Outside is Overrated. When is the last time you heard of an indoor shark attack? Have you ever tried playing a living card game at the park, only to have Gandalf blow away? Unless you have a pile of the bodies in the basement, it is virtually impossible to have a zombie horde shamble into your living room.
Mankind has spent thousands of years trying to perfect the indoors. Enjoy the fruits of those labors with your favorite games. Whether piling up hours in your favorite epic RPG, flushing Cylons out the airlock in Battlestar Galactica or enjoying a Magic duel with that special someone in your life, Outside is Overrated will be here to entertain you with our thoughts on gaming, comics, TV and movies.
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Meet the Team
Tom Sedlacek
Tom is a writer based in lovely Roseville, Minnesota. Tom and his amazing wife created Outside is Overrated as a creative outlet that melds his writing skills and his passion for gaming.
Tom loves tactical board games, and those with a hidden traitor. His favorites include Battlestar Galactica and Memoir 44.
He is also an avid console gamer, with the occasional foray onto PC. He plays multiple genres, but favors RPGs.
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Phoenix Sedlacek
Phoenix enjoys many types of nerd pop culture. She loves watching movies, sci fi tv shows and anime. Her love of board games has grown quite a bit since being with Tom Awesome. She prefers cooperative games but does enjoy deck building and living card games.
Phoenix is growing her confidence in playing video games. Some of her favorites are Diablo III, Sack boy, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman Tall Tales game to name a few. One of her favorite passions is reading, if she not glued to her phone reading fan fiction she enjoys Harry Dresden, Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle and other authors, Neuro Wolfe series, Iron Druid series.
Hopefully, one day Phoenix and Tom will be able to do a show on Sherlock Holmes.
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Hobby Box Joe Burns
OiO Co-Host Joe Burns is great. He plays everything with a particular affinity for PlayStation and old-school RPGs.
The resident podcast rules expert owns a vast collection of board games and has spent approximately 10,000 hours playing Gloomhaven.
He was reluctant to send Tom a bio, so our magnanimus hero desperately tried to fill space so this page would work correctly.
Thankfully our hero was up to the task.
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Billy Parrot
I’ve had a love of video games, music and movies since I was a wee lad on the mean streets of suburban New Brighton. I received my first Nintendo in 1989 and never looked back!
I went on to fall in love with RPG games as I continued growing and purchasing more consoles and more games. Some of my favorites would include, of course, the entire Final Fantasy legacy, Secret of Mana, Octopath Traveler and Breath of the Wild.
In my spare time outside of video games, I enjoy watching movies, reading fiction, baking and taking the occasional hike when the sun doesn’t frighten me!
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Rogue Hippo
Rogue Hippo is based out of Fort Pierce, Florida. He contributes to Outside is Overrated as often as his moderately hectic life allows.
The Hippo is the self-proclaimed King of Netflix. He was granted this honorary title by watching more Netflix than any respectable person should.
He loves board games of all types. He prefers Ameritrash, dice-chucking, conquest games but can stomach a Euro game if the company is right.
Rogue Hippo is also a mighty PC gamer and unabashed Nintendo fanboy. He prefers RPGs and strategy games but will also play any Mario, Zelda or Metroid game in existence.
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Bios coming soon for:
Dr. C, Casey Hallin
Brian Chmiel