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Relationship Mastery 12

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Relationship Mastery 12 Hey, we made another one! I wasn’t sure, but here it is. That means yes, it’s finally time to change the tag for questions to RM13. Will that episode happen? Probably!

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System Mastery 302 – Capers

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System Mastery 302 – Capers Okay the rumors that we like every supers game are scurrilous, devious, and increasingly accurate. This is Capers, and it’s a supers game set in a slightly less socially shitty 1920s, which is a neat thing.

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Movie Mastery – Sexy Evil Genius (2013)

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Movie Mastery -Sexy Evil Genius (2013) Buffy, BSG, and Lost collide in a bar with a Baldwin and what happens is, you know, fine.

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Expounded Universe 303 – All I Need Is a Miracle

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Expounded Universe 303 – All I Need Is a Miracle Vader packs up and rides to join the party, Jax and company fight some crazy robots, and Xizor meets Nick Rostu, surely that’s fantasic, right?

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System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum

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System Mastery 301 – The Arcanum Hi folks, let’s start up another 300 of these, what do you say? This one is about The Arcanum, an early 80s game that sure seems similar for some reasons (the same reasons they always do? Probably!

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Movie Mastery – Battlefield Earth (2000)

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Movie Mastery – Battlefield Earth (2000) It’s taken a while but we finally have gotten to the movie that every bad movie podcast has to talk about eventually.

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Expounded Universe 302 – Here Comes a Special Droid

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Expounded Universe 302 – Here Comes a Special Droid Honestly, I-5 isn’t even super important here, we just think it’s so funny how he keeps having a module for exactly what the group needs every time. Really, this is the “Xizor Makes His Move” set of chapters.

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System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy

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System Mastery 300 – Palladium Fantasy Well that certainly was 300 times we did a thing, I tell you what! Let’s take a little victory lap by cracking open a cask we’ve been saving for a special occasion, a feisty little 1983 vintage called Palladium Fantasy that definitely isn’t just dust and vinegar by this point, right? Right? Announcement Mastery! Check out Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games right now on Kickstarter!…

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Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1976)

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Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1976) Another Astrologer? That’s right, it’s the other movie from 1975 with this name and probably the one we were supposed to watch initially.

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Expounded Universe 301 – A Special Pinch

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Expounded Universe 301 – A Special Pinch Man is I-5 ever useful. But who's also a protocol droid with a weird gun hand that everyone wants to know about? I bet you all forgot about Bug Eyes, who is theoretically the MacGuffin of this production, and who JUST TURNED UP. Yeah!

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System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart: A Game of Gothic Romance

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System Mastery 299 – Bleeding Heart We’re hard at work on our giant pile of weird old box sets, and that means it’s time for Bleeding Heart, a game that Jon assures me is loosely based on something called the Corman Poe film era of the mid-sixties, and he’s a total horror nerd so I gotta go with him on this one. Announcement Mastery! Obelisk is launching on Kickstarter April 7th. Visit obeliskttrpg.com/kickstarter to get notified when it launches! Help listener Alex Shaw and his family recover from a devastating home fire! https://gofund.me/92b44dd2…

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Relationship Mastery 11

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Relationship Mastery 11 We’re not done yet! More relationship questions, more fun stories, and Claire has a podcast pitch for you.

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Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1975)

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Movie Mastery – The Astrologer (1975) We might have ended up watching the wrong The Astrologer from 1975 since there are two bad movies of that name from that year. This one is 90% dialogue!

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Expounded Universe 300 – Slut Plate Summer

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Expounded Universe 300 – Slut Plate Summer Well dang, this was episode 300? Then I guess we shall podcast in the shade. In today’s episode Jax and the gang escape some droid police (DROID POLICE, BEEP BEEP BEEP) on flying Segways, while Rhinann whines and Nick Rostu… also kinda whines.

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System Mastery 298 – Wild West

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System Mastery 298 – Wild West I really hope you’re enjoying this string of very old games, we’re doing our best to get back into them quickly (ever since I found one of my old box sets fully eaten by bugs and had to fumigate). In this case, it’s a game about real old timey cowboys! Like Boot Hill but not TSR!…

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Movie Mastery – Van Helsing (2004)

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Movie Mastery – Van Helsing (2004) Wolverine fights the Duke from Moulin Rouge in a movie that sucks so bad and yet is a spectacle of absolute joy to watch.

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Expounded Universe 299 – Pardon My French, But Jax Pavan is an Asshole

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Expounded Universe 299 – Pardon My French, But Jax Pavan is an Asshole Oh hey, this book has act breaks! And we just found what might be the only one! You can tell because I-5 finally finds Jax Pavan. Who is an asshole about it.

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System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game

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System Mastery 297 – Star Trek the Roleplaying Game Can we review an 80s Star Trek game without our pacemakers exploding? What if FASA made it? We’re looking at the Star Trek RPG from roughly 1983, which means (if you’re counting) that it’s based on the original series, the animated series, and the first three films. Is it okay or does it have to go home and copy 10 pages out of the K section of the dictionary? Let’s find out! Go forth and support Celestial Bodies on Kickstarter! It’s a game about harvesting the remnants of dead gods in cool upgradeable mechs out in space, which is… pretty cool really.…

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Movie Mastery – Robin and the Dreamweavers (2000)

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Movie Mastery – Robin and the Dreamweavers (2000) The maker of He-Man and Fat Albert decided to make an adult cartoon movie about fighting the personification of internet porn addiction as a pitch for a show that I can’t imagine being sold to literally any television company.

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Expounded Universe 298 – Rostu on the Smuggle Bus

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Expounded Universe 298 – Rostu on the Smuggle Bus This episode is a Jax-free space. We focus on Den, we check in with Nick Rostu, and somehow Kaird is still kicking around, but we aren’t seeing what’s up with Jax and Laranth. Also, Rhinan is making strong moves towards just ruining the Empire’s public relations division.…

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System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures

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System Mastery 296 – Lewd Dungeon Adventures Finally someone bought that game that advertises on Facebook, and it was us. It’s a fantasy adventure game with some sex-themed rules, but honestly I don’t want to spoil anything here because it’s a tiny wee little game that could never possibly satisfy any REAL gamer. Damn it, still with the jokes. It’s a sex RPG and we read it. That’s for sure. Oh and hey, go support Solo But Not Alone 5 , okay? Good cause. We’re supporting it. You get a lot of solo games for a small amount of money and contribute to a cause that’s literally never been needed more.…

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Movie Mastery – Sex and the City 2 (2010)

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Movie Mastery – Sex and the City 2 (2010) Having never seen a full episode of the show, this movie is possibly the worst way to be introduced to the property. It’s just rich white people complaining and being awful but not in a fun way like Arrested Development.

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System Mastery 295 – Insurgent

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System Mastery 295 – Insurgent A very quick little modern game designed to be played solo or with a small group but no GM, in which you rebel against something. What do you rebel against? Whattaya got?

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Movie Mastery – Roller Blade (1986)

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Movie Mastery – Roller Blade (1986) From the guy that brought us Baby Ghost, comes a movie that is just about the same level of quality but way more nudity, knives, and n-roller skates.

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Expounded Universe 296 – Rostu to the Rescue

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Expounded Universe 296 – Rostu to the Rescue No one new, and we’ll still moving pieces into place, but hey Nick and Jax have met and headed off for a just-dudes sushi brunch, which if you think about it, Star Wars doesn’t have nearly enough of.

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System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients

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System Mastery 294 – OGL Ancients It’s what it says! Though it’s adding a lot of stuff to the venerable old combat engine of 3.X OGL, it’s an OGL game where you play as primarily Greeks and Egyptians from antiquity (you can get a Scythian or someone from Thessaly in if you want, it’s just not a great plan). Announcement Mastery Coffee, Cults, and Empires is a brand new AP launching February 2025 that is a story, within a story, within a festive autumnal squash. Wait, no, it’s within a third story! Hang out with the intern that takes down the story of several professors playing RPGs as the world around them prepares to end!…

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Movie Mastery – The Beastmaster (1982)

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Movie Mastery – The Beastmaster (1982) A bog standard barbarian plot that gets just enough spice from the animal telepathy stuff to be kind of worth watching.

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Expounded Universe 295 – The Den Dhur Bender

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Expounded Universe 295 – The Den Dhur Bender We’ve met almost everyone we know we need to now! Just Laranth to go! But hark, we’re meeting a subvillain for the book this time, and he hates Xizor, and now we’re hearing that old classic Xizor bragging. Feels good to be home.

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System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas

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System Mastery 293 – Alas Vegas This is a little recent for our usual stuff, but Jon was really interested after the Fastlane review to keep looking at games that utilize classic casino games as RPG randomizers, and this one’s a doozy! Combining Blackjack and Tarot stuff, no less! Right in Jon’s very wheelhouse. The game is neat too! There’s a ton in here, it’s definitely one of those big rocks that rolled down a Kickstarter success story and accumulated content as it went, so we made some calls on what to focus on that we’ll explain within. At the end of the day, this is pretty dang neat. Announcement Mastery Ravenswool.com ! Check them out, they make awesome yarn colorways, and they’re even maybe making some based on our very jokes, it’s super cool.…

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Expounded Universe 294 – Smoggy Bottom Boys

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Expounded Universe 294 – Smoggy Bottom Boys Oh right, I just remembered that as much fun as Den and I-5 and laughing at Aurra Sing were, Jax Pavan is a dude what sucks. It’s all coming back. Yes, that’s right folks, welcome back to Coruscant Nights, the noir Star Wars. We’re meeting a few new to us names today. Even Piell, Nick Rostu, and of course Jax are all running around the bowels of the city planet having remarkably similar adventures, all things considered.…

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Movie Mastery – Kraven the Hunter (2024)

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Movie Mastery – Kraven the Hunter (2024) We return to the theaters to complete our grim duty of bearing witness to the slow and tragic mutilation of everything Spider-Man related that Sony shoves into the grinder.

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Relationship Mastery 10

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Relationship Mastery 10 We did it! We got back on the mics. It’s the little podcast that maybe can! I bet we answer a bunch of listener questions and discuss fandom and sex stuff!

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System Mastery 291

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System Mastery 292 – Unbidden Back to basics, some game you probably never heard of that we didn’t like. That’s the basic essence of the show, right? It has to come up sometimes. I’m talking about the show here because honestly I can’t think of much to say about this sort of generic “There are secrets in the world that you can’t learn about without going crazy” type game that isn’t already in the episode.…

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Movie Mastery – Ocean Drive Weekend (1985)

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Movie Mastery – Ocean Drive Weekend (1985) A listener’s recently deceased dad worked on this movie but don’t worry, they just did director of photography so they aren’t fully to blame for this turd of a 60’s nostalgia movie.

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System Mastery 291

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System Mastery 291 – Fastlane Oh buddy you better believe we love it when the game has a weird alternative randomizing mechanic, and this thing is all about roulette. Yes, it straight up tells you at the start that you can use a digital one or even a dice based approximation, but for max results, you should get a roulette wheel. What else? Well, it’s a generic system besides the ruleset, so we go all in on that.…

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Expounded Universe 293 – Fatal Alliance Wrapup

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Expounded Universe 293 – Fatal Alliance Wrapup Your burning questions! Answered! Our final thoughts on this book! Given! And the next book? Announced, baby!

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Movie Mastery – Dragon Storm (2004)

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Movie Mastery – Dragon Storm (2004) Sci-Fi Channel trying to cash in on Reign of Fire of all things spent a million dollars on this with almost all of that going to the cost of dragon effects and pyrotechnics and none of it to lighting or sound equipment.

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System Mastery 290 – Icarus

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System Mastery 290 – Icarus As we bring Sweater Weather to a close we are faced with the realization that we accidentally double-themed this month, since both of these games are explorations of civilizations over time, and in fact would make a pretty good double feature game night played together. Weird! Anyway, this is a little box set where you make a dice tower.…

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Movie Mastery – Runaway Nightmare (1982)

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Movie Mastery – Runaway Nightmare (1982) This 70’s movie that took so long to edit that it came out in the 80’s has no redeeming factors. A comedy without humor. An exploitation film without anything risqué. Grainy sound and fuzzy images that serve no purpose.

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Expounded Universe 292 – Avoid the Amnioid

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Expounded Universe 292 – Avoid the Amnioid The Amnioid is Lema Xandret. Forget to say that in the episode, so it needed explanation here. Okay, we’re wrapping it up! Another story in the can.

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System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year

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System Mastery 289 – The Quiet Year Hey folks, welcome to Sweater Weather. We’re going to keep things light and distracting here for the next few months, sweater weather or not, so don’t worry about heavy topics. If you’re looking for a getaway, we got you. Also, this book is about impending change and possible doom. So. You know, we’ll figure it out.…

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Expounded Universe 291 – It’s a Sebbadonomenon

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Expounded Universe 291 – It’s a Sebbadonomenon Definitely on the homestretch here, as some secrets are revealed and we start to see our Padawan/Sith Apprentice consider the merits of their respective other sides. Everyone’s starting to unveil their big plans, but what of Dao Stryver? He’s just flying around! What’s that guy all about?…

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System Mastery 288 – Rats!

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System Mastery 288 – Rats! So these aren’t really furries, but hey, I think this was just called Hairy Ween, right? Like that sounds more like a dick joke anyway. Anyhow, this book is all about playing as vile, disgusting, brilliant little rats trying to retake the world from the foul humans that don’t deserve it. It’s a mixed bag!…

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Expounded Universe 290 – Sith Lightning Crashes

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Expounded Universe 290 – Sith Lightning Crashes Oh ho, so we’ve swapped masters and apprentices for a couple of little Jedi field trips, and the action is literally heating up with literal actual lava. Literally!

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Movie Mastery – Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter CottonHell (2014)

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Movie Mastery – Beaster Day: Here Comes Peter CottonHell (2014) This is a movie that almost certainly stemmed from finding a weird rabbit marionette and then “writing” a “script” to use it.

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System Mastery 287 – Mutants in the Now

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System Mastery 287 – Orkworld (Crunch) Blessed Ween everyone! This year we’re focusing on animal inside of us all with a Furry Ween! Or a Hairy Ween! I dunno, whatever, we just wanted to read Mutants in the Now.

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Movie Mastery – Slotherhouse (2023)

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Movie Mastery – Slotherhouse (2023) A horror comedy that forgets it’s supposed to be comedic until about the last 10 minutes of the movie. At least the sloth puppet is kinda fun.

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Expounded Universe 289 – Ula Vii en Rose

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Expounded Universe 289 – Ula Vii en Rose Look, I thought of that title like two months ago and I don’t think we’re ever gonna get it to line up perfectly, but I’ll be damned if we don’t use it! So in this episode Ula sort of takes control of the combined fleet, and that’ll have to work!

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System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch)

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System Mastery 286 – Orkworld (Crunch) Oh, oh no. We thought all the worst stuff was going to be in the fluff and descriptive section. We were wrong. If you’re a fan of angry Jef and Jon, well, you probably already noticed the 84 minute runtime of the episode and got your hopes up, correctly.

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Expounded Universe 288 – Dao and the Art of Shuttlecraft Maintenance

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Expounded Universe 288 – Dao and the Art of Shuttlecraft Maintenance And the action fires right back up! Is there something special in the space past where the books get better, because this is starting to remind us of Red Harvest with how much actual “doing shit” is happening.

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Movie Mastery – The Dirt Bike Kid

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Movie Mastery- The Dirt Bike Kid (1985) A kid buys a magic dirt bike that helps him save the local hot dog restaurant by doing things that have nothing to do with riding a dirt bike.

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System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff)

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System Mastery 285 – Orkworld (Fluff) Well, this might be divisive, if we hadn’t spent years discussing how we feel about ol’ John Wick and his famously terrible advice. But what about his games? Well, let’s look at Orkworld, a game about Orcs.

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Movie Mastery – Soldier (1998)

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Movie Mastery – Soldier (1998) I know I had seen this movie before but couldn’t remember much and now having reviewed it for the show I know why. There is nothing to remember about this very boring movie about a a man that proves you’re never to old to murder a bunch of people.

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Expounded Universe 287 – Hex Based Space Combat

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Expounded Universe 287 – Hex Based Space Combat And the action fires right back up! Is there something special in the space past where the books get better, because this is starting to remind us of Red Harvest with how much actual “doing shit” is happening.

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Expounded Universe 286 – What’s the Buzz Satele Me What’s A Happenin’

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Expounded Universe 286 – What’s the Buzz Satele Me What’s A Happenin’ (Oh no, this one has sat a minute, my bad) Everyone must find their own way to figure out where the trail leads, and this episode is all about how they’re doing it.

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Relationship Mastery 9

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Relationship Mastery 9 Jef has some bar stories to tell, and also we answer a bunch of questions. What else do you want to know? We’re about to hit ten episodes, so please keep your questions coming in, we want to make it!

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System Mastery 284 – Time Master

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System Mastery 284 – Time Master Travel through time at the behest of a futuristic society at the end of time? Sounds familiar! But before you break out the Wyld Stallyns shirt, let me burst your bubble by saying this actually has a weird war game at its weird core.

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Movie Mastery – Dracula 300 (2004)

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Movie Mastery – Dracula 3000 (2004) A vampire movie that is continually setting up interesting ideas and refusing to do anything with them because it needs that run time for sex jokes and weed references.

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System Mastery 283 – Eden

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System Mastery 283 – Eden Hi everyone! You’ll never guess that now the other one of us has COVID. This stupid planet and country. Anyway, this game is about people learning lessons in a primordial garden from the animals that live there. Cool, right?

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Movie Mastery – Bio-Dome (1996)

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Movie Mastery – Bio-Dome (1996) A movie that tries to be about two bumbling idiot heroes in the vein of Bill & Ted or Dude Where’s My Car but has none of the charm, earnestness, or humor that make those work.

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