A WEEK OFF: With day jobs getting busy, our hosts are taking a week off but, before they go, they can't help but talk a little bit about Star Trek as well as the passing of Tina Turner.

RELEVANT LINKS:

• The official trailer to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2.

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FEATURED MUSIC:

• "Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod
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• "District Four" by Kevin McLeod
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ROLL TO SAVE: Now that Andrew has finally seen it, our hosts dive into the surprise hit of the year, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and look at how it honors (and deviates from) the game it's based upon.

TOPICS:

(00:00) Intro - Andrew and the stressful world of teaching

(03:33) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

(46:48) Outro - D. falls down the pit of The Legend of Zelda timelines.

(50:25) Outtakes

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "The Black Arts of Algorithms" (5 August 2016): Where our hosts discuss the disparity of interpretation of box office numbers with regard to Ghostbusters: Answer the Call and the first Suicide Squad.
• "Open Awesome License" (13 January 2023): Where Andrew discusses the Open Game License controversy D&D publisher, Wizards of the Coast, got into.
• "Madmacguffin" (20 January 2023): Where our hosts share their thoughts about the first (and only?) season of the Disney+ show, Willow.

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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
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WEEK IN GEEK: This week, our hosts dive deep into the video game pool as Andrew gets his caveman farming on with Soda Den's Roots of Pacha while D. Bethel finds a lot of adventure and fun in the deeply Lovecraftian adventure puzzle game, Call of the Sea by Out of the Blue.

TOPICS:

(00:00) Intro - Changing the lyrics to The Little Mermaid

(04:01) Andrew's Week in Geek: Roots of Pacha

(19:18) D.'s Week in Geek: Call of the Sea

(36:50) Outro - Andrew saw a movie (that they'll talk about next week!)

(38:14) Outtakes

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Your Cursor is My Prisoner" (19 February 2016): Where D. Bethel talks about another fun walking simulator, Firewatch.
• "Love the Stank" (30 December 2016): Where Andrew begins his long love affair with Stardew Valley.
• "Starting By Starting" (3 January 2020): Where D. plays a different––in many ways––Lovecraftian adventure game, The Sinking City.

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A-NEWS BOUCHE: It's been a busy few months, so our hosts felt that it was time to get away on a cruise, albeit a news cruise. They talk about the recent legal woes with Microsoft's attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard, recap all of the Wizards of the Coast's woes, and all the strange Twitter drama as of late.

TOPICS:

(00:00) Intro - Andrew's favorite MCU franchise

(05:34) News Cruise, Port 1: Microsoft vs. the UK

(13:13) News Cruise, Port 2: Wizards of the Coast and the Pinkertons

(20:04) News Cruise, Port 3: Paizo news

(30:24) News Cruise, Port 4: Twitter's checkmark dumpster fire.

(40:03) Outro - Star Trek: Resurgence

(42:30) Outtakes

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Doctorow, Cory. "Pluralistic: Convicted Monopolist Prevented from Re-Offending." Pluralistic, 27 Apr. 2023.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Hammering With a Screwdriver" (19 August 2016): Where D. Bethel discusses the first episode of Batman: The Telltale Series.
• "Nature's Velcro" (3 July 2020): Where Andrew relays his time with Owlcat's Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

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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/