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    Explore "fictional worlds" with insightful episodes like "How To Make Good Video Game Lore" and "The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun" from podcasts like ""Triple Click" and "The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos"" and more!

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    How To Make Good Video Game Lore

    How To Make Good Video Game Lore

    When is video game lore good? When is it bad? This week, the Triple Click gang talks about Skyrim books, Elden Ring item descriptions, Destiny guns, and all the other delectable morsels of plot that exist underneath the stories of video games. 

    One More Thing:

    Kirk: Heavenly Creatures (1994)

    Maddy: Tales of Kenzera: Zau

    Jason: Eiyuden Chronicles

    LINKS:

    Mossbag’s Hollow Knight Lore video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XDiWYFGGqY

    Triple Click LIVE in LA! Saturday, June 8, 6:30PM at the Teragram Ballroom: https://teragramballroom.com/tm-event/triple-click-podcast/

    Preorder Jason’s Book! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jason-schreier/play-nice/9781538725429/

    Support Triple Click: http://maximumfun.org/join

    Buy Triple Click Merch: https://maxfunstore.com/search?q=triple+click&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

    Join the Triple Click Discord: http://discord.gg/tripleclickpod

    Triple Click Ethics Policy: 

    https://maximumfun.org/triple-click-ethics-policy/

    The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

    The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

    There is nothing hotter than Puckerbutt Farm’s Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce... and author Leigh Cowart gargles it for FUN!!! Why do we sometimes get a happiness high from painful and scary things? And what if we want to experience the fun of discomfort and danger... but without the risk of coming to real harm? 

    With the help of Leigh, psychology professor Paul Bloom and the Yale philosopher Tamar Gendler, Dr Laurie Santos finds out how we can fool ourselves into reaping all the benefits of danger without actually being in peril. 

    For further reading:

    Leigh Cowart - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose.

    Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

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