Pixels and Puppets

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Our gang has aft agley. Thank you everyone! Onward!

Hi everyone, Kevin here with a bittersweet announcement. After some discussion we've decided it's time to retire this iteration of the podcast. Nothing dramatic, just where we're at currently. But before you click that unsubscribe button, I enjoy podcasting too much to stop outright, so I'm confident something else will arise, and when it does this will be the feed.

Meanwhile Pixels and Puppets continues with game streaming and Frankie Play, and I even have one or two ideas for some more produced video work in the gaming and tech space, so there's plenty more to come. And of course Operation: Puppet itself continues unabated.

Thanks to everyone who listened, this was the most successful podcast we've done yet, and I hope you all join us for what comes next. As always, operationpuppet.com for all the links, join the Discord, and like a certain frog once said, life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending.

Music Credit:

Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.

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0:00

Intro

• We're back! Ish!

8:03

The Puppet Pit (just the puppet stuff)

• Tri weekly puppet build & stream round-up: Two Greeblees, two Smols and an Ogre, plus an experimenty build stream!
• We missed mentioning it on the previous podcast but our condolonces to Adam Kreutinger's family & friends
• FYI Facebook sucks and is bad and don't use the OP: Facebook page

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

22:13

Gizmotown (tech & tech culture)

• The Deck Nook. Rog Ally X2 might be the Xbox machine? Maybe?
• Something something Switch2, something. Whoooo boy.
• Linux Kernel 6.14 released including a Valve merge for the Legion GoS driver for SteamOS. Details.
• Frankie Play came back for real with a full Warframe stream and was delightful and almost glitch-free. And then Kevin streamed it too, two days in a row! Unthinkable!
• This (last) Week in Enshitification: GPT-4o can rip off Ghibli, and it's fucking everywhere
• This (last) Week In De-Shittification: Kevin's trying out Fastmail

1:26:05

Pixels and Tokens (gaming)

• Kevin played games that aren't Warfame! Gasp!
• Jamie hasn't played any games!
• Andrew's back on his mobile game bullshit
• Ark: Aquatica is revealed with AI garbage
• Battletech: Gothic is real
• Your tri-weekly Warframe round-up.

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• Jamie and Kevin went to a rock and/or roll show and met a very nice young person named Kim

12:42

The Puppet Pit (just the puppet stuff)

• Bi (tri) weekly puppet build & stream round-up. A furry live hands monster with eyebrow mech, a Neef, and two Nurnies. And some build streams!

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

27:26

Gizmotown (tech & tech culture)

• The Deck Nook.
• XBox handheld rumors are strong, will ASUS be making it?
• AssCreed: Shadows will be Deck-friendly
• Hours played on Steam Deck were up 64% in 2024
• Video Card MSRPs are bullshit now!
• The Great Linux Migration: check-in. Editor's note: it turns out the issue was Audacity, not Bazzite. Bazzite good. Audacity jank.
• Xbox Series XX in 2027? Sure why not
• AI still sucks and is always bad

1:15:18

Pixels and Tokens (gaming)

• Jamie has been lost to Avowed
• Kevin is returning to Vermund to revisit Dragon's Dogma 2
• Oh no, Star Wars Hunters died
• Andrew checks in on Destiny 2
• Your bi-weekly Warframe round-up. Spoilers: is still good.

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• Remote time! Andrew gives us a vacation roundup and kindly avoids getting us sick.

11:37

The Puppet Pit (just the puppet stuff)

• Bi-weekly build & stream roundup. There were no build streams because reasons but there were puppets!
• Funky fabric in store for next week
• Build streams still scheduled for thursdays 10am ET but thanks to reasons may move around. Keep you on your toes!
• Against all odds there is a new Oracle episode brewing!

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

20:25

Gizmotown (tech & tech culture)

• The Deck Nook.
• The Verge has a roundup of the handheld gaming space
• Kevin has been running Bazzite as his daily driver: report. Related; this really is the year of Linux on the desktop
• The new Nvidia launches have been, um, poor
• Nvidia kills support for older games with PhysX with their new line of GPUs
• Oh no, the Humane AI pin is dead
• Netflix uses AI to have murder victim read their own diary
• The Pixles and Puppets Owncast server is up!

1:04:43

Pixels and Tokens (gaming)

• Bungie talked Naughty Dog out of Last Of Us Online
• TMNT x COD = are you kidding me
• KOTOR 1 and 2 are free on Epic!
• Marvel Rivals layoffs may NOT be clear cut
• Avowed is out! It's good! It was almost something else!
• Your bi-weekly Warframe round-up. Yes, more good vibes.

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• We are two
• Kevin learns about DJs

12:40

The Puppet Pit

• Bi-weekly build & stream roundup: Aliens have invaded
• Coming eventually: The Aye Aye
• Speaking of aliens (and cryptids), how about a tangent?

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

40:11

Gizmotown 

• The Deck Nook.
• Is it a first? Are we nookless? NO! Ayn suspends all shipping to the U.S.
• Will there be a Steam Console? (spoilers: probably not)
• Fediverse shout-out to Elena Rossini
• Speaking of the Fediverse, thanks to Mr Funk E Dude for pointing Kevin to a chat integration tool called SocialStream Ninja, the Owncast server is (probably) coming back.

1:06:32

Pixels and Tokens

• Against all odds The Sims and The Sims 2 have been re-released!
• Kevin might have got his Diablo IV groove back
• Jamie has been playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle as a Diablo palette cleanser an is LOVING it
• Kevin avoids talking about Warframe: Music Lesson. Also Kevin is (probably) going to TennoCon. Genius link for We All Lift

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• Nothing happened this week. Are we clear?

6:04

The Puppet Pit

• Bi-weekly build & stream roundup
• In puppet-related news Robert Eggers set to direct a Labyrinth sequel

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

23:15

Gizmotown 

• The Deck Nook.
• No FSR? No problem! Maybe.
• You can get an MSI Claw 8 AI+ for only HAHAHAHAHA
• Deck sales drop as Ninten-do. (Turns out this was a bug in the Steam charts that reported the Deck at 47 instead of 4)
• Andrew got a thing but it's not here yet
• Unnecessary fridge screens get shut down by manufacturer $200 mil for shitty ad tech
• Pixelfed/Loops is having a moment
• Bambulabs hops the express train to Enshittiville
• Jamie got a Genki ShadowCast 2
• To round out the collection, Pixels and Puppets is now on Twitch as well and we'll definitely use it at some point

1:18:05

Pixels and Tokens

• XBox Developer Direct 2025 came outta nowhere
• Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 won’t be a PS6 exclusive, producer promises is an actual headline
• Sony cancelled a bunch of live service games. Good?
• Director of Witcher 3 has a new Vampire Action RPG that looks very cool
• You got to pick up every stitch. Oh no. Must be the Season of the Witch... craft... in Diablo IV
• Kevin avoids talking about Warframe (spoilers: fails)

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00 Intro

• It’s a new year! Yay? Maybe?
• Kevin had a non-restful holiday (spoilers: Mom-in-law is fine)

7:52 The Puppet Pit

• You cannot predict puppets
• Build streams are now Thursdays at 10am ET
• The O:P Facebook page is no more

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

24:28 Gizmotown 

• The Deck Nook.
• It's retro nook time as Kevin uncovers his old PSPs and jailbreaks them
• Various CES things, including: AMD announces the Z2, Acer's giant, Tencent's giant, Atari's corpse
• SteamOS officially coming to more devices
• The Switch 2 motherboard leaks(?) BREAKING: Leaker says announcement Jan 17, launch March 3, CAD $400
• The Pixels and Puppets YouTube Channel is a thing! Also on PeerTube!
• Kevin's blog: Not Dead
• How's the Mister Pi treating us?

1:29:10 Pixels and Tokens

• Falling off the Live Service Games & Kevin tries to avoid (and fails) talking about Warframe. Shoutout Spectrum Syndicate
• Aztecross likes it
• Activision spent TWO BILLION DOLLARS on three Call of Duty games
• Andrew finally played a game
• DOOM CAPTCHA

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• The last podcast of the year!
• Settle in folks. We goin' long.

6:28

The Puppet Pit

• The blog! It lives!
• The new Oracle episode is actually out!
• 2024 O:P wrap-up

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

29:16

Gizmotown 

• The Deck Nook.
• We're Number One! We're Number One! (etc)
• OLED refurb SteamDecks are on the menu!
• MSI Claw 2! I mean, 7 and 8, and also ZOTAC Zone ($799 USD, 7" AMOLED, Ryzen 8840U), AyaNeo Pocket EVO (~$399 USD, SD G3X Gen 2, 7" 165Hz OLED), OneXFly F1 ($1499 USD Ryzen AI 9 HX370 7"144Hz OLED) ...
• They call me MISTER... Pi.
• Intel's new cheaper GPUS are good, actually
• If you're in Canada, I hope you didn't buy a game console on Black Friday since we're all getting a GST/HST holiday on Dec 14
• What happens when tech bros make an AI companion for neurodivergent kids? Same thing that happens to everything else they do
• Year-end tech wrapup: What stood out in 2024?

1:28:00

Pixels and Tokens

• The Game Awards will have happened. Thoughts?
• A Zenimax Union! (Communication Workers of America)
• Your Warframe check-in with Kevin
• Oh no, XDefiant is shutting down
• Jamie has spent some time with the newest GamePass title Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• 2024 Gaming wrap-up: We played some games. And then talked about them. And Kevin gets weirdly emotional about them. Content Warning: human feelings.

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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0:00

Intro

• Taylor Swift is laying eggs
• Concert anxiety

11:45

The Puppet Pit

• RIP MuppetVision3D, but Hooray Rock'n Rollercoaster featuring the Muppets
• Canada Post is on strike. What this means for O:P
• Krampusnacht is upon us!
• Build streams carry on

All links on https://www.operationpuppet.com. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/3zPqDcGJAC

30:13

Gizmotown 

• The Deck Nook.
• There's a white one now!
• Console streaming is heating up. PS Portal gets Console-less Streaming. Xbox GamePass Gets Console-full Streaming
• CHOO CHOO! Everyone on the MiSTer Train!
• Steam Controller 2? Part of VRalve (ValveR? ugh)
• Andrew is SUPER PISSED about this AI bullshit
• Post-op report on the TI-99/4A

1:33:30

Pixels and Tokens

• The Blackest of Fridays
• Valve released a GIRTHY 20th anniversary documentary on Half Life 2 that was a fantastic watch!
• Valve also lays down law on Season Pass sales
• Warframe has finally fully infected Kevin's brain
• We're living on Planet Balatro now
• FFXIV Mobile!
• MS Flight Sim 2024 has one of the worst launches ever

Music Credits:

• Opening Music/Stinger: Funk Babe by emiliomerone. Audiojungle Broadcast License.
• Gizmotown: kiddpark, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License).
• Pixels and Tokens: Kagateni, Freesound.org (Creative Commons 0 License)

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