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Episode 168 -- Station Placement Intricacies Jan 23, 2020

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Route building. Colony building. Future building. Restaurant building.

We turned a lot of resources into a lot of structures these past few weeks. We also bought and sold shares of stock and grilled some burgers. A little of everything, really, resulting in a lot of game talk.

STATIONS:

00:17:52 -- On Joe's Table: Xenon Profiteer & The Arrival 00:22:42 -- On Jim's Table: Food Chain Magnate: Ketchup and Other Mechanisms Expansion 00:41:35 -- Stephenson's Rocket (first take) 00:57:10 -- Pax Transhumanity (first take) 01:15:26 -- High West Campfire 01:27:22 -- On Mars (first take, in-depth) 02:11:14 -- Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry

Episode 167 -- We Got Smiles Jan 08, 2020

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Missiles are raining down in Iraq, but ain't we got smiles.

Yeah, I guess. With 2020 already looking doomed already, we steady ourselves and take a look at some of the good things we encountered over the Winter break.

We have hope. We will forge ahead. There are games to be played.

Episode 166 -- Checking it Twice Dec 19, 2019

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Another Year gone by and it's time for the lists to come out. These are the things that moved us in 2019. How do your experiences compare? Grab a holiday cocktail, relax, and enjoy. LISTS:

00:09:41 -- TV & Visual Entertainment (Spoilers and Rants) 00:25:36 -- Video / Computer Games 00:30:56 -- Board Games 01:32:23 -- Music 02:52:50 -- Whiskey & Whisky 02:57:50 -- Books

Episode 165 -- Bludgeon Forward Dec 13, 2019

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We go heavy on the games in this year's penultimate episode. Almost two hours taken to cover three games. We expect you'll have a good Idea on whether these are for you.

Enjoy.

PROCEEDINGS:

00:00:00 -- Straight Into Some Music (Delines, Clutch, Joe Henry, Perpetual Grace, Ltd.) 00:32:18 -- Symphony (first take) 00:57:44 -- Bios: Origins 2 (in-depth) 01:38:30 -- Circadians: First Light (in-depth)

Episode 164 -- Out of Tune Song Nov 22, 2019

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This episode marks six years on the air. We take some time, at Joe's behest, to consider this and where the show might go from here. Also, we revisit a a game that was featured on the second episode, and preview a new release. Have fun. THE YEARS: 00:05:15 -- Tournamentville 00:09:35 -- Apologies and Better Angels 00:16:33 -- What I Appreciates 00:22:32 -- Making Bad Better and Good Worse 00:30:19 -- 6 Years Down the Road 01:00:10 -- Tank Duel (first take) 01:25:23 -- Yedo (revisited in-depth)

Episode 163 -- Sniffles and Whiffles Nov 14, 2019

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Fighting a cold and the off-season blues, we power though this episode to bring you some pretty heavy game discussion on entries old and new.

Whisky, music and a book round out the proceedings.

CARGO:

00:14:26 -- Panamax (revisited, in-depth) 00:58:36 -- Paladins of the West Kingdom (in depth) 01:45:27 -- Tearraforming Mars: No Need to Draft 01:58:04 -- Kavalan ex-Bourbon Cask Whisky 02:04:15 -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen 02:10:58 -- Lanny, by Max Porter

Episode 162 -- Exploring the Cross-Stitch Oct 31, 2019

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Often postponed, but never defeated, this new episode transforms from a pile of scraps into a glorious quilt of gaming discourse. Other stuff as well.

Enjoy

PATTERNS:

00:10:24 -- High Frontier 00:19:44 -- Living Rules, Collections, Rules Again, and So Forth . . . . 00:41:57 -- To Play or Not to Play? 00:54:24 -- Hannibal and Hamilcar (1st Take) 01:03:28 -- Polis 01:05:37 -- More Hannibal 01:08:18 -- Back to Polis 01:15:06 -- New Games?? 01:18:42 -- Ardbeg AN OA Single Malt 01:33:10 -- Music (Sturgill Simpson, Mikal Cronin, Mark Lanegan, Anna Meridith, Guided by Voices) 02:03:32 -- War Room (1st Take)

Episode 161 -- To Be Fair Oct 04, 2019

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Consider a concert set list. The band comes out and opens with a couple of deep cuts, a bit slow-tempo, really a nod to the fans. But then they kick it in, building tension, generating release, mixing cuts from all their albums, back and forth across the years. For the encore, a few more deep cuts for the die-hards who haven't rushed out to beat the traffic.

We'll just say that this episode is like that show.

CUTS:

00:16:08 -- Player Usage and the Art of Making Out 00:21:46 -- Guild Usage and the Art of Restaurant Patronage 00:23:59 -- T-Shirt usage and the Art of Support 00:27:52 -- City of the Big Shoulders and the Art of Declaration 00:31:18 -- Creating Music and the Art of Distribution 00:35:21 -- High Frontier 4 All and the Art of Paying What's Due 00:39:10 -- The Long and Winding Road (A Games Journey) 01:36:25 -- Right Here, Right Now: Top 5 Euro Games 01:53:04 -- Undaunted: Normandy (in-depth) 02:27:21 -- Snap, by Belinda Bauer

Episode 160 -- Fatal Flaws Sep 19, 2019

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We start slow, as cool ambient music on a rainy Autumn evening, but by the halfway point we warm to the task and heat the discussion up to a boil.

Some games just get you that way.

TEMPS:

00:06:01 -- Tournament Losses (Wir Sind das Volk) 00:17:11 -- Innovation & Shogun (sessions) 00:28:25 -- Five-Player Games, now! 00:40:57 -- Spiderman on PS4 00:52:35 -- Endless Legend 01:00:45 -- City of the Big Shoulders (in-depth) 01:43:50 -- Vindication (preview) 01:54:57 -- Oban Little Bay 01:58:32 -- Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan

Episode 159 -- A Tight Ten Sep 05, 2019

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Games, Games, Game. Now that Summer is ended, or at least Summer vacation has, we're getting back into a routine that promises to result in the playing of more games.

As a result, despite a brief interlude where we express a bit of weariness with the state of the world, we're diving deep into a few games currently hitting our table. Get your wet suit on and join us. ROUTINES:

00:09:18 -- Wir Sind das Volk (tournament sessions) 00:33:49 -- Sekigahara (Session) 00:45:20 -- Weary and Filled with Despair 00:55:45 -- The City of the Big Shoulders (preview session) 01:19:27 -- Lords of Hellas (in-depth)

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