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Deep Listens

Deep Listens

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A bi-weekly video game book club that takes a deep look at one game every episode. We discuss the literary elements, philosophical ideas, and game design decisions that make games great while keeping things funny and friendly. Tune in for some close readings of your favorite games! Email us at [email protected]
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Canada’s #1 video game book club podcast! We tackle games large & small, new & old while keeping it informative, funny and (mostly) positive. Hosted by Jacob McCourt, Mike Ruffolo, Moe Murtadi, Katie Lesperance, Flora Merigold and Travis Colenutt. After almost 6 years of twice-monthly shows, we now publish new shows when we have something to say! Looking for a good place to start? Download an episode for a game that you really love and hit play. Looking for suggestions? Consider our episodes ...
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Lost Levels Club

Mike and Ting

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It's a book club for games! Mike and Ting talk about games while working through their backlogs - or more likely, make their backlogs worse by playing other things entirely. Join them playing the book club game and tell them their opinions are bad on Reddit and Twitter.
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Dorkspawn

Robin Ekberg & Dillin Apelyan

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A video game book-club podcast. Dorkspawn was created because Dillin wanted to show his best friend his favorite video game series, Dragon Age, which Robin had never played. Now they are moving on to other, choice-heavy video games to share and discuss book-club style. Currently Playing: Fallout: New Vegas Previously Played: Dragon Age (Full Series), Mass Effect 1-3 Support Dorkspawn on Patreon Dorkspawn is a proud member of the Many Sided Network!
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We're a weekly Podcast born of the Monster Hunter Community. We discuss all games (that we care to) but all in some way started with Monster Hunter. We do a weekly show and a monthly show, weekly more discussion on current gaming and our takes and Monthly as a "video game book club" where we play a game for a month and discuss.
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Red Rooster's Gaming Coop is my gaming network of shows featuring Pining for Pixels - my video game variety show where I discuss a topic or theme for the week, as well as speak my mind on what is going on in the world of video games at the moment. New episodes every Tuesday! Saving Throes - my tabletop roleplaying game variety show. I discuss a topic or theme each week along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I ...
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ClubCast is Video Game Book Club's podcast. Clay and Daniel from VGBC's YouTube channel host an anything (video game related) goes podcast for your enjoyment. We talk about gaming news and headlines, as well as current games we are playing. Our focus is broad and covers retro and modern-day gaming.
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Retronauts

Retronauts

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The original classic gaming podcast continues its endless quest to explore the history of video games, one game at a time. Join hosts Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey each week as they team up with a host of expert guests to chronicle the creations that have paved the way for today's hits. From forgotten black-and-white arcade machines to modern-day remakes, Retronauts spans more than four decades of vintage gaming greatness!
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Bad Playstyle is a book club podcast. We all sit down and play the same game and hopefully you have too so you can be intellectually engaged with our discussion. We generally aim for shorter games that have a start to finish of six hours or less. Spoilers: The games we play for each episode will absolutely be spoiled and any others that come up in conversation can potentially be in the line of fire. Each episode's show notes will list all games mentioned. It is recommended that you check an ...
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Jemjammer

Crooked Russian Cam

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Annie Craton, Anna Emmaline, Alexei Pepers, Rio Rios, and Maq Weaver explore the wonders of the Spelljammer setting in this Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Wonders include but are not limited to: hippo men, spiders with eel heads, gay lizard women, bisexual monster romance panic, mer-himbos, and library crimes. Updates every two weeks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Clubbin'

Plus 10 Damage

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Every other week, members of Plus 10 Damage choose a game, play that game, and then get together to talk about that game. It's like a book club, but for video games.
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Square Roots - THE Classic RPG Podcast

John Brandon, Jim Banks, Matthew Van Zandt, Vanessa

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Square Roots is like a book club, but for classic RPGs! Each episode John, Matthew, Jim and Vanessa play through a chunkerino of one of your favorite RPGs, from Final Fantasy through Chrono Trigger. Are they experts? No. Are they qualified? Absolutely not. Are they good at RPGs? Probably not. But they're the fun kind of dumb, and that's what counts.
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Lads Who Game

Lads Who Game

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Lads Who Game is a podcast all about video games. We’ll be discussing the games we are currently playing in our ”book club” or any sort of general topic related to the industry. Founded in 2020, Lads Who Games is comprised of three members (Lad Jack, Lad Jimmy, and Lad Robert), who got together during the COVID-19 pandemic to play and discuss video games as a sort of ”video game book club”. From casual games to high-intensity RPGs, the Lads are true fans of the craft and have a lot of things ...
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My Best Friend's Game

My Best Friend's Game

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Nostalgia abound, "My Best Friend's Game" is a video game book club podcast that began in 2018 following three long-time friends, Tim, Evan and Max, as they each share their own favorite games with one another every month. Will that game make it to the other friends' favorite game lists? Or will it get two thumbs down? Whether you enjoy a walk down memory lane, learning about new games to play or just need a place to hang, "My Best Friend's Game" has got you covered.
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Super Gamer Book Club

Super Gamer Boys

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A show brought to you by Super Gamer Boys! Adrian and surprise guests play a game each month and then get together to share everything they loved and hated about the game!This show is put out early to our Patreon supporters at patreon.com/supergamerboys. Support us over there to get episodes early as well as other perks!
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Welcome to NADDPOD! Join Dungeon Master Brian Murphy as he leads players Emily Axford, Caldwell Tanner and Jake Hurwitz on a comedic, actual-play adventure through the realms of Bahumia and Beyond. The show also features a score composed and performed by Emily Axford. This team has created a variety of D&D campaigns, as well as numerous other series such as DUNGEON COURT and 8-BIT BOOK CLUB. They also occasionally hit the road and roll dice live on stage.
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Left Trigger Right Trigger

Left Trigger Right Trigger

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Join us every other week as we convene the 'video game book club.' Each episode is structured around a topic: anything from 'Trust' to 'Robots' to 'Body Parts'. Listen in as your hosts each bring a game to the table that they think exemplifies that topic in some way. Give us a shot and remember, games are just metaphors.
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Hang out with us as we play games chapter by chapter and discover the story together as we discuss plot and theories for what's coming next. Like a book club but for games. Full spoilers ahead though so we encourage you to play along with us at home.
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SuperFamiCompLit

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SuperFamiCompLit exists as a video game book club that you are more than welcome to play along with! It's a show in which we discuss games "in context" ie with respect to their canonical, spiritual and covert predecessors and descendants. While the show is primarily mechanically focused we talk about the in universe world as its relevant or… as we like! For each episode we choose a game to play and research as well as a group of optional "extra credit" games to play for comparison and contra ...
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Video Game Rations

Video Game Rations

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Monthly video game club. For the love of games. You know that video game you’ve always talked about playing? Well now is your chance! Join three friends Brian, Eric and Nolan as they laugh and talk about their love of indies, AAAs or a game from the backlog. During each episode they’ll dive into what they are currently playing, latest industry news and a long form discussion on the selected Game of the Month. Listen in and join a community that celebrates all things video games.
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Level With Us

Jared and Marcus Richardson

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Welcome to Level With Us - a cozy video game discussion podcast where brothers Jared & Marcus play a game separately, then meet together to discuss it (kind of like a book club!). This show is for all ages, so curl up with your loved ones and enjoy as these guys gush about their favorite games, gripe about the annoying parts of games, and try to stump each other with nerdy trivia questions! If you have thoughts you'd like featured in our regular discussions, or for business inquiries, just e ...
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Wiggly's Book Club

Wiggly of Trap Door

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Please, join Wiggly and his book as we uncover what is contained within the Trap Door Mansion library of Discovery (and he's drunk, can't see, has an astigmatism, legally blind in his left eye, dyslexic, has double triple vision, the onset of degenerative eye disease, dry eye, his glasses are dirty, it's dark, and he can't read). Wiggly's Book Club is a fortnightly read recorded live from Sloppy Joe's Bar in Easton, Pennsylvania. Check show times for schedules. You will actually believe a ma ...
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The Elder-Geek Game Club is a bi-weekly, book-club style podcast where we play Classic, Retro and Indie games. Prior to each Episode, our crew spends some time playing a game. We then dissect and discuss it on the show. Audience participation is both encouraged and essential to the show!
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GAMETHING

Pippin Barr, David Wolinsky, and Mark Chains

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GAMETHING is an audio book-club about videogames. Each episode, experimental game designer Pippin Barr and oral historian David Wolinsky choose a game to play separately and exchange answering machine messages about it until the tape runs out. The result is a conversation about anything and everything (mostly everything) they find interesting about videogames.
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Describing The Skybox

Describing The Skybox

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WELCOME TO DESCRIBING THE SKYBOX! We are a fortnightly, book club-styled podcast in which we attempt to go in-depth on an individual video game and figure out what makes it unique. Episodes are around an hour to an hour and a half long and primarily feature free form discussion on themes and mechanics present in each episode’s titular game. Bear in mind that we are not reviewers, so as far as we critique the games at hand, our intent is not to convince you to play any particular work. SPOILE ...
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You can send us a message if you click this link. Maybe? Only one way to find out... Mass Effect: Andromeda - Episode 7 This Week: Complete the Hunting the Archon quest, go to H-047c, and have WAY too much fun driving around in the Mako 2 Next Week: Meridian and finish the game Support the show Contact: http://linktr.ee/squelchcast Support the show…
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Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games! The Legend of Zelda franchise is…
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On this final episode of 2025, we look back at Future Cop: L.A.P.D. for the PS1 - the entry in the Strike series that was never to be. Still a great game though, but how will it fare in our annual Pod 'em Up Awards, which of course is also happening in this very episode! Also in this bumper end-of-year episode, we're skirting around some sensitive …
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Read transcript Attention, ace pilots and Peanuts enthusiasts! Buckle up your aviator goggles and prepare for some canine combat as Play Comics takes a nostalgic dive into Snoopy vs. The Red Baron, the PS2 and PSP action extravaganza where Charles M. Schulz’s beloved dog finally got his chance to translate his doghouse fever dreams into actual game…
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Dillin has NEVER played a Fallout game, and Robin loves the series! Dillin is playing them for the first time and sharing that experience with his best friend. Dorkspawn began as a way for Dillin to share her favorite video game series, Dragon Age, with their best friend Robin, and now we're continuing the tradition, book-club style. • In this Fift…
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Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I …
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To welcome in the new year, Off the Deep End has once again roped in Cassidy from the Bad Game Hall of Fame to cover one of the great kusoge JRPGs! Our crew asks important questions such as "why does this game look the way it does?" and "why does this game sound the way it does?" The answers may surprise and shock you, but not nearly as much as whe…
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A Special Limited-Run Actual Play from Dorkspawn Fallout: Kings of Mahatt uses Fallout: The Roleplaying Game from Modiphius, airing as we play Fallout: New Vegas on the regular pod. In part five, How About You, With Brook Lane changed forever, the gang confront the consequences of their actions and try to figure out if there's any path to make thin…
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Happy holidays to you all, Adventures. Thanks for tuning in. In this episode, Slava and Jonathan (joined by Josh, our intern) discuss A Christmas Carol, a classic novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The story follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a wealthy miser, as he is visited by the ghosts of Jacob Marley, Chr…
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Join Adam, Tyler, Jason, and Justin as they discuss the Stargate SG-1 season 2 episodes "Holiday", "Serpent's Song", "One False Step", and "Show and Tell". Follow along as they attempt to handle such topics as being awkward to homeless people, gloating over one's fallen enemy, bald naked white men, and mother. Please consider donating to the Nation…
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Mike and Ting comment on each other's top Spotify tracks. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up - Part 2. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or [email protected] Show Notes: Pre-Chat FURFAG - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify PITS - song and lyrics by Pent Up Pup | Spotify Already Done - song and lyrics…
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Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and Kevin Bunch take a moment to reflect on some of the most influential figures in video games who passed in 2025: how the work they created touched lives, and what their loss means for the medium. (This episode was recorded before Infinity Ward founder Vince Zampella's passing.) Retronauts is made possible by listener…
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In our final Random Encounter of 2025, it's time to take a look ahead to the biggest games of 2026! With the holidays in the rear view mirror, RPGFan is now building our annual most anticipated for the coming year feature. And there is no better way to wrap up 2025 than having the Random panel give everyone a preview of those titles we’re looking f…
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Read transcript Listen up, mutation enthusiasts and multi-platform adventurers, because this week on Play Comics we’re strapping on our Kevlar suits and diving straight into the bewildering, beast-infested, cross-console chaos of X-Men: The Official Game! We’re talking about the 2006 game that launched on practically every system known to mankind (…
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Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I …
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In this episode Gino, Pete, and Em discuss Promise Mascot Agency! We cover the game's many desperate gameplay styles, elaborate setup, and sick truck physics. We also try to figure out whether a game like this would work if it was set anywhere other than Japan. Please consider donating to the National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.org/do…
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There are no podcast truths.Welcome back to the podcast! Today, we’re talking about Everhood, an indie bullet hell/adventure/rhythm game. Everhood has several notable factors that could be considered a main point of conversation about it. It is surprisingly difficult on its standard difficulty setting and requires some mastery to actually get throu…
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Mike and Ting talk about their extremely cursed Spotify Wrappeds and YouTube Recaps. NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for 2025 Wrap Up. Contact us: @lostlevelsclub.bsky.social or [email protected] Show Notes: Pre-Chat Mike's 2025 Spotify Wrapped Ting's 2025 Spotify Wrapped Mike's 2025 YouTube Recap Ting's 2025 YouTube Recap…
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You can send us a message if you click this link. Maybe? Only one way to find out... Mass Effect: Andromeda - Episode 6 This Week: Go to Elaaden do Mass Effect Andromeda things Next Week: Complete the Hunting the Archon quest, go to H-047c, and have WAY too much fun driving around in the Mako 2 Support the show Contact: http://linktr.ee/squelchcast…
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In this special post-mortem episode, Jared and Marcus return to discuss their top games of the year! Sit back and enjoy us highlight our favorite titles AND do a mini-Name That Tune at the end! 0:00 - Intro 1:49 - Our Top Games of 2025 34:45 - Name That Tune 2025 Games Edition 45:30 - Outro If you ever want to reach out to see what else we're up to…
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In this episode of The SideQuest Book Club Podcast, Slava and Jonathan—joined by Casey, JT, and Spenser— continued to break down Wintersteel from Will Wight’s Cradle series. The guys explore character dynamics, relationships, and major themes of identity, growth, and progression fantasy. The conversation highlights foreshadowing, power dynamics, hu…
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Welcome to the Pining For Pixels podcast! This is my video game variety show podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a subject or theme that interests me, and I will speak about what is on my mind in the world of video games! Merry Christmas everyone! This y…
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To wrap up the year, we share about our favorite games we played for the first time this year, our favorite game released in 2025 and what game we are most looking forward to in 2026. Contact information: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @StoryEverPod (⁠⁠Twitter ⁠⁠and ⁠⁠Blue Sky⁠⁠) Check out our spinoff podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TGSEP:…
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Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Part 4 - Boat/Unboat Square Roots - Episode 493 Quest Log: 0:30:22 Level Up: 1:29:20 The gang takes Mario a-treasure huntin' in this week's episode of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. We meet a new bomb friend, beat up a ghost skull, and get involved in more Plant People Crime Family Drama. We also meet Flavi…
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It's that time of the year again, so hang your stockings, haul home a coniferous tree, and pack the required survival gear for another harrowing trip to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown. And for this 15th outing, we'll be taking a long, mostly confused look at Video Power: the Captain N also-ran that assembled a team of C-list protagon…
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00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:57 - Dead Space 2023 (Chris) 00:17:23 - Ball x Pit (Chris) 00:29:33 - Slay the Spire (Heath) 00:31:48 - The Roottrees are Dead (Heath) 00:36:29 - Heath checks-in on what Other People are Playing 00:38:56 - Reflecting on How Gaming has Changed (since starting the podcast) 01:15:31 - Closing Statements Send us an email at mobiu…
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Dillin has NEVER played a Fallout game, and Robin loves the series! Dillin is playing them for the first time and sharing that experience with his best friend. Dorkspawn began as a way for Dillin to share her favorite video game series, Dragon Age, with their best friend Robin, and now we're continuing the tradition, book-club style. • In this Four…
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Read transcript Attention, galaxy defenders and neuralyzer-dodging citizens! This week on Play Comics, we’re suiting up to tackle Men in Black II: Alien Escape, a title that hit the PS2 and GameCube with all the grace of a cockroach climbing out of a dumpster. We are looking at a game that saw the plot of the second movie, shrugged, and decided tha…
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The Triplets attend a Hogliday Fey Soirée hosted by Onyx’s new patron! Nyack gets a fat lip, Jens goes full Grinch and Onyx has a meal to remember as the Trinyvale X Strahd crossover continues! Need the perfect gift for the NaddPole in your life? RADIO CITY LIVE SHOW TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW! CREDITS Editing by Brian Murphy Production and Sound De…
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Okay guys...something weird is going on...Alex, Davis, and Jesse...had fun? They saw this film for what it was and...enjoyed it? ...Davis has never seen Pitch Black? All this and more on yet another incredible episode of SWOCBC, where the boys discuss Ewoks: The Battle for Endor by Ken and Jim Wheat! To support the show and listen to a new episode …
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Welcome to the Saving Throes podcast! This is my Tabletop role-playing game podcast, part of the Red Rooster's Gaming Coop network where I talk gaming and gaming culture every week. Each episode will feature a topic or theme along with my take on current happenings in the world of tabletop role-playing games and semi regular updates on the games I …
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Gino "ThatPinguino" Grieco and Braden "ArbitraryWater" REDACTED join forces to talk about the hottest genre to hit the indie scene in the last ten years. No, they're not talking about cozy farming games or boomer shooters, instead they're talking about deckbuilders! If you've ever played Slay the Spire and wanted to know what else was out there, do…
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We continue with part two of our discussion on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Developer: Sandfall Interactive | Publisher: Kepler Interactive | Initial Release: April 24, 2025 PLAYERS: Travis Colenutt (Bluesky) Katie Lesperance (Bluesky) Flora Merigold (Bluesky) Web: LeftBehindGame.Club | Twitter: @LeftBehindClub | Bluesky: leftbehindgameclub.bsky.so…
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You can send us a message if you click this link. Maybe? Only one way to find out... Mass Effect: Andromeda - Episode 5 This Week: Head to Kadara and fight some criminals Next Week: Go to Elaaden do Mass Effect Andromeda things Support the show Contact: http://linktr.ee/squelchcast Support the show on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/Squelch or…
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Join Adam, Tyler, Jason, and Justin as they discuss the Stargate SG-1 season 2 episodes "Spirits", "Touchstone", "The Fifth Race", and "A Matter of Time". Listen along as they debate such topics as first nations portrayals in media, compressed b-roll, brain blasts, and time dilated viscera. Please consider donating to the National Network of Aborti…
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