144: The Anamorphic Squinch

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Brad's birthday has come and gone, which gives him the privilege of choosing our next tech year in review. This time, the banner year of 1997, which saw everything from Dolly the cloned sheep to IBM's chess-playing Deep Blue, the nuclear-powered Cassini probe to Saturn (and protests to match), the American launch of DVD, Steve Jobs' return to Apple, the anything-goes brutality of Ultima Online, and a bunch more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	well I'm back on my bullshit.
0:02.9	Oh, no.
0:04.5	Some might say I never got off of it.
0:08.3	Okay, let me guess.
0:10.5	You need both of your monitors died and you're using the voice interface for the windows now to do this, but you can't decide which monitors to buy.
0:18.7	No.
0:19.2	I mean, I did famously once play Mortal Kombat 3 with a broken monitor, but...
0:24.3	Wait, how did you do that?
0:26.1	Sounds.
0:27.4	You just played with sound?
0:29.3	We had, we had an MK3 machine in the GameSpot office that the monitor died on,
0:34.2	repeated, like we tried to get it fixed it, whatever.
0:35.9	It wouldn't stick.
0:37.3	At some point, Jeff and I just started playing MK3 with no screen.
0:41.7	Who won?
0:43.0	Mostly him.
0:44.3	Okay.
0:44.9	In my defense, in my defense, I never liked MK3.
0:47.3	I was all in on MK2.
0:49.3	You're a purest.
0:50.5	I consider three to be a massive downgrade.
0:54.2	Is it because of Stryker?
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