Feelin' Good

Hey y'all!

I gotta say, I'm in a really good place right now. Still stressed about a number of aspects of the show, but overall, really happy with how things are. I hope that y'all are feeling the same. Let me know! BTW, the music is the latest from Ronald Jenkees, who created the show's theme song, Disorganized Fun, that we licensed before HC ever hit the air. Really dig his stuff.

TL;dr

• Patron-Only Ask the Elephant Tuesday afternoon!
• Partnerships
• Upcoming Content
• Wanna be a guest host?

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Just a quick headsup...

Tuesday, March 12th at 1400 EDT (that's later today, y'all), I'm hosting a Patron-Only Ask the Elephant. I'm making this one available to all Patrons, regardless of level and to all old Annual Patrons as a one-off.

I imagine y'all have plenty of questions, which I am going to have plenty of answers for...I hope. So come and spend some time and get your questions answered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0toW7cYLSZs 

Reminder: This is for all current Patrons only. It's one of the perks for supporting the show, so please treat it as your special benefit. It's obviously on the honor system, but please, do not share this link, y'all!

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I am really excited to start announcing a series of 5 Partnerships HC has now with a few hand-selected publishers. These are specifically for sponsored live-streams of their upcoming games and each and every one should have y'all pretty stoked, imho.  Some you know, some you don't. So this is your early heads up about them. And there may be up to 2-3 more coming, but even so, some of these publishers put out 1-2 games per year, so it's not like it's a constant stream of them. ;) The first announcement will be later today/tomorrow (Tuesday). Keep an eye on social media and the guild.

For those concerned about the lack of a roundtable discussion for these selected games, I've decided that since everyone who is  on the live-streams with me is a Patron, I'm going to suggest that they (and me) post our thoughts in Slack afterward, if they are so inclined.

This feels like good compromise between the two things and yes, we're still looking to keep it to around 2 sponsored live-streams per month (some less, some more).

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As for upcoming content, seriously, go look at the calendar over on HeavyCardboard.com. Y'all asked for a way to know further out what all is scheduled, so there it is:

• Irish Gauge
• Millennium Blades
• This Guilty Land
• Age of Steam (new edition)
• Tsukuyumi
• CO2
• Pax Pamir 2.0
• Stephenson's Rocket
• Churchill
• And one really, REALLY big announcement game on March 25th!

So there is some of it and I really would appreciate y'all spreading the word about the content as it comes up!

On that note, I have noticed an uptick in folks talking about the show on Twitter and such. Thank you! Keep it up as well as in other places around the innerwebz, please!

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Do any of y'all have a game that you think you could do justice discussing on the show? I'm not going to entirely rely on locals here in the Boston-area as guest hosts, so please, shoot me a line and let me know if you're interested! We're going to have the traveling microphone, so you just need the willingness to sit and talk games with me! Let me know.

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Thank you all so very much for the support that helps allow me the privilege of continuing to host the show as my chosen career path. I am very grateful to each and every one of y'all choosing to support me, the show, and my dream. Thank you.

Have a wonderful week while I'm at GAMA (and keep an ear out for Daily Diaries) and hope to see y'all for the AtE at 1400 EDT!

Your friend,

Edward