PolyCast Episode 48: "Orange Jello's Just Too Powerful"

[DanQ]

Its green counterpart doesn't stand a chance even with pineapple. Putting that and other points into context is the charge of the panel on the forty-eighth episode of PolyCast, featuring returning guest co-host Costas "Keygen" and first-timer Lance "Lancer" Gross. Regular co-hosts Daniel "DanQ" Quick and Makahlua with Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney are also present. Entitled "Orange Jello's Just Too Powerful", it runs for 44m59s in length. Ken "Carch" Baudicher is also present as the interviewee.

An official podcast of Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS), PC is a bi-weekly audio production of ACS is an ongoing effort to give the Civ community an interactive voice on game strategy; its sibling show ModCast focuses on Civ modding. To date, ACS is the only known community on the Web to produce its own Civ podcasts.

[DanQ]

Summary of Topics

- 03m24s | Interview
We speak with recent Novice play champion Ken "Carch" Baudicher about the Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Tri-League Tournament in the first of a two-part interview.
- 13m21s | News
Six is the number of first patch previews for the stand-alone expansion Civilization IV: Colonization to be released for PCs this fall (one, two, three, four, five, six).
- 22m01s | Forum Talk
On Armoured units having their ability to inflict collateral damage removed in the new 3.17 patch for Beyond the Sword and is the Barrage promotion indeed broken.
- 30m18s | Senate
Switching to the Free Religion civic as soon as it available and to research Feudalism or Engineering first.

- Intro/Outro | Miscellaneous
Recalling the show's 2007 Christmas Special, do you care what the Artificial Intelligence cares about in CivIV and how many days of work/school missed due to Civ playing marathons.

[Will9]

I actually care about what economy civic the AI has. If they have Enviromentalism or Free Market, I am less likely to attack them since I can spread my corporation to them. I am even less likely to attack an Enviro nation since their economy is more damaged by the corp than that of a Free Market nation. I am more likely to attack State Property or Mercantilistic nations since I can't spread my corp to them.

Edit: Does anyone else think that sounds at all like a Corporate Dictatorship?

[Lancer]

It was fun, thanks for having me on the show.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Will9
I actually care about what economy civic the AI has. If they have Enviromentalism or Free Market, I am less likely to attack them since I can spread my corporation to them. I am even less likely to attack an Enviro nation since their economy is more damaged by the corp than that of a Free Market nation. I am more likely to attack State Property or Mercantilistic nations since I can't spread my corp to them.

Would you be even more likely to attack a nation that once allowed your corporation to spread, and you did so, but with an economic civics change on their part those branches' effects are now nullified?

Does anyone else think that sounds at all like a Corporate Dictatorship?

Originally posted by Lancer
It was fun, thanks for having me on the show.

You're welcome -- thanks for being on. Glad you enjoyed the experience.

[Murg]

Ode to Polycast

My iPods a mix of many tunes
Linken Park, Mozart and some cartoons
On shuffle a random mix may play
Kermit the Frog, Snoop Dog and Cirque du Soleil
Or 99 luftwaffe balloons

But never is my iPod so fine
As when there’s a new Polycast online
All the other bands must wait
On each Polycast release date
In my queue they all fall far behind

I look cool running in my gym
Short shorts on, ear plugs plugged in
But little do the others know
That I’m not rocking as I go
I’m listening to Polycast again

DanQ may sometimes be whiney
Occasionally off track or tiny
Much like our own Napoleon
On a moose and Canadian
Always in search of something shiny

I must admit Cartimanduas my fav
It’s her laugh that really makes my day
Without it the show seems so dry
It makes my spearman fortify
She always has good things to say

I can’t understate this enough
Thank you Maki, from all of us
Her job is done to perfection
Keep Dan from singing, no exceptions!
And give the show the Makahlua touch

Seriously, thanks to everyone
For everything you guys have done
It’s enjoyed more than you know
Around the world your crazy show
Keep them coming and having fun

[Murg]

I may have killed the thread.

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Murg
I may have killed the thread.

NOT!!

I may be no poet, but I know what I like. That poem was almost as good as Polycast, with truth, beauty & humor besides! I enjoyed it.

The main problem with Polycast is unavoidable. It often reviews threads and issues that I have already gone over, so rarely does anything in it strike me to comment on it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It makes my spearman fortify

And where is my verse

[Murg]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It makes my spearman fortify

And where is my verse

Nothing rhymes with Siddiqui.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Murg
On a moose and Canadian
Always in search of something shiny

[ayronis]

Originally posted by Murg


Nothing rhymes with Siddiqui.

This, Sir, is a lie.
The following are just some of the words that rhyme with siddiqi:

cheeky, creaky, freaky, geeky, leaky, sneaky, squeaky.

More importantly, I enjoyed the poem greatly. The show is a lot of fun, and I certainly count myself among its fans.

[ayronis]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

It makes my spearman fortify

And where is my verse

Even though I won't write you a poem,
You are my favorite, on the show.
When the girls laugh and laugh,
And Dan cries and moans,
You demonstrate wit, this I know.

[Cartimandua]

Thanks Murg! I'm glad to hear my incessant laughter doesn't annoy you too much

[Jaybe]

On a future episode, the poem will be recited.

Please.

Hopefully by someone who is skilled at reciting poetry. Even if it has to be contracted out.