Buy Something, You’ll Feel Better – NUTI: Episode 52

About this episode

Shane and Telson discuss modern societal divisions, gaming topics, and personal opinions on books and D&D.

This episode was recorded back in early August. Some dicussions may be a tad out of date. Shane & Telson talk about the divisions being force fed by everyting in modern society, which somehow led to Shane ranting about Intel for way too long. Lots of Satisfactory, Telson said books are overrated, and Shane's ripping off Pitch Black for his D&D campaign. Topics & Timestamps: Intro & Golf Stuff (0:00), Serious Talk - Brand Tribalism & A Tangent About Cars (9:19), Serious Talk - Intel vs. AMD (21:15), Grumpy Old Gamers - Let's Game It Out & The Long Dark (43:46), Grumpy Old Gamers - Satisfactory Update (52:30), Book Report - Telson's Hot Take (1:23:00), Tabletalk - Monster Design (1:34:57), Parting Gifts - Nile Red, Robinson Foundry, No Dumb Questions Again (1:56:57)

People in this episode

Hosts: Shane, Telson

Topics covered

• brand tribalism
• gaming
• D&D
• Satisfactory update
• book opinions
• monster design

Keywords

• Intel
• AMD
• Satisfactory
• Pitch Black
• gaming
• book report
• monster design

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Intel, AMD

Books & works: Pitch Black, Let's Game It Out, The Long Dark, Satisfactory

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