The LAG-E Podcast: Recent Episodes
RoughRiders Esports
The Life Around Gaming and Esports Podcast is a podcast for gamers, by gamers, focused on how identifying as a gamer impacts how we interact with and the influence we have on modern society. Also includes gaming and Esports news and opinions.
Featuring music by: DJ Imperivm https://soundcloud.com/djimperivm
On Episode #20 of the Lag-E Podcast, The guys talk about some routine updates in the world of gaming and Esports, and go on to discuss the good and bad sides of periods spent gaming -- Flow State, Addiction, and Escapism.
For more information on flow state in gaming, check out the video below made by RoughRiders Esports Intern Liam "Renoops" Spooner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_5zDA5RZA
Today the guys speak with Jay Thooft, Director of Mental Performance for RoughRiders Sports Clubs and avid Apex Legends player. Jay talks to us about what it takes to have a winners mentality, motivation, and becoming the best. We also discuss Amazon's new game release, "Crucible", which premiered yesterday, and touch on the major changes to Apex Season 5
In this episode of the Lag-E Podcast, the guys are joined by Liam the Intern and Jasmine the Panda. The discussions are centered around the major issues created by Riot's new Vanguard anti-cheat system and Amazon's new development studio games to release this year:
Third Person Shooter - Crucible
and
MMORPG - New World
The gang discusses a few new releases including Assassins Creed: Valhalla, competitive mode coming to Valorant, and some T.V. and Movie entertainment.
On today's episode, the trio talks about the ridiculousness of the Valorant Beta key drops, (over 2million concurrent viewers on twitch) The new Dualsense controller, Esports on ESPN, and what Achievement in gaming means to us.
More stuck at home Random Lag-E stuff. Worth your time to listen to, because really, what else are you doing right now?
We talk about stuff on this episode related to coronavirus impacts and how we are "struggling" to get through while stuck at home.
Rafe, Cesar, and Daniel discuss the terrible format for Overwatch bans, as well as how the coronavirus is impacting everything around us.
For our main segment, we talk about deliberate practice and improvement from the angle of League of Legends and Overwatch.
On Episode #9, RR Esports talks about the Smash World Tour and Local Host's NCS Major; the unveiling of Valorant, riot's recently disclosed "project A"; Young voters failing to come out on Super Tuesday, and the Impact of Corona Virus on the Gaming and Esports Industries.
Episode 8 of the Life around Gaming and Esports Podcast, featuring RoughRiders Esports.
On today's episode, Cesar, Daniel, and Rafe talk about Animal Crossing, Gamer Tags, and whether Ninja is right when he says, "It's not just a game."
Daniel, Cesar, and Rafe discuss how focus and engagement impact sociability, how to make friends in gaming and Esports, and how friendships and community interact in growing the scene.
Daniel, Cesar, and Rafe discuss information density in games, barrier to entry, physiological arousal, and personal intensity.
Daniel, Rafe, and Cesar explore the effects of spending extended periods of time in imaginary worlds.
From deeply fantastical games like World of Warcraft, to the competitive space of League of Legends, to books and television shows, time we spend in these spaces impact us. The team talks about how.
Rafe, Cesar, & Daniel talk about the important things, like:
Smash Ultimate events in Colorado over the next two months.
The New WoW Raid and Mythic Dungeons.
The role of Identity for Immersion within games.
The role and types of Intelligence for evolution in games and life.
The Life around Gaming and Esports podcast episode #2 featuring content on:
Roughriders Esports Tryouts
**The Taipei Game show
Upcoming Smash Events**
and
Sub-Genres, Classifications, and Communities; and, how they change between mediums of entertainment
The Life Around Gaming and Esports Podcast, aka the Lag-e podcast, brought to you by RoughRiders Esports.
A lifestyle podcast surrounding how identifying as a gamer impacts your existence within and your influence over modern society.