Brilliant Gameologists

This episode was recorded live on November 22, 2009 on ustream.  It is completely unedited except for calling out our intermission and had over 50 people viewing.  There were people in the chatroom contributing ideas as well.

Shoutouts!

BG_Baby aka Valentine was born on Dec 6th and already loves her D&D Board Books

• Sasha- Zeke’s long distance BFF and host of Den of Iniquity
• 8-bit Porn: WFT Did I Just Watch?.  Don’t watch it.
• The time-management masters at the Podgecast
• @BigHeadZach from HeadGames Podcast
• Mike Selinker- Rocker of the Bolo!

We’re Thankful!

• Meg is thankful for podcasts who paved the way:
  • Sons of Kryos
  • Fear the Boot
  • Have Games, Will Travel
  • All Games Considered
• Josh is thankful for new, awesome games
  • Shock
  • Misspent Youth
  • Savage Worlds
  • Burning Wheel
• Zeke is thankful for social networking

Laziness

• Not trying new
• Sometimes good and inspiring
• NaNoWriMo: National November Writing Month
  • It doesn’t need to be perfect, just do it.

We’re Not Lazy!

We’ve been busy- just not putting out shows.  Going to cons (see our “appearance schedule”!)

Time Saving Techniques

• Make an outline or to-do list for your game
• Cut out distractions
  • 10-2 Method- 10 minutes of straight work, then 2 minutes for scheduled goof-off time
• Eat first.  Schedule Pee.
• Schedule your big rocks first
• Plan with a focus group, not everyone
• Don’t reinvent the wheel
• Perfect is the enemy of done
• Doing things right or Doing the right things?
• Replace the word “time” with “money” when talking about management
  • Replace with Lubricant- too much and too little are both uncomfortable
• Don’t delegate- empower
• Steal with both hands

Worth the Time

• Learning a new system
• Know your character

Not worth the time

• Reading the entire book
• Detailed Maps!
• Don’t learn every rule- at first
• Crafting tons of NPC’s

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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This episode was recorded live on November 18, 2009.  It is completely unedited except for calling out our intermission and had over 90 people viewing.  There were people in the chatroom contributing ideas as well.

Our favorite fat, bearded men

Shoutouts!

• Brant- our blamestorm includes him for being too man-pretty and distracting us.
• Adam- Thank you.  You are officially the BG’s savior.
• We won the Best Gaming Podcast at the Parsecs!!
• Epidiah Ravachol: Author of Dread, Time and Temp, Swords without Masters, and overall cool dude.

We’ve been playing:

• Mouse Guard
• Dominion
• Word on the Street

Fatbeards are ruining the Hobistry

• Fatbeard self check
• You might be a fatbeard if…
• Why they are ruining the hobistry
• How to avoid fatbeard tendencies

Contest!

Vote on when Meg is going to pop out the 4th Gameologists!

Laziness and Procrastination

We didn’t get to this.  We will have another live episode on Sunday, November 22nd at 8EST to have part 2 of this sode!  Join us to discuss why gamers are inherently lazy and time saving techniques!  We are going to try to have this as a call in episode, so stay tuned for details

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/brilliant-gameologists

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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But we’re coming back!

I got a clock mothafucka!

Tune in for our LIVE show November 18, 2009- Wednesday- at 9:00 EST on our ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/brilliant-gameologists and chime in on the topics of Fatbeards, Time-wasters and procrastination, and where we’ve been these past months.  Ask us where we’ve been!  Let us explain what we’ve been doing with our time off!  And then express your views on how Fatbeards and Laziness are ruining the Gaming Hobbistry.

Controversy and hilarity WILL ensue!

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We’ve been running a poll on our boards to guess Meg’s baby daddy with interesting results.

Instead of just posting the answer, we decided to release the answer in .mp3 format.

So last night, after recording a normal episode, we pushed record and just let the mics catch what we came up with.  Warning- this is completely off the cuff and at times very innappropriate.  It was past midnight and we got loopy.

At one point we have a Survivor: Podcaster Edition and made up characters based on voices we felt like doing at the time- this is NOT commentary on any of the following people! It is meant to just be completely silly and ridiculous.

I kept editing light in this- I cut out our laughter and moved some things around to make it more interesting to listen to, but what you’ll hear is basically what we came up with on the spot.

Podcasters mentioned:

• TrapCast Jen and Sara
• Adam from the Podgecast
• Bearswarm Rob
• Sean from Narrative Control
• Robert Bohl from Independent Insurgency

But the real reason for this bonus clip is NOT to accidentally offend other podcasters, but to make a big announcement about the real Gameologists behind the mics.

Talk about the new addition to our crew here and the episode here.

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We decided to release a little teaser as to whats in store for season 3.  Just to whet your appetite.

Some additional teasers

• This is the last episode with music from the podsafe music whatchamacallit (www.podshow.com)
• Pictures of the Gameologists will be released into the wild.
• There is footage of bgzeke playing the traditional Irish nipple-banjo
• No one knows why they call it a clam.  But there is a reason.
• We are finally releasing episode 0.
• We will be releasing an episode on GMing, Jiffycon and the Origins awards ASAP
• We will be releasing shitloads of reviews even ASAPier
• Major format changes with lots of format stays the same.
• Big changes on the website, Big changes on the message boards.

The Pig has been kicked and the 4th Gameologists is announced.

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Meg and Josh joined the hosts Chris and Jonathan from the newish podcast, Kicked in the Dicebags to talk about:

• Brief overview of JiffyCon Greenfield on June 6th
• Is there a “line” when it comes to taste in gaming podcasts?
• Revisit our “Kicking People Out is a no-no” stance
• Chris perfectly illustrates why we say this
• Most people have no balls
• Feedback we’ve gotten from our 7 Things We Hate episode
• Enormous respect we have for Sons of Kryos and Paul Tevis
• How far is too far for each individual show?
• Meg defines where the line is for Brilliant Gameologists
• Josh’s opinions on Gaming Networks
• Meg’s opinions on the “Geek Guys Rule!” show that KitDB did in which the last 20 minutes or so was reacting to the roundtable she joined with Geek Girls Rule Part 1 and Part 2
• Gaming cons cross as a venue for costumes, minature painting, and kink
• Women in RPG’s is ok- why so few minorities?
• BG upcoming Season 3 sneak peak! (Announcement!!)
• Our porn preferences
• Lots of masturbation talk
• Josh, why DO they call it a clam??
• Justification for making fun of certain groups
• Is Josh an asshole?
• DragonCon vs. GenCon
• Meg can’t go to DragonCon
• BG panels at GenCon ‘09
• Magical Bum Adventures at GenCon
• Meeting people face-to-face- do they live up to expectations?
• No Picture Policy- abandoning for Season 3
• Josh’s Twitpict and Meg’s Twitpict
• Music legality

This is simply a repost of Kicked in the Dicebag’s show- if you like the freeform, explicit nature, check them out.

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Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

Linkages!:

This is our Last episode…

of the second season

Getting the Group Together and Heading Off Problems Before They Start

Favorite Season 2 moment:

• Josh: They call it a clam, for a reason
• Zeke: Faux GenCon
• Meg: Birthday episode and Zeke Orgasms

Big changes for season 3, Zeke will be nude.

Walter Cronkite is dead

Two primary situations:

1. You have a group
2. You have a bunch of people to draw a group from

1) You have a group

You need:

• Ideas from everyone
• Everyone needs to be invested and excited
• Do not fixate on your own nuance, explicitly discuss it
• Be open about what means what

Trust Me

2) You have a bunch of people to draw a group from

• Be honest
• Ask everyone explicitly don’t assume

low player count,

• Group then game
• pick a night(figure out game)

high player count

• Game then group
• pick a game (figure out night)

Bounce Your Boobies – Bhu

Zeke likes Songs and fried eggs hanging on a nail

Holly Dolly – emisairy666

Holly Dolly is a Donkey From the country who dreamed of being a big star

Sheeps – Meg’s Aunt

The only form of pure art remaining, Zeke makes up some names “Rivers Cuomo” “Barak Obama”

The GM tips

• You are not the boss of them
• Do not “dispense wisdom”
• Be honest open and bring everything to the game
• No one is just an asshole, they have a reason for what they are doing
• Don’t say “what do you like?” say “what do you want to do?”
• As soon as they start fighting with you, even slightly, figure out why. T
• Try to make sure people know their chances before they roll the dice
• You want to catch problems before people even know they are problems.
• You must reduce the complexity of the game to the aggregate of the players.
• Do not be afraid to change games, mod games or create house rules.
• Check to be sure you have the game right before you go changing things.
• Eat the frog

People don’t like low magic

• people enjoy the presence of something cool
• or the absence of an irritant

Poisonous Ideas

There is a persistent idea that adventures should hold to a “realistic” or “balanced” framework.
Adventures ideally should give everyone in the group what they are looking for.
Anything more is a waste of effort and anything less could be done better.

You know the adage “if you don’t know, make it up” gets tossed around?
Don’t listen to them.  Here’s why.
The people who say that, say it, because that’s what they do and it works.
Because a)they know the game or b)they don’t care about the rules anyway.
The first guys are just not expending effort and doing it right anyway
The second guys suck.

Cliffhanger

Trivia:

Last week’s answer is revealed!

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• D&D Song thanks to Irthos Levethix!
• WTF Camels?? thanks to Bear Swarm Rob!
  

Linkages!:

• We have some great projects on our Message Boards!
  • Food for Thought Master Thread
• Zeke once again added to background noise with his pug PJ
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Cognitive Coaching
• High/Scope Educational Approach
• Catch Phrase (the game)
• Zeke loves the movie Rounders
• Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Problem Solving #2) The list of Do’s

• Communication Musts
• Mediating a problem at the table
• Solving a problem you’re involved in
  • Full list available on the Message Board post

Ideas from the episode:

• It is your fault

Trivia:

Last week’s answer is revealed! Which one of us had rats as pets?

This week’s question: Which one of us was once accused of buying a suit for a gorilla?

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Last week’s April Fool’s “prank” had us switch shows with Z from Radio Free Hipster.  Since we put out two shows last week, we didn’t do one this week.  But so as not to be complete loosers, here’s a link to the clip show we gave Z.  Mostly old content but there is a little bit of new stuff there too.  A good introduction to what the show Brilliant Gameologists is all about.  Maybe.

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In Honor of April Fool’s Day we decided to swap podcasts with Z from “Radio Free Hipster” at HipsterPlease.com

(here’s the rss feed)

While Z did not invent drunken podcasting, he did invent drunken podcasting month, endearing him to all BG fans.

Nerd music shares an important philosophical cornerstone with the gaming community.  Nerd music is a culture of participants.  It is not a passive “turn on the radio and buy the CD.”  In fact the only micro culture I know that has as large a percentage of Producers to Consumers is gaming.

Nerd music inspires, not just emotion, but action.  Either directly or indirectly.  Directly by making people want to make their own music, raps, or mashups.  And Indirectly by inspiring other nerd activities like computers, zombie survival and fucking.

Reminders

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter , Zeke’s Twitter and Z’s Twitter.
• Lots of good stuff on our Facebook Page!
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• Aww!  This dog wants to catch the squirrel of his dreams so badly!
• Do you remember the Watchmen Saturday Morning Cartoon?
• We retold our Writer’s Retreat in Las Vegas stories.  Funnier than any link we could follow.

News!:

• We went to Jiffycon
• Josh went to Unclemonsterface
• We are going to Icon
• We went to Las Vegas on a writers retreat
• Strippers are cool, some of them are from Hawaii
• Meg went to St Louis
• People from St Louis are surly
• Bearswarm Rob is cool
• Luke is awesome (and an awesome doctor)
• Adam is a wholly owned subsidiary of Melina Enterprises
• Adams Dad is cool
• Lap Children
• Meg is too much of a pussy to describe Serenity on mic.
• And is really nice in describing the Serenity adventure
• Zeke is now forbidden to drink during the podcast (that’s what that noise is).

Meg played:

• Cold War – Confusing
• Bohnanza – Incredible
• Inspectres – Really Good
• Serenity – Utter Shite

We ask for feedback

Problem Solving #1) The list of Don’ts

1 – Criticize someone while talking to them

“if you weren’t so lazy or stupid we wouldn’t have these problems.”

criticizing, blame, judgments, put downs, diagnoses

2 – Deny responsibility

Putting responsibility on some thing else (a person thing or institution)

“Daddy and I are splitting up because you cry”

take responsibility for your own actions

3 – Use words that imply evaluation not observation

“I feel raped”

I statements are shit

attacked, blamed, criticized, insulted, isolated

4 – Fail at active listening

No autobiographical statements – don’t “one up” them

“You think you have it bad…”

No inquisitive questions – don’t interrogate them

”really? How far up the ass?”

5 – Try to solve their problems

“What you need to do is grow a beard”

this is “problem solving” not “actually solving problems”

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(Note: Episodes 37 and 38 will be released on the next two regularly scheduled release dates.  As we said, we left this one as is instead of editing things like numbers and details and facts)

News:

The BG’s have one more event coming up.

• April 3-5: I-Con, Long Island New York- we are featured guests and are going to record some of the guests in attendance! We have panels on Saturday and promise special prizes to anyone who comes and finds us!

This week we were joined by

• Joshua AC Newman – Writer of Shock and media darling
• Rob Bohl  – Writer of Misspent Youth and host of Independent Insurgency

Icebreaker: We Discuss Negativity on (our) Message Boards

Main Topic: We Discuss Rob’s Live Journal Post about creativity.

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Note: We are back on track bitches

News:

The BG’s are attending two conventions and one concert coming up soon!

• March 19: Uncle Monsterface concert at TT and the Bears in Boston. Good times for nerdcore!
• March 21: JiffyCon Boston. Our favorite real-play con is coming to our area! If you are anywhere in the area, we STRONGLY recommend attending! It’s a good time!
• April 3-5: I-Con, Long Island New York- we are featured guests and are going to record some of the guests in attendance! We have panels on Saturday and promise special prizes to anyone who comes and finds us!

Icebreaker:

There Are only 3 arguments More contested than kicking people out of your game

1) Who would win in a fight, a caveman or an astronaut?

2) Which is cooler, Ninjas or Pirates?

3) Who would win in down and dirty street hoops, Gandalf or Yoda?

Kicking People Out Part 1: Don’t Do it

Part 1: Defining terms and laying out the groundwork

• Don’t Kick people out of your games

Part 2: describing the phenomenon

• How often does this happen?

• Are they your friends?  (The counter argument is “it is ok to treat people like shit” OR “kicking people out is not shitty”)

• What about using creative ways to kick people out?  Changing the game night, not calling them?  = passive aggressive = grow up

Part 3: When giving advice

• It drowns out useful conjecture. A person looking for advice is looking for actual help. They know they could kick the guy out. They do not need dozens of yes man sycophants, going on about kicking the guy out. They need, and want, actual help.

• Justification seeking behavior. Some people have made up their minds to be mean to their friend. And rather than down half a bottle of Jack to get their courage up, they are looking for reassurance that what they are doing is right. And it’s not. If you are going to be mean also be an adult about it.

• You will not actually see it. Statistically the likelihood of someone needing to be kicked out is extremely low. The problem here is margin of error and false positives. If you advise 1% of cases to kick out a players you are drastically over prescribing. 1% means that you will be misdiagnosing over 100 good games for the 1 real case.

• You Wont Need to. Because you will use problem solving

• Do Not Consider Failure. This is a big point we call “Assume success” If you assume you will succeed
  • You can work backwards to a solution
  • You will not be preparing for failure

Part 4: The Ethics of Kicking people out

• Kicking people out is bad. It is immoral of you to force out and shun your friends.

• Kicking people out is insanely passive aggressive – it is a lack of maturity on your part.

• don’t fix douchery with douchery

• You also miss out on picking on the sucker – schadenfreud

Part 5: what to do and who does it

There are three ways to look at responsibility

1. Everyone is Responsible
2. The GM is Responsible
3. The Venue Owner is Responsible

Trivia:

Last week’s answer is revealed!

This week’s question: Which one of the BG’s is a Geek because of Star Trek?

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Note: Even more delay!  We’ve been so busy.  Zeke and Josh had birthdays (Feb. 12 and 18th respectively) and we went to Vegas.  Vegas baby!  We should be back on schedule now though!

News:

The BG’s are attending two conventions and one concert coming up soon!

• March 19: Uncle Monsterface concert at TT and the Bears in Boston.  Good times for nerdcore!
• March 21: JiffyCon Boston.  Our favorite real-play con is coming to our area!  If you are anywhere in the area, we STRONGLY recommend attending!  It’s a good time!
• April 3-5: I-Con, Long Island New York- we are featured guests and are going to record some of the guests in attendance!  We have panels on Saturday and promise special prizes to anyone who comes and finds us!

Icebreaker:

Having a system for games not usually thought of as having a system

• Zeke and Meg have a system for Yatzee.  Their book is soon to be released.
• Josh has a strategy for Jenga.
• The King of Kong had the nerdiest strategy ever.

How to Min/Max Part2: The Rinse-Wow Method

• Initial Arbitrary Decision
• Focus and Expand or Expand and Focus
• Rinse
• Repeat

Download your very own (clean) copy in .pdf format here!

Trivia:

Last week’s answer is revealed! Which one of us uses a ballet inspired ballet program?

This week’s question: Which pair of us never worked together?

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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Note: Sorry for the delay in this episode.  We had a lot going on.  Josh was in the hospital (twice), Meg had quick trips out of state (twice) and Zeke got a dog (just once, but he’s awesome enough for two).  We have the next two episodes all recorded and just need to edit and get them out, hopefully on schedule!

Warm-Up:

Each time we record, we watch a video or find a picture to get us in the mood for the episode. It doesn’t always have anything to do with the episode, but frames our minds, so we’re going to share so you can be appropriately framed as well.

• Jonathan Richman’s I was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
• Clitter!

Icebreaker:

Strange sources of inspiration for gaming

• Zeke was inspired by Tweeter and the Monkey Man and Moist Towellets
  
• Meg wants to make a game based on Rocky Raccoon
• Josh likes movie credits
• Our guru, the always inspirational, Vince.

How to Min/Max Part 1:

Before listening, you should be familiar with

• Min/Max Basics
• The joy of Min/Maxing

The Rinse-Wow Method

Note: To compete this exercise, get a piece of paper and something to write with along with your normal character creation supplies

The Rules:

1. There are no rules
2. Never Cram
3. Don’t try to do everything
4. Be flexible
5. Cast a wide net
6. Hold nothing sacred

Defining Terms

1. Goal- What you’re trying to accomplish in a character, your intentions for that character
2. Element- The choices you make in terms of system specific stuff.  The building blocks of character generation.

How to Start:

Step 1: Initial Arbitrary Decision

• Get inspiration!

IAD’s can fall into several categories

• A specific race or class or other game element (put on element side)
• A game mechanic or concept
• A background or dramatic concept

Brainstorm and Stormbrain

Follow the Steps:

Download your own sheet here!

Trivia:

Last week’s answer is revealed! Which one of us was kicked out of catechism?

This week’s question: Which one of us uses a ballet inspired dance program?

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

Discuss this episode on our Message Boards in THIS thread!

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We will be back to our reguarly scheduled posting very very soon- we have 3 extremely “crunchy” episodes in the pipeline that we hope you’ll love.  Just a lot of travel and personal crap going on right now that is delaying our normal schedule.  But soon!  Very soon!

In the meantime- check out Part 2 of the Geek Girls Rule Roundtable.  Not as structured as part 1, but Meg announces a “secret”…  wait for it… wait for it…

Reposted from Mickey’s site.  Enjoy!

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Geek Girls Rule! Podcast 9, Part II – Attack of the Girl Gaming Podcasters

Attack of the Girl Gaming Podcasters – The final chapter.

Kristin of This Modern Death, Meg from the Brilliant Gameologists, Jenn from the Trapcast and myself finish our conversation from Part I.

Gamestorm:  http://www.gamestorm.org/
Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress
Magic the Gathering
Wizards of the Coast
Burning Wheel
Prime Time Adventures
Ryan Macklin
GenCon
Babeland
Valerie Strangiato
Charlie’s Kids Evolution Map
Skepticality
Skepchick
Pharyngula
DragonCon
Bad Astronomer
George Hrab
Twitter
Design Toscano

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Because I’m so horribly late getting our new episodes out, here’s a show that I (Meg) am featured on to tide you over.

Mickey from the podcast “Geek Girls Rule” had me, Kristen from This Modern Death and Jenn from TrapCast on to talk about Gaming Girl Sterotypes.  We recorded over skype, so excuse the quality, but it was a blast to nerd up with some other ladies.

This is just a repost of Mickey’s show.

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Geek Girls Rule! Podcast #9 Part I – Attack of the Girl Gaming Podcasters

Ok, so this is part one of the Girl Gaming Podcasters Podcast hosted on Geek Girls Rule!  Kristin from “This Modern Death,” Meg from “The Brilliant Gameologists” and Jenn from “The Trap Cast” joined me via Skype for over two hours of giggling chaos.

In this half of the podcast, we discuss how we got into gaming, bad gamer girl stereotypes, the health of my hedgehog Wash and other critters, and what we’re currently playing, as well as pimping our separate podcasts.

Brilliant Gameologists – Meg
This Modern Death – Kristin
The Trap Cast – Jenn

Dungeons & Dragons
Little Fears
Grimm
Unhallowed Metropolis
GURPS
Warhammer
Burning Wheel (don’t let the front page fool you)
Shadowrun
Faery’s Tale
Bad Female Gamer Archetypes
Bad Male Gamer Archetypes

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The Bad Boys of Podcasting first project is here and tackles a very important issue that we’ve all been affected by.

Josh is an asshole.

Peer into the inner depths of each of the following podcasters and join us in Josh’s healing process.

Intervention Moderator:

• Meg- Brilliant Gameologists http://brilliantgameologists.com/

Intervention Participants:

• Adam/ David: The Podge Cast http://podgecast.com/
  
• Luke: The Podge Cast http://podgecast.com/
• Rob: Accidental Survivors http://accidentalsurvivors.libsyn.com/
• Rob: The Bear Swarm http://www.bearswarm.com/
  
• Zeke: Brilliant Gameologists http://brilliantgameologists.com/

Intervention Target:

• Josh: Brilliant Gameologists http://brilliantgameologists.com/ was lured to the intervention on the promise of awards for “Mr. Sexy Gaming Podcaster 2008″.
  

The music featured was Adhesion’s “Float Up from Depth” found on the Podshow’s Podsafe Music Network

This intervention was recorded over skype.

Warning: This episode is tagged Explicit. It is intended for adult audiences.

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Part 1: Pre-recording!

Join the Brilliant Gameologists on January 8th at 9:00 EST/ 6:00 PST P.M. on UStream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/brilliant-gameologists. Come in and chat with us and we’ll answer questions live on air. Plus, it’s a chance to say Happy Birthday to Meg!

The official topic is Gaming Parties- how to throw your own gaming themed party- birthdays, holidays, “because it’s Saturday” etc. Play role-playing games, tabletop games and board games for fun and profit! Well, fun at least.

Let us know if you’re coming! Comment here, RSPV on our Facebook event page, or on UStream or on our boards in THIS thread.

Part 2: Post-Recording!

Here’s the show, completely unedited and as heard by the 31 members in our chatroom!  Warning- we are all over the place and it won’t offend us if you don’t listen to it!  This is complete total bonus and has zero gaming advice.  We will do some of these periodically for those interested in our personalities, but know that if you tune in for gaming content, just skip these ones.

We listed some of our favorite podcasts in this show based on a question from the chatroom.  They are:

Comedy:

• You Look Nice Today
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/YouLookNiceToday
• Nobody Likes Onions
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/nlo
• Distorted View
  • http://www.distortedview.com/show/index.xml

Information

• Hardcore History
  • http://www.dancarlin.com/dchh.xml
• Hometown Tales
  • http://hometowntales.com/htpodcast.xml
• MuggleCast
  • http://www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/mugglecast.rss
• Secret Identity
  • http://secretidentity.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
• Sex is Fun
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/GSGPodcasts
• Skepticality
  • http://skepticality.libsyn.com/rss/
• Skeptoid
  • http://skeptoid.com/podcast.xml
• Skeptics Guide to the Universe
  • http://www.theskepticsguide.org/rss.xml
• The Word Nerds
  • http://thewordnerds.org/?feed=podcast
    

Music

• Coverville
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/coverville
• Radio Free Hipster
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioFreeHipster

Gaming:

• 2d6 in a Random Direction
  • http://www.2d6feet.com/?feed=rss2&cat=3
• Accidental Survivors
  • http://accidentalsurvivors.libsyn.com/rss
• Bear Swarm
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/BearSwarm
• Geek Girls Rule
  • Feed: http://sirriamnicast.libsyn.com/rss
• Independent Insurgency
  • http://independentinsurgency.libsyn.com/rss
• Master Plan
  • http://masterplanpodcast.net/rss
• Ogre Cave Audio Report
  • http://www.ogrecave.com/audio/podcast.php
• Pulp Gamer
• Sons of Kryos
  • http://feeds.feedburner.com/Sonsofkryos
• Stabbing Contest
  • http://stabbingcontest.libsyn.com/rss
• The Podge Cast
  • http://podgecast.com/feed
• This Modern Death
  • http://thismoderndeath.libsyn.com/rss
• TrapCast
  • http://trapcast.trapdom.com/xml/trapcast.xml
• Theory from the Closet
  • http://theoryfromthecloset.com/feed/
• Virtual Play
  • http://virtualplay.podbus.com/?feed=rss2

Reminders-

• We put show updates and random goodies on Meg’s Twitter, Josh’s Twitter and Zeke’s Twitter.
• Join our Facebook Group!
• Check out Meg’s Facebook Page!
  
• Email us at GM@BrilliantGameologists.com

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Warning: This episode is tagged Explicit. It is intended for adult audiences.

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