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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive at work at home edition. |
0:06.0 | So today I have Ari Zirlnick, who was in charge of names and flavor text for infinity. So we're going to talk names and flavor texts. |
0:15.0 | Hello, Ari. |
0:16.0 | Hey! Hello. Hi Mark. How's it going? |
0:19.0 | Okay. So, first, I want to explain a little bit to the audience two things. |
0:25.2 | First up, you had an idea. |
0:28.0 | When you were put in charge of the names and flavor tags, you had an idea for what to do with |
0:32.4 | the set. |
0:32.8 | That is not the normal way we do names and flavor tax. |
0:35.6 | Let's talk a little bit about how did you come up and |
0:37.6 | what was the idea and how did you execute on it? Oh, for sure. So, yeah, I was put in charge of this one |
0:43.9 | because the standard creative text coordinator was pretty underwater at the time and I'm known |
0:49.1 | for being just a little bit funny. So I realized that what I need to do was stack the deck with people significantly |
0:56.0 | funnier than I was. So I got permission from the creative director to hire some, some internet names, |
1:04.2 | which we, I don't think we've ever, have we stunt cast on creative text writers before, Mark? |
1:09.6 | We have not. This is the first stunt casting. |
1:12.4 | I mean, we have been people who've been on teams that people might recognize. |
1:16.3 | Like, there are, you know, community people that have worked on named Flavit's team. |
1:20.8 | But this is the first time we kind of did this. |
1:24.0 | That's true, yeah. |
1:25.1 | So the very first name on my list was Sean Baby, who was probably one of the most formative comedians to me. |
1:33.5 | I don't know if any of you had a subscription to Electronic Gaming Monthly Magazine back in the day, |
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