Video Games vs Music

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The film is unbelievably VFX heavy, which you don't expect from the first 20 minutes. It's a great couples movie, but it's also a great sort of like indie film. I gotta watch more YouTube videos like behind the scenes. My carve out slash outs are two related ones: Michael Lewis interviews and Tim Ferriss.

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away.

The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza and shaped by a four-generation cycle of bitter family betrayal. And its unlikely transformation into a global multi-billion dollar media monopoly was led by an iron-fisted patriarch who — amazingly — never played a video game in his life! Get ready for one of our favorite stories Acquired has ever told — we couldn’t make this one up if we tried!

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