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99% Invisible

Hidden Levels #5: Press B to Touch Grass

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

From blocky biomes to breathtaking open worlds, video games are teaching us new ways to see, build, and even save nature.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Roman Mars. Ben, Brock Johnson. So you were a father of twins. I am a father of twins. I would like to introduce you to one of my twins. This is my son who got the name I always wanted. Brock Johnson.

0:20.9

Hello, Roman Mars. Oh, Roman Mauds.

0:23.2

Oh, you're fired. This kid's coming for you.

0:27.2

He'll have my resignation on his desk on Monday morning, for sure.

0:30.5

That's right.

0:31.4

Brock is doing what a lot of eight-year-olds do these days.

0:34.0

He is designing a very ridiculous tree house that I do not have the ability or the resources to construct.

0:42.1

He is riding his bike as fast as possible.

0:45.1

And he is starting to play, just starting to play video games, which offer him this whole universe of different worlds to inhabit. He likes smashing things just as much

0:57.2

as the next eight-year-old or 45-year-old in my case. But, you know, when I asked him about what he

1:01.8

really loves about playing video games, he's not just about smashing things. He's about

1:08.1

game environments. I play a lot of the tundra biome and sometimes the forest

1:17.4

bio. Forest biome? Yeah. What do you like about the forest in video games? You can really

1:24.3

transform the forest into a nice home, and there's really cool bushes.

1:29.8

Sometimes I really like the bushes.

1:31.9

I can always be like, hmm, is there something tangled up at this bush?

1:38.1

And it's really fun to imagine what could happen.

1:43.6

And sometimes it does happen.

1:45.7

You know, I've never heard an eight-year-old use the word biome so much.

1:50.8

Like, he's just really, like, insorcelled by the outside world inside of his, you know, indoor kids game.

1:58.1

I know.

1:58.7

He really is.

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