So Very Wrong About Games

Absolutely one of the best board game podcasts around!! I have been listening for probably over five years now and I greatly appreciate their insight into gaming and efforts to make the hobby more inclusive!! Keep it up y’all!! You make my week better!!

Every word that comes out of Mark’s mouth fills the room with pompous arrogance. He makes you feel that having a differing option makes you less than. He definitely gets off by feeling like the smartest man in the room. He makes you feel like all the games you like are bad. 5/5 stars.

This is the best show about board games, the industry, and the day-to-day experience of being a hobby board gamer. The hosts are not afraid to be honest, but when reacting poorly to a product or news event do it with a grace. The only must listen podcast I recommend to folks about board games.

Listening SWAG for three years and waiting for coming Tuesday as new episode. Thank you guys

At first, the podcast appears relatively novel. There are few programs within the board gaming hobby which offer substantive analysis. Mike and Mark display thoughtful critiques throughout multiple episodes. The problem isn’t that they — mostly Mark — get reflexively sidetracked by political commentary. The problem is: their commentary is politically juvenile. They — mostly Mark — possess the kind of boiler plate, deconstructionist talking points you would expect from a first-year political science major. It’s tired and unimaginative. It’s cookie cutter rhetoric we have all heard a thousand times across every possible topic. It’s genuflecting shows of virtue that are amplified across Board Game Geek ad naseum. Yet, we are assured that these “conversations” aren’t happening often enough. In their effort to carve out a “social commentary” niche, they wind up making the show passé and redundant. It’s unnecessary. It’s bland. And — to top it off — it’s incorrect. False anthropology does not equal “cultural respect”. A sad case study in wasted potential.