335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber · Daring Fireball / John Gruber
January 27, 20222h 5m
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Show Notes
Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.
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Links:
- “Heat 2”:
- “Heat”.
- Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
- I almost plotzed.
- Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
- Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
- Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
- “The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
- Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
- Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
- BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
- Netflix Chicken Littles.
- “Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.