Ep. 198 - YSCBA, with Ash Parrish and Liz Ryerson

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:

1. Let’s talk about Idris Elba as Knuckles (05:02)
2. What are some cool video game collections you know about? (10:42)
3. If you were in charge of a Fortnite music fest, who would you feature? (17:22)
4. Are video games part of vaporwave? (23:00)
5. Dirtbag Sleepy Nice demands: Name five metal genres, then assign five video games to them. (27:44)
6. 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.