Hello and welcome to the very 134th episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast,

the podcast that's all about board games, board games and the people who love board games.

My name is Matt Lees and today it's just me and old Quentin Smith.

I'm 12 months into the pandemic and I still love board games, even though we've had to play them digitally for too long.

It's strange. I'm actually getting to the point now where it's probably Stockholm syndrome and I'm really enjoying playing things digitally to a degree.

And I think that rather than going through the early stages of being like, oh, it's so strange having this element that I have to now contend with, I worry that when I get back to the table, I'm going to be annoyed that I'm not going to be able to, like, resize components at will or hover over the table all at once, completely being able to survey everyone's play dates and everyone's boards the right way up, according to me.

I'm going to miss that functionality in tabletop simulator where if you, say you know you need to gain two grain

you can just control c control v your existing grain and just pop more grain into existence

reaching across the table it's going to feel so old-fashioned yeah i mean it's become a standard

question of mine now whether i ask it overtly or ask it to myself during the teach of the game

um of which components

can I copy and paste and delete into the void of infinity and which can't, which things

are limited and which aren't.

And that's going to be weird not having that anymore of being like, oh, can I, I guess

I don't need this cube anymore rather than putting it back in the bag, I'm just going

to eradicate it from existence.

That is really satisfying.

That said, you just published a review of enormous economic Chicago simulator city of the big shoulders recently.

Yes.

Yes, I did.

And in that, you suggested swapping the rubbish paper money out that it comes with for chips.

And as soon as I saw those weighted poker chips on your table, I was like, ooh, you know what?

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