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SGJ Podcast #513 – Campaigns vs. Sandboxes and Which We Prefer

Brian Rubin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:57:29 +0000

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, before discussing the show itself, a bit of housekeeping. This episode was the first we recorded with a new piece of software called Riverside, a piece of software dedicated to recording podcasts, interviews and such. It’ll probably sound a little different, and hopefully better...

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SGJ Podcast #512 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul, Part Deux

Brian Rubin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:16:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I return to the topic of long-haul games that keep us engaged for a long time. It’s a topic that we broached several episodes ago, and it was actually a happy accident that we’re returning to it again. Regardless, we had...

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SGJ Podcast #511 – Rediscovering Gems You Initially Skipped

Brian Rubin — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:25:14 +0000

Hey friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, two apologies. First, that this is a day late, sorry, yesterday got away from me and two, I forgot two hit record on the mixer so this is using the backup recording from OBS, so the audio might be a bit funky. Also, I was...

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SGJ Podcast #510 – Video Gaming’s Lost Arts

Brian Rubin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:22:51 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss things in video games that have been lost to the sands of time. For example, I talk about physical strategy guides. I mean sure, we now have wikis and Steam guides these days, but there’s something about a physical strategy...

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SGJ Podcast #509 – Taxinaut

Brian Rubin — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:02:10 +0000

Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I welcome back Mosgrom to talk about the long, long, loooooong road to the 1.0 release of one of my all-time favorite games, Taxinaut. As this is Mosgrom’s fourth appearance on the show, if you recall his previous appearances, you might...

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SGJ Podcast #508 – Check-In

Brian Rubin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:20:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk amongst ourselves (and the chat) about how we’re doing and what we’re playing, and let me tell you, things aren’t collectively going great for us all right now. That said, we are...

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SGJ Podcast #507 – The Games We’re Looking Forward To in 2026

Brian Rubin — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:26:14 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to a new year and a new podcast! Yay! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about the games we’re really looking forward to coming out and playing this year, and my goodness, there are a lot of them, the list of which you can see below! There are many...

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SGJ Podcast #506 – The Games of 2025

Brian Rubin — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:25:45 +0000

Welcome, my friends, to our last show of 2025, and what a year it’s been for gaming! For example, my curator page’s best of list for this year is longer than any other year since I began keeping lists! On the topic of games of 2025, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I look...

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SGJ Podcast #505 – Things (Gaming and Non-Gaming) We’re Thankful For

Brian Rubin — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:53:40 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I talk about the things we’re thankful for in what’s been a pretty tumultuous year. We discuss both gaming and non-gaming things we’re thankful for, and surprisingly, we come up with quite a few. What are you thankful for? On our next...

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SGJ Podcast #504 – Technical Marvels in Gaming

Brian Rubin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:19:00 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to the podcast! First off, let me apologize for the audio. VoiceMeeter — the program I use to typically record our sessions — had a kerfuffle, and so I’m relying on the backup recording from OBS, which is the raw audio. It’ll likely be a little louder than usual, so I apologize...

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SGJ Podcast #503 – Check-In

Brian Rubin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:29:22 +0000

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I have a semi-regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. Since we’re missing Jacob — who was sadly under the weather — it’s a slightly shorter show than usual, but it’s a fun one, and we...

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