh but we're still doing the thing.
• Warframe check-in: New dev stream, details about 64th Warframe Follie, and Warframe on Android is proving popular. Oh yeah and Kevin is actually going to Tennocon.

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Intro

• Intro and a story about frogs
• Coping mechanism: All Laws Are Local by Cory Doctorow; Joseph Ricketts Snorkelin'

26:59

The Puppet Pit

• Recent builds: A blue dog and legally distinct celebrity amphibian
• Build streams continue
• No I haven't watched The Muppet Show special yet. Maybe one day. And also AI slop because nothing is sacred
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

43:44

Pixeltown

• Nookpocalypse? As of Feb 2026, all versions of the Steam Deck are out of stock
• Would you like to spend $4K on a handheld?
• Ring: Flock? Never heard of it
• Highguard studio layoffs, a succinct breakdown, but Arc Raiders sold 14 mil
• People are mad at Discord and will do nothing about it
• Capcom slaps DRM on Steam version of Dino Crisis, despite GOG not having it
• Once again they've done it again. No Man's Junkyard.
• Diablo IV huh?
• Warframe check-in: Kevin did a build video

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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Intro

• Intro, we're on schedule!
• Darren Aronofsky's AI slop 'murica
• A social network for AI agents? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
• Coping mechanism: My diabetic friendly zero-ish calorie hoisin sauce substitute. Glen and friends,

40:22

The Puppet Pit

• Recent builds: a French Hooman and a Legally Distinct Celebrity Amphibian
• Build streams motor along! Kinda!
• New episode of The Oracle is out! Peertube link for the cool kids
• All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

54:47

Pixeltown

• Deck Nook-ish? Handheld maker GPD misrepresents working with Bazzite team, Bazzite issues statement -- follow up (scene drama) and follow up post by Bazzite
• Good news everyone! Bazzite joins the Open Gaming Collective
• GOG coming to Linux!
• Highguard has crystallized what's wrong with gaming AND gaming coverage
• All glory to gaming necromancers: Anthem private server proof of concept shown. Related: Should Kevin run his own Marvel Heroes Omega server?
• Warframe check-in: new 5 Minute Meditation in the works

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Pixeltown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).

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