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Black Friday Memories, Solo Action Adventure Thoughts, and Schedule Updates
Eric is turning a chair around like a cool teacher and telling you the straight dope about the AAA games he’s playing on PS5.
How Do I Set Expectations for My Table Without Comparing to Actual Plays? With Jasper Cartwright
This is how Eric + Jasper episodes go: first, we make some jokes about Eric being the Avatar, Jasper shares the weirdness of getting recognized on the Internet. But then we spend the majority of the episode dissecting the differences between TTRPG games at home and for actual play, in which media are audiences allowed to pick apart play decisions, and how our media diet in 2023 blends the performative and the real. And we make a lot of dumb jokes through it.
My Friend Is Trying to Strand Us in the Woods! With Amanda McLoughlin
Welcome back to The Replay where Eric & Amanda reply to the questions that people write in to advice columnists about games! In this episode, we’re looking at Outside Magazine’s advice column run by Blair Braverman. We cannot guarantee adorable sleddogs in this episode, but we can guarantee interrogation of the types of people who write in to advice columns!
Spiderman 2 & Mario Wonder Came Out on October 20th! With Mischa Stanton
This episode is a celebration of October 20th, or the end of Bone and Joint Health Action Week! But really, Eric and Mischa beat the two games that came out on that day and we’re doing a joint review of the games. Same questions, different games, good videogame podcast content.
How Do I Recover After a Big Nerd Convention? With Jasper Cartwright
Shhhhh, we are such sleepy boys. Please, keep it down. Actually, you can get very loud and excited for the best organized professional development event we’ve ever been to (AND it was part of a DEI initiative!). But only get loud for that, we need to sleep otherwise.
Talk of the Table: The LA-ification of Actual Play (w/ Eric Silver)
Elliot and Brian sit down with Eric Silver (Join the Party) to discuss the “LA-ification” of actual plays and the ethos of the “New York School” of TTRPG podcasts.
Can You Play a TTRPG the Size of a Business Card? With Jasper Cartwright
Toon Town Cincinnati is a hard place to live, but we got two of the best fake cops working the beat: Detective Snuffles and Martin. That's right: this is an Actual Play podcast now, at least for part of it.
My Ex and I Can’t Decide Who Gets Our Cloned Dog! With Amanda McLoughlin
Welcome back to The Replay where Eric & Amanda reply to the games questions that people write in to advice columnists. This episode, we have a wild grab back that really surveys all that Advice Columns have to offer: beach NIMBYism, incredibly rich people problems, racial microaggressions at work, and fantasy football.
How Do You Plan a Bachelor Party That’s Also a Games Tournament? with Jasper Cartwright
Let’s get this out of the way at the front: Eric and Jasper will come to your games-themed bachelor party. Ask them, they will show up. They will also answer numerous advice questions because they’re coming down from being silly in person and need to be Serious Advice Givers.
Live in Manchester! with Jasper Cartwright, Amanda McLoughlin and Paul Foxcroft
From the Empty Space in Manchester, we did a live show! The first half is the Games and Feelings we know and love; the second half is Jasper’s Quiz Show Revenge. Thank you to Paul Foxcroft for coming up from London, Jasper for letting us stay at his house, everyone who rocked it in the audience, the entire city of Manchester, and halloumi.
Should I Taste Test This British Food? with Jasper Cartwright
We’re recording at Jasper’s house in Manchester and we’re really enjoying making the dumbest jokes about soccer right into each other’s eyes. Yes, we do answer game advice questions, but the bigger question is why did Eric keep eating the marmite?
How Should I Decide Who Gets Taylor Swift Tix? With Amanda McLoughlin
Welcome back to The Replay where Eric & Amanda reply to the games questions that people write in to advice columnists. This episode, we’re talking A LOT about situations that you shouldn’t use games to solve. I know these are advice column people but DANG.
Can I Restart My D&D Group After My Friends Fall Out? With Jasper Cartwright
The way I title these episodes refers to the questions inside (which are great, especially if you’re trying to getting your friends to pick up your niche hobbies or you’re trying tiptoeing around your friends’ drama). But this episode may be defined by the constant, middling Jason Statham impressions. So imagine the title is really “Jasper makes fun of Eric’s attempted British accents, but Eric should have seen that coming.”
How Do I Keep My Big Bad from Being an Ethnocentrist? with Dr. Claire Aubin
A new podcast guest approaches! It’s Claire Aubin, a PhD graduate of the University of Edinburgh, where she researched “the comparative individual agency of Holocaust perpetrators in the post-war United States immigration process.” AKA Claire knows knows a lot about Nazis. And she’s an avid TTRPG and video gamer, so Eric and she are diving into how to best make a villain without exposing people to ethnocentrism that they didn’t ask for. This is the most fun you can have having a conversation about Nazis, so let Claire and Eric give you that WW2 info as sharply as possible.
Should We Advise Dumping a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Like Games? With Jasper Cartwright
This episode has everything: emo guitar riffs, football updates, even more Eric and Jasper messing around, and the wildest advice we’ve ever given on the show.
Live Show in MANCHESTER, UK! + Hot Game Recs
Games and Feelings is coming to MANCHESTER, UK on August 19, 2023 for a live show!!! It’s Eric, Jasper, Amanda, and a special UK guest! Get your tickets at gamesandfeelings.com/live !
What Is It Like Making Actual Play Content? With Brian Flaherty and Jasper Cartwright
A new podcast guest approaches! It’s Brian Flaherty of My First Dungeon! He joins Eric and Jasper to talk about the form, function, and feelings behind making content out of TTRPGs. We really GET INTO IT, so we’re very excited to share this one.
While I Was Partying, My Wife Was Studying the Scrabble Blade! with Amanda McLoughlin
Welcome back to The Replay where Eric & Amanda reply to the games questions that people write in to advice columnists. This episode, we’re talking office politics in D&D games and fantasy football and if you need to Get Good at Scrabble to save your marriage.
