S3E49 - Year-End Geekery - “The most delightful sandwich I’ve eaten in years”

Year-End Geekery


In this episode:


Void and Beej catch up on things that need to be said before
the end of the year. The end of the year is hectic for everyone,
and we have a lot of stuff that needs to be talked about before
Season 4 of the podcast rolls out.

Beej's stuff:

BJ ate a really good sandwich… like… really good. Holy
moly.

The Dragon Prince

Frame-rate thing is interesting.

Rayla’s Scottish accent seemed so fake, but the
actress is Scottish

Reminds me of Ni No Kuni 2 because it’s a
pseudo-lighthearted fantasy

Season 2 was greenlit. Yay!



Overwatch

New Symmetra. Again, holy moly. So much goodness.



Legends of Aria - https://www.legendsofaria.com

Formerly Shards Online

Early Access right now

Pretty much is old-school UO.

30 bucks for the initial buy-in.

Steam in January.

Fully supports player mods and servers



Ralph Breaks the Internet

Not quite as good as the first one. But still really
fun.

The Disney princesses were by far the highlight



Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 2

Just a good show, ya know?





Void's stuff:

Persona 5 art book! So stylish!

Off to be the Wizard

Is this LitRPG? I don’t know where that line is drawn
exactly.

The premise of the book is that someone finds a file
that controls all the variables in the world and uses it
to essentially become a wizard (with the use of computer
skills). It’s essentially a geek power fantasy.



The Coming Storm (Audible Original) about Weather Data

Government data that’s been collected but never
really been uploaded to the cloud

Communication and psychology problems of weather
warnings and alerts



Starlink Battle for Atlas

It’s like Starfox, No Man’s Sky, and an Ubisoft open
world game had a baby

Hand-crafted solar system

Fun exploring

Combat is surprisingly fun because you get to mix and
match weapons on the fly

There’s an actual story

This is also a pretty good Starfox game (Beej agrees.
It's a great Starfox game.)



Minecraft story mode on Netflix

Choose your own adventure on Netflix. Pretty neat.



RDR2 Online

Seems like a much better fit for the world they’ve
created

There’s also still so much riding around between
interesting things. Longing for more fast travel options

Co-op story missions are fun

Some of the competitive playlists are fun

I bet this would be great with a regular group of
friends if you can schedule that into your life



Hitman 2

More of the same in a really good way!

Plus, if you own season 1 you get all those maps for free
in the season 2 engine with the new items and elements

New maps! Some are awesome I love the intricate systems.
It’s a mix of puzzles, logic, learning, mastery of a level,
and execution. It’s everything I loved about Hitman Season 1
but even more.

This is probably one of my favorite games of all time
(replacing Hitman Season 1) since it has all of season 1 i