Episode 418 - Hell Is Where the Heart Is

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 119 minutes

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It’s hot as hell in NYC this week, which is apt for this particularly hellish episode! Austin, Rob, and Cado discuss some of their recent games of Hell Let Loose, and the different ways the tactical layer can (and will) break down. Then Austin and Cado check out Jupiter Hell, an isometric ranged combat based “traditional” roguelike, which translates FPS mechanics into its tile and turned based gameplay. After the break, we enter the atomic hell of the exclusion zone in Chernobylite, where Austin and Rob are finding ways to make the zone a little more cozy. Then Austin introduces us into a whole new hell of … librarians that turn unsuspecting visitors into books? Library of Ruina’s deck building and card game mechanics may seem inscrutable at first, but at least you have a sick soundtrack to listen to while you figure them out! Then the crew takes a dip in the question bucket to learn about what Pokemon Rob is, Bread, and parents who love Christmas pranks.

Discussed: Hell Let Loose 4:14, Jupiter Hell 27:50, Chernobylite 45:47, Banners of Ruin 1:03:50, Library of Ruina 1:08:35, The Question Bucket 1:24:13

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0:00.0	What's good internet it is Friday August 13th and you are listening to
0:22.9	WAPO Radio Episode 418. I'm your host Austin Walker. Join today by Rob's
0:28.7	back. Good morning. And your current contraries. Hello. It's hot. It's hot today.
0:35.8	Tomorrow's supposed to be a nightmare. I'm Summer's Back with a vintage
0:42.7	bag. Maybe stay hydrated. Stay cool. Stay shaded. Stay hydrated. I'm this is a
0:50.8	fun first test for I put in a ceiling fan a few weeks ago. Right. Because like
0:58.0	my apartment's always had a really strong tempered temperature gradients
1:01.5	basically where the front of my apartment by the front door leads into the
1:08.8	giant atrium in my building just gets scorchingly hot. And then it gets like
1:15.8	cool by the the HVAC unit. So put in a ceiling fan in the in the in the
1:21.5	FOIA or in the theory that like I just needed to get some air circulating in
1:25.3	the you know far part of the apartment to move things around. So far the theory
1:30.7	is like theory is working. It's been hot as hell and the AC is actually not
1:35.2	been running constantly. Okay. Wow. And so is it usually show you run the AC to
1:40.1	like lower the temp and then you fan for a few hours or just keeps that air
1:44.4	moving and cool. Yeah. Okay. Well, so it's you know it's not a thermostat. So
1:52.0	basically it is but like the thing is in the past on really hot days it would
1:57.7	just start running and running and running and running. And still like lose the
2:01.3	race. Right. But like the two things I'm doing are I keep the blackout curtains
2:06.6	down. And I've got the ceiling fan going and like you know first several hours
2:14.5	a day the AC is not actually running. It's just running the fan and they get
2:18.1	ceiling fan and like my god I might have actually hacked like making my apartment
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