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17 June 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

A MARVELOUS DEBUT: Our hosts briefly talk about the incredible first impression that the MCU Disney+ show, Ms. Marvel, makes.

FALL OF THE PHOENIX: The tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) world was rocked this last week as more and more people came out on Twitter to discuss the abusive work habits of TTRPG celebrities, Satine Phoenix and Jamison Stone. Our hosts cover the accusations and discuss how this applies to the TTRPG community as a whole.

(00:00) Intro – Ms. Marvel discussion

RELEVANT LINKS:

Arndt, Dan. “Accusations of Bullying and Blacklisting Surround Dungeons & Dragons Creator Couple.” The Fandomentals, 10 June 2022.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Ding Dong Bowser

10 June 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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NEWS CRUISE: This week, our hosts dive into a variety of news of the shocking, weird, and downright questionable.

CHAPTERS:

(00:00) Intro – Old Man Talk: Allergies
(02:43) News Cruise: Monte Cook Games’ Announcement
(10:50) Nintendo uses sentencing of a hacker to make a statement.
(16:33) Upcoming Predator prequel, Prey, will be available with a Comanche language audio track.
(22:12) Confusion and deception (maybe?) from Blue Box Game Studios
(31:06) Outro – Netflix’s Sandman and the danger of trailers.
(33:14) Outtakes

RELEVANT LINKS:

Andrew’s short series of tweets about the Monte Cook Games announcement:

It’s funny how an announcement that a TTRPG publisher is releasing their game system ruleset under their own custom open license is enough to rankle me something serious.

It’s 2022. The Creative Commons license is right there for you.
— the profound dark (@profounddark) June 7, 2022

The teaser trailer for the Predator prequel, Prey (the full trailer has since been released and made the connection much more explicit):

Asplund, Andrew. “Legal Issues in Gaming: The Open Game License.” Tales from the Gamer Viceroy, 19 December 2012.
Asplund, Andrew. “Week in Geek: Fantasy AGE RPG.” A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes, 25 August 2016.
Colangelo, BJ. “Prey Will Give Viewers the Option to Watch the Film in Comanche Language.” SlashFilm, Static Media, 07 June 2022.
Phillips, Tom. “Jail Term for Nintendo Pirate Gary Bowser was “Unique Opportunity” to Set Example, Court Documents Reveal.” Eurogamer, Gamer Network Limited, 07 June 2022.
Ryan, Charles. “Announcing the Cypher System Open License.” Monte Cook Games, 06 June 2022.
Schilling, Vincent. “Navajo-Dubbed Finding Nemo and Star Wars: A New Hope Now on Disney+.” Indian Country Today, The Arena Group, 12 February 2021.
Winslow, Jeremy. “OMG, PS5 Horror Game Abandoned is Mired in Controversy Yet Again.” Kotaku, G/O Media, 07 June 2022.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“In a World” (20 March 2015): Where Andrew discusses a bit about Open Game Licenses.
“Drive Your Gorilla” (25 June 2021): Where our hosts first talk about controversy––or at least the mystery––surrounding Blue Box Game Studios.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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“Del Rio Bravo” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5706-del-rio-bravo

The Spicy Circle

13 May 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

STRANGE NEW WORLDS: Our hosts discuss the premiere episode of the brand new Star Trek show on Paramount+, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a show that’s a throwback not only in continuity, but in its episodic approach to storytelling.

DOCTOR NEW: Last weekend brought the announcement of the actor who will replace Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor in the legacy BBC science-fiction show, Doctor Who. Our hosts discuss their excitement for the announcement of Ncuti Gatwa as the 14th Doctor.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Gilliam, Ryan. “Ocarina of Time Headlines Video Game Hall of Fame Class of 2022.” Polygon, 6 May 2022.
The site that plagiarizes articles but changes key words:

Did you know there are sites that plagiarize article and replace random words with synonyms pic.twitter.com/38yK07Ad5P
— Max Kashevsky (@MaxKashevsky) May 10, 2022

Ncuti Gatwa’s first interview since his announcement:

Ncuti Gatwa’s first interview! #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/yttdTfLZv3
— The Post Monument™ (@thepostmonument) May 8, 2022

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
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Bad Comedy

15 April 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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NFTs BREAK BIG: Andrew brings new NFT disaster stories to the show, from Star Trek to Dungeons & Dragons to Batman to $277, it’s all a garbage fire and it doesn’t seem to be going away.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Codega, Linda. “NFTs Are Here to Ruin Dungeons & Dragons.” Gizmodo, G/O Media, 08 April 2022.
Handagama, Sandali. “‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280.” CoinDesk, Digital Currency Group, 13 April 2022.
Spangler, Todd. “DC to Sell 200,000 Batman Cowl NFT Digital Collectibles, Eyeing $60 Million Haul.” Variety, Penske Media, 29 March 2022.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Disco McCoy

8 April 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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FIRST CONTACT DAY: April 5 is celebrated by Star Trek fans as “First Contact Day.” While the day is fictional, the celebration is real as Paramount releases a bunch of Star Trek news, sneak peeks, and trailers. Our hosts dive into all the news that’s fit to beam up.

RELEVANT LINKS:

The cast announcement video for Picard, season 3:

D. Bethel will be at the return of Sacramento’s CrockerCon next week, on Thursday, April 14! Find more information here:

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Inserting Spaces

4 March 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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STANDING WITH UKRAINE: Our hosts take a minute to discuss the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

REVIEWING REVIEWS: The release of FromSoftware’s newest game, Elden Ring, has many people talking about reviews due to the fact that many outlets rated the game 10/10 (or whatever metric they use) while the reviewers openly admit that they didn’t finish the game (this was due to FromSoftware releasing review codes to websites really late). This lead D. Bethel and Andrew to consider what the role of a review is––heck, what even is a review when the gamut runs from professional reviews to user-written Amazon reviews.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Diaz, Ana. “The Sinking City Is Back on Steam, but Its Developer Says Not to Buy That Version.” Polyon, Vox Media, 26 February 2021.
“Gabe Juice.” Giant Bomb, Red Ventures, 01 March 2022.
Henley, Stacy. “Here Are Ukrainian Video Game Studios You Can Support Right Now.” The Gamer, 25 February 2022.
The first (of five) parts of D. Bethel playing FromSoftware’s Bloodbourne on the “Dan & Rusty Video Game Power Hour”:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Starting By Starting” (03 January 2020): Where D. Bethel discusses his time playing Frogwares’ The Sinking City.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Flabbercast

18 February 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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TRAIN SUPLEX: The trailer for the next and last (of the current set) of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series from Square Enix, Final Fantasy VI, has been released and our hosts have some thoughts (and nitpicks).

NFTHAC0: TTRPG Twitter caught on fire when discussion erupted around the possibility that Dungeons & Dragons developer, Wizards of the Coast, might be considering getting into the NFT game.

RESCUE THE RANGERS: A trailer for an upcoming movie based on Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers dropped and it…it…I have no words, for good or for ill. We’ll wait and see.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Plunkett, Luke. “Magic: The Gathering-Loving Crypto Losers Fail to Understand Copyright Law.” Kotaku, G/O Media, 15 February 2022.
“Line Goes Up: The Problem with NFTs” by Folding Ideas on YouTube (21 January 2022):

“Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Teaser Trailer” by Walt Disney Studios:

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Milkbloods” (9 April 2021): Where our hosts first discussed the threat of NFTs.
“Crypto ATM” (8 October 2021): Where our hosts discussed the threat of NFTs for the second time.
“An Accident of Flavor” (12 November 2021): A third time when our hosts discussed the threat of NFTs (when video game companies first announced their support).

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Televisionatic

28 January 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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STAR TREK CORNER: D. Bethel is still getting excited about Star Trek: The Next Generation, so our hosts spend some time discussing the end of TNG‘s season 3 and the start of season 4.

NEWS CRUISE: With all the news coming out in the last few weeks, our hosts decide to skim over a handful over them, including Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard; an indie developer complaining about there being too many indie games; and comics writer, Tom Taylor, taking on Comics Gate head-on.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Sharf, Zack. “Robert Pattinson Will Turn to ‘Arthouse Porn’ If Batman Goes Badly.” Indie Wire, Indie Wire Media, 25 Dec. 2019.
Tom Taylor’s thread on Twitter about ComicsGaters’ comments on his book, Superman: Son of Kal El:

Wow.
Stick around for the end of this. It's worth it.
Today, I woke up to piles of strangers in my mentions attacking the sales of Superman: Son of Kal-El issue #6 and celebrating the failure of our comic… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Xa2zrI87yl
— Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) January 25, 2022

Jeff Vogel’s Twitter thread about indie games:

So pointing out the world doesn't actually need 10000 new indie games a year on Steam will make some people super angry.

Note: that's almost 300 games a day.

Suggestion: Think I'm wrong? Prove it by going out and actually trying 1% of those games. (Yeah, I didn't think so.)
— Jeff Vogel (@spiderwebsoft) January 24, 2022

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“The Finest in Lottery Scratcher Technology” (16 March 2018): Where D. Bethel discusses Tom Taylor’s run on Marvel’s All-New Wolverine.
“Starfleet First” (31 January 2020): Where Andrew shares his reactions to the first episode of Picard.

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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He Needs Management

21 January 2022 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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ETERNALLY YOURS: After getting released on Disney+, our hosts finally discuss the most recent Marvel Studios release (not Spider-Man: No Way Home), Eternals. It’s a movie with a lot of new additions to the MCU, for better or for worse.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Sword Club” (30 July 2021): Where our hosts discuss the results of California’s investigation into the company culture at Activision Blizzard.
“Scary Gongs” (19 November 2021): Where our hosts review the walkout at Activision over their dissatisfaction with Bobby Kotick as a leader of the company.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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Almond Molina

10 December 2021 Invisible Editor Comments 0 Comment

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THE DOCTOR IS IN…FLUX: With the most recent series of Doctor Who wrapping up––a six-episode event called Doctor Who: Flux––our hosts discuss its ups, downs, insides, and outs as the show leads to the exit of the current Doctor as played by Jodie Whittaker.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

“Smash Talk” (14 Dec. 2018): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss Jodie Whittaker’s first season as the main character of Doctor Who.
“Halloween Still” (01 Oct. 2021): Where Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the news that previous showrunner, Russell T. Davies, will be taking over Doctor Who after current showrunner, Chris Chibnall, steps down.

RELEVANT LINKS:

Totilo, Stephen. “6 State Treasurers Pressure Activision Over Misconduct Allegations.” Axios, Axios Media, 01 Dec. 2021.
The video interview with Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, and Jamie Foxx discussing why they returned to their previous Spider-Man roles (via a tweet from @DRMovieNews1):

This Brief Interview with Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, and Jamie Foxx at #CCXP is so much fun. Never thought we’d see all of these worlds collide, but here we are!

We’re less than 2 weeks away from ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’. pic.twitter.com/NUyBgAADQr
— DR Movie News 📽 (@DRMovieNews1) December 5, 2021

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“Disco Medusae” by Kevin McLeod
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“District Four” by Kevin McLeod
- Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four
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