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The beards look back at the life of Endwalker to talk about it's ups and downs. You discuss their feelings on the overall story and duties.

We recap FF14 Tokyo FanFest and then get into what we've been playing over the holidays.

Here are the timestamps:

Intro
News Highlight
- 01:15 FF14 Tokyo FanFest
What We're Paying
- 21:35 Baldur's Gate 3 w/Spoilers Throughout
- 57:21 Fae Farm
- 59:24 Core Keeper
- 1:00:08 Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- 1:03:40 Immortals Of Aveum

The beards are BACK BABY! This time with a new Co-Host! We dive into the FFXIV fan fest and talk about all the things we are pumped for!

Hey Folks! This week we start off with a topic about in game events, and how wildly different they can be between various games.  Specifically this topic was inspired by the Star Citizen IAE 2953 event but we give into many different game events.  Ash gets around to playing Armored Core 6 and talks about how awful the intro to the game is.  Bel laments how sometimes maybe being a more Open World experience makes a game worse.  Specifically this is inspired by Jedi Survivor and how it is a much less tight game than Fallen Order.  Shocking to no one we dive into another Path of Exile topic and more specifically how Kodra and Bel completed some dumb Trial of the Ancestors achievements.  Bel has finished Alan Wake II and gives the game another hard plug and then talks a bit about how Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure is really good.

Topics Discussed:

• In Game Festival Events

• Star Citizen IAE 2953

• Final Fantasy events

• Other Game Holidays

• Armored Core 6

• Why is the intro so awful?

• Sometimes Open World Makes Games Worse

• Jedi Survivor

• Muddied Waters

• Path of Exile

• Doing Dumb things with Totems

• Lament of why Multiplayer is needlessly punishing

• Kodra knocking out achievements

• Alan Wake II - After Credit Roll

• Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure is good

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Main Scripture: Romans 13:7, Romans 12:3-8 

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Featuring: Ammosart, Belghast, Grace, and Thalen

Hey Folks! We are down essentially our entire Seattle contingency for assorted reasons that I don’t believe are actually connected.  So we carry forward with our Central and Eastern Timezone folks and talk a bit about BlizzCon and how there was a wildly different energy surrounding the event.  It feels like a new chapter for Blizzard is opening that may or may not have anything to do with the Microsoft acquisition.  From there we talk a bit about the Krangled event and how bizarre it is to play with a randomized passive tree.  Bel talks about the situation at Bungie and the general sense of dire straights for the Destiny franchise.  Bel also talks a bit about easing back into Final Fantasy XIV and catching up on the post-Endwalker content.  He has also been playing New World a bit and going through the expansion content while leveling to 65 and farming some new gear.  Finally, we drive off into a discussion about the books that we have been reading and float the idea of a “Books of the Year” show similar to our “Games of the Year” show we often do.

Topics Discussed:

• BlizzCon 2023

• Overwatch

• Diablo

• World of Warcraft

• Three Expansion Cycle

• The War Within Features

• A New Feeling Blizzard

• Path of Exile

• Krangled Event is Strange

• Like Bad Sealed Magic

• Bel League Discussion

• Kodra is Super Serious

• The Bungie Situation

• Easing back into FFXIV

• New World Expansion

• Book Talk

It was a light news week so we quickly get through a few things before recapping FFXIV FanFest and then talk more about Assassin's Creed Mirage followed by Spider-Man 2. 

Here are the timestamps for this episode:

00:00 Intro
00:21 News Highlights
 - 02:32 Xbox Game Pass Lineup
 - 02:58 Now On Epic Program
 - 09:00 FFXIV FanFest
21:25 What We're Playing
 - 21:25 Assassin's Creed Mirage
 - 41:38 Spider-Man 2

Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Kodra, Tamrielo, and Thalen

We start off the show with Ash talking about playing through Wandersong.  From there Thalen talks about his experience with Lost Words, and Tam dives into a discussion about how Far Cry does a shockingly good job with its cultural experience.  From there we talk about Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest and the announcement for the Dawntrail Expansion.  Then we talk a bit about the news coming out of ExileCon with Path of Exile II.  We also talk a bit about the changes coming to the first game with 3.22 and the Trail of the Ancestors League.  Finally, we wrap things up with a discussion about Dave the Diver again and how it is this weird showcase for how to make a good mobile game…  even though it isn’t one.

Topics Discussed:

• Wandersong

• Lost Words

• Far Cry 6

• How it gets culture right

• Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail

• WOL Goes on Vacation

• Path of Exile II

• Path of Exile 3.22

• Trial of the Ancestors

• Dave the Diver

• Good Mobile Game

Many times in life, we feel stuck where we are at.  Through prayer and focusing on Jesus, we will experience God in a way like we never have before.

Main Scripture: Luke 9:28-36

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Featuring: Ammosart, Ashgar, Belghast, Grace, and Kodra

Tonight we have a bit of a short show as we had to punt several topics to next week since Tam and Thalen were out.  Bel talks about his recent adventures since the beginning of the year with the Library system and the Libby App.  From there Ash shares his experience using Character Questionnaires to drive character development in a tabletop pen-and-paper game.  Kodra talks about streaming a day of Celeste Strawberry Jam and his experiences playing the game with a pillowcase on his head.  Bel talks about what happens when a large Mastodon instance closes and over 17,000 folks have to relocate at once.  Bel also talks about his experiences helping to administrate Gamepad.club. Finally, we talk about times when games decided to break their world or remove large chunks of content and why it didn’t work.

Topics Discussed

• Adventures with the Library System

• Bel gets a Library Card

• The Libby App

• Gideon the Ninth / Harrow the Ninth

• The Last Watch

• Catching up with Dresden

• Character Questionnaires are Amazing

• Using a Questionaire to help build character development in tabletop games.

• Celeste Strawberry Jam

• Beginner Lobby

• Kodra plays with a Pillowcase on their Head

• The Death of an Instance

• What happens when a large Mastodon Instance closes

• Bel helping admin Gamepad.club

• Breaking the World Does Not Work

• Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 1

• World of Warcraft Cataclysm

• Evequest 1 to Everquest 2

• Destiny 2 Removing Content

• FFXIV ARR did Work However

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

Folks… after a year of trying to win the housing lottery in FFXIV, Belghast finally gets a house and in the same lot number that we used to have an FC House in Mists.  From there Kodra talks about the tabletop game Middara and how it contains one of the best tutorials for a game that he has seen. One of the negative side effects of recording massive two-part games of the year show is there are hot topics that end up getting thrown on the back burner.  From there we finally talk about the situation happening with Wizards of the Coast, the Open Gaming License, and the entire community abandoning ship.  We talk a bit about Fog Sudoku and Kodra explains what exactly it is.  From there we finish out the night talking about Marvel Midnight Suns and how in some ways it is a perfect game, and in other ways, it completely misses the point.

Topics Discussed

• Housing Windfall in FFXIV
• Middara is a Great Tutorial
• Wizards of the Coast Burning
• Self Own of 2023
• Misunderstanding their Community
• The rise of ORC and fall of OGL
• Fog Sudoku
• Marvel Midnight Suns

In Mary's song, there are three traits that she has that we can learn from. Humility, the Fear of God, and also the fact that she knows that God remembers His promises to us.

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Why do we forgive others? How do we forgive ourselves? Let's understand the depth of God's forgiveness for us.

Main Scripture:

Forgiving Others
📖 Matthew 18:21-22
📖 Matthew 6:14-15
📖 Romans 3:23

Forgiving Yourself
📖 1 John 1:9
📖 Proverbs 24:16
📖 John 10:10

God's Forgiveness for Us
📖 Romans 5:8
📖 Romans 8:37-39

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

Last week was mothers day and travel and such led to us not being able to record a show.  As is often the case we ended up with a long list of topics and not enough time to address them all.  First, we talk about the curious intersection of Pachinko and Roguelikes and more specifically Peglin and Roundgaurd…  and its pinball-focused cousin Yoku’s Island Express.  Thalen shares with us the joy of the Squirrelgirl Podcast.  We talk a bit about the odd but obvious cross-over event between EVE Online and Microsoft Excel.  We dive a bit into Guild Wars 2 and talk about how apparently Bel is actually doing PVP now, not just WvW.  We also congratulate Kodra on getting his Skyscale mount and talk a bit about the long grinds.  From there Thalen discusses the DIE Pen and Paper system.  From there we talk a bit about the recent streamer bans for running addons and the whole debacle causing rifts in the community.  Lastly, we talk a bit about bringing back the AggroChat Game of the Month…  sorta…  because we are going to all play Citizen Sleeper and then record a show about it.

Topics Discussed

• The intersection of Pachinko and Roguelikes
• Peglin
• Roundguard
• Yoku’s Island Express
• Squirrel Girl Podcast
• EVE Online and Excel Crossover
• Guild Wars 2
• Someone replaced Bel and is doing PVP
• Kodra gets a Skyscale
• DIE the Pen and Paper Game
• Final Fantasy XIV Addon Debacle
• AggroChat Game of the Month Returning Sorta
• Citizen Sleeper Show Soon

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

Hey Friends!  It is finally that time where we record our big full spoiler show for Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker expansion.  It has become tradition to record one of these when all of our crew have played through the expansion and yesterday afternoon Kodra finally finished it.  We also ended up recording for far longer than we have EVER recorded for one of these shows.  We started about an hour early and still finished up two hours late for a grand total of around four hours of podcast to edit.  

The end result is that we are chopping this down into three separate shows which is a first for us.  We have a storied history of double episodes but never a triple.  This week we have the final of this sequence.  Hopefully you enjoy the show, and if Final Fantasy XIV is not your jam then I guess we will see you hopefully in a couple weeks for more live shows.

Topics Discussed

• Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker