It is a Thursday the 6th of August 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production of the Mercy

Side Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific

skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I am your host

Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So I've had great fun

over the last few weeks because for some reason just by coincidence there has been a spate of video games that I played

when I was little getting remastered releases.

Okay.

Specifically Warcraft 3 which is a real-time strategy game, and Command and Conquer, which is another real-time strategy game.

I liked Command and Conquer.

And they both just had remastered 4K, fancy new, you know, the same game with all new graphics kind of re-releases.

And so I've been playing those and been really enjoying them because the real-time strategy game genre has kind of vanished since like I think

Starcraft 2 was the last proper one that would must have been 10 years ago now

and before that it was Warcraft 3 and that was 10 years before that.

It's, you know, the real time strategy. And I like real time strategy games because it's kind of,

it's like not Ponzi chess, which is something that I quite hear you get to do the strategic and the thinking and the things happen

You don't have the clock and taking it very seriously and frowning at people in the dark

So I mean you don't have to have the clock in chess.

You can play chess without a clock. Yeah and without a friend. But no one has a fun game of chess. Right. I used to love chess. Chess is always taking very seriously. It's a very serious game chess. You know there's more chess moves than

atoms in the universe. But like command and conquer is also, command and

conquer and games like that are also fairly time-bound in the sense if you take

too long over a move your opponents are going to get mega strong and come and

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