On this episode of The AIE Podcast... Noob raid continues to march bravely forward May the 4th… no wait, June the 4th… be with the FC Show 404 - guest not found So, we are going to talk about cons! Murderous Groot, you say! Or, don’t say! All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/o1oeK-zVUUA Open Welcome to episode #404 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). This week we are joined by special guests, US! And we are going to talk to something near and dear to our hearts- CONS! Welcome! Ok, we’ll be digging into our topic shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news... AIE News Community Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - WoW Classic 2:00 pm Eastern Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:30 pm Eastern Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- SWTOR Escape Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/sepc/ Behind the Games Podcast (Jeff aka Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com/category/listen/btg/ Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Blizzcon 2023 has been announced for November 3 and 4th, no details on virtual ticket, bands, etc., but keep an eye out on Discord for watch events and/or in game get togethers. Also, Summer of Love is being worked on, and usually happens around the first week in August, so again, Discord, eyes, keep watch. Diablo IV will be launching with early access on June 1st, and normal access on June 5th. Lost Ark Interest and participation in Lost Ark has greatly waned some time ago. Only a handful of people have logged in for the last 6 months. Membership was also greatly reduced through inactivity. The AIE Communitas guild has been evacuated and will be sunsetted. Should interest rekindle over time, we may revisit the game in the future. By week's end this channel will also be archived and discussion for the game can still be done through #nomads New World Similar to our shift of Lost Ark to the Nomads channels, I think we'll be doing the same with these New World channels as well. We'll hold the in-game company for now but may remove old, unplayed characters before long too in order to simplify company management. Let us know if you have any questions. We can always spin things back up and open the section back up in Discord if things get busy. WoW Noob Raid attempted to tackle the final boss in Vault of the Incarnates this week. We were unsuccessful, but will try again next weekend. That's not to say Noob Raid didn't do well! We tackled Broodkeeper for the first time and killed her in very few pulls! In HFO news, the group is continuing progress on Normal Aberrus with two new boss kills this week, making the group 7/9 in normal mode! And had its highest turn out in a long time (maybe ever!) with 27 people in attendance. WoW Classic