{"id":11747,"date":"2012-01-04T21:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T05:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:49:55","slug":"qt3-games-podcast-in-a-cosmos-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/01\/04\/qt3-games-podcast-in-a-cosmos-far-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Qt3 Games Podcast: in a Cosmos far far away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"11747\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Millennium_Falcon.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Millennium_Falcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Millennium_Falcon\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom &#8220;I hate free-to-play&#8221; Chick proclaims his love for a free-to-play game, Jason &#8220;What&#8217;s Cosmos?&#8221; McMaster throws down some serious trash talk at Carl Sagan, and our guest Tim &#8220;Union Carbide&#8221; Smith breaks all the rules and goes a little crazy by bringing up Playboy magazine articles, NASCAR driver Peter Soderbergh (not his real name), and some Star Wars MMO that surely no one is sick of hearing about by now.  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