Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.

Joining me today, we have our friend, freelance writer, Rowan Kaiser.

Whoa.

We also welcome back freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.

I'm not your friend?

No, you're just a freelance writer. We demoted you from friend status. I'm very sorry.

Boosom Buddy is available if you want it.

I'll take it. I'll take what I can get.

Okay. So we welcome our bosom buddy.

This is the very Anne of Green Gables opening to the show.

Our bosom friend, T.J. Haver.

Hello, hello.

So today we're going to be talking about the things that hate us, I guess, for lack of a, to borrow a phrase from Atmosphere.

We're going to be sort of discussing our pet peeves, but that might not even be the right way to think of it.

For me, when I was thinking about this topic, it was more like,

what are the things when you encounter them in a game, particularly strategy games, but you know, we can throw it open a little bit for a topic like this, but what are the things like

when you encounter them immediately give you that sinking feeling that like, you know,

the game might still turn out okay,

but you immediately have that, oh no, it's going to be like this, isn't it?

What are the things that give you that kind of reaction?

So that's kind of what I want to talk about, like, what are the things that sort of zap us

when we encounter them in a game and make

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