Anticipated Games Of 2022 – Episode 222

Linda and Rey talk about the games they are interested in playing, and watching people play, coming up this year.

Video Games:

Tabletop:

Upcoming RPGs 2022: 10 tabletop RPG releases you should play | Dicebreaker

The most exciting new tabletop RPGs of 2022 – Polygon

A Stabby New Hobby – Episode 221

 

The Grills have a chat about the stuff that caught our interest at the Consumer Electronics Show of 2022

Bloodlines Is Not A Dating Sim-Episode 208

In this episode, the Grills have our Book Club meeting!

We read “Lamb-The Gospel according to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore”

We enjoyed it, and talked about other things it reminded us of like some musicals and plays, and movies and games!

We forgot to mention how well female characters are portrayed in the book, oops.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28881

Here’s a link to the game Rey talked about: http://www.sjgames.com/innomine/

Star Trek Lower Ducks – Episode 205 with Hammond Chamberlain

  • The Grills have a chat with @jhammondc (Hammond Chamberlain) – Host of Beyond the Playlist and Soundography, Producer of Women Kick Ass and America’s Next Top Podcaster, and More!
  • If you’re interested in our little “grilling” session where Hammond answers some rapid fire Q&A, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/grills

The Angriest Crocheting – Episode 204

This is a difficult conversation about the content of the lawsuit brought against Activision/Blizzard, and their response so far.

It’s emotional, it’s potentially triggering, but it’s a discussion we feel we MUST still have (unfortunately) over and over again.

As promised, here are links to a lot of the content we referred to in our talk:

The Lawsuit: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/08/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-women-sexual-harassment

Contract based employment:  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/video-game-contractors-receive-poor-treatment-and-low-salary-as-business-booms

Unionization: https://www.axios.com/games-industry-unionization-4e63a526-ae3a-4f7c-8946-c9a765d6958c.html

This is an episode we did in april of 2019. We talked a lot about how we thought the state of streaming and podcasting for women had gotten better…women getting seen as “real” gamers and becoming less objectified. Too bad the actual development industry didn’t keep up!

The Instance Episode with Jules Scott: https://www.frogpants.com/blog/the-instance-suplimental-scott-and-jules

“No Way Home” Merchandise by Scott Johnson/Frogpants:  https://www.frogpants.com/store

Townsend: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-08-07-under-fire-activision-blizzard-exec-frances-townsend-steps-down-from-companys-womens-network

iilluminaughtii: https://youtu.be/c54ZM_WgBYE
https://youtu.be/ItpnCfArBZE

The Actual Lawsuit: YJw (aboutblaw.com)

Creators’ POV: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/09/activision-blizzard-asmongold-content-creators/

 

A 12 Step Program, For The Murders – Episode 195

The Grills catch up on our geeky goings on, and then have a chat about the BIG list of upcoming Marvel movies and shows that have been announced. Some we are looking forward to, some? not as much…

Will you be headed to a theatre?

NFT For Pidgeons – Episode 191

Linda, Rey, and Ember catch up on what’s been up in our lives, and then talk about NFT.

The “Pockets” MadCap Misc was referring to:

https://youtu.be/uaRoWPEUTI4

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