The Back Log, vol. 18 - Happy Anniversary! (Patreon)

And there's presents everywhere!

Wow - you all were SO massively generous in your support of our 3rd Anniversary Patreon fundraiser stream last weekend, and we couldn't be happier with how it all turned out! Well, apart from our stomachs - it was a... rough start to the week. Stay tuned below for a link to the VOD of course, but if you want a bigger breakdown of what was funded and will be happening as a result of the stream, I wrote one up here! And thanks to Jshie for his masterful compilation of our green screen shots of the weekend into one nice, big (and definitely not weird) family photo).

Now, enough dallying - we've got two weeks of content to cover because I was overly ambitious in expecting I'd get one of these out to you on Monday. So, without further ado...

THIS (AND LAST) WEEK ON BACK POCKET

The Back Pocket 3rd Anniversary Special!
Look, I know I normally do a breakdown of what happened for each of these, but this went for 14 hours and frankly, we'd be here forever. But the good news is, you can catch every minute of it on our YouTube channel, forever, in perpetuity.

Back Pocket 2023 Anniversary Special
Part 1 | Part 2

Back Pocket Tonight w/ T10Nat
Not content with the 14 hours of content we'd made on the weekend, we were back in the studio for another episode of the Back Pocket flagship show on Thursday night, with special guest T10Nat! The whole episode was, as the kids say, a vibe, but my personal favourite segment was of course the VR Horror section, and particularly Nat's own running commentary. But if you're more partial to some shit talking, we brought back the definitely not a 'Two Truths and a Lie' rip-off, Are You Talking S*** To Me. And of course, we recapped some big games we've been playing, including Starfield and Sea of Stars. Oh, and Gus had another one of his weird dad games... Call of the Wild: Angler.

How To Be Afraid In Games with @T10Nat | Back Pocket Tonight 

Post Show (link to locked post) 

A Couple of Bonus Sponsored Streams
If you thought above was already a LOT, well, we also had two sponsored streams schedule in for this week. No YouTube VOD links for these ones, but you can still catch both of them on our Twitch for the time being. First up was our PlayStation PC Sale stream on Monday night where we jumped into some Uncharted 4, and then on Friday night, we teamed up with Bethesda and Game On Cancer once again to play some Starfield, give away some goodies and most importantly, raise money to help cure cancer!

PocketBuds: Death, Work and Mystiques
It's been a big couple of week for PocketBuds too! We wrapped up the final episode of our limited series Hard Agree last week, with Peter presenting his flawless idea for a worldwide day of work experience. But there's also been two episodes of our regularly scheduled Buds episodes, with Ruby first of all joined by Steph Panecasio to talk about death in video games, and then this week she was joined by Ally McLean Hennessy to discuss the Aussie game dev scene, including Ally's current game she is working on, Mystiques! Plus, there's TWO bonus episodes for you Gold Pocket patrons to put into your ears...

Pete's Work Experience Experiment | Hard Agree
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Virtual Morality ft. Steph Panecasio
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Insufferable Women ft. Ally McLean Hennessy
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PocketBuds EXTRA - Nobody Loves You in Baldur's Gate 3 ft. Steph Panecasio

PocketBuds EXTRA - The Girls Are Getting Buff And Weird ft. Ally McLean Hennessy

Socials: Nobody Exploded (except Gus)
A pretty massive milestone for our TikTok this week - we hit 10k followers! And wonderfully, it happened as a result of possibly the funniest moment during last weekend's anniversary stream, featuring Steph at her call centre finest. Gus also took a look at some of the internet's best Armored Core VI mech designs, and we've been experimenting with pulling bits out of our podcasts to go up on TikTok as well! Plus, there's some great clips from the smorgasbord of bonus streams we've been doing. Including Pete being at his patriotic best and denying the wily wits of Telltale themselves.

Game Plan 

Saddle Club Rates Horses

PocketBuds - The Wisdom of the Bee Movie

Armored Core VI Mech Designs

Very Professional Bomb Defusal

Malaysia *tips fedora*

Vegemite vs Marmite

PocketBuds - Weird Little Fucked Up Frogs

NEXT WEEK ON BACK POCKET

Wait, you want MORE? Well, I guess I can oblige... the one and only Tom Walker is going to be in the Back Pocket studio with us this Thursday! There's no one quite like him, and I'm sure there'll be no episode quite like this one...

Perhaps you're more of the podcast inclination? Well, our own Stephanie Bendixsen will be joining Ruby this week to talk all things Baldur's Gate 3! That's right baby, Steph's gonna give all the deets on how her pursuit of Astarion's love has been going...

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Why are you still reading this? Stop reading! Let me go play Starfield. Yeah you, I see you there, still reading. For real, was this not already long enough? Let me be free. You can't hold me here forever...

- Ben <3