W00T! I'm now officially sanctioned at the SAG website!

Seriously, if you enjoy podcasts and websites run by guys from Missouri, check it out. Great community and nice blokes and lassies all round.

Oh, and here's a sample so you can see what you're missing. Check out the cans on that! 

This animation was put together by Agent Xenon (one of the forum crew) and uses an actual snippet of real SAG podcast content. Likeness to actual hosts is non-accidental and funny as all hell.

Links

• Short Attention Gamer Website
• Agent Xenon Website

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Gamer's Pouch is a rather nifty website which allows you to keep track of your gaming collection online, and to see what others have also collected. It true Web 2.0 fashion, it allows for individuals that sign up to the sign to update game entries and build the already extensive database.

Sure, a number of other sites offer the same kind of functionality, such as Gamespot, but they're top-heavy with graphics, adverts and in-your-face Flash. If you want a simple, clean tool to track your game collection, you should check out Gamer's Pouch.

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Image courtesy of The Escapist.

Bill Walton, who runs The Escapist gaming advocacy site, and I are old friends. Older than our friendship is the 11 years of work that he’s put into The Escapist website, which acts as a central conduit for correcting misinformation about all manner of games, focusing heavily around roleplaying games.

One the major aspects of the site that are constantly growing is the Young Person’s Adventure League (YPAL), which helps both parents and Young Persons to get into games as well as supply links to appropriate material. One of Bill’s major loves is to continue to draw kids into the world of gaming and allow them to freely grow and develop their imagination and creativity. He’s done some fantastic work already, and is looking do more with others’ help.

Another aspect of the site is the Tell Me About Your Character section, where gamers are questioned about themselves and the games they play. Want to see what real gamers look like, and what their thoughts on gaming are? This is where you should visit.

BeQuest is “a project aimed at getting gamers involved in charitable efforts - making donations, organizing drives, volunteering time, giving of themselves”. This is something Bill feels strongly about, and he and I have talked in the past about how great it would be to have a roleplaying/board game/card game version of Child’s Play. One of these days it will happen. I’m sure of it.

Bill also works with Sam Chupp on the Square One podcast, which aims to help out those that are new to roleplaying games.

Bill will be at Origins 2007 and will be running an number of introductory games for new players. He’s also running two games specifically for kids using Faery’s Tale and Toon and possibly some Fuzzy Heroes battles every day at the convention.

If anyone from a games company is looking for someone with drive, intelligence, compassion and creativity, you should drop Bill a line. He’d love to be doing this stuff full (or even part-) time and get paid for it (handsomely if at all possible). You can contact Bill via his contact page.

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Short Attention Gamer is a podcast ran by Matt and Todd, two dads and working stiffs who often find themselves bereft of time and ability to play games. In between Matt being sick and Todd going to various meetings and training classes, they produce the podcast usually at the week end and recap how their week in gaming went. The site also boast a bulletin board, that while not heavily trafficked, is full of people who share many common interests and who get on well together. There are often competitions run with some nifty prizes as well. Well worth listening to because compared to many of the other zany and crazy podcasts out there, this one is easy listening.

Disclosure: I’m a member of their forums and supply an audio segment with game deals every now and again. Just thought I’d mention it. I listened to the show long before I did either of those though. So there.

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The Pimpage Category is for me to list other cool sites that I think people should visit. Pimpage is better than a straight Shout Out (another category) because it’s a site that I regularly visit (or will) and think you should do so too.

To keep the blessed harmony here at the Bagder household, the very first Pimpage will go to my wife’s site, which can be found at Mrs.TehBagder.com. Now, the missus is not only an avid game player (some might say even more of a gamer than myself, and they’d be right), but she’s also finishing up a degree in Financial Counseling at Ohio State University. Yay for fiscal responsibility. Boo for having to worry about money. She intends to post lotsof tidbits about financial savviness at this site as well as blog repeatedly about the stuff I do that makes her crazy, the cute stuff our two kids do, and probably a lot more pictures of cats.

Those not afraid of faroshuz tigerrrs, visit her site…

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