#45 - Taylor Reiner: The Quiz 2 – Trick-Taking Romanticism – Everything’s a Sequel – You Can’t End on a Toot for Me, I’m Gonna Toot on You

Taylor Reiner. The Quiz 2.Since Taylor was on the show in September 2023, he’s been busy with designing, developing, making videos, and more. We get to explore some of the things Taylor has been working on through the lens of sequels, other media, and just general chaos by the way of The Return of the Quiz.Check out Taylor’s Trick Taking TableSee Taylor’s designs and developments.Follow Taylor’s Bluesky. Games Mentioned in this EpisodeIntro (0:00)Reflecting on my butchered introduction, the time that’s passed, and the extreme success of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Trick-Taking Game. Then we set up the quiz.The Quiz 2 (8:14)Can’t spoil the contents of the newest quiz, but there’s a new fun section called “The Tricky Minute.”Also, the question on everyone’s mind is if SSX Tricky makes a return.Home Alone 2The Crew 2Renaissance - Enlightenment - Romanticism 2Mini-Director’s Commentary (55:45) Keeping the quiz short and then doing a full Director’s Commentary as a later episode that paired with this was an initial thought of mine. Fortunately that didn’t work out, especially as that will allow more breath and rumination for The Quiz 3. Taylor reflects on sequels in general, Slay the Spire 2, and Oreos here.Wrap-up Questions (1:05:32)A non-StS2 text on Taylor’s mind and what to look out for from him.There’s a 250 character limit for the titles, in case you’re wondering.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If you like this show, liking it on whatever platform you listen to and writing a review would mean so much! Furthermore, it's as independent as it gets, so any financial support would help with the subscriptions that make this project go smoothly.That can be done by "buying me a coffee" and/or buying a copy of my board game (I like it).All of my socials and support information can be found here: Intertextual Experience Linktree