This weekend I was mostly chilling out with my cold and playing Ocarina of Time and I think it’s a great remake of a great game. I just enjoy this curated style of Zelda game to the more freeform and open Breath of the Wild experience. My son is also fairly deep into it, and he has bounced off of other Zelda games before so maybe it’s a classic for a reason.

This week our Valheim team hits its first big possible breaking moment as we battle to finish the swamps. Last week, we ran up against Bonemass and this week I feel like we either take it down or pack it in! I have faith we can do it, but we just have to prepare. On Tuesday, Abby is out and I’ve got an RPG that has been recommended to me called Queen’s Domain. I’ve pretty much packed in my personal gaming time with Dawnwalker, Ocarina, Enshrouded, and Dragonwilds so I’m booting it up during work. On Friday, we were all kind of itching to get back to digging into that egg in Crack, but we’re keeping it open in case something else jumps out at us.

Over in Podcast Land, The Watchcast continues with Big Trouble in Little China! It’s one of my childhood favorites, so I was very curious to see how it holds up watching it decades later. We’ll also have The Ramblecast, and The NXL Podcast as usual, so look out for those.

–Vinny

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Monday 11/09/2026

The Nextlander Watchcast
On this week’s Watchcast we finally cash a check we’ve been repeatedly writing since we started this podcast. Specifically, we’re writing a check to ol ’Jack Burton, and it’s good for one viewing of one of the last big John Carpenter films we’ve yet to tackle, Big Trouble in Little China!
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3:30PM Monday-Heim: Make or Break for The Swamp Team
I’ve got a feeling that if we can’t get through the big bad of the swamps this session our spirit just might be broken.
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Tuesday 11/10/2026

Ramblecast posting in the afternoon.
Our weekly not-games podcast! Come join us for an hour-ish of gabbin’ and ramblin’!
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1PM Venturing into the Queen’s Domain
I’ve already got a lot of my gaming menu, but this one has been recommended quite a bit I would love to check it out!
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Wednesday 11/11/2026

The Nextlander Podcast Recording Day!
We’ll share our time with Ocarina and all the other goodies that we may have gotten into in the last week.
Posts ASAP for all Patrons and then Thursday mornings for the general public

Friday 11/13/2026

1PM Friday Fun Stream
There’s a fairly strong consensus around here to crack back into Crack and hopefully see what is going on inside of that egg.
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