Talking Tetris - Ep. 110 of Intentionally Blank
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Brandon and Dan start their discussion with this week’s bad story idea/food heist poll before moving on to discuss Apple TV’s recent movie, Tetris and a bit about the real life events surrounding the world-wide phenomenon.
🍔 Food Heists:
“Pure Illegal Butter Guarantee” -
• Wheel of Time Season O... (0:00-6:20)
vs
“Using 700 Gallons of Rancid Fry Oil to Inspire Children” -
• Talking "The Rings of ... (0:00-7:05)
🔥 Bad Story Ideas:
"Free Fall Burrito World" -
• One Nerd in Omaha! (Li... (0:00-10:15)
vs
"Haunted by a body. Not a spirit, an actual body." -
• A Long, Slow Root Cana... (30:57-33:15)
And make sure to cast your vote on this week's polls by clicking the Google form below: forms.gle/o9cDbCmFAeE9zEZd7
Which stories and heists will emerge victorious! Join us next week to find out!
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Beargler is clearly a prequel to Bearllionare. It's a rag to riches story
You mean ‘Homeless to honey?’ Or ‘Poverty to porkchops’?
LMAOOOO! Storms! 😂
Cocaine Bear is the sequel to Bearllionare. The inevitable fall of the Beargler!
The bedroom window was too high, but the first-floor window was juuust right.
Don't forget the actual sequels: Bearlebrity and Bearthlete
I know the dead air is a bit and it did make me laugh, but im gonna seize the moment to share topics I’d like to hear about on the podcast.
1. State Fairs
2. Little Kid Media Properties like Paw Patrol
3. Pirates
4. Storytelling in Super Bowl Commercials
5. The Boston Tea Party is a food heist right?
6. What is your go to potluck dish?
7. Classic Detective Fiction (Christie, sayers etc.)
8. Random encounters with small animals
9. The experience of learning to drive
10. Best storytelling songs
Love these ideas!
The Boston tea party is a food crime, but was it actually stolen? I don't think it counts but it's adjacent.
That is cool that they incorporated 99 Luftballons into the anniversary celebration. Such an iconic song about the wall and the meaning behind it would be the perfect song for that.
Brandon already wrote the "there's a corpse everywhere you look" story... it's called Sixth of the Dusk.
Honestly, I don't agree that _Argo_ was "missing important context" by casting Ben Affleck in the role where the real life man was Latino, because it's not important context. If it were a story about Latino experience or culture, that's one thing, but that's not what this story is about. Would anything have turned out differently if the man had been white instead? No, so it doesn't really matter.
What _does_ bug me about Argo was the gratuitous slander of Shah Reza. Whatever his personal flaws may have been, he was an amazing ruler who was doing great things for his country. In the intro it says that he made enemies for trying to "westernize" Iran. What this actually means was he was trying to civilize the country, _and he was succeeding!_ As a child, my mother lived there for a while under his reign, and it was a place that Christian foreigners, including women, could live without fear, where little girls could get a good education. The fact that he was doing this, and that it offended the revolutionaries, tells you everything you need to know about who the good guys and bad guys are in the story, and it was a little bit sickening to see the film drag his name through the mud at every opportunity and act as if the barbarians who burned down everything he was doing and plunged their nation into a new dark age had even the slightest shred of legitimacy.
Thank you for saying this! Much better than I could have put it. My only significant exposure to this part of Iranian history is Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' story.
HA! Behind my head, displayed on a shelf, is a vintage Game Boy with a Tetris cartridge slotted into it. I acquired it the long way 'round. ;)
"Now Ryder just has to show Janna that men may be dogs, but bears rule the forest. And what a bearllionaire wants, a bearllionaire gets."
Audio dies at about 31:30 for a couple of seconds.
And if you check the transcript, they skip over that as well.
I think that's an intentional edit.
I believe Dan says something about having 5 minutes left
Haunted by a corpse has been done. In the 1981 Italian comedy Spaghetti a Mezzanotte the protagonist has to hide a dead body in a modern mansion during a large party, but it just keeps popping up in unexpected places. Not for supernatural reasons, but due to the complicated automation of the house, and for other wacky reasons. It's a bit like Weekend at Bernie's, but they are trying to hide the body, instead of pretending it's still alive. It's a super fun movie, I highly recommend it. I couldn't find an English version unfortunately, but a subtitle may exist. Or can be generated by AI at this point.
I’d love to hear the story behind the ‘leaog lugh luv’ framed pic I constantly stare at behind Dan’s shoulder…. 🤔
Dan, if you want a good Tetris game you should really try Tetris Effect. In ny opinion it is the best Tetris has ever been
In the early 90s at college we had two computer labs in the dorm, one had PCs and was pretty much useless except for running some Physics software, Deathrace2000, and Civilization. The mac lab had decent printers, and software for EE layout diagrams, and much better games, including one that was either called "Attitude Problem Tetris" or possibly "Wesleyan Tetris", which was basically Tetris, except it started by mocking you ("That's the best move I've EVER seen" "I hope your friends are watching") and worked up to actively trying to sabotage your game.
The sounds of that game are forever seared into my brain.
I actually just finished Ghost Station after picking it up at Dragonsteel last year. I enjoyed it a lot, thanks for signing it Dan!
We just cut to the cameras and I’m already laughing.
What the heck is that sign behind Dan? 😂
Im like 99% sure it says live, laugh, love in either old english or middle english
Where the heck are all the Brandon Sanderson video games, with all the spies and intrigue?
Dan has to play Tetris Effect if he hasn’t already it’s amazing.
Yeah, Tetris effect is the best version of Tetris sense the Game Boy.
I personally think NES Tetris is the best. The simplicity plus the insane skill ceiling just makes it so satisfying to me. Plus the competitive scene is absolutely crazy these days.
Vote for Free Fall Burrito world! Imagine a shirt with a person in free fall with the layers of burrito beside them. It would be pure art.
That’s literally just beauty and beast in modern times 😂 bearllionare
you can play your Bearllionare bear romance fantasy in Baulders Gate 3
Given Baldurs Gate 3 recent announcements, this episode is very topical
If Dan is looking for a not-mobile version of Tetris, there's Tetris Effect: Connected on PC and consoles. I've never played it personally, but it's reviewed really well.
I’ve just been playing Hold on Tight and the Japanese and Russian versions of Holding Out For A Hero on repeat ever since I saw this movie. I think Apple knew what they were doing.
Dan’s book Ghost Station about the wall is excellent.
My dad's work took him to the USSR frequently, so yeah, the fall of the wall was a peak moment in my life. Sitting in my family room, watching it with him on television. It was the first time I saw him cry.
of course Dan likes the Free Fall Burrito World... it's a Food Disaster! xD
To be fair to Dan...the KGB car chase is in the trailer.
Brandon should play Returnal on the PS5. I think he is into rogue likes and he also likes difficult games. Returnal kicked my butt hard
Brandon should try Noita! It’s a roguelike with an extremely high skill ceiling and absurd amount of detail and content that I think might scratch that itch
Some excellent portmanteaus in this episode.
I am literally playing City of Heroes as I listen to this. (On Homecoming.) 😎
I saw when they first released it publicly. How is it now that it’s been around for a bit?
From the first time it was mentioned, I thought the “haunted by a corpse” idea was basically Sixth of Dusk/Aviars. I guess not haunted by *your own* corpse. 🙃
A world of perpetual freefall? That's not exactly Shad Brooks's Everfall setting, but pretty close...
These are getting so short! More please 😢😢
"Pure illegal butter guarantee" would be a hilarious shirt
21:13 Every NextGen fan: "Shaka, when the walls fell"
Pssstt puyo puyo Tetris 2, best version
That beard scratch is a serious flex actually. 🤣
is it a coincidences that they are talking about this right when baldurs gate 3 developer released a cutscene of a guy having sex with a shapeshifted bear ?
Quick correction: Ben was actually the one who brought up burritos first (if I’m remembering correctly) - I believed it happened at fan x
It better be the free fall burrito idea... This is my second favorite bad story idea (behind the rolling planet one)
Wall fell Nov 9,1989 I was co-oping for Bell South. this was 2 years after I left West Berlin.
Bearded Brando is everything we need for Stormlight 5.
I live in Aberdeen in Scotland and they came to film a large part of the Tetris movie. We were all thrilled to know that our city still looks like post communist Russia
Slightly disappointed that Tetris 99 on switch didn’t come up in conversation. As a 15 (nearly 16) year old boy, I enjoyed the Tetris film quite a lot despite me not being in the target audience
Dan, have you played Tetris Effect? A couple years old, it's basically "Tetris, but beautiful and meditative." I strongly recommend it
My first thought when Dan asked for them to make a new Tetris.
My uncle and his friends drove to Berlin from the Netherlands as soon as they heard the wall was falling so they could take a piece home😂
What bugs me even more than lionizing the hero in historical dramas is demonizing the villain to make them worse than they were in real life. Cinderella Man is a big example. I don't remember all the details but i know the "villain" character's real life son had to speak up in defense of his dad.
Brandon, you can play it on the steam deck! I’m sure you can find someone to set it up as it does take a few steps. Runs well too.
Berlin Wall: It was youth night for me, too. I was getting ready for church youth basketball practice.
Until they release a new version of Tetris, I've been really enjoying this mobile game that's a mix of Tetris and Sudoku, called Blockudoku, which I think you may enjoy
You can't just casually mention the city of heroes MMO and then not expect me to want an entire episode about it.
This specific thing is why I don't horde porkchops
Bearking and Entering
Speaking of Cold War movies: What do you guys think of Thirteen Days? I absolutely loved it, it talked a lot about the fear of a nuclear holocaust and quickly things could get heated up during the Cold War.
Quick correction: Ben was actually the one who brought up burritos first (if I’m remembering correctly)
When I read the title I thought they were going to talk about talking tetris pieces
If Dan is still looking for a real version of Tetris, the answer is Tetris Effect.
How's that, Ben? part wasn't there. I can't sleep for a week If one of the food heist, bad story idea and "How's that, Ben?" parts don't exist in podcasts weekly episode. :(
I LOVED CITY OF HEROES
Would love to see you do a whole episode on Argo and its historical innacuracies! I've watched that movie a couple of times (and read the original accounts) and find it really interesting.
What? no question for Ben seeking his approval for what you did? I'm still playing D2, but it's D2R now.
Does anyone know if you can buy Shallan’s sketches as posters?
This is after I read the news with Baldur’s Gate. This can’t be a coincidence.
8:50 there is a tetris movie?
Anybody got a link to the book?
I *hated* the Tetris movie. It is not well put together storywise and is a complete misrepresentation of the actual fascinating history behind it.
I find it so odd that what I thought Brandon valued in storytelling seems to be at odds with what he likes sometimes. No shame or anything, it's just strange with how genuinely *awful* I thought this movie was and everyone else seems to think it's at least okay.
how do you write a body haunting you well? it seems like it's difficult to write the body (because it's a really 'flat' character?)... I haven't learned how to do this...maybe I need to Write And Find Out...
Adoooonalsium
Where can i see the state of the whole gauntlet of bad story ideas and food heist?
Diablo 4 works great on the steamdeck!
Such a short episode 😢
Had to double check my audio for a bit when they suddenly went silent 💀
Clearly you guys haven’t played Tetris VR 😱
ok do they record like 10 episodes in a row or do they just never change clothes?
I love B$ and Dan's takes on permadeath in Diablo. I would love to play Hardcore mode (in theory), but literally every single time I have tried, it has resulted in a bullshit death due to lag.
Single player... works? but since those characters are separate from online characters, it feels like you're choosing hardcore only and absconding the large rewards that Blizzard offers for online play. It feels like 2 different games (online vs offline)
Reply to this comment to adlib what they were saying when it got muted
We'd like to announce that Avid Reader is our first golden ticket winner!
I play Diablo 4 on Steam deck its not too hard to set up as long as you have a dock
9:14
First time watching one of these - what is Brandon signing?
Books. It's easier to sign the pages before they are bound. Way of kings here, I believe - you can kind of make it out.
@@weckar Ah that makes sense, thanks!
I hope everyone goes and bud Bearllionare and it becomes a random best seller! 😂
The chernobyl HBO series also was really good if we stay on that time period
WARNING
Brandon Sanderson CAN TOUCH YOU!
I can see Beargler being a story about a sexy bad boy and a goody two-shoes girl!
On the wild streets of... Let's say Seattle, a dark-haired misunderstood street-punk called Jaden has to steal in order to survive. He sneaks into peoples houses and steal things before leaving. The reason he lives on the street is because he is struggling with an urge: He turns into a bear at certain times of the year! And he always scares off people!
Only one girl wants to understand him better: Her name is Cassandra, a clumsy perfect high-school girl who falls for this boy. The feelings she has for him becomes unbearable and despite all the fear of the Beargler , she can't help but steal his heart!
I'd like to say I want you to try path of exile but I like to read the rest of the Cosmere books so stay away
6:19 barely an hier? Not the usual fantasy, but okay.
beargler is a pun/slurring of bear/burgler, not really a rhyme
Second too
Problem with based off a true stories is which story are you telling. Do you tell of Martin Luther King Jr’s affairs or how he changed this country for better. He deserves the praise and those human failings are a footnote. As for BT yea, the movie reflects the man, a con.
Would you guys consider making starting and stopping points on the videos to make it easier to skip the bracket stuff? It would be nice to be able to skip past that without having to click around a bunch.
I protest! Someone who plays games on their phone or tablet now and then isn't a Gamer. They're merely someone who enjoys video games, among other things. A "Gamer" is someone who is technologically savvy enough to understand the hardware they're using, and spends a significant percentage of their free time gaming. My mom has a few games on her tablet, but on any given day I'd expect her to be reading, or watching TV/movies, or putzing around on her computer (not gaming). She may go entire days without opening a single game! She isn't "A Gamer." I spend more than half my free time gaming, 2-4 hours per night, with 8-10+ hour days on the weekend common. I'm not Gatekeeping! I'm just saying the term loses all meaning if you apply it to literally everyone who plays video games, ever. A Gamer is someone who does that as their *primary* pass-time. In my case, City of Heroes, Homecoming most of the time. :D
So the Tetris movie is fictionalized focusing on an American and a generic "Russia is bad" thread? Bleh.