Merry Christmas from the End of the World! From the land of a thousand delays, we wish you a little cheer and romance and excitement.
Part 7: A virus on the rise and a podcast under perpetual scheduling maintenance. Just a short communique for the season and a list of also-rans. We shall resume regularly scheduled content shortly.
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Favorite mechanics? Nah.
How about a discussion of a bunch of games and the one thing each of them offers to stand out from the crowd?
One thing in one game!
Yeah, we can get into that. Follow along, if you please.
THINGS (Not just One and Two):
00:04:22 — The Election of the Century
00:26:45 — A Brief Musical Interlude (technical difficulties)
00:28:39 — Argent: The Consortium (a session)
00:32:20 — Game news?? Terra Mystica Adjacent
00:38:09 — One Thing in One Game (a list)
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Hey all.
The Punching Cardboard team is in Isolation. Isolation sucks. It’s lonely. It’s unnerving. It’s stopping us from playing games and talking about them.
But we still have voices, and we think just maybe you’d like our voices to visit the wilderness of your own isolation. You know, to counteract the ones in your brain urging you to scream and never stop.
So, for now, while this disruption lasts, we’re gonna send you this series. Our way of talking through the absurdity that is life, especially now that it’s truly absurd. These episodes will be shorter and much more frequent (because what the hell else do we have to do) and probably much more free of form and topical, not like we do the PCP any other way.
We hope you dig it.
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Welcome to episode 74. Inside you will find a lengthy discussion about games that we have played more than any others, a tasting report on a new single malt, and a few new music recommendations.
But to top it off Jim spends about a half hour talking to Richard “Doc” Diosi of Mercury Games about their upcoming reprint of Princes of the Renaissance.
So sit back and pour a wee dram and enjoy.
HEADLINES
03:45 — Madeira Revisited
16:32 — Interview with Richard “Doc” Diosi (Mercury Games)
27:23 — Princes of the Renaissance
50:36 — anCnoc 12 year old single malt
58:45 — Tame Impala, Jason Isbell, Little Steven
68;33 — Defend Your Ten (Our top ten most played games)
117:20 — True Confessions
119:00 — The Secret Q (we almost forgot)
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It’s here. Time to find out which game will win the Unplaced Worker in Punching Cardboard’s 2014 Game of Tournaments. While there has been interest, we did not have enough offers to judge the games from real live humans, so we will assign each game to a playoff bound NHL team and let them decide the fate of board gaming as we know it.
After a lot of complex algorithms and random number rolls we have a final listing of games and the NHL teams that will represent them. Here are the pairings:
A SEEDS:
Maderia – Anaheim Ducks
Robinson Crusoe – Colorado Avalanche
Caverna: The Cave Farmers – Pittsburgh Penguins
Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game – Boston Bruins
B SEEDS
Nations – San Jose Sharks
Russian Railroads – New Your Rangers
Bruxelles 1893 – St. Louis Blues
Tash-Kalar – Tampa Bay Lightning
C SEEDS:
Trains – Philadelphia Flyers
Bruges – Montreal Canadiens
Francis Drake – Los Angeles Kings
1775: The Rebellion – Chicago Blackhawks
D SEEDS
Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia – Detroit Red Wings
Rampage – Dallas Stars
Yedo – Columbus Blue Jackets
Freedom: The Underground Railroad – Minnesota Wild
Match-up analysis to follow.
Well, Krisitn has gone to Sochi to captain the Jamaican bobsled team in hopes of bringing back some Winter Olympic gold while Jim is down under rocking the guitar tech duties for Bruce Springsteen as the E Street Band rumbles across Australia. Hence, there isn’t a new podcast today.
Normal service should resume next Tuesday (A little bird told me we might know a little something about a game called Infamy).
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More than you ever thought you wanted to hear about boardgames. Or less. Depends on your point of view.