Aaron Donogh

New episode of Attack The List! We talk about the incredibly atmospheric but incredibly flawed Deadly Premonition! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Does anyone like Stephen A. Smith being on their television? I've never heard a single person tell me they like his commentary or that they find him clever or insightful. He is likely ESPN's second highest paid commentator. Why? What does he provide?

The finale for season 2 of The Franchise Doctors is out and we're pitching our fix for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise! In a few weeks we will spin up season 3 which is all about The Matrix! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Just finished The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. One of those books I love that I basically can’t suggest to anyone.

We have a new Attack The List episode out today. I forced Walrus to play his first Zachtronics game, Opus Magnum! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Just a reminder that even if Deshaun Watson is good at football again, he's still a sexual predator and it's gross that the NFL lets him play and it's gross that the Browns employ him. Celebrating his wins makes it very clear that you think your football fandom is more important than women's safety

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...

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...

This new Orville Peck album is incredible.

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I just found out about the existence of this book: www.amazon.com/Democracy-Ne... Never before have I thought about changing my no-tolerance policy on book burnings...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In Vegas this costs 22 dollars…

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.

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.

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.

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

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.