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“Fresh” from the UK National Championship, Johno and Chris are back, answering the call of scoops! NISEI were kind enough to drop THREE fresh, warm-from-the-design-oven scoops on their plates and they’re here to dissect and discuss them. Then they chat about UK Nationals (congratulations to our “new” UK Champion, Mike Prosser!) as well as the various side events on show there, and nod a head towards the World Championships too! Precognition (0:01:55)Johno and Chris discuss the three new cards they have their hands on! The cards have a distinctly HB, efficiency theme to them, but there are also diversions to discuss quirky hats, what a “vaporframe” even is, and, of course, tempo. Bass CH1R1B0G4 (0:02:14) HB Asset: Bioroid Rez: 3 - Trash: 4 - Influence: 3 [click], [trash]: Gain [click] [click]. Vaporframe Fabricator (0:13:28) HB Asset Rez: 2 - Trash: 3 - Influence: 3 [click]: Install 1 card, ignoring all costs. Use this ability only once per turn. When the Runner trashes this asset, you may install 1 card, ignoring all costs. You cannot use this ability to install a card in this server. Tranquility Home Grid (0:20:43) HB Upgrade: Region Rez: 1 - Trash: 4 - Influence: 2 Remote server only. The first time each turn you install a card in this server, gain 2 [credits] or draw 1 card. Limit 1 region per server. Game Day (0:30:40)Johno and Chris discuss the UK National Championship weekend, discussing Chris and winner Mike’s lists, the Netrunner Puzzle Hunt (if you like puzzles, check it out), the President of Servers team event and the Classic (“Classique”) side event which took up all of Chris’ preparation time. Final standings on Always Be Running Mike and Chris’ Asa list Mike and Chris’ Liza list Netrunner Puzzle Hunt (as well as hints and solutions) President of Servers final standings Classic lists Twitch VODs Another, Smaller, Game Day (0:45:07)Johno and Chris briefly touch on Worlds a few months after it happened. Final standings on Always Be Running Pinsel’s Asa Pinsel’s Freedom Twitch VODs Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places: Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.com Twitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid Website: NeoReading Grid, Dead Channel Find the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast If you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon! Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh! Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.

D.C. #29: Rumour Mill

D.C. #28: Award Bait 2018

D.C. #27: Amped Schupp

D.C. #26: Emptied Mind

D.C. #25: Rotomturret

D.C. #24: Unorthodox Predictions

D.C. #23: Planned Assault

D.C. #22: Illicit Sails

D.C. #21: Award Bait 2017

D.C. #20: Wilf-o'-the-Wisp

The 2017 World Championships are almost upon us! Johno and Chris briefly discuss the banned/restricted list after being struck by the podcasters curse, and having major news break immediately after a release. Then they move on to the difficult task of predicting what we'll see at Worlds! There are multiple categories that require their predictive talents, and they've even drafted in some community members to give their input too: Thanks to Ben "beyoken" Ni, Dave "cerberus" Hoyland, Laurie Poulter, Seamus Macleod, Dave "rotage" Saiya, Alice "shanodin" Rees, Catherine Underwood, Scott "spags" Pagliaroni and Alex "vinegarymink" White! Stay tuned as the categories get more ridiculous culminating with the Bold Prediction category! If you're interested in making your own predictions to compare after, the categories are: - Winning Corp identity - Winning Runner identity - A Top 4 player - Worst (non-mini) faction - Best mini faction and finishing position - More US or non-US players in the cut - Winning corp's deck sleeves colour - A 1-of in either of the winning decks - Number of beanies worn on stream during the cut - Bold prediction We finish with "Turntable", a very fun feature that may never return! Johno has found five songs that share song titles, artist names or even album names with Netrunner cards. Join Chris in an attempt to work out the cards being hinted at. It's Name That Tune... Netrunner style! We mentioned the Full Immersion podcast at the end of the episode, maybe a good choice for any long flights you have coming up! It's an actual-play RPG story set in the Android universe, and you can check it out here: http://neoreadinggrid.co.uk/fullimmersion/. Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places: Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.com Twitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid Website: NeoReading Grid, Dead Channel Find the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast If you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon! Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh! Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.

Dead Channel returns! We'll be less strict with the "click" structure of episodes going forward, but hopefully we'll still be a good listen. Johno and new regular co-host Chris "nemamiah" Dyer are excited by the prospect of rotation and the revised core set, and discuss some of the ins and outs, and what we can expect from the brave new world. Editor's note: This episode was recorded before the announcement of the updated Most Wanted List and its bans and restrictions. We'll discuss these changes in our next episode so stay tuned! After the business is out of the way, it's time for a farcical game of Artist Colony, in which we guess cards based only on descriptions of the card art. This time, it's the Rotation Memorial Edition, featuring rotated cards. "This depicts a factory floor. There are a few people in orange jumpsuits working..." "It's a computer. It's green and has projected a cube over the top of it. There's a little map on it..." "This shows a man. He is in a grey suit, got some glasses on, sitting in a chair, drinking some coffee..." "It looks like some kind of flower, like a tulip. A bright white tulip, wrapped in green tendrils..." "This shows a typical city scene. A range of billboards. In the middle of it, a pylon with an array of satellite dishes..." "A desk. On the desk is some kind of device, projecting some HB-based data in pink..." "In cyberspace, there is a cloud of colours. Superimposed over those colours is what looks like a barcode..." "The purple-bluest area of cyberspace. Dashing out of the purple blueness are white lines zooming towards us..." "This is an old lady. She is kneeling on the floor." "This is weird. There are six phantasmic faces staring at us. Instead of eyes, goggles, pitch black. They're made of blue light..." "Back in cyberspace. There is a vertical pillar, pinky-purple. There's a swirling tornado wind effect..." "Pitch-black. There are blue lines, all vertical or horizontal at different distance and depths. One is wrapped in bright red veins." Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places: Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.com Twitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid Website: NeoReading Grid, Dead Channel Find the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast If you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon! Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh! Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.

Johno is joined once again by special guest co-host and world champion Chris "nemamiah" Dyer! They start off by whipping through Station One, the second Red Sand data pack, picking out some of the more interesting cards. Then they chat about the fallout of the new Most Wanted List and the likely direction of the meta in a meta snapshot update. In click 3, they chat about the "Snek draft" that has been running in the UK community and has proven interesting to take part in and spectate. Finally, they finish off with a particularly dumb game.Click 1: Mandatory Draw: Station One - 00:02:18We're slightly more on Mars or something! We pick out and discuss some highlights from Station One.Counter-SurveillanceLos: Data HijackerMöbiusLoad TestingReplantingMCA InformantClick 2: The All-Seeing I - 00:28:50After the meta has been ever-so-slightly entirely changed by the release of a new Most Wanted List, it's only fair to get a meta update, and with Chris in the house, what better time? Chris gives his thoughts on the new MWL, and gives a meta forecast (scattered showers of chaos, followed by a cold, glacier front moving in from purple/red)Friends in High PlacesCaprice NiseiP?lan? Foods: Sustainable GrowthNoise: Hacker ExtraordinaireAaron MarrónArmand "Geist" Walker: Tech LordPolitical OperativeInterdictionSensie Actors UnionMumbad City HallClick 3: Restructure - 00:45:37Recently, Chris has been involved in a so-called "Snek draft" a special format (run by Ben Ni) that involves the entire card pool being drafted, NFL style, for exclusive use, and the eight players try to build viable decks from only the cards they drafted (and the undrafted). Chris takes us through how he made his decisions in each round, and how building a deck in this format is really interesting and enjoyable.The Draft Board (google spreadsheet)The Draft Board (as imgur album)Click 4: Exchange of Information - 01:12:13In a new game(!), Chris and Johno play a twist on Monikers/Time's Up etc, and attempt to guess HB cards using descriptive clues at first (shown below). Then they guess those same cards again with only one-word clues, and finally guess once more with only sounds effects allowed."An asset that makes money with man sexbots""A piece of ICE designed by Jeremy Zwirn""An agenda that lets you get cards from Archives""An agenda that's worth 0 points""An asset that gets counters when you rez things, and you can reveal agendas from your hand""A card that you use to give bioroids extra subroutines, makes them more murdery""A little boy who's an ICE""A layabout. He's the son of a famous director""One of several pieces of ICE of the same theme. It's the best one of those""Trashes programs. Whirrrr""An ID that has a lot of cards in hand""Don't tread on me""ICE that is bad against AIs, on remotes.""Gets you an extra click""Makes money when the runner made an unsuccessful run""Really big ICE, you take lots of brain damage"Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.

The NAPD have been hard at work, chasing down leads and putting the squeeze on informers, and they've identified the new threats we face on the net. That's right, a hot new multi-tiered Most Wanted List has landed, and Johno and Joey slam the Panic Button to bring you their immediate reaction.We spend all four clicks discussing the new influence "levels" and the ins and outs of the list itself, as well as some cards that could be conspicuous in their absence.Enhanced Enforcement Tactics (FFG Announcement Article)Maximum security 3-influence cards:Faust?ifrRumor MillDDoSBlackmailSensie Actors UnionNew inmates in the 1-influence block:Temüjin ContractBio-Ethics AssociationMumbad City HallOld-timers:ArchitectBreaking NewsSanSan City GridMumba TempleNAPD ContractD4v1dParasiteWyldsideYog.0Cerberus "Lady" H1Clone ChipReleased on parole:Eli 1.0DesperadoPrepaid VoicePadOn trial?MediumKnifed / Forked / SpoonedPaperclipAccount SiphonAaron MarrónFriends in High PlacesHard-Hitting NewsThanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.Permalink

Adventure is on the cards in this episode! We strike out for our first taste of Mars with a Daedalus Complex Mandatory Draw, then we discuss training Johno's young padawans. In click 3, we explore Shaper events through the medium (hey that's a card!) of art alone. Finally, we go totally off-track and talk about the Legend of Zelda - particularly the latest instalment Breath of the Wild - in a Chatterjee University. It's dangerous to go alone! Take this (episode of Dead Channel).Click 1: Mandatory Draw: Daedalus Complex - 00:07:03We discuss the first pack in the Red Sand cycle!ExploitMad DashKakugoSynth DNA ModificationJemison AstronauticsOberth ProtocolKhondi PlazaClick 2: Levy University - 00:35:27Johno has started a new job and basically works for Globalsec now. Also, his colleagues are board gamers, AND YET they are not Netrunner players??? This wrong must be righted. In this segment, we discuss how Johno can bring Netrunner as a totally new game to players to introduce them correctly.The ETF deckThe Kate deckClick 3: Artist Colony - 00:59:08Joey sets 'em up (with sick art descriptions) and Johno knocks 'em down (with sick... art... knowing?). This time: Shaper events."It's blue with some light coming in and there's a stack of books""It's got two people. The woman's wearing a delivery uniform which is yellow.""It's Kate, pointing at a screen with the Opus artwork on it.""It's more abstract. It's all green. It's got a being coming in from the left. It's light and brushwork like it's painted.""It's got Smoke on it. She's sitting back, blowing out vapour.""This one's got Exile on it. He's manipulating a small pink cube, hunched over.""Somebody sitting at a computer terminal and they're eating a sandwich.""There's somebody riding a dinosaur.""This one's also got Smoke and she's dancing, hands to one side.""This has got Aesop on it.""It's a hand coming in from the left on a surface. There's an electronic dial around the hand.""Looks like Escher but not. It's got a man in the middle with light coming out of him. Butch like from Duke Nukem.""Two people in it. Foreground is a man holding something. Goggles on his head. In the background is a woman on a tablet.""A woman in the middle with blonde hair. She's holding a cigarette. Pink cards flying all around her.""Really beautiful artwork. Person's face is really grey, bleeding into colour, drifting away, like paint.""It's got somebody standing on a cityscape, hands down on the building. Anime-style hair, Noise-like jacket."Click 4: Chatterjee University - 01:07:31Hey! Listen! We take some time out from boring Netrunner to chat about Breath of the Wild, the latest game in the Legend of Zelda saga, and we both like it a lot! Minor spoilers, mostly restricted to the first 10 hours.Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.Permalink

We call on our friends from both high and low places in this episode. First, we chat to reigning World Champion Chris "nemamiah" Dyer for a quick forecast of where the meta is right now, and what decks you should expect to face in competition. Then Johno breaks down the "Dyper" archetype with none other than Dyper-In-Chief David "rotage" Saiya. We crack out the thesauruses for a quick game, and then get spoopy with a chat about FFG's newest LCG, Arkham Horror: The Card Game.Click 1: The All-Seeing I - 00:09:16World Champion Chris Dyer joins us on the phone for an in-depth look at what's rampaging its way across the meta right now."Joeybacks" asset spam NEH"Railgun" shutdown kill combo NEHCI7"Hasty" CIAaron MarronSifr/Strike DumbleRecent AndromedaArchives InterfaceClick 2: Harmony Deck Tech - 00:25:58In this deck tech, we break down Dyper, with the architect himself, David Saiya.Version 1: Pre-MWLVersion 2: Post-MWLVersion 3: Apoc Version (top 16 at Worlds)Click 3: Dino-thesaurus - 00:53:25It's the return of "Sinister Bottom", the game in which we scramble card names by replacing each word with a synonym from the thesaurus, now rebranded... as "Dino-thesaurus"!Anarch events:Mad ArrangingAbandoned MurderCage OperationAnxiety the MobBuilding a DoorDeduction WritingHunt EndedCriminal events:Extraordinary ObtainLenient ImprintRapid RenditionArranged InvasionRestricted SoireeCrisis Closed BelowWithin DutyClick 4: Chatterjee University - 1:01:42In non-Netrunner chat this episode, Johno tries to convince Joey to buy into the latest FFG LCG, Arkham Horror: The Card Game!Arkham Horror: The Card Game, on FFGArkhamDB.comThanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.

Returning from our January hiatus into the midst of Store Championship season, we have quite a few things to catch up on! Two data packs were released, so we squeeze out the highlights of both into a mandatory draw, then we recap the tournaments we attended over the last month and a half, and the direction the meta has taken in that time. We finish with a fun game in which we discover that Weyland assets are in fact incredibly forgettable.Click 1: Mandatory Draw - 00:03:33 Martial Law Data PackFriends in High PlacesFairchildQuorum Data Pack?ifrAaron MarrónMacrophageNASXFlashpoint CycleTerminal DirectiveClick 2+3: Game Day - 00:40:34 Always Be RunningReading Jank ResultsUK Rankings InvitationalUK Rankings Invitational Final (on NRG)Reading SC ResultsBournemouth SC ResultsBristol SC ResultsAldershot SC ResultsSlumbering Consciousness (Joey's Surat EtF)  Double MaxX (Joey's jank)Sleebernetics (Joey's jank)Takeshi's Castle.Joey (Aldershot 1st)Team Turtles (Aldershot 1st)Toybox Sol (Johno's jank Sol)BIN AND IN (Johno's jank Geist)Chechen Comrades (Johno's NEH, 3rd at Bournemouth)Tap Andy (Johno's Andromeda, 3rd at Bournemouth)Click 4: Artist Colony - 01:20:55 All Weyland Assets"There is a woman. She has got a suit on.""It's a city scape. There's one or two linked skyscrapers...""This one's very red. There is a woman, possibly a bioroid... with a bowtie""We've got another city one, brighter. There's two lines like highways through the sky...""There's a woman standing in the middle. She's got dark hair, her hands out wide.""There's a guy with a gun""There's somebody with headphones on and he's holding food and a glass...""There's two people, an adult and a child, wearing space outfits.""An abstract one. There are lots of circles of light connected together""It's look like it's in a waste plant of some kind""There are lots of bioroid-looking people in suits like Iron Man, and they're upside down""There are three people. The one closest to us is wearing a suit that makes him stronger. There's a woman also wearing a suit. There's a scientist."Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.Permalink

Johno and Joey take a whistle-stop tour of the past year of Netrunner, reminiscing about the journey the meta has taken. Then we don our finest black tie to announce the winners of the 2016 Deadies, our "prestigious" awards across a wide range of categories.Warning: If you are not a Slack user, you can probably duck out when we hit our final category, "Best Meme", as it will be almost entirely meaningless to you. Even better, you could JOIN THE FUN!Click 1, 2, 3 & 4: Award Bait - 00:02:43 (Awards start at 00:21:12)Join Slack!Noise Pre MWLNetrunners Five Secret Factions (Fetal.ai)Peter GlazebrookFinal Laurie Point Standings (Google Spreadsheet)Laurie Point Finals (on AlwaysBeRunning) Laurie Custom MatCharity Gift 2016 (Facebook Event) BABW (UK ANRPC)UK Slack League 2UK Slack League 1 Finals (on beyoken's Youtube channel)UK Slack League 2 Finals (on beyoken's Youtube channel)World's Final Game 2 (on NeoReading Grid)Party Parrot!:doge:Team SnekThanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.Permalink

Special guest co-host and World Champion Chris Dyer (Nemamiah online) returns! He and Johno get excited about Terminal Directive, the "campaign" expansion coming for Android: Netrunner, break down Chris' Worlds-winning CTM list in detail, attempt to build a Slee deck, and finish with a game of Calling In Flavours.Click 1: News Now Hour - 00:02:42Terminal Directive has been announced! It will be a campaign-style expansion which contains new cards, and more interestingly, a new way to play Netrunner, and we are fascinated! Johno and Chris speculate on what we will see, and what we hope we'll be getting when we inevitably get it.FFG's Announcement ArticleClick 2: Harmony Decktech - 00:16:12We have a detailed look at Chris' CTM list that he piloted to World Champion. We very thoroughly look through all of his card choices and some of the alternatives he considered, as long as what changes he might make for the upcoming meta.Snekbite (The List)NBN: Controlling The MessageTheBigBoy's CTM listCommercial Bankers GroupMumbad Virtual TourHard-Hitting NewsExchange of InformationResistorPop-up WindowTollboothData RavenCobraGejben's Nordics CTM listData WardClick 3: Brainstorm - 00:42:05Johno and Chris attempt to build a deck around Chief Slee and attempting to get a Chief Slee kill. Thanks to Lane for playing us!Chief SleeGagarin Deep SpaceTour GuideJeeves Model BioroidsEncryption ProtocolCorporate TroubleshooterPop-up WindowSandburgThe Finished "Greensleeves" listThe GameLane's Khan deckCrisium GridClick 4: Calling in Flavours - 01:03:47Johno and Chris attempt to guess Shaper programs from only their flavour text."Originally not very popular, the regulator was overlooked by those who used energy sinks to protect their rig...""'All programs are connected. The data that runs through one, runs through all' - Rielle 'Kit' Peddler""'It doesn't actually bend time, it just feels like it. That's relativity.' - Hayley Kaplan""'Make sure you tell the source code which executable you want it to compile into...' - The Professor""The Creator""'I once saw someone running a seven-tier nested daemon tree. Not for any reason...' - Kate 'Mac' McCaffrey""'The itsy-bitsy spider went up the data spout' - Chaos Theory""... and the end?""It can slice through the thickest knots of data""'What if this ice wants to be free?' - Rielle 'Kit' Peddler""'Its bytes are definitely worse than its bark' - Chaos Theory""??? ?? ??? ????? ??????? ??? ?? ???????""He always uses the same key""'The Incans believed that the sun god resided in the Hanan Pacha, the upper realm of the cosmos...' - The Professor""Out there the thousand-petalled lotus symbolises detachment from illusion...""Sucks energy like a Martian terra-bot but it keeps you focussed"Thanks for listening! If you want to get in touch you can find us in the following places:Email: neoreadinggrid@gmail.comTwitter: Dead Channel, NeoReading Grid, Joey, JohnoWebsite: NeoReading Grid, Dead ChannelYouTube: NeoReading GridFind the show: RSS, iTunes, Pocket Casts, OvercastIf you like what we do consider supporting us on Patreon!Intro music by Van Gogh! Gogh! Gogh!Logo and graphic design by Jennifer Maghzal.