You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.

I'm your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is the usual panel.

Bruce Garrick.

Whoa, I'm first today? I don't like being first. It makes me nervous.

Freelance writer Julian Murdoch.

Is there a position that doesn't make you nervous?

Oh, I'm totally going to let that one go.

Ed, freelance writer and blogger, Tom Chick.

I just want to say if anybody needs a coffee, let me know.

I'll go into the kitchen and make you one right now.

See, that is why you were last this week, because our response is that, and our response that kept stepping on other people's introductions. So I'm going to have to move that. No, just let that go and pretend it didn't happen, kind of like somebody farting at the dinner table and Thanksgiving. Well, there we have. That's not punishment. Last is as good as being first. Okay. I just want everyone to know, I'm serious. I will go in there and I'll pull you a shot of espresso from my very nice Rensilio machine. I'm very good at it. I'm not just offering to, like, go into the break room and pour you something out of the cariff that's been there since 8 a.m. This was like a serious offer. For a serious... It would now mute you.

Yeah.

Tom is a coffee snob.

I don't want to spend too much time on Demigod again because I voted a podcast and a half to it.

But Bruce Tom and I had a really excruciating experience on Wednesday night with a lot of the Krispy gamer guys.

And Tom, I was in the same team as Bruce, and if you could have heard him complaining the entire time, I have to get up in three hours.

I'm leaving here in ten minutes, the countdown.

It was rightfully so. An hour and a half of that, I imagine, because we went for a good hour and a half. We did. An hour and a half, 90 minutes were trying to get that up. When I started my countdown, I left. Pardon? No. No game was ever played. No. You know game was ever played. See, we've got... Over at the gamers with jobs guys, we've got probably 20 people a night playing religiously, five on five, two teams. And they've got like this

arcane system now. Like, they feel like they've, like, figured out how to arrange the chicken

on trails correctly on the stone tablet so that they can actually get the games to fire. So we've

been doing all right over there. But there is apparently some, go ahead, Julian, but do you know what the voodoo is? Because I think I've heard about it. The voodoo that we've heard, other than the fact that you may just have one person who screws you, period, is to have somebody host the game and then you open up one slot at a time.

And that takes, I mean,

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