Space Station Pheonix Play Through | The Game Haus Live!

Hello everybody. Hi. Gosh. Hi everybody. Hope everyone's doing a good Yeah. Are we live? Genuinely are live. Okay. I never know. Yes, we are. Hi everybody. Uh we out here. Happy Friday to you nerds. Um uh how's everyone doing all things considered? That's always a Yeah, obviously we won't get into everything, but all things considered, right?

All things considered, you all right? I hope everyone's doing uh good. Can you give me a little bit of polarization? Look at this right here. Y'all look at movie magic. Look at this. This dome player magic. There you go. Now you just Now it's got a nice glow on the side of my a good dome rim. Little halo lighting.

Oh. Um, happy good Friday. Happy good Friday to the folks who uh celebrate loud. Is it good? So, we are trying out a a separate way to do our sound. Yeah. So, if it is if it is loud, please let us know. We are up in the on our end. It looks like it's the same, but it very easily could bring that slider down like 10% maybe.

Hey, we're still talking. Yeah, maybe that's better. We are trying uh we have a different we have a we've had this mic for ever and we're trying to figure out how to get good backup sound when we have uh when us and Jimmy all do a video together because sometimes it creates weirdness with our sound.

Plus, we would really love to stream with Jimmy and uh this might be the way to do that. Yes. So, we are not wired up today. Yes. Because it gets difficult when we need to have more than two lav mics. It starts to get uh complicated. Yeah, mostly with the sinking sounds because the sounds are always like literally like a quarter of a frame off each other and then they tend to drift and so it gets confusing.

Um feeling punky cuz I got a co booster yesterday. Well, Steve, uh I guess it's better than punky having co so yeah, that's that. But uh yeah, sometimes you feel a little bit like burp, you know, afterward. Part of the game, part of the part of a part of the price we pay, I suppose. Hope that means you're just chilling out and playing some games and hanging.

on a nice Friday morning. Hope everyone's got good weather today. It's kind of overcast and nice today. I'm I'm really kind of digging it. Um a little bit cooler because we're we're going to be warming up soon enough, man. Yeah, I know. It's kind of got to start cooler again. I was like, "Oh, no. To get cooler." I'm like, "Ah, no.

Let's let's let's be okay with the fact that it's a little cooler before it starts getting to be like 110, right?" So, we haven't really had much rain in the se in the spring yet. No, we had a lot of rain in the winter. Although, we had a really rainy winter here, but it spring has been like very dry.

Yeah. Um, that's better. Still louder than that. Oh, we'll turn it down a teeny bit more. But, uh, we are glad that it's a little louder because I always feel like we are we tend to be on the quieter end, I feel like. Um, but it's good to know that this is So, we do sound like using a starfish at a microphone.

Yeah. You know what? They do not participate. They they like to wander around starfish. They sure do. Real slow like, you know, real slow like. But, you know, starfish are notoriously difficult to work with. Okay. Everybody knows that about them. Everyone knows that about this. Uh we're going to be playing some Space Station Phoenix, by the way, today, which is a a game we quite love this game.

We're huge fans of this game. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's such a good game. I think so, too. I think it's a really really great game. Um that kind of went on the radar. Shouts out to Crook, uh who is the one who kind of told us about this originally. This is his copy of the game. This is still his cop.

We have a couple copies. We're holding some stuff hostage till he comes up here and gets them, you know. Yeah. you know, we're not opposed. We're not opposed. Yeah. So, uh, we'll steal a game from a friend or two, you know. Um, but yeah, it's really, really good. We got to play it again at Dice Tower West and we're like, "Oh, that's right.

This game is outstanding." Such a good game. And so, this also was picked by our patrons. Thank you so much to our patrons who are 10 bucks and up. They get to pick a game once a month and they've picked this one, which is super cool because uh they're here's the thing. Tell our patrons. They're about that hottest.

Yeah, they tend to be about that hottest and so um yeah, so are we to be fair. But uh it was very cool. I really love this game. Yeah. Uh Jeff says, "This week was extremely rough, so I'm glad to have some videos to watch today." Heck yeah, man. Uh in this era and in every era, our whole goal on the channel is just to be a safe space for people to gather and have a laugh, relax a little.

Um because the world is still doing what the world is doing and and that doesn't just because we're out here having a good time does not mean that we are not thinking about those things. We just want to provide a respit for a moment. Yeah. Um, so hopefully this helps with that. Hopefully come here, chill out, you know, that's always our goal during CO, which was like, hey, like you can come hang out with the Murfs and it's just going to be like relaxing and hopefully stressfree and our mission right now again.

We're going to be hopefully doing that again. Yeah. Um, said, uh, I love this does not get enough publicity. I totally agree, Jeff. It's so good. And uh I know the designer has an expansion for it, but Rio Grand uh Rio Grande who make the game apparently aren't interested in publishing it. So they're saying they're going to try and get it published some other way.

But there is an expansion. And this game is we'll kind of talk about a little bit more when we get down to the table to show you. But like this game's got a crazy amount of variability in it. Yeah. Like insane amounts of variability. And then like still ultimately a fairly simple rule set in terms of the actions you can take.

There's only a few action types. They're all easy to understand. Um, but the types of builds you can make is kind of infinite in the space station. I think it's super dope. The Rio Grande just dumped it and sort of never did anything about it. And the fact, we're not going to do an expansion. I'm like, yeah, that sounds like a Rio Grand kind of move to do.

Uh, let's just just not give a crap about the games we make. Um, so, uh, I hope they get a chance to do an expansion another way. Me, too. I'm like, I want to hear or like what? But it's cool. It's just like it's a kind of like again like tons of different stuff. It's a very like friendly game in terms of like there's all these different alien species, but like you're literally just building a space station.

You're not like fighting, which is cool. You know, a lot of times when there's all these different aliens, they're usually at at odds with each other. In this case, they're not, which is really nice. It's just cool. But yeah, it's kind of got like a bit of a generic look, a bit bit of a generic name.

And I think that kind of and then again, Rio Grand has a tendency to not push their games very hard. And so, um, it unfortunately didn't I don't know how well it did and it definitely wasn't on our radar. It's well recorded. I mean, and it's on BGA, so I imagine it's getting play. I don't know. I don't know.

But everyone that we kind of know and have talked to about this game all agree like it's super good. Like, so, you know, that's interesting. It's a very real ground move. Yeah, man. European publishers, in some ways, I can say fully honestly, they don't understand. They don't care. Is a European publisher?

They think so. Okay. You get to start with the thing, too. Yeah, I do. Interesting. So, we're we're getting our setup stuff and both of us We kind of similar We have kind of similar hubs. Yeah. Actually, we really do. Yeah. Oh, we have Oh, but yours is different. Slightly different. Interesting. Humans are strong in this one.

Yeah, the humans are strong in this one. Yeah. I almost The hub I Everyone has their own hub and the hub it gives you a little bit not special power. Well, sometimes it's like a little bit of a special power. Yeah. But, um, they kind of give you different stuff that you're generally good at or going for, a different thing to score maybe.

And the one of the ones that I was offered because you're kind of given there's like 25 of them. You use one. Um, and it's a four player game. So, the max you're using is like a six of them. Yeah. So, it's like it's really crazy. Um, one of the ones that I had to choose from this one was a superhuman forward one where you got like a bunch of extra points and stuff like that.

So, yeah. Um, yeah. So, uh, but I hope everyone's doing all right. Um, yeah, got been a a busy week. It's a time. We're going to Yose next week, dude. Yeah. So excited. And spring break next week. So, we are uh going to Yose Monday, Tuesday, coming back Wednesday. Uh, trip. That was like all we could get at Yose.

Yeah, we got the I mean that's that's the Mac the it was just books up so fast get those kind of two days tolerable essentially really cuz yeah it's like we're and it's the first week that yuse7 is open for camping too so it's only going to get you know busier assuming we have national parks by mid year anyway I'm hoping that it's a little slower it' be nice I think it'll be nice I think it's be really relax and the weather's going to be good it's going to be like I think 60 and stuff so it's not going to be like freezing it's not going to be hot or anything like that I'm really excited to just go kick back, man.

So, yeah, it's going to be great. If you haven't been to Yuseite, you ever come to California, go to amazing. It's absolutely I don't know like I the most beautiful place on earth probably, but like it's so nice. Um, yeah. So, I'm see I'm trying to think like it's the last time I was in Yoseite. I don't know.

Like in Yoseite like the park. I don't It was a long time ago. It's been a heck of a long time. We were near it a few years ago back in 2020. Our our buddy David uh got married, married them off. Um and the wedding was located just outside the parks. Yeah. And Karen and mom drove into the park. They did.

Uh but we were doing we were both in the wedding. Um so we were unavailable. We were doing rehearsal and stuff like that. Um that's the closest I've been to it in a long time. I really don't know when the last time would have It might have been like it's been I'm sure like 20 years. I think so. Been I think the last time I went I'm 38 now and I haven't been since I've been adult.

I think the last time I went was when we went with mom at and I I don't know when how old even more excited to go back. Man, it's been a long time. Yeah. I mean it's it's been over 20 years for me then for sure. That's crazy. I wasn't 15 when we went on that trip. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Anyway, Tim's one of my favorite places.

Yeah, Steve. You you get it. It it's such a special like I get why people get into like spirituality and stuff around like certain area like Sedona and stuff like there's like these like places of power. You go into a place like that and you're like dude yeah this is crazy like this valley is nuts. Um um and yeah.

So which one's Yose? I think mix Yellowstone is more with like halfd and stuff. That's yuseity. A lot of big Yellowstone geyser, big rock faces, a lot of granite rock. So yeah, Halfdme uh LCAP 10 and Yellowstone's the geyser and the bison and the bison. Many bison. Um both great though. Yellowstone also amazing.

Both great. Yeah, it's been a long time. We've been to Yellowstone again once. We went to a lot of national parks growing up and so we used to do a different national park every year with our mom. That was like our main summer trip. Uh, we did a lot of camping growing up, which is what we're doing. We're also going to Yose with our mom.

Um, now that we're back up here, we're camping a lot, which is cool. First camping trip of the season, man. Yeah. Yeah, we got Yeah, four probably we'll do this year at least. Four trips. We're doing this one. We're doing Morning Star in June. Yeah. The Yuba. And then probably do Calibars again. Yeah.

Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. It's good stuff, y'all. Camp, y'all. It's great. Tiger Ramp. Hey, this is on BJ. I will play it with you anytime. It is. It is. It's on uh It's kind of a weird the the the way they made it on BJ is kind of weird where like all these different things are like in different tabs.

That's right. Which I never seen before on BJ and it was really weird to wrap my head around. The first time I put this on BJ, I was teaching someone the game and I was just like, "Oh, this is hard to teach like this." cuz like it's just I've gotten more into the tabs thing just because like uh like diagram and I play a revive and there's like the supply of cards and slot modules.

You don't need to see that all the time, right? But then if ever you are interacting with it, a little thing comes up. You can click supply and it brings you over to that. And that's nice thing because I'm like just what do you mostly need to see on a turn? Um, and like with this it's like because there are all these slots, you know, these modules for the space station and stuff, I could see how, you know, they're they're uh want to keep it.

Yeah. Um, kind of separated into like what what do you actually need to do right now? What do you need? Oh, your ships. Okay, now I can see your ships or whatever. Um, stuff in a browser. I'm sure that's a for those bigger games like you just do one big endless scroll you do which I also don't like.

We did uh River of Gold there and like you just are the board is you just have to scroll up and down the board and I was like I also don't really like this. It's like in that capacity particularly with BGA where it's like it's not like a tabletopia or a tabletop simulator where you're able to like zoom in and out and move around the board.

It's just on a flat browser. It's like yeah it gets difficult. Um, and the way they do a lot of them is very clever, but it does sometimes have um difficulties because of the way it works. Um, and this is one again it it works well. When it first was like, whoa, this is weird. And this is uh Yeah. Yeah.

Very odd. So, we're going to play some of this space station Phoenix. It's just a big kind of engine buildish kind of. Yeah. I mean, I it it I guess it kind of is engine building. Um, but we're building out a space station and that will kind of dictate maybe your strategy. The kind of Yeah. And as we're building out the space station, you'll get more and more ability to get like income or get more kind of like boosted abilities and stuff.

It's it's got this kind of cool engine building and again, tons of different stuff. Uh, which we'll kind of talk about in a bit. Uh, but yeah, just like there's a lot of a ton of variability in it. It's very cool. Um, yeah, there's so many potential. I mean, I don't know how many there are. There's a lot of each one.

Like a ton. Yeah. And there's 28 level. There's 28 of each of the levels of sectors. And so wait, 28? That's what it says like 101 to 128. So I figure that's what that means. So be 27 then. Um because that means there'll be nine of each. Yeah, that looks about right. Nine of each level of sector. At max you have four available sector.

So like you're you Yeah, it's it's nuts the the sheer amount of variations you shuffle up like you'll never have the same exact you know uh situ like menu of of options which is pretty cool. Said uh said speaking of river go Paul and Matthew have been destroying me at that on BJ. I blame the long board.

Yeah the long board is the reason it is hard to kind of keep track of stuff. That's my main problem with like a lot of BGA games or whatever. It's like I very much have found that like to be able to know what I'm doing in a game, I have to be able to see everything at once. And when you can't do that, I tend to play really badly on things like BJ and because I just can't see.

I'm like a goldfish. Once I scroll away from something, it just goes out of my brain. Like I really need to be able to see everything at once. But, you know, it's a it is a very good tool and it's very very cool. But there's certain games where I'm like, man, I'm struggling out here because I just can't I can't see everything.

Sure, which is difficult. Corin says, "Duchess loves this game and destroyed me because I was playing it on my phone and learning it for the first time in BGA. So, it's a real double whammy." Yes, Corin, I don't know if you saw my message on BGA, but this camera or down camera, which we'll cut to, is the camera that Sony I was referencing.

Yes, the down camera. These are Let me click over Lumix something. I can't remember. Lumix, that's always some letter number combo. I never know what it means. I don't know the Sony cuz uh that's our best camera. uh which I like because we have a a really good lens for we have good lenses and cameras in general, but this one is uh that one we're like wait we gota we got to make sure the down the down camera is the most important camera when you're doing uh board game stuff.

So that's got to be prefer to be able to see, you know, and even even with it how good this camera is. There's times where I'm like this game's tough to see. TMs are small text and it's just the reality because games are meant to be played at a table. They're not necessarily meant to be put on TV. Yeah.

Uh so you have to figure out a way to make them look good on TV. They're not thought of that way, which is totally fair. When you're designing a game, you should not be thinking about the content creators. You should think about the games playing. Why are they not thinking about us first? Yeah. It's like um I mean that is kind of crazy.

It's like I've heard certain uh video game developers talk about that in interviews and stuff just being like this game needs to be Twitchable. It needs to be streamable. Yeah. Like it needs like we are actively thinking about like this game will be fun to watch someone play. And I'm like, Twitch is the number one way you can market your game nowadays.

Twitch and YouTube for sure. I'm sure they are already thinking about that for a while, but then Fortnite happened and they're like, everything has to be potentially the next Fortnite kind of thing. Like in terms of like watchability online, uh I'm not surprised at all to hear that because Switch is so such a powerful marketing.

A lot of things I'll think about now is like is it streamable and is it speedrunnable? First of all, everything is speedrunnable, but just like is it an interesting speedrun? Because like there was a you get a massive community around that. Yeah. I saw this video of this this guy who like put up his game and he it was not their first game, but he was basically talking about the the whole video is about um speedrunners like breaking his game.

But like that was kind of like the not the point of the game, but like in the first like week of the game's release, there were like essentially like bounties. So basically like whoever had the best speedrun day one got like 500 bucks. Whoever had the best speedrun by the end of day two got like 500 bucks and then whoever had the best speedrun by the end of the week got like a,000 bucks.

So they actively were like I know people are going to speed doing it so they could find like weaknesses. No, I think they were just they wanted the hype for their game because they knew a lot of people would then do it and then therefore they'd get a lot of publicity for and it to be fair it did work.

Um, and then they put a YouTube video out that's like speedrunners broke my game and da da and that video has now done like millions of views and stuff like that. So I'm like it worked, you know, and stuff. But I was like it was interesting to be like yeah like I'm going to I know people are going to speedrun this.

It's a very speedrunny kind of game and so I'm going to actively like lean into that. And I was like that's very very interesting. Yeah. It's just like funny man. It's like we have to start thinking about that stuff. And honestly, like if if board game content creation ever got bigger and board game content creation is not big.

Uh that's no shade to anyone in the board game industry, including oursel to so many other. Yeah. It's like Shut Sit Down are not a big YouTube channel. No, they're just not like compared to other parts of YouTube. Yeah. Right. It's like they're not, you know, it's like that that's just the reality of but if if board game content creation ever got big somewhere in the realm of video game publishers would have to start thinking about that being like is this game interesting to watch.

Is it clear if you're watching it on a video? Like they would have to start thinking about that because of uh content creation being bigger. It is not that big. Um and so they don't think about that. And frankly at this point they really shouldn't be thinking about it too much. they should be just think about the mechanics because uh boarding just isn't that big of a world.

One thing that's like about the like be visible on a down cam is like if you can possibly make your game so it is like visible on that front. Not for our purposes, but for general legibility purposes, they should absolutely. Yeah, of course. If your game can be Sans's written language, yeah, just icons and those icons are huge, that's good because if it's across the table and I can't read it, me and I think a lot of other people are just going to ignore that part of the game.

That's not ideal. So, I I think they should kind of put it through something like this just as a like for allegibility purposes, not necessarily because we would like it because again, we're not big enough potatoes for it to matter. Yeah. Yeah. Um but uh but it's not something that, you know, I would I would think about if I was making a game.

Now, grant we're content creators, so it's always on our mind, but I would always be thinking about that. Be like, "Hey, can people see this?" You know, um in a in a down camera configuration. Dave Phil says, "I saw a video of a guy doing speedruns of Mario 64 freaking blindfolded." Yeah. How? Yeah.

Yeah. It's how the whole thing. Yeah. Nuts. Does he have someone like if if they get turned around, which they won't. They got to figure it out. But how do they even know if they're not in the like how do they even know they need to figure something out? Well, they just hear them bonking against a wall.

Yeah. Basically, and they're like, "Okay, so if I'm hitting a wall, I shouldn't be hitting a wall right now. So, I should be I have to go here and I have to go here." Yeah. It's It's Wow. Play that game for thousands and thousands of hours. Mario 64 at this point. Yeah. For 25 years. I guess you probably have it down.

Okay. Blindfolded Punch Out was a really big thing for a while. Probably still is, but people play like Punch Out because I'm sure the baddies have a certain cadence with sometimes they do. They always have some kind of of kind of programming and stuff like that. But it's but they get harder as they go, you know?

It's like that. But it's be it's become a whole thing. So funny. Yeah. People do it all the time. Speedrunners are nuts. And that was the funny thing about that video that I was watching. The whole kind of thing that you kept going like speedrunners are effing crazy. just like you just kept finding all these weird little this corner in this corner you're able to do this thing and stuff.

It's just like nuts. My thing with that is always I'm like how I I couldn't find a glitch if I tried like how if you're if it's a brand new game that just came out and like what is the method for trying to find these things? So there's so there's tends to be certain points. So, like in video games, like if you're like in a room like this where two walls meet in a corner, that tends to be a place you can slip through just because if there's a teeny little gap, a couple pixel gap, sometimes your character can slip through it.

So, a lot of times they'll look in common places like, "Oh, I'm going to look in every single corner to see if I can get through this." Run against it, see or just Yeah, you're just maneuvering and then at this particular like sub pixel level go through or whatever, right? Or certain different things.

So it's like there's a lot of any any kind of seam tends to be a place that you can get out of balance. So they're looking there, but the thing the oddly it's just like you just have thousands of people looking for hundreds of at a time and once someone knows when they can announce it and then everyone else can try to try to m do it as well.

Yeah. And then on and then and then sometimes it's just like this just happened and then people try and figure out why it happened. And then if you can figure out like oh this is a thing that happens in this game's programming. Let's see if we can find other similar places to do it. I mean, it's nuts.

I mean, people still find stuff constantly of like how you're able to if you can like wedge yourself in this corner and then do this. You can like build up speed and then you eventually let it go to go you can go to like again Mario 64 speedrunning has like alternate dimensions and stuff in it. They're called parallel universes.

It's a whole thing. I swear to God it's a it's bananas. I mean, people have done, especially for a game that old, like people have done based like doctorate level thesis work on these kinds of games, but just not actual older games are kind of the best for it because they can't be fixed in the same way.

Yeah. They're not patched. Yeah. And and uh so funny, dude. Cuz yeah, that will happen a lot with like more modern games. You they'll find glitch, they'll find things, and then they'll get patched out. And then so a lot of speedruns are like, "Oh, this speedrun you have to play on this version of the game so you can still do this clip." Like there was a lot of that with like um wow there was a lot of that with like Super Mario Odyssey speedrunning whereas like you had to play on the original game usually on the cartridge because you had the digital one it would automatically update it for you.

So you had to have the cartridge and then so like you had to do all these tricks but then they put in a patch that basically made all the load screens faster. So then it was actually faster to play on the new version because even though you couldn't do all these clips all the load screens were so much faster that you could get a better 30 seconds.

It's just like it's constantly weirdly changing like this depending on the situation. Speed is hilarious. It's insane. Speedunning is super it is really because you got into it for a little bit. Yeah. I still I like to watch speed runs. Yeah. Yeah. Um but yeah, you kind of doing it is kind of what keyed me into like paying attention to it and like dude Yeah, it's crazy.

Yeah. So funny, dude. You nerds. What's up, Lana? Uh uh uh uh uh uh. So what's up, Reg? John O'Neal says, "Been considering Space Station Phoenix uh for age. Looking forward to watch." Yeah, we'll be getting into it in just a moment here. It's a great game. We love it. Um listen to YouTube talk. I remember years back uh when I had explained what speedrunning was to you.

Proud papa moment. Yeah, Sliers, you've been like you were like the one who clued us into uh GDQ and stuff and um yeah, like you are you are you truly were the father figure into speed running and info and and technology in general for us. Slippers has been been on the forefront. Yeah. Slippers is the first person we call about anytime we need a new computer.

Y tell us what computer to buy. This is what we need to do. Very cool and patient to just be like get this one. Yeah. We always listen and it always works out well. It's always worked out. It's always worked out. Um uh straight up I'd probably get lost if I tried uh to sleep blindfolded gaming ain't going to happen.

That makes sense. That just makes sense. Um uh so playing games with some co-workers for the first time today. Wish me luck. Good luck, Red. What are you going to play with? And I imagine Reg, are you sort of the the curator of the experience? Uh what games, if so, are you considering? Yeah, very curious.

It's exciting. Uh, Marina, we are all right, man. As we said at the start of the stream, uh, all things considered, as all right as we could be, we're doing okay and we're happy to be here, uh, doing work and hanging with y'all. Like, that is, uh, extra special these days. So, we appreciate you being here and hanging and keeping the vibes nice.

It's just vibes out here, guys. I don't know if you can see this, but it's just vibes, right? It's just vibes when I'm drinking this coffee right here. Just vibes. That's just nothing on this one. I like this one top so it keeps my coffee warm. That's true. My coffee does not stay as hot but it's it's so full full vibes all day.

Coffee is great at all temperatures. So So I'm the curator. Finsspan, Captain Flip, Dice Miner are the main three for sure. That's good. That's good. Finsspan's getting a little heavy, but I think still definitely doable. But Cath Flip, Dice Miner, perfect choices. Absolutely perfect choices there, dude.

Tiger vamp out here picked up recently. Prodigals Club and Wayfair Tigris. You know, we appreciate those choices. Haven't played them in a while. I'm good like that. Yeah, that's dope. # just vibes. I hear Rege. Uh, dude, I hope it goes well with co-workers. That's so exciting. Seriously, I can't get my co-workers to play games.

They don't love them. That's true. You played uh Glass whatever it's called. River Valley Glass Works. Yeah, I played some River Valley Glass Works last night with uh with my betrothed and uh you had a grand old time. I knew she was gonna like that one. So, we played it and she kind of had the Okay.

And then and I walloped her in the first game and then she destroyed me in the second. Yeah, that makes sense. She got 99. I've never seen a score that high. I'm like, "All right, how do you do this?" Yeah, that makes sense. Uh yeah, really class works is the perfect kind of cozy. You can be you can be swifty with it.

Strategic, but it's a very light game ultimately. So easy to learn, difficult to master, kind of low rules, high strategy is her sweet spot. So yeah, it makes sense. She was she was really into it. L I will let you know. Um Huh. Are you gonna play deep fry girts? I don't know. I know it's on the hotness right now.

I don't know much about it. Deep regrets. Um Oh, I really want to play. And then Buttonshy announced Shallow Regrets. So, a a Buttonshy version of Deep Regrets. I really want to play Deep Regrets. It looks I love the look of it, the green and stuff. Uh I really want to try it. And I know it's based on I mean not directly, but inspired by a a video game called Dredge.

Yeah. Which I do want to try as well. This is cool. Playing Pirates My Car was solo today. Let's go. Let's check. We have a top 10 out today, so check that one out, too. Do check it out. You might see some pirate mirror crab on there. That's right. That's true. Uh, play co-workers, but uh played games with co-workers, but it's kind of rare.

Played Super Mega Lucky Box, Dice Miner, and Sausage Sizzle. Great. Good ones. Yeah, great ones, honestly. Yeah. Um, yeah, just picked up Barcelona finally, Evenf Fall, Terminus, and Honey Buzz with a honeypot expansion. All right, let's go. Nice. got some good some good upgrades there in the old collection department.

Yeah, it's um yeah, it's uh it's River Valley Glass Works is good. It's really really good. I like it a lot. The Dredge was so good. Yeah, I heard it's really good. What's the best pirate themed game to play? Man, it's hard. There's a lot of them like All right, Jimmy's working on one, so once that comes out, it'll be that.

But uh probably my favorite is uh uh Dead Reckoning. Really? Yeah. Yeah. There's not that many P or or hit me with some Jamaica, dude. Jamaica's good. Jamaica's good, but like Libertalia is great. Pirates pirates. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um Pirates of Kyo is definitely the one I play the most for sure. Uh but it's kind of at least piratey though.

It's pretty abstracted. Dead Reckoning is legit. I mean, yeah, that's the thing is like there's a lot of good pirate games out there. You're right. Dang, there is a lot. Pirate Skull King. True. Skull King. Yeah, maybe maybe Captain Flip then. I don't know. Captain Flip might be my favorite. Captain Flip's freaking noise.

Uh, so Scoville second edition. You guys uh get that? I don't think so. We played Scoville first edition and we did not like it. I'm glad now that it's colorblind friendly cuz we were playing with one of our friends who's very color blind and it was not literally the old version. It was unplayable. This is the old version.

the new version is not that way. But on top of it being unplayable for him, uh we just didn't really like it. We really wanted to like it and none of us liked it. I don't know if the new edition has any sort of like rules changes or what, but it felt very much like we were it went on longer than we wanted it to and we were all just sort of like trying to get to the end game.

We're like, who can do this one recipe to end the game and none of us had the right peppers? And maybe that was just like because it was our first play and we weren't doing very well. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it didn't it didn't like really it didn't resonate capture us unfortunately. Unfortunately. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But maybe the new version would change that. Yeah. It's um compile is great. Such a shame about the greater games. Yeah. It's a bummer, dude. Yeah. It's a bummer right now, y'all. I know. Like hearing about compile like I know that game is like doing really well right now. I'm really curious to try it after so many people have said they love it.

And I'm hoping that and expecting that their games will still continue under Flat River, but it doesn't help the people who lost their jobs. And that sucks and absolutely avoidable problems. Uh which is lame. Yeah. To say the least. Uh to say the least. But yeah, so um yeah, I hope their stuff kind of continues out.

Compile 2's coming out. I don't know. No idea. Um you'd have to ask Flat River. My guess is probably no, unfortunately. Um, Dune Imperium or Dune Uprising. I dislike both. I'd rather play Dune Uprising, but I really dislike Dune Imperium. So, I I uh I'm going to go with neither. Play a good game. Um, now Dune Imperium is great.

I just don't enjoy it. So, uh, I'm not a good person to ask that. And Mikey also has not played Dune Uprising, but from what I've heard, Dune Uprising is better. Yeah, I'm I I'm curious to try Dune Uprising. Um, it's interesting because at least the team ver and I don't know if if every time you play Dun Rise it has to be the team game or not.

Probably not. I've seen me play the team game and it does seem like interesting but it seems very long. Yeah. Um, so that's kind of got me a little bit like you know but um I do like Dune Imperium so yeah. Is Compile 2 still coming out? I have no idea man. I said probably not but I don't know. Well, yeah.

It it depends on I think how far along it is already. It's what it comes down to. Uh Ian said, "Best game to play near a campfire." Ian, what are we going to play? Ian, I don't know. Why you asking, bro? We'll have some games for sure. Uh yeah. Um we're going camping at the end uh next week. So, uh yeah, you better believe we're going to be packing.

We're going to be packing. Be packing. Um but yeah. Um some stuff's really concerning right now. Ag posted something about not fulfilling Kickstart. Yeah. Wow. Really? Jesus. Yeah, it's it's bad right now, y'all. It's bad. It's coming up uh quickly. Keeping up with the space team. Any plans to play series?

Um we don't have it. I have played it once with Dan. Are you running flush fives or what? Umro humor. Batro jokes. Um yeah, so I don't know. Uh it may happen someday. It would require that we get a copy of it or Dan brings one or something. So, I wouldn't hold your breath, but um we're not opposed to it at all.

Just uh have to track it down. It was a fun game if I recall. Nice little work of placement. Yeah. Um Yeah, man. Should we do some flipping space building? Space station. Space station building. You get it. Um [Music] nice. Yeah. So, this is a game where we're going to be again building up our space station.

So, our we both start with one of these pieces. Normally, you don't. You just have your little hub here. Yep. Your hub again will have anything in this orange is going to be uh some kind of income that you have. And then purple here is going to be endgame scoring. And then there might be some other stuff, but our hubs don't have that.

But basically, what you're doing is you're going to be activating your various ship cards with your gems. So, they require a certain amount of uh gems. You can also activate other people's stuff, but you will have to pay more and you will give gems to them to do so. These will allow you to get resources.

Like there's food and water and then there's metal. That food and water and metal are mostly going to be how you get they're kind of behind me here. But get these various aliens. There are like these brown cube aliens. There are these teal triangle aliens and then hexagonal pink aliens and then gold aliens which are fancy because they're basically wild.

into any sector because we have the matching colors, brown, pink, and teal. And the aliens have to go into the home type cuz it's all, you know, acclimatized to them. Uh, but the golds can go anywhere. And humans can also go anywhere cuz they're in a space suit. Indeed. Um, and then, uh, there's also humans, as Mikey said, they're in a space suit.

Delicious humans. Delicious um humans. Yeah. So, you're building out, so again, you'll be building out various like your teal sector, which can be three big, and then you'll have a a brown sector and then a uh pink sector. Um, and so you kind of be building out all these sectors have spaces for these aliens to go.

Again, the various colors might be like endgame scoring or in-game abilities or more um income, which is always going to be orange. And then again, like I said, you use in a two-player game, you use two of these of each color, but there are nine of these of each color and nine of each size of these things.

So, it's like again, there's tons. There's like 24 different hubs. You use one in each game. There's like just an insane amount of variability in the game. It's just kind of bonkers. Um, and uh, Lana said, "I definitely saw the box for this and assumed it had a big board for some reason. This game is pretty sprawling, especially with four players.

with two. It's not too too bad. It's sprawling mostly because like ideally you have all of these laid out because you can buy any, you know, it's not just like the top of the stack. So if you have these spled out how they kind of like envision it takes up a ton of space cards like there's a lot of cards, but you can absolutely stack these because there's a big reference for everything for every hub which is very useful.

Yeah. Every single part. So it can get sprawling but no individual part is very large. And then as we go, we're going to be dismantling a lot of these ships for the metal to build up our space station. So, you know, it thank goodness it isn't bigger simply because at four player there's a lot of cards and stuff, but no, there's no individual piece that's like egregiously large and this board is fairly small.

Yeah. Uh which is nice. So, it's it's it's it's contained. It's contained uh for what it is. So, said is there likely to be a video of the Arno adventure chest? There wasn't planned to be. So unless something has changed um we had talked to AEG about that um and as of right now obviously isn't like sorry I think I said beholden to the tariff though because they're not an American company and not in America.

Um so I feel like they will proceed as planned and we are planning to cover the adventure chest its expansion that was uh so poke goodbye other that that holds. So yes, for now any business holds. Yeah. Yeah. We have not heard otherwise on that front that we're not doing it. So yeah. So hopefully um being crossed.

Okay. Okay. Um so basically we'll kind of go back and forth. Mikey, I think you were first. Dave Phelps on uh Chipmunk mode. The shallow regrets I think is real. Uh it is real but Bunch's paused all their Kickstarters as of right now. So So who knows? But that though that being a theme is real. Uh I am I'm first player you said yeah because when we chose uh ships and isn't the rule I'm just making sure for income you have to have seven or less gems to seven or less gems or you had to have used at least one of your um ships.

Okay. Okay. Cool. Or you have like no ships or something like that. But yeah you it's basically you can you can almost always do income. Cool. I'm going to go here. Um and so this allows me to do up to three exchanges. Your exchange kind of menu is right here. You could get things anything with green will be exchanged.

So you could also have uh you know hubs that or uh sectors that give you more exchange possibilities. I'm going to do this to this is how you get aliens mostly. Yeah. So uh each alien type other than gold uh cost a water and a food. I have two water, two food. So, I'm going to spend both of those waters and both of those foods to get two brown aliens so I can put them into my uh my brown sector.

Two. Yes, sir. I could do a third exchange. These are going to go here and here. Do you think uh Oh, no. No. Disregard. Um I don't think I'm going to do a third exchange. So, I am done. Okay. Um we always check these every time for the main actions. There are basically if someone's up here and in the lead or tied uh any players who are in the lead and stuff if this action was selected like this blue action will get these benefits.

So you get stuff off turn. Yes, which is great which is pretty cool. Yeah. Once once we do the diplomacy indeed. Um speaking of I think I am going to do the diplomacy action. Um, I'm going to do this one here. Just to remind me, Nick, so the cost for us is two. And if I was using yours or you were using mine in this instance, you would pay three and I would get one of them, right?

Okay. Yep. Uh, I'm going to do income, man. I'm going to do income. I'm going to do it early because uh early and often. So, I'm going to do that. You remove any gems from ships uh that you've used. You put them on there so you remember that you've used them. Um, and then my income is that I get one gem per ship.

I have I have nine. Uh, I think guess these are probably fives and tens. Yeah, they're whatever you want them to be. Yeah, sure. So, nine. And then I have one uh extra income of one gem here from an alien in this slot. So, I'll get one more gem. Um, this right here says uh when I do income, for every four brown aliens I have, I gain a water rounded down.

I only have two, so it's not going to come into effect yet. Um, and uh, that is me. That is me. Um, all right. I'm going to go here. Let's go ahead and do some rolling. So, this is a Terran expedition. These kind of blue ones. This is basically you going back to Earth to get supplies. So, in this case, you're always going to get to roll dice.

I get to roll six and then you get to keep four of them. Yeah. So, we'll see what I get. This is the main way to get food, water, some metal, and then you can also make a human. So, I can keep four of them. I did think I'm going to take these three Wala cuz I have a farm right here, which I can get four food.

So, my my bigger issue is going to be water. Now, also, whenever I do income, I get a food or water. Also, once I put someone here, I'll get another food or water. So, I think I'm going to try and go. You didn't start with any. No. Interesting. Yeah. So, that's my thing. And I was like, "Ooh, that's going to be interesting." So, so the last thing here, I don't have a metal to put this friendo in a humans need.

Humans need a metal. Yeah. To make a human. Uh, it's here on this thing, which reminds you do it during this action. It takes a water, uh, a food and a metal cuz you got to make their space suit. Yeah. Make their space suit. And then you place them out. So, the exchange allows you to make the aliens or bring the aliens on, but the Tan expedition, you got to go to Earth.

You got to make got to get those humans. So I uh there I'm gonna take this medal for this last one there. All right. Um okay. I also because someone did a teran expedition. I am in first. I will get two gems. If we're ever tied here, you get the thing below. You can take anything below. If you are here on your own, you can take anything at your level or below.

You can choose. So uh on that note, I am going to go here. This is the diplomacy action. Uh, this costs six gems, so five and one. Yeah, this this car is pretty nuts. I've never seen this car before. Um, I feel like I never do the tracks enough, so I'm going to try to like focus on that. Um, I'm going to go so I can go up two different tracks one time each.

I'm going to go up this track, the exchange track, and let's go up this track, which is when you would be building your new uh space station section. When I do the diplomacy action, I have this unlocked because I have an alien here. I get a metal, water, or food. I will take a metal since it's hard to acquire.

Sweet. Yeah, good little synergy. Figure like, let me All right, I'm going to go ahead and do income. So, do income. So, I'm going to get one um excuse me, one gem per ship I have. So, I have nine ships. So, I'll get those. And then, um I will get one food or one water. I'll go ahead and get another water.

Water. Um, and that's it. Cool. Um, can you show the box this real quick? Yeah. It looks like Oh my gosh. Classic blue orange of space. Blue and orange. Again, it's it's got kind of a generic look. Kind of a generic name. When I first saw this cover, I was just like, it looks kind of like a '9s space game or like early as space game in my opinion.

again. Like I don't think the look and the naming of it helped its success. It is so good though. It's so good. Uh Nick, I'm going to go here to do a Terran expedition. So I will pay and I'll get two gems. Uh yep. Nice. And do we get our bonuses if we select the action, too? Yep. Anyone does it. So it's easy to forget though.

So every turn you're kind of getting stuff a lot of times. So this is a a higher level one than Nick has. So, I get to roll eight dice and keep five of them. Yes. Um, I'm gonna take the two metal. I'll take a food water. [Music] Um, I could take a human and that basically would mean these three go away, right?

And I just net a metal. I'll do that. So, I will take a metal and then the water, food, and metal that I gain from these dice, I will use to claim a human. Can I get a delicious human, please? Delicious human. All right, that fills up this first sector. Oh, that can go anywhere. So, now if I want to gain anybody else, I need to build more.

You don't have to fill up a sector before you build more, but No. No. Um, yeah. All right. I'm going to go uh four right here. And I am going to get sir, sir. I'm going to go to my uh my farm which will give me four food. How's the sound been everybody? Can we sound okay and everything? Okay, we're trying new sound.

We knew it was it was loud and we turned it down a little bit but um let us know. Has the sound been okay? Yeah. Mark says I finally I finally decided to buy Spirit Island in case they don't print any more copies. I'm thinking about like man we should probably go get all the expansions just in case because we have I think Branch and Claw Jimmy did.

Yeah, you got the third the nature incarnate expansion. Um, I am going to disassemble a ship. Boom. This cost three gems. So, the main way you get metal in this game is by disassembling your ship. So, you're taking away your actions. Yeah. And since I have a better diplomacy action, I'm going to get rid of this one.

Yeah, makes sense. This uh gives me six metal, but this action gives me an additional metal. So, I'll get seven total, and that's now out of the game. Yep. Gone. That's how you get metal mostly. You got to you got to get the um sound is great though. I'm not using headphones as usual. All right. Four.

Why are there not be any more Spirit Island? Cuz Greater Than Games uh shut down. Yep. No, we don't know that for a fact, but we're not sure. I imagine Spirit Island will continue. We just don't know by whom or what. So, sounding good. May want to review as it is very clear but lacks a bit of depth.

Yeah, there's probably not going to be nearly as much resonance, right? Sure. Cuz the mics aren't like against our chests. Um, mostly what we're worried about this with is like if we're streaming with like three people, we're going to be doing a three-person stream with Jimmy hopefully the next couple weeks.

Um, so something we're very excited to do, but um, we'll have to see. But it's good to know that it's Hi, Jimmy. Does this sound normal? I guess it sounds all three of us here. Jimmy was here, right? Yeah. I was right here. Right there. How does this sound? Was this sound okay? I would assume so. We'll sound one at a time.

One at a time. One at a time. One at a time. This is Nick. One at a time. All right. I'm leaving. Hi, Jimmy. Bye, Jimmy. Hi. So, that's what it'll look and sound like. You get it. We'll have a different configuration. Probably won't be the little circles here. We'll have to figure out exactly how we want to do it.

But yeah, although with that, it'll probably be pretty easy. Um, uh, okay. So, I have disassembled a section of ship and that be me. Okay. Um, I think I am going, excuse me. Um, so I have nine. Can I do I I can. Okay. I'm going to go here. I'm going to go here. I'm also going to disassemble a ship. I'm actually going to disassemble my Actually, you know what?

Let's wait a bit. I'm going to go here to diplomacy and I am going to bump up the disassemble spot because people probably be doing that, right? We going to be doing that. See, all sound great. Y'all sound fine. Okay, good. Good. Let's go. We'll still work on dialing it in, but this is our kind of our first.

Yeah, our mic is kind of up here. Test of of this system for streaming purposes. We've been having problems with sound particularly. Well, actually, I was going to say particularly when there's three of us. Not even. We just just We've had wonk. We need a reliable backup so that we have a fallback in case uh our lobs don't work out.

Uh Nick, I only got one jam, so I'm going to do some income. Okay. Uh so, let's remove these and come on back now. Um, okay. So, one per ship. I now only have eight. So, that's that. I do have two more gems from uh yes, covering up. These will give you much more income, which is great. Um, I still don't have four or more brown aliens to get water from.

So, that is get water from extracted from their bodies. Um, excuse me. Let me squeeze you like a sponge. I was squeezing like a sponge. Um, put this away. Five. Oops. One left over. I'm going to disassemble. So, I'm going to disassemble my other disassemble ship because I'm This one I get two extra metal when I do it.

So, I'm just always going to use this one. So, I'm going disassemble this, which will give me six metal plus two is going to be eight. Dang. Yeah. I'm like, I'm just going to use this one. So, let's just use that one. So, boom. Eight metal. This will go away also because I am up on this track here. I will also get two more gems back.

Oh, okay. Good. I can do the thing I wanted to do. Perfect. Nice. Nice. Uh, okay. Back to me. E, I'm going to build a section of a space station. So, I'll go here. This costs eight gems. Very expensive, but it is a better version of the action. Yeah. Two. Cuz this allows me to build for two fewer metal.

on each of the space station sections. It has a metal cost up here in the top uh right. I'm going to add on to my brown kind of sector because I want to get as many brown aliens in general up here, but as quick as I can. Get that water, baby. Um I'm finding Hold on. I want make sure this is brown and not gold cuz this is showing a circle.

That sure looks like gold, Mikey. Oh, good golly. It is definitely gold. Whoops. Well, it says gain one water for every four brown aliens in your entire station. You're the B7. Yeah, that must be a typo then. Or that must be a typo. And in your entire station rounded down, but this is definitely the circle circle.

Yeah, and that would make sense because they can go everywhere. Yeah, it looks like this. Yeah. Uh I don't know. Which one do you want to do? One of those two things is a typo. I'm not sure which one it is. me. My guess is this is a typo because of the fact that you get a brown sector cuz why would you get a brown sector for gold aliens specifically?

Why would you get a pink one or a blue one? Right. So, my guess is this is supposed to be brown. We can look it up, too. I'll look it up while you're finishing. Okay. I think I think it's meant to be brown cuz gold is good, but it's also harder to acquire them. Yeah, if you can look it up. Yeah, I'm not going to change what I'm doing right now.

I'm going to build uh on the build section. I am the highest on here. So, I will choose two gems to gain. Kind of discounts the cost of the the gem cost. Um, and this basically gives me four slots for brown aliens/humans. The third spot would give me one point during brown. It's it's a typo. Okay. So, this is brown.

Okay. Yes. I was just like, why is it a circle? Because the shape also matters. Cool. All right. Cuz I was just like, dang it, man. I would have Yeah. Yeah. What else? Uh, and this gives me that if I have this completely full, if I do an exchange action, I can do one additional exchange once that becomes uh, relevant.

Uh, so I spent six metal. Okay. Uh, I'm going to go here and I'm going to do some uh, exchanges. Okay, I am up on the exchange track, so I will get two gems. Okay, so I can exchange stuff. So I can do a food and a water stuff. I'm going to do three food, three water to get three teal aliens. Call them tails.

I call them tiens, though. Boom. Boom. And now this is now that if I get if I do income, I also get now another food or water. So, I'm getting a food. Basically, my hope is I can get a lot of aliens. That's what I'm going to try and do basically. Um, all right. And that's going to be me. Oh, that was only two things I could exchange.

Okay. I could do more. Oh, no. What action are you doing? This one. Oh, I got my gems. Sorry, I'm tripping. Don't you know what then? I think actually I'm actually going to do this one because I realized I don't need to do five things. Actually, need to do I'm going to do those three. So, we're good.

Okay, Green Laser. Yeah, Skull King is a trick taking game. Little card game. Yeah, it's a great game. Uh, okay. I am going to do a a sixyear. Oh, diplomacy track. [Music] Um, it's all right. That's tough. Yeah, I'm going to go here and do the diplomacy action. So, I'll spend 246. Uh, a 246. Thank you.

Sorry. I was like, what? I can go up two different tracks. I'm gonna go up this one and this one just to be up on all of them at least a little bit. Yeah, that's uh that's going to be good. Yeah, I feel like I never do the tracks enough. So, I got to try to try to focus on it a little bit. All right, I'm going to do income.

So, I'm going to get eight income from my ships. Um and then I'm going to get uh a food. I get two food, two water, or one of each. Um I think I'll get one of each. Well, actually, you know, I'll get two water. Yeah, I guess I can get food. Yeah. All right. Um income. My gosh. I have to do income as well.

I only got one gem. One gem. Uh so I will get eight uh from income plus two for these two gem spaces. What a croo. Um still don't have enough brown aliens for Walt. So that's uh everything for me. Okay. Um I'm going to go ahead and build a sector for one medal less. That's going to be six of my I am up on this one.

So I will get two gems for that. Thank you very please. Um so the question is what I want to build. I can't build this too. Can I build the next level? I could build that. Yeah, I'm I'm getting uh I need uh I think I'm gonna build this one. It's going to be nine, so it's gonna be seven because I get that little bit of a discount.

Build this one here because mostly I need income. I'm just only getting my ship's income, which is going to start dwindling, too. So, sure. Um yeah. All right. Okay. Um I'm going to go here to the uh Terran expedition action. Um we are both tied here. So, both of us can get anything below where we are.

So, we will each get a gem. Um, I get to roll eight dice. Four and eight. And keep five. Oh, wow. A lot of metal. Um, I'm going to not pass up the metal. And I'll take these. So, I'll have one water, one food, three metal. Okay. Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and go uh here and get four food. Add it. I wish you could go not on your farm because then I can get stuff from my tracks.

The farm is a nice little side step. And I think, frankly, it's illegal. It's illegal. Illegal. Illegal. Illegal. Purple. Purple Shaky Punch. Um, anybody know what that's from? Last time we said that in a video there were like three people who knew they was from and I was like, heck, dude. I absolutely know.

Does anyone know what that's from? Illegal. Illegal. Oh, Nick, you know what I messed up? What, Michael? I have to lose four gems right now. Why? Because when you go up the tracks, you have to pay gems. Oh, shoot. You're right. So, I've been up each track once. I'm going to lose these four. I'll just lose this gem here.

Yeah, cuz I'm uh I I forgot. I was like, why don't I just do this all the time? Come on. Man, that's such a strong card. It is, but it will cost you. Um, do it again or I'll kill you, girl. Uh, all right. I'm going to go here. So, I'm going to turn in uh this five to make change. I'll put three on here.

I am going to disassemble this build ship which will give me seven metal. I'll just not take that gem cuz I should for seven. Um, a gem. I will get a gem. And that is that. All right, I'm going to do income. I'm out again. Oh, so I'm going to get uh eight from my ships. Uh and then I'll get again food and water.

I will get to water. Yeah. See, I need to get I need to get high capacity sectors cuz man, I'm just like Yeah. need peeps. Just gettingep getting the ability. I can do five exchanges. I can put five aliens out right now. I'm not going to cuz I can't. Yeah, but uh you do have a lot of reason. Yeah, I'm like man, I'm going be chucking aliens out there.

Um I'm stuffing them in anywhere. Uh I'm going to go here. Do a Terran expedition. So it costs three gems. Uh I will this is my basic one. So I get six dice to keep four. Uh and both of us can get a gem. Thank you for the gem. All right, let's see. Um gosh, I wanted one more metal. Um, I will I'm only going to take three of these.

I'm going to get two water. Okay. If you don't take a thing, you get a point. Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, I will take those three and get a point. I'm on the board, baby. If you ever can't take a a human or you don't want to, you can get a point. Oh, no. Space station Phoenix is sold out on the site you usually use.

Yeah. Darn. Bummer. Um, I am going to go here. Uh, it's going to cost four gems, and I will do four exchanges. I'm going to get rid of four food, four wateroop, and we're going to get four teal aliens. Nice. Wow, you almost wiped out the teals already. We wiped out that whole that whole species. By the way, the there's many ways the game can end.

Uh, if there's ever four aliens total or fewer on that board, Yep. that'll end the game. If someone gets to 40 points, that'll trigger the end of the game. If someone completes their space station, that'll end the game. That's usually what seems to end. Usually that's what ends it. But um how many how many aliens I think the aliens does not include um it does not include doesn't Yeah, I don't think so.

Right. Yeah. It's on the back side of this thingy. There's a little endame scoring thingy. Yep. Which is very nice. Um me I'm getting humongous play rate and that's not including the one with all the references. They they did they did ride this one. They did. Yeah. This thing is gold, man. because it has all makes it very clear what each sector does.

Uh, okay. I'm going to live life play. We should play it at some point to be completely honest. Which one? The Anacrity live play. We also have Crook's copy of Anacrity. We Krook, we should really give you that one back. Let's be honest. I mean, next time we're all together, we'll give you your stuff back.

But, uh, you know, you know where it is, man. You can just drive around on it. Hey, man. What are you doing this weekend? Driving on it. Come on up for Easter. Uh, I'm gonna get seven income now from my ships. I have two uh gem spaces covered and still nothing. I got to get moving. I'm a little bit stalled out at the moment.

Right. It's kind of bogged down. Yeah, I need to get um I think I'm going to go here. Here, I'm going to disassemble and I'm going to get rid of this other exchange because I don't think I'm going to use it very often. That'll be eight meta. Steve has an S tier joke. Says, "Crook, anacrony live play happens in the future, but it was already posted." Boom.

Cuz get it cuz you do time travel stuff. That is true. That's a good joke. That is true. S tier humor right there. Um, act you up, man. All right. I'm going to hunt. Well, I guess four or four stuff. Oh, sorry. I'm going go here. Uh, so spend four gems doing a Terran expedition. We each get a gem. Jump.

Did you get your gem when I disassembled? Jump. Jump. Oh, I didn't. Wait, what' you build right now? I I disassembled. Sorry. Not I I was like, what? Uh, okay. So, I get to roll eight dice and keep five. I love I need ah metal. Maybe just one. Got one. Hey, man. You asked for what you got, you All right then.

Otherwise, I will take two food, two water. That's a pretty perfect roll actually all told and one medal. Okay, that is me. Okay, I got three gems. You got your gem just now for that? Uh, no, I did not. I four gems. Six, eight. Perfect. I think I think I'm just gonna do income. So, I'll get seven from my ships.

Uh, and then I'm going to get three more from the income on here. Oh, and I get a point. And then I will get food and water. Again, I'm just going to get water because I have the ability to get food pretty easily. Sure do. Uh, okay. I'm going Do I have eight gems? I do. Okay. I'm going to go here and assemble a part of my space station.

So, I will get two gems for being in the lead on that track. Yep. Um, and I can pay two less metal. I have 14. So, I'm going to turn in that 14. And with a two discount, it gets me a 16. Wow. To build this guy. So, this completes my kind of brown part of my space station. This has an immediate effect of getting two brown aliens straight away.

Huge. Um gosh, where do I want to put them? I can put them here. I get a medal during income. That seems nice. That's pretty sweet. Uh I'm going to do that. So, I'll put them here and here. Um and then that be that. And also during income, you can also spend your gems to move your people around just in case you need to.

Oh, that's right. Where's it? It's down here. Pay a gem. Okay. So, you do have the ability to do that. Okay. So, I also But I won't do that. No, I won't. Um, uh, uh, Green Laser says, uh, on major market, Space Station Phoenix was $29.99, which is crazy. That's why it sold out. Just spent over $100 in the sale, so I have to hold off for now.

What did you get in the sale? I'm always happy to hear about deals getting made. Holler at us about that. All right, I'm going to go here. I'm going to assemble again, I think. Um, and I'm going to assemble my old construct. We're getting to the point now where now I have one of everything. So, I uh I don't know if I want to disassemble here again.

You can always There's these kind of neutral um uh buildings, ships, uh to use. So, even if you got rid of all of your Yes. of a certain type of action, you're not out. No. But, you know, you know, still tough though. Yeah. Still tough. All righty. Um All right. Uh I'm going to go here. Pay uh two gems rather.

I can count. Um and do an exchange. I am the highest on the exchange uh track. Uh so I can do three exchanges. I'm going to turn in three sets of food and water or three brown aliens. I get a whole bunch of those. Yeah, we're both uh kind of specializ in here. Specialize. I'm going to put all three into this middle section so that when I do income, I get a point.

Um yeah, so I'm going do that. Okay. Um, I [Music] will I think I'm going to Lana, you always know I want to hear what you got in the cart. Tell me what's that. Boom. I'm going to get a sector. I'm going to build my third teal sector. That's going to be uh 13 total cuz I get a discount. Oh, that gives Nick an extra endgame scoring.

So, Nick, talk about what you're doing right now because I see it and I'm upset. So, basically, so this will give me an extra endgame scoring once I have an alien here. That will be every teal alien be worth a point. Now, my hub scoring is that every teal alien is worth a point. And keep in mind, every alien is already worth a point.

So, now all my teal aliens are essentially going to be worth three points. Now, I think uh you only have 50 aliens out here and they're drawn randomly out of the bag. I think teal was the least populous of them. So, but you are currently sitting at owning 100% of them. So, I will I think get all of them.

And so, like realistically, it'll be like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine. 27 points off of teal aliens is what I think I'm going to get and 18 extra points. So, I'm just kind of like that's probably pretty good, right? So, okay. Uh yeah, that is smart. Um gosh. All right. I have three gems. Let's just minmax it a little bit.

I will go here and pay three and do another Terran expedition. So, we each get one gem. Uh, and this is my basic one. So, I roll six dice, keep four. All right. Let's see. All right. Oh, baby. All right. Um, I will go here. Two metal, two food, two food. Simple pimple. All right. I'm going to go over here to my farm.

I'm get four food. Uh, okay. I'm going to do income. So, I'll remove all my gems from my ships. Um, okay. So, I have seven ships currently, so I'll get seven gems for that. I have over here two uh gem spaces covered. Up here, I have this, which gives me a victory point. So, I'm on two. And this right here gives me a medal.

So, kind of like a nice allaround income situation at the moment. Um, I now do have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven brown aliens. So, for every four rounded down, I get a water. So, I also get a water. And I think that's everything. If I can get one more brown alien, I can get a second water when I do income.

which is nice. I'm happy to have this where now I want to do income. I generate a point because I want to start and especially if you get up to this spot or higher on the track so you can start getting victory points when certain actions get selected and most of your points come in the endame because like sections you build give you points, you know, but the more you can get in the, you know, the better the better it is.

So try to do that. me. Uh yeah, I'm also doing so. Sure. Uh so I'm going to get six gems from my ships. Sure. Uh and then I will get uh three more. So like I'm I'm not getting a ton of income. Yeah. I really enjoy the fact that like as you take apart your fleet, you it does hurt your income, but maybe you're up on the tracks to kind of supplement, but you have to consider like the the the cadence, the rate at which you kind of take apart your action.

Well, then some hubs don't have that where you get one per thing, so it kind of just depends, right? You're um copy that. Well, I got gems now, so let's do this. I'm going to go here. This cost six gems. And uh I'm going to go up two different tracks. I will go up the Terran expedition track, which costs two gems.

and the the exchange one, which again costs two gems. Yeah, smart. All right, I'm going to go here to my exchange. Speaking of, I'll take a victory point for my in for a track bonus. Um, all right, I can do five exchanges. So, I'm going to turn in five food, five water, and three gems. because I'm going to get these two teal for the two water, two food, and then for gold aliens, the same a water and a food, but then also a gem.

And I'm also going to get three gold aliens. Wow. Um, this right here is a reminder that when I do the diplomacy action, I get a food, water, or metal. I'll take a boat. Okay. Um, also now whenever I do the exchange action, which I'm in the middle of doing, I can now just bump a diplomacy without paying gems, which seems great.

Oh my gosh. Wow. That is dope. Uh, I burned literally all my gems on my first turn out from income. So, I'm back to income, baby. Uh, so I still have seven ships. I'm on to gem spots. Uh, I have seven brown alien. So, I get one water. Uh, I get a victory point, please. And a medal. And boop, bop, boop, bop.

That's it. I think I'm also going to have to do income. I don't have much. So, I'm going to get six uh 78 nine again. So, four, five, six. Okay. And then I can get two I'm gonna get two water per usual. Per usual. All right. Yeah. Playing a weird game. I usually don't go this heavy into aliens, especially this quickly.

Yeah. But Oz is like, "Hey, you know, capitalize." Uh, okay. I'm going to go up here to my exchange space. I have uh pay two gems and um I can do three exchanges. I'm going to turn in three sets of uh food and water for three more of the brown aliens. One, two, three. Um, sir, you're all the way. Um, I'll go one here.

So, that means on future exchange actions, I can do one extra exchange and then I'll go one up here, one up here, which give me an extra gem during income. I am on step uh whatever two of the um exchange track so I can get two gems or a victory point. I'm going victory point. Going victory point. Um okay.

So Green Laser says uh the sale that they have stuff purchased from is called the oil uh treatment sale on major market. Uh drop that in the search. Most uh Heroes of Normandy items are on deep discount except the core game. I also got uh Valbara for 15 bucks, Bang uh Legends for 12, Pandemic Hot Zones Zero for $2.

That's golly. Wow. And also North America for $2. Misborn um uh dice set for four bucks. Long 13 for 12. Wow. Wow. Nice. Lana got I'm sorry. Is that stop pointing at you? Unconscious mind evolution. Come sail the way footprints. Uh and the micro macro puzzle noise. Yeah, that's fine right there. Uh good items.

All well done. Uh yeah. Okay. Um I am going I need to I'm getting scared. I really need metal. Sure. Yeah. But I am getting getting low on stuff here. I'm going to go here though. I'm going to construct. Oh no, shoot. H what to do? It's like I'm trying to think of like what I can feasibly get rid of.

Okay. Yeah, I think I'm going to do this for four. Get a gem. Um and I think I'm going to disassemble my diplomacy because one, I could use yours, which is technically better. Also, as I'm doing exchanges, I can start bumping up diplomacy for free. So, I feel like I can get I can afford to get rid of that, but I've also been disassembling a lot in this game.

You always are, but I've been I feel like doing it very quickly, so we'll see. I don't know what come So, uh, Len, I don't know what Come Sail Away or Footprints is. Um, but unconscious mind and civil evolution. Civilian's a banger. Civilian's so good. Civil, I think you would like. Civilian's also very good solo.

Obviously, you should do it for that reason alone. Boom. Of those, I would say civil evolution. I think you'd like it the most. And I think uh you would enjoy the solo. Uh I'm going to go here, Nick. Uh to the Terran Expedition. I will take the victory point, please. And then you can get a gem. Right.

If you're if you're not the highest, you can get anything below you, right? Yeah. Still anything below you. Uh okay. So I can roll eight, keep five. Um, right. What's our Doc Doc McStuffins? Doc, we're in a Doc McStuffins era now, folks. Uh, so I'm going to get a metal. Oh, are you? Oh, yeah. I don't even know what that is.

Uh, it was like the Bluey of 2012. Like, it was very popular. It's Disney Junior show. Okay. It's It's honestly really good. Um, it is so Doc McStuffins is a kid who uh she has a magical te stethoscope and uh it's very much a Toy Story situation where the other people aren't around. Her magical toy telescope makes her toys come to life and then they fix toys.

They like, you know, diagnose a problem. They have a little thing that they they fix the toys. That's very cute. Yeah. Um it's very solid. Um uh yeah, Doc, that kind of news has been going around a bunch. It is unfortunate to say the very least. Yeah, there's a lot of extremely unavoidable extreme extremely avoidable I'm about to say.

Yes, it is. It's very bad. We're just trying to be a fun light in this pretty darn dark time. Um you Okay, I am going to What do I want to do? Uh let's build I need to start building these other sectors. What's the brown one looking like? Uh, during exchange, I'll do this one. I'll do pink. Boop. That's going to be six.

I can spend five because I get a one. I need to put my gems on there. Um. Um. Okay. Uh, and we each get a gem. I can see. Oh, it's changing to two jams. I bet what were you saying again? Uh yeah, cuz I just did um this one was great. My 8-year-old loved it for two years and the three-year-old is almost there.

Heck yeah. Let's go. Yeah, it's solid. I dig it. Uh it's a little less manic than some other. Yeah, just like the animation style and it's sort of like just jo, you know, I guess we're old now or whatever, but Docs is more chill. Yeah. More relaxed. there's more of a narrative because they're like, you know, fixing up toys and stuff.

It's a really good like cool message of like what they're doing. Definitely. I I I can hang with with Doc. Me and Doc, we're cool. We're cool. Uh all right, man. I think I'm gonna roll. It's just S tier show. Oh, yeah. By far. Um we go here. Uh so I will take a victory point. Poor F. And uh I can roll six points.

Four. [Music] Um, I'll take a three. Water and a metal. Water in the middle. Boom. Boom. Boom. And that's me. All right. I'm going to go here to my firm. That's all me. That's all me. Again, we reference very weird things. That specific episode of Jackass is what we're referencing there, by the way.

And Mike and I, for some reason, ever since we were kids, thought that line specifically was funny. Um, it is funny. It is funny. I totally agree, but it's just like it's such a weird specific thing. Yeah, Mike and I have very odd reference points. Um, it's years of spending it's years of spending um years and years together uh trying to deal with childhood trauma by watching movies and TV shows.

Yeah, man. You know, you know, it's it's a nice way through. It's a nice way through. We out here. We out there. We out here. Is it me? What' you do? Wait, what did you do? You went to your farm? Yeah. How about an El Paso playthrough? We'll probably do an El Paso playthrough somewhere here. Absolutely.

Play by the rules. Correct. Income. I'm doing income. Oh, do income. I'm doing it anyway. Uh, okay. So, I still have seven ships. I got five. So, so there's that. I have one, two, three gem spaces covered by aliens. So, there's that. Um, I get a victory point, please. I get a medal. And now I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

So, I get two water. Okay, that's cool. Okay, got plenty of water. Uh, so I did that. I got my gems and then I can get uh water or food. I per usual get water. So, blue is king. Uh, Queen Parent Therapy and a whole bag of chips right now. Yeah, Blue is the best. It's objectively an incredible show for everyone to watch.

Yeah. It's just like a fantastic narrative. Like, it's so good. It's so good. Yeah. Um, it is indeed that good. Me? Yeah. All right. Sn have enough to do it now. I love the super neat references that are mostly just inside jokes. Yeah, for sure. There's tons cuz that's thing is like like this one we pointed out but so often like we're saying it and we're saying a reference but like no one would know that we're saying a reference but we each know that we're saying a reference.

Happens all the time in every one of our videos. Uh oh. Oh yeah. Okay. I'm going to build a section of spasten spast but I get a two metal discount. I'm going to build that. Um the that top teal. Thank you. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry. Are you crazy? Death is like death, death, death. And you're like, hell yeah.

Let's go. Oh, man. Um, so this is going to cost five, but I get discount of two, so I'll pay three metal. Um, uh, uh, uh, I'm doing the build so I can get, we each get a gem, one gem, and a jamire for 1999. That's not bad. One, you got Oh, I wait. Good job. Is it the new one? I got I got to imagine it's the old one.

There's no way it's a new one cuz that new one's like brand new. No, cuz that one hasn't delivered yet. Yeah. Okay. Energy is a great game. Um Okay. So, I built I did my stuff and that be that. Okay. Um Okay. I am going to go to Xjah. Extra victory point. Moving. All right. So, I'm going to do four food, four Walter, and I'm going to get four pink aliens.

George says, "Here's a random movie reference, Bros. You will suffer a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget." Oo, that's a good one. Is that from um son-in-law? Probably from Goofy Movies. Right after he's like the we the weasel from Goofy Movie. Old one looks cooler. Really interesting.

Nick, I'm going to use your farm. So, I put four on there, but you get one additional. So, five total. Oh, sorry. When I do an exchange, I get to jump up on the track. You can go and do it. Four. Three. Just a reminder that you can use each other's ships. You just have to pay a little extra. I'm going to go here.

Spend six yms. Um, and spend seven metall. Nice. Okay, that's basically summon line, isn't it? I think it's about the same. Basically, basically exact same. Same general premise, man. All right. Uh, built and so I can get a point or two gems. You know, I'm going to get two gems. And you can get one gem, Mickey.

One gem. Um, the way the gun is that also benis del Toro isn't it him and Brian Philippy, right? Is that right? Am I thinking the right thing? I think I'm thinking the right thing. Never seen it. It was terrible. That's good. It was terrible. Okay. Well, you heard of your post? Yep. Uh, I have to do income, man.

Po. I'm po. I've been po. So, I'm go. I still have seven ships. Boom. I have one, two, three gem spaces covered. One victory point, please. One medal and two [Applause] uh Jimmy who's posing as us. How dare you trader. The end jam at 20 bucks is worth it just for the components. Yeah, that's very true.

Yeah, dude. Very true. Yeah. Um Okay, I'm going to go here and go to my Terran expedition. I'll give you a point or two gems. I'll get a gem. I'll take a two gems. Yeah, we go here. I would like I can get four things. Let's do this. We're going to go two water a laser and then a boom. If if Vital Lacera ever starts a metal band, it has to be called Metallic.

We are Matalera. We are Matalera. Uh, all right, Nick. I'm gonna go to this exchange space. And I think this time I will take a victory point, please. Um, I now have this spot covered, so I can do four exchanges. Oh, I'm going to go uh a food in a water twice for two brown aliens. Poor four. That's it.

That's all the browns. All the browns. Um, and then I'm going to go um food, water, gem twice to get two gold aliens because if I'm going to fill anything in this teal, I'm going to need golds. Um, and I'm going to do that so that in the future when I do exchanges, I'll get two gems in addition to anything else I do.

So, that is that. Um, all right. I'm going to go do income. So, I'm going to get five from this. So, five uh six, seven, eight, nine, 10 total. Um, and then customary to water and a P. Nice. Oh, and I can also now do an exchange. Oh, during income. Yeah, I can do an exchange of like one of the three resources into one more of them, which you can normally do here.

Do I want to though? Mike says, I'm skipping my A meeting for this. Listen, we will never recommend you skip your A meeting, but as uh children of al recovering alcoholics and stuff, let's ask that you say the serenity prayer a few times. It's good in these times in general. It sure it really is. I know.

I've been saying wild stuff out here. I'm not a religious person. I've been saying the serenity prayer lately. You know, let's hit that a couple times and uh I don't think I'm going to exchange. Let's get into the big blue book, man. Yeah. No, I am going to spin. I'm gonna exchange. Okay. Gonna exchange.

I'm gonna exchange also. Hello, Mike. Say I am Mike. Whatever. Nick says game. It is Steuart. Uh John Hook said, "Great game. Love Rosem playthroughs." Well, thank you. Said, "Y'all's rapport uh or rather it's rapport, but you know, rapper, why not? Y'all's raort with each other reminds me of how my brother and I relate to each other.

Super fun." That's awesome. I'm glad to hear it. That makes me very happy to hear and thank you for the the um kind words. We had a playthrough of the new Chip Theory solo game, which is I don't like really freaking fun. Uh I really want to play it, man. Uh I'm going to go do a teran expedition. Um and I think I'm going to take back on seven.

I'll take a point. I'll tell you right now, I think this game is going to end because of aliens, which I don't think I've ever seen it end because of aliens. I am inclined to agree, right? Yeah. Um, which is wild. So, I can keep uh five of these. I think I'm going to go one, two, three, four, and a metal.

And I'll spend boom boom and metal to make a human. Boom. Boom. And then uh I'll get because I took those out of my supply. I'll get two food and metal as replacements. Um can I get a human, please? Woman. Need a little spaceuit for this delicious human. Delicious. Delicious boy. Um, Mark says, "If I got my baby down for a nap so I can watch uninterrupted, let's go, Mark." I know.

Hope the little one stays asleep for a while for you. All right. Five, six hours, baby. All right. You hear me? Five, six hours, guys. Hope so. All right. Not enough to upset the night time cuz you need to go dead. Yeah, that's the thing. I'm always worried when Logan's taking a long nap. Be crazy kid.

Um, all right. I'm going to go here and do some more tearing expeditions. Uh, so I'll get five. Three of which will go on to here. Um, if I get that, don't need it. So, I'll take a victory point for Okay, go over to my exchange. Why haven't done my turn? Oh, turn. Jess's just on my setup, man. I can roll six, keep four.

Um, so many humans. Um, points, baby. Points. The long and or late naps are a trap. Yeah, you ain't wrong about that. All right, I'm going to do two humans. So, I'll do that for one and then the rest will come from my supply, right? Or human. So, two humans, please. Okay, now you can go. All right, I'm going to do after this.

After this, I'm going to do uh five exchanges. We're going to go five food, five water, five pink aliens. Five pink aliens walking down the lane. Oh, two spent. Okay, I'm gonna go here and I'm going to disassemble part of my spice action. Yeah, you haven't done too much. Yeah. Uh, so since we're tied there, each of us can get a gem.

What's up, badass man? I'm going to disassemble this basic uh disassemble spot. Uh, so I'm going to get seven total metal. Total metal. Total metal. Oh, and I can bubble a track. Um, I shouldn't do that in retrospect. Uh, uh, Steve, that is a game called Drow Pter where you have stuff in your hand. You're trying to get stuff out of your hand based on the cards you see and you don't want to drop your little bells of Pter.

That's right. That one is so fun. All right. I think uh, Oink game. Yeah, I think I'm also gonna disassemble. I think I'm gonna disassemble my uh uh Stuart. Yeah, we were talking a little bit about it earlier. Greater Than Games has been shuttered by Flat River Group. Yeah, real world bug bummer. Real big.

Really sucks. I think it's you know about 10 people that lost their jobs. Um which is a bummer. Yeah, to say the very very least, that's a bummer. It's still possible speed run this game. Yeah, I mean I mean you could rush toward one of the like like what I'm trying to do now is get as many points which mostly in game points but you try to rush to the to the end game there and and uh here's the thing.

We've done speedr runninging games. You can absolutely speedr run board games all time. You speed run any game you want. We play Fast Road in like 20 minutes or No, it was like 11, wasn't it? Wait, what was it? Or or Dinosaur Island. We played Diner Island in 11 minutes. In 11 minutes. So b Oh, setup took a lot longer.

I sure did. That was one of those games where setup took longer than anything else. Uh, I'm going to do income unless you're still working on stuff. I'm going to do I think I'm also income, so I'll probably join you for the raid. So, I only have six ships now. Boom. Boom. Actually, I'll just do this because I keep making change.

Two, five. Six ships. Um, I am on one, two, three, four, five, six gem spaces. So, we'll get an additional six that away. Um, no dome. I'll get a victory point. I'll get a medal. And I now have 12 brown aliens, so I'll get three water. Nice. And I think that's everything. Got my victory point. Yeah.

Uh, yes. Thank you. Um, okay. So, trying to think how much 13 or absolutely zero dome going on right here. I did a lot of Metal delicious humans this way. Delicious humans get in my gallet. Get in my m um uh do you think I would do better if he's roen if I rushed her in 20 minutes? Yeah, probably. Here's the thing.

Probably probably your instinct would take over and he'd be like, "This is the right move and we should always trust our gut." Trust our gut. Uh Jimmy now is is posing as himself. Sus game uh hits close to home for me because uh I got my degree from space station Phoenix online. That's true. And you're like, I'm a Phoenix.

Yeah. Um gosh, I just don't know here. I am a bit worst. bit lursed or are you a bit blurs? Honestly, both. Uh, makes sense. Makes sense. Does make sense. Uh, I'm going to do that's for you. Cuz here's I don't think Let me double check real quick. Yeah, I was say you can't disassemble the ship you're using to disassemble, right?

I'd love to disassemble this and get an extra one, but I'm going to disable my disassemble. And I want to use yours because it's gonna give me an extra one. We get 11 metal. Got it. Nice. I can like use this if I need to or yours because it wasn't super expensive, but I'm like, uh, we each get a gem for that action.

Okay. Nice. Uh, in in keeping with tradition, uh, I'm going to give you that. Go visit your farm. Yeah, because I need some food. I have so much ability to get water, but I need to balance it out. Yeah. Um, all right. I'm gonna go to construct. I will get a metal. Technically, you're diplomacy stuff after the action.

So, I can't like get this metal and use it right now. We've been kind of doing it just like right away, but technically you are not Oh, for sure. supposed to. That's good enough. Um, so I kind of want this sector because it has more spaces for aliens, but I don't really like the abilities on here that much.

I'll keep it. You're not going to Why you got I don't even have time. Oh, yeah. I'm thinking those teal. Yeah. Whereas this one I'll do this one. I don't love the fact. Yeah. It's just my my main thing is like I kind of want to keep getting a bunch of aliens. So, I want the extra two spaces. And ah, we'll just do this one because this one is just better for me.

We'll do this. So, this is going to be uh 12. This will go here. So, this one has an instant action. Sometimes they have instant actions. I'll basically get to do a Terran expedition action. Now, this does not trigger these things. Sure. But I will now get a medal for this and I'll get one gem lower.

Um, and I get to do roll seven dice, keep five. So, I basically get to do a Terran expedition action. And interesting. Oh, man. Do we go metalicera? So, we're keeping five. Yeah. So, I'm going to go metal. Metal, I think. Boom. Boom. Boom. So, I'm going to get a food, two water, and two more metal. Okay.

Nice. Uh, I'm going to build as well right now. So, uh, it takes eight gems. Um, and I'm going to build uh this second section of the uh teal, which is nine, but I get a two metal discount, so I'll pay seven. Um, and you're going to get a medal or a victory point or gems. I will get one. I got a medal.

Okay. Um, yep, that's it. There's no instant ability on that for me. So, we're done. Okay. I am going to I think I'm going to do my income. So, I'm going to get three for my ships and then I get uh four, five, six, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 total. So, one, two, five, uh 10 11. Um, and then I can uh do an exchange of something.

Uh, and yeah, I'll exchange this for a water and then I can get two more [Music] water. Um, three. Yeah, I'm gonna go up here. and do the transport action. And I can do four exchanges. I also get two gems. Nice. Which is huge because I need them. And I think since I can do four I think I'm going to do four uh water for food and four gems and go four golds.

Yep, sir. Um, I think I'm going to fill up that one, two, three. So now I'll get a food during income extra gem. All right, I am going to go to my farm, spend four, and I'll get four food. Okay, I have to take income. Um, so I'm going to go back here. Oh. Uh. Um. Did I get a victory point from when I did my exchange?

Um. All right. So, income is going to be I've got six ships. Three. Six. Um. I'm on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven gem spaces. I have seven right there. Um, I get victory point. a metal three water food. All right. Uh I'm going to go ahead and go here. We're going to do uh construct. Give me I'll just take a point.

Uh I'm going to build this little baby going be five metal. Um All right. [Music] Um, let's do the No, you know what? I'm gonna get instead. [Music] Um, let's do uh I'm going to do the Tan Expedition. So, I'll spend four. Uh, this will give me uh I'll take a victory point and you gem uh roll eight dice.

Keep five food and water. Okay, five. I have take all four of these and one water. So, four food, one water. Okay. Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and do an exchange. I am going to do uh five, five, and four gems. So, I'm going to get one pink point. Boom. I'm going to take four. Yeah. Dang it. Gold. I think snipe that from you.

Yeah. Um Oops. And that's it. Um, shoot. Okay, I'm going to go here to the destructor disassemble spots. We each get a gem. Um, uh, I'm going to disassemble this, um, transport one. So, it'll give me seven metal. I can bump up a track, too. Okay. Uh, that's it for me. I'm going to do income. So, I got one, two, three, and then I'll get uh four, five, six, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

14 total. Easier. five 10 um 14 and then I can get I suppose I'll get um and then I can do an exchange for something. I think I'm going to exchange this for a I'll take a food I guess. Um, and then I can now do a roll. Actually, let me see what I want. Jimmy is asking, "What would we retitle this game to make it pop more?" It's It's honestly not a bad name because of like what you were doing is building a space station.

So, yeah, you are. You know, I don't know. It's tough. Yeah. I don't know. I I think the look is a bigger problem than the uh game name. Sure. It's just it just it looks kind of generic. It does that blue orange. It's the the ships all the art's fine, but it's not like super poppy. It's just the generic space vibe like which is not our personal favorite aesthetic anyway.

Like I'm doing the build action. So I can get a gem, you can get a reward of your choosing. I'm going to I get two dollar uh two metal off. So I'm going to spend 10 to build my third um teal section. So, one, two, three, five, two. Okay. And this gives me an immediate another turn. Another turn. Nice.

And I'm going use it to do a Tan Expedition. I'll take a victory point. This one is just six dice for kept. I would love to roll a bunch of humans, please. Uh, one human, three metal. Oh, do that then. Uh, okay. So, let me get my three metal first and then I will pay one food, one water, one metal for my human.

Um, please. Uh, they're going to go up here. All right. Uh, I'm going to go to my farm, get four food. I have to do income. So I will get five gems. One more turn. Dang it. Five gems. Um would be good to have be loaded up for may bear. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven more from my income spaces.

Seven more. Um, I get a metal rewater. You're saying it'd be better if they rethe this to building mines in the Moria and the dwarves were getting ready for other race of Middle Earth to visit. Yes. Gosh, you you're building like a dwarf hotel and a victory point and this is you you're delving down.

Like these are different levels and you're getting different hotels. Like this is the elf hotel and this is honestly Oh, why not? Why not us? I'm going to do an exchange. Oh man. Well, I'll take the Victor pawn anyway. I'll get mooked up. I think Nick's going to bring us down to four or fewer aliens, which I do not think we've ever had.

We play we typically try to build as much as possible. Yeah, cuz I'm going to build two pink, which leaves us with, you can't really see because it's behind me, but uh there are exactly four pink aliens left. And that is all the aliens. Um the other exchanges, I don't think there's anything. I mean, I guess resources.

Interesting. So, I could do three. I'll do Yeah, I'll just spend the rest nine of these gems to get resources in case it matters. Every five resources is a thingy. Okay, Mike, you get one final turn. Everyone else gets one final turn is how the end game is. Sure. I'm going to do this Tan expedition then and hopefully I was really hoping for some like reroll abilities, but yeah, just none came up.

There are certain ones that allow you to get uh rerolls, which are huge. Would love as many humans as possible. So, you don't have enough resources to do an action so you build a hobbit room? Heck yeah. Hell yeah. All right. So, I'm gonna build a human. I think the hobbits have to be like a human so they can kind of just go everywhere.

Yeah. Everyone's just like, "Yeah, I love hobbits, right? With the hobbits cuz Yeah, you have dwarves, elves, and men, and then hobbits. They're humans. They can go anywhere." Honestly, print it. It would be so fun. I'll do two and two cuz like the dismantling would just be mining for rock, right? Oh yeah, the exchange could just be exchange, you know.

Listen, we have these grand dreams of doing these videos where we make a rethe of something. Let's do it. We have so many other ones we want to do. Well, yeah. I mean, this is going to be like 5 years down the road, but yeah, but we're going to do it. All right. I've taken my final turn, man. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and score.

You are you're you're like 20 points a my kind of hope here is that that is enough because I think a lot of other stuff we've done is going to wash out. Uh we're going to see. Yeah, we're going to see here. Okay. So, are aliens um oh this it's two points per resident. I thought it was only one point per resident.

Um okay. So, first thing you need you get points for sectors. Your small sectors are four, then six, and then 10. So, if you build out a full sector, it's 20. 20. Yeah. So, you get 60 total. So, I'm going to get 20, 32, 40. Have I'm gonna get 40. So, it's going to put me on 44. How do you have 40? How How do we have the same?

You you have this you have more points than I do, Nick. Oh, 44. Uh, okay. So, now residents, your aliens and humans are worth two points a piece. I've got You should be higher than me cuz you were like 20 something. You got 40 points. Oh, yeah. You're right. I did. Wait, wait, wait. How am I ahead of you?

I gained some ground, but not a ton. 42. So, you should be at six. You should be at 12. Okay. Because you should be at 62. I see. gain some ground. All right, so two per resident. Um, that's 48 points for that. Got 56. I'll get a calculator. Yeah, I'm going to do calculators now. Yeah, I'm getting scared.

Uh, so 49, so 62 plus 56. I'm at 105. I'm at 110. Okay. Okay. Um, okay. All right. So, now we're going to go majorities for each type. And I think this is going to balance out. Uh, now cuz I have gold, pink, and you have gold. Yep. I was tied. Nope. I got seven. You have six. That's why I did that gold at the very end.

And so now, although you're going to have humans and brown. So brown I have the most of. So I'll get 10 for that. I have no brown. I have no humans. So I'll get for the humans. I have more teal. I have more pink. And I did have more. Now I'm in second place in those. Do you think I get five for each?

Uh I can see. Oh, that's a good point because uh that's a big difference because I don't have any of the other ones. No. Well, it only it'll only give me five for the give you five extra points. Uh, let me see. Is it matter in a twoplayer game? It didn't say you don't. So, yeah, I think you get extra five points.

So, five. Okay. All right. I'm on 135. Oh, so am I. Spicy me. All right. Now, endgame scoring. Now, this is this is probably where it goes in your favor because you have I'm just going to get two more points per teal. Yeah, I get one more point. One more point per brown. I have 12. Let me get uh 18.

Okay. Level of resources. So, all of these are five and 20 gems. So, I'm going to get I'm going to get two more. Four more. 151. Oh, 155. Oh, man. Yeah. I was like, I think I have more endgame stuff. Yeah. And the fact that I got this, that's why I was like, "Oh, we're we're we're gonna be tied. If I get three, I need to get that fourth one so that I can be one ahead and snipe that 10 points." Nicely done, sir.

Nicely done. I I wanted I should have taken a look at this more because I did have, you know, a handful of humans. And this is the third sector of the pink. So, I was not anywhere. But, um, you know, if I had built even one more pink, we would have tied because four points. I got up here and got humans.

You know, that would have been a couple extra points. Anyway, well done. And again, I had this five exchanger. And then I had the thing where I got one water. Yeah. Or food and then another one. So flush. I mean, so was I. So flushed with resources. And then I was able to get four more food. So I'm like, "Okay, I'm going to keep getting water every time I do exchanges." Yep.

And then I'm just going to do this and get like five residents. Five residents. Five residents. Like it was pretty nuts. I mean, I had 28 swings. 28 residents. That's pretty insane. But you also had a ton, too. Both of them. Yeah, we both like I think both had uh because I had the ability to get water, extra water from the brown aliens.

Yes. Uh and then I could use your farm, which I used twice. Yeah. Um and I had the an extra Terran expedition, which I used a lot. So, worked out. Yeah. That's what I love about this game, man. It's just like you're like, "Oh, I'm I'm going to start doing this." because depending on the the hub you start with the um the the availability of the the sectors.

Yeah. Which change cuz again there's all these other ones that aren't used in each game. So there's so many more and there's they have all sorts of different crazy abilities and stuff. Um the hubs both of our hubs happen to be basic hubs. There's a bunch of advanced hubs that are like uh the other one I was considering was really weird.

Really cool. So, this one gives you during income you get 10 gems. Does not matter how many ships you have, which low key is is I kind Yeah, I almost wish I had done this now. Uh, you also have on your turn an ability every turn to turn a medal into a water or food. And then the endgame scoring is depending on how many ships you have left.

If you have zero ships left, you get 20 points. If you only have one ship, you get 15. Two 10. Three is five. you want and you start with an additional level uh two ship. So, you want to disassemble your entire fleet ideally, which but you're still getting gems. So, it's like it kind of doesn't matter.

Like, yeah, that would be interesting cuz I was disassembling a lot. You probably up here using this a lot. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah, but I mean like getting 20 points. I was like, man, that's pretty cool. So, I I there's and there's a bunch of these magazines that are definitely different and stuff.

It's very cool. Very, very cool game. Yeah, I really like it. Well done. I really like it a lot. Um, Red said, "Boys, I discovered a new game that checks so many of my boxes. Stonespire Architects. I've always wanted to play Stone Spire Architects. I hear it's good, dude. It's fun. I like it." Um, it said, "Have you Have y'all had any games recently that hit so hard as like a quintessential U game off the first play?" We both really like Civilian off the first play.

Yeah, SETI and Colution, which are like our two favorite games from last year. Those are the two I'm like, "Yep, this is a game made for me. like, "Yep, that's that's it." It's like, "Yeah, that's that's two games that are just like, yep, this was made for me." So, uh, I will play it. Thank you. Bye.

Yeah, probably those. They're pretty darn good, man. Yeah, pretty darn good. Right. Um, range player PE. So, I've got a buck in them saying STI, Galactic Cruise, or Imperium. You got us with SETI, didn't I? Imperium. Imperium. Also, Imperium. Um, all righty y'all. Um, thank you all for being here. Appreciate it.

Hope you have a nice Friday. If you're uh doing stuff on Easter with family, hope that's fun. We're going to do a little brunch and egg hunt at the house. Heck yeah. Um, yeah, we hope you have a nice weekend. Relax. Hopefully play some games. We're hoping to play some games ourselves. Get, you know, get recreational.

Why not? Why not? Why not us? Um, yeah. So, we'll get the heck out of here. We have a top 10 out today. Top 10 uh baby versions games like we were talking about Pirates America earlier. So like small versions of parent games that we think are better than their parent games. Yes. Uh so go get after that on the tip right here.

And um Oh, that is interesting. This space station piece, no sector, no space. It just gives you 10 points when you build it. That's a huge kind of low-key a big deal though. That's huge. Wow. Crazy. Especially because like if you're close on the thing, you might get to the 40 points and you're a third sector.

So you're like, well, this if this is like one of the last section essentially worth 20 points on its own because it's 10 points for the sector at the end of the game, 10 points when you build it. Yeah, that's huge. That's pretty nuts. Of course, it serves no in-game purpose whatsoever other than it gives you the points immediately.

But all right, y'all. Um, we will see you all later. Have a great rest of your week and we love you nerds. We'll see you later. Bye. Bye. Bye.