Hello and welcome. My name is John August. Okay. My name is Craig Mason. It is episode

599 of ScriptNets, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

We often talk about story in terms of the journey of a single protagonist, but some

movies set on a group of characters that serve as the hero. Today on the show, we'll

look at these group dynamics and how to think about them both on the scene level and story-wide.

We'll also talk about pitch decks and translations of public domain works. We have some follow-up

on bingeing episodes versus putting them out while we get a time. We got a real grab

bag of stuff here today, Craig. I love a grab bag. It keeps us spontaneous and fresh.

That's the goal. Yes. And our bonus item for pre-members, I'd love to talk about how you

start playing an RPG video game because I'm looking at two new ones, Diablo and New Zelda.

And I'm always, you know, you may find the same experience. I want to start playing them,

but I also don't want to make dumb mistakes that are happy burning like 10 hours. And so,

we'll talk about strategies for how you start playing one of these games. Yes, that's

that would a great topic. So much anxiety. So much early game anxiety. Oh my god, what

skill tree will I pick? Okay, well, we will dig into that. And you know what? If you don't

play video games, but you are a premium member, stick around for that bonus segment anyway,

because there are life lessons, my friends, life lessons. Ooh, I'm excited to hear that.

Let's start off with this new report that I saw today. So deadline had a link to it. Well,

deadline actually did not have a link to it, which is so frustrating. They had a

zillion links in their article, but none of them actually links the actual study. And so I had

to Google a quote from there to find actual like better article about it. So we'll look to

something from this streamable. It's a study on like which is more successful for streamers to put

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