A BAD MIX: This week, the Twitter account, @TerriblyBland, posted a thread calling out nerd industries' tendency to do networking at bars, especially during and after conventions. As ever with nerd discourse, the claim was met with a lot of support...as well as some very staunch opposition. Andrew and D. Bethel look at the original claim and examine the overall conversation.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• The original @TerriblyBland Twitter thread that kicked everything off.
• Citadels creator, Bruno Faidutti's counter-argument to the @TerriblyBland's claims (the English version can be found at the bottom of the post).
• American game designer, Mike Selinker, offered a thoughtful argument supporting @TerriblyBland's claims.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Some Solid Copy" (14 August 2015): Where Andrew first discussed his experience playing Watch the Skies, a megagame.
• "Action Noir Theater" (29 July 2016): Episode 100, Part 2 where our hosts reveal the first part of an intended series of the audio drama, Nick Springer. With a bonus, heavily-produced opening where a song by D. Bethel brings Andrew back from being trapped in the rift between space and time!

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FEATURED MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
• "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/)
• "Back in Time" by D. Bethel
  • Originally published as part of Episode 100, part 2: "Action Noir Theater"

WEEK IN GEEK: This week, Andrew dabbles in a few different ponds, first by playing a bit of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, then talks about his experience going through Subnautica: Below Zero, and testing his mettle with Ring Fit Adventure for the Nintendo Switch. D. Bethel is very conflicted––but having a lot of fun––as he plays through Dragon's Crown Pro.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Shortcast 44 - The Game of Life" (23 Feb. 2018): Where Andrew talks about Full Metal Furies, another side-scrolling beat-em-up with RPG elements.
• "Shortcast 62 - Not the Episode Title" (06 July 2018): Where Andrew discusses his previous experience with gamified fitness playing Zombies, Run!
• "It's Always a Game" (08 Feb. 2019): Where Andrew first discusses his experience playing the original Subnautica.
• "We Still Don't Know $#!&" (31 May 2019): Where D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the incorporation of "RPG elements" in non-RPG genres of games.
• "Full Release" (29 Jan. 2021): Where Andrew discusses his first impressions of the early access version of Subnautica: Below Zero.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• From Clerks: The Animated Series, the famous "Who is driving?" clip.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
• "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/)

FREEDOM FOR APPS: Andrew and D. Bethel dedicate this week's episode to discussing and parsing and debating and understanding and reacting to the very, very strange lawsuits being fought between Apple and Epic Games. SPOILER: They have no answers.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Hackett, Robert. "The Apple and Epic Games Court Case is Literally Bananas." Fortune, Fortune Media, 11 May 2021.
• Lopatto, Elizabeth. "In Epic v. Apple, Everybody is Losing at the Game of Defining Games." The Verge, Vox Media, 7 May 2021.
• Robertson, Adi. "Epic v. Apple Keeps Coming Back to the Gap Between Ignorance and Inconvenience." The Verge, Vox Media, 11 May 2021.
• A tweet featuring the clever TikTok video about DnD classes using a bow (via the @bluminek TikTok account).

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Shortcast 62 - Not the Episode Title" (6 July 2018): Where Andrew discussed his time with the mobile exercise app, Zombies, Run!
• "Aiming for Whales" (28 August 2020): Where Andrew and D. Bethel first address the battle between Epic Games and Apple.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
• "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/)

WEEK IN GEEK: It's an animated kind of week this week as Andrew gets his specific Star Wars fandom ignited with the premiere of the new Disney+ animated series, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and D. Bethel nerds out on all the ingenious choices and animation tech found in the new Sony/Netflix film, The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Ross, Dalton. "Watch Dee Bradley Baker Voice All the Star Wars: The Bad Batch Clones." Entertainment Weekly, Meredith Corporation, 03 May 2021.
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines director, Michael Rianda, tells the story of getting the billboard for the classic Michigan restaurant, Redamak's, into the movie via this Twitter thread.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Episode 148 - Bro-Bro Yo-Yo" (27 October 2017): Where Andrew discussed the premier of the final season of Star Wars: Rebels.
• "Chasing Chickens" (17 July 2020): Where D. Bethel confesses his undying love for Gravity Falls.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
  • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3652-disco-medusae
• "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/)