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This week, John is joined by his NPC: Next Portable Console co-host Brendon Bigley for a conversation about Control Ultimate Edition coming to the Mac, Bluesky, a friendly interrogation about the apps and gear Brendon uses, and more.

On AppStories+, Brendon and John talk about videogame tracking apps and services.

This episode is sponsored by:

Capacities – A novel approach to note-taking.

Ruminate

John and Robb consider the legal ramifications of telling people to drink McRib sauce, John nearly gets caught up in notebook hype, then they both discuss Sill, Bluesky, and cross-posting.

AppStories, Episode 413, ‘A Cavalcade of Nightmares’ Show Notes

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Apps and Services for Tracking Games and Other Media

Game Tracking

Backloggd

GameTrack

GamePal

GamingBuddy

Other Media

Letterboxd

Goodreads

StoryGraph

Sequel

Sofa

A Conversation with Brendon Bigley

Control Ultimate Edition Is Coming to the Mac

Control Ultimate Edition Is Coming to the Mac Early Next Year

Whisky

Apple is rumored to be working on a game-specific app store

Bluesky

MacStories Is on Bluesky

Cross-Posting

EchoFeed

Croissant

Croissant: A Beautifully-Designed App for Cross-Posting to Multiple Social Media Accounts

Croissant: An App for Cross-Posting

Openvibe

Other apps

deck.blue

A Friendly Interrogation

Email: Gmail

Google Is Discontinuing Its Inbox Email App in March 2019

Task Manager: Tot

Also mentioned:

Clear

Apple Reminders

Godspeed

Writing

iA Writer

Obsidian

Web Host

Pika

RSS and Read-Later

Readwise Reader

Also mentioned

Feedbin

Matter

Reeder

Play

Lire

Unread

Boox Palma

Podcasting

Hardware

Samson Q9U

Elgato Stream Deck+ and XLR Dock

Facecam Pro

Audio Hijack

Ableton Live

Camo Studio

Also mentioned: SoundSource

Podcast Host: Transistor.fm

Also mentioned:

Blue Yeti

The Worst Garbage podcast network

iOS Game Recommendations

Domino Drop

Afterplace

Follow Brendon’s work

Wavelengths.online

YouTube

Into the Aether

NPC: Next Portable Console

Social Media

Bluesky

Mastodon

Instagram

Threads

Ruminate, Episode 198, ‘No Michelin Stars Here’ Show Notes

McDonald’s Is Debuting a Ready-to-Serve Half-Gallon Jug of McRib Sauce

I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice

Notepad - LEUCHTTURM1917

A Cavalcade of Nightmares

Sill’s new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks

Sill

Ruminate Podcast (@ruminate.macstories.net)

EchoFeed