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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 03/10/2026

pals! we're going to be at PAX AUS this time next week! not, like, at a booth or a panel or anything, just there - but if you see two dorks wearing their podcast logo on t-shirts come say hi, it might even be us!

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/10/2026

i think this is my favourite cover art so far. maybe it helps that the icon is kind of already a jar?

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 24/09/2026

alice is missing but you all get handed a lump of clay and a cuneiform stylus

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 24/09/2026

10 likes and we will also do that one guy complaining about the ingots

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 24/09/2026

literally 1 like and we do this

Jords: And then the influence that it's had on all later media over the past couple thousands of years, in a way, these feel kind of like the "ur" stories.
Rocky: Well, I mean, interesting choice of Ur story, because, yeah, I think the only story that's older is like the actual like Sumerian myth, like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Jords: Yeah, get get some Enkidu in here
Rocky: We should we should do an episode on Gilgamesh.
Jords: and I will only do it through the lens of Neil Stevenson's snow crash.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 23/09/2026

(watch me edit every reference to this out of the episode out of cringe but then shitpost about it on socials)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 23/09/2026

yes my copy of the odyssey is filled with sticky tabs because i am a SCHOLAR (ie did one unit on it as an undergrad)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 23/09/2026

either 3 months or 3 millennia late depending on how you're counting

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 23/09/2026

brace yo self the boys are getting topical again hashtag discourse

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 05/09/2026

fun fact: the audio as it goes out is basically only half the episode! we finish so many thoughts we didn't have time for in the discord chat (with listeners!) - you should come join in! discord.gg/vMVregaXYX

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 03/09/2026

or i guess another way of looking at it! this is the cheeriest discussion of the end of the world you'll hear this year! i tanked that psychic damage for you! you're welcome. playtonics.net/2026/09/02/pos...

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Post Apocalyptic

Civilisation has collapsed – now what? Never fear: Rocky and Jords are here to help you plan the ultimate tabletop road trip through the ruins of society. Got topic requests, or just want to …

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 03/09/2026

normally on release day i'd share transcripts of zingers i cut in the edit but this time all i deleted was jords trailing off into lamentations about how living after the end was too irl for him irl

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/09/2026

Civilisation has collapsed - now what? Never fear: Rocky and Jords are here to help you plan the ultimate tabletop road trip through the ruins of society.

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Post Apocalyptic

Civilisation has collapsed - now what? Never fear: Rocky and Jords are here to help you plan the ultimate tabletop road trip through the ruins of society.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 10/07/2026

Time Loops Rocky and Jords go round and round on the best way of doing time loops in your RPG session.

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Time Loops

Rocky and Jords go round and round on the best way of doing time loops in your RPG session.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 28/05/2026

i'm gonna need to re-edit the show aren't i

apparently the plot is buzz and woody
vs the ipad
Now that.... is not topical
absolutely yawn
it's just the most obvious thing??
like come on guys
It's also like 14 years late
Are these toys boomers?
i mean, yes
they're tom hanks and tim allen
the boomerest
I wonder just how many kids will
watch that movie on their iPads
all

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 28/05/2026

i HAVE A KID now how is this how i learn about this

found out from a linkedin post about the movies promotional aeroplane
normally i'd be like lol but uhhhh i guess the promotion actually worked in this case
am i the target audience for promotional planes?

I truly don't believe that target audience is large

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 28/05/2026

level with me did you guys know about this

so uh did you know they were doing a toy story 5
and it comes out next month
...wat
we have accidentally been topical
So topical
They should stop now
Before they release it

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/05/2026

i think we got through the ep without too much of me talking about myself in the third person but it was a close thing. playtonics.net/2026/05/01/pro...

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Project Hail Mary

Rocky and Jords talk about why Project Hail Mary might actually be a better as an RPG than as a movie.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/05/2026

this is just a deeply weird book for me personally

I sleep in the tunnel every night now.
Rocky insists. And, once every eighty-six hours or so, Rocky sleeps in the tunnel and wants me to watch.

Rocky is heavy. Much heavier than I thought he would be. If there were gravity, I probably wouldn't be able to lift him at all.

A food coma for Rocky is no small thing.
This doesn't look voluntary at all. This is a biologically enforced post-meal siesta.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 01/05/2026

Project Hail Mary Rocky and Jords talk about why Project Hail Mary might actually be a better as an RPG than as a movie.

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Project Hail Mary

Rocky and Jords talk about why Project Hail Mary might actually be a better as an RPG than as a movie.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 07/04/2026

i love watching these sped up, it really makes me look like i know what i'm doing

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/04/2026

(we will not be starting an only fans for the show no matter how many likes we get)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/04/2026

narrator: but he did cut that.

Jords: Mm. So just right now, as we switch into the OnlyFans version of the podcast, I want you to imagine each individual toe spreading wide curling and clasping the ground, which somehow solves the problem with your like circadian rhythm.
Rocky: Yeah, uh, I don't want to imagine that.
Jords: Too late, you already have.
Rocky: But thank, thanks for asking.
Jords: Do not cut that.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 01/04/2026

Christmas has come early: We’re doing Die Hard! Join us for Ode to Joy, reverse heists, wits and grits, punchable villains, and a surprise appearance from Guess Who! Just don’t forget your shoes…

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Die Hard

It’s a good day to live free and die hard with a vengeance, as Rocky and Jords dig into the seminal Christmas story slash action blockbuster.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 16/03/2026

they also have a whole exhibit for Hot Wet Elf

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 16/03/2026

(this is Game Worlds at ACMI in Melbourne, btw)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 16/03/2026

this is fascinating though: coaching people through a ttrpg experience with a vtt and a script for the gm. it's like you're roleplaying roleplaying.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 16/03/2026

acmi out here giving people unrealistic expectations. this is more prep than i have ever done for a game.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 12/03/2026

feel like i have personally manifested this by tweeting about children of time and grant howitt one after the other, you're welcome www.backerkit.com/call_to_act...

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Get Ready for Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game

From Rowan, Rook, and Decard - Get Ready for Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 04/03/2026

i think particularly the idea that you might want to modulate the content and pacing, make things more or less challenging, on the fly, to make it a more fun experience for the players - and the players' reaction to learning you do that - really hit for me

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 04/03/2026

i quite enjoyed this from grant howitt, i think it gets at a lot of what we're trying to do with the show and maybe also at why people don't always get and/or like it: www.patreon.com/posts/cry-hav...

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CRY HAVOC, AND UNLEASH THE BLOGS OF WAR: PART ONE | Grant Howitt

Get more from Grant Howitt on Patreon

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/03/2026

(okay, we're making it, jeez. )

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/03/2026

(who am i kidding, 10 likes and we make it)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/03/2026

(100 likes and we make it though)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/03/2026

nah fam this is a DUOpoly of terrible ideas. a veritable colseworth of unrecorable nonsense.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 02/03/2026

in case you thought jords had the monopoly on unhinged episode pitches

Jordan: I'll listen to it right after this episode of Iron Chef
Rocky: we should do iron chef
as a playtonics
Jordan:Absolutely
Was already gonna pitch it

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 01/03/2026

and since it's release day, a little behind the scenes peek at the kind of nonsense i cut from every. single. episode.

(2s) Jords: Um, I do have one important note on music.
(6s) Jords: So my partner played the clarinet back in the day.
(14s) Jords: And when she heard me watching the film, she came in and was like, oh, this soundtrack is great.
(19s) Jords: It's got banging music.
(21s) Jords: It's great tonguing.
(22s) Jords: I was a violinist, and I did very little tonguing on my instrument.
(30s) Rocky: But a lot of fingering.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 01/03/2026

Pirates Rocky and Jords put the “arr” in RPG as they take to the high seas to track down the lost treasure of pirate games.

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Pirates

Rocky and Jords put the “arr” in RPG as they take to the high seas to track down the lost treasure of pirate games.

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 22/02/2026

cohost is asleep, post half baked episode ideas

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 22/02/2026

…and now i'm thinking maybe we need a generation ship episode. (obviously you'd run it in the quiet year.)

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Playtonics @playtonics.net · 22/02/2026

portia/bianca/fabian are treated like characters with continuity in their relationships even though it's just a recurring genetic/societal pattern and i think that could be a really fascinating way to do *really* long timescale games

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