Ranged Touch

December 2020 Podcast

We answer a lot of community questions, and also we create a celebrity tabletop game. Danni has yet another Big Complaint.

December 2020 Newsletter

It's the end of the year! Thanks so much for your support on our long haul journey, and we especially appreciate your...patience...the last couple of months with Patreon updates. We're busy with our heads in the books!

The last couple months, we've released some apex episodes of Game Studies Study Buddies. Our episode on McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory introduced you to gamespace and the wild vagaries of the military entertainment complex. We also talked about the origins...

November 2020 Podcast

We've messed up the posting schedule! We'll be back on top in December!

Just King Things BONUS 4 - Maximum Overdrive (1986)

The final battle commences.

October 2020 Podcast

We forgot to post this at the top of the month (and we forgot the newsletter!). Here is the podcast for this month. It's mostly about Crusader Kings 3.

Just King Things BONUS 3 - Stephen King's THE SHINING (1997)

We did this for the world, but we also did it for Steve.

September 2020 Podcast

We recorded this so long ago that I have no idea what we talked about.

September 2020 Newsletter

Hello friends!

Sorry for the long delay. It's been a truly hectic month, and while we've kept up with a very solid publication schedule on videos and podcasts, this update is coming later than we would like!

That's how it goes!

Here's what we've been up to:

Too Much Future is clipping right along, and we're a couple episodes into Fallout 3 now. It's a very interesting experience to contrast with the first two games, and we think the episodes are excel...

Just King Things BONUS 2 - Return To 'Salem's Lot (1987)

We watched and talked about Return To 'Salem's Lot. It's wild.

NEW LINK FOR TOO MUCH FUTURE PODCAST FEED

Hi everyone! Apologies for this, but the web hosting we have been using to distribute Too Much Future has been overwhelmed this past week, so we needed to change it ASAP. It's a good problem to have, but it is annoying for you. In about two minutes I will be breaking the previous link you have (sorry), but you should be able to catch right back up with this new link: 

 https://too-mu...

Vice City LP - Ep 6

Another solo episode, but I will have a guest on the next one.

1 - Warm Welcome
2 - Wolves at the Door
3 - Real Estate Development
4 - Kuwaiti Playsta...

Just King Things BONUS 1 - Carrie (2013)

Michael and CMRN watched the newest version of Carrie, and they talk about it here.

August 2020 Podcast

We talk about Disco Elysium for like 40 minutes in this episode.

August 2020 Newsletter

Hello yall!

Sorry for the slight delay this month. We were cooking up some new stuff for you, and I wanted to make sure that we could release it when I put out the Patreon update!

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES continues this month with Soraya Murray's ON VIDEO GAMES. The book addresses race and ideology and landscapes and whiteness, and if you're interested in any of those things then I think you'll have a good time listening to it. 2020-08-07 19:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post

July 2020 Podcast

The ultimate furlough diet.

July 2020 Newsletter

Hello to all the aliens out there.

We're ramping into an absolutely bizarre back half of the summer here in the United States, and I hope that you're all doing well wherever you are. I'm here to tell you what we've been up to this month.

First up: we hit the goal for JUST KING THINGS, our Stephen King podcast where we read all of his books in publication order. It's going to take us a few weeks to get it off the ground, but we've gotten the ball rolling with ordering books, commis...

Vice City LP - Ep 5

Sorry for the delay on this one! It's a solo episode, for some reason recorded with the most down tone that a human being can do. 

1 - Warm Welcome
2 - Wolves at the Door
3 - Real Estate Development
4 - 2020-06-08 15:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post

June 2020 Podcast

Danni and CMRN talk about everything under the sun. And Prepare to Give 2.

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES NOTES POST

Hello everyone! I need to fill up a little space here due to how previews work, so I will wish you a good day. And you a good day. And also you a good day.

CMRN here. I have been absolute trash at getting these notes out, and part of it has to do with the piecemeal way that Patreon makes me post these notes. We are circumventing this system by hacking the gibson and just putting them all in a folder. This is the post that contains that folder.

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June 2020 Newsletter

Greetings from here to there!

It has been a strong month out here. I hope you're all staying safe both indoors and outdoors (whichever you find yourself in). I have a newsletter of what we've been up to this month, and I'm here to deliver that to you.

CMRN and Michael released a new episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES this month. Taking us back into the "canon" of game studies, they read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. They...

Vice City LP - Ep 4

Hello friends of the let's play! The fourth episode of CMRN's Vice City LP is now live with special guest Mariam Asad. I finally figured out why Vice City looks so bad on YouTube: compression and bitrate is absolutely killing the video file! I'm trying to figure it out still, but I know what the culprit is now.

1 - Warm Welcome
2 - 2020-05-04 23:16:41 +0000 UTC View Post

May 2020 Newsletter

Hello!

I hope this message finds you well. This is the newsletter for this month, and we have such things to show you. 

Michael and CMRN released a new episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES this month, this time on Alenda Y. Chang's Playing Nature, which is about games and ecology. I bet that you will enjoy it, especially if you're trying to think about ways to escape into nature from the comfort of your own home. 2020-05-04 16:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post

May 2020 Podcast

This one goes our to all of our $5 subscribers. Thanks for your support! Now listen to Danni and CMRN talk about Morrowind for an hour.

April 2020 Newsletter

Hello!

This past month has been terrible for everyone, and Ranged Touch's heart goes out to all of you in this bizarro universe trying time. We do our best here to keep the content coming and not to dwell too much on current events (because we know you're not listening to us to hear the world reflected back to you like that), but just know that we're here to deliver the hits as the world circles the drain. Or something. 

Michael and CMRN recorded a new episode of GAME STUDIES...

April 2020 Podcast

We never took a break. That was an illusion. Danni and CMRN get together again to record an episode that tries to break down this world. Well, actually, they just talk about tabletop RPGs like they always do.

Vice City LP - Ep 3

Hello friends of the let's play! The third episode of CMRN's Vice City LP is now live! Hope you enjoy it!

1 - Warm Welcome
2 - Wolves at the Door  
3 - Real Estate Development 

Enjoy!

March 2020 Newsletter

Hello yall!

Sorry for the obvious delay this month. The world's on fire, and the day-to-day life of the internet content generator is a hard one (on top of, you know, a day job). That said, Ranged Touch kept everything going in a cool way through the month of February: 

Michael and CMRN recorded a GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES about The King of Kong, a well-regarded documentary on competitive Donkey Kong. We talk about what documentaries are, how this represent...

Vice City Let's Play - New Episode

Hey yall!

You cool contributors get something special, of course: the Vice City Let's Play. I am writing more here to make sure that the links go below the free preview. This is just me using words to keep this content behind the sweet, sweet paywall. Yowza. What a time to be alive!

There's a new episode, so I've added to the episode list below!

1 - Warm Welcome
2 - 2020-02-06 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post

February 2020 Newsletter

Hello everyone!

It is February, the month of cursed kisses, and that means that like every month there is new Ranged Touch content to enjoy! 

The newest GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is on Carly Kocurek's Coin-Operated Americans, a really interesting book about the construction of masculinity and the arcade during the 1970s and 80s. Next month's book is not a bo...

January 2020 Newsletter

Zip! Zoom! Pow! It's like we're a comic book over here. It's the brand new year, and that means a whole bunch of months for us to be late typing these up. More seriously, we want to shoutout the Ranged Touch Nation for being so supportive of what Ranged Touch does here. We're not a normal podcast/YouTube whatever zone, and we do some stuff that's pretty out there, but you're all game and, importantly, monetarily supporting of what we do. We wouldn't be able to dedicate nearly as much time as ...