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Thank you. dot co.uk slash podcast to get started today. Hello and welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God, an independent RPG podcast, Victor.

This is a very special episode here this week.

I am your one and only host, Eric Van Allen.

Nadia is out at the Midwest Gaming Expo, I believe, and Victor is at Final Fantasy

14 Fan Fest.

So once again, I've been left to keep the lights on.

And keeping with the one-time tradition, the last time this happened, we have good friend of the show, Austin Walker on today. Austin, how are you doing? Hi, I'm doing good. I didn't realize you're right. This hasn't happened on the show since then. So each time you have needed a pinch hitter. Yes. I've come. I've like like tuxedo mask. I've thrown the rows down and appeared. Yeah. It was literally like I knew I was going to be alone for this episode and I think I made a comment that would be like it's really, it would be really funny to get Austin back and just have that be like a running gag that we do. So yeah, yeah. Congratulations. We like having you on when more people are here too. It's just, yeah, it keeps working out like this. It just works out like this. Yeah, totally. Austin, for the folks at home who may not know anything about you and what you do. Give yourself a little elevator pitch.

Yeah, I spent a lot of time in game journalism and criticism.

I started the website Waypoint, the child of which remap now lives on without me, post

excising themselves from Vice, which shout outs to that crew.

I then went into full-time game dev and all along the way. themselves from Vice, which shoutouts to that crew.

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