Episode 25: For the Hoarder!

Sines, Co-Sines, & Tangents

Episode 25: For the Hoarder!

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Tangents:

• Infinity War: He’s Coming – New Trailer
• Captain Marvel new announcements
  • Ronan/Korvath
  • Philly Coulson… Phil son of Coul
• Ikaruga coming to PS4 and maybe, hopefully, Switch?
  • Bullet hell Danmaku Unlimited 3 for Switch.
• Toys R Us Closing
  • https://www.polygon.com/history-of-fun-podcast/2018/4/3/17193242/the-history-of-toys-r-us-history-of-fun-podcast-bankrupt-closing
• Sea of Thieves – XBONE Exclusive apathy magnet, Legendary Pirate cheats his way to the top
• Pathfinder V2.0 – Preorder the playtest – more 5E less D20 – http://paizo.com/pathfinderplaytest
• Spider-Man for PS4 – September 7 release – HIGH HOPES
• Minit – (60 SECONDS TIMED) Minute Review from Jared
• Ready Player One – Nostalgia is still annoying for its own sake
• TV Revival Culture – Will & Grace, Roseanne, The Office… sigh
• Death of Loot boxes – Battlefront II and Shadow of War both remove pay to win mechanic – but it’s not over yet

Main Topic: Tackling Backlog

The Five Stages of Backlog Management (The Cherup-Sines Model­™)

Stage 1: Recognition

• How many games is too many?
• Inventory your games

Stage 2: Bargaining

• Prioritize those you want to really, really play
• Learn to ignore new releases for a few weeks or to play multiple games

Stage 3: Panic

• Develop crippling decision anxiety about games and just stop playing altogether

Stage 4: Mitigation

• Recognize you will probably not play everything you buy
• Consider hiding games you don’t want to play
  • GOG and Steam Filters
  • Console Library Filters

Stage 5: Acceptance

• Play whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it
  • Or be Jared and just find more and more obscure games to find and play… eventually. (Shinobi III)
  • Or just wait for the new God of War.

Fans Giving of the Back Feeds

• None this week

One Dumb Thing

• Sea of Thieves – “Insta-brigging” – Worst mechanic ever in an online multiplayer-game

Podcast Chapters

00:00:00 – Intro
00:03:12 – Tangents
01:01:48 – Main Topic: Tackling Backlog
01:23:05 – New Show Idea? We’ll See!
01:31:11 – One Dumb Thing
01:33:32 – Outro

Credits:

Intro Music: Serious Monkey Business: 2-01 Roller Disco – ReMixer: Zylance

Main Topic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkj8kxK5AIk

Outro Music : Serious Monkey Business: 2-01 Roller Disco – ReMixer: Zylance