I love "well done chatgpt" after the immediate answer on the greed riddle because of course the leader of the greed circle couldn't be bothered to have an actual soul make his riddle/make it himself.
I think I've finally figured out The Tom Effect - it's like when you're a kid, say 7 or 8 years old, and a "big kid" - 10 or 11 - agrees to play with your group of younger kids for a little bit. They make whatever you're playing way more fun and absorbing because they're taking it seriously when they really dont' have to. And when they leave the group, the whole playdate suddenly feels much smaller. Tom, you are the Big Kid of NRB, and I hope you'll come back to Board Game Club sometime and bring that gravitas.
Cross promotion really works, never heard of this until I found out Angory Tom (MysteryQuest) was on, I've now spent the past few days binge watching all the episodes
It's wild having a video on a parody version of monopoly based on stalinist russia be the thing to make me realize some of the critiques of our own system in the original monopoly, like for example, the fact that rules as written, if you go to jail, which is itself somewhat hard to do, you're not prevented from trading, developing, or collecting rent on properties, and on top of that, at any point you can just buy yourself out for less money than buying a single property from the cheapest set, criticizing the very weak enforcement around things like anti-trust laws and such.
I'm only realizing this now, but it's neat how he specifies that this is specifically based in stalinist communism and not meant to be representative of other schools of thought on communism like marxism or leninistm or anything.
"Well, I suppose this is the last time you'll see me on the channel." 58:37 Hopefully with the new knowledge we have now, this is not going to be forever.
When light hit the iris, whats at the top of the image is reflect to the bottom and visversa but then we first open our eyes it takes about three days for our mind to realise its upside down and it flips the image. Wear them glasses for three days and it will revert, take them off and three days later it goes back to normal. Human bodies are mad.
Oh god this was *tragic*. Dan realising he should nominate himself just 20s too late. The magician mistake in the begining. What a rollercoaster, and so goddamn fun and thats without even getting to the ghost lawyer bit
