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PODCAST

Light Gaming

Jerome Barbatsis and Alex Hambrock

Light Gaming is the (mostly) lighthearted podcast about light games, hosted by Jerome Barbatsis and Alexander Hambrock! Join your Hosts of Light as they discuss a new gaming experience every week that won"t take up all your free time to finish. Expect fun conversations about indie games, retro games, and even some board or card games! On top of that, there"ll be fun quiz segments, maybe some trivia, or maybe a fun bit of comedy and improv! So, sit back on your couch, load up the latest (or earliest)

leisure video games

All Episodes

57:35

The Best Video Game Soundtracks for Productivity!...

Light Gaming ·

2024/03/03

Wow, what an exciting title for an exciting episode! Jerome and Alex wanted to take a chill pill today and muse on their favorite songs for background noise that they use in their daily lives! For everything from quiet, whimsical piano melodies to lush, plasticky early 2000's soundfonts, we've got your music needs covered! Plus, stick around for the latter half where we decide what the Newfound Adventure game for March with a single elimination bracket!Check us out on our socials and join the

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57:12

Newfound Adventure: Hollow Knight with CoderGirlChan

Light Gaming ·

2024/02/25

The Buds are joined by CoderGirlChan to talk about this month's Newfound Adventure: Hollow Knight! We recap ta brief history and context of the game as well as share our thoughts on the gameplay, the difficulty and the abundant charm! Plus, who will come out on top on in the first ever occurrence of our new trivia segment: Words are Trivia??Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome

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49:39

Anticipated Games and an Interview with Hornet

Light Gaming ·

2024/02/18

Can you believe it's been two years of Stormbuds!? To celebrate the occasion, the Buds are gonna talk about the games they're looking forward to this year! After that, we get a first exclusive look at Hollow Knight: Silksong with our guest interview: Hornet herself! Tune in to finally hear more genuinely authentic news about Hollow Knight: Silksong!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome

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50:02

Our Top Three Love Stories To Feel Something Again To

Light Gaming ·

2024/02/11

This episode of Stormbuds, Jerome and Alex talk at length about the games that made them feel the love! Plus, a dip back into Eorzea as they recap the Valentione's Day content!Games mentioned (HEAVY SPOILERS for most!): Cyberpunk 2077, Mother 3, Earthbound, Final Fantasy IX, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Life is Strange, Life is Strange: True Colors, What Remains of Edith Finch, Final Fantasy XIVCheck us out on our socials and join the discord

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54:02

The Convocation of Bugs

Light Gaming ·

2024/02/04

This episode of the Buds begins our journey beyond FFXIV! We kick off STORMBUGS by tasking ourselves with coming up with a new Convocation of Fourteen, but instead of ancient souls, it's video game bugs! Who will take their rightful place in the Convocation, fulfilling the duties of the likes of Emet-Selch, Elidibus, and... Emmerololth? Find out the results of our exciting debates by listening right now!!Games mentioned: Final Fantasy XIV, Tekken 8, Cyberpunk 2077, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown,

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71:57

The First Annual Heavens-Awards!

Light Gaming ·

2024/01/28

It's time to celebrate our journey through FFXIV with the First Annual Heavens-Awards! Stay tuned to find out who wears the Best Outfit, which cutscene is the Best Cutscene, and which character has the Best Beard! Also, support Stormbuds by listening to a completely reasonable amount of ads! Finally, we announce which game we're going to play over next month as we start our new format!This episode was broadcast LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/jeromehouse Content warning: Some brief spurts of eating

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122:43

The Twins Can't Wait to Die (for Us)

Light Gaming ·

2024/01/14

The Buds make their way through the darkness in Ultima Thule and finish off 6.0! We learn the myriad ways in which the scions find meaning in their lives and find the courage to forge ahead in the face of despair. Does Endwalker stick the landing? Listen in to hear Alex's thoughts!After all is said and done, this leg of our journey is over, but a new chapter will begin soon! We're grateful for our new friends and everyone who has supported and helped us along in our adventure, and we invite you to

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92:21

A Sense of Urgency

Light Gaming ·

2023/12/31

On the penultimate episode of our recap through the FFXIV MSQ, the Buds are met with many existential questions and tender moments, all of which are absolutely decimated by the baffling choice of background music. We also descend the Aitiascope to have a nice chat with Hydaelyn and a few other special guests along the way!NOTE: Please enjoy the editing mistake of a gunshot noise held over from the previous episode at 4:23. Whoops!Check us out on our socials and join the discord

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97:10

Twitter Turns Into X

Light Gaming ·

2023/12/17

We finally learn about the central conflict of Endwalker by going back to the time of the Ancients! We have so amny questions, like "What is alive? What is a soul? How does this tree remember things?" and most importantly, "Hermes, what did you do that for?" Plus, a returning guest helps us recap our venture through the dungeon Ktisis Hyperboreia!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome

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77:26

Ralphing on the Moon

Light Gaming ·

2023/12/03

The Buds have met the Loporrits and gotten their first taste of the Final Days! Nobody could have prepared Alex for either of the halves of this chapter, we go from flopping around with cute bunnies to fending off black, slimy beings made entirely of mouths! Death! Destruction! Puddingway? Tune in to find out what else we thought of this chapter of FFXIV: Endwalker!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and

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88:05

Iridescent Roast Beef

Light Gaming ·

2023/11/19

On this episode, the Buds travel to the frozen wastes of Garlemald and partake in all its (zero) earthly delights. We get a first-hand account on the current state of affairs and confront Fandaniel in a clash on the moon! CW: SuicideCheck us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

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89:50

Here's My Skin!

Light Gaming ·

2023/11/05

The Buds begin Endwalker! They explore Labyrinthos, Thavnair, and conquer the Tower of Zot! Along the way, they learn about floral mood rings, mad science, and the properties of dragon scales! Tune in to learn what Alex thinks of his first chapter of Endwalker, and to hear Jerome make some remarks that could technically be referred to as jokes. Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome

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85:25

A Daisy Chain of Juices

Light Gaming ·

2023/10/22

On this episode of Buds, we finish off Shadowbringers! A cure for tempering, a millenia-overdue systems update, a hilarious case of mistaken identity, and a reconciliation between all the peoples of Eorzea! Fandaniel is also here. It's curtains for Shadowbringers, and Lights, Camera, Action for Endwalker!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

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78:04

The Maid Needs a New Ass

Light Gaming ·

2023/10/08

The Buds are back and they're here to take on a horde of sexy, sexy androids in YorHa: Dark Apocalypse? What secrets await the buds in The Puppets' Bunker? How many paradigms can one tower breach? The answers to these and many more questions will not be within this episode, because they never are. Listen anyway!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

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50:00

A Rant About Final Fantasy Sixteen (Solo Bud)

Light Gaming ·

2023/10/01

This week, Alex is out sick and so Jerome has taken it upon himself to pull out a very timely game review of FFXVI! This is a full spoiler review where Jerome breaks down what he likes and dislikes about the aesthetics, the writing and the gameplay of Creative Business Unit 3's dark take on a mainline Final Fantasy game!We will return with YorHa: Dark Apocalpyse and the Shadowbrigners role quest finale NEXT Sunday!Check us out on our socials and join the discord

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108:42

She's in Full Geish

Light Gaming ·

2023/09/17

The Buds cover the ranged role quest and the Eden raid! Turns out, reconstituting effigies of our previous encounters from memory is pretty dang hard! We learn a lot about the cause of the Sin Eaters and also we learn a lot about ourselves- not as much as Ryne does, but it's still a lot.Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

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118:35

The Sapphic Weapon

Light Gaming ·

2023/09/03

On this dramatic episode, the Buds rescue a boy from a time hole in the caster role quests and they explore the implications of the "ideals" of the Garlean Empire as well as recant the actually-well-done version of adoptive parenthood that is the Sorrow of Werlyt! Take notes, Thancred! Also featured: most unusual discussion of classical literature you've ever heard- perhaps this should explain why the Buds talk about books.Check us out on our socials and join the discord

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100:17

The End Doesn't Justify the End

Light Gaming ·

2023/08/20

The Buds put an end to Elidibus, and with that, the last of the unsundered Ascians is dead! Certainly this is a universally good thing that has no consequences whatsoever! Before they can take care of that, they've got some pesky tank quests to deal with, as well as an extremely tedious stretch of quests about going to get some grapes with kids that want to be Warriors of Lights. Why is it always grapes!?Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex

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1:20

Stormbuds: A FFXIV Podcast!

Light Gaming ·

2023/08/06

Welcome to Stormbuds! Hosted by Jerome Barbatsis and Alex Hambrock, the show started out as an FFXIV recap podcast with one expert and one absolute noob. Now, the Buds are on a mission to spread the joy of gaming through FFXIV and beyond! Sail the stormy seas with us as we recap the games you love, bringing some of our beloved (or hated) characters to life along the way. Follow us for new episodes every other Sunday!Check us out on our socials and join the discord

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104:35

An Us Shaped Hole

Light Gaming ·

2023/08/06

The Buds begin the patch content for Shadowbringers and cover the Healer role quest! Along the way we meet far too many warriors of light for our liking and crash a fancy dinner party for one! Plus, in a landmark victory for laborers everywhere, the dungeon recap goblin gets his first paycheck!Check us out on our socials and join the discord! https://linkpop.com/stormbudsProduced by Alex Hambrock and Jerome BarbatsisSound and Editing by Jerome Barbatsis

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