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The lights dim, an aura transcends onto the center stage, illuminating the focus of you attention, a voice calls out, it rings through your ears, you know what time it is. It is time, for Reflections on a Save Crystal.

Now Playing- 2:30- James Pope, Barry Villatoro, and Chris Lock discuss all the hotness.

News- 48:45- Kenny Rioux, James Pope, and Chris Lock Talk about newsy things.

Reflection-1:50:00- Kenny Rioux, Karley Soup, and Chris Lock get into Sexism- “Sexism/racism in games. Recently that games industry has come under fire for it portrayal, or lack thereof, of women and minorities in video games. How do you feel about the current standard of these groups in games? Has this problem gotten better, worse, or stayed the same? What are some examples of both? What are some ways that game developers could change this? How could we, the community, change it? What do we hope the future holds for this issue?”

Community Feedback- Austin Griffith, Barry Villatoro, and Chris Lock answer your feedback.

If you like the show then send an email to RoSC@Levelsave.com. Giving us a review and rating on iTunes also helps.

Without Taking the Jewel by Cronamut – http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=638435&sub=32194

Metal Gear Solid Remake by Reel2 – http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/248836

What is Love|Electro Positive| by Kirja100- http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/468689

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Good day there everyone! Here is my interview with E.C. Dryere from Triple B Titles and we discuss his game Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages. We talk about how it came to be, as well as his time on IGN's The Next Game Boss online series. I'd like to thank Mr. Dryere again for his time and coming on the podcast. Enjoy!

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How about them video games folks? We sure do love them down here at LevelSave. We love them so much that we talked about them in all sorts of ways. Those ways include-

-Now Playing- Barry Taryn, and myself discuss what we are playing right now.

-News- Taryn, James, and myself gather to discuss the PS4 and what impact it could have on the game space. Also some Mass Effect 3 news.

-Reflection- Austin, Kenny, and myself gather round the Save Crystal to dig into DRM with this question(s)- “Always on DRM in consoles. Rumors indicate that it could be present in the next Xbox. Is this possible? What about the PS4? What kind of DRM would we be OK with? Since piracy on the current consoles is not "much" of a problem what do we think the purpose of DRM is? Could this possibly promote piracy as opposed to stamp out used games? Is there anything we as gamers could do to combat this?”

-EA and Greedium- James Pope and myself have a one on one to really hash out why we disagree on microtransactions in videogames.

If you like the show, please support us by giving us a review on iTunes and sending an email to RoSC@LevelSave.com, we would love to hear from you.

At the end of the show I used the term 'non-licensed” to describe the music in the show. What I meant by this is that all “licensed” music, that is, 90% of the music used underneath the tracks when talking about a particular game, is owned by the copyright owner and s used under the fair use law, wit the majority of that enforced by the fact that we make no money off this podcast. The other 10% of the music is released under a Creative Commons/ Attribution license and is cited below.

Without Taking the Jewel by Cronamut - http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=638435&sub=32194

Metal Gear Solid Remake by Reel2 - http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/248836

Ending song is Sactuary by Envy - http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/521252

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Kenny Rioux's first episode of his interview podcast starts with an interview of Jon Shafer from Conifer Games. They talk about Jon starting up Conifer Games, his work on Civilization 5, Jon's new project At The Gates and more.

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Hey guys and gals, Scott Bakula here and ever since a time traveling acci- no, wait. This is Chris, and the Podcast is RoSC, 2.0. We have been gone for quite some time but I think it has been worth it. The podcast format has been drastically changed and enhanced. Instead of recording one giant podcast we travel the final frontier in the first ever warp capable sta- no wait, that's Scott Bakula again. To be honest I don't even know what the difference between myself and Scott Bakula really is.

The segments in this podcast include-

Now Playing at 2:30

News at 46:30

Reflection at 1:37:45

Fresh Spoils (The Walking Dead) at 2:51:45

The reflection for this episode was: I'm stuck in the body of a 19th century noblewoman. Al you gotta help m- Damnit!

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Hey everyone we're back now, sorry for being gone for so long. In this episode Chris and Taryn both have TV show pitches for each other. We also talk about how crazy Chris is.

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So we finally did it. After scheduling conflicts, a botched Mayan apocalypse, and what can only be described as the worst water polo accident of 2012, we finally have our Game of the Year list. We at LevelSave have done our best to bring you our list with as much transparency and balance among the team as we could. Several team members (see: almost all) live in separate parts of the country(s) and so coming together to argue about videogames is not as simple as one might think.

So what we did was have every member send in their personal top 5, ordered from best to least best. Then through complicated mathematical jargon a list of the highest ranked and/or most mentioned were put into a list. The list of contenders are as follows-

Halo 4 The Walking Dead Mass Effect 3 XCOM Journey Borderlands 2 NBA 2K 13 Dust: AET FEZ

After the list was made a podcast was queued up in order to hash out the winners. In the end the podcast consisted of Barry, Taryn, Austin, and Myself. We trimmed down the list, ranked them in order, and nearly jumped through the internet to strangle one another. You can listen to the entire debate below, which I would suggest since I put quite some time into editing.

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Time travel and food talk are back and joining them this week were Zombies, giving yourself animal parts and how the Green Ranger has returned as an MMA fighter.

We want to thank our awesome listeners for the great questions! Give us feedback or ask a question by emailing Savegame@levelsave.com.

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Beginning song - Chaoz Fantasy (8-bit) by ParagonX9

Ending song - The Bloody Beetroots - Chronicles Of A Fallen Love (Kyro & Bomber Bootleg)

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Not gonna lie, we talked about video games a little bit in this episode. Other than that we also talked about Thanksgiving food, pies, chimpanzees and Nickolodeon game shows.

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What's up everyone. Chris talk about pooping this podcast, so there's that. We also talk about, dinosaurs, zombies, food, you know, the usual stuff.

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