It's time for Season 2 of Casual Yelling, which will focus entirely on interviews with indie game developers. First up is friend of the show Xalavier Nelson Jr. from Strange Scaffold. In Part 1, we're discussing Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown, and the development of video games in general.

Note: This interview took place in early March 2025. Some of the games Nelson Jr. mentions are available for purchase.

Enjoy these fine links for Nelson Jr., and Strange Scaffold below

• Strange Scaffold on Bluesky
• Strange Scaffold on YouTube
• Strange Scaffold on Steam
• Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 on Steam
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown on Steam
• Nelson Jr. on Bluesky

Season 2 of Casual Yelling will be made up entirely of interviews with indie game devs. We'll be talking about their games, the development of the games, and creativity, in general.

Casual Yelling: Season 2 debuts in May 2025.

We're wrapping up Season 1 of Casual Yelling with a bang: Discussing a line of mediocre-to-bad movies, living in the same shared universe, where nothing makes a lick of sense. I have watched all of Sony's recent crop of live-action superhero movies, and I discuss what they are, my likes and dislikes, and then at the end, I rate them all.

I like TTRPGs. I've been playing D&D and other "yes and" fantasy games for over 20 years, with roughly the same four people in our core group. Over the years, I've DM'd a few times, and I've found that, in certain situations, the core book or DM guide for rules does not work for me, so I made tweaks: homebrewing. So, I talk about these rules, including one that everyone in my group thought was a fake system called "pegs." Yes, pegs is real, and I explain the heck out of that, and other homebrewed rules like death saves, "random hell," fudging dice rolls, non-linear storytelling, improvising based on what characters do, and allowing them to kill themselves because they stole a fantasy submarine and crashed it into a merfolk city, and everyone died.

I went to a store called Gamer's World, and I wanted to buy a cool board game. However, the store turned out to be something completely different than what I experienced from there in the past, and I get a little annoyed about it.

This was originally a post on Patreon, but I decided to go a bit more in-depth with what happened and trying to prove to you all that I like sports and I also like TTRPGs, and that's fine.

I talk about my first time doing a comedy set on a weekend show and getting bumped by another comedian. This is prefaced by an invitation to do a stand-up set in 2025 and writing a bit about what happened to me. So, um... I'm not doing that show now. It's kinda in podcast form now.

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For the next couple of months, the show will be changing formats--again. Instead of lambasting the job market and how workers are treated, I'll be doing a series of interviews with indie game developers. We'll be discussing the games they are working on and their art. It'll be fun, and it will be so less angry than normal. I also discuss a project I'm working on for this show, which won't arrive for a few months.

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Is this just a "Here's what sucks on LinkedIn" podcast? I have no idea. This week, we discuss the conversations I had online with tech bros about how my career is dead because AI can data scrape writing. It's quite a bit of me reading posts and then a lot of not-so-casual conversation about how content creators need to speak up for their livelihoods and tell tech bros to buzz off.