On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Mewkow: Our villagers are getting spooky!

Mkallah: Shadowlands is coming soonish… ™

SWOOP, there it went!

Raid the guild banks, Please!!

And, we have Maellung here to talk about AIE in LOTRO

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #353 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Tetsemi: To my left is Mewkow: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (hey, folks, there are pear clafoutis and tiny pumpkin tarts in the guild kitchen ). This week we are joined by special guests Maellung who is here to talk to us about AIE in Lord of the Rings Online Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into Lord of the Rings Online shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news

AIE News

Community

Mandatory Fun Nights

Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not.

Sunday - WoW Classic 2 pm Eastern

Sunday - STO 8:30 pm Eastern

Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern

Tuesday - SWTOR 9 pm Eastern

Tuesday - FFXIV (Casual Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Wednesday - FFXIV (Fun Night) 9:00 pm Eastern

Thursday - FFXIV (Progression Raiding) 9:30 pm Eastern

Friday - ESO 9 pm Eastern

Friday - FFXIV (Late Night Fun Night) 11:00 pm Eastern

Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern

Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern

Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11 pm Eastern

Streaming and Guild Podcast News

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 354: All The Achievements

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-354-all-the-achievements/

Steam has everyone thinking more about achievements. We have two guests on to talk a little more about Steam as well as how to go about getting ALL the achievements.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 355: Pts Pinata

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-355-pts-pinata/

Much like a pinata, this week the PTS is filled with fun.

Fleet Action Report Ep 11 Social Aspects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDozjhRS5cU

Nickodas and Grebog cover the social aspects of the game and how to use them to group up with friends. We also go into how to find a guild and a lot of what being in a guild offers, which are some of the best equipment or officers.

Fleet Reaction Report Ep 12 Enemies pt2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_d2Idyls0g

This time Nikodas and Grebog kill Grebog's internet while talking about the second group of enemies, a bit of a DS9 theme this time. We discuss Cardassians, Devidians (ghosts in space!!!!), the Dominion, and the Terran. We brought along special guest Borngyr, that is a relatively recently joiner.

Working Class Nerds

Episode 83: Console Wars 2!!!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/143519/5580874-episode-83-console-wars-2.mp3?blob_id=22821826

Marcus and Nick chat with The University of Coruscant's own Dr. Ravencourt aka James, about the new Xbox Series and PS5 consoles coming out this fall!

And in other general podcast news, we are on Warcraft Radio’s Podcast Directory Listing and would love for folks to stop by and leave a review if you’re so inclined. It does use your Battle.Net for verification that you’re a real person and not a robot/spambot, much like WoWHead and other WoW related websites.

https://warcraftradio.com/directory/

Imperium Ludi

Animal Crossing

- The October/Halloween update is live. Plant pumpkins, get new Spooky DIYs, and collect candy leading up to an event on Oct 31st.

Dual Universe

Members have been busy building new ships and have started making their way to far off planets

The Organization is taking weekly trips to visit and mine distant planets

The Org has new “My First Space Haulers” to hand out to new players who want to travel into space without having to build a ship first.

This week's upcoming mining trip will be to the distant dry rocky planet on the far edges of the solar system in search of a mysterious elusive ore.

Work is progressing on the Org's new ship dedicated to finding and transporting ore.