Fan favorite panelists Ash Parrish and Liz Ryerson return triumphant to to cover Knuckles, vaporwave, and the multitude of things the hell wrong with video games.

Questions this week:

1. Let’s talk about Idris Elba as Knuckles (05:02)
2. What are some cool video game collections you know about? (10:42)
3. If you were in charge of a Fortnite music fest, who would you feature? (17:22)
4. Are video games part of vaporwave? (23:00)
5. Dirtbag Sleepy Nice demands: Name five metal genres, then assign five video games to them. (27:44)
6. What the hell is wrong with video games? (33:19)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Initial Design (01:16:18)

A lot of smart people will have more to say about this episode in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Mega Man Battle Network 2
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Final Fantasy VIII Adel fight
• Worms Armageddon
• Idris Elba as Knuckles
• Idris Elba as Macavity
• Michael Jackson’s involvement with Sonic 3
• The Knuckles Rap
• Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
• Death Crimson
• Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert
• Ariana Grande’s Fortnite concert
• Marshmello’s Fortnite concert
• Björk
• Death Grips
• Lil Nas X
• death’s dynamic shroud - I’ll Try Living Like This
• Broken Reality
• Black Thrash Metal
• Doom Metal
• Sludge Metal
• Second-wave Black Metal
• Grindcore
• Paratopic
• Control
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadows of Chernobyl
• Activision-Blizzard lawsuit and more
• Raccoon Logic com