100% my favorite book series of all time. Loved em as a kid, loved em even more as an adult.

Plus the authors are both great, wholesome, kind, supportive people.

Tales from the Backlog episode 210- Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines

Today on Tales from the Backlog, @troytlepower.bsky.social and I take to the seedy streets and alleyways of Santa Monica for a discussion about Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines! As always, no spoilers for a while- enjoy!

LISTEN: talesfromthebacklog.fireside.fm/210
WATCH: youtu.be/GGjndGXg0Aw

Prologue and epilogue yes, but if you ripped the forward out of every book I own I'd probably never notice.

hey guys, has anyone else noticed that everything is expensive as shit right now?

on a totally unrelated note, has anyone noticed that everything seems bad right now?

on another unrelated note, has anyone else noticed that their mental health ain't great right now?

ahhhh gotcha gotcha. Looks like I wasn't one of the chosen few.

a man wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is smiling ALT: a man wearing a red hat and a brown jacket is smiling

does "listed coupon" mean some great terrible secret, or is that a code you got handy?

Tales from the Backlog April 2026: April 1- Chants of Sennaar with Travis Colenutt of Left Behind Game Club April 8- Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines with TroytlePower April 15- Is It Harder for Video Games to be Funny? with Doug Lief of Nostalgium Arcanum and Gen Moonen of "Fun" and Games April 22- Baby Steps with Josh Galecki of Pixelated Playgrounds April 29- The Seance of Blake Manor with Brian Edwards of Cane & Rinse and Character Issues Tales from the WAY-Backlog on Patreon- Maniac Mansion

Coming to Tales from the Backlog in April- long chats about video games, if you can believe it!

With special guests:
@traviscolenutt.bsky.social
@troytlepower.bsky.social
@nostalgiumpod.bsky.social
@funandgamespod.bsky.social
@jgalecki.bsky.social
@characterissues.bsky.social

Let's go!

Look I used to love Harry Potter growing up... Even have an Elder Wand from Universal Studios Orlando in a box somewhere collecting dust.

But fuck JK Rowling and what she stands for 😁

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Tim Sweeney’s net worth is 9.6 billion

Tim Sweeney Says Epic Can Afford to Keep Spending Billions Fighting Apple and Google for the Future of Fortnite on Mobile for Decades to Come - IGN Epic boss Tim Sweeney says he's already spent billion of dollars fighting Apple and Google over the fate of Fortnite on iPhone and Android, but insists he'll keep going for decades if needed.

Just gonna leave this here for no reason whatsoever

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The fact that we never got the Shadow of Mordor Nemesis system in a Pirate Game is one of the great tragedies of our age.

*taps the "profit losses are the fault of executive leadership, who are conveniently never affected by profit loss" sign*

Dang, Max, I'm sorry to hear it.

Does bsky have private accounts, or did he just go block everyone?

You just hadn't hit their searches for "paul atreides + best boy" yet.

I think it's more like "I reached for the TV remote but then I realized that we're all spiders on the inside"

Man, I thought we'd settled that back when 360 made everything brown to make it more "realistic".

I expect the same conversation will still be happening in another 20 years.

Retail sucks, but slinging games and taking home swag might be the best sort of retail out there.

"We didn't change the asset, we just fed the asset in to the plagiarism machine and then put the new asset it created *on top* of the old asset."

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Yes. Yes yes yes.

... page one of three!!

The real question is are you strong enough not to?

He feels like a nerd who happens to be a wrestler, rather than the other way around.

This one has been on my radar! I love finding games that are aimed at kids but still developed with care.

Does The Knightling have voice acting, by any chance? My kiddo is right on the cusp of being able to read dialog, but a game with voice acting is a huge plus.