Happy Monday! Three new LRR videos for you to enjoy! One new Jerk City for you to be confused at!

First up is this week’s CheckPoint, SWTOR SGR OMG — Graham and I pile on to the Final Fantasy: All the Bravest In App Purchases bandwagon, we debate the NRA and tackle the media’s decision to refer to the new SWTOR expansion as “the gay planet.” I also note with some satisfaction that this Penny Arcade Screenshot is almost flattering. Ha. You guys are slipping.

Next up, Graham and Paul tackle Sleeping Dogs in Unskippable. Sure, it’s a fun game, but I think it might be painting an unrealistic picture of how easy it is to join a triad. “Hey! Did we go to elementary school together like… 20 years ago?  Great! Let’s go shake down some rival gangsters.”

And of course, there is this week’s LoadingReadyRun video, Junk in the Trunk! For a video with just a few shots, there was a lot of fiddly audio work involved. More on that in the Loading Time column on Thursday.

And finally, here’s a Jerk City with some junk in it too. Why not.

Big news if you like Magic, podcasts and phaffing about! The second podcast in the new LRR “actually trying to make this podcasting thing happen” network of podcasts is TapTapConcede, a new resource for casual magic players. Our first episode is online now — we discuss Prophecy-era cards, what guilds we’re excited for in Gatecrash and what it’s like to be in the furnace layer of New Phyrexia. (Not warm enough, as far as Kathleen is concerned.)

TapTapConcede will go up monthly. We record it on the third Saturday of every month.

This week’s Loading Time video takes you behind the scenes of our video The Nasa Conspiracy. Shot in the corner of the LRR office where we usually shoot CheckPoint, the video took a lot of set dressing and person dressing to give it that special, nutcase-y feeling.

For those of you that have been following along with Graham, Paul and Brad as they attempt to slog through the horror that is Cursed Crusade, they’re still at it. Episode 17 is now online for your enjoyment. And their misery.

Happy Wednesday everyone. This week’s Feed Dump is Surround Sound Coffin. The episode starts well with a timely take on the Dead Island UK edition controversy, but then rapidly abandons all presence of sense after Cam finds out it is theoretically possible to fire the contents of your stomach through a Super Soaker. Oh well.

Kathleen’s bad singing is probably the least of your worries with this episode. 

In case you’re a Magic fan, the latest LRR comedy draft is up on MTGO Academy. You won’t learn much, but you will see what happens when you set out to do a rare draft and you open what are typically described as “poor quality” rares.

Look, I’m sure there are ways to abuse this card in constructed, OK?

Let it never be said we don’t like to give you content here at LoadingReadyRun. Good morning! Happy Monday! Have five videos!!

First up is this week’s LoadingReadyRun video The Nasa Conspiracy. This video… not so gently lampoons the crazy conspiracy theorists we tend to see popping up online. I would say this is satire, but I don’t honestly think this is actually much worse than some of the stuff I’ve seen online.

The illuminati is watching!! They think this video is actually kind of funny.

This week’s Unskippable is the modern classic, Final Fantasy XIII-2. As someone who has played it, it’s actually a pretty good game. It’s just a bit hard to tell from this trainwreck of an opening cut scene.

Do you suppose they burn Yeul logs for Christmas in some alternate timelines? *Ba dum tish*

This week’s CheckPoint is THQ is Going to Pieces, an episode where we make THQ an offer it should seriously consider, given the fact that we’re probably the only people in the world that not only remember some of their more obscure franchises, but actually want them…

How can you not accept an offer from a man with a beard this nice?

Episode 16 of Graham, Paul and Brad’s Cursed Crusade Let’s Play is also online. It features the worst case of shoe-horning a pop culture reference into a game I’ve ever seen. It’s truly awful. I recommend you watch it for yourself!

AND FINALLY, THE LRRCAST RETURNS! JUST LOOK AT THAT NICE NEW TITLE ANIMATION. YEAHHHH…