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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra, Tamrielo and Thalen

Tonight we continue our recent tradition of picking up on topics that we did not quite have time for on the previous episode. First off we discuss our general feelings about “cheating” and by cheating we are talking about relying on guides, maps, and walkthroughs in additional to other more traditional cheats and mods. From there Bel talks a bit about his experiences with Orsinium and how playing through all three factions of the original Elder Scrolls Online content is paying off. From there we discuss long games that have a very clear failure state and how generally lousy that feels when it occurs. Finally we talk a bit about the recent ArenaNet community issues and share some of our feelings about it.

Topics Discussed

Walkthroughs Guides and Cheats
- Respecting our Time
- Enhancing the “Fun Loop”
- When we would not use them
Elder Scrolls Online
- Finishing Orsinium
- Payoff for finishing all original Content
Long Games with Failure States
- Kingdom Death
- Civilization
- Battletech
- Sim/City Builder Games
ArenaNet Issues
- Emboldening Bad Actors
- “Other” on the Internet
- The Stress of Game Development
- Bel’s Brain Broke

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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Kodra and Tamrielo

Tonight we change things up a bit and instead of recording the Game of the Month show… we are in fact doing a normal style show. By normal… I mean we are recording with a Tam who has been day drinking. We start off the discussion with Dauntless that just launched on the 24th… and by launch I mean it is a free to play game going into open beta which is absolutely a launch. Ash talks about Hyrule Warriors on the switch and his experiences playing through it and all of the new content that came from the 3DS version. Tam talks a bit about Far Lone Sails a game where you drive a sailboat train and constantly keep moving ever steadily to the right. Finally we talk about games as escapism and this turns into a far darker discussion than I had intended it to. We each sorta talk about how we use games to cope with whatever we are dealing with.

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