Loot Mechanics Scormus
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This podcast discusses gaming in all its many forms: video games, roleplaying games, board games, live-action, retro-gaming, and so on. Your hosts Scormus and Beoulus bring you weekly gaming commentary, with a dash of humor and a heaping load of sarcasm and snark.
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For a Lifetime – Loot Mechanics #373
Trapped alone on a remote island, with only one video game they can play for the rest of their lives, what game would Scormey and Beoulus choose?
* Intro (0:34) – Scormey puts most of Constellation in a time-out, and whatever Beoulus has been playing “Sunhaven”.
* Video Games (5:10) – What one video game could you play for a lifetime?
* Wrap (29:01) – In other news, Nintendo and Discord may have stepped in the Poo this time…
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Doomed – Loot Mechanics #372
Doom and gloom, and Scormey being a little bitch, on today’s show!
* Intro (0:34) – Scormey bows to his Microsoft overlords, and Beoulus has been running a guild?
* Tabletop Games (9:37) – With the Pandemic “over“, are TTRPGs doomed to fade back into the shadows?
* Wrap (34:05) – More “Knave 2e” drama, which really puts a capstone on the douchebaggery behind the Kickstarter project…
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The New Normal – Loot Mechanics #371
Putting the Knave in “Knave 2e”, and other bullshittery, or today’s show.
* Intro (0:34) – Scormey has given up on BG3, while Beoulus has been playing “No Man’s Sky”
* Tabletop Gaming (10:34) – How not to run a Kickstarter project, Lesson #1265
* Wrap (33:23) – Scormey has received his copy of “Cthulhu Awakens!“, and has some thoughts.
“Burn The World Waltz” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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BEGONE, THOT! – Loot Mechanics #370
The boys lay the smackdown on fake “Gamer Girls”, and discuss the true rot infecting TTRPGs: Wokeness!
* Intro (0:34) – Scormey and Beoulus have been dominating their opponents, as usual
* Gaming (1:20) – Thots will not take over OUR games!
* Wrap (7:29) – WotC is finally facing the hard truth: “Go Woke, Go Broke!”
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NOICE! – Loot Mechanics #369
Today, for this extra-noice episode, we discuss the “Giggity” in Gaming.
* Intro (0:34) – More general gaming talk, as usual.
* WTF? (6:28) – Which games best deliver the Giggity? Scormey and Beoulus embrace their inner “preteen boy”-selves
* Wrap (37:27) – Beoulus discusses finding a game for his whole family to enjoy
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A dagger in the heart – Loot Mechanics #368
Is “Daggerheart” living up to the early hype for the game, or will it simply be another pretender to the throne?
* Intro (0:34) – Scormey romances Andreja (finally), and Beoulus tries to kick his Altaholism
* Tabletop Roleplaying (6:26) – Scormey and Beoulus talk about the “Daggerheart” open beta.
* Wrap (47:14) – Blizzard and their full-court press of commercials for WoW. Has desperation finally set in?
“Burn The World Waltz” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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