There’s some game programming crammed in at the very end, but this one’s mostly about one of the most important games released in the past decade. That’s right, this is the big Disco Elysium spoiler episode. We talk about time mechanics, the ending, the Left, how drugs and cops are portrayted, and the significance of trying to punch Cuno and missing.
Notes/highlights
- The Idaho Stop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
- “Punching Cuno In the Face Represents The Best of Disco Elysium”: https://www.thegamer.com/disco-elysium-punching-cuno/
- Chinatown, the ultimate neo-noir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a book about two people on a bender in the desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas
- Democratic socialism vs socialist democracy: https://zacherriges.medium.com/democratic-socialism-vs-social-democracy-12ea49450cd7
- My Dinner with Andre, a movie starring the Inconceivable Guy about two people talking about the 60s over dinner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Dinner_with_Andre
- The Simpsons’ parody of My Dinner with Andre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91Y7MRw7eo
- A blog post about movement physics in Crosscode, a game that looks 2D but is simulated in 3D: http://www.radicalfishgames.com/?p=72
- Embarrassing Outtakes from the Basecamp Company Blog, Vol 32, a.ka. photos of DHH’s rich-dude home office: https://m.signalvnoise.com/remote-working-the-home-office-desks-of-basecamp/
- Ziggy Starmusk, the truest insult to NFT’s injury: https://foundation.app/elenaa/ziggy-starmusk-16958
- JavaScript will eventually have a pattern matching expression, and it can’t come soon enough: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching
- We accidentally found a pretty nice web-based graphing calculator: https://www.desmos.com/calculator