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Lovely Bird Friend : What’s New @ the Table
Goblin sexuality. Did I want this to be the newsletter title? Of course. But I could never do that to your inboxes, dear readers. Last week we took a holiday break from Perpetua, but released five whole episodes of Side Story looking back on some of the varied interesting gaming experiences we’ve had this year.Jack and Austin discussed Earthborne Rangers, a card-based co-op tabletop game that evokes the breadth and vibrancy of open world videog...
Upcoming Stream on January 1st @3PM EST
This Thursday we'll be streaming Jack, Keith and Sylvie playing Adam Bell's ashcan of The Locked Room Murder Mystery, a boardgame-inspired TTRPG about creating a cast of characters and setting the stage for the perfect crime.Catch the stream at 3PM EST on our Twitch channel.
Realis 16 - Out of the Burning City Pt. 3
Realis is a science fiction and dark fantasy series that contains discussion of violence, injury, slavery, cannibalism and disease. This campaign never depicts sexual violence, always shows you where the sword goes but never what it does, and always airs on the side of maximalism. The ReGnostica’s Third Philosopher of Desire once wrote that “‘appetite’ is the brother of ‘impetus,’ yet acts like its father.” Yes. Fine enough. But bot...
Yamcha’d Twice : What’s New @ the Table
WOW, I’m unconscious. Last week brought not one but two new episodes of Perpetua. It’s the gift of fewer cliffhangers, basically! Listen to Perpetua 26: In Too Deep 02, then chase it with Perpetua 27: In Too Deep 03, but I must assure you that despite the quote I chose we were not in too deep at all, we were in just deep enough, OK??? So this is still a spoiler-free newsletter.Spider-Man doesn’t need to eat children to live. (Art said this ...
The Slop Lord - Split: Media Club Plus S02E09
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched Split. THERE WILL BE NO NEW EPISODE on the 30th, we are taking an episode off for the holidays. Check back next year, on the 13th, to hear us talk about Glass.We all hated talking about this one. James McAvoy plays 24 people and 3 of them ...
Waste (Positive) : What’s New @ the Table
I also don’t care, but in a different way. Welcome back to the black and white side of our Realis campaign. $5+ patrons have a new episode, Realis 15 - Out of the Burning City Pt. 2, with more on the way. If you’re a fan of Berserk (or more broadly of media where tough things happen in compelling and occasionally even cool ways) then this is the arc for you.Is poor farmer weak to: AX ? These are the important questions being asked on the most...
Realis 15 - Out of the Burning City Pt. 2
It is the great dilemma of chaos that one loses access to their reasoning faculties while inside of it. In placid conditions, intimacy generates knowledge. Exegesis is drawn from long, calm nights with a so-called holy text. A cure emerges from study done in the well managed sickhouse. The botanist lives among the trees, seeing flower become fruit become husk become seeds, seeds become scattered… and only then, finally, can they truly see the f...
Two Days : What’s New @ the Table
The School for Fast People. Last week we released Perpetua 25: In Too Deep 01 and picked things up post-chaos with the Eastern party. Lessons were learned, lessons are being learned, or lessons will probably be learned at some point depending on which character you ask. Listen wherever you do and read the show notes here.The perfectly adequate rollercoaster. The latest episode of Media Club Plus covers The Visit, a movie whose screenshots tripped...
T-Diamond Stylus - The Visit: Media Club Plus S02E08
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched The Visit and next time we'll be back with Split. Also have you seen our most recent Patreon episode, the Last Airbender watchalong that Austin joined us for? It's good! We've got a new bonus in the can too, the Season 1 crew r...
Comedy Action: What’s New @ the Table
There’s a reason we’re podcasters and not apron-makers. Does anyone else remember how in Way of the Samurai 4 for the PS3 there was a knight character named ‘Melinda Megamelons’ because of a translation error regarding the historical name ‘de Cameron’ being written in katakana as ‘Dekameron?’ Because that’s what I think about every time I hear or read the name ‘Hornbeam Hypostyle.’ Anyway, listen to Perpetua 24: Aquatic Ambu...
My Beautiful Gem: What’s New @ the Table
The Horn of Honesty. I’m learning a lot about food through the western continent party in Perpetua. I’m learning that ‘salty rubber bands’ are a thing one might crave. I’m learning I’ve been underutilizing seaweed. I’m learning how many things can be flash-frozen to delicious effect. Perpetua 23: Aquatic Ambush! 01 is out in the main podcast feed now – and as always make sure to check out the show notes.Under no circumstances do y...
Don't Bother the Monkeys - After Earth: Media Club Plus S02E07
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched After Earth and next time we'll be back with The Visit. Also Check out our Patreonfor last month's watchalong of The Last Airbender, also with Austin.Cypher Raige is the Prime Commander of the United Ranger Core, hero of humanity a...
Sexless Leguizamo: What’s New @ the Table
A quick note: As we posted on Bluesky yesterday we’ve had to take a little catch-up break on Perpetua the past couple weeks, but there will be a new episode this week – just in time to take the edge off of any Thanksgiving travel U.S. listeners may have.You could put everything this character thinks, feels and does in this movie on an index card. Earlier this month we released the 6th episode in our M. Night Shyamalan season of Media Club Plu...
Clapcast 96: Exit Music
Hello everyone! Enjoy another new catch-up Clapcast!This month we're chatting about: Behind the Name, bagels, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Tulsa King, and organizing!
Clapcast 95: My Kind of French
That cold wind is blowing in a brand new Clapcast. . . . . . . if it's not cold where you are it is now !! Because of how hard you'll be laughing? Listen, I don't knowThis month we're talking about: My Kind of French: Vin Diesel's announcement at Fuel Fest, Mission Impossible, game design..., badmitton is dangerous! , bad AI movie screenshots, Quote Investigator, the bible . . . ? Enjoy!
yes, i got him a tiny knife
No main feed episode last week and no newsletter today?! I know I know, I'm sorry, but don't panic, there's plenty in the pipeline -- including a new episode of Side Story! I'll see you with the full run-down next week, gang. 💗
La-R-va : What’s New @ the Table
Mole mole. Mole mole. The dice might not be our friends in the latest episode of Perpetua, but that’s what the Fabula points are for, right? Listen to Perpetua 22: A Roar Across Cenn 04 and read the show notes here.Hey Siri, where’s Jar Jar Binks from? There’s a whole wide world beyond the Enmarkar Forest. So many places to see, so many bugs to get killed by! $10+ patrons can watch the newest episode of our Outward LP here.Big guy! Big! As ...
The Wind That Makes You Dead - The Happening: Media Club Plus S02E06
WARNING: This is M Night's first R rated movie so the screencaps are a little grosser than usualWelcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched The Happening and next time we'll be back with After Earth. Also Check out our Patreon for last week's watchalong of The Last Airbe...
Get Out Your Protractors Out - What’s New @ the Table
Hey everyone! Austin here, pinch hitting for Janine this week. I was going to say "hopefully I'll finish writing this before the Dodgers and the Blue Jays finish this game up," but I think it's in hour five of play, so at this point, I don't think there's a risk of that.Anyway, here's what's been going on around the Table this week!"It's not just me, right?" "Might be." If a god (?) told you tha...
MCP Stands For M Night Cinema Party: The Last Airbender Watchalong
Hey you might be expecting our Media Club Plus episode of The Happening today. Well maybe that will happen or maybe actually it will be out tomorrow. Who could say? But What I do have is this: Me, Sylvi, Ali, Art, and Austin watched the genuinely surprisingly bad adaptation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon. I really truly didn't think it would be this bad. It gets almost nothing right about what a movie should be.
No Witching today, Joe...
Janine here! I'll be postponing my Sunday WitchSpring R stream, but never fear, there will be a couple mid-week streams this week to make up for it. ✌🏻
Orb-Meal: What’s New @ the Table
When God closes a door, he opens a hole. Sports legends are made, while gods machinate in the shadows! It’s Perpetua 20: A Roar Across Cenn 02!The reason why so many people work on movies is that someone is supposed to tell you “Dude, you can’t call these ‘Narfs’ and ‘Scrunts.’” I made my long overdue Media Club Plus debut on last week’s episode, covering M. Night Shyamalan’s stab at a modern fairytale, Lady in the Water. List...
Madam Narf vs The Rogue Scrunt - Lady in the Water: Media Club Plus S02E05
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched Lady in the Water and next time we'll be back with The Happening. Also Check out the Patreon next week for a watchalong of The Last Airbender with special guest Austin Walker.Lady in the Water, more like Lady OUT OF the Water! Bryce Da...
Gains-dalf💪🏻🧙🏻♂️: What’s New @ the Table
Well well well… If it isn’t the dessert brothers. My personal quest to make Austin formulate a mini-game for every eastern party arc is currently 2 for 2. Wordzin is out and Beachminton is in, in Perpetua 19: A Roar Across Cenn 01! Also shout out to Jack for the beachy fun theme – it’s perfect for all those summer’s-not-over-until-there’s-literally-snow-on-the-ground playlists.Netero-pilled. On the latest episode of Side Story, our po...
That’s God stuff: What’s New @ the Table
You don’t say ‘lord’ to a God. (Several people are typing) Boss fight. Boss Fight! BOSS FIGHT! Get zapped, losers: It’s a new episode of Perpetua. Listen to Perpetua 18: Sizzling Rivalry, Crashing Waves! 04 and read the show notes here.“Please bring me some Cheetos and some antibiotics.” Our foray into the works of M. Night Shyamalan continues in season 2 of Media Club Plus. Up for consideration this time is The Village, a movie that ...
Crime Is Still Happening - The Village: Media Club Plus S02E04
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched The Village and next time we'll be back with Lady in the Water.The Village is an isolated, idyllic(?) settlement deep in the forest, surrounded by dangerous, territorial, but ultimately peaceable creatures called, by the Villagers, The...
Button + Listen: What’s New @ the Table
A kitchen imp. A rat. A pumpkin with a face who tries to eat us. I’ll have whatever Ali had right before this recording, because there’s a part of the most recent episode of Perpetua that is so dense with potential pullquotes that I couldn’t even choose. Listen to Perpetua 17: Sizzling Rivalry, Crashing Waves! 03, and read the show notes (which continue to be amazing) here.Everyone else is just Jim. Last week’s Side Story is a bit of a gr...
Faucet Music: What’s New @ the Table
Tell me about your robot. Celebration, intrigue, and engineering! The plot thickens for the crew of the Little Snail in Calstega Bay. It’s Perpetua 16: Sizzling Rivalry, Crashing Waves! 02!A degree in how many months are in a year. At the intersection of faith, UFOs and 9/11 is M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, the subject of the most recent episode of Media Club Plus. And while you listen, remember to check out Keith’s screencap gallery here, es...
TV Is The Fifth Character - Signs: Media Club Plus S02E03
Welcome to Media Club Plus: a podcast about diving into the media that interests us and the stories that excite us. This season we're watching a selection of M Night Shyamalan movies.This episode we watched Signs and next time we'll be back with The Village.Signs is a movie about ex-preacher Graham Hess and his faith in god, which is put to the test when his wife is killed as a pedestrian in a car accident. He loses his faith, leaves the ...
Hell Looks Alright: What’s New @ the Table
We’ve been dealing with a lot of illness, illness recoveries, moving house and more among the cast recently, so last week we experienced some delays with our regularly scheduled Perpetua, Media Club Plus and Side Story uploads. However! Far from leaving y'all high and dry we did have a lot of other content to make up for it.This is a pro-Chinese Spongebob podcast. For $1+ patrons, Ali put out four new episodes of the Clapcast, drawing from ...
