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Episode 33 – The passive aggressive art of cleaning up

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In the latest episode of Swag Tier, Steven recaps his adventures at the 2016 Boston Festival of Indie Games, otherwise known as Boston FIG.  Tune in to hear about:

  • Steven’s top 5 Boston FIG games, Sad Hill Cemetery, Stage Fright, Insane Traffic, Ten Candles, and Clean Up Your Room!;
  • Megan’s mom’s terrible driving;
  • the origin of last episode’s big debate, “easy as pie;”
  • and Megan’s (crazy) neighbor’s passive aggressive attempts to get her to clean her messy house.

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Episode 32 – Baking semantics 101

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Megan and Steven discuss the intricate differences between baking and broiling (read: we actually have no idea what we’re talking about).  Tune in to also hear about:

  • Steven’s pride in recognizing a kpop song played in public (twice!);
  • Megan’s hope to establish the Kpop Killers, a Kpop Academy Overwatch group;
  • better than mediocre recommendations for two great indie games, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and Blade Ballet;
  • Megan’s money woes, which she plans to solve by suing an ex-girlfriend.

Episode 30 – Dread-ful open mic

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Steven participated in his first open mic ever, getting up in the middle of monologues, songs, and standup performances to run a short storytelling experience based on an indie RPG called Dread. While traditional tabletop roleplaying games have you roll dice to overcome challenges, players in Dread pull blocks from a Jenga tower. Listen in to hear how it went! We close out with our first fan art request…

Episode 29 – Bring it on, Korea!

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We’re here with the first in-person episode since our first two episodes recorded in a hotel room at PAX South! Steven is visiting Megan to be there for her Kpop Academy showcase performance, so this was recorded at her home on opposite sides of the same mic. We talk about what it was like to apply, how it felt to be part of this free five-week bootcamp, and the creation of her group “Megan and the Mamamoos” “Five by Five”. (Not to be confused with f(x).)

Episode 22 – No segue

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After detailing our hardware setup in the last episode, we swoon over Razer and Logitech with very positive customer service stories. But it wouldn’t be Swag Tier if we didn’t find a weird life story to tie in, so if you’re not interested in peripheral praise, listen in to learn about Megan’s first visit to a sex shop (accompanied by her father, on her birthday).

Episode 20 – The illustrious digbickqt scootin’ stallions

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It’s a misnomer to call us a gaming podcast. We know that no one listens to us for gaming news, they listen because we’re entertaining and have great chemistry. Case in point: we’re in the middle of E3, but talk about it for only a minute at the start and end of the episode. We’d rather talk about:

  • Megan buying KCON NY tickets while sitting at a red light;
  • Yungoos looking like Donald Trump;
  • playing Final Fantasy Explorers > KCON sponsorship > Ticketmaster sponsorship > Donald Trump sponsorship;
  • how Megan is so easily convinced to keep her cable subscription;
  • the awkward decline of E3

Episode 18 – The customer service episode

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We take a trip down memory lane, recalling:

  • how Megan associates Indian food with Ridge Racer;
  • mountains of rice;
  • Rock Band memories;
  • phone-a-friend at Mad Catz;
  • Megan’s epic winter trek to pick up the last copy of Rock Band

Episode 16 – Hiding Yoshi in your closet to preserve your relationship

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In this episode, all our conversations revolve around collections:

Episode 14 – M.E.O.W. (Megan is an Equal Opportunity Whacker)

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Megan and I continue our coverage of PAX East (even though you wouldn’t know it by the immediate tangent we take), talking about:

  • Marooners, an awesome local co-op game inheriting the best of Mario Party’s frantic minigames
  • Nuclear Throne‘s clever spectator giveaway
  • Steven’s addiction to (and subsequent abandonment of) Shop Heroes
  • how Megan becomes unhappy when children become happy
  • Puzzle and Dragons‘ booth

Episode 12 – After which Megan spontaneously decides to attend PAX East

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Steven’s plans for PAX East are dangled in front of Megan like a juicy worm, and when she bites, I reel her in so hard that she decided after the episode to buy a ticket, schedule a flight, and book a hotel. So ignore what we say in the episode: she is here with me at PAX in Boston right now!

And as mentioned, here are:

Megan and Kate

Megan and Kate

Megan, Stephanie and Kate

Megan, Stephanie and Kate

Megan, Sean and Eric

Megan, Sean and Eric