Brazil (feat. Brandon Rollins, Game Designer) : Episode 48
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Brazil
What: Brazil! 1984, but in 1984. Dystopia satire!
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Katherine Helmond
Featuring guest co-host
Brandon Rollins, creator of War Co. Expandable Card Game
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War Co. Expandable Card Game
Our guest’s expandable sci-fi expandable card game.
Instead of randomized starter decks and booster packs, the core set comes with pre-constructed starter decks, and is designed to be self-contained.
Get the thing WarCo
The Engineering Guy
Check out his whole channel on Youtube
Show Notes
Sci-Fi Dystopias
1984, Brazil, Farenheit 451, etc. Why do these count as scifi?
User Interfaces as analogy
Thanks to Chris Noessel for pointing in the Facebook group the way the “badly designed” user interfaces are really incredibly well-designed, if the point is absurdism. 🙂
Complexity
In business, objects, life, gadgets, systems. Ducts! Creepin’.
Security Theater
Statistics, fear of skin cancer vs shark attack. Viscerality.
Euphemistic Language
Covering up reality. Making uncomfortable behaviour easier to swallow. Hiding reality.
Dreams and Reality
Cracking up. Dreams. Endings.
Goodbyes
He’s got away from us, Jack.
I’m afraid you’re right, Mr. Helpmann. He’s gone.
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