Alex has returned, riding the Dispatch hype train. Heck, he was conducting it and tries very hard to pull everyone else on board. Chance almost gets on, as he is almost done with his most recent Fallout 4 playthrough. And Chamberlain doesn't even see the train. He is busy with another lower end metroidvania. This time it is Possessor(s), which he admits he is playing just because no one else is.

Chamberlain has finished Outer Worlds 2 and is reasonably pleased with it. It's no Avowed, but it scratched an itch, mostly because there were 20 points invested in guns. He also tried Bloodlines 2 so that you don't have to (and you shouldn't). And Chance was so stung by his buggy experience with Outer Worlds 2 that he retreated all the way back to Fallout 4 and will not return until his gauss rifle wielding smooth talker rules the wasteland.

In the rarest of occurrences, all three of our heroes are playing (or at least played) the same game at the same time: Outer Worlds 2. Played because Chance ran in to a game ending bug, started over, and was just not 'immersed' enough to continue. Neither Alex nor Chamberlain are saying that this is the greatest game of all time, but it is entertaining in spite of its problems. Basically, they will tolerate mediocre combat if it means pitting space scientologist/communist soviet era Russians against late stage capitalism gone mad Americans against the nerdiest nerds to ever nerd.

There's charm here, trust us.