Fan favorite panelists Ash Parrish and Liz Ryerson return triumphant to to cover Knuckles, vaporwave, and the multitude of things the hell wrong with video games.
Questions this week:
- Let’s talk about Idris Elba as Knuckles (05:02)
- What are some cool video game collections you know about? (10:42)
- If you were in charge of a Fortnite music fest, who would you feature? (17:22)
- Are video games part of vaporwave? (23:00)
- Dirtbag Sleepy Nice demands: Name five metal genres, then assign five video games to them. (27:44)
- What the hell is wrong with video games? (33:19)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Initial Design (01:16:18)
A lot of smart people will have more to say about this episode in the forums!
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
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Mega Man Battle Network 2
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Dragon Age: Origins
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Final Fantasy VIII Adel fight
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Worms Armageddon
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Idris Elba as Knuckles
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Idris Elba as Macavity
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Michael Jackson’s involvement with Sonic 3
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The Knuckles Rap
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Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
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Death Crimson
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Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert
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Ariana Grande’s Fortnite concert
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Marshmello’s Fortnite concert
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Björk
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Death Grips
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Lil Nas X
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death’s dynamic shroud - I’ll Try Living Like This
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Broken Reality
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Black Thrash Metal
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Doom Metal
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Sludge Metal
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Second-wave Black Metal
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Grindcore
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Paratopic
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Control
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl
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Activision-Blizzard lawsuit and more
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Raccoon Logic company photo
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Steve Gaynor leaving Fullbright
Recommendations:
Liz: The Blood Zone, death’s dynamic shroud
Ash: Pig (2021)
Brandon: G.I. Samurai, Oddtaxi
Jaffe: The Nice House on the Lake
Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.