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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 84: Civilization V with Todd Brakke

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2010

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

One guest cancels, but his shoes are ably filled by Gameshark's Todd Brakke as Troy, Julian and Rob hold forth on the game that has already eaten Troy's life - and he has to keep writing about it for at least another month.Listen as the team talks about their favorite innovations in Civ 5, how the map brings the game to life, why the AI's failures are so disappointing, social policy vs civics and hopes for the future.And Julian is on drugs.

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0:00.0

dude read the first chapter

0:03.0

and then adjust and then watch the uh brittany spears uh glee episode

0:07.6

it's an incredible experience it's i feel like i just did lSD

0:11.5

you were listening to three moves ahead the official podcast of flashel.com, which is now being blogged on again.

0:24.1

This is Episode 84, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are my regular panelists, freelance writer, Julian Murdoch.

0:31.8

I like how you said that I'm your host, and you had this sort of slight tone of, like, despair.

0:42.3

Like, I'm still here it is 10 p.m. here so there's a little bit of despair going on 84 shows and 10 p.m. yeah that's i've been going

0:50.7

straight all day freelance writer rob zackney Zakeney. Hey, everybody.

0:55.7

And with us today is a special guest,

0:58.0

the producer of the other podcast

1:01.8

I'm occasionally invited on

1:03.5

from GameShark, Todd Bracky.

1:06.6

Hello, everybody. I just want to say it's great to be here,

1:09.0

and I am so relieved that my check to Troy finally cleared so I could be on the show.

1:14.9

No, I've invited Todd before, and his schedules don't quite always work out.

1:19.6

He's a great... He even knows the sieve games we're talking about here tonight.

1:23.8

I'm certainly happy to have him. This show is not as well produced as Jump the shark. But it will be because Todd's going to produce this episode. He's paying us in trade. Yeah. I do a lot of things in trade. Most of them I'm not proud of. See, and if Jeff Green had useful skills, he'd be here too. But sadly, he's a pop-up-up.

1:47.6

But he's really good at eating Doritos and fake Newton's out here.

1:49.2

Oh, and taking twit picks of it, man.

1:49.9

That guy's a pro.

1:57.4

Jeff Green, our good friend, was supposed to be here to the civilization with us,

1:59.3

and was excited to do so.

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