PEOPLE ARE STILL TERRIBLE: The last few weeks have been heavy with news of important people in the various nerd industries––video games, tabletop, comics, etc.––getting called out as sexual predators who, for years, were protected by the companies they worked for. Andrew and D. Bethel don't dive into specific cases as much as why these people's predatory behavior had been "open secrets" for years and hadn't suffered for it.

Schrodinger's Coulson: To end on more fun news, Andrew and D. Bethel discuss the first few episodes of the new, final season of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which has the crew hopping through different time periods.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Carpenter, Nicole. "Former employees accuse Cards Against Humanity of a Racist and Sexist Office Culture." Polygon. Vox Media, 23 June 2020.
• Dean, Paul. "Catan at 25: Checking in on a Once-Revolutionary Board Game." Vice. 11 June 2020.
• Gault, Matthew. "A Wave of Sexual Harassment Accusations Is Sweeping the Games Industry." Vice. 23 June 2020.\
• Pulliam-Moore, Charles. "Warren Ellis and Charles Brownstein Face Public Reckonings for Alleged Sexually Predatory Behavior." Gizmodo. G/O Media, 23 June 2020.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Episode 145 - Corrected Reality" (01 September 2017): Where Andrew and D. Bethel try to answer the question: are there too many conventions?
• "Pong 2020" (07 June 2019): Where our hosts discuss a controversial interview with Chris Avellone and his strange stance on politics in game narratives.
• "Starting by Starting" (03 January 2020): Where D. Bethel talks about his time with the Lovecraftian revisionist video game, The Sinking City.
• "The Badger Abides" (07 February 2020): Where Andrew and D. Bethel talk about revising Lovecraft for a modern context, focusing specifically around the recently released tabletop RPG, Fate of Cthulhu.
• "Elbow Five" (06 March 2020): Where D. Bethel talks with Andrew about the future of conventions in the face of the coronavirus.

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MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
•  "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
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WEEK IN GEEK: As is often the case with our hosts: everything old is new again. Andrew plans to take on the psychological strangeness of Atlus' Catherine in the recently released "definitive" version of the 2011 game called Catherine: Full Body. D. Bethel actually steps outside the realm of Xavier's School for the Gifted to try out a different Marvel hero, The Silver Surfer, in the 2019 limited series, Silver Surfer: Black, by Donny Cates, Tradd Moore, and Dave Stewart.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Klepek, Patrick. "The Small But Important Change Celeste made to Its Celebrated Assist Mode." Vice Games (formerly Waypoint). Vice Media, 16 September 2019.
• The "Dog Ending" from Konami's Silent Hill 2.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Episode 133 - We're On a Track" (05 May 2017): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the idea of ludo-narrative dissonance in gaming.
• "Episode 161 - Mustache Nonsense" (26 Oct. 2018): Where Andrew talks about diving back into Bard's Tale with The Bard's Tale Trilogy collection.

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MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
•  "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
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THE DELONGATED MAN: Actor Hartley Sawyer has been fired from his role as Ralph Dibney––the civilian name for The Elongated Man––after racist and misogynist tweets he made years ago once again resurfaced. Andrew and D. Bethel discuss accountability in the world of social media and the permanence of internet publishing.

WotC RESHUFFLES: Magic: The Gathering publisher, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) announces it will be retiring old cards with clear racist imagery and implications from circulation.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Preorder Dan's new Long John book at NewLongJohnBook.com!
• "Introducing the New Warriors." Marvel. 17 March 2020.
• Johnston, Rich. "Tee Franklin Calls out Stephen Amell––and Gets a Tweet Back." Bleeding Cool. 08 June 2020.
• Mitovich, Matt Webb. "Flash's Hartley Sawyer Fired for Racist, Misogynistic Tweets That Left Showrunner 'Mad as Hell'." TVLine. TV Line Media, 08 June 2020.
• Nafpliotis, Nick. "Actually, There's A Lot Marvel Can Do About Cops Using The Punisher's Logo." AIPTComics. 10 June 2020.
• Parrish, Ash. "Wizards of the Coast Bans 7 Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards." Kotaku. G/O Media, 10 June 2020.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "A Casualty of the Rhyme" (22 May 2020): Where Andrew and D. Bethel––guided by resident DC expert, Taylor Katcher––talk about the news of Ruby Rose leaving Batwoman after the first season.

INFO:

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MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  
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• "Deuces" by Kevin MacLeod
  
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3643-deuces 
•  "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3662-district-four 
• Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

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