
#49: Crusaders and Thematic Disconnects
Players aren't the only people who make choices, of course. Designers and publishers make decisions about the setting and the theme of their games. Insofar as games can communicate a message--whether ...
11 Joulu 20181h 8min

#48: Teotihuacan and How Far Is Too Far
As a new coping mechanism, Mark and Walker decide to expunge their deepest shameful acts of conspicuous consumption and frivolous travel by talking about it on the internet. Now that Tumblr is is dive...
4 Joulu 20181h 15min

#47: Gugong and Resolving Rules Disputes
Lots of talk of economics in this week's news. One might expect a diminishing return on such talk, but as rational consumers of news we often find a deficit of such a valuable commodity. Ceteris parib...
27 Marras 20181h 14min

#46: Coimbra and Eric Lang
There's this substance that the British people deploy called "salad cream." Chemists, for decades, have tried to break down its constituent parts; but the substance's sheer viscosity--not to mention ...
20 Marras 20181h 8min

#45: Claustrophobia and KeyForge
What's in a name? Well, if the game is KeyForge, the name is pretty much the entire game. As we have learned from bots in the past, set an algorithm loose on the internet and it'll probably come back ...
13 Marras 20181h 19min

#44: Discover: Lands Unknown and Overused Themes
We are an easily-triggered group, we geeks, we nerds; so allow us to exercize due diligence and offer the following warnings. Spoiler Alert: we discuss what spoilers are. Meta Alert: we get pretty met...
6 Marras 20181h 12min

#43: Stephenson's Rocket and Dealing with Frustration
We've always been here. Waiting, in this basement, yelling into the can. When we invented podcasts all those years ago it was merely as avenue for our pre-existing subterranean discourse. Now some of ...
30 Loka 20181h 12min

#42: Battle for Rokugan and Gateway Games
Reading your audience is a hard thing, and not even just when blasting your errant opinions over the interwebs. Mark couldn't read the room when Walker requested a certain game, and that didn't end we...
23 Loka 20181h 15min




















