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Sacred Symbols, Episode 272: The Thread

Hi!

Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.

As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.

You have until Thursday, September 14th at noon ET to submit.

Talk to you soon!

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 330 | Body & Mind (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 330 | Body & Mind

It's me, Colin! Based on the surprisingly voluminous and positive response Cog and I received after we posted Sacred+ 318 -- Health Is Wealth -- I figured I'd double-down with an 'ultimate' episode dedicated to wellness in the gaming space. Thus, I invited two people to our show that represent the yin and yang of holistic well-being: Walt Chambers and Michael Pekin. I interviewed them separatel...

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 118 | The Dukes Played FORZA MOTORSPORT - Our Impressions (Video)

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Defining Duke Ultimate, Episode 118 | The Dukes Played FORZA MOTORSPORT - Our Impressions

Rejoice, Forza Bros! The Dukes have played a few hours of Forza Motorosprot on Xbox Series X and we have some thoughts. Could these two racing casuals find some love with the more hardcore side of racing games? Join us as we stumble our way through cars, racetracks, physics, and more!

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Constellation, Episode 36 | Hipsters, Homesickness, Social Media Usage, The Best Gaming Controller (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 36 | Hipsters, Homesickness, Social Media Usage, The Best Gaming Controller

It's time for Constellation! This week, Punching Up co-hosts Gene Park and Micah Watson join the Brothers Moriarty for Last Stand's conversational podcast. As usual, topics are varied. Micah wants to discuss homesickness, how it's affected us in the past, and whether we long to go back to where we come from. (Naturally, such a personal topic veers widely into parallel conversations.) Gene chron...

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Defining Duke, Episode 141: The Thread

Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 141 of Defining Duke.

Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored.

As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your submission ma...

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 329 | PlayStation's Retro Scene Gets A Magazine (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 329 | PlayStation's Retro Scene Gets A Magazine

Please welcome friend-of-the-show Sandeep Rai back to Sacred+. This is Sandeep's third appearance around these parts, and he returns packing a new Kickstarter that I (Colin) think will appeal to a great many of you. It's called RPM: The Unofficial Retro PlayStation Magazine, it's a print mag aiming at a quarterly release schedule, and each issue comes packed with 60 pages of retrospectives, imp...

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 271 | Great Artists Steal (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 271 | Great Artists Steal

Hollywood's labor problem may not be an isolated event in the entertainment industry for much longer. A recent press release from actors union SAG-AFTRA indicates that their members will vote to authorize a strike upon further negotiations with 10 major entities in gaming, including the likes of EA, Take Two, and even Sony-owned developer Insomniac. After all, the guild represent voic...

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Defining Duke, Episode 140 | Starfield's Controversial Reviews - Is It REALLY That Bad? (Video)

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Defining Duke, Episode 140 | Starfield's Controversial Reviews - Is It REALLY That Bad?

Starfield is now out for everyone! While last week was more of a review discussion, this time around we are diving into the scuttlebutt surrounding the conversation. While there's a lot of talk about other's reviews, the most important one is your own and thanks to Starfield being a Day 1 Game Pass game, it's never been easier to get involved. The Dukes dive into the infamous 7/10 reviews haili...

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 271: The Thread

Hi!

Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this week's episode of Sacred Symbols in this thread.

As always, please keep your inquiries well-written and pithy. Novels, poorly-written posts, etc. are politely ignored.

You have until Thursday, September 7th at noon ET to submit.

Talk to you soon!

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 328 | Gran Turismo (film) Review Discussion and Spoilercast (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 328 | Gran Turismo (film) Review Discussion and Spoilercast

It wasn't entirely clear how PlayStation Productions would or even could execute on a watchable, interesting, and quality film rendition of Gran Turismo. After all, the license was first optioned more than a decade ago to no avail. But by leaning on a compelling plot rooted in the deep history of GT and its emphasis on realism, the powers-that-be made the undoable doable. The Gran Turismo movie...

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Punching Up, Episode 9 | Is Mario Wonder Nintendo's Next GOTY? (Video)

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Punching Up, Episode 9 | Is Mario Wonder Nintendo's Next GOTY?

Nintendo surprised us all this past week by giving us a deep dive into the highly anticipated new game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. With details about new characters, game mechanics, and locations, there's a lot to look forward to. Is it possible that Nintendo could have another Game of the Year contender? Also, this week, there's a new NES-style Rugrats game coming, and unfortunately, the Suikod...

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Defining Duke, Episode 140: The Thread

Hey, all! It's time to submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for Episode 140 of Defining Duke. 

Great ways to get your write-up used: Be pithy, be topical, and be insightful. Walls-of-text, posts littered with poor grammar and punctuation, etc., are promptly (though respectfully) ignored. 

As this is an Xbox podcast, be sure your s...

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Constellation, Episode 35 | Masculinity, Roommates, Popular Things We Don't Understand, US Citizenship Test (Video)

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Constellation, Episode 35 | Masculinity, Roommates, Popular Things We Don't Understand, US Citizenship Test

Gather 'round for more Constellation, Last Stand Media's conversational podcast. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by LSM executive producer Dustin Furman and associate producer Ben Smith. Ben would like to reminisce about our roommate experiences, recollecting the memorable people we've lived with in years past. Dustin wants to analyze the very meaning of the term 'masculinity' and e...

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KnockBack, Episode 268 | Card Collecting (Video)

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KnockBack, Episode 268 | Card Collecting

Welcome back to KnockBack! This week, instead of focusing-in on a specific game, movie, TV show, or whatever, we thought we'd do another one of our reminiscing episodes instead. Thus, today, our focus is card collecting. At different stages of his childhood, Dagan collected Star Wars cards, Garbage Pail Kids, Wacky Packages, and even caught the Smurfs bug. Colin, meanwhile, went through three d...

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 327 | Calling In With the Producers (Video)

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Sacred Symbols+, Episode 327 | Calling In With the Producers

Dustin and Ben are back with another call in! For just over an hour, we took your questions over Discord. How would we want to see our favorite franchise come back? What's our history with consoles over the years? How do we manage our time between work, family and gaming? Would Ben prefer being called Benjamin? Enjoy!

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Punching Up, Episode 9: The Thread

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Submit your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, and ideas for this coming week's episode of Punching Up in this thread.

Also, we are taking submissions for podcast games to play. Please include full questions and highlighted answers.

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 270 | PlayStation Minus (Video)

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Sacred Symbols, Episode 270 | PlayStation Minus

For the first time since 2016, Sony has increased the price of its PlayStation Plus subscription, and the torches and pitchforks are out en masse. See, there's no doubt the increases are large -- $20 a year more at minimum is nothing to sneeze at -- but it's also important to assess what the service was when it launched in 2010 at $50, and what it's become today at $80 and above. Now's a better...

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Defining Duke, Episode 139 | Our Starfield Review IS HERE - Did It Deliver?! (Video)

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