Idle Thumbs 316: In My Head, I Was Degrading

Idle Thumbs

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

You look up from your keyboard and notice something's not right. It looks like the game you were just playing, but a little off. A little worse. Did you fall into a game within a game? "No worries," you think, as you resume tapping away at the keys, "I'll just finish up this little Easter Egg and be moving again in no time," and delve deeper. The police discover your skeleton, still at the keyboard, dead for who knows how long. The officer who found your remains enters them into evidence improperly, is suspended without pay, and must restore from a previous save. You look up from your keyboard and notice something's not right.

Discussed: Celeste, PICO-8 fantasy video game console, Celeste for PICO-8, Inside a Star-Filled Sky, The Veldt (Ray Bradbury short story), the game police, Police Quest, Duncan Fyfe's Police Quest article for Waypoint, Duncan Fyfe's podcast Something True, The Pixel Art Progenitors, They Are Billions, billions, Anno: 27 Billion, pinball, Cinco Paus, Flappy Bird, Bay Tek Games, MirraViz Multiview Display, gaslighting by cinema, Far Cry 2, Super Smash Bros., Nintendo LABO, Consumer Game War.Improved, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, hacking Donkey Kong high scores

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0:24.7	That's Squerspace.com with the offer code thumbs.
0:27.7	How does this podcast start again?
0:29.6	Oh, I introduce it.
0:30.6	It's and I, no, you introduce it. I say it's you say and this is idle
0:36.0	thumbs whatever number you say it's idle thumbs whatever oh my god this exact
0:40.4	intro literally all of those words have been said so many times.
0:44.0	Yep it's true. Do you ever wish you could rewind time?
0:48.0	Nope. Oh that's good.
0:49.0	Actually I do every day of my life.
0:51.0	Yeah, don't we all? I wish I could rewind time to back before I said
0:56.2	I don't wish I could rewind time so that I said I wished I could so that in case a genie was listening,
1:00.4	I would get that wish. I don't know what podcast you think this is Chris but it's a video
1:03.9	game podcast there's no genies here unless it's with a
1:07.7	genius as represented in Aladdin for the super Nintendo or Aladdin for the
1:11.2	Sega Genesis and one of those two genies is better. I guarantee it.
1:14.6	One of them was touched by an animator. It's February 2018.
1:28.3	It's February 2018.
1:31.0	And this is idle thumbs thumbs I am Chris Remo
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