#273 - The Big-Game-Small-Box Intervention Special

Shut Up & Sit Down

Leisure, Games

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this long overdue episode of the Shut Up & Sit Down Podcast, Tom and Matt are hosting an intervention for one particular publisher… and also talking about some board games!

First up is a chat about Daitoshi, the latest ambitious and busy design from site favourites Devir, followed by some nattering about the “area-control-deck-builder-mutation” Altay and “tic-tac-toe-em-up” Architects of Amytis!

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

Timestamps:

01:59 - Daitoshi

17:40 - Altay

33:17 - Architects of Amytis

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the very latest in a sequence of endless ongoing episodes of the Shut Up and Sit Down podcast, the podcast about board games, board games and the people who love board games.
0:21.1	Endless implies that we're going to live forever. Yes. Who are we going to have to replace us
0:25.9	when we're dead and buried? No one. I'm not going to. I'm going to be an endless emperor. Oh.
0:29.7	So your plan is to just not die. Yes. Well, I will, but I'll be replaced by a genetically perfect
0:36.6	copy of myself. And then he'll be replaced by a genetically perfect copy of myself.
0:38.2	And then he'll be replaced by a genetically perfect copy of himself.
0:41.6	And do you keep your memories in these genetic copies?
0:44.0	No, I will be training my copies to be me.
0:48.3	We were ruling trios of three.
0:49.8	There will always be a child, an old man, and also I am Lee Pace.
0:53.1	This is just the plot of foundation.
0:56.1	It's a good TV show. Check it out.
0:57.4	Boo.
0:58.5	I know.
0:58.7	Oh, that was original.
0:59.7	No.
1:00.2	I think we're going to go father, son, and holy spirit energy on this.
1:02.9	Oh, yeah, I can whack some holy spirit and energy there.
1:05.0	We can put Holy Spirit in post.
1:06.8	Anyway, it's a great TV show.
1:08.6	Check it out. Also, you can read the books, but I think they've aged badly. They're just a bit boring. Welcome to the podcast, board games. Yeah, it's about board games. Not about the sci-fi series Foundation. And on this episode of the podcast, we're going to talk about a whole bunch of board games, not the TV series Foundation. No. We're going to talk about Daitoshi, a game of using Steam to make a city good, maybe.
1:31.3	Maybe.
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