Episode 179: Obsession Session

Waypoint Radio

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🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 179 of Waypoint Radio, Rob, Patrick, and Danielle discuss the games that we may have gotten a little *too* obsessed with. Rob regales everyone with his sim-racing and Max Payne Antics, Danielle has over 600 hours in Into the Breach, and Patrick has had his share of super-hard platformers to stream to the world. Then we dip in the question bucket and bid the weekend hello.

Discussed: GT Legends, GTR 2, RACE 07, Into the Breach, Spelunky, Max Payne 2, Unity of Command, Killer7, Lost, Destiny, Star Wars, Doom books, Prey

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0:00.0	Somewhere in this apartment hidden among the collected detritus of half dozen moves across
0:22.5	10 years, fossil record of phone chargers, power strips and all utility bills, there lurks
0:27.6	a massive orange spiral notebook filled with cryptic names, numbers and abbreviations. It says
0:33.7	helpful things like Silverstone GP M3 F Springs plus two NANO Newton's per nanometer result
0:42.0	two minutes 58 seconds 0.338, which years later tells me that I stiffen the front
0:48.0	springs of a BMW M3 at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit and settle lap time of two minutes 58 seconds
0:54.0	and change. That was the voice of Rob's acne from his piece evidence that you've taken a game
1:00.2	a little too seriously. I'm Danielle Riendo and this is Waypoint Radio episode 179. Joining me
1:07.0	and of course Rob today is Patrick Kleppich. Hello. And we have a smaller crew today. Austin is
1:14.2	on vacation and Natalie's not feeling well so you've got the three of us today and we are going
1:19.1	to be talking about games that we've maybe taken a little bit too seriously and of course the
1:24.4	evidence the somewhat hilarious evidence in some cases that we have taken something a little too
1:31.3	seriously. Of course taking off of Rob's piece here which was very much about your obsession with
1:36.9	these racing simulators. Rob do you want to tell us a little bit a little bit more about how you
1:42.0	fell into this rabbit hole? I mean the thing is I can't tell you how I fell into it like it just
1:48.0	became a thing I started doing right like it's one of those things you don't realize that like
1:52.8	your relationship to a thing has changed until it has changed extensively and you sort of take
1:59.0	stock of it like I think it started dawn on me that things were a little weird when it occurred to
2:04.0	me that like it had been weeks since I actually like drove in a race and instead I had just been like
2:12.0	tuning cars and documenting every single change and I was sort of like wondering is this fun?
2:20.8	And I wasn't sure but it was what I was doing it was rewarding I don't know if it was fun
2:26.9	but I think what ended up happening was that a lot of sim games in particular they sort of hint
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