#586; The Ancestral Diet

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[[CLIVE addresses his guests.]]
CLIVE: The premise of the ANCESTRAL DIET is to eat foods native to the homelands of your ancestors.
Over the millennia, your family THRIVED on this food. Your tribe and your clan ADAPTED to it.
THIS food made your great-great-great-great-grandparents strong enough to reproduce. Your DNA is ATTUNED to it.
So for me, that would be Scandinavian foods. Lots of fish, beets and apples.
STAVROS: For me it would be Mediterreanean olives, yougurts, figs and dates!
SANJAY: For me it would be Indian food: Curries, rice and lentils.
GAX: This is OUTRAGEOUS. The closest thing to ancestral Gaxian cuisine around here is all you people’s KIDNEYS.
Chemically speaking.

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Bolted! games have been shipping to backers over the last couple of weeks! The non-US orders are (mostly) done and some folks have been reporting receiving them already!

@davidmalki.com My game arrived today!! It looks gorgeous 🙂 Hope you are well 🙂

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— Lar deSouza (@lartist.bsky.social) April 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM

My US inventory of games is now in-country, but still being staged at the fulfillment centers. It’s being distributed to regional warehouses, so the actual shipping to backers happens more efficiently. I hope the bulk of US shipping will start next week.

These are what the cartons (and games) look like!

bolted! games BOLTED! GAMES (pounding the table) B O L T E D ! G A M E S

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— david malki ! (@davidmalki.com) April 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM

I am also waiting on the bonus cards to be finished printing! I ended up needing many more of those than I had anticipated, so I decided to have the game factory print those too, for perfect matching with the base game cards.

Most people will be receiving two separate mailings: the game itself, and “anything else” (bonus cards and/or add-ons) which will be sent by me personally.

As of today, 86% of backers have completed their surveys so far! That’s pretty good, but it’s not everyone. I know YOU PERSONALLY have already completed YOURS though, so no worries!!

We have now moved OFF of Kickstarter and ONTO BackerKit for any new orders. You can bundle a game with basically anything else I sell on that there website, it’s pretty nuts!