episode 100 — online games
Maybe its pretty obvious that we do a lot of gaming online nowadays, and that as hosts of a podcasts, we are thorough netizens who have thoughts and feelings about the interwebs. Nevertheless, online games have their own particular dynamics, opportunitie
Changeling the Podcast · Joshua HIllerup and Pooka Gar
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Show Notes
Maybe it's pretty obvious that we do a lot of gaming online nowadays, and that as hosts of a podcasts, we are thorough netizens who have thoughts and feelings about the interwebs. Nevertheless, online games have their own particular dynamics, opportunities, and cultures that we thought it might be good to explore, for people who are less or un-familiar with the experience. We're joined by veteran Storyteller of online gaming, Fetch, who shares wisdom from her extensive experience, which we compound with hoary reminisces about the forums and text-based ditherings of yesteryear (which we would not trade for anything of this world). This isn't an episode about the digital Dreaming itself, although maybe that's yet another entry for the Season 4 wishlist; this is an episode about how, through gaming, to dream digitally.
Some of the links we discussed in the episode include:
- Lot-Casting Atemi, a tool for all your Exalted character management needs: https://www.lotcastingatemi.com/
- Hammertime, the location-sensitive timestamper for Discord: https://hammertime.cyou/
- Fetch's independent games including Necromancer and Do Androids Run on Electric Spoons?: https://ameliafetch.itch.io
- And her Bluesky as well: https://bsky.app/profile/ameliafetch.bsky.social
As for ourselves:
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your hosts
Josh Hillerup (any pronoun) once used Metamorphosis with Prop 5 and Scene 5 to briefly transform all of mIRC into a single honeybee. Pooka G (any pronoun/they), upon seeing in online game a (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻, will politely do a ┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ).
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. —Peter Steiner