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Providence College Podcast

Providence College

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The Providence College Podcast features interviews with interesting members of the Friar Family. These in-depth conversations with PC students, Dominicans, faculty, staff, and alumni provide a rich look into the lives of noteworthy Friars. Occasionally we will also bring you on-campus lectures and presentations. Go Friars!
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Gaming Perspectives with Saul and Jolene is a husband and wife team that love Hobby Gaming. We play RPGs and Boardgaming and wish to share our love of this hobby with everyone we know.
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The Art of LiveOps

Crystin Cox and James Gwertzman

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The Art of LiveOps podcast provides an in-depth perspective on modern game development and shares stories behind some of the most successful LiveOps strategies. Join our hosts, Crystin Cox and James Gwertzman, as they interview a variety of game development professionals in the industry about their personal experiences creating and operating LiveOps games.
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What was it like living and working in the largest mental deficiency hospital in Britain? And what changes led to its relatively recent closure? In it's heyday in the 1970s, Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a member of the hospital's nursing staff. In the tracks on this album, he looks back at the history ...
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Join us as we battle illness to bring you the pithy, erudite commentary you crave. That you deserve even. Start with software designed cores, mix in some Nvidia domination, season with the largest DDoS attack EVaR, then Ubisoft kills games and finish with fast SSDs. What an evening you are in for. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Patreon 02:21 Food wi…
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Saul and Jolene went to a couple conventions in late August and Early September. In late August they went to Galaxycon in San Jose. It takes place in downtown San Jose at the McEnery Center. It is the largest convention center in the South Bay. Saul was really impressed with all the guest speaker, panels, activities that were available at Galaxycon…
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A listener, Phil, asked about how easy would it be for a video gamer to become a TTRPG gamer. At first glance it would be a no brainer that those that played video game on a conole or PC would move to playing TTRPGs. Saul and Jolene talked about some of those differences and what similarities that video games have to TTPRGs. There are 3.42 Billion …
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Many times there seems a point in an RPG when the players should either not fight an encounter. Why do players not consider the tactic of running away. Saul and Jolene discussed this topic. Saul admitted that he ran a lot of D&D and Pathfinder and the rules are set up for the GM to match the encounter to the level of the players. This comes from th…
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As promised, here is another edition of a podcast made by human beings. We just seem like ai because of our nearly perfect appearance and encyclopedic knowledge. SanDisk Blue Plate specials on order, with a side of RTX Blackwell frame generation. Engorge yourself. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Patreon 01:46 A food segment 04:06 NVIDIA’s quarter 12:…
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Saul was reading and thinking about long campaigns and what it took to keep them going for extended period of time. Saul ran two D&D to Pathfinder Campaigns from 2001 to 2009. Then he started running campaigns for his 6 year old son and his friends. Saul ran another 2 campaigns starting with Pathfinder to D&D 5th edition which concluded right befor…
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This podcast is what happens when worlds collide. Such as Windows and SSDs. Or Microsoft and listening to users. Or Softbank and Intel. Oh, you want more? How about 720p and 720Hz or Copper and Coffee. Want some of that news action? Take a good long listen and enjoy this weeks run-down of tech triumphs and failures. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Pa…
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Join us as we turn a slow news week into the podcast event of the decade. Hackable smartphones, AOL dialup, Android tablets w/o Google, Microsoft more fully embraces GitHub, and even BioShock 4. There so much more to enjoy within! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:04 Patreon 02:10 Food with Josh 05:04 RX 9060 non-XT benchmarks (and VRAM discussion) 12:53 …
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Jolene was reading about a GM who was running D&D 5th edition had players trying to do combat actions before the GM had called for Initiative. She asked Saul about this and asked if it happened in his D&D or any other RPGs he had GMed. After a brief discussion they decided to do an episode on this subject. As usual Saul got a little distracted from…
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AMD is on the rise, and their financials show it, plus they might have won The Game. We discover that Windows 11 SE is still a thing, PCIe 8 has been ratified, and what's the best-worst GPU of 2025! XeSS goes cross-platform-gpu and turns out that people CAN actually detect malware if properly motivated. All this and more! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00…
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Prepare to be dazzled by nearly every aspect of this podcast - unless you watch and listen closely. We have the usual cast of characters with at least 1 shirtless moment from a special guest. On top of all that, we go over the Intel debacle, the AMD ascendency, Windows 10 is 10, and even some Half-Life 2 updates. Really. More in the topics below. T…
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Saul was looking at Reddit posts and came across a GM that was lamenting that his players had not learned their characters abilities after 10 sessions of D&D 5th edition. The GM didn't go into too much detail, for example age of players, experience of players, etc. Saul noticed the large number of negative reaction to the players but those offered …
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Not only do we never underestimate the power of sunglasses, we bring you another show after a "sick" week off. We've got some external storage to review, Threadripper high-wattage benchmarks, and some Zen time on top of all the other high quality news items and spontaneous commentary you know you want. And need. Topics below. Timestamps: 00:00 Intr…
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Jolene was looking at the different types of games she has played in. Though she likes tactical combat games. She loves Shadowrun 5th edition and D&D for example, she also likes mysteries, dramas, and crime solving. So she asked Saul about what games do not concentrate on combat but other types of settings. Saul thought that games that do not rely …
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Not only do we talk about the things in the description, but we talk (oh so much) about many other things! See the time stamps below for a list of most of them (because the list of digressions would exceed the character limit of this description). Come on in for the food, but stay for the review. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:28 Patreon 01:59 Food with…
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To celebrate Independence Day, we teamed up with a big imaginary Hollywood studio to produce this special episode. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye. Really, of course, we are one of the top 10 best podcasts in the computer hardware field, so if you're serious about your computer hardware podcasts, you're going to check this…
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Jolene was looking for some interesting topics to talk about and came across an article discussing Rotating GMs. She looked for more articles and there were quite a few articles and discussion on how to do this type of roleplaying. Jolene asked Saul and about it. Saul told her he had tried it a couple of times with various degrees of success. As th…
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After what seems like ages, but was actually only a week off, we are BACK. Enjoy what some have called "PCPer's greatest podcast episode of all time, even if it was kind of a slow news cycle". It's the energy, really. Have some news on AMD Threadrippers, Intel ARC, depressing Microsoft news and even Google Earth! 00:00 Intro (with show and tell) 04…
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