The Midwest Scrubcast

Sorry that some of this episode is newscasting, we haven't really had anything else on our minds except the AMG announcement of the end of the bid. And vegetables, I guess.

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Get ready for an enthusiastic endorsement of Aces High with Wings, and an in-depth analysis of why Dan's Guri angst may finally be at an end (at least until the points change).

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Aces High...With Wings! | [00:28:00] Guri's new BFF | [00:42:00] Complaining about Roombas again | [01:00:00] Advanced Sensors

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The Scrubs welcome back Nick Sperry from 312 Squadron to help us do some complaining about power creep. Join us as we try to narrow down where we think lines are being crossed in the inevitable forward progression of X-Wing. You can find Nick's content at https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron

Timestamps: [00:02:00] Jedi at Jedha | [00:24:00] Power creep

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The Scrubs are high on in-person X-Wing, and also lacking a gunner and a clear agenda. This is a recipe for perhaps the longest, most detour-filled intro yet. Also, Dan is having existential Guri angst again. 

Clint has some perhaps controversial opinions about how official TTS should be, and what the definition of casual play is, and the scrubs decide to hash it all out.

Timestamps: [00:08:00] Should Official Tournaments be on TTS? | [00:38:00] What is a casual list and do we even know how to casual?

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It's an all-female crew in the party bus today, talking about what it's like to be among the few female players in X-Wing, and speculating on some of the reasons why there might be so few of them. Content Warning: While we normally try to keep our episodes relatively free of adult language, there are a few more adult words and topics than normal in this one.

Join us as we catch up with our friend Nick Sperry of 312 Squadron! We learn how to build an E-Wing the right way and what it's like to have positive associations with First Edition. You can check out Nick's stream at https://www.twitch.tv/312_squadron

Timestamps: [00:10:00] Small Detour into Outer Rim | [00:15:00] Actual Nick Interview 

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Don't worry, our less math-enthused co-hosts will assure you this is still pretty entertaining for a math episode... Emily has been thinking about doing math on the base stats of ships again, and it yielded some numbers-based thoughts on what ships are a "good buy" for survivability and which are not so much. 

The data-set we're referencing in the cast can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WwVjtA9_tkGENbAXS49KHnYVDGPewioZ/view?usp=sharing

This week our non-Matt special guest is Fitwest April Challenge drawing winner Goose (Or Drew)! Somehow, we even managed to get everyone's audio in the episode. Woo! This is our first time chatting with a guest who didn't know X-Wing before COVID, which led to some interesting conversations that you'll find somewhere in between all the jokes about kicking avian wildlife. Enjoy!

This week it's the exciting announcement of the winner of the Fitwest Scrub April Challenge drawing! Followed by a discussion of the lately-much-more-fashionable category of talents: Faction talents.

Timestamps: [00:01:30] Fitwest April Challenge | [00:11:30] Faction Talents