You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com, though increasingly Flash of Steel is becoming the official blog of Three Moves Ahead, considering how rarely I update it. I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and you are listening to episode 83. And with me today are my regular panelists, freelance writer Julian Murdoch. Hello, hello. It's good to be back. It is great to have you back. Did you miss me? Always. Where have you been? I've been traveling. I've been in San Francisco for a couple weeks. So I got to see all sorts of folks there who said, oh, I love your podcast. When are you going to be on again? So that's why I'm back. Because the fans want me. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. Maybe you and Rob can do the show without me then. Other panelists, freelance writer and colleague over at GameShark, Mr. Rob Zakney. Rob. Hey, are we out of beta yet? Time to shut this bad boy down. Yes.

Yeah, it's a reference to the good old games debacle.

What the hell was that?

Just an absolute disastrous decision.

Yeah, I mean, when I saw the idea,

I wrote it, it was going to be a reboot.

It was going to be a, it was a poorly phrased, poorly organized reboot.

I mean, what the hell were they thinking?

Shock people?

Did you see the video that they have with them in monks robes talking about their revival?

That, I will say, actually gets funnier.

The more you look at it, it's definitely like the slow motion train wreck effect um like you're watching it you're like the you know like they're apologizing for it but

they're calling each other brother um it's just it's it's incredibly awkward and you'd think you'd want

something like that really scripted right but clearly they just like set up a camera in a corner

and just like all right let camera in a corner and just are like,

all right, let's just one take.

Yeah, not the finest moment for good old games.

The service that I still like very much and will continue to use, especially if they bring

back some of the SSI back catalog guides, if you can acquire that, all will be forgiven.

A few words about last week's show on Victoria 2 that we had with Chris King,

Rob and I interviewed Chris King to talk Victoria 2, and good God that show blew up.

It has outpaced the Chris Ramo Starcraft show for downloads, which I thought is remarkably

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