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:
- Mega Man Battle Network 2
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Final Fantasy VIII Adel fight
- Worms Armageddon
- Idris Elba as Knuckles
- Idris Elba as Macavity
- Michael Jackson's involvement with Sonic 3
- The Knuckles Rap
- Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
- Death Crimson
- Travis Scott's Fortnite concert
- Ariana Grande's Fortnite concert
- Marshmello's Fortnite concert
- Björk
- Death Grips
- Lil Nas X
- death's dynamic shroud - I'll Try Living Like This
- Broken Reality
- Black Thrash Metal
- Doom Metal
- Sludge Metal
- Second-wave Black Metal
- Grindcore
- Paratopic
- Control
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl
- Activision-Blizzard lawsuit and more
- Raccoon Logic company photo
- 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.