The AFK Podcast
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# 342 “Holiday 2023”
Playlist: Jim
Star Citizen Last weekendLogunÂ
Songs of Conquest StarCraft 2 EldenringCurls
Much needed Holiday vacay The Callisto Protocol Horizon Forbidden West via PlayStation Portal Generating lots of art Hotchocolate.ai Dopescenery.ai News: Steamboat Willy Copyright finally expires in 2024, could that be related to game Mouse coming out on Steam in 2025? Twitch says Sex Sells, and then abruptly realizes it made a terrible terrible mistake E3 is dead, again…. No finally , for realz this time Steam Sale supposedly starts on the 21s Topics: Our gaming year in rev...# 341 “Free Fly Griefer”
Playlist:
Jim
– Star Citizen
Logun
Borderlands 2 Songs of Conquest Black Friday HaulCurls
Fall Guys with the youngin Got my christmas present early Generating a lotta art News: Ubisoft says game-interrupting ads were a mistakeAMD Radeon Anti-Lag feature getting gamers banned?
3D Printers for Kids
Ryzen 7800X3D for $299
Steam Autumn Sale
Fortnite “New Beginning” Next Month
The Expanse telltale series
https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
Topics:
What ya watchin?
Jim
# 340 “Back Again”
Play list Jim
Starfield 300+ hours Star Citizen Ryzen 9 5900x, a tale of misery and woe, and wasted money. Bought a Ryzen 9 5950x and will RMA the 5900X. Then pop that one in my main, when I get a replacement.ÂLogun
EldenRing 140hrs Vampire Survivor Halls of Torment Last Epoch Marvels Midnight Suns Not my kind of game Art work, Combat style, and not into cards Civilization IV UI doesn’t scale on large screens Could not get mods to work Assassins Creed Directors Cut Can’t run on big screen Heroes of Might and Magic V Cann...# 340 “Starting Over”
This week Flynn covers the news to test out the new podcast setup. I apologize in advance for the mic clipping, we have some bugs to work out. It will get better.
JimÂ
World of Warcraft Doom Eternal Uncharted (Steam Deck) Assassins Creed ValhallaBuilds:
I’ve been trouble-shooting the new podcast/streaming pc build. The Ryzen 9 5900X seems to be a bit finicky.  Â
Crashing in certain games Running hot, despite adequate cooling Possible memory issues with corsair ramNews Courteous of Bluesnews.comÂ
Topic:
Gamers Nexus calls out...
# 339 “Adulting Sucks”
Play list Curls
A whole lotta a little bit here and there Tiny Tina Borderlands 3 Making Music Hackintoshing Plotting next upgrade New Builds Entered a beat contest (Soundcloud)JimÂ
Halo Infinite on PC Space Marine (Steam Deck) Got Fable 3 working on Steam Deck (looking forward to my second playthrough) News Homeworld 3 DelayedAlan Wake 2 in October
Star Trek Resurgence released
Total War Pharaoh Announced Topics NVME m.2 all the things. 4tb NVME prices continue to drop. Â
I’m pulling all SSD’s out of my machin...# 338 “Flynn Solo”
This week Flynn explains the reason for the long break.
Jim
– Reasons for the break.
   – Space Marine (Steam Deck)
News:
Bluesnews.com this week.Â
Topics:
Any new tech purchases?
Jim
3 builds in progress, doing build videos
 – Podcast, streaming, editing rigÂ
   – VR Rig (Valve Index)
   – Guest Rig
   – Main Rig PSU and storage upgrade
 – Cool Extended Battery for Steam Deck
What are we streaming?
Jim...
# 337 “Holiday Special 2022”
**** Caution File was created on temporary setup. Volume may fluctuate.
This week we discuss;
Logun
God of War Ragnarok Vampire Survivor Installing Launchbox and spinning the retro games back upCurls
Metroid: Prime Overwatch 2 Linux Game testing on laptop PC Building Sim 2 News Mysterious Star Wars Game Testing in SwedenNvidia Killing Game Stream
Steam Winter Sale Next Week, Gaming Nominations
Chris Metzen returns to Warcraft as an advisor
Amazon Games Publishing next Tomb R...
# 336 “Silent Hill Remakes”
This week we discuss:
Play list Jim SWTOR (Trooper Class Story. Last one I have left to play.) Total War Britannia Bought a Ryzen 7 5800X at 40% off on Amazon. Will Replace my 5600X which will replace my 3600X which will replace my 2600. Hardware shuffle. LAN cache server update. Performance just keeps getting better.Curls – The Medium
Sleeping Dogs Working on MusicLogun
Spiderman Miles Morales HotwheelsAdditional Support for the show:
Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org
Intro-music: Skate by Kam...
# 335 “Face-Lift”
This week we discuss;
Play list Jim – Total War Thrones of Britannia Bioshock remastered on Steam Deck COD infinite warfare on Deck Studio/LAN room rebuild progressCurls
Not much gaming this week Mostly working on music in my little free time Trying out Nobara Linux on my laptopLogun
Hotwheel Unleashed Spiderman Miles Morales News Overwatch 2 attracts 25m players in 10 daysNew Steam Mobile App?
Bayonetta Voice Actress calls for boycott
RTX 4090 series is out.
4080 12GB has been “unlaunched” Topics<...
# 334 “New Recording Time”
Sorry about the audio glitches this week. The issue has been resolved.
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