I think that smaller/different panels are a fun way to mix it up every now and then. But don’t feel bad to skip a week if you need it!
This was fun! But I have to admit that I never felt more mainland european than during the Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged/Eli Roth/Woody Allen bit. Like these sure are all names I’ve heard but know very little specifics about.
I would wager most Americans don’t know Eli Roth either.
I just wanted to say this was a great episode and I laughed out loud multiple times! That lightning round segment was hilarious.
For the first question: tabletop wargaming started to get popular in the late 19th century. I could imagine retired military officers getting obsessed with Fire Emblem or Unicorn Overlord or whatever.
ayn Rand was European. Take her back. It should be your problem not ours
Just put it on our tab - sincerely, the germans
This Hidden in Plain Sight sounds very similar to the multiplayer from the Assassins Creed series, which I think was left behind some years ago.
I think it was Assassins Creed 2 or Brotherhood that I picked up a few years after release, so it had a dwindling player base. It felt like I had walked in too late to a party that was winding down.
It was so different and exciting, and I still think about it! It had a similar concept as discussed above, with goals to assassinate other players while pretending to be an NPC. It created so much tension, just walking ever so slightly faster than the NPC crowd, trying to pick a line that would intercept your target at the exact right moment without running and giving yourself away.
What Happened To Assassin’s Creed Multiplayer? (youtube.com)
I played this when it came out and it was really good (I think it was Brotherhood). Such a shame that they never went back to that formula of online play.
For some reason, even though I cannot stand her and have never read any of her works, I’m kinda fascinated with Ayn Rand. The influence is everywhere, the dunks on her are everywhere:
Nice episode!
Holly Nielsen was born to insert the credits! It felt like she was a part of the show for a 100 episodes!
Holly’s story about the difficulties of googling “adult play” reminds me of something I experienced last month.
I had just learned two Japanese words in class that mean to agree and disagree respectively – in romaji it would be written as sansei and hantai. I couldn’t find anything detailed in the textbook about it, so I googled it…
Needless to say, my next search was instead “賛成 vs 反対”.
i wonder if one of those “safe for kids” search engine extension could be useful in such kind of predicament
My vote for British Ayn Rand is William Rees-Mogg & his “The Sovereign Individual” - they’re lucky that their libertarians are also posh freaks/pseudo-aristocrats so normal people know to avoid them (seemingly)
Really liked the episode and thanks to Holly for coming on!
In my opinion Myst is the Citizen Kane of video games. Bringing the format to a wider general audience and truly expanding what the format could do.
To be honest, I feel a lot more Myst (actually Riven) DNA in my video games these days than I do DOOM, dare to say it’s been more influential.
I have not used a forum in so long I accidentally replied to a response instead of the thread as a whole. oops 
This episode has me thinking about Hidden in Plain Sight recreated with 19th century technology.
Sadly it would probably feature a bunch of animals mixed with taxidermy puppetry.