Hey hey BATT Family! We're back with our next main episode! We hope you really enjoyed the Live! episode from PopiCon, we had a blast recording that one. Last week didn't have an off-week release unintentionally between returning from vacation, an absolute nightmare of a week at work, and preparing for MacWagCon (the studio honestly has probably never looked better). This week though we get to talk about theme and what brings us to games, finally getting Scott to play one of my all time favourite games, and a return to one of our favourite rotating segments.

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This episode's segments:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:58 - What's Been on the Table

00:05:38 - Topic of the Week: What's In a Theme?

00:29:31 - Why Did It Take So Long To Play That: Aquatica

00:40:58 - Table / Shelf / Trade

01:02:05 - Rotating Segment: Visions of the Future

01:16:19 - Contact Info / Sponsors

01:17:41 - Outro

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Notes!

1) I know when talking about Skymines I could have said Moonbasa instead of Space Mombasa and frankly I'm as disappointed in myself as you are.

2) Not sure what or why that weird metronomic popping is there for a few a bit around the 30:20 mark, but it appeared to be buried within the audio itself and I couldn't clear it out. Apologies! I'm still trying to get better at audio engineering!

3) It is ironic that we discussed theme for so long in the episode and then Faraway's gets discarded out of hand so fast when talking about it. The game was taught to me without using that theme and unforunately nothing in the gameplay reinforces it so I just kind of breezed past it.

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