Show Notes 

• Ben blows up several drive-thru queues in his post-move fast food binge, Josh buys an electric car and installs yet more bling in his tricked-out custom PC, and they both reflect on how the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien is really just a bedtime story wrapped in a bad Dungeons and Dragons campaign. 
• Intro & Follow-up (0-19:30) 
  • Area 51 is a real thing, but it’s boring 
  • Minecraft is actually the 2nd best-selling game of all time 
  • The 11th thing every game needs (brought to you by Bad at Magic): 
    • Minimized downtime 
      • If you’re sitting around doing nothing for too much time it gets, well, boring. Your game needs to have a way for non-active players to remain engaged other than just watching you play.  
      • Examples include: short turns, rapid gameplay, simultaneous actions, planning your next turn, etc.  
• Ben vs. Bureaucracy (19:30-51:22) 
  • Everything you need to know about the VW diesel emissions scandal 
  • Who among you has the power to censor the censor? 
• Bad at Logic (51:22-54:50) 
  • Self-serving bias 
• Bad at English (54:50-56:24) 
  • “Done and dusted“: completely finished, a reference to putting powder on what you’ve just written with your quill. US: “signed, sealed, delivered”. 
• Feature (56:24-end) 
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – Read by Andy Serkis (Gollum) 
  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s relationship with C.S. Lewis 
  • Stranger than Fiction 
  • 11 times The Hobbit is Just like D&D 
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