It’s time for one of this site’s most beloved traditions: the annual commenting awards! Here’s how it works. I’ll make a subthread for each of the categories listed below. Submit your nominations for each category as a reply, and upvote … Continue reading The Pits: 2024 Commenting Awards
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not make your own post or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Video Games 2024
In this episode (which we recorded before The Game Awards), Captain Blasto, QuinleyThorne, The Kappa, and I discuss Game awards nominations before spending the bulk of the episode talking about the RPGs of 2024. You have several options for accessing … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #107: Top Shortage
Here you’ll find links to vote in each of the topics in The Avocado’s annual awards show, The Pits. Voting for most topics is open until noon Eastern Standard Time on December 28th, 2024, but topic hosts may select an … Continue reading Pits Central 2024
The Golden Geoffs, more officially known as The Game Awards, are back again for another year. It’s time to watch some trailers for upcoming games, oodles of advertisements, a couple of awkward Hideo Kojima appearances, and maybe even a statuette … Continue reading The Game Awards 2024 Live-Chat
Hey folks! It’s year-end time, and that means we’re putting together the final GamesCast episode of the year: the annual community extravaganza! There are two ways you can participate: 1) record the main podcast with us; 2) submit a rundown … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #108 and 2024 Year-End Community Extravaganza Submissions
Hey everyone! Merve here, and I’m organizing this year’s Pits awards, The Avocado’s annual awards show for the best in media, as voted on by you. Yes, you. Here’s the proposed schedule: In response to feedback from last year’s event, … Continue reading The Pits 2024: Kickoff
After delays due to technical difficulties and the DDoSing of the Internet Archive, we present to you a very belated Halloween episode. (Episode #107 has been recorded and is on its way, hopefully before The Game Awards.) In this episode, … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #106: Douglas & Dewey
Hey folks! We’re recording the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming weekend, in the evening (Eastern time) on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. The topics of discussion will be: Don’t worry, you don’t have to have beaten any … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #107
We had this episode ready to go up a month ago. Then, the Internet Archive, which we use to host our podcast audio files, got DDOSed. Over the past few weeks, they’ve been slowly recovering, and this weekend, file uploads … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #105: The Dingo Steak Dangle
Pasta: delicious, starchy, and versatile. Typically made of durum wheat, but also occasionally made from other grains (such as rice), pseudocereals (such as quinoa), or even legumes (such as chickpeas).[footnote]Before you scoff, remember that these wheat alternatives allow our coeliac … Continue reading The Pasta Thread Is Yet Another PT
Apologies for the delay in getting this up, but Episode #104 of the GamesCast is finally here! (Episode #105 is already recorded and should be out within the next couple of weeks.) Tune in to hear me and The Kappa … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #104: From the NCAA to the UN
Hey folks! We’re recording the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast next weekend on the evening of Saturday the 14th of September, Eastern time. (Start time is TBA but should be around 9:30 PM EDT.) We’ll be chatting a bit … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #105
Europe’s flagship gaming conference, Gamescom, held annually in Cologne, Germany, is kicking off, and everyone’s favourite Canadian automaton Geoff Keighley is there to ring in the proceedings with a two-hour live-stream featuring trailers, game announcements, and a whole lot of … Continue reading Gamescom Opening Night Live Live-Chat
In this episode, Wolfman Jew, our editor The Kappa, and ThoughtsThoughtsThoughts (who unfortunately had to leave partway through recording) join me to talk about our favourite “7/10” games. We also chat about unionization, Aaron Sorkin, and of course, Kingdom Hearts. … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #103: Voluntary Isekai
Dungeons of Hinterberg is pretty rad. Continue reading The Emergency Day Thread of Whatever Video Game Merve Is Playing Right Now (July 29th, 2024)
Hey folks! We’re recording the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this weekend, on either Saturday or Sunday evening (Eastern time), depending on availability. We will be discussing our favourite flawed games (in common parlance, “6/10” or “7/10” games). If … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #103
This episode might sound like a sequel to Episode #75, “Hungry Moms,” but in actuality it’s probably our most vulgar episode since Episode #51, “Whales.” So, uh, listener discretion advised. In this episode, The Kappa, QuinleyThorne, and I go over … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #102: Wet Dads
Now that we’re just past the halfway mark of 2024, it’s time to take stock of the creative works that came out in the first half of the year. Just like last year, I’ve made a space for the community … Continue reading The Worst Pop Culture of 2024 So Far
Tennis’s premier grass court tournament is back for another year. Use this space to talk about the tournament and live-chat matches. For more information on the tournament, please visit the official website. Continue reading Wimbledon 2024 Discussion Thread
It’s the season of game announcements galore! Every day from now until Tuesday, June 11th, there will be a live-chat thread for the day’s livestreams, going up one hour before the first event of the day. Today’s schedule: A fairly … Continue reading Summer Game Fest Season Live-Chat for June 11th: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
