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EPISODE · Feb 11, 2025 · 1H 5M

#348: SETI

from So Very Wrong About Games · host Pickaxe

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. English has a word for light red (pink) where other languages don't. Russian similarly has a word for light blue. And then there's magenta, which we can all agree is a scene and a half.  Games Played Last Week: 02:35 -Fruit Fight (Reiner Knizia, CMYK, 2025)  06:55 -Fives (Taiki Shinzawa, CMYK, 2025)  09:49 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025) 12:49 -Duos (Johannes Schmidauer-König, CMYK, 2025)  16:17 -Sidereal Confluence (TauCeti Deichmann, Wizkids, 2017) 19:24 -Fishing (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2024) 24:36 -The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era (Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, and Josh Wielgus, Chip Theory Games, 2025) 32:24 -Storm Raiders (Shem Phillips, Arkus Games, 2025) News (and why it doesn't matter): 38:55 Mythic Games in trouble (again), crowdfunding commitments unfulfilled 40:37 Monolith's Reichbusters: Reloaded 41:10 Cardboard Ghosts by Amabel Holland and CRC Press 41:46 Lord of the Rings Pandemic! Fate of the Fellowship 42:06 Crawling Chaos by Mike Hutchinson on Kickstarter 44:15 Endless Winter expansion crowdfunding soon 44:28 Rebel Princess: Happily Ever After 44:44 Feature Game: SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Tomáš Holek, Czech Games Edition, 2024) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. English has a word for light red (pink) where other languages don't. Russian similarly has a word for light blue. And then there's magenta, which we can all agree is a scene and a half.  Games Played Last Week: 02:35 -Fruit Fight (Reiner Knizia, CMYK, 2025)  06:55 -Fives (Taiki Shinzawa, CMYK, 2025)  09:49 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025) 12:49 -Duos (Johannes Schmidauer-König, CMYK, 2025)  16:17 -Sidereal Confluence (TauCeti Deichmann, Wizkids, 2017) 19:24 -Fishing (Friedemann Friese, 2F-Spiele, 2024) 24:36 -The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era (Josh J. Carlson, Michael Gernes, Logan Giannini, Ryan Howard, Salem Scott, and Josh Wielgus, Chip Theory Games, 2025) 32:24 -Storm Raiders (Shem Phillips, Arkus Games, 2025) News (and why it doesn't matter): 38:55 Mythic Games in trouble (again), crowdfunding commitments unfulfilled 40:37 Monolith's Reichbusters: Reloaded 41:10 Cardboard Ghosts by Amabel Holland and CRC Press 41:46 Lord of the Rings Pandemic! Fate of the Fellowship 42:06 Crawling Chaos by Mike Hutchinson on Kickstarter 44:15 Endless Winter expansion crowdfunding soon 44:28 Rebel Princess: Happily Ever After 44:44 Feature Game: SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Tomáš Holek, Czech Games Edition, 2024) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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