Listen as Kevin, Troll, and CJ give you 15 minutes of utter technobabble chaos. We form a pretty decent… SPACE TEAM.

Relevant Links

• Space Team

Crunchy Bits!

• Outro Song “” covered by astronaut Chris Hadfield 

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Kevin, Troll, and CJ talk about all the video gamin’ they did this year.

Relevant Links

• Dwarf Fortress
• Skyrim
• The Stanley Parable
• Bastion
• Gone Home
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• No-die Run
• Anthony Burch
• Hey Ash Whatcha Playing
• Hey Ash DLC
• Super Meat Boy
• Half-Minute Hero
• There’s No Time To Explain!
• Spelunky
• Rogue Legacy
• Pixel Piracy
• Gunpoint
• Gamemaker
• The Showdown Effect
• Magicka
• MAME Machine
• Terraria
• Edge of Space
• Starbound
• World of Warcraft: Siege of Orgrimmar
• Minecraft
• The Secret World
• “City of Heroes” Kickstarter
• Meridian 59
• Neverwinter
• Spellfire
• Balefire
• Neverwinter Nights (AOL)
• Neverwinter Nights (Bioware)
• Gith
• Dak’kon
• Diablo 3 Auction House 
• Torchlight
• Titan Quest
• Kingdom of Loathing
• Zack Johnson (KoL guy) on Idle Thumbs
• Uncharted 3
• Max Payne 3
• FarCry 3 Blood Dragon
• Saints Row
• Cart Life
• Papers, Please
• Prison Architect
• To The Moon
• Dear Esther
• Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs
• Card Hunter
• 7 Grand Steps
• Crusader Kings
• A Distant Mirror
• 4X Games (Grand Strategy)
• Master of Orion 3
• Ingress
• Shadowrun Returns
• Blood bowl
• Kenshi
• Kerbal Space Program
• Mars: War logs
• Organ Trail
• FTL
• Evochron Mercenary
• Divekick
• Jimquisition
• The Big Picture with Movie Bob

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “At the New House-First Day of School” from the GH:OST by Chris Remo
• Outro Song “” by 

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Kevin, Troll, Allegra, and CJ talk about their experience at CONvergence 2013. Yay cons!

Relevant Links

• CONvergence
• Skepchickcon
• Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer
• Bridget Landry
• Firefly RPG
• Best RPGs you’ve never heard of
• Ticket to Ride
• Torg
• HOL
• Rachel Kronick
• Steal Away Jordan
• Dog Eat Dog
• Monica Valentinelli
• Slash fic definition
• Honor Harrington
• Pyramid Head

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro music by 

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Kevin, CJ, and Troll talk about the fantastic year 2012 was for fans of video games. We gush about the great variety of games that came out this year, large and small.

Relevant Links

• Adventure
• Adventure “duck”
• Easter Eggs
• Ready Player One
• Audible
• Wil Wheaton’s Audible page
• Cold Days
• World of Warcraft
• City of Heroes
• Champions Online
• DC Universe Online
• Kingdom of Loathing
• Dwarf Fortress
• Mass Effect 3
• Penny Arcade Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness 3
• Chrono Trigger
• Star Trek The Motion Picture
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Ghost in the Shell
• The Witcher
• Ultima 4
• Skyrim
• Lode Runner
• FarCry 3
• Watch Dogs
• UbiSoft DRM
• Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands
• Great White Savior/Mighty Whitey Trope
• Magic Negro
• Dishonored
• Deponia
• Half-Life 2
• Legend of Grimrock
• Eye of the Beholder
• Nethack
• Ultima Underworld
• Martian Dreams
• Mark of the Ninja
• Heavy Rain
• Shank
• The Temple of Elemental Evil
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
• Spec Ops: The Line
• Heart of Darkness
• White Phosphorous
• The Walking Dead
• Deadlight
• Lone Survivor
• Home
• Another World/Out of this World
• Assassin’s Creed 3
• I Am Alive
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Sleeping Dogs
• Hamurabi
• BASIC Star Trek Game
• CJ’s Blog

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro Song “” by M O O N from Hotline Miami, another great game from 2012 that we didn’t get a chance to talk about.

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Kevin, Allegra, CJ, and Dan chat about the #1ReasonWhy hashtag, and why it’s important to talk about the issues keeping women from being part of game design.

Relevant Links

• 1reasonwhy < — Now a website so people can submit anonymously/without Twitter
• Machine Age Productions
•  (Lots of good info in here)
• Apocalypse World
• Kotaku Article
• Feminist Frequency
• #1reasontobe
• Liam Burke /
• Weapons of the Gods
• Jade Raymond (she’s still making games!)
• Geek Girls Rule /  (Correction: she was not a dominatrix, but a bartender at a fetish bar. Sorry for the confusion)

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro Song “” by No Doubt

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Kevin wanted to say thanks to everyone who gave their support, both emotional and financial, in the wake of the fire that destroyed the apartment he and Jen shared. While they are slowly getting back on their feet, anything helps. If you want to contribute, the link below will be active until December 21, 2012.

http://ortiz.chipin.com/kevin-weiser-and-jen-dixon

Crunchy Bits!

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Kevin talks about a situation that arose in their most recent Monster Hearts game that highlighted how his thoughts on metagaming may differ from the norm.

Relevant Links

• TWE Monsterhearts AP
• Metagaming Discussion
• Secrets Discussion
• The tenants of improv
• Deus Ex Machina
• Fiasco
• Apocalypse World
• The Jank Cast
• Jank on Demand
• Tremulous
• Dogs in the Vineyard
• Dread

Crunchy Bits

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro music by 

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Kevin rants about the horrible writing found in the animated Clone Wars show, as well as its propensity for creating “nightmare fuel”.

Relevant Links

• The Clone Wars
• Dark Forces II
•  / Clone Wars Homage
• Hondo
• The Deathwatch
• Illiteracy in Star Wars
• The Legend of Korra

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro Song “” by Supernova

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Kevin and Allegra play a quick round of Murderous Ghosts by Vincent Baker. It’s nasty, brutish, and short! Happy Halloween!

Relevant Links

• Murderous Ghosts
• Mary Sue
• Abotoir
• Leatherface
• The Ring

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro “The Walking Eye Theme” by
• Outro “” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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Allegra takes a few minutes to explain why she’s bursting with excitement over tremulus, a Lovecraftian horror game.

Relevant Links

• tremulus
• Sean Preston/Reality Blurs
• Dread
• HP Lovecraft
• Cthulhu Mythos
• August Derleth
• Migos
• Slenderman
• Apocalypse World
• Fiasco
• FATE
• Trail of Cthulhu

Crunchy Bits!

• Intro Song “Sacrificial” By Danny Baranowsky from The Binding of Isaac
• Outro music by 

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