Game Mechanics - A Critical Tabletop Podcast · Logan Jenkins, Greg Leatherman

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·49 min·4 clips
AEG's former COO said AI could design games like Tiny Towns, but the hosts call it plagiarism.
Hosts Logan and Greg discuss tabletop gaming news, including using games for social icebreaking, Gen Con housing struggles, AEG firing its COO over AI comments, the Neopets TTRPG Kickstarter controversy, and tariffs affecting board game prices. They blend personal anecdotes with industry analysis in a conversational tone.

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Tabletop banter meets a sharp, uneasy critique of utility driven thinking.

Game Mechanics starts as a plainspoken look at two hosts who can stretch a prompt driven game into a two and a half hour brewery icebreaker. It then turns to the logic behind AI hype, especially the comparison that treats human effort like a line item.

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Press play if you want tabletop banter that turns into a very human anti-AI rant.

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