Idle Thumbs 130: Fundamentally dangerous to the notion of culture

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🗓️ 30 October 2013

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

If our dark cyber-future lets you experience life through the eyes of a chicken, then so be it. If our dark cyber-future lets a chicken experience life through the eyes of man, has science gone too far? This episode best experienced with at least one sense augmented through technology, and one sense disabled to compensate. With special guest Zack Johnson, co-creator of the Kingdom of Loathing and host of the Video Games Hot Dog podcast. [Episode photo by Norm Chan of Tested.com]

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0:00.0	I'm probably going to speak it around this volume, but then I'm going to get excited and I'm going to say some stupid fucking shit. games, video games, video games, video games, video games video games video games video games
0:27.8	video games video games video games video games
0:30.8	video games video games, video games, video games, video games, video games, video games
0:37.0	video games video. Video Games.
0:57.0	It's October 30th, 2013.
0:59.0	This is Idle Thums 130.
1:02.0	I'm Chris Remo. I'm Jake Rodkin. And we are joined by
1:06.7	Zach Johnson. One of the creators of Kingdom of Loathing. An internet game on the
1:12.3	internet. Yeah.
1:13.2	It's been there for a long time. I realized the other day, well I didn't realize so much as I
1:18.0	I think I just saw it posted somewhere. KOL has been around more than half of the time that the web has existed.
1:24.0	Crazy.
1:25.0	You did it.
1:26.0	I did it. When is the birth of the web?
1:28.0	In 92 or 93?
1:29.0	Really?
1:30.0	I think. Wow, that's later than I would have thought.
1:32.0	When I was at you, I was at you of I in Champaign in 94 and they were like beginning
1:37.7	CS classes like they had, they had everybody use mosaic.
1:41.3	Yeah, there was like a sweet animated jiff of the enterprise
1:44.8	going into warp speed to demonstrate that,
1:47.1	oh, check it out.
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