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**The AFK Podcast**

PC Gaming Podcast From Gamers Like You.

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# 342 “Holiday 2023” Dec 18, 2023

Show notes

Playlist:

Jim

Star Citizen
Last weekend

Logun

Songs of Conquest
StarCraft 2
Eldenring

Curls

Much needed Holiday vacay
The Callisto Protocol
Horizon Forbidden West via PlayStation Portal
Generating lots of art
- Hotchocolate.ai
- Dopescenery.ai

News:

Steamboat Willy Copyright finally expires in 2024, could that be related to game Mouse coming out on Steam in 2025?
Twitch says Sex Sells, and then abruptly realizes it made a terrible terrible mistake
E3 is dead, again…. No finally , for realz this time
Steam Sale supposedly starts on the 21s

Topics:

Our gaming year in review.

Our top games played.
Most disappointing game of the year.
Games we started but were unable to finish for whatever the reason.

Our entertainment year in review.

Favorite streaming/tv/movies
Biggest Disappointments in the same.

What we are looking forward to in 2024 (games/tv/movies/anything)

Jim

Getting the podcast back to a weekly schedule or as close to it as possible.
Streaming Star Citizen on the regular
LAN party

Chat Q & A

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.
Additional Support for the show:
Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org
Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku
Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku
The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole.

# 341 “Free Fly Griefer” Nov 27, 2023

Show notes

Playlist:

Jim
– Star Citizen

Logun

Borderlands 2
Songs of Conquest
Black Friday Haul

Curls

Fall Guys with the youngin
Got my christmas present early
Generating a lotta art

News:

Ubisoft says game-interrupting ads were a mistake

AMD Radeon Anti-Lag feature getting gamers banned?

3D Printers for Kids
Ryzen 7800X3D for $299
Steam Autumn Sale
Fortnite “New Beginning” Next Month

The Expanse telltale series

https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Topics:

What ya watchin?
Jim

Holiday themed movies and tv

Logun

Invincible
Antman and Wasp: Quantumania
Star Wars Despecialized Edition (fan made)
Trying to understand why HDR does not work on my PC to TV setup

Curls

Mrs. Doubtfire
Lots of youtube

# 340 “Back Again” Nov 20, 2023

Show notes

Play list

Jim

Starfield 300+ hours
Star Citizen
Ryzen 9 5900x, a tale of misery and woe, and wasted money. Bought a Ryzen 9 5950x and will RMA the 5900X. Then pop that one in my main, when I get a replacement.

Logun

EldenRing 140hrs
Vampire Survivor
Halls of Torment
Last Epoch
Marvels Midnight Suns
- Not my kind of game Art work, Combat style, and not into cards
Civilization IV
- UI doesn’t scale on large screens
- Could not get mods to work
Assassins Creed Directors Cut
- Can’t run on big screen
Heroes of Might and Magic V
- Cannot finish the game due to bugs :/
Songs of Conquest
- Early access
- Turns base strat inspired by HoM&M
Borderlands 2
- Fffffffuuuuuuuck I’m stuck. If I play in Hard mode I one shot everything. If I try Ultimate Vault hunter mode then every enemy is a bullet sponge. Golden keys do nothing to improve my current play level
New computer build
- Currently have 7700K from 2016. GPU is 3080Ti.
- Thinking about moving to 7800x3d – DDR5 and Nvme Gen4
- Keeping mobo at 650 level for Gen4 vs 670 and getting Gen5 no noticeable difference.
- Use case is gaming only
Solidigm P44 Pro

Curls

Heavy into music
- Released another album All links here
Doing AI art now with Stable Diffusion (started last week)
- Dopescenery.ai
- Hotchocolate.ai
Games?
- Starfield (finished)
- Slay the Spire
- Horizon Forbidden West (finished)
- Dead Space Remake (finished)
- The Calisto Protocol
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands (finished)

News

Star Citizen Free Fly Event and IAE

New Squadron 42 Trailer and News
– Game is feature complete and in the polishing phase. No release date yet.

Steam Deck OLED

Topics

What are we streaming or movies we’ve seen?

Jim

Shameless TV series
ReReRe watching the Expanse
Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny
The Witcher
Ahsoka

Logun

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Star Trek Deep Space 9
Castlevania Nocturne
The Witcher
Loki
Secret Invasion
Ahsoka
Invincible
Gen V
Blue Beetle
Spiderman Across the Spiderverse
The Flash

Curls

Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Star Trek Discovery
Star Trek Picard

Community News

The discord server has a new name “Flynn’s Arcade” click the link below to join us. If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

Credits:
You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion. Follow us on Twitter @theafkpodcast for notification on new episodes and streaming.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 339 “Adulting Sucks” May 29, 2023

Show notes

Play list

Curls

A whole lotta a little bit here and there
Tiny Tina
Borderlands 3
Making Music
Hackintoshing
Plotting next upgrade New Builds
Entered a beat contest (Soundcloud)

Jim

Halo Infinite on PC
Space Marine (Steam Deck)
Got Fable 3 working on Steam Deck (looking forward to my second playthrough)

News

Homeworld 3 Delayed

Alan Wake 2 in October

Star Trek Resurgence released

Total War Pharaoh Announced

Topics

NVME m.2 all the things. 4tb NVME prices continue to drop.

I’m pulling all SSD’s out of my machine and replacing them with m.2. Makes for higher performance an extremely clean build with a whole lot less wires. Basically every machine has a 1tb OS NVME drive and a 4tb NVME game drive. The editing machine has an NVME raid card with 4 2tb Samsung 970’s in raid 0. Any rig with only 1 nme slot was given a 4tb nvme card. This was only an issue on 2 micro ATX rigs.
Finally retiring older desktops and laptops from the x58 era.
I have a ton of used SSD’s that I’ll be dropping into my server projects.

What are we streaming?

Jim

Below Deck
Ancient Aliens
History’s greatest mysteries
Alone
Black Adam
John Wick 4

Curls

Star Trek Picard
Star Trek New Worlds
Power: Book II
Youtube
The Diplomat

Community News

We are on Twitter @theafkpodcast

If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

Listener Emails:

iTunes/Google-Play Shout Outs:

Credits:

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 338 “Flynn Solo” May 10, 2023

Show notes

This week Flynn explains the reason for the long break.

Jim
– Reasons for the break.
– Space Marine (Steam Deck)

CodMW Multiplayer (Season 3)
COD infinite warfare
Halo Infinite Campaign.
Chat GPT loves us. We had no idea.
pup-ternity leave
News:
Bluesnews.com this week.

Topics:
Any new tech purchases?
Jim
3 builds in progress, doing build videos
– Podcast, streaming, editing rig
– VR Rig (Valve Index)

– Guest Rig

– Main Rig PSU and storage upgrade
– Cool Extended Battery for Steam Deck

What are we streaming?
Jim
- The Departed
- We own the city
- Parks and Rec..again
- Yellowstone
- High Score documentary
  Community:
  Flynn is committed to Streaming the podcast weekly, even if I have to go solo. If you’re a member of the community and would like to be on the podcast for an interview (community spot light) please DM flynn in Discord. Flynn will be returning to Twitch streaming at least twice a week to start. Possible limited series on YouTube.
  If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.
  Additional Support for the show:
  
  Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org
  
  Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku
- Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku
  The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 337 “Holiday Special 2022” Dec 21, 2022

Show notes

**** Caution File was created on temporary setup. Volume may fluctuate.
This week we discuss;

Play list

Jim

SWTOR
MW2 Multiplayer

Logun

God of War Ragnarok
Vampire Survivor
Installing Launchbox and spinning the retro games back up

Curls

Metroid: Prime
Overwatch 2
Linux Game testing on laptop
PC Building Sim 2

News

Mysterious Star Wars Game Testing in Sweden

Nvidia Killing Game Stream

Steam Winter Sale Next Week, Gaming Nominations

Chris Metzen returns to Warcraft as an advisor

Amazon Games Publishing next Tomb Raider?

The Withcher III Next Gen update released

AMD Radeon RX 7900 and RX 7900 XT Launch

The Game Awards Games of the year 2022

Topics

What are we streaming?

Logun

Black Adam
Karate Kid (Netflix)
Andor (Disney+)
Christmas movies
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Family Man
- Jingle All the Way
- Scrooged
- Christmas Carol (Muppets and Disney)
- Die Hard

Jim

The Black List (Ray Reddington is my role model)
Christmas Movies
Top Gun Maverick
Hunter Killer

Curls

Ready to Love
From Scratch

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 336 “Silent Hill Remakes” Oct 23, 2022

Show notes

This week we discuss:

Play list

Jim

SWTOR (Trooper Class Story. Last one I have left to play.)
Total War Britannia
Bought a Ryzen 7 5800X at 40% off on Amazon. Will Replace my 5600X which will replace my 3600X which will replace my 2600. Hardware shuffle.
LAN cache server update. Performance just keeps getting better.

Curls – The Medium

Sleeping Dogs
Working on Music

Logun

Spiderman Miles Morales
Hotwheels

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

News

Gone Gold – The Callisto Protocol

New Tales from the Borderlands Released

AMD RDNA 3 Stream Next Month

Intel 13th Gen CPUs Released, Reviewed

Crysis Remastered Trilogy on Steam Next Month

A Plague Tale: Requiem Arrives

Kerbal Space Program 2 Entering Early Access in February

Silent Hill 2 Remake Announced

Silent Hill F, Silent Hill Town-fall, and Silent Hill Ascension Revealed

The Sims 4 is now F2P and the next one is in development

Ghostbusters Spirits Unleaded

CODMW II Specs

Topics

What are we streaming?

Curls – youtube

In the Dark
SVU

Jim

Picard
Halo
Blacklist
LOTR Rings of Power

Logun

LoTR: Rings of Power
Star Wars Rebels
Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes

# 335 “Face-Lift” Oct 16, 2022

Show notes

This week we discuss;

Play list

Jim – Total War Thrones of Britannia

Bioshock remastered on Steam Deck
COD infinite warfare on Deck
Studio/LAN room rebuild progress

Curls

Not much gaming this week
Mostly working on music in my little free time
Trying out Nobara Linux on my laptop

Logun

Hotwheel Unleashed
Spiderman Miles Morales

News

Overwatch 2 attracts 25m players in 10 days

New Steam Mobile App?

Bayonetta Voice Actress calls for boycott

RTX 4090 series is out.

4080 12GB has been “unlaunched”

Topics

What are we streaming?

Jim

Rewatched Andor
Rewatching Kenobi
Rewatching Star Wars Films
Lord of the Rings Extended Editions

Curls

Youtube
In the Dark

Logun

She-Hulk
Lord of The Rings: Rings of Power
Star War Rebels
Cobra Kai Season 5
Cyberpunk Edge Runners

Community News

New sponsor website redesign.

We don’t closely monitor twitter anymore. If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

Credits:

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 334 “New Recording Time” Oct 02, 2022

Show notes

Sorry about the audio glitches this week. The issue has been resolved.

News Announcement/ Disclaimer: The AFK Podcast is primarily a hobby podcast. We do not claim to be a news agency. We simply find news that is of interest to us, or that we think is of interest to our community and talk about it. If there is something you would like us to talk about or cover please email us at mail@theafkpodcast.com or reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, or Discord. We do our best to cite our sources, but sometimes our sources can be rumors. Please keep that in mind.

CODMW 2 Open Beta

Cyberpunk Resurgence Continues

Valve launches Steam Charts

Respawn Harassment

Rockstar GTA6 leak

Ryzen 7000 is out

Intel Responds with 13th Gen

Videocardz link with slides

Also Intel can get bent with marketing crap like this graph (see the tiny red line)

The nvidia announcement

OMG that pricing

Ubisoft Stadia games to transfer to Ubisoft Connect

WoW dragon flight dropping in November

The Modern Warefare II Beta was the largest in the franchise history

Seasonal Steam Sale Changes

Topics

What are we streaming?

Jim

Andor

Fall favorites – Goonies
LOTR – The extended editions, never seen them.
Middle Earth First Age or whatever they are calling it.
West World, new Season

Curls

In the Dark
Dahmer Ep.1

Logun

Eternals
DOTA Dragon’s Blood Season 3 finale
Star Wars Rebels
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
She-Hulk
Cobra Kai Season 5

Community News

We don’t closely monitor twitter anymore. If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

Listener Emails:

iTunes/Google-Play Shout Outs:

Credits:

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole

# 333 “Back Again” Sep 19, 2022

Show notes

We are back at it. This week we discuss;

Jim

Hardware installation

Logun

They Are Billions
Hero Question (Boardgame)
Steam Deck has arrived!

Curlen

300 miles in the mountains today!
Too much to name #steamdeck
Making music
Built a new steam machine
Ordered new laptop, trying to sell the current one

News

EVGA give a flying drop kick goodbye to Nvidia

ETH Mining is now officially dead and you should expect cards to flood the market

RTX 4090 600w TBP Leak: Lovelace is CONFIRMED to be …

Some Modern Ware II Details

Super Power 3 coming next month

E/A launching “Kernal Level” anti-cheat. Isn’t that called a root kit?

Uncharted Legacy of thieves next month

Topics

What are we streaming?

Jim

Parks and Rec on my DVR
Rewatched the Hobbit series and lord of the Rings
Lord of the Rings Prime TV show (Yawn)
Uncharted
Ghost Busters Afterlife

Logun

StarWars The Clone Wars Finished all Seasons
Star Wars Rebels
She-Hulk
Locke and Key Season 3 Epi 1 and 2
DOTA Dragon’s Blood Season 3 Epi 1-6
The Witcher Seasons 1 and 2
Thor: Love and Thunder
Ms Marvel

Community News

We don’t closely monitor twitter anymore. If you want to talk about games, or interact with us, join our Discord.

Listener Emails:

iTunes/Google-Play Shout Outs:

Credits:

You can find the AFK podcast at theafkpodcast.net There you will find links to our Twitch stream, YouTube, and Discord. Join our Discord for more pc gaming and hardware discussion.

Additional Support for the show:

Podsafe music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org

Intro-music: Skate by Kamiku

Outro-music: Battle of Pogs by Kamiku

The opinions expressed in this podcast are that of the individual and NOT the opinion’s of The AFK Podcast as a whole