310: Twilight Imperium: The HBO Mini-series

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Galactic Council went chaotic evil this week and wanted us to provide you with the sequel to everyone's favorite episode: TI The Movie. This time we have to design a mini-series set in the Twilight Imperium universe, meant to be released on HBO circa 2010. We totally took the prompt really seriously and this is a very earnest attempt at that. There's no funny business, there's no references to the Watchmen, and there are absolutely no Muppets. Agenda Phase: RockPaperLizard asks “Would you be interested as content creators in recording games specifically oriented for ‘Listenability.’” To check out the Community Plays TI Discord: https://discord.gg/FXWFN6g5Q Music provided by Ben Prunty. Find more at benpruntymusic.com or benprunty.bandcamp.com Additional Music and Sounds by Brian Kupillas. https://wanderinglake.bandcamp.com/ To learn more about our Discord, Patreon, Merch, and more, visit https://spacecatspeaceturtles.com/

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0:00.0	This is Space Cats Peace Turtles, the unofficial podcast for Fantasy Flights Twilight Imperium.
0:11.5	Episode 310, Twilight Imperium, The HBO miniseries.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martins and Hunter Donaldson. A Max original.
0:46.3	This is not on Netflix.
0:48.3	At any point in this episode, somebody says something that sounds a little too Netflix.
0:55.1	I will kick you out of this recording.
0:57.3	You know what I'm excited to do is to make this specifically, the pitch was an HBO miniseries and HBO.
1:03.0	Like, Max is the thing now. Does HBO even exist? Sort of.
1:06.6	I want to make a distinction between an HBO miniseries and a Max original. We are writing the
1:13.0	HBO miniseries. You know what I'm saying? Wow, I just realized, circa 2010. I just realized
1:18.2	how truly dumb Max is as a rebrand. Really bad. In the future, people are going to be like,
1:24.6	yeah, you're watching it on Max? Um, and people are going to be like, well, you mean HBO?
1:28.5	And they'll be like, what is HBO?
1:29.9	Like, people are just going to not know what HBO is?
1:32.2	You're like, are you talking about that thing that appears at the beginning of every
1:35.2	Max TV series?
1:38.3	There's also like other things with Max in the title, like Cinemax and like plenty of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. What's going on there? I don't know. It's tough. It's tough out there for streaming platforms. They don't have enough money. I think the streaming platforms don't have enough money. And that's the official stance I would like to take on this show is that I think the executives deserve more.
2:05.7	What do you think? I agree. I agree. I think the CEOs should strike.
2:15.2	I think the CEOs should go on strike. I would do anything to see a group of executives just out in a picket line. Like, what are they striking about?
2:17.9	People would be like, what are these people doing?
2:20.4	And it's just them out there just being like, we want more money.
2:24.9	We don't get enough money.
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