I'm pulling up my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. So today, I'm going to be talking about Portal, Portal Second Age, and Portal 3 Kingdom.

So what we refer to as the Portal Sets is the topic of today. So I'm going to

talk about sort of why we did them, what happened with them, some sakes made. I'm going to

talk all about everything portal today. Okay, so let's go back in the way back machine,

back to the 90s. Okay, so the time was like 1996.

So one of the big challenges of magic has always been, in fact, what I claim to be its greatest weakness is what we call its barrier to entry.

Which means it's just a hard game to learn, that magic has a lot going on.

It's fun, it's really fun, but it's complex, and it is hard to learn.

And so one of the things we've always struggled with over the years is how do we get people

to learn how to play. Eventually, for those that know more modern times, I think duel of the

plains walkers has really been our salvation, and that video games for those that know more modern times, I think Duel of the Plainswalkers

has really been our salvation

and that video games do a very, very good job

of introducing ideas to people.

They're very patient.

They let people play by themselves

so they're not embarrassed.

They play at whatever speed they want to play.

And the computer will just let them learn

at the rate they want to learn. And so Duel just let them learn at the rate they want to learn.

And so Duel of Plainswalkers has proved to be very effective.

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