Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So today, I'm going to talk about an article I wrote.

From time of time, I'd like to examine articles that I thought were interesting and expand

around a little bit because in a podcast, I can talk for longer.

Okay, so piggybacking was inspired by a visit from somebody outside the building.

So one of the cool things about working at Wizards of the Coast, among many cool things,

is there are a number of magic fans who are, I will call them celebrities.

Um, so George Fan is the creator slash designer of a game called Plants versus Zombies.

And he was in the office.

Uh, we, I gave him a tour.

Um, and we played magic and we had lunch together had lunch together, and we showed him a good time.

And one of the things that was very telling was during lunch, he and I were talking.

And so there's a question I'd always wonder about plants versus zombies.

And so I'd said to him, I'd go, George, I'm curious.

Why plants and why zombies?

And so what he said was, essentially, Plants v. Zombies is a, what we call a mass market

tower defense game.

So mass market is just a word to mean something that's more approachable, not just to

gamers, but it has more wide appeal.

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