Netrunner

Nels and Jesse discuss playing in FFG's Plugged-In Tour tournament in Seattle. Jesse did tremendously well while Nels unceremoniously flatlined a child he did not know. Nels also got a chance to play Lukas Litzsinger, the lead designer of Android: Netrunner. You can guess how well that went. Opening Moves is briefly discussed and plans for the future are laid out.

Terminal7 2: I Flatlined An Eight Year-Old Girl

Mala Tempora has been released, so Nels and Jesse push past an etymological conundrum and talk about some of the most interesting cards in this new data pack. And with the announcement of Honour & Profit, the next deluxe expansion that will focus exclusively on Jinteki and Criminal, a multi-week faction discussion begins! Nels and Jesse look at the design, theme and iconic cards of the Jinteki corporation, with the rest of the factions to come in the weeks ahead.

Terminal7 4: Like the Prawn

Terminal7 hosts its first special guest as the illustrious Quintin Smith of Shut Up & Sit Down joins Nels and Jesse to talk all things Netrunner! Continuing our multi-week faction discussion, the most interesting/evocative cards from not-quite-human manufacturing empire of Haas-Bioroid are highlighted before moving on to the genius and expertise of the Shapers.

Terminal7 5: The Actual Best Thing

Is NBN a cold, unfeeling corporate monolith with little respect for privacy and even less for ethics? Special guest and NBN PR Director Leigh Alexander says nothing could be farther from the truth! She joins Nels and Jesse to talk about what is without question her favourite faction. From the misunderstood Jackson Howard to the tag avalanche of Midseason Replacements, NBN is definitely one an unusual but exciting organization. Also examined is the Criminal faction, with their crushing events and endless fonts of money.

Terminal7 7: His Toy-Making Genius

Fear & Loathing finds Nels & Jesse standing at the door of the Geostrategic Research & Neothermal Development Laboratories. The newest data pack in the Spin Cycle is discussed, along with some of our favourite but less commonly seen Neutral cards. And an exciting announcement about a new event happening at the end of May in Terminal City (literally and figuratively) awaits in the twilight of this episode.

Terminal7 9: The Bush Shaking with Guns

Nels & Jesse traveled to the Game Developer's Conference and talked to a ton of our favourite Netrunner players. First, Anthony Burch of Hey Ash Watcha Playin' and lead writer of Borderlands 2 and Paul Dean of Shut Up & Sit Down discuss their recent arrival to the game. Next Charlene Putney and Theresa Duringer discuss their strategies and perspectives. NYU's professor arrives next to Frank Lantz talk about The Local Meta and his thoughts on the game. Penultimately, Jorge Albor, Mathew Kumar and Emily Flynn-Jones get together after a GDC Netrunner meetup. And finally, we are joined again by Leigh Alexander, who runs us through the myth of Enby-chan.

Terminal7 10: GDC 2014 Daily Casts Spectacular!

In two days, Nels & Jesse played 40 games of Netrunner between them ... and they were still hungry for more! In one weekend, Terminal7 hosted their first draft tournament as well as their first post-Honour & Profit standard tournament. These tournaments are examine post-mortem with thoughts on the draft format and what it looks like seeing Jinteki's new hazards and the Criminals new tricks in practice.

Terminal7 14: A Mitt Full of Hot Garbage

Returning fresh in 2015, Nels and Jesse are going to be discussing the major deck archetypes of all seven the game's factions. First up is the Teutonic titan of efficiency Haas-Bioroid and slick, surveilling NBN.

Both corporations has strong fast advance tools that can close out a game in the blink of an eye. But the eponymous bioroids of H-B and some recent new developments at NBN provide both factions some interesting options to secure their agendas and ensure victory is always just out of the runner's grasp.

Terminal7 23: Broom-Hands

Live from the Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Nels and Jesse are joined by Eddy Boxerman and Dave Burke, the creators of the new competitive (but non-LCG) card game, Karmaka! As big fans of Netrunner, Eddy and Dave talk about how Netrunner influenced Karmaka, how they differ and what their experience has been like designing a competitive card game.

Terminal7 26: Life as a Dung Beetle

The SanSan Cycle begins in the biotech hub of northern California. The Valley hosts the best and brightest biotechology companies in the world and their breakthroughs are now available for both corporations and runner.  A new Jinteki ID has one of the three different abilities, secretly selected by the corp at the start of the game. Runners can now splice their genetic code to be smart, faster, better. Cyberware is tired and primitive, the future is modifying the very programming of life itself.

Terminal7 28: I Believe Denzel is Symmetrical

Finally wrapped up a much dispersed series about Runner archetypes, Nels & Jesse discuss the high-level archetypes of each faction and what makes them distinct. Also "fundamental" is said a lot.

Terminal7 32: Fundamentally Fundamental

Nearing the end of the SanSan Cycle, we come to Old Hollywood. But always fashionably late to the party, Old Hollywood is replete with glitz, glamour and a heap of interesting new cards. NBN's Executive VP for Media Relations Leigh Alexander joins us to sort the masterpieces from the award bait.

Terminal7 36: Amusement Unshackled

We stand on the brink of a date ... with data. And destiny. We are destined to date data. *ahem* With the impending release of Data & Destiny, each faction will now have one major expansion for each faction, plus three new mini-Runner factions. At such an interesting time in the game's development, Terminal7 sits down the Netrunner's lead designer Lukas Litzsinger to talk about the development of Data & Destiny.

In some ways, this brings the first chapter of the game to a close. Lukas will be handing off the mantle of lead designer of Netrunner to Damon Stone, so we also discussed that changing of the guard, how board/card game design differs from video game design and how Madmen was a springboard into game design.

Terminal7 38: A Test with No Answers

Chris and Eady from Run Last Click come over to Terminal7's house for the holidays, where we discuss 2015 in Netrunner. From Order & Chaos to Data & Destiny, with a delicious SanSan sandwich in between, what a year 2015 was. Highlights, lowlights and one very musical interlude await!

Terminal7 43: Carved the Eyes Out of My Head

It's 2016 and he NAPD has a New Year's resolution- to kick down doors of Runners and Corporations alike all across New Angeles. Their Most Wanted List has introduced a potentially huge shakeup into how tournament decks are constructed and Terminal7 is here to discuss how this will, or won't, improve the game.

But not to be outdone by the NAPD, Nels and Jesse have a heap of changes of their own. New resolutions abound, include a promise to clamp down on our own flightiness. Instead of drifting from deck to deck, they're going to focus on a pair of IDs each. But which IDs? That's up for the listeners to decide!

Log your vote here and in a week, Nels and Jesse will take the top selections and focus on those decks for the next several months, at least.

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Terminal7 44: The Popo's Clampdown

We have arrived at the Gujarat district of Mumbad, home to the most prolific and advanced agricultural technology in all of the Indian Union. Jinteki's Pālanā Foods division is boasting breakthrough after breakthrough. But runners throughout the union are asking just how Jinteki is making those breakthroughs and at what cost. Rumours swirl about a defective clone line- is a scandal about to break?

Join Nels and Jesse as they try to determine if Business truly is First in the second data pack of the Mumbad cycle.

Terminal7 48: Priority Businessing

Clone suffrage is the biggest political question in the Indian Union, but there is an even more fundamental question beneath it- are clones human? Echoing back to the outlawed caste system, the answer seems obvious on its surface. But the consequence are more wide-spread than they might first appear. If clones are people with the right to vote, does that mean Jinteki can now simply print new voters, genetically engineered toward a certain ideology? 

Whatever the outcome, the actions leading up to that decision will change the world's largest democracy forever. Terminal7 discusses those questions and more as they break down the third data back in the Mumbad cycle, Democracy & Dogma.

Terminal7 49: Super New India

Salsette Island's population is one of the highest and most dense of any island in the world. It's also got some of the fanciest, most exclusive parties and the most sophisticated bioroid butlers in all of the three worlds. What does the four data pack in the Mumbad Cycle offer? Join Nels and Jesse in crashing the soirée and find out!

Terminal7 50: The Sweetest Cyber-Butler

Nels and Jesse have their minds freed by the fifth data pack in the Mumbad Cycle. Paths most noble, chelas most liberated and brains most stormed, The Liberated Mind is perhaps the most wonderfully weird data pack yet. And most importantly, you'll discover things about spices you never knew.

Terminal7 51: I Have Thoughts About Vanilla

Mighty and mad, the massive masses are massing! Election day has finally come in the Indian Union and with it, change is in the air. But with charges of rigged results and a tragic political assassination, will this new government ever be seen as legitimate? And could any government hope to challenge the sway megacorporations hold over all of Mumbad?

Nels and Jesse discuss the final datapack in this most exciting Mumbad Cycle, so come along and see what you ought to Fear the Masses.

Netrunner

Alexis Divine