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The Long Dark is a great game in part because it makes you always, always have to be thinking about taking care of problems on the bottom end of the hierarchy of needs.

Warmth, water, food, fuel. Even if you're doing some other task you need to be constantly be mindful of providing yourself with the very basics.

Being adjacent to the Walking Simulator genre means the game gives you time to think about these things, not just rush to immediately solve them.

LB: Tusky fixed the privacy of replies!!!

Fox vocalizations, or, "why does it sound like there's a demon baby in the woods??"

Dear rental car places: please install cell phone dash mounts.

Signed, me, in an unfamiliar part of town and missing every turn while juggling my phone in my lap.

Full moon being scudding clouds. Beautiful.

Aiaiaiaiai!
(how fox awoo.)

Programming note 2: Initially it kinda sounds like one of the players is doing a gay stereotype for his character voice. He later clarified that the voice is based on that of am actual (straight) friend of his.

Earlyish the show makes a couple of minor mis-steps with regards to queer representation, but actually *listened to feedback* and ends up having some great queer characters.

Programming notes: the show is absolutely finding it's feet for the first couple of arcs. You should know whether it's your jam or not by, I'd say, the end of episode 8. Yeah I know that's a fairly big time ask but it's worth it.

I didn't expect that a podcast where three professional comedians and their dad play D&D would end up having a plot that's leaving me on the edge of my seat, but now I'm 49 episodes in and absolutely loving it.

The Adventure Zone is good and you should listen to it.

First episode re-edited to cut a lot of extraneous character creation junk: https://adventurezone.libsyn.com/ep-15-here-there-be-gerblins-chapter-one-super-cut

Show archive: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone?page=8

Okay y'all an offhand comment has me curious about something, for any of you who are okay sharing:

What's your biggest kink that's difficult or impossible to fully implement in meatspace? Is this also you biggest kink overall?

Opinion: Ethics is the most approachable branch of philosophy, but also by far the most difficult.

Also Lucy Liu is a stunningly talented actor. She does the thing where you can just look at her face and tell exactly what her character is thinking.

The show Elementary isn't ostentatious about it, but secretly has some absolutely brilliant cinematography.