Podcast Episodes

#354: 20th Century Games

People have favourably described our physical appearances as "borderline tolerable" and "just short of hideous", and that was just our mothers. In light of this, we put ourselves forward as candidate…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

#353: Rebirth

In logic, conditionals are always true if the antecedent is false. You can't falsify the conditional if the conditions aren't met. For example, if Mark can bench 500 pounds, then vinegar tastes like …

Published on 5 months ago

#352: Ascending Empires: Zenith Edition

I was donating blood while wearing my Transformers Converse shoes, and two different phlebotomists commented positively about them. "We have won the cultural argument," I said, deliberately burying t…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

#351: Flexing New Muscles

As is readily apparent from the show's subject matter and our general presentation, we here at SVWAG are stone-cold jocks who excel at the sports and are thoroughly ripped. We trust the launcher and …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

#350: Beyond the Horizon

Despite the welcome relative absence of anthropomorphic animals this week--aside from some sundry ducks in Lorcana--we see a lot of animals and various critters this week. We eschew sacrifices to a d…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

#349: A Plowful of Games

While we hate to confirm your most reductive of preconceived notions, snow removal in Canadian cities is no joke. The fleet of vehicles required to allow for daily life in even a small Canadian city …

Published on 6 months ago

#348: SETI

Colour nouns are essentially arbitrary; how one decides to chop up the visible spectrum of light is a matter of contingent taxonomy. Some languages have one noun for both blue and green, for example.…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

#347: How Expansions Can Fail

Our upcoming convention, July 25th-27th 2025, is in its planning stages! We have a venue but nothing much else yet. Not even a name! Suggestions welcome. Mark quite likes So Very Wrong About Games Fu…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

#346: 2024 Year in Review

If you can choose to be the regular version or the spicy version, you obviously choose the spicy version. I mean, sure, the capsaicin may sting, but one assumes that the canonical version is caliente…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

#345: Thunder Road: Vendetta

"Robert! This here is velvet--not velveteen. A gentleman must learn the difference."

-Gilbert Fontaine de la Tour D'Haute Rive

Games Played Last Week:

01:53 -Fishing (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2024)…

Published on 7 months ago