Episode 13: Women Who Game

Back to our regular schedule! In this episode, we had a loadddd of technical issues which meant that we lost a bit of discussion, sadly (my poor old laptop couldn’t cope with a browser window being open while recording. Let’s just say old laptop has now gone to the “backup machine” pile now 🙁 but I have a shiny new laptop, so that’s nice!)

We were responding in this episode to the online discussions about women who game, and particularly this tweet, which was by a friend of mine, about women who play D&D. (The original tweet that Evelyn was retweeting was about how no women play D&D!)

The discussion we lost in the technicals was about ArenaNet, and how we like to give them money, but we don’t really want to any more because they basically not only fired a female employee for pushing back against mansplaining, but a male colleague who supported her. And we didn’t like that much. So that’s basically the bits you missed.

We are also launching a Patreon! You can see it here: https://www.patreon.com/notjustagame 

We’ll be making more noise about it as we get back into recording more frequently. If you like what you hear though, please consider dropping us a dollar a show! It’ll help pay for our producer and more gear so we can record remotely while we are both travelling.

(PS featured image is my old retired laptop and some prep I was doing for a D&D game one time!)

Not Just A Game Episode 7: Board Games (and Missed Opportunities)

Today we are branching out from the video games for an episode, because we were playing a game the other day and it made us a little cranky. So this episode we will talk about some of our favourite board games and how they make us a little cranky sometimes.

Some images we talk about in the video are of the cards from Ascension:

The Landtalker card in particular reminded Tyr of Mayan profile portraits, the one that sprang to mind (that people might have seen) was a rendering of Pacal of Palenque (image by A. Skromnitsky, from Wikipedia).

     

Games mentioned:

  • Ascension
  • Doom (the boardgame)
  • Shadows Over Camelot
  • Overwatch (briefly)