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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 73: What Made You?

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2010

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Troy and Rob are joined by Jenn Cutter in a trip down memory lane. The topic: How did you end up the gamer you've become? When did Rob and Troy learn they were strategy gamers? How do games fit into the rest of your life? How do you deal with being the only gamer in a social circle? Which games poke which aspects of our character? Troy and Jenn also explain BBSes to Rob.Also, a date is set for the Washington DC area Flash of Steel/Three Moves Ahead meet up.

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0:00.0

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, and this is episode 73.

0:09.3

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is one of my regular panelists.

0:15.6

A truncated regular panel today, we have freelance writer Rob Zakeney.

0:19.2

Good evening, all.

0:22.8

Julian was going to be here,

0:28.6

but he's on a business trip and could not make it. Tom's life continues to be crazy. We do hope we can have him on soon. And Bruce is, of course, busy saving lives. So we have Rob, but we can't do it

0:34.1

with just the two of us. So I went to my very deep bench of help,

0:39.4

and of course there's one person who could never say no to me.

0:42.5

That is my very from Open Alpha,

0:45.0

the video blogger who was on our episode 52,

0:48.5

gender and gaming show,

0:50.4

a good friend of the show,

0:52.7

and a good friend of Flash of Steel,

0:55.0

Ms. Jen Cutter.

0:58.8

Jen, thank you for joining us. My pleasure, and that was one heck of an intro there.

1:03.8

Got to give you the big intro, because I haven't heard from you in a while. At least the people in the show haven't. So, Jen, why don't you just fill people in on where they can find you

1:09.5

and what you're doing in case they've forgotten who you are?

1:12.7

Oh, gosh. I've been covering gaming since I was about 16. And I used to be on a TV show up in Canada called Call for Help. And you can see me these days on open alpha.com. TV on hack5.org, H-A-K-5.org. And really the best place to go is

1:31.4

my blog, which is gencutter.com. And that is Jen with two ends. It's very, very important.

1:37.0

Very, very picky about my name. And you'll get all my links to everything I do there.

1:44.4

Today's episode, tonight's topic, is something that we hope that Jen covers some perspective

1:48.8

in.

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