Welcome to the Spong Chunks episode number 276 for Monday, December 18th, 2023.

My name is Joel Duggan, and joining me as always

is my friend Johnny, but you may know him

as the Flying Slim Pixel Riffs.

Hello, sir.

Sounds like a martial arts school,

the, you know know fist of the flying

slime or something like that. Well yeah getting squishy over on the

survival guide this week but in the meantime we've been talking about the future

and where TV and film franchises could take it, along

with a little bit of chat about VR and the potential of that technology.

You can hear that at Patreon.com slash the spawn chunks if you sign up to be a paid

patron of the show you get access to the render distance which is the extended

version of the podcast a little bit of pre and post show chat every episode and it's occasionally worth listening to because we have

some insightful thoughts about the state of things and usually just what we've been up to that week.

Today's episode we're going to dip into the mailbag and focus on the community and you folks sending in your opinions on Minecraft and ideas for the future of Minecraft.

We're also going to do the same thing next Monday because if you check your calendars next month is December 25th which to those who celebrate is Christmas

So we are still going to have an episode out. It's going to be pre-recorded and it's nice and easy for us to dip into the extra Santa sized

mail sack to pull out a couple of emails that we can talk about next week as well.

After that we've already pre-recorded an episode that's going to go out on January 1st and that's a fantastic chat with

Arquio plays who came back to talk to us about archaeology now it's been in the game for a little while

so got a couple of great

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