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#266 - Beyond the Blender

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Leisure, Games

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this machiavellian episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt have a chatter about even more curiosities picked up from Essen! First up is Power Vacuum - a diplomatic trick-taker where you play as fascist toasters - followed by Beyond The Horizon, a reimagining of 2020’s Beyond The Sun. Finally, a little beachfront chat about Seaside - a game that’s got Matt’s favourite component of all: “A Bag”


Have a great weekend, everybody!


Timestamps:

2:18 - Power Vacuum

18:49 - Beyond the Horizon

31:37 - Seaside

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this very special episode of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, a podcast about board games, board games and board games.

0:19.3

Airhorn, Airhorn, Airhorn, Airhorn, Air horn, air horn, air horn. I'm joined today by

0:23.6

Matt Lee's. Hello. Those imaginary air horns have really gotten into my ears and shaking up my brain

0:29.4

and away I'm not comfortable about it. Every time you say the word air horn, I hear at least one air horn.

0:35.2

Does it work for other sound effects? It does.

0:37.8

Any word that's the sound effect, I hear it.

0:40.1

But that air horn sound effect is quite long, which means saying it that quickly, they overlap.

0:44.2

And the decibels, well, they're off the charts, Thomas.

0:47.7

They're off the chain.

0:48.8

I'm so sorry to all the podcast listeners who suffer from this same affliction of every time I make a sound effect with my mouth,

0:55.1

it happens in their ears. It's called dot-wav syndrome, and it's definitely real.

1:01.6

On this podcast, we're going to talk about some board games. Who knew? We're going to talk about

1:05.9

three of them. We're going to talk about power vacuum, a game about being fascistic toasters vying for power in a sort of

1:13.7

death of Stalin-y trick-taking game. Yeah, and it's not about being a powerful vacuum. Well,

1:18.5

it kind of is. I suppose it is, but I feel like I'm still waiting for the inevitable Euro game

1:23.8

about Hoover and vacuum companies competing to target the market.

1:28.6

You remember that Splatter game, horseless carriage, where you had to design the sort of first

1:32.5

early automobiles.

1:33.6

Yeah.

1:33.9

I would play the living daylights out of the game, but it was for early household appliances.

1:37.7

Yeah.

1:38.0

And you could make all kinds of weird ones, like a toaster Hoover combo, and people would

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