Follow along the adventures of the crew of the S.S. Bad Ship as they fly around the galaxy causing more problems than they solve. A new AP podcast from the Do You Validate Network featuring April Raygun, Caleb Zane Huett, Derick Marchel, and Samm Star with Joel Ruiz as the GM.
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A weekly dive into the seriously silly world of Sonic the Hedgehog. Indie game developer Nick Splendorr and author Caleb Zane Huett study everyone's favorite blue guy to learn about games, stories, and maybe even ourselves. There's also a lot of goofing.
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Every Day's Great is a podcast where Caleb Zane Huett and Nick Splendorr laugh and cry their way through the Persona games, one day at a time. No Persona experience necessary!
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What's your Hyperfixation? What's your weird, niche area of expertise? Share it with us on Hyperfixations Hosted by Nigel and Ally
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106: Medieval Philosophy with Ryan Silberstein
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This one goes out to Doctor Rogers... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of bodily harm (castration) This week we finish our duology of episodes about how easy it was to come up with ideas before ideas had been invented as Ryan takes on a whistle-stop tour of medieval philosophy. In this episode we discuss the rediscovery of Aristotle,…
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The crew finds a new disc and burns some shit down, and by crew, we mean Barry. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://discord.gg/uh7…
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105: Narratology and Narrative Theory with Steven Cousler
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Let's hope our professors hear this one... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of transphobia, bodily functions (defecation), conflict We're back late after having to factory reset my laptop for our most inscrutable episode yet, as Steven achieves his goal of coming on this show and secretly giving the audience homework. In this episode…
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The crew breaks into the Alley Cats' base to try and find supplies. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://discord.gg/uh7xJv9gFe http…
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104: Rivers of London and a Conversation with Ben Aaronovitch
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It's London, innit Content warning: this episode contains mentions of sex, stereotyping, death, zombies, nuclear annihilation, existentialism murder, mental health issues, the Nazis Editor's note - the quality of this call recording is a bit crackly at the start of the episode but evens out as it goes on This week on Hyperfixations, author of the R…
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The crew talks to a member of the Field Mice and holds a gun to their head. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://discord.gg/uh7xJv9…
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103: Baldur's Gate III with Amethysa
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Down, down, down, by the river... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of death, murder, bodily functions (urination), sex Please note - this episode was recorded prior to the announcement that Larian would not be working on Baldur's Gate 4 This week on Hyperfixations, Amethysa, Ally, and Nigel resist their Dark Urges as we discuss Laria…
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The crew follows Brakes into the near by town to try and locate some supplies and while there, they run into an orb. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Va…
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102: Best Picture Winners with Ally Keegan (featuring guest host Louise Claffey)
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And the Academy Award for Best Podcast goes to... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of strained parental relationships, ableism, divorce, nuclear radiation, domestic terrorism and the 9/11 terror attacks, self-mutilation, racism This week the episode 100 celebrations conclude as Ally comes on the show to discuss the Academy Awards, es…
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The crew finally goes down planet side to Novus to try and find some supplies April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://discord.gg/uh7xJ…
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101: Rot and Decay in FromSoftware Games with Nigel McKeon (featuring guest host Louise Claffey)
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The fire fades... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of death, rot, decay, existentialism, murder, genocide, cosmic dread, unwanted medical procedures, unwanted bodily transformations Please note - this episode contains mild spoilers for the plots of Elden Ring, Dark Souls III, and Bloodborne This week the episode 100 celebrations cont…
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In the first episode of arc 3, the crew finally gets to see the inside of their titular ship. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://…
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100: Hyperfixations with Ally Keegan & Nigel McKeon (featuring guest host Louise Claffey)
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Hey guys, we've reached a hundred episodes; take us seriously now. Content warning: this episode contains mentions of nuclear warfare, nuclear annihilation, the genocide in Palestine, the Unabomber, the 9/11 terror attacks This week it's Hyperfixations' 100th episode, and Louise from episode 1 returns for a behind the scenes episode full of exclusi…
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Yellow and blue makes green! Yellow and blue makes green! Content warning: this episode contains mentions of bodily functions (urination), mental illness Editor's note - Graham's audio becomes a bit choppy in the middle of the episode, I have done my best to clean it up, it does return to normal This week, Graham, sits down with Ally and Nigel for …
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In the finale of arc 2, the crew does a little bit of murder and also, a lot of dumb things that will affect their path going forward. It's a lot of fun! April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Check out Caleb's new TTRPG here!!! https://www.haun…
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Now that they've finally accepted their mission for this arc, the crew spend an entire episode doing not much, but it's still a fun time!!! April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Check out Caleb's new TTRPG here!!! https://www.hauntedtable.games…
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The crew finally come face to face with the titular ship! But, will this allow them to get out of the junkyard? Find out in the episode!!! April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Check out Caleb's new TTRPG here!!! https://www.hauntedtable.games/…
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The crew go deeper into the junk yard in search of a way out. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Check out Caleb's new TTRPG here!!! https://www.hauntedtable.games/ Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join …
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Is the crew dead? FIND OUT IN THIS BRAND NEW EPISODE OF S.S. BAD SHIP!!! April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Check out Caleb's new TTRPG here!!! https://www.hauntedtable.games/ Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouVal…
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In the finale episode of Arc 1: Shadow's Tail, our crew tries to get out of the Rusted Asteroid with their lives and a new ship. Will they make it!? April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/…
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Now inside the Shadow's Tail, the crew is figuring out what to do next. As they search around, they met a new friend, Dill. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do…
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The crew of the Bad Ship are on their first mission. They are inflitrating the Rusted Astreoid to try and find a way to steal a ship for them to get off the planet. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://…
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The crew of the S.S. Bad Ship go back home to plan how to steal the Shadow's Tail ship and get off this shit and piss covered planet. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate J…
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Join the crew of the S.S. Bad Ship in their first episode as they try to find a ship to get off their awful planet. April Raygun as Barry, Caleb Zane Huett as CL4RK, Derick Marchel as Jet Set-Radio, and Samm Star as Sayra. With Joel Ruiz as the GM and editor. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Val…
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The first episode will launch on 4/20 at 11am EST! Join us every Saturday morning as the crew travels the Soledad Galaxy looking for jobs and running away from the trouble they cause. Join the Do You Validate Patreon https://www.patreon.com/DoYouValidate Join the Do You Validate Discord https://discord.gg/uh7xJv9gFe https://twitter.com/SSBadShip ht…
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98: Immersive Theatre with Caleb Zane Huett
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Put on your mask and let's get into it This week, Caleb Zane Huett, children's author, and one of the founders of Haunted Table Games - the company behind the ultra successful Triangle Agency, sits down with Ally and Nigel to discuss the world of immersive theatre. In this episode we discuss creating immersive spaces, how to find personal experienc…
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It's time for some slept on fantasy Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, Nazis This week, Nick joins Ally and Nigel to talk about Ursula K. Le Guin's classic series Earthsea. In this episode we discuss daoist philosophical influences, the difficulty in adapting the series successfully, the…
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If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, arson, negligence, drowning This week, Jenny Maguire sits down with Ally and Nigel to dive headlong into the insane world of RuPaul's Drag Race. In this episode we disc…
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It's Christian allegory at its ham-handed best Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of religious abuse, religious trauma, historical religious abuse, sexism, ableism, homophobia, racism, genocide, sexual trauma, sexual abuse, rape, Islamophobia, slavery, child death, child sexual abuse, transphobia, slaughter of innocents,…
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94: The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog with David Devereux
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Sonic is dead and we have killed him Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of Adolf Hitler, queerphobia Dev joins Ally and Nigel for a murder mystery investigation. Who's dead, you ask? Sonic the Hedgehog! In this episode, we discuss the game's surprising links to the philosophy of Friedrick Nietzsche, whether games should …
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There is no such thing as the canon Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of sexual assault, misogyny Ellen returns to the pod to discuss her passion: fairy tales. We talk about iterative cycles of myth, being terrified as children, how there is no one true version of myths and fairy tales, and whether we have seen Snow Whi…
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Our frontal lobes aren't even fully developed Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of labour exploitation, child exploitation, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, medication, psychosis, predatory behaviour towards children, method acting, Jared Leto, Harvey Weinstein, sexism, misogyny Ansley sits down (after half an hour of retail …
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91: Superliminal Latency with Phoebe A. Xavier
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There are only a finite amount of story ideas, but infinite permutations. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of drug use, alcohol use, sex and porn, gore Phoebe A. Xavier is a sci-fi comic book writer, and today joins Ally and Nigel to discuss her recently released short story collection, Superliminal Latency. We discuss…
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Have I read Animorphs? Yes yes yes yes. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of lgenocide, war, child soldiers Let it never be said we can't be both serious and silly. Floyd brings us Animorphs to discuss this week, and what starts off as a fairly innocuous chat about some children's books rapidly spins out into one of the…
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89: A Day of Fallen Night with Samantha Shannon
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Return to the world of Priory... Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, sexism Samantha Shannon is the author of the bestselling The Bone Season series, and the smash-hit Priory of the Orange Tree, and joins Ally and Nigel to discuss its upcoming prequel, A Day of Fallen Night. Can you tell how nervous we are? We …
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We stand with all rail strikers everywhere Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of labour exploitation, transphobia, racism We're a podcast about hyperfixations and we've somehow gone 87 episodes without one on trains. That's our bad, dog. But Episode 88? Hoo boy, we sure do get into it, with Gavin Gaddis helping us set th…
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87: Amulets with George (@Amnotocol)
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Yada yada badabing, colonialism. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of orientalism, discussions of sex and genitalia What is an amulet, anyway? Anything can be if you try hard enough. Or at least that's what George says. He collects them so he's the expert here. This episode swings back and forth wildly between extremes,…
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86: (American) Football with Thomas Wynne
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Touchdown! Sportsball! Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of anti-vax rhetoric Beep beep! We've got a live broadcast, beaming straight in on satellite: Big T joins us on the sports desk, all the way from sunny Colorado. We're touching down on all the important stuff in the lead-up to Superbowl Sunday, using both soft and…
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It's always ethical to pirate things Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of suicide, serial killers, murder, hate crimes, torture Everything is eventually going to fade away into obscurity and we won't be able to get it again, but until then we're making a damn podcast. Louise returns to complete a hat trick and discuss t…
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Pickleball! The sport of the future! Have you guys heard about pickleball? We sure haven't, but it's sweeping the world. Greg Sowell joins us to preach the good word about this funky little sport. It's great for health, it fosters communities, it's better than tennis. And it doesn't even have an injury named after it. Naturally, by the end of it we…
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83: The Shadowhunter Chronicles with Seannessy Rain
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What the hell even are these books? Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of incest, homophobia, racism, violence This one's got a lot of talk about incest in it, folks. Like A LOT. You wouldn't think it, but there's no getting round it. Rain, Ally and Nigel are going to try and talk about things like character relationshi…
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82: The Box Office with Andy Bowman
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This is some real nerd shit. Andy returns to the podcast 72 episodes later (a fact we only acknowledge in the last 2 minutes of the show) to bring us a whole bunch of maths, which is a bummer, but we do have an interesting conversation about the box office. Along the way, we'll talk about how age demographics shape box office returns, different way…
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81: Our Flag Means Death with Val West
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Oh my god, they were crewmates. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of sexual assault, slavery, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, the AIDS Crisis This one's for the girls and the gays, folks. This week we're getting onboard with Val West to discuss Our Flag Means Death. The ports we'll be stopping at in…
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80: Murder Mysteries with Casper Oliver
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Makes no sense, compels me though. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, mass shootings, school shootings, abuse, animal cruelty, animal death, retraumatising victims, paedophilia This is a very rant filled episode this week folks. What starts off as Casper, Nigel, and Ally discu…
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79: Healing Practices of the Mincéirí with Oein DeBharduin
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There is nothing that ails the body that nature doesn't have a cure for. Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of internalised and externalised ableism, discrimination against Mincéirí Irish author, Traveller activist and founder of LGBT TARA, Oein DeBharduin joins Ally and Nigel (after a slew of technical difficulties) to…
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Hail to the chief. This week we're seeing how many people we can fit in a bathroom stall to chant about Hal, so far it's Ally, Nigel, and special guest Adam: we discuss Microsoft exclusives, the history (and future) of the series, how online gaming has shaped the formation of friendships, and we are homesick for things we never experienced If you l…
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77: Hadestown with Emily Porter Siegel
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We raise our cups! Emily joins Ally and Nigel to discuss verything to do with Anais Mitchell's musical Hadestown: we discuss how Broadway ruins theatre, versions of songs and changes, workers' rights, and how stories change and are cyclical If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to…
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That's the law, and that's a fact Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of discrimination, sexism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, the effects of the Catholic Church in Ireland, fascism The long arm of the law has finally caught up to Ally and Nigel, and Katie is here to serve them their papers: we discuss getting into …
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You don't need to be enough, you just need to be yourself Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of aphobia, homophobia, discrimination Returning guesr Ross stops by the studio to join Ally and Nigel for the big 7-5 to talk to us about Asexuality: we discuss what asexuality is and isn't, the need to increase awareness of as…
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It's time for an adventure! Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions and discussions of transphobia, racism, misgendering Nigel and Ally are joined by Lou this week to talk about LARPing: we discuss some of the larger games Lou has been part of, the problems with LARP, how to get into LARP as a beginner, and just some of the intricacies of t…
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