CAGcast #625: The Grossest Surf and Turf

The gang talks Cincinnati minor league hockey, GDC cancellation, Half-Life: Alyx, and oh so much more!

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Show Linkage/Notes:
Intro - Herve Pagez, Diplo - Spicy ft. Charli XCX (CheapyD Extended Mix ;-) )
Outro - GI JOE 1984 Toy Commercial Duke, Spirit, Roadblock, Storm Shadow, Cobra CLAW, G.I. JOE Skyhawk

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Cyclones games are lots of fun. Didn't listen so no idea what you guys said exactly, just saw the lead in.

Wrong Star Wars, nerds.

I backed Marvel United thanks to Wombat... I did the $90 one... we play board games every Sunday as a family so it should get used.

Nice cast. Also in light of the primaries... I voted Warren but looks like Joe will be our only option. At least we can get used to these:
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Haven't finished listening yet, but as a big board gamer and a big user of Kickstarter...

Board games are fairly expensive to make and distribute, especially since their target retail outlets are going to be smaller 'friendly local game stores' who don't have a lot of working capital or shelf space. Kickstarter as a pre-order system lets them gauge interest and print an appropriate run size. This is an increasingly common strategy in a niche market that is flooded with new products (and very few evergreen ones). When you're CMON, Kickstarter also provides "free" advertising by featuring the game on the front page which nets more orders - my guess is that the cost paid in fees is written off as advertising. Also, CMON is famous for extravagant stretch goals (not sure about this one) which creates a lot of FOMO in the board game community, so Kickstarter provides a vehicle to drive extra demand early on.

Also, while CMON has officially changed the pronunciation of their name to "Come On" but it's stupid. The right way to say it is 'See Mon' because it originally meant 'Cool Mini or Not'.

Rian Johnson directed the Last Jedi, not Force Awakens. Get your Star Wars straight!

The Cincinatti Cyclones are a feeder team for the Buffalo Sabres and the Rochester Americans. Basically, if a player gets injured on the Sabres, they'll call up a player from the Americans to replace him, and the Cyclones will send a player to Rochester. Cheapy would be interested to know that the Cyclones' $3000 captain signed a 1 year contract with the Islanders at one point, but never actually stepped on the ice.

Anyway, please give Cheapy a hard time for playing a Spice Girls cover as this week's intro song.

Hilarious episode this week!  I was crying during the whole "But it's the Olympics!" part.  You guys have become so quick with the jokes and setups for each other, it's pure joy.  See you this summer!   -Ryan

These consecutive tweets came through my feed recently.. Who had the logo first, Cheapy or Clark?!

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I was looking forward to the outro this week just knowing it was going to be a produced version of Wombat's rendition of the Paw Patrol theme song...I was left sad.