The Two Vague Podcast
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Episode 83 - Experience
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Jul 30, 2023 at 9:37 pm.
1 word, 2 hosts, stories, trivia, mumbo-jumbo, beige, and Futurama
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, sacking creative directors, and critiques
Taking pills, Little Women, Little Richard the Second, and a Wrinkle in Time
American Players Theater in Spring Green Wisconsin, and Frank Lloyd Wright
Ben finished Deathloop and started on Ghostwire Tokyo and Ridiculous Fishing EX
Presenting the definition and origin: Norah takes the noun and Ben takes the verb
Jimi Hendrix and generational perspectives on playing the Star Spangled Banner
The Isley Brothers, and what does the song “Are you experienced” mean?
One of Ben’s favorite movies “Brainstorm,” and a spoiler alert for a 40 year old film
Recording brainwaves, drawing parallels to VR, and Norah is older than Ben
Pinecones, too many variables, comprehensive Wikipedia articles, and webs
“If there was a way you could experience something in a virtual environment…”
Adrenalin, internalizing, a trip to Lithuania, food based profiling, and phrases
A philosophical question, the senses, acquiring experience in games, and XP
A “Dungeons & Dragons” origin, and experience points in roleplaying games
Gaining experience points in “Ghostwire: Tokyo,” and Norah grasps the concept
Types of XP growth progressions, eating, grinding, power-leveling, and a respec
Do we want games to present realistic ways of gaining experience?
Expectations, perceptions, perspectives on video games experience, and balance
Vaguely putting a bow on the experience show… sort of!
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This week Ben and Norah contemplate the questions “are you… or have you ever been…,”  but first they talk about what they have been up to.  Surprising nobody, Norah has been watching plays and Ben has been (GASP!) playing his PS5.  After the definition ceremonies they discover that they each have very different first thoughts, but they both agree that experience can be vastly different for an individual.  They take a detour through the philosophical before moving on to games.  Finally, Ben talks about the origin of experience points in games, how video games utilize XP, and a few terms for Norah to add to her gamer glossary.
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