Waypoints 49 - In This Analogy The Death Star is Good

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Ren and Cado have introduced the world of the Wired to the Waypoint crew. They discuss Serial Experiments Lain on today's pod, a late 90's anime that is surprisingly precinct about the malleability of information in online contexts and the formation of identity in a hyper-connected world. After the break, Rob's been considering the supply chain, and how we've ended up where we are now (spoiler: it's capitalistic greed!) Then, finally, after being wrongly cast aside last podcast, Patrick is here with his impressions on his time so far with the Steam Deck.

Discussed: Serial Experiments Lain 1:53, The Supply Chain 38:28, Steam Deck 1:10:16

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0:00.0	Oh hello, you found waypoints with a waypoint staff and friends take a break to nerd out
0:24.5	and deep dive on the culture, art and entertainment that's been squaring and provoking us
0:29.6	lately. That's what it is. Gather on the table this week. We've got Patrick Kleppek. Yep. That's the
0:35.8	answer. We're not a price. Oh, hello gamers. I didn't see you there. Producer Ricardo Contreras.
0:41.8	He did it. That's what you were looking for. You were pulling for that intro and I understand now
0:48.0	why you didn't remember it. It's very Rob. It's very important. I need to light a candle and
0:53.2	channel my inner Rob the next time. Yeah. You know, we have a lot to talk about this week, but
0:59.7	I do need to apologize to Patrick at the start of the show and off to the steak I made on
1:04.6	Friday's pod. We had some really involved discussions of destiny and grid legends. The entire time
1:12.6	Patrick is there with an arguably much bigger story about his experience with the steam deck.
1:18.7	We should have gotten to that. It was timely and Patrick had put in a lot of work getting his
1:24.0	review ready and was primed to discuss it on Friday. So to make it up to Patrick, I'm going to turn
1:31.4	it over you over to you at the start of the show. What did you think of serial experiments lane?
1:36.7	I watched one one episode Rob the first half of which the first 13 minutes was well, I thought
1:54.1	my kid was being put the sleep on my wife and then it turns out my kid was not and so then I had
1:58.0	to go in and the wife and I were sitting down to watch a movie so I didn't watch the end and then I
2:02.3	watched the last 12 minutes during my lunch, but then it was like on a real time crunch. They
2:07.8	also had to prep lunch and then walk my dog and so I finished those last 12 minutes and it's
2:11.8	hit to be continued, but I know that lady seems like she needs a better computer. That was let me
2:16.3	take away from the pilot. I feel like maybe you should have taken closer attention to the pilot
2:22.4	if that was your takeaway. But you know, Kyle and Ren, this was this is your waypoint for the week.
2:29.0	You've been sort of watching it together. I should just log off. No, no, Patrick, you need to stay
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