#301: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester
Before shouting about toys professionally, Mark taught ethics at a health sciences university. He discussed matters of life and death, of cutting edge controversial technologies, of war and politics, ...
5 Mars 20241h 10min
#300: Patrons' Top 20
Walker was all like "there's this card effect in Successors" and Mark was all like "nuh-uh" but Walker was like "yeah, fer sure" and Mark goes "no way" and Walker says "way" and that's a 100% accurate...
27 Feb 20241h 18min
#299: Nucleum
The theory of the atom first posited by the pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus in roughly the 4th Century BCE. None of his actual writings have survived. The great thing about the pre-Socratics is th...
20 Feb 202456min
#298: Deckbuilding
Every man wants to be a macho, macho man To have the kind of body always in demand Jogging in the mornings, go man go Work outs in the health spa, muscles glow You can best believe that he's a macho m...
13 Feb 20241h 9min
#297: Envelopes of Cash
Let us, following in Andy Schwarz's example, highlight the fine work of Nancy Skinner, a California state senator whose "Fair Pay to Play Act" granted college athletes in California the right to profi...
6 Feb 20241h 11min
#296: Dexterity Games Revisited
It has been many a year since our early days, our salad days when we were younger and dumb and didn't know what we were doing. Much has changed, in that we are now older and dumb and don't know what w...
30 Jan 20241h 22min
#295: Federation
A pretty solid rule of thumb is that if you've been disappointed in a kind of game, try David Thompson's version of it and see how delightful it can be. Hidden movement got you down? Sniper Elite is t...
23 Jan 20241h 6min
#294: 2023 Year in Review
As ever, and with no clue what a lang syne is (much less an auld-y type configuration), we embrace the new year by commemorating the old. We would venture that the new year only truly begins once SVWA...
16 Jan 20241h 20min
