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Chef Monkey
@chefmonkeygaming.bsky.social
🍽️ Tavernkeeper by trade, adventurer at heart
📢 Host of 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 - tales from the realm of MMOs & RPGs
🛡️ Pull up a chair at The Tavern → discord.gg/73KfecTgEW
📧 Contact: realchefmonkey@gmail.com
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📜Every great community starts with a few voices around the fire.
If you love MMOs & RPGs, come help shape The Tavern as one of its first adventurers.
✨Help shape the roots of a community that grows with every quest, tale, laugh, and bond.
🪑Pull up a seat→ discord.gg/73KfecTgEW
🍻See you in The Tavern
Join the The Tavern Discord Server!
Check out the The Tavern community on Discord – hang out with 20 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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It’s been a hot minute.

🎙️One more episode of Side Quests & Save Points to wrap Season 1.

🔴Weekly streams return next week with more RPG and MMO content.

🎉New project announcement very soon. Watch this space.

🍻 Join The Tavern and keep up with all the news!
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Join the The Tavern Discord Server!
Check out the The Tavern community on Discord – hang out with 25 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
discord.gg
September 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Side Quests & Save Points will now drop full episodes instead of parts - easier to enjoy and it frees us up for the next wave of content we’ve been cooking behind the scenes.

Season 1 wraps over the next few weeks.
The quest log’s about to get a lot more interesting.
youtube.com/@chefmonkeygaming
Chef Monkey
A Career as a professional Chef, an avid gamer, a massive final fantasy fan and a lover of MMO's and RPG's in general! Come and join me on my journey as we talk about Lore, Content, Mechanics and vari...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
💯 subs on YouTube!
This started as a fun little podcast side quest, and now it’s turned into something much bigger.
Thank you to everyone who's watched, shared, or just stuck around for the chaos and conversations.
More to come - appreciate you all 💾💙
youtube.com/@chefmonkeygaming
Chef Monkey
A Career as a professional Chef, an avid gamer, a massive final fantasy fan and a lover of MMO's and RPG's in general! Come and join me on my journey as we talk about Lore, Content, Mechanics and vari...
youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Bit of a quiet one tonight, couch and console night!
Hopefully get the next few episodes edited over the coming few days and that will wrap season 1 of Side Quests and Save Points!
Got something else really exciting in the works!! Watch this space.
July 30, 2025 at 10:16 PM
🎧 New pod episode is out!
Voice actor @javierprusky.bsky.social joins me to talk Bakool Ja Ja from FFXIV, audition chaos, anti-hero arcs, Fallout 76, Kingdom Hearts, and why he'd love to be hilariously disemboweled in a horror game.

It’s chaotic, heartfelt, and full of laughs.
youtu.be/KmUvVktU8FQ
🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 ft. ‪Javier Prusky - Episode 8 Part 1
YouTube video by Chef Monkey
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July 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Frustrated once again with MORE technical issues on the podcast!
This is becoming very repetitive and causing serious issues in producing content!!
So many issues with the episode I recorded with
@javierprusky.bsky.social with help only coming when I call out @riversidefm.bsky.social publicly!!!!!!!
July 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Good news! the audio issues affecting our files have been resolved!
We will be releasing our episode of Side Quests and Save Points with @javierprusky.bsky.social next Monday!
Watch this space =D
Unfortunately due to technical complications with the recording this weeks podcast is going to be released next week to give us some more time to work through the issues with riverside.fm!
Instead there will be bonus shorts and clips released throughout the week!
July 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Dusting off the PS2 and diving into something special tonight:
🔹 Dark Cloud, on original hardware
🔹 Baseline speedrun attempt (with plenty of chaos)

First stream in a long while, so if you’ve ever rebuilt a village or yelled at a Georama limit, you’ll feel right at home.

twitch.tv/chefmonkeygaming
July 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Unfortunately due to technical complications with the recording this weeks podcast is going to be released next week to give us some more time to work through the issues with riverside.fm!
Instead there will be bonus shorts and clips released throughout the week!
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Trying to shake up my feed a bit. Looking for more creators who live and breathe RPGs.
Whether you're into turn-based classics, MMO chaos, or weird one-offs, drop a recommendation for me to try and say hi!
July 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
🎥New Video Up NOW!
I sat down with @radicalfishgames.com to talk about one of the best RPG mechanics I’ve seen in years!
a cooking/buff system that only rewards players when they use the buffs.

No more item hoarding. Just good design that encourages real-time decision-making.
🔗 youtu.be/0dKR2i5vMr0
How Alabaster Dawn Fixes Item Hoarding in RPGs (Genius Cooking System)
YouTube video by Chef Monkey
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July 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🎙️SideQuests & SavePoints started as a side quest but became a main quest.
Huge thx to the first guests who took a chance on me:
@rinkarigani.bsky.social
@gheeyom.bsky.social
@joesephyr.bsky.social
@genesisvii.bsky.social
@radicalfishgames.com
@thebroodles.bsky.social
@javierprusky.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🎮There are two types of RPG gamers.
☝️Gamers who played Dark Cloud
✌️Gamers who have yet to understand the genius of this game.
July 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🎙️New episode of Side Quests & Save Points just dropped!

To celebrate 25 years of FFIX, I sat down with @thebroodles.bsky.social, world record speed runner to talk about why FFIX is still a masterpiece.

Tetra Master? Nobles minigame? Ozma?
We talk about everything.
📺 Watch now: youtu.be/iJ0ueL2oAGk
🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 ft. @broodoo01 - Episode 7 Part 1
YouTube video by Chef Monkey
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July 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Some said it couldn’t be done.
Many had fallen. Many had tried.
But I, a humble gamer, have finally finished a game in my backlog
Was it emotional? Yes.
Was the backlog watching silently, already preparing the next boss fight? Absolutely.
But for now, I stand victorious.
July 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🎙️ Getting real tired of Riverside. FM changing wisely used features each update - plus the inconsistent recording quality is wearing thin.

Thinking of jumping ship to Descript.
Anyone using it? Would love to hear your thoughts - DMs open or drop a reply.
July 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🧙‍♂️ Calling All RPG & MMO Streamers 🎮

I'm on the hunt for JRPG, RPG, and MMO streamers to watch and maybe raid into.
⚠️Warning⚠️ I come bearing exactly 1 (one) viewer! But hey a raids a raid 🍻

📜 Introduce yourself!
What you're playing, your favourite game & who you are 👀
❌ don't just drop your link.
April 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Been in the hospital since Monday night, so content's taking a 2-week AFK.

Turns out I'm not as tanky IRL as I am in-game.
Appreciate the heals (and patience). Be back soon - hopefully with better loot rolls.
April 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Smoother combat. Voice acting. Cutscenes. Seasonal world changes.
A massively improved character creator.

Outward 2 is upgrading the RPG formula in all the right ways.
@gheeyom.bsky.social breaks it down in our latest episode of
🎙️Side Quests & Save Points:An MMO & RPG Podcast💾

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April 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The next round in 🍻The Tavern🍺 is live!

In Part 2, we’re back with @gheeyom.bsky.social to talk about his biggest RPG influences, what’s next for Nine Dots Studio, and why he believes Romancing SaGa 2 is the best RPG remake of all time.

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🎙️ Side Quests & Save Points – Ep 2 Part 2
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April 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Split-screen wasn’t just a feature - it was the mission.

In our latest episode of Side Quests & Save Points, @gheeyom.bsky.social shares how Outward's couch co-op vision led to sacrifices, tech constraints, and a bold stand against industry trends.

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April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New short from 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points!

Guillaume (@ninedotsstudio.bsky.social) explains how great RPGs layer mechanics for immersion — breaking systems down to build a more meaningful experience.

🍻 Watch here: www.tiktok.com/@chefmonkeyg...
🎮 Ever wondered how RPG mechanics should be built? Guillaume Boucher-Vidal the CEO of@ninedotsstudio explains why their design philosophy breaks things down into meaningful steps - so YOU, the player,...
TikTok video by Chef Monkey
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April 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Trying to tilt my feed toward people who really love MMO/RPGs - not just creators, anyone with stories, nostalgia, or way too many feelings about fictional characters.

What was the game that started it?
The one that pulled you in and never let go?

Always curious where everyone’s journey began.
April 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
New episode from 🍻The Tavern🍺 is live!

We sat down with @gheeyom.bsky.social to talk about what it really takes to build an indie RPG studio from the ground up - and how they sold over 3 million copies of their game without AAA money.

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🎙️ Side Quests & Save Points – Ep 2 Part 1
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April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Spicy RPG take straight from 🍻The Tavern🍺…

@ninedotsstudio.bsky.social CEO says the best RPG remake isn’t FFVII - it’s Romancing SaGa 2.
And honestly? He might be right.

Full episode drops Monday. Here’s your sneak peek:
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April 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM