D6G Ep 69: Forecasting Feats or Failures? & Civilization Detailed Review

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4.8 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2010

⏱️ 249 minutes

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Summary

Back in January (Ep 47) the D6G team made some bold (crazy?) predictions of what would happen in 2010. Now it's time to see if they were right... at all. Did any of them get anything correct? Later, the team dives in to Fantasy Flight Game's Sid Meier's Civilization board game. Does this version of the classic turn based 4x computer game finally get it right? All that and our other not-too-horrible segments including: - The Hollywood Minute - What's in the News - Do You Ever Notice - Total Fan Girl - & More If you'd like to discuss the show with us and others in our forum thread: . The following fine organizations help make this show possible: , on behalf of friendly, professional gaming stores everywhere. ==Quick Reference== The News: 1 hr 9 min Forecasting Feats or Failures: 1 hr 15 min Hollywood Minute: 2hr 15min Total Fan Girl: 2 hr 30 min Civilization Review: 2 hr 39 min Links Discussed in the show: Craig's Bookshelf: Raef's Blog: Craig's Blog: Russ's Blog: Total Fan Girl Blog: Pulp Gamer Network:

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0:00.0	This is the D6 generation with your hosts, Craig Gallant.
0:16.2	If you're getting any conversation, it's not charity.
0:19.7	Russ Wakeland, you put me on a a boat with freaking dragons attacking me and whatnot?
0:24.2	Now we're talking.
0:25.8	And Rafe, uh, Hollywood Granger.
0:30.4	Now that's Jimmy Django right there.
0:32.9	With contributions from Total Fan Girl.
0:36.8	Vampires do not sparkle.
0:38.6	And our loyal listener.
0:40.4	One game is very like another to the D6G reviews it, brother.
0:44.7	Welcome to another edition of Rapid Fire, the round-table discussion of all things gaming coming at with a speed of a lightning strike by ancient Egyptians in tanks, supported by cannons and grenadiers.
0:53.3	Today's edition is brought to you by, brought to you four Norbert, Stubbs, and the rest of the NJSOBs.
0:59.1	Congrats from Brian and Jeff on another fantastic food machine event.
1:03.8	I'm Gingley McNardigan, your host today, as always, our panelists are Russ Economic Win Wakeland and Rave Culture Gatherer Granger.
1:10.7	Let's begin.
1:12.0	Issue number one.
1:13.5	The term juxtaposition refers to placing things that do not generally belong together side by side in a new or different configuration.
1:21.2	Central to the surrealist school of art, juxtapositioning objects is often used to illustrate deeper meaning or similarities between the objects.
1:28.1	However, juxtapositioning can just confuse other people.
1:32.3	Question, what are two things that you could put side by side that don't generally go side by side in a game that would be intriguing to gamers?
1:39.5	Hanging Gardens Granger.
1:41.3	Peanut Potter and Chocolate.
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