70% Complete Podcast

Today, we talk about Helldivers 2 and the concept of "durable damage." We love Helldivers 2 and we also hate Helldivers 2 and the same goes for reading its patch notes. So, let's dig into some patch notes and discuss how terribly complicated systems work (and don't work) from a gameplay perspective. Bright spots discussed: Oceanliner Designs Did Titanic Sink That dumb $15 light tube that's pretty...

It's all in the title! Happy Keigh3, friends, family, and colleagues. We're talking about the latest and greatest announcements and releases from the fine show happening down in Los Angeles, the City of Angels. What's that? You don't believe us? You think we can't do anything on a strict timeline? Well. I'm shocked...but you're not wrong! Today's episode is about Helldivers 2! No, not the Helldive...

This week's episode is all about GEAR. We talk microphones, lights, gear philosophy, and get into the harder questions: does the gear make the content? This episode is also available as a video on Youtube ! Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the Discord Follow Phil on Bluesky: @phil.70percentcomplete.com Follow Logan: OFFLINE

This week's episode is a good old grab bag of fun! We dig into drumming, learn how to do binary search, pontificate on white boards, and set out on a grand journey (now in video!) to unwind life. No meaning present here, but purpose. Yes plenty of that. Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the Discord Follow Phil on Bluesky: @phil.70percentcomplete.com Follow Logan: OFFLINE

In this episode, Phil reads an email from January, we talk about a handful of events that are already done, and live buy a keyboard. It's the evergreen 70% Podcast content you crave! Oh. There's also a cow. Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the Discord Follow Phil on Bluesky: @phil.70percentcomplete.com Follow Logan: OFFLINE

Today we're walking through the beginning of Dishonored 1 in our typical meandering, tangential kind of way. Sure, we'll talk about the signage, but also the provenance of that boiler you'll see all over the place. This is going to be a high chaos podcast episode about Dishonored. Spoilers for the opening, of course, but it's worth it. Promise. Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the...

After our definitely scheduled winter break, we're back and better than ever! We certainly had a plan for this episode that quickly got derailed by chat about Phil's Avowed video and one simple question about a router. It's the 70% Complete podcast content you have come to expect? Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the Discord Follow Phil on Bluesky: @phil.70percentcomplete.com Foll...

Today's episode is about Call of Duty, a game franchise purchased by Microsoft in 2023. Microsoft, specifically Xbox, is the target of the BDS Movement's boycott action in response to Microsoft's involvement in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The BDS Movement is explicitly asking us to cancel ongoing Game Pass subscriptions and decline to purchase items from the Microsoft Store. For more information...

Welcome to Data Privacy Talk? This episode is the canonical example of what happens when something gets our goat...when our "goat" is user data and "get" means claw from our cold, dead internet hands. We don our tinfoil hats and vent about some of the latest tech frustrations we've had, then talk a bit about what we're doing to claw back a tiny bit of control. Come on in, we've got plenty of hats...

For the first ever episode of the 70% Complete Podcast recorded LIVE and IN PERSON, Logan had a plan: what if this time, we watched Star Trek? Now you may be wondering, what POSSIBLE methodology could be employed in deciding what Star Trek to watch? We just did one Logan liked. So! Strap in as we watch my first Star Trek episode (ever!): "Darmok." The show is split into two sections, the first is...

Today, we continue our march through Old School RuneScape patch notes to talk about Logan's greatest enemy: clues what can stack. We dig into how the game used to work, how stackable clues work now, and then get into the big Ship of Theseus discussion about quality of life improvements. It's a great episode and I think you're love it. Also, we talk about Cabbage Wizards. I dunno, man. Links Read t...

I know what you're thinking, "it's another Runescape episode? Boooooooring" but don't fret, dear listener, it's a Runescape patch notes episode! Oh, I see you're putting your headphones away, okay wait, let me try one more time: In today's episode of the 70% Complete Podcast, Logan explains what the hell Slayer is, we manage to not make a single Reign in Blood joke nor make the Halo Slayer voice,...

Welcome to the 70% Complete podcast, the number one place on the internet for threatening to switch to Linux and buying old computers on the internet. If you like video games and hate talk of Linux, commutes, or buying computers on surplus auction sites, just go ahead and skip to the Intro...23 minutes in. Enjoy! Topics: Computer count, making a big old auction whoopsies, Intel has GPUs?, Let's sw...

Hello and welcome to this delightful 70% Complete crossover! After Phil’s power went out and we had to decide on scrambling together on a new recording or do something else, we decided to do some jazz! This is an episode of Point to Point, the other 70% Complete show Phil does almost daily, talking about the break and announcing our plans to stream something tonight! It’s a quick one so have fun,...

Oh, what's this? An episode about a recent video game? Not this podcast! Join us, won't you, as we talk about Nightreign and dissect what's working for us, what isn't, and...wait, is that a spreadsheet behind your ear? Links Read the articles | Watch the videos | Join the Discord Follow Phil on Bluesky: @phil.70percentcomplete.com Follow Logan: OFFLINE Listen to Nicholas Cahill: soundcloud.com/nca...

Hello intrepid watchers of corny 80s and 90s action films, do we have a treat for you. Logan floated the idea of watching Timecop, a film I, Phil, have never seen, let alone heard of. What follows is a three hour discussion about a ninety minute film. Do you like Timecop and wish you had a copy of it for yourself? WELL, DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU! Enter the Timecop Giveaway! Watch Timecop (for free!)...

Welcome to the next...first...last? episode of the 70% Complete Podcast! Just kidding, it's not the last one. We're back, baby! You may remember us as Codex, a casual lore podcast, and we're still that, but the plan is to be so much more. For just a taste of the hijinx and chaos, just stick around after the 15 minute mark. You will not be disappointed. Links Read our reviews and blogs: www.70perce...

The Magnificent Trufflepigs is a narrative walking game about nostalgia and the healing power of wide open spaces. Compared to Firewatch when it released in 2021, I found The Magnificent Trufflepigs to be something similar, yet different: somehow an interesting take on the walking sim and a game of a very distinct time. I found something important in Stanning, England and I think you might as well...

Phil joined Jess and Eric on an episode of Short Game, Long Talk to discuss I was a Teenage Exocolonist. It was a great conversation about an amazing game! If you enjoy this episode, go subscribe to Short Game, Long Talk and find another fun episode. I'm partial to the Five Nights at Freddy's episode they did a year ago, but most recently their interview with Remy Sui of 1000xResist fame was an al...

After 70 hours of playing Helldivers 2, I’m struck with one big question: is Helldivers satire or cosplay? Let’s talk about managed democracy, Helldivers’ inspirations, and tangle with some of the scary similarities between the digital and real world.

🎧 Listen to Codex on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Youtube Music , Pocket Casts , or RSS . This week's episode is about Nevarra, a city-state turned nation in central Thedas and home to the Mourn Watch. Mostly untouched by Dragon Age's extended media, we dig into the history, culture, and unique beliefs of the home to dragon hunters and necromancy. I promise, we're building to something here. Links...

🎧 Listen to Codex on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Youtube Music , Pocket Casts , or RSS . Remember last episode when we said it would be ludicrous to do an episode on a fantasy calendar? Here's our episode on Dragon Age's Chantry calendar system. We talk about how the ages are decided, discuss the merits of a year zero, and mention some important events in those 850+ years. Will those dates be incr...

Hey there, Phil here. I recently published a new video on our Youtube channel about how I played Starfield wrong. Since I end up posting videos so rarely (and I think they work just as well as audio), I'm publishing them to our main feed here. Let me know what you think! Links Find the video version on Youtube Find us online: gordonhamburger.com Follow Phil: @Phil.gordonhamburger.com on Bluesky Fo...

🎧 Listen to Codex on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Youtube Music , Pocket Casts , or RSS . If you thought last week's episode about blue lyrium got weird and wild, wait 'til you check out the red stuff! That's right, today we're talking about Dragon Age's other glowing colored rock: Red Lyrium! Listen to this episode, where in we answer such profound questions as why red?, What it do?, it bad?, and...

This episode does NOT feature discussion of anything in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Phil has Dragon Age fever and also likes rocks. So, let's spend the better part of an hour talking about rocks, metal, and...fantasy drugs? Listen, this started out as a fun chat about a cool glowing rock and descended a bit into a massive continent-spanning church having an economic and military stranglehold on a p...