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Watch Out for Fireballs 484: The Talos Principle (Premium)

🕑 Added 2025-07-24 14:35:47 +0000 UTC

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Joysweeper

Gary's incomprehension about people wanting to make something that outlasts them and can be of use to a nebulous future keeps confusing me. For me at least the cats-in-the-cradleness element adds to rather than invalidating it.

Felix Metzger

I really enjoyed the funny and heartfelt rantiness on this episode. As a German speaker, Gary's pronounciation of Weltschmerz was totally fine. While listening to the episode, I also thought of another German 5€-word you probably like: Gesamtkunstwerk (literally: gesamt = the whole thing, kunstwerk = artwork). It means a piece of art that is congruent through all it systems or different artforms (music, visuals, narrative, mechanics, etc). I always describe Dark Souls 1 as a proper Gesamtkunstwerk, since all its pieces sing together.

Fringleton

Gary. Come on. You *know* some loser working for Twitter is going to stay behind to code grok to torture robots

Typhoon Jim

This game has been a classic backlog rider for me for a decade due to the severe puzzle friction it imposed on me. Every time I felt like I was ready to get into it I'd be pulled back by All of That.