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The time has come to talk about our month-long journey into the world of the Commonwealth! How did the Buds enjoy diving into vaults, stepping on landmines and being alerted to settlements that needed their help? Find out by listening to this very episode!! Plus, the Buds debut a fun quiz segment in Review Bombs for Peace! Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/storm...

Do you like gratuitous gore with poignant satirical comedy TV shows with fabulous casts, great set design and reasonably well constructed plots? Then check out Fallout on Amazon Prime! The Buds talk about episodes 1 and 2 of the new TV show at length, and then just casually chat a bit with somme Would You Rathers in the Fallout universe. It's a great time! Check us out on our socials and join the...

Ever want to live in a universe where Liberty Prime, Recharged can fight Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite? Well, want no more! Strap in for a lecture as the Buds summarize the journey of Magic: the Gathering and how its quest for growth and progress has led to the creation of Universes Beyond: Fallout! Plus, we provide a Guide of Sorts for getting into Magic: the Gathering, and this Guide of Sorts is ac...

Grab a seat at the table and place your bets because the Buds are in town and they're high rollers! Fallout: New Vegas is the Best Bethesda game that's not made by Bethesda at all! What makes it so enjoyable to play, even now, over a decade after its release (assuming the game works for you)? Most importantly, can Alex survive another round of the Horn of Hraesvelgr? Tune in and find out! Check us...

The Buds talk about their experience with vehicle based physics and collision simulator BeamNG.Drive ! It's an intimidating start, so in the second half of the episode, Jerome and Alex craft a perfect, genuine guide to starting, enjoying, and ultimately escaping from BeamNG.Drive in the new segment: A Guide of Sorts! Stick around to the end to find out what next month's theme is! Unless you're goi...

The Buds chat about old childhood entertainment games from Humongous Entertainment, with such point and click all stars as Freddi Fish, Putt-Putt and Pajama Sam! This episode kicks off two new segments: Pictomancer's Corner, where one Bud looks at a random video game screenshot and guesses the context, and The Mithril Why?, where the Buds bring you the latest and greatest in very authentic, very s...

As the title suggests, we take a quick trip back to Eorzea to go over the Dark Knight quests from 30-60! Well, Alex has brings insightful commentary, and Jerome brings his usual sleep deprived class clown schtick to the table that literally everyone loves! What's not to enjoy!? Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome Barb...

The Buds talk patches this week as Alex catches up with the MSQ! He gives his general thoughts on each of the patches while we discuss the entirety of the major patch catalogue. That's the entire episode; this one took a while! Enjoy! Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome Barbatsis Sound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

Wow, what an exciting title for an exciting episode! Jerome and Alex wanted to take a chill pill today and muse on their favorite songs for background noise that they use in their daily lives! For everything from quiet, whimsical piano melodies to lush, plasticky early 2000's soundfonts, we've got your music needs covered! Plus, stick around for the latter half where we decide what the Newfound Ad...

The Buds are joined by CoderGirlChan to talk about this month's Newfound Adventure: Hollow Knight! We recap ta brief history and context of the game as well as share our thoughts on the gameplay, the difficulty and the abundant charm! Plus, who will come out on top on in the first ever occurrence of our new trivia segment: Words are Trivia?? Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https:...

Can you believe it's been two years of Stormbuds!? To celebrate the occasion, the Buds are gonna talk about the games they're looking forward to this year! After that, we get a first exclusive look at Hollow Knight: Silksong with our guest interview: Hornet herself! Tune in to finally hear more genuinely authentic news about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Check us out on our socials and join the discord...

This episode of Stormbuds, Jerome and Alex talk at length about the games that made them feel the love! Plus, a dip back into Eorzea as they recap the Valentione's Day content! Games mentioned (HEAVY SPOILERS for most!): Cyberpunk 2077, Mother 3, Earthbound, Final Fantasy IX, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Life is Strange, Life is Strange: True Colors, What Remains of E...

This episode of the Buds begins our journey beyond FFXIV! We kick off STORMBUGS by tasking ourselves with coming up with a new Convocation of Fourteen, but instead of ancient souls, it's video game bugs! Who will take their rightful place in the Convocation, fulfilling the duties of the likes of Emet-Selch, Elidibus, and... Emmerololth? Find out the results of our exciting debates by listening rig...

It's time to celebrate our journey through FFXIV with the First Annual Heavens-Awards! Stay tuned to find out who wears the Best Outfit, which cutscene is the Best Cutscene, and which character has the Best Beard! Also, support Stormbuds by listening to a completely reasonable amount of ads! Finally, we announce which game we're going to play over next month as we start our new format! This episod...

The Buds make their way through the darkness in Ultima Thule and finish off 6.0! We learn the myriad ways in which the scions find meaning in their lives and find the courage to forge ahead in the face of despair. Does Endwalker stick the landing? Listen in to hear Alex's thoughts! After all is said and done, this leg of our journey is over, but a new chapter will begin soon! We're grateful for ou...

On the penultimate episode of our recap through the FFXIV MSQ, the Buds are met with many existential questions and tender moments, all of which are absolutely decimated by the baffling choice of background music. We also descend the Aitiascope to have a nice chat with Hydaelyn and a few other special guests along the way! NOTE: Please enjoy the editing mistake of a gunshot noise held over from th...

We finally learn about the central conflict of Endwalker by going back to the time of the Ancients! We have so amny questions, like "What is alive? What is a soul? How does this tree remember things?" and most importantly, "Hermes, what did you do that for?" Plus, a returning guest helps us recap our venture through the dungeon Ktisis Hyperboreia! Check us out on our socials and join the discord!...

The Buds have met the Loporrits and gotten their first taste of the Final Days! Nobody could have prepared Alex for either of the halves of this chapter, we go from flopping around with cute bunnies to fending off black, slimy beings made entirely of mouths! Death! Destruction! Puddingway? Tune in to find out what else we thought of this chapter of FFXIV: Endwalker! Check us out on our socials and...

On this episode, the Buds travel to the frozen wastes of Garlemald and partake in all its (zero) earthly delights. We get a first-hand account on the current state of affairs and confront Fandaniel in a clash on the moon! CW: Suicide Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome Barbatsis Sound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

The Buds begin Endwalker! They explore Labyrinthos, Thavnair, and conquer the Tower of Zot! Along the way, they learn about floral mood rings, mad science, and the properties of dragon scales! Tune in to learn what Alex thinks of his first chapter of Endwalker, and to hear Jerome make some remarks that could technically be referred to as jokes. Check us out on our socials and join the discord! htt...

On this episode of Buds, we finish off Shadowbringers! A cure for tempering, a millenia-overdue systems update, a hilarious case of mistaken identity, and a reconciliation between all the peoples of Eorzea! Fandaniel is also here. It's curtains for Shadowbringers, and Lights, Camera, Action for Endwalker! Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produced by A...

The Buds are back and they're here to take on a horde of sexy, sexy androids in YorHa: Dark Apocalypse? What secrets await the buds in The Puppets' Bunker? How many paradigms can one tower breach? The answers to these and many more questions will not be within this episode, because they never are. Listen anyway! Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produc...

This week, Alex is out sick and so Jerome has taken it upon himself to pull out a very timely game review of FFXVI! This is a full spoiler review where Jerome breaks down what he likes and dislikes about the aesthetics, the writing and the gameplay of Creative Business Unit 3's dark take on a mainline Final Fantasy game! We will return with YorHa: Dark Apocalpyse and the Shadowbrigners role quest...

The Buds cover the ranged role quest and the Eden raid! Turns out, reconstituting effigies of our previous encounters from memory is pretty dang hard! We learn a lot about the cause of the Sin Eaters and also we learn a lot about ourselves- not as much as Ryne does, but it's still a lot. Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbuds Produced by Alex Hambrock and J...

On this dramatic episode, the Buds rescue a boy from a time hole in the caster role quests and they explore the implications of the "ideals" of the Garlean Empire as well as recant the actually-well-done version of adoptive parenthood that is the Sorrow of Werlyt! Take notes, Thancred! Also featured: most unusual discussion of classical literature you've ever heard- perhaps this should explain why...