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Featuring: Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, Tamrielo, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We are back after taking a break last week due to the limited number of folks available.  This week we start off with a topic that has bounced around a bit on our docket.  Namely, we marvel at just how balanced City of Heroes/City of Villians is and what a pinnacle of system design it really is.  Bel spent a bit of time playing Nightingale now that is available in early access, and talks about the mess of a game that it is.  Finally, we dive into our primary topic this week and talk about the Last Epoch 1.0 launch and how phenomenal the game feels right now despite all of the server-side woes.

Topics Discussed

• City of Heroes/City of Villains

• How is the design so balanced?

• Nightingale

• Not a Bad Game, but Not a Great One Either

• Last Epoch

• The 1.0 Launch Woes

• The Massive Graphical Overhaul

• Why we love the game

• Accessible Design Matters

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We discuss affordable luxuries, creative offsites, brain stimulation, OCD, ADHD, tokenizing humans via a bonding curve, cold therapy on a budget, phone data strategies for international travelers, Toshiba's low-carb rice cooker, and much, much more!

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[04:41] Drinks? Heck, it's 3:00 p.m. Friday somewhere.

[08:36] Affordable (and unaffordable) luxuries.

[14:42] Kevin's relaunching his podcast.

[17:37] Celebrating creative CØCKPUNCH collaboration.

[26:56] Overcoming delegation consternation.

[36:23] OCD & ADHD

[42:55] Tolkien never said "CØCKPUNCH."

[47:55] Inspirational formats and fictions.

[53:26] Brain stimulation banter.

[55:23] Tokenizing humans via a bonding curve.

[1:03:24] Mitigating brain damage over time.

[1:11:47] Cold therapy on a budget.

[1:17:41] Climbing up the poet tree.

[1:26:31] Coyotes and wolves and Twain.

[1:30:34] A free idea for Audible: synchronous book clubs?

[1:32:02] Supplements.

[1:34:35] Brodo kudos.

[1:36:44] Aesop.

[1:37:12] Caffeine and creatine with a chance of disaster pants.

[1:41:15] CØCKPUNCH Coffee.

[1:44:49] Three cheers for OneSkin.

[1:47:50] One out of one Dr. Peter Attias recommends ProMix.

[1:48:51] A low-carb rice cooker? Thanks, Toshiba.

[1:52:14] We like our cake like we like our martinis: without carrots.

[1:57:31] Phone data strategies for international travelers.

[2:01:28] Why Kevin doesn't buy individual bonds (and what he does instead).

[2:03:00] What stocks attract Kevin's investment dollars these days?

[2:06:57] Parting thoughts.

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Have you ever heard three seperate people come to a realization in real time? If you want to, this is the episode for you! Join Dale, Brodie, and their awesome guest Pastel Potato (https://twitter.com/OsakaKurisaki) as they cover the ins and outs of playing games that are still being built. Which did they love? Which did they hate? Which never got finished or refunded? We talk about all that.

You can find Pastel's discord here: https://discord.gg/cozycabincouch

And you can continue this discussion in the SuperOK discord: https://discord.gg/8utNezEabg