A Light Monopoly

SHELTER AT HOME: With both hosts hometowns under a "shelter at home" quarantine, they discuss how they've had to adjust their behavior to continue their normal nerdy procedures. To that end, Andrew discusses playing tabletop RPGs online using the Roll20 website and the teleconferencing program, Zoom. D. Bethel, on the other hand, talks about comic book distribution and how the major (only?) comics distributor, Diamond Comics, decreed that it will cease ordering (and shipping) new comics immediately; Dan talks about how this affects him and, more importantly, how it affects local comic shops.

Here is a look at the virtual tabletop Andrew created for his game of Spectaculars:

Also, here is the video made by Sacramento comic shop proprietor, Ben Schwartz––owner of Empire's Comics Vault––laying out the dilemma of comic shop owners in the time of the quarantine (especially before Diamond stopped shipping).

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Salkowitz, Rob. "Final Crisis? Diamond Comic Distributors Halts Shipments of New Comics In Response to COVID-19 Shutdowns." Forbes. Forbes Media, 24 March 2020.

RELEVANT EPISODES

• Shortcast 72 - Little Paper People (02 Nov. 2018): Where Andrew talked about buying, printing, and assembling papercraft figures for tabletop role-play.
• Makes a Taste (13 March 2020): Where Andrew discussed his first play-through of Spectaculars.

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MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
• "District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io)
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