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Episode 177 – New Things
Overview
This weeks episode around three main topics: the 10th anniversary of the Firefly game, the show True Detectives and traveling to the Caribbean. The Firefly game discussion involves Alan and Stephen discussing the details and expansions of the game, the associated Gamefound campaign and the overall gaming culture. The conversation then transitions to discussing the show True Detectives which is characterized by its unique plot, quality, and complex narratives. Lastly, they discuss traveling to the Caribbean with Stephen sharing his planned trip to islands including the Grand Cayman and Jamaica, and the activities he plans to engage in.
Recommendations
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gf9/firefly-the-game
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g147237-Activities-c57-t95-Caribbean.html
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Transcription
Stephen: [00:00:00] Good morning.
Alan: So I’m writing up the invitation to the death to the sun event that Cam is gonna have because Cleveland is 1 of those big cities that’s right in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse. So just figured I’d throw the moon on there. There we go.
Stephen: Okay. Nice. Yeah. Before we destroy it or something.
Alan: Exactly.
Stephen: Okay. So where do we wanna start? We got it’s each week you say, okay. Let’s hit the things that we didn’t get to this week. Here’s my new list of things.
Alan: It’s an ever going list. And yet, we let our whim be our guide, whatever is the fun stuff to talk about, whatever is interesting, I’m sure we’ll hit it. So I 1 of the things that you shared was You got a big update like a treasure chest update, the Firefly game. So was it a Kickstarter project, or how did this
Stephen: come to be? It was basically Kickstarter, but it was gamefound, which is like Kickstarter but focused on games.
And so the, Hopefully, everybody [00:01:00] listening to us knows Firefly. That’s you know, let’s just go there. If you don’t know Firefly, It was 20 some years ago. Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and a whole other cast, great people. It’s A
Alan: single season.
It said I’ve heard it described as wagon train in space. And
Stephen: in a little bit Yeah. That’s how Roddenberry describes Star Trek to get the pilot, mate.
Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, it’s Space Cowboys is what it is. And so there was a firefly called Firefly The game, very original that was out 15 ish years ago. And it was 1 of those that I’m like, oh, that does look interesting.
Just not the right time of my life to be getting a game. And they came out with a whole bunch of expansions over time. And, of course, it went out of print And, harder to find. And so I’ve been wanting it for quite a while. And a year and a half ish ago I ran into a thing where it was this company, Gale Force 9, that said, hey.
It’s the tenth anniversary of [00:02:00] the Firefly game. We wanna create something for all of you.
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By Relentless GeekeryOverview
This weeks episode around three main topics: the 10th anniversary of the Firefly game, the show True Detectives and traveling to the Caribbean. The Firefly game discussion involves Alan and Stephen discussing the details and expansions of the game, the associated Gamefound campaign and the overall gaming culture. The conversation then transitions to discussing the show True Detectives which is characterized by its unique plot, quality, and complex narratives. Lastly, they discuss traveling to the Caribbean with Stephen sharing his planned trip to islands including the Grand Cayman and Jamaica, and the activities he plans to engage in.
Recommendations
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/gf9/firefly-the-game
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g147237-Activities-c57-t95-Caribbean.html
YouTube
Transcription
Stephen: [00:00:00] Good morning.
Alan: So I’m writing up the invitation to the death to the sun event that Cam is gonna have because Cleveland is 1 of those big cities that’s right in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse. So just figured I’d throw the moon on there. There we go.
Stephen: Okay. Nice. Yeah. Before we destroy it or something.
Alan: Exactly.
Stephen: Okay. So where do we wanna start? We got it’s each week you say, okay. Let’s hit the things that we didn’t get to this week. Here’s my new list of things.
Alan: It’s an ever going list. And yet, we let our whim be our guide, whatever is the fun stuff to talk about, whatever is interesting, I’m sure we’ll hit it. So I 1 of the things that you shared was You got a big update like a treasure chest update, the Firefly game. So was it a Kickstarter project, or how did this
Stephen: come to be? It was basically Kickstarter, but it was gamefound, which is like Kickstarter but focused on games.
And so the, Hopefully, everybody [00:01:00] listening to us knows Firefly. That’s you know, let’s just go there. If you don’t know Firefly, It was 20 some years ago. Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and a whole other cast, great people. It’s A
Alan: single season.
It said I’ve heard it described as wagon train in space. And
Stephen: in a little bit Yeah. That’s how Roddenberry describes Star Trek to get the pilot, mate.
Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, it’s Space Cowboys is what it is. And so there was a firefly called Firefly The game, very original that was out 15 ish years ago. And it was 1 of those that I’m like, oh, that does look interesting.
Just not the right time of my life to be getting a game. And they came out with a whole bunch of expansions over time. And, of course, it went out of print And, harder to find. And so I’ve been wanting it for quite a while. And a year and a half ish ago I ran into a thing where it was this company, Gale Force 9, that said, hey.
It’s the tenth anniversary of [00:02:00] the Firefly game. We wanna create something for all of you.