Borzoi and McNabb give you the deep dive into Battletech but also discuss board games, cosmic horror, more WOTC controversies, more Last of Us, Cormac McCarthy, and more.

00:00 Battletech

49:00 Board Games

1:07:00 House of the Dragon and Race in fiction

1:17:00 Thomas Ligotti and H.P. Lovecraft

1:23:00 The Dungeons and Dragons Anti-White Comments and Hasbro Woes

1:48:00 The Last of Us, Again

2:05:30 Cormac McCarthy

2:26:00 Wrapping Up With Picard and Henry Cavill

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Intro: II by Aufhocker: https://aufhocker.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-ages

Outro: Heroes of the Dawn by Aufhocker: https://aufhocker.bandcamp.com/album/heroes-of-the-dawn

Relevant Links:

BattleTech Lore & History - Age of War: A Complete 500 Year History (MechWarrior Lore)

Root

A Distant Plain

Volko Ruhnke Games

Chaos In The Old World

The Frolic by Thomas Ligotti

Miniatures Instagram

Wizards Of The Coast And Dungeons & Dragons Executive Kyle Brink Demands White Males Leave Tabletop Gaming

3 Black Halflings Interview Kyle Brink (timestamps for comments are 31:50 and 46:57)

TheRPGSite Reacts

Survey of Dungeons and Dragons Demographics

Dungeons & Dragons' Racial Reckoning Is Long Overdue

Hasbro Slapped By Bank Of America For ‘Destroying Customer Goodwill’

Why Magic: The Gathering's 30th Anniversary Edition Is Controversial

The Kekule Problem

The 1992 NYT Cormac McCarthy Piece

My Confession

The Concept of Outer Darkness

Borzoi and McNabb discuss grognard tendencies, their histories with tabletop gaming, Battletech and DnD, Seventh Sea, the Wizards of the Coast debacles with race classification and the OGL blunder, M.A.R. Barker, and briefly touch on The Menu and The Last of Us.

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Intro II by Aufhocker: https://aufhocker.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-ages

Outro is Heroes of the Dawn by Aufhocker: https://aufhocker.bandcamp.com/album/heroes-of-the-dawn

Relevant Links: 

https://archive.is/C37GR

https://archive.is/WnYzy

https://archive.is/PE7tv

Borzoi and Aaron discuss the Faust story, the ideology of art, and Eastern European animation and puppetry after watching Jan Svankmajer's surrealist adaptation. Check the notes for a dub you can find on YouTube. If the audio sounds weird at parts I had to re-record a few times due to scrambled audio.

Jan Švankmajer's Faust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4O3fYwYPW0

Intro Music: Franz Liszt's "Faust Symphony "

Outro Music: Hector Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust", Mephistopheles's opening aria Voici des roses

Aureus Press: https://www.aureus-press.com/

PressureCast: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAureusPress

Aaron Art Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronArt_aa

Aaron Art Telegram: https://t.me/aaronartcont

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Corrections:

I referred to a Gogol animation in this episode. I said it was Dead Souls, but it was actually Yuri Norstein's adaptation of The Overcoat that I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg7MF9DkDNo

In space, no one can hear "I can't breathe". Borzoi, McNabb, and Nick Mason discuss Ridley Scott, the Other, dehumanization in Holocaust culture, horror, feminism, and White people as monsters among many other topics in this freewheelin' rambling episode on the seminal science-fiction film Alien.

https://odysee.com/@RaceBorz:e/PBAlien:c

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Intro is Vapor Lounge. Ending song is Escape From Dennys.

Art by Leitis

Myth20c: https://myth20c.wordpress.com/

Upcoming Episodes:

Gods and Generals

Mishima

Finishing Wang Huning for Hyperpodcastism

Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis for Hyperpodcastism

Apologies to people who donated for episodes for how long these took, but I will get these out before I do any other content.

DK and DE discuss Montana, fishing, America, and Protestantism in the film A River Runs Through It in this apparently cursed episode of the Poz Button. I guess Borzoi was there too, kinda.

Art by Leitis

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Intro is Vapor Lounge off Grim Omen. Ending song is Dead Oceans, One Race

Like a good politician Borzoi overpromises and underdelivers with his return, talking about Hitler, democratic politics, mulatto studfarming, and the absolute state of Zoomers in this fake and gay documentary about s-s-s-simulation of politics. Guest starring Louis from NIGR, Nike, and Kegz.

Art by Leitis

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Intro is Vapor Lounge off Grim Omen. Ending song is Antisocial Network

The Florida Boys State Hitler incident: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/07/06/Legion-apologizes-for-Nazi-type-salutes-at-Boys-State/7348615700800/

Upcoming Episodes:

Alien / Memory with Nick Mason and Alex McNabb

A River Runs Through It

Borzoi and Alex have a casual conversation about movies they like to watch around Halloween as Borzoi desperately tries to big brain the entire episode.

Borzoi and DK talk about the most antisemitic filmsince Der Ewige Jude, the 2009 Nick Hornby written film An Education.

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Intro is Vapor Lounge off Grim Omen. Ending song is Antisocial Network

Borzoi, McNabb, and PotatoSmasher talk about Puritanism, the colonization of America, witchcraft, the Malleus Malafacarum, civilization vs nature, and Halloween horror in the New England folktale The VVitch

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Intro is Vapor Lounge off Grim Omen. Ending song is Hex Girls

Borzoi, McNabb, Dogbot, and Greg Conte discuss the failure of satire in the film Starship Troopers, the confused messaging of Paul Verhoeven, and why its sincere depiction of war and duty is aspirational.

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Intro is Vapor Lounge off Grim Omen. Ending song is Antisocial Network