391: "What Makes For Great Tournament Play"

Space Cats Peace Turtles

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

Games, Leisure:games, Hobbies, Leisure

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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We've got an off-book episode this week for you. Matt and Hunter have a frank conversation about what they value in high level Twilight Imperium play. I'm not sure we find an absolute metric but these are thoughts we've been having lately so check that out. Matt also admits that Hunter is a really smart guy finally. After so many years of Matt shooting his friend down, he finds the truth. 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.
0:10.9	Episode 391, what makes for great tournament play.
0:16.3	Music by Ben Prunty, featuring Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson.
0:42.0	I can only think about the Outer Wilds.
0:46.3	So this is a horrible energy to have for the start of a Space Cats episode because there's only one thing on my mind right now.
0:49.0	Right.
0:49.6	And it's the Outer Wilds, which we haven't even revealed on Old Gamers Almanac yet.
0:56.1	So we're kind of out of space, out of time here.
0:58.9	There's a lot of out of sync things happening.
1:00.8	We're definitely going to, we're stepping on a little bit of the old gamers almanac,
1:05.9	which I don't mind.
1:07.3	I don't, how about this?
1:08.7	We use this time to say,
1:16.5	Hey, our other show, which is a video game show, has kind of been in hiatus.
1:21.7	It isn't a rigid weekly show anymore.
1:23.8	Now it's for fun.
1:30.9	And if you are someone that enjoys the Outer Wilds, which is a video game that came out in 2019, basically about exploring, about exploring the stars. Not the stars, exploring one super weird
1:40.4	solar system. Yes, yes. One super weird and they're really quite tiny.
1:44.8	If you think about it, it's all incredibly tiny.
1:46.7	Well, no, once you start looking at the map, literally only about 20 kilometers across.
1:50.9	This whole, this whole solar system is 20 kilometers, just to be clear.
1:55.6	Yeah, so it's a little bit, it's not quite, you know, space opera.
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