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<site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">85082996</site>	<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>Copyright Jay Slater and John Brimlow</copyright><itunes:image href="http://soapbox.manywords.press/files/2016/04/manywords-icon-doublelarge.png"/><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>The Crossbox Podcast is the contributors at Many Words Press, taking a look at topics in politics and defense, PC gaming, and firearms and shooting sports on a semi-monthly basis.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>The Crossbox Podcast is the contributors at Many Words Press, taking a look at topics in politics and defense, PC gaming, and firearms and shooting sports on a semi-monthly basis.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="News &amp; Politics"/><itunes:category text="Games &amp; Hobbies"><itunes:category text="Video Games"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Games &amp; Hobbies"/><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>jay@manywords.press</itunes:email><itunes:name>Jay Slater</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item>
		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 27 – Armed Services Salute</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a summertime edition of The Crossbox Podcast, we find an excuse to play some of our favorite military music: talking about procurement challenges service branch by service branch. Further reading * America and Wasp deck plans, compared, in which your host looks foolish for not realizing they&#8217;re the same size. * Parvusimperator likes the [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a summertime edition of The Crossbox Podcast, we find an excuse to play some of our favorite military music: talking about procurement challenges service branch by service branch.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
* <a href="https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/many-words-pictures/deck-plans-compared.jpeg"><em>America</em> and <em>Wasp</em> deck plans, compared</a>, in which your host looks foolish for not realizing they&#8217;re the same size.<br />
* <a href="https://soapbox.manywords.press/2015/02/01/procurement-4d-lightning-squalls/">Parvusimperator likes the F-35</a><br />
* <a href="http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18997/b-21-raider-officially-heading-to-edwards-air-force-base-for-testing">The Drive on the B-21</a> (see also sweet B-2 flyby GIF)<br />
* <a href="http://looserounds.com/2015/01/30/the-m14-not-much-for-fighting-a-case-against-the-m14-legend/">The M14 is crap</a><br />
* <a href="https://soapbox.manywords.press/2018/02/22/handicapping-the-ffgx-contenders/">FFG(X) contenders</a></p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">3042</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>In a summertime edition of The Crossbox Podcast, we find an excuse to play some of our favorite military music: talking about procurement challenges service branch by service branch. Further reading * America and Wasp deck plans, compared, in which your host looks foolish for not realizing they&amp;#8217;re the same size. * Parvusimperator likes the [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>In a summertime edition of The Crossbox Podcast, we find an excuse to play some of our favorite military music: talking about procurement challenges service branch by service branch. Further reading * America and Wasp deck plans, compared, in which your host looks foolish for not realizing they&amp;#8217;re the same size. * Parvusimperator likes the [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 26 – Springtime Edition</title>
		<link>https://soapbox.manywords.press/2018/05/02/the-crossbox-podcast-episode-template-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a long drought, we&#8217;re back in action with an adventuresome special edition. Further reading Plate carrier of choice Modified ALICE review part 1, part 2 (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After a long drought, we&#8217;re back in action with an adventuresome special edition.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
<a href="https://arborarmsusa.com/product/flex-assaulter-plate-carrier/">Plate carrier of choice</a><br />
Modified ALICE review <a href="https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/08/12/fishbreath-hefts-alice-large-hellcat-pack-review-part/">part 1</a>, <a href="https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/08/29/fishbreath-hefts-alice-large-hellcat-pack-review-part-ii/">part 2</a></p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2859</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>After a long drought, we&amp;#8217;re back in action with an adventuresome special edition. Further reading Plate carrier of choice Modified ALICE review part 1, part 2 (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>After a long drought, we&amp;#8217;re back in action with an adventuresome special edition. Further reading Plate carrier of choice Modified ALICE review part 1, part 2 (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 25 – Attack of the Grognards</title>
		<link>https://soapbox.manywords.press/2018/01/30/the-crossbox-podcast-episode-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this 25th episode of the Crossbox Podcast, we skip the usual regimented approach and bring you a good old-fashioned Crossbox gripe session about a certain recent Star Wars movie. (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this 25th episode of the Crossbox Podcast, we skip the usual regimented approach and bring you a good old-fashioned Crossbox gripe session about a certain recent Star Wars movie.</p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2571</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>In this 25th episode of the Crossbox Podcast, we skip the usual regimented approach and bring you a good old-fashioned Crossbox gripe session about a certain recent Star Wars movie. (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>In this 25th episode of the Crossbox Podcast, we skip the usual regimented approach and bring you a good old-fashioned Crossbox gripe session about a certain recent Star Wars movie. (Download) Visit the Soapbox for articles and commentary authored by the hosts of the Crossbox Podcast. Find back episodes of the Crossbox Podcast here.</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 24 – Thanksgiving in December</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is, in fact, our November episode, despite the fact that it is currently December; we recorded it on the 29th, and I&#8217;ve been busy, or possibly lazy. Regardless, listen to us talk about engines of three sorts: tank, rocket, and game. Further reading Binary Engineering AVDS-1790 Opposed-piston engines Rocketry reading Dawn of the Tiberium [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is, in fact, our November episode, despite the fact that it is currently December; we recorded it on the 29th, and I&#8217;ve been busy, or possibly lazy. Regardless, listen to us talk about engines of three sorts: tank, rocket, and game.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
<a href="https://www.binaryeng.com/">Binary Engineering</a><br />
<a href="http://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/05/18/engines-armor-avds-1790/">AVDS-1790</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposed-piston_engine">Opposed-piston engines</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-propellant_rocket">Rocketry reading</a><br />
<a href="http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dawn-of-the-tiberium-age">Dawn of the Tiberium Age</a><br />
<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/9420/Supreme_Commander_Forged_Alliance/">Supreme Commander</a><br />
<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/608800/Guns_of_Icarus_Alliance/">Guns of Icarus Alliance</a></p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2461</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>This is, in fact, our November episode, despite the fact that it is currently December; we recorded it on the 29th, and I&amp;#8217;ve been busy, or possibly lazy. Regardless, listen to us talk about engines of three sorts: tank, rocket, and game. Further reading Binary Engineering AVDS-1790 Opposed-piston engines Rocketry reading Dawn of the Tiberium [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>This is, in fact, our November episode, despite the fact that it is currently December; we recorded it on the 29th, and I&amp;#8217;ve been busy, or possibly lazy. Regardless, listen to us talk about engines of three sorts: tank, rocket, and game. Further reading Binary Engineering AVDS-1790 Opposed-piston engines Rocketry reading Dawn of the Tiberium [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 23 – Fall Ahead Edition</title>
		<link>https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/09/30/the-crossbox-podcast-episode-23-fall-ahead-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 20:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In our latest episode yet, we sneak in under the wire with a mere seven hours left in September. We revisit some old warfighting equipment, some old games, and some more recent guns. Further reading Collector Grade Publications M60A2 Starship, which looks less like a starship than I might have hoped. CZ P-09 proposal. You [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In our latest episode yet, we sneak in under the wire with a mere seven hours left in September. We revisit some old warfighting equipment, some old games, and some more recent guns.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
<a href="http://www.collectorgrade.com/">Collector Grade Publications</a><br />
<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/M60A2_%22Starship%22_Left_Side.jpg">M60A2 Starship</a>, which looks less like a starship than I might have hoped.<br />
<a href="https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/05/09/fishy-race-gun-proposal-cz-p-09/">CZ P-09 proposal</a>. You can find the review in the recommended posts.</p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2341</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>In our latest episode yet, we sneak in under the wire with a mere seven hours left in September. We revisit some old warfighting equipment, some old games, and some more recent guns. Further reading Collector Grade Publications M60A2 Starship, which looks less like a starship than I might have hoped. CZ P-09 proposal. You [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>In our latest episode yet, we sneak in under the wire with a mere seven hours left in September. We revisit some old warfighting equipment, some old games, and some more recent guns. Further reading Collector Grade Publications M60A2 Starship, which looks less like a starship than I might have hoped. CZ P-09 proposal. You [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 22 – Sacred Cows Edition</title>
		<link>https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/08/31/crossbox-podcast-episode-22-sacred-cows-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this episode, we talk about guns (lots of guns), and how sci-fi designers can&#8217;t design them; about Star Wars and space flight games; and about red dots on pistols, and how we can&#8217;t design experiments to save our lives. Further reading As always, leave us requests for podcast topics and/or articles. The guns: stormtrooper [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this episode, we talk about guns (lots of guns), and how sci-fi designers can&#8217;t design them; about Star Wars and space flight games; and about red dots on pistols, and how we can&#8217;t design experiments to save our lives.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b></p>
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<li>As always, leave us requests for podcast topics and/or articles.</li>
<li>The guns: <a href="http://www.originalstormtrooper.com/ekmps/shops/stormtrooper/images/e11-blaster-166-p.jpg">stormtrooper blaster rifle</a>, <a href="https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/d7/Phasma_blaster_rifle.png/revision/latest?cb=20151228045312">Captain Phasma&#8217;s rifle</a>, <a href="https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/8/81/S-5_pistol.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20051217145210">Naboo Royal Guard pistol</a>, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/IodtW.jpg">The Next Generation phaser &#8216;pistol&#8217;</a>, the ridiculous <a href="http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/16881/17296702_1.jpg?v=8D0846C56880890">Voyager compression rifle</a>, the <a href="https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/9/92/M6G_Pistol.png/revision/latest?cb=20111126014521">Halo pistol</a>, and the <a href="https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/c/c6/Gungj8-MA5C-transparent.png/revision/latest?cb=20130910124801">Halo assault rifle</a>.
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<li>I do see a trigger on all of the Halo assault rifle pictures I can find now, so ignore me when I say I can&#8217;t in the episode.</li>
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<li>For red dot pistol discussions, just search in the sidebar for &#8216;pistol red dot&#8217;. There are so many articles I&#8217;m not even going to bother linking them.</li>
<li><a href="https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/">Dolphin Ubershaders</a>, a creative and awesome solution to a seemingly intractable problem. </li>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2265</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>In this episode, we talk about guns (lots of guns), and how sci-fi designers can&amp;#8217;t design them; about Star Wars and space flight games; and about red dots on pistols, and how we can&amp;#8217;t design experiments to save our lives. Further reading As always, leave us requests for podcast topics and/or articles. The guns: stormtrooper [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>In this episode, we talk about guns (lots of guns), and how sci-fi designers can&amp;#8217;t design them; about Star Wars and space flight games; and about red dots on pistols, and how we can&amp;#8217;t design experiments to save our lives. Further reading As always, leave us requests for podcast topics and/or articles. The guns: stormtrooper [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 21 – 21st Episode Spectacular</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2017 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In our mostly-uncommented-on 21st Episode Spectacular, we dig into what&#8217;s wrong with three-gun, why the current iteration of light carrier design studies will end up like all other light carrier design studies, and how Uncharted and other third-person adventure games grip us. Further reading The Bureau Gun Fishbreath&#8217;s Old-School Two-Gun Run Modular Handgun System analysis [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In our mostly-uncommented-on 21st Episode Spectacular, we dig into what&#8217;s wrong with three-gun, why the current iteration of light carrier design studies will end up like all other light carrier design studies, and how Uncharted and other third-person adventure games grip us.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
<a href="http://soapbox.manywords.press/2015/06/05/parvusimperator-reviews-the-bureau-gun/">The Bureau Gun</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0txxmNKTgI">Fishbreath&#8217;s Old-School Two-Gun Run</a><br />
<a href="http://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/01/23/mmqb-mhs-decision-analysis/">Modular Handgun System analysis</a> (there&#8217;s more, too, I&#8217;m just too lazy to link it all)</p>
<p>We take requests! If you want to see a podcast topic done, let us know in the comments. We also take article requests. Leave us a comment on a related article and, if we like the idea, we&#8217;ll get on it.</p>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this first show of the official summer, we go back to our normal show. We talk about a 2000-era PC game near and dear to us both, the most likely democracy-vs-autocracy throwdown of the early 21st century, and the best Marvel movie we&#8217;ve seen lately. Further reading Korean artillery: this one is complicated. Check [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this first show of the official summer, we go back to our normal show. We talk about a 2000-era PC game near and dear to us both, the most likely democracy-vs-autocracy throwdown of the early 21st century, and the best Marvel movie we&#8217;ve seen lately.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
Korean artillery: this one is complicated. Check the footnote<sup id="fnref-2072-footnote"><a href="#fn-2072-footnote" class="jetpack-footnote">1</a></sup>.<br />
<a href="http://www.luft46.com/">Airplanes, Crimson Skies style</a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Skies-PC/dp/B00004VP46">Crimson Skies on Amazon</a> (Crimson Skies on Win10 guide still to come)<br />
NATO vs. our Asian allies, in <a href="http://i.imgur.com/rv35ORS.png">Polandball form</a></p>
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So, the RAF dropped 2,660 long tons of bombs on Dresden on the night of February 14, 1945. This demolished about 6.5 square kilometers of Dresden. Not, as we hyperbolically said in the show, to the foundations, but it certainly reduced the city to rubble with some freestanding walls. The North Koreans are widely believed to have 500 to 700 artillery pieces emplaced in range of Seoul, with some 100 shells a pop, as well as about 4,000 rockets from multiple launcher systems ready to go. Assuming that all of that artillery fires exclusively at Seoul and exhausts all of its ammunition in so doing, the amount of ordnance is approximately similar—in the range of 2500 to 2600 metric tonnes. (Very back of the napkin here.) A couple of points, though: first, Seoul is much bigger than Dresden, and artillery fire hitting the city is likely to be more spread out. These are the simple facts of shooting artillery with no spotters at a range north of 50 kilometers. A square enclosing 6.5 square kilometers does not cover very much of Seoul at all. Second, Seoul is probably more sturdily built than Dresden was. Third, I would be very surprised if North Korea&#8217;s towed artillery, no matter how good its fortification, survived to fire all 100 ready rounds, and resupply seems a non-trivial problem in this case.&#160;<a href="#fnref-2072-footnote">&#8617;</a>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 19 – Special Edition</title>
		<link>https://soapbox.manywords.press/2017/05/21/crossbox-podcast-episode-19-special-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For May&#8217;s episode, we dispense with the typical structure of the show to bring you something entirely different: a guest! Dave Williams of Jellyfish Games joins us to talk about Astrobase Command, an upcoming space station management game. Join us as we discuss everything from water pipes to the nature of personality and consciousness. Further [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For May&#8217;s episode, we dispense with the typical structure of the show to bring you something entirely different: a guest! Dave Williams of Jellyfish Games joins us to talk about Astrobase Command, an upcoming space station management game. Join us as we discuss everything from water pipes to the nature of personality and consciousness.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
Once you&#8217;ve listened to the episode, you&#8217;ll want to visit the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astrobasecommand/astrobase-command-70s-space-station-builder-and-cr">Astrobase Command kickstarter</a>. Go give them your support.</p>
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2027</post-id>	<dc:creator>jay@manywords.press (Jay Slater)</dc:creator><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle>For May&amp;#8217;s episode, we dispense with the typical structure of the show to bring you something entirely different: a guest! Dave Williams of Jellyfish Games joins us to talk about Astrobase Command, an upcoming space station management game. Join us as we discuss everything from water pipes to the nature of personality and consciousness. Further [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Jay Slater</itunes:author><itunes:summary>For May&amp;#8217;s episode, we dispense with the typical structure of the show to bring you something entirely different: a guest! Dave Williams of Jellyfish Games joins us to talk about Astrobase Command, an upcoming space station management game. Join us as we discuss everything from water pipes to the nature of personality and consciousness. Further [&amp;#8230;]</itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>politics,defense,firearms,guns,shooting,games,pc,games,video,games,simulators</itunes:keywords></item>
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		<title>The Crossbox Podcast: Episode 18 – Monsters Among Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this October-themed episode for April, we talk monster hunting, monster-size reference books, and monstrous failures, with a side order of cheap beer and cheap Glocks. Further reading Spoilers on Resident Evil 7 from about 32:00 to 35:30. Predictably, John was correct and Jay was not on a point of firearms trivia: the Remington R51 [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this October-themed episode for April, we talk monster hunting, monster-size reference books, and monstrous failures, with a side order of cheap beer and cheap Glocks.</p>
<p><b>Further reading</b><br />
Spoilers on Resident Evil 7 from about 32:00 to 35:30.<br />
Predictably, John was correct and Jay was not on a point of firearms trivia: the Remington R51 is a modernized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_51">Remington Model 51</a>, an early-20th-century pocket pistol.</p>
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