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BoardGameSpeak is back, more or less. They posted a brand-new show a few weeks ago, but didn't explain where they'd been since last fall, and have posted a year-old misplaced recording since then.
The show is OK, and no better. I actually don't really like the hosts' style too much. I bet they're personally good guys and I'd like to meet them some day, and certainly they have done a great job running the boardgamegeek.com website for many years now... but on-air they come off as a bit, um, off, to me. The lead host seems deeply Libertarian, right-leaning and rather smug about it. Now I'll be the first to say your kink is OK, but he lets this flavor much of what he says, and in their last show of last year he made a terribly unfortunate comment about New Orleans. When the show vanished thereafter I imagined any number of terrible voodoo-related fates that he might have brought down on himself, but here they are again.
Also there are no women on the show ever. This isn't entirely their fault, of course; it's well-known that the game-fan and game-production worlds have gender-balance issues. But they act as if there aren't any women to be found anywhere in gaming, whenever the subject is approached. Once or twice they've had phone conversations with someone's game party and upon hearing a female voice in the background chatter the hosts are all WAIT YOU HAVE A WOMAN THERE?!?! WTF HA HA Other than that the show's a sausage party, which is unfortunate and igry.
The show is OK, and no better. I actually don't really like the hosts' style too much. I bet they're personally good guys and I'd like to meet them some day, and certainly they have done a great job running the boardgamegeek.com website for many years now... but on-air they come off as a bit, um, off, to me. The lead host seems deeply Libertarian, right-leaning and rather smug about it. Now I'll be the first to say your kink is OK, but he lets this flavor much of what he says, and in their last show of last year he made a terribly unfortunate comment about New Orleans. When the show vanished thereafter I imagined any number of terrible voodoo-related fates that he might have brought down on himself, but here they are again.
Also there are no women on the show ever. This isn't entirely their fault, of course; it's well-known that the game-fan and game-production worlds have gender-balance issues. But they act as if there aren't any women to be found anywhere in gaming, whenever the subject is approached. Once or twice they've had phone conversations with someone's game party and upon hearing a female voice in the background chatter the hosts are all WAIT YOU HAVE A WOMAN THERE?!?! WTF HA HA Other than that the show's a sausage party, which is unfortunate and igry.