TDT # 434 - Dealing with Hype

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Sleuth, Paperback Co-Operative, State Smarts, Chess, Above and Below, Simurgh, Gum Gum Machine, and the Colt Express Expansion. We hear a tale of Horror and one of outrage, talk about game clubs, and Tom gives us a rundown of the Come and Play day with GTS distribution. Finally, we end the show talking about how to deal with the hype machine!

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink.
0:04.5	Cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink dot com
0:08.9	thanks for your support
0:10.6	the dice tower
0:11.7	episode four three four hype hype pipe The Dice Tower, episode 434.
0:14.0	Hype, hype, hype, hype, hype! Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:42.0	On today's show, Jeff tries to keep us from a especially the people who play them.
0:42.6	On today's show, Jeff tries to keep us from exploding.
0:46.2	Brian has the blues, and both Dan and Tom Kendrick update us on their ongoing board game
0:51.9	groups.
0:53.0	Plus we have a new type of tail,
0:55.0	Tom tells us about the GTS common play day,
0:58.0	and we all share our strategies for dealing with board game hype.
1:02.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the human
1:04.7	hype machine himself Tom Vassil. I don't think I'm the human hype machine.
1:11.2	You have to admit that you play a pretty big role
1:15.1	in keeping this whole thing rolling.
1:17.3	You know what though?
1:18.6	I have, my hype machineness has gone down some
1:22.0	and has been taking up some other people because I talk about
1:25.1	new games and upcoming games but I'm talking about games that are coming out
1:28.5	usually within a three-month radius and the Kickstarter promoters are talking about things that are
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