Casual Tangent: Akira and Game Design
We tend to run long, so this tangent from our Starfleet Academy episode was cut out. If you want to hear a little chatter about comics and RPGs, then it’s here.
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C3E6. The New Girl (Into the Autumnlands Part 1)
The newly minted Stormwood team has been hired by a local pawn shop owner to make sure his taxes make it safely to the current government of the Autumnlands. But first, a new person has joined the party…
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90. Welcome to Starfleet Academy, B****!
Welcome to Starfleet Academy, students, we hope you survive the experience!
It’s the grimdark future of the 32nd century and a bunch of weird, traumatised kids are stuck together having to learn and grow into Starfleet officers! Will the main character be too annoying a main character? How many The O.C. references will Charlie make? How much will Miles lust after an espresso machine? And how delightful are those teachers?
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Pre-Order New Books by E.H. Lupton, Trae Dorn, and Ethan Flanagan!
We’re excited to announce some upcoming book titles by the creators here at the Nerd & Tie Network! To start
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C3E5. Two in the Afternoon (Trial Period Part 5)
The team has a lead on the person who stole the magic rock, and they’re looking for their suspect in the Winter Quarter of Denarsus.
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C3E4. Whose House? (Trial Period Part 4)
The team is starting their recovery investigation by visiting the scene of the crime. Then maybe the scene of another crime. The second crime is a metaphor.
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89. Starfleet Academy Prelude – So Much Child Death
Do you hear the siren song of synergy?
That means we’ve got a brand new Star Trek show on the horizon and Miles and Charlie want in. With Star Trek: Starfleet Academy on the horizon, our brave lads are going to squeeze back into their school uniforms and try to remember how school works as they approach three episodes of Star Trek which deal with students at SFA.
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91. “Ancient” Practices
There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?
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186. Retro Game Shopping in Japan
It used to be true, and still is to some extent, that visiting a video game store in Japan is a rite of passage for foreign visitors to Japan, but if you pull out a camera to take a video you may find you are no longer welcome.
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