Hi all!
Sometimes you gotta be informal, amirite?
I mean, there's the episode you prepare, you take notes for, and it ends up being mightily fine.
Some other times you don't prepare for it, and the unique combination of naivety, earnestness and relaxation makes for something special... a special kind of disaster, that is.
This is one such peculiar episode (I wonder how we end up still having listeners after these intros). I think the team really has to thank Cara for the effort she puts into it. In Italy they say "perle ai porci", which roughly translates "pearls to pigs", to indicate when someone gifts you something nice and you are so unable to appreciate it that it's utterly wasted.
After all, you have to talk in the same episode about eugenics and human minorities, what could go wrong?
Hey, we all have THAT episode. And THAT is THIS one. The episode begins pretty normal (normal for the course, that is) with a Standee Catch-up, then it's Fen talking about a Steam game (board-adjacent) they defined "KDM-esque", Mewgenics!, and something something about news in Magic: The Gathering - it must have to do with the new set about Ninja Turtles and why it is not as terrible as the communal judgment would have it. Sometimes, I wish I had notes. Then it's Alessio, who talks about two reasonably recent Knizia classics, Ichor and Iliad, and explains us his preference. Whatever that means. It's mostly speaking ill of cloth mats. And you know what does NOT have cloth mats? Cara's game. With its more culturally appropriate neoprene. Nah, I'm joking. Cara is the one who was actually prepared, remember?
Hey, there's no 'I' in 'team'. And apparently, there is none in 'Standee' either. But a man can dream...
