Between Love and Madness Lies Savage Oppress

What's up, Troopers?

We're here for another episode of Notorious Scoundrels.

I'm Evan.

That's Mike over there.

Mike, our settings, Isaiah pointed this out, our settings look a little bit different than usual.

For you, why is that? Yeah, I'm moving the house.

Yeah.

And moving very

far away from where you are right now.

Right.

Extremely far away.

Roughly 10 football fields.

You know, but yeah, you can see my some of my sweet games here, along with you can't see the whole thing, but it is a family crest shield that is full size.

It was used for...

The Barry family crest.

The Barry family crest.

Wow.

But War of the Ring, excellent game if you haven't played it.

I highly recommend.

For the Star Wars aficionados out there, it is like Star Wars Rebellion, but for Lord of the Rings.

Oh, cool.

I do love Rebellion.

Rebellion, in my opinion...

Best game ever made.

On a tabletop.

On the tabletop.

Oh.

Isaiah.

Isaiah Wallace.

You are a former world champion.

Now just a dude.

Just a dude.

Welcome back to the podcast.

Have you ever played Star Wars Rebellion, the board game? I have played it once.

It's really good.

The annoying thing is that it's out of print and that there was one expansion which added, like, some Rogue One stuff, which is very hard to find now.

Yeah.

And so, like, yeah, that's the only really annoying thing about it is that I don't think it's quite in that zone of that crazy FortiGate board game that we played at Depticon.

It probably will be someday.

Yeah, it will be.

My my my copy of Battlestar Galactica and all the expansions is in this pile somewhere as well, which is unfortunately closer to that 40K board game and niche and findability.

But that's that's also FFG is a board game company.

Really just they had they had a really good run.

Yeah, and they don't do board games at all anymore, right? Like, it's strictly card games now.

They're pretty much...

They're Star Wars Unlimited Factory.

Yeah, they're Unlimited.com at this point, you know?

Man, it's crazy how things...

Like, do they still do that...

What was that crazy game where, you know, you could, like...

The cards were all sort of, like, different from each other.

Key Forge.

Is that still a thing anymore? Yeah.

I doubt it.

Isaiah has no idea about Keyforged.

Keyforged is this weird thing to where theoretically cards were randomized in a whole bunch of different ways that if you got a deck...

Everyone would be a little bit different.

No two

decks were...

Every deck was unique in some way.

And you couldn't mix decks.

You couldn't make your own deck once you had the cards.

You had to play the deck from the box.

Basically, you got a deck and a booster pack, essentially.

So you guys were playing with...

Oh, what are they called? What were the monkey yacht pictures that everybody freaked out on the internet for a while about? Monkey yacht...

Where you could buy a picture.

It was not...

What are they called? I have no idea what you're talking about.

I think I know what you're trying to say.

It was...

Like the big scam after everything was blocked.

Yeah, the images

that were worth money that really aren't a thing anymore.

Oh, yeah.

NFTs.

NFTs, yes.

You guys were playing with NFTs before NFTs.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Keyforge maybe invented the concept of NFTs.

So you guys are big on NFT markets.

And now both of them are dead.

Fifth Trooper pivoting to NFTs.

Yeah.

No, Fifth Trooper will always be fungible.

Yeah.

Like, I'm going to admit here, I am not really clear on what fungible means.

Don't tell me in the comments.

I don't want to know.

Isn't it fungible? Fungible? Yeah, see, I don't even know how it's pronounced.

That's like me failing at my English professorness.

Such a good term.