The Mildly Alarming Podcast

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Episode Summary

Success! Triumph! Glorious victory. We talk about what makes for a good victory condition, whether or not degrees of victory matter, and also methods you can use to compress your computer files. Then it's on to a game review, where we report on the intelligence we gathered infiltrating spy-themed games [redacted] and Codenames. Yes, Madame Secretary, we got the facts. No, Madame Secretary, no entanglements or complications. The Ukrainian girl? No... just another face in the line of duty...

Episode Notes

Success! Triumph! Glorious victory. We talk about what makes for a good victory condition, whether or not degrees of victory matter, and also methods you can use to compress your computer files. Then it's on to a game review, where we report on the intelligence we gathered infiltrating spy-themed games [redacted] and Codenames. Yes, Madame Secretary, we got the facts. No, Madame Secretary, no entanglements or complications. The Ukrainian girl? No... just another face in the line of duty...

Intro Gag: Comin’ to ya’ live from a stately pleasure dome, I’m Tom Rich and with me as always is Elizabeth Kublai-Ross, and this is the Mildly Alarming Podcast. Episode 3d8+1: Deeply Confusing Callbacks

##Segment 1: Winrars, Winrars, and Chicken Dinrars

• Are there universal characteristics to “winning” in tabletop games, or is it just “whatever this particular game defines it as?”
• Are different “degrees” of winning at all meaningful? For instance, if I say that scoring 10 points is a minor victory but 20 points is a major victory, does that matter even a little bit?
• Can there be a successful game that has a defined ending, but no winning?

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##Mildly Alarming Reviews: [redacted] and Codenames

• The boys played a game called [redacted], in which spies sneak around an embassy and don't know what's going on. We also got in on the much-hyped Codenames. Were they games well-purchased? We'll tell you! We'll tell you more than you could ever want to know.
• [redacted] on Boardgamegeek
• Codenames on Boardgamegeek

Outro gag: Get Turnt with Johannes and Tom