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AggroChat #424 – We Got The Beat

February 26, 2023 by Belghast

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

Hey Folks! This week we accidentally recorded an hour-and-a-half-long show. I guess this is what happens when you punt a bunch of topics to another week because we were missing the folks attached to said topics. We start off with the discussion about Theatrhythm Final Bar Line that we hinted at last week. From there we talk about Media from our Childhood that is not cursed… aka The Princess Bride. From there Tam talks about his further Steam Deck adventures with Eastward and What The Golf. Bel talks about his experience buckling down and getting his Skyscale in Guild Wars 2. We talk briefly about the Valve Honeypot catching over 40,000 DOTA cheaters, and Kodra talks about playing Troll Mario Maker levels, more specifically Super Wagon World. From there we go down this nostalgic trip about pulling dungeons and the puzzles that they used to present and our niche desire for randomized dungeon runs in MMORPGs.

Topics Discussed:

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line
Princess Bride and Kids
- Media from our Childhood Still Valid for Modern Standards
Eastward
What the Golf
Bel Gets a Skyscale in Guild Wars 2
Tam is Experiencing Good Crabs Again
Diablo 3 Season 28
- The Altar
- Bel’s Rough Start
Valve Crafts a Cheater Honeypot
- Over 40,000 Bans for DOTA
Super Wagon World
- Troll Levels for Mario Maker
Xenoblade III is a Pulling Puzzle
Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane about Pulling Dungeons
Niche Desire for Randomized Dungeon Crawls

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AggroChat #423 – Why Is Bel Laughing?

February 19, 2023 by Belghast

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, and Kodra

Tonight we have a bit of a short show as we had to punt several topics to next week since Tam and Thalen were out. Bel talks about his recent adventures since the beginning of the year with the Library system and the Libby App. From there Ash shares his experience using Character Questionnaires to drive character development in a tabletop pen-and-paper game. Kodra talks about streaming a day of Celeste Strawberry Jam and his experiences playing the game with a pillowcase on his head. Bel talks about what happens when a large Mastodon instance closes and over 17,000 folks have to relocate at once. Bel also talks about his experiences helping to administrate Gamepad.club. Finally, we talk about times when games decided to break their world or remove large chunks of content and why it didn’t work.

Topics Discussed

Adventures with the Library System
- Bel gets a Library Card
- The Libby App
- Gideon the Ninth / Harrow the Ninth
- The Last Watch
- Catching up with Dresden
Character Questionnaires are Amazing
- Using a questionnaire to help build character development in tabletop games.
Celeste Strawberry Jam
- Beginner Lobby
- Kodra plays with a Pillowcase on their Head
The Death of an Instance
- What happens when a large Mastodon Instance closes
- Bel helping admin Gamepad.club
Breaking the World Does Not Work
- Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 1
- World of Warcraft Cataclysm
- Evequest 1 to Everquest 2
- Destiny 2 Removing Content
- FFXIV ARR did Work However

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AggroChat #418 – 2022 Games of the Year Show – Part Two

January 15, 2023 by Belghast

Hey Folks! Welcome back to the second part of our yearly “Games of the Year Show”. I have to admit I greatly enjoy this process and probably this year more than many in the past. We had a wildly diverse set of games that the seven of us collectively chose this year. Over the course of these two shows, we talk about twenty-six different games. Often times there are a few big games that most of us played and put on our list, but this year we all had a pretty wild variety of choices.

I also feel like we have set a standard going forward, that we no longer will we do this nonsense where we record for four or five hours and then split it in half. Recording two normal shows seemed to feel much better and produce a better discussion. Hopefully, our listeners will agree. In this show, we tackle the second half of the list and burn through fourteen more games.

Topics Discussed

Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes
Peglin
Stepmaniax
Unsighted
Mindcrack for Celeste
Vampire Survivors
Stray
New World Brimstone Sands
Pokemon Legends Arceus
Tunic
Ooblets
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Citizen Sleeper
Horizon Forbidden West

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AggroChat #416 – Talky Gunfriends

December 18, 2022 by Belghast

Hey Folks! The gang is all back at the same time… just in time to take a break effectively until after the new year. Because of how the holidays fall this year, we will not be recording shows for the next few weeks and returning after that with our usually two-part Games of the Year show.

This week we talk about more Twitter Madness and the time when a journalist misread the now-banned JoinMastodon account and created a fictitious person named John Mastodon that runs Mastodon. From there we talk about Tam’s epic journey in trying to find some way to comfortably use a push-to-talk key while playing games on a controller. We talk a bit about a few 2D games on the Steam Deck specifically Ghost Song and Salt and Sanctuary. After that, we talk about our progress in the Path of Exile Forbidden Sanctum league and just how much madness is associated with learning that game in general. Finally, we talk about playing Justin Roiland’s High On Life, a game about talky gunfriends.