Can Games Be Mean?

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Episode 206 - What We Talk About When We Talk About If Games Can Be Mean

Pete, Brendan, and Jake debate whether games can be mean with our usual sense of decorum and mastery of the oral argument.
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Games Mentioned

In the year of the Dragon, Terraforming Mars, Magic: the Gathering, Barrage, Root, The Resistance, Tigris and Euphrates, Catan, The Estates, Game of Thrones: the Board Game

Preplanners

Guild of Merchant Explorers will be our next deep dive.

Music and Sound Credits

Thank you to Hembree for our intro and outro music from their song Reach Out. You can listen to the full song on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQuuRPfOyMw&list=TLGGFNH7VEDPgwgyNTA4MjAyMQ&t=3s

You can find more information about Hembree at https://www.hembreemusic.com/.

Thank you to Flash Floods for use of their song Palm of Your Hand as a sting from their album Halfway to Anywhere: https://open.spotify.com/album/2fE6LrqzNDKPYWyS5evh3K?si=CCjdAGmeSnOOEui6aV3_nA

Rules Overview Music:
Way Home by Tokyo Music Walker https://soundcloud.com/user-356546060​ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tokyo-music-walker-way...​ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pJThZlOuDtI
Intermission Music:
music elevator ext part 1/3 by Jay_You -- https://freesound.org/s/467243/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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