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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a reminder that I have a new episode of Attack The List up where we talk about Final Fantasy IX! Next episode is Opus Magnum if you want to play along with the show book-club style. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EPISODE 3 - The Most Important Part: The Jumprope (Final Fantasy 9)

Podcast Episode · Attack The List · September 19 · 1h 47m

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New episode of Attack The Show out now! A guest host has challenged us to play FF IX in an effort to break onto our lists. We talk in-depth about this fan favorite Final Fantasy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EPISODE 3 - The Most Important Part: The Jumprope (Final Fantasy 9)

Podcast Episode · Attack The List · September 19 · 1h 47m

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This new Orville Peck album is incredible.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hey podcaster, content creator and game designer friends. If you have a video game you are particularly passionate about, and would like to come talk about on my new video game podcast, please let me know. Can be an old game or a newer one.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The new episode of Attack The List is about @eremitegames.bsky.social city building roguelite Against The Storm! (@againstthestorm.bsky.social). It's one of WalrusBerserker's favorite games but will it make it onto my top 50 list? Listen and find out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EPISODE 2 - Beavers in Professional Settings (Against The Storm)

Podcast Episode · Attack The List · September 6 · 1h 15m

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love a lot of old classic wrestling. But I do not care what Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Brett Hart, Jim Cornette, Eric Bischoff and all these other old timers think about modern wrestling. Artforms change and evolve. Classics do in fact go out of style and I wish they did it quietly.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It would be so cool if the Democrats fought fascism with even half the strength they are currently fighting Hasan Piker with.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We took an accidental break but we are back with a new episode of The Franchise Doctors. Myself and Rob continue moving through the Texas Chainsaw franchise by discussing the 2003 reboot! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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The Franchise Doctors

TV & Film Podcast · Updated weekly · Two friends unite over their shared love of continuity and story. They diagnose ailing media franchises and then pitch a better future. Each season goes over a fra...

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why are this year's NFL rivalry jerseys so much more subdued than last year's? I loved the bold takes we got last year but it feels like this years teams got shorted in comparison.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have a new video game podcast about personal canons. Our first real episode is me trying to convince my cohost that Factorio belongs on his top 50, but there's a very long episode 0 where we introduce our top 50 lists for the real sickos out there. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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EPISODE 1 - I Am The Great Factorio!

Podcast Episode · Attack The List · August 22 · 52m

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Big Walk is big good. Find a friend and play it with them.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I do not understand why people hate on Greta Van Fleet so much...

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It wouldn’t be Gen Con without spending a few hours playing board games at the airport on Sunday.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Checked in to hotel. Badge acquired. Grabbing a drink at the JW bar. Gen Con has officially begun.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Whenever I see content featuring Emo Music on the internet these days it's mostly featuring bands that nobody considered part of emo when that genre arose. A lot of the time it's mostly pop punk bands. At some point the term emo was successfully rebranded to represent completely different music.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My favorite way to describe the deaths of any horrible conservative monsters is to say that God struck them down. Conservatives love it when I do this. "Oh... so God finally struck Lindsey Graham down for his wickedness huh? That's too bad."

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm about 20% into Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, it's my first book by them and wow. I thought I was falling out of love with fantasy but Kay's writing is really incredible. Compared to the drab prose of Sanderson and his ilk, this is really amazing stuff, and I wish got more accolades than it does.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A resurgence of the communist menace you say? Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Wicked Loom will be at Gen Con this year! We have some games to pitch but we’re also looking to meet with publishers who might be looking for something specific that they’re not finding through normal means, or who need development work.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Tom MacDonald changing his Nazi grifter dog-whistle rap music into Klansman grifter dog-whistle country music is the most expected and boring yet utterly hilarious thing he could do. It's easy to trick people who have no critical thinking skills I guess.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hey friends, my son makes youtube shorts of his gaming and he needs 2 more subs to get to 100. If anyone could sub to his channel to help him out, I would really appreciate it. www.youtube.com/@RenoPlayz-13

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Subscribeeeeeeeee, alr i play tons of friendslop games like repo, phasmophobia, content warning, etc. I post clips of gameplay and I will try to make longforms, im almost at 100 subs though and that w...

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I get that it's a perfect metaphor for his presidency or whatever, but at this point it's also a perfect demonstration of the largely aesthetic issues that liberals will waste time and energy on, even in the face of oncoming existential disasters.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I finished reading Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence yesterday and it instantly became one of my favorite books of all time. Sometimes the classics are classics for a reason. I've never seen the Scorsese film based on it, so I'll have to check that out soon.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It is a profound failure of the world we have built that any man should be a trillionaire. But especially so that said man is fucking Elon Musk.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Season 2 of The Franchise Doctors starts today! This season is all about the Texas Chainsaw franchise! Come check out our episode on the OG film. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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S2E1 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Podcast Episode · The Franchise Doctors · 8 June · 1hr 3min

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I watched a few episodes of Reacher and then read a few chapters of Edith Wharton's classic The Age of Innocence. What can I say? I contain multitudes.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The first true wave of fully AI generated shows and movies is about to land and I just want to remind everyone that if you watch any of it, you are a loser with the worst taste imaginable. You like corny soulless garbage. You lack personality and substance and your friends all secretly hate you.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The chuds are so mad that the new God of War game has a female protagonist. Sony Santa Monica had a genuinely impressive reveal for that game and these idiots are trying so hard to sell the lie that it looked boring and bad. The grifters are so predictable.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm glad that Magic has gone the route of Fortnite with all its crossovers because it has completely broken the cycle of me getting back into the game every few years. I'm glad it works for other people, but it is decidedly not for me.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My fellow nerds, it's okay to be critical of things and still enjoy them. I am enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it's so weird how you can't say anything critical about it without summoning a phalanx of people who fervently proclaim that it as flawless and that actually I must just be stupid.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Mina The Hollower feels like the first true GOTY candidate to release this year. There’s been plenty of good fun games but Mina feels special.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I finished the second Dungeon Crawler Carl book... I am not as in love with this series as most and I find it annoying how criticizing it in any way is meant with this weird fervent defense that it is perfect in every way even though I think there's some weird sexism stuff that should be discussed.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I'm not saying this just to be contrarian or provocative, but I've tried to get back into basketball this last year and the WNBA is a much better sports product than the NBA currently. It's more physical, there's less flopping, and there's actual mid-range shooting.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just caught up on Double or Nothing. That Takeshita/Okada match was amazing. Felt like we got the NJPW version of Okada for the first time in quite awhile.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’ve played a fair amount of Blackjack this week after the convention hours wrapped up. The way people play this game is wild.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm not sure how fruitful Licensing Expo will be for Wicked Loom, but I am learning some things, and I think once we have some completed projects out in the world there might be more to gain at this convention.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In Vegas this costs 22 dollars…

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I was hoping to make another post on Substack before leaving for licensing expo but I got too busy. I will have a post about board game licensed from video games, and how I think we could make them so much better.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have arrived in Vegas. I hate it here. I'm going to get a steak and then sit in my hotel room and read. I'm looking forward to Licensing Expo starting tomorrow though.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have a very hard time sleeping before a flight. I'm heading to my first Licensing Expo in the morning. Very curious to see how it goes.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Rhonda Rousey is a transphobe and I am not a fan, but Gina Carano getting tapped out in 17 seconds is so funny.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

There's this style of Youtube video in the video game space that boils down to "A reviewer rated this game differently than I would have... What's really happening here?" Insinuating there's some cosmic phenomenon going on rather than just a difference of opinion. I hate it. I hate it so much.

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I started a new business today! Posted about it on my substack: npcaaron.substack.com/p/trying-a-n...

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Trying A New Model

Announcing Wicked Loom, my new creative studio

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Devil Wears Prada 2 crushed Angel Studios' shitty perversion of George Orwell's Animal Farm at the box office this weekend. Put another point on the board for the devil!

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Today's substack article is about why it's so difficult to design a simple game, and how I've been dealing with that in one of my own projects. npcaaron.substack.com/p/the-diffic...

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The Difficulty in Designing Simplicity

Design Diary #1 for Triptych

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The two major American wrestling promotions have been letting me down lately, so I am playing the solo RPG 5-Star Match and creating my own federation within the game. I'm documenting it on my substack: npcaaron.substack.com/p/contenders...

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Contenders League Wrestling Pt. 1

Creating The League and Populating The Talent

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Since I'm not using social media for much beyond promoting podcasts, but I like writing my thoughts down and sharing them... I'm starting a substack! I'll be writing about tabletop games, music, movies, creativity, politics and more.

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Wrestling With My Own Voice

A New Beginning!

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't believe I'm saying this but... The Faces of Death remake is my favorite movie of the year so far?

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Aaron Donogh @npcaaron.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We finished the first season of The Franchise Doctors! Hear us pitch our fix for Robocop! Next season will start in a few weeks and will be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Franchise Doctors

TV & Film Podcast · Updated Weekly · Two friends unite over their shared love of continuity and story. They diagnose ailing media franchises and then pitch a better future. Each season goes over a fra...

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