#justice points

hey all my followers, I am going to be at Wiscon this weekend! 

I will be on the Podcasting for Beginners (I’m Nico D. on the listing) panel on Saturday, 8:30-9:45 AM (SO BRING COFFEE, PLEASE!) 

If you want to get in contact with me there, send me a PM and we can exchange information. But be on the lookout for a frazzled brunette with pink running shoes and a huge black Chrome bag, that’ll probably be me. 

Our seventy-seventh episode is our year-end special and award ceremony, where we look at the negatives and positives from the last 12 months of being a part of the video game community, as both participants and podcast hosts. Stay tuned afterwards for us giving our totally real awards, The Justies, to the most deserving people in the video game community for a variety of very serious categories.

Editor's note: The sound quality on this week's episode is unfortunately a little worse than usual, we apologize for the inconvenience. Someone recorded the show with her webcam mic by accident.

2014 in Review: The Year That Sucked

Justies Award Categories:

Favorite Games Editorial Piece of the Year

Best Overall Writing This Year

Best Woman Character

Most Repeated Host VIP Award

Whitebread and Mayo Reserve Award for Blandest Video Game Protagonist

Special Studio Award for Excellence in Service

Favorite Text-Based Game

Favorite Music in a Game

Game Dev We Spent Too Much Time Talking About on G-Chat

Favorite Indie Game

Favorite AAA Game

Get Hyped Award for Game We Are Most Anticipating in 2015

The Game of the Year

Our sixty-eighth episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking to Austin Walker, academic and game writer. We chat about the intersection between race and gaming, Austin's experiences with writing about games as well as his article about Watch Dogs. We also talk about the news of the week including Goobergate satire, Carbine's layoffs as well as Steam's stranglehold on the marketplace.

Our fifty-fifth episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking to Magdalena, death knight theorycrafter and blogger. We talk about the concept of Exotic East tropes, as well as harmful stereotypes in a few game genres and racism in first person shooters.

Our fifty-second episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider welcoming Steve Gaynor and Karla Zimonja from Fullbright Company, developers of Gone Home, to the show. We talk in-depth about the themes of the game, how the story was developed, as well as Karla's thoughts about being a woman in the gaming industry.

Our fifty-first episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking to Jasyla of Cannot Be Tamed on the latest varied gaming news, as well as her talent for playing her entire Steam library. We dig deep (heh) into Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot - the highs and lows, the inherent violence against Lara and what it means to throw a female protagonist through the wringer.

Content warning: We talk about depictions of sexual assault in Tomb Raider during this episode.