RESET Roundtable: Fandom + Regulation and Moderation
Waypoint Radio
VICE
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
“RESET: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games” is a new show on VICE TV that aims at taking a deep look at the culture and community around video games. Each episode, host Dexter Thomas is joined by a selection of Waypoint Radio hosts, Motherboard writers, and industry professionals for the RESET Roundtable, a panel discussion on that specific episode’s topics. This podcast is the full recording session from the two first episodes, “Fandom” and “Regulation.”
Discussed: Fandom 1:10, Regulation 58:22
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| 0:00.0 | What's good internet it is February 19th 2021 I'm Austin Walker and back again with |
| 0:23.6 | another one of these special reset episodes this one's easy there's two topics and it's |
| 0:29.3 | just Dexter and both topics are both all way point people so this is this is like a |
| 0:35.1 | little bit more of a focus conversation version of the podcast today the first one is fandom and |
| 0:41.3 | race and that one is me Gita and Dexter the second one is regulation and moderation and |
| 0:48.7 | some other stuff and that is me Patrick and Dexter I think they're good episodes I'm |
| 0:53.4 | gonna go out of your way immediately this time I don't need any big long intro so I hope |
| 0:58.8 | you enjoy it we'll be back on Tuesday with another regular episode so look forward to that peace |
| 1:09.9 | All right welcome back so now it's time to break it all down with the reset round table join |
| 1:14.5 | me on this one our motherboard staff writer and sim superfan slash beat reporter Gita Jackson along |
| 1:20.6 | with the host of Waypoint Radio Austin Walker welcome y'all nice to be here Dexter hey Dexter nice to |
| 1:26.7 | talk to you yeah yeah so I want to get let's let's just get into like this since we're talking about |
| 1:34.0 | fans fandom and all that what do you remember the first time that you played a game and you felt |
| 1:41.0 | like you saw yourself on screen yeah I remember the first time I really got into a game was probably |
| 1:48.2 | Pokemon on the Game Boy Color and I had no conception at the time that the the contour region was |
| 1:53.8 | like supposed to be based off of you know with cities and towns in Japan but I looked at that little |
| 2:00.8 | character a little boy so I'm already do some like doing some like mental editing of what I'm seeing |
| 2:06.6 | and how I'm translating into my head it's seen that little boy I was destined to become the Pokemon |
| 2:11.3 | champion I looked at that little boy and there was like no separation at all between that person's |
| 2:16.6 | character and me like my literal self think that might be literally earliest example of me just |
| 2:23.4 | playing a game and projecting everything that I was onto that character because the baseline facts |
| 2:28.6 | what you know about that character is that they were child with a thirst for adventure and they |
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