Transcript from my At-A-Glance, 2022, entry dated Thursday 13th October (a quarter decade to-the-day ago!), about listening to The Dice Tower podcast:
I'd forgotten till listening this morning but looking at the LIEbrary rulebook I noticed that the designer or codesigner was named Darryl Hannah and I almost said something about this but figured no, probably just coincidence, bu they were talking about it on The Dice Tower Podcast (we can editorialize about whether it's a very good podcast or not later) and it turns out, it *is* that Darryl Hannah? So anyway it's not a very good podcast and I regret downloading over 100 episodes of it (it's going to take a month to get through them at the rate I'm going!) though I am extracting a few solid recommendations from it and I think it may get marginally less gimmicky as it progresses through the years? What I've been really probably looking for is located in the Ludology podcast, Geoff Engelstein having a segment in this podcast but this pointing me toward that; I'd heard of it previously but it had dropped of my radar before I developed my apparatus for podcast listening, so. Engelstein quoting Rand without editorializing in the least, in a segment where he also talks about evolutionary psychology, in an episode I listened to today does give me pause...
(Flashing back really quickly to the first sentence of the entry dated Sunday 9 October for context about that LIEbrary game:)
Missing Viticulture (among the board games Alex took up to Rexburg for him and mostly Ryan & Angeles to enjoy) so we couldn't play that when Hannah swung by to pick up a few things but her roommate Jazz came with her and her mom was apparently one of the cofounders of Simply Fun? so we played a round of LIEbrary.
The Friday 14th October entry picks up directly from the previous day, anyway, and references Games Studies Study Buddies, a games studies podcast I'd discovered earlier on in the year:
Whew, I'd thought for a second there that I'd just been spoiled by GSSB's academic (read Marxist) bent but- I don't know if Engelstein is problematic or not, whatever, but what they've done is gone a more extreme Writing Excuses route, inviting more diverse cohosts (Writing Excuses still has the regular rotation of the original 'casters, this one has only minisode pop-ins from one of theirs) including apparently the designers of MIND MGMT? Even outside of that though, just the whole tack here, and the brilliant interviews they conduct, it feels like I'm being made love to by a magnificent arabian stallion. Orgasmic stuff.
I... I could've left that last part out if I wanted... I only transcribed the first sentence, one sentence out of the entry for the 9th, from an entry that goes into further details and tangents... including romantic ones... But, I'd left in the stuff about LIEbrary, which is tangential on its own, from the entry on the 13th, which I didn't need to get into. Why do I do this to myself.
I referenced the writing advice podcast Writing Excuses there of course; it was originally hosted by three white guys.
Picking up from that entry re: Ludology, anyway, the Tuesday the 18th entry is about jumping back to the beginning of the back-catalog (these contexts are probably clearer in the At-A-Glance itself, where I also have a running list of the media I consume daily):
Okay onto the early episodes of the podcast now and it's better than Die Tower at the time but still certainly not great. The closest thing they come to a citational apparatus is when they crack open a dictionary and go through point by point discussing whether they agree with its definition of a "game" or not, ho-hum. The Space Biff podcast is great though!
Space Biff is a blog and podcast I was introduced to via an interview with Dan "pronounced like the Walden guy" Thurot on Ludology; it's the reason I'm transcribing these entries in the first place, laying groundwork for a future blogpost that I realized required context. A coda to the discussion of the TDT podcast, anyway, my entry from Wednesday November 2, a day upon which I had listened to episodes 423 and 425:
I actually enjoyed both episodes of The Dice Tower Podcast quite a bit- at first I thought it had something to do with Rich Summers randomly co-hosting one episode but the second was- I was going to say "bearable," but- enjoyable as well! I guess with the mini segments in large part moving onto their own podcasts on the Dice Tower network? and the Tales of whatever segments even.. I didn't know the Plaid Hat Podcast (was?) a member of the Dice Tower network.