Topher Florence meditates on American Truck Simulator, confronting the friction between realistic advertisments and product placement, a Greatest Hits version of America, and the emotional palette of driving around in someone’s life’s work.
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- American Truck Simulator
- Euro Truck Simulator
- Six Flags
- Mad
- Grand Theft Auto series
- OutRun
- The Crew series
- Fuel
- Grand Canyon
- Space Needle
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Harvest Moon series
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
- Waffle House
- Dwarf Fortress
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.