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Why Do Black Girlfriends Always Get Written Out? (opens the original)
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There's a pattern nobody names out loud. The Black girlfriend shows up, she's smart, she's capable, she has a whole life, and then the writers throw her away. Jardo and D'Marcus break down the disposable Black girlfriend trope and why it keeps happening.D'Marcus lays out a three question test for spotting it: does she have a want that isn't about him, does she exist when he's not on screen, and does she get an ending or just an exit. Then they run real examples through it, from Amber in Invincib
The Wii Was the Last Great Nintendo Console (opens the original)
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Nintendo picked the wrong week to test our patience. Jardo and D'Marcus go all the way in on the Switch 2, the pricing, the Nintendo Direct, and everything wrong with how the company treats its own fans right now.We break down the Switch 2 charging you to download a game onto the console itself, why the Wii still stands as the last great Nintendo console, and the Direct that reheated old news like Star Fox Adventures, a game that already came out on GameCube. Plus a rundown of what actually got
Meet The Eladrin Wizard Who Doesn't Want to Be in the Party (opens the original)
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Most of the time we talk about running games. This time we go behind the screen. Jardo brings on Michael, a FAMU grad and one of the players currently trying to survive his Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign, to break it all down from the player's side.Michael tells the story of how a Twitter invite turned into a seat at the table, and introduces Lenore, his Bladesinger wizard, an Eladrin thief with a bad attitude who believes magic should be free to everyone and does not want to be in this party.
What Grinds Our Gears (opens the original)
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We linked up with Ode and Mo from the Black and Snerdy Podcast, and instead of keeping it positive, we did the opposite. This is Rant Day, where everybody gets to air out what really grinds their gears.Jardo goes off on the fake job interview grind, companies that pull you in on Zoom, waste your time, and cancel the position the day after they emailed you for it. D'Marcus is still not over the MCU erasing Kang the Conqueror, and he's going to see Doomsday but complain the whole way there. And Mo
What is a litRPG? (opens the original)
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If you love anime and video games but never heard the word litRPG, this is the episode that puts you on. Jardo and D'Marcus break down the fastest growing genre in fiction from the ground up, no gatekeeping.They cover what actually makes a book a litRPG (the game mechanics have to be on the page), the surprising history that traces the genre back to Andre Norton's Quag Keep in 1978, and the whole subgenre map from system apocalypse to dungeon core to monster POV. Then they get into the books tha
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