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Sep 16, 2026

AJ BrandenHOST
27:12
It's the weakest kind of interaction possible.
AJ BrandenHOST
27:15
It's like saying, you know, you could roleplay Monopoly.
AJ BrandenHOST
27:17
There's no rules for roleplay Monopoly.
Peter C. HaywardHOST
27:21
uh we had we had tim armstrong on the podcast in one of my favorite episodes which is helpful advice and he actually similar to what you were saying daniel about how you've kind of learned what your thing is and now you're leaning heavily into it i'm paraphrasing that's not how you put it he has realized that he loves and is very very good at making literal multiplayer solitaire like literally not a single point of interaction and And he likes it and publishers sign it and his players love it and he's found his niche.
Peter C. HaywardHOST
27:48
And so I do want to emphasize, like, yeah, this is an opinion, like everything on the blog is essentially.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
21:48
I know it sounds very, it sounds logical, right? Like the best products do best on the US side, but it wasn't the case a decade ago where there were still some opportunities for arbitrage.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
21:58
But like truly, if you look at Royal Match or games that are making over a billion dollars in revenue a year, like Monopoly or Royal Match, those are like truly amazing games.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
22:05
They're great products with the, you know, best in class retention profile with the best in class monetization.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
22:10
And that's why they are where they are.

23 MINS LATER

Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
45:19
You need to think about media mix models or like to think about marginal costs essentially does adding more channels actually drive more customers or drive more like, you know, purchasers.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
45:28
That's again, why like you need dedicated pods, dedicated teams working on one game because the spend level is so high and risk goes up with it that you need a dedicated team working on it.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
45:38
We've seen this multiple times from DMZ era to Monopoly go nowadays.
Nebojsa RadovicGUEST
45:42
It's a very similar pattern.
Chris BarnicleGUEST
22:07
And gaming is very different than it was back in the day.
Chris BarnicleGUEST
22:10
Monopoly is fantastic, but the gaming that you can play now is really phenomenal.
Chris BarnicleGUEST
22:15
All
Dave CongeltonHOST
22:15
right, let's go to news and traffic and weather.
TrashmanHOST
4:49
I mean, he, I mean, yeah, he is right now.
Alex DunlapHOST
4:53
But it's just kinda like, uh, y- I mean, you know, it's kinda like in, it's kinda like in, in Monopoly.
Alex DunlapHOST
4:59
It's like he, you know, it's like leading wide receiver for Miami is like owning Baltic Avenue.
Alex DunlapHOST
5:04
[laughs]

8 MINS LATER

Alex DunlapHOST
12:47
Kalen Ballage is certainly worth a look.
Alex DunlapHOST
12:49
It's arguable that he's the top pickup of the week, um, simply because it's such a...
Alex DunlapHOST
12:54
We talked about, you know, your Baltic Avenue, like, Caleb Douglas Monopoly play.
Alex DunlapHOST
12:58
It's like, if you, you know, this is the boardwalk of, of handcuffs.
Jack O'BrienHOST
4:47
And, and Hydrox is the-
Kylie BrakemanADVERTISER
4:47
It's Monopoly man.
Jack O'BrienHOST
4:50
[laughs] Yeah, Monopoly is the other example where it's like we just stole this shit.
Jack O'BrienHOST
4:54
Uh-
Kylie BrakemanADVERTISER
4:54
From a woman.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:44
It sounds like nothing, Railroad Commissioner.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:47
What is this, Game of Monopoly? But no, he is going to be in charge of like a $250 billion a year system of transportation.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:56
It's a big position.
Harrison SmithHOST
24:58
But yeah, apparently it's pretty popular, what Beau French was saying.
Pali LehohlaGUEST
11:47
But you, you need to provide the kind of information that can be in that space, but it's very interesting and intellectually challenging.
Pali LehohlaGUEST
11:59
For instance, many children didn't play Monopoly when they were growing up Because they didn't have that facility.
Pali LehohlaGUEST
12:05
Now, on social media, you can play Monopoly, which means you can count faster, you can multiply, you can, you can do all kinds of transactions that are not physical money or money in money terms, but a game.
Pali LehohlaGUEST
12:21
And gamification is part and parcel of these platforms.
Aubrey MasangoHOST
12:24
Sure.
Kayla AndersonHOST
43:41
Get tired.
Kayla AndersonHOST
43:41
Like what? Like Monopoly.
Matt GeorgeHOST
43:44
Great game.
Matt GeorgeHOST
43:45
People.
Kayla AndersonHOST
43:51
Hey, let me dream.
Kayla AndersonHOST
43:53
All right.
Matt GeorgeHOST
43:53
People who hate on Monopoly just don't have class, you know? Monopoly is a classic.
Kayla AndersonHOST
44:00
Don't have class.
James Crawford LairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:02
There's the hard currency of the game.
James Crawford LairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:04
The game actually has its own physical currency, similar to how, like, Monopoly has its own physical currency Beautifully, Empire has taken it upon themselves to be very tactile and very distinctive in their coinage.
James Crawford LairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:17
For the most part, there's a couple of coins that are somewhat similar, but there's only so much you can do, let's be real.
James Crawford LairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
6:22
When it comes to certain trade resources which are used, such as iron, silver, orichalcum, they are a physical object or a physical device, and they have a tactile texture to them that is distinct across them.
Lauren ZiaksGUEST
17:19
But, uh, so if we think about the post-exertional malaise component of it, we have to really teach people how PEM works.
Lauren ZiaksGUEST
17:27
And so when I lecture on this, I'll say it's like they're playing Monopoly with Candyland rules, right? So humans operate on predictive models.
Lauren ZiaksGUEST
17:34
I'm going to make each decision based on the decisions I've made before.
Lauren ZiaksGUEST
17:37
And this is literally how I'll explain it to a patient.

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