The Lord of the Rings

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The Lord of the Rings series, um, The Hunger Games ser-

Oh, okay

... like ser- like series of, like, like, movies that I've seen.

I don't know.

I still have memories of we would play Lord of the Rings Risk, and then we were like, "We need to add some zombies to Middle Earth, and invent our own spins on Risk and, or play the original Star Wars Epic Duels that now became unmatched.

And I have camping trips where we played that game for, like, 12 hours straight.

I, I think maybe I got you into board games, even though you did get me into Settlers of Catan.

Uh, there's so many games out there, that's hard to keep track.

But also it's lovely to find little gems like that.

I'm gonna talk about the Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking games.

Ooh.

Let's learn from another universe where warrantless mass surveillance prevailed.

I wanna present the evil Lord Sauron from The Lord of the Rings.

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Greetings, human council.

So if you text watch to our talk and text line 855-616-1620, you'll see Michelle brought props with her to her three minutes of public comment, including what I believe is her drawing, which looks very nice, by the way, of the all-seeing eye of Lord Sauron from The Lord of the Rings book series.

Now, it's interesting.

Now, she speaks for three minutes.

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Wow.

To put that in perspective, that is longer than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.

It's a staggering amount of space.

So if the window is a million tokens, if I have a desk large enough to hold the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, why are we acting like penny-pinching accountants? Why do we even care if my claw.md file is a thousand lines long? We have practically infinite space.

Because the primary constraint of a modern AI is no longer just fitting it in.

We've solved the space issue.

What did he say?

He said this boxed set essentially became the goth kids' equivalent of The Lord of the Rings.

That is a brilliant analogy.

Isn't it?

But I know several people at this point who have worked on games that have licensed IPs from big whatever.

You know, Lord of the Rings is the latest one that's making all the rounds.

And those IP holders are so strict about their review of the games before they go to print, right? Like you can only use their characters in certain approved ways.

Yeah.

And the first three books are ama- the first six books are amazing, but then they went out and they've done probably another, uh, 100, 120 books or s- something.

But, uh, it's, it starts off almost like a, a Lord of the Rings type of thing, you know, a group of, uh, people get together in their town and they...

I mean, it's set back in type, in, in, like, a Hobbit-type time, but, um, in Krynn is what it's called.

But anyway, there's, you know, w- a wizard and a, and a, a fighter that they're, they're twins.

But after several months trying to force more out of myself and dealing with the frustration of actually getting less, I've had to step back and say, how can I work smarter, not harder? That being said, I've been teasing how massive the next book will be, and it is by far the largest book I've covered on the show.

In fact, it's so big that depending on the publication version, this one book is longer than all three of the Lord of the Rings volumes combined.

The fact that I haven't posted a novel episode in about two months probably feels like I've been slacking off.

But in fact, I have been working on it more days than I have not.

And as a way of saying thank you for your patience, I'm actually going to share what this novel is, a benefit typically reserved for protagonist listeners.

That way you can read it yourself if you like before the episode comes along, and then it's just kind of a companion piece.

It's the most requested book I've had other than Lord of the Rings.

It's the French epic tale, The Count of Monte Cristo.

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