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New Horizons, Smoke’s Review & Live Stream

Major Smoke To Ground Control


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I love me some space games, but sadly there hasn’t ever been many to choose from in the audio game world. New Horizons was recently released, and I jumped all over this one the day it came out. This is a big deal to me, sometimes I’ll wait months or years before finally trying a new game. Not this time though, I’ve been playing NH every day since it’s release to make sure I had enough information for a review and not a first impression. Read more

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Twitter Outrage Episode 494, Paul Thurrott

Get your torches and pitchforks!


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The blog has gone quite a while without me writing about twitter drama, but that is about to come to an end now. Blind twitter is all riled up and flipping out over something someone said on the Windows Weekly podcast. Spoiler alert, all the rage and offense is being blown out of per portion and there is 0 reason for any of it. People just seem to want to be offended, but of course I’ll show why this is all based on someone taking everything out of context to manufacture outrage. Read more

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Smoke’s review, Planet Monopoly

Where’s my stress ball?


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I’m going to try and do more reviews this year and first up is monopoly planet by LimeBerry Software. We already have two versions of Monopoly put out by RS Games and QC. It’s time to see if this new release can compete with these two well established audio versions of the game. Read more

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A Good Voice and Game Recording Setup

Break the Loop!


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Christmas just ended and folks might have some cash they want to spend. If getting a decent affordable recording setup is in your plans, this might help you decide. I’ll go through what I use along with what you can do to break the Yeti loop everyone gets stuck in. This is a blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a while now. I recently received an email asking me what I use for recording my audio guides, so I decided to go ahead and finally get this published. Read more

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The Great Toy Robbery 2.0, Smoke’s Review

Naughty Naughty


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You may of heard, The Great Toy Robbery has been rewritten in python and in the process the game has undergone a lot of changes. It’s time for me to go find my reviewer hat and give this game a spin. I’ll be both reviewing and comparing it to the last version released. Spoiler, if you liked the last version you’ll like this one more. If you didn’t like the last version I think you’ll end up liking this one. Read more

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Christmas Live Stream & Giveaways

wear your lucky underwear


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This Wednesday (December 19, 2018) the day after this post is published there will be a BSG Crazy Party live stream. We will go live at 5:00 pm eastern time. We’ll be doing 2, maybe 3 giveaways during the live stream for those listening. Below are all the details for the giveaway.

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Site Updates and Patreon

blame hannibal

It’s all Hannibal’s fault. Well it might not be but it makes me feel better to blame him for it.

The short of it:
Amazon sent me an email saying my site violated their terms of conduct, so there is no United States Amazon affiliates anymore. It is still active for Canada but not the states.

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Twitter Outrage: episode 493

It Isn’t Given, It Is Taken


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Every so often something pops up on Twitter that makes me shake my head. Something I can’t wrap my brain around. These things tend to snowball and gain more steam as more people pile on. This recently happened and I wanted to call attention to it. Read more