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46: Reconsidering Civilization with Soren Johnson (Old World)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Play Samurai: A Lightweight Game

The scoring system is just ridiculously complex and totally unnecessary because the game is actually super simple. It's a weird contradiction where you have this lightweight game, but it has this thing. I don't know why he didn't just say like at the end of the game, pick two figurines, add them up and that's your score. Instead like the system is so complex that if you get the samurai app on your phone, they have a little mini game before you play the game to teach you how the scoring system works.

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