revelthedog wrote:

Hit 10000 downloads during the week.
Downloads have taken a massive jump recently which I'm delighted about.
Any support would be gratefully recieved.
Www.werenotwizards.com

Been downloading and listening. Not always my particular area of interest (depending on the guest), but it's a decent listen and I'm always happy to see a new one come up - chuffed that it seems to be paying off for you. Congrats.

Thank you Cinty and Dante

Also, congratulations rev, that's great news.

I just got home. I don't know what's going on, who is where or what's going on. I am dunno etc.

An Irish folk myth to explain drunken crop circles.

The Irishman Abroad podcast got tiring as it filled up with mostly unknown sportspeople, etc but the most recent one is with Bob Gedolf, and is worth a listen.

Geldof,what a prick. Should be locked in a room with Bono.

In an era of obvious neoliberal implosion he definitely doesn't sound like a crier of wolf, at very least.

So, after several amazing arcs it seems like The Adventure Zone has shat the bed pretty comprehensively. I'll stick it out since we're now at the finale - but the slightly railroady (yet still cool) D&D campaign has now turned into the DM telling his own story and the other players just going along with it.

There was a prequel arc which removed a lot of agency and that was ok, it made sense for some agency to be lost, but it's now evident that Griffin McEllroy has this super amazing story all worked out and doesn't even make any effort to try and let the PCs decide what to do. A spectacularly quick decline.

I feel bad for recommending it so strongly before, now.

Tempy wrote:

Which arc is this? Weirdly I've seen people praise it more, recently. I stopped on the train cos I am a bad pod boi.

Story and Song - Finale.

The train was a good arc, but it got crazy good after that for several arcs.

Childintime wrote:

So, after several amazing arcs it seems like The Adventure Zone has shat the bed pretty comprehensively. I'll stick it out since we're now at the finale - but the slightly railroady (yet still cool) D&D campaign has now turned into the DM telling his own story and the other players just going along with it.

There was a prequel arc which removed a lot of agency and that was ok, it made sense for some agency to be lost, but it's now evident that Griffin McEllroy has this super amazing story all worked out and doesn't even make any effort to try and let the PCs decide what to do. A spectacularly quick decline.

I feel bad for recommending it so strongly before, now.

I'm still only on episode 38 so I'm good for now. Saw him tweeting about the latest episode and how much great feedback he was getting. It's a bit shit if he's fucked it though.

Rest in peace, Softboy culture

Brooks wrote:

Speaking of McElroy I'm going to miss CoolGamesInc, it was a hoot.

Tempy wrote:

Rest in peace, Softboy culture

What happened? Saw lots of tweets around the subject but nothing direct

Nick Robinson's, softboy in chief at Polygon made a shitty tweet about the Switch port of Overcooked, leading to people subtweeting him about his creepyness on women, which led to more people saying "yeah this s a thing" and apparently he's a real sleazeball who uses his position to try to get nudes out of girls.
McElroys are furious, Ben Pack and Matt Kessler (from Giant bomb (well, pack is, Kessler interned there - so did Robinson)) have cut ties with him on their poddo and he's now been suspended pending Investigation from Polygon. Seems there's real merit to allegations.

Only just realised RPS have their own poddo now. Electronic Wireless Show.