# 340 “Starting Over”

This week Flynn covers the news to test out the new podcast setup.  I apologize in advance for the mic clipping, we have some bugs to work out.  It will get better.

Jim 

  • World of Warcraft
  • Doom Eternal
  • Uncharted (Steam Deck)
  • Assassins Creed Valhalla

Builds:

I’ve been trouble-shooting the new podcast/streaming pc build.  The Ryzen 9 5900X seems to be a bit finicky.   

  • Crashing in certain games
  • Running hot, despite adequate cooling
  • Possible memory issues with corsair ram

News Courteous of Bluesnews.com 

Topic:

Gamers Nexus calls out LTT

Here are the relevant videos
Gamers Nexus Video 1
Gamers Nexus Video 2

Linus Media Groups Finale response

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# 339 “Adulting Sucks”

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  

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# 338 “Flynn Solo”

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.  

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# 337 “Holiday Special 2022”

**** 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

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We’re Still Here

We are still here and will return as soon as possible.  After 12 years of service Flynn’s podcasting rig up and died.  He is in the process of rebuilding the rig and the podcast studio.  Back Soon!  — The AFK Podcast.

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# 336 “Silent Hill Remakes”

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

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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

 

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# 335 “Face-Lift”

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

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.



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New Sponsor

As of November 1, 2022 The AFK Podcast is happy to welcome our very first and primary sponsor Singular Tech Pro, LLC.  As part of the sponsorship Singular Tech Pro will be updating and maintaining our website.  Let’s face it, we are long overdue for a facelift.

Singular Tech Pro, LLC is a managed I.T. services company that works with small and rural businesses in the Northern Illinois area where The AFK Podcast is based.  Please use the link above to pay them a visit and learn more.

— Flynn

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# 334 “New Recording Time”

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 

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

The nvidia announcement 

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.



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# 333 “Back Again”

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.



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