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we've really gotta do something about the ice mummy this happens literally every monday it sucks

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This Wednesday at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PDT, we are proud to present our second ever Moonshot Direct. Join us at moonshot.mov for a showcase of year-in-reviews, up and coming projects from Moonshot creators, and maybe even...a special event announcement.

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There’s so much to unpack here:

Pack of Beakers

Goth Beaker

The Beaker snitching and pointing out the photographer

The Beaker that’s about to unload on the photographer

The terminator strut before the ass whooping and you know he’s moving at speed because of the blur

The ominous feeling that you know this is 3 in the morning

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in case you were wondering how things went down at the pokemon world championships this weekend:

-during the top 8 of the TCG masters division, chilean player fernando cifuentes was running a gimmick deck that consisted exclusively of four iron thorns ex and a whole ton of control-focused trainer cards in a strategy that either completely shuts down opponents or shits the bed entirely

-through skillful play and some good luck, fernando made it through 2 days in a tournament with over 1100 players to get to the quarterfinals

-fernando lost 2-0 to ian robb, who was running regidrago vstar (widely considered one of the best decks in the current format)

-in an overexuberant victory celebration, ian did what can only be described as a jacking-off gesture, on a stream with tens of thousands of viewers run by a company with very firm player conduct expectations

-the judges determined that this warranted a penalty of game loss, but for some reason, rather than applying it to ian’s next game in the semifinals, they applied it to the one he had just won in the top 8

-(it should be noted that the prize money for making top 8 is $15k while top 4 is $20k, so this jerking gesture cost ian robb $5,000)

-nearly an hour after fernando came to terms with his loss and the end of an impressive run, he was told that he was to get back on stream because he’s now playing in the semifinals due to winning by default

-the player he was up against in the semifinals was playing a deck (miraidon) that happens to get shut down hard by iron thorns’s gimmick, so fernando wins the semifinals

-said player, jesse parker, had notably had an undefeated run throughout the whole tournament up to this point, and likely would have continued that streak had his intended semifinal opponent not gotten a game loss penalty for miming a lewd act on stream

-meanwhile, the other semifinal winner is japan’s seinosuke shiokawa, running a deck (roaring moon) that players had largely written off as underwhelming months ago

-the grand finals are on the following day, so saturday evening was abuzz with a lot of people baffled by the absurdity of the situation

-come sunday afternoon, the grand finals are set to begin, with fernando cifuentes running iron thorns and seinosuke shiokawa running roaring moon

-it should be noted here that the roaring moon deck doesn’t rely very much on abilities, so iron thorns’s gimmick has very little effect - this is basically an even matchup

-fernando wins the first game of the set, and seinosuke wins the second

-the third and final game of the set is a bonafide cheek-clencher, with both players reaching a state where a single KO will win the game, but fernando manages to clinch it at the last minute

-and that’s the story of how a guy pretending to jork it led to the first instance of a pokemon world champion who also lost the quarterfinals

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CalazCon 012 - The 86 - Thorn In The Flesh, Part Two

As The 86 begin to pursue their Drives we start to see who they are off the battlefield.

You can also find the show on your podcatcher of choice!

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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

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Now that the vod is on YouTube, I can share one of my favorite streams I've done with @moonshotpods ! Murders in the night, lies and half-truths in the day, and 8 moonshot hosts and friends in the middle of it all. Blood on the Clocktower fucking rules, yall.

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CalazCon!: A Mega Game Actual Play

As Operation Cromwell prepared one final push to defeat the Jovangellian resistance, CalazCon's surprise assault threw everyone's plans into chaos…

You think you've seen a big actual play? You haven't seen anything like this!

CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on behalf of the Democratic Federated Systems (DFS). Their choices will affect each other through the course of their shared campaign. Can they liberate the city together, or will they be consumed by the con alone?

The show will launch on Monday August 5th, 2024 on Youtube and your podcatcher of choice!

The show features incredible art from @bfleuter, Cory "Hadrian" McDaniel, and @dancy-nrew!

Structure

The show has a cyclical format. Each play group, called  a ”squad” will conduct a Mission, followed by a Downtime session, and then the squads' legislators will vote on what happens next.

The Missions take the form of traditional Beam Saber missions. Player characters, called “pilots”, get into danger, struggle to get out of it, and help each other overcome obstacles. At the end, they gain their rewards and suffer the fallout of their actions.

The Downtimes also use the normal Beam Saber format. After a harrowing mission, the pilots take this moment of quiet to recover, fix their vehicles, cut loose with fellow pilots, pursue their long term projects, and generally develop their relationships with each other.

Once every squad has completed one Mission AND one Downtime, their legislators gather for a parliamentary session. Each squad's legislator gets a chance to make public speeches and private deals to further the goals of the DFS, the squad they represent, or their own personal desires. There are only so many votes they can cast, so some pursuits will have to be left by the wayside.

Once the votes are tallied, the goals are set, and passed along to the squads as objectives that they must pursue in their next Mission, beginning the cycle anew.

The first ten episodes will be released one each week day for two weeks, so that the audience can meet the cast as soon as possible, then the show will switch to a twice weekly release schedule.

CalazCon launches on Monday August 5th, so don't miss out on this innovative mega game actual play!

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Hey, do you like people from the Moonshot Podcast Network?

How about social deduction, outrageous lies and convoluted reasoning?

Well do we have the stream for you! Tomorrow, Moonshot plays Blood On The Clocktower!!!

Catch us live on Sunday, 6pm EDT, only at moonshot.mov

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game shows in 2024 are so fucking cooked

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Just a head's up, roll20 is having a really steep sale, which means you can get every Spindlewheel game--the deck, the main game, the Microgames, the Romance collection-- for under $12. The deck itself is $1.60. Not even two bucks!

If you were ever curious about the game, now's the time to grab it.

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Truly my favorite LP of all time. Nothing else even comes close. "Now it is not necessary" still plays in my head randomly years later

it's winter where i am, so it's time for:

here's the beginning of the LPs:

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The very first taste of Calazcon, right here on your dash. Only 2.5 weeks away now!!!

Terminal Company - Mission 1 Audiogram

Every Tuesday and Thursday until the release of the first episode, a new audiogram will be released as a little tease for what's coming up! Here's today's!

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A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.

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The 86 - Mission 1 Audiogram

Every Tuesday and Thursday until the release of the first episode, a new audiogram will be released as a little tease for what's coming up! Here's today's!

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Episode Zero, Series Introduction, of #CalazCon is now live!

Go learn about the mega game actual play's structure and the lore behind the show!

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I'm rewatching Succession (for some reason it seems thematically relevant in the current political climate) and I gotta say. Still peak television.