Ep. 231 - The Insert Credit Substitute Teacher Study Hall, with Ash Parrish

DavidNoo

LeFish We will have to plan for the long future and seed the games we want ranked into their minds well in advance through life circumstance and archival. Then in 20 years time, the ranking will happen.

Jaffe

I really like Frank’s Random 20 MobyGames idea. We might do that. It’ll be half improv in that they have to pretend they’ve played all the games they haven’t heard of.

exodus

Jaffe I think one of us will have to have played it (or be good at pretending)

And to everyone else - I had an idea of doing best game, in each genre, on each console leading to best consoles, best games of all time, but it seemed too all consuming to everybody.

RubySunrise

Add me into the chorus of praise for esper for pulling this episode together. The wild energy shifts in this one are fun, but I am a stubborn and hate change, so I will add finally that I already miss Jaffe.

I do have a fun substitute teacher story! I once had a math sub in middle school who sounds a lot like the sub Tim describes in the episode. We chatted about the news, our lives, whatever was going on at the school. It was really fun. He talked about algebra in the abstract for a bit, but that’s pretty much all the math we did that day. We were in the period preceding lunch, and as the final minutes of class ticked by he got us all quiet and told us an engaging ghost story. I can’t remember any of the details, unfortunately but the end of it implied that not only was he the person featured in the story but he himself might be a ghost. With maybe one minute left until the bell, he finished the story and walked out of class (!). Us students sat, stuck to our seats in anticipation, and when the bell finally rung we ran out and looked up and down the hall. We didn’t see him. He had disappeared!

The effect on a group of rambunctious 12 year old was quite dramatic (it was the talk among students for at least two weeks). These days I like imagine him laughing to himself as he sprints down the hall and out the back door.

jeelz

i know it’s too normie to be in the spirit of the rankings discussed here but i’ve been dying for a IC BDCGOAT list ep

saddleblasters

There hasn’t been an NES or TurboGrafx/PC-Engine ranking episode that I somehow missed, right?

Gaagaagiins

How about something more generalized/personal/subjective, maybe something like a list that is about a more universal element of videogames, rather than more specific categorical stuff? Like Story, or Combat (even though it would be a given that GOD HAND would top that second one, there’d still be 19 other entries).

The best part of the list episodes are how the esteemed panelists interpret the question and come prepared to make their case for their chosen list entries, so why not something a little more abstract like that

DavidNoo

I would enjoy a ‘best of’ list that has nothing to do with games but y’all could choose whether or not you wanted to try and relate them to games still.

goonbag

Can I just belatedly say what an excellent guest Ash is. Always great to hear her talk about anything

captain

UnparalleledDev luigi has working class solidarity

that’s weird I thought @LuigiIsThePope

穴

What Brandon was saying about L.A. thrift stores being full of screener DVD’s reminded me that my dad has a small collection of screener dvd’s he finds in flea markets (I guess some of those L.A. screeners get to San Diego) and in true dad behavior he insists he is gonna watch them all someday but never does.
The one that he is most proud of is a screener box set that they send to the emmy’s voters containing dvds with a single episode of each of 2015 HBO tv shows. He brags about paying only 25 cents for that lol.

exodus

Screeners are so bad. Often lower transfer quality, but also have some big SCREENER: NOT FOR RESALE text that scrolls by every 5 mins.

swarm

Yeah Tomb of Atuan is sick, as a kid I used to look at the crazy map at the front of the book and pretend it was some D&D adventure.

Nerak

So one of Tim’s recurring jokes is to get high and play games. I am not much for the depressants myself, I want a list of games to play while on Speed. Or two Redbulls if you prefer.

Gaagaagiins

Nerak

GOD HAND

I did Speed₁ every day for weeks while playing GOD HAND

₁ _Vyvanse _prescribed _by _a _physician _for _a _diagnosed _condition

coreywilliams

Nerak As a prescription amphetamine enjoyer, I have some transcendent moments with action puzzle games when my drugs are peaking. Puyo Puyo games have been my go to lately but Panel de Pon is also a great one.

tapevulture

Gaagaagiins dude how about when you first start taking ADHD meds and realize you actually can be good at action games

fugazi57

@exodus on the topic of breezy action games, if you’ve ever enjoyed one (01) or more star wars movies I HIGHLY recommend that there Jedi Fallen Order game.

I was going through some tough shit in my life so I stopped playing Elden Ring for a while (I was having enough challenges on my DAY TO DAY LIFE) and started playing Fallen Order, and that was the best choice I could ever make. The story is fun, the planets look BEAUTIFUL, exploration takes lots of notes from Metroid Prime (which I think we can all collectively agree that is the best game ever), the combat is tight but not unforgiving on easier difficulties and you can even hangout in the beautiful sceneries at certain points (they got that 70s spaceship metal texture JUST RIGHT)

Overall a very breezy, fun experience where you press a lot of buttons, which is just what I needed.

exodus

fugazi57 I only liked the mandalorian but if it crossed my path I’ll give it a look!

Venus Emperor

coreywilliams How are you on fighting games and bullet hells? Those are my two other favorite morning wake up nootropic caffeine game genres when I’m keeping a schedule. Tetris Attack is better than Panel de Pon

To elaborate I actually did a period of self taught adhd research while cultivating the dao of poison, what I found was that the most beneficial things to continued concentration and accelerated brain function was to stretch those ion channels as soon as you wake up while pounding your stimulant of choice.

The best stimulant is pure cocaine, and you probably can’t afford it, and it’s a good thing I neither I have the funds nor the access to it at this exact moment in time because doing a lot of cocaine is the ultimate reward of true communism and I will not be made a fool of by capitalist ordanic snuff huffers.

So I chug coffee or energy drinks like I will get a crushing and debilitating migraine if I don’t, (because I will,) and when I wake up I play through something that takes exactly between 20 minutes and 1 hour to facilitate a state of pure oxygenation and vascular dilation, but not something that I can play for TOO LONG (God Hand, Devil May Cry, and Dark Souls PVP are OUT). This ideally is something that provokes perfect concentration with no need for extraneous meditative thoughts, like the almost mantra-like patterns of a slowly perfected playthrough of Alien Soldier or Cho Ren Sha 68k.

It is of extremely vital importance that you be able to bookend the ritual to avoid contamination of your Qi. Absolutely do not spend more than one hour having fun until you have already completed your daily efforts to transform reality.

So what I mean to say is, Tobal 2 is a really really good game and you should play it right now.

Gaagaagiins

Venus Emperor The best stimulant is pure cocaine, and you probably can’t afford it, and it’s a good thing I neither I have the funds nor the access to it at this exact moment in time because doing a lot of cocaine is the ultimate reward of true communism and I will not be made a fool of by capitalist ordanic snuff huffers.

My cousin got the ADHD and they strongly suspect their dad does too, for plenty of reasons, but also one of them is because their dad once shared a story about the time they tried coke–ADHD interactions with stimulants is often hilarious but he just thought it was nice but kind of boring.

I’ve armchair diagnosed two separate people with ADHD who later went on to get formal diagnoses, for plenty of reasons but a major one was by asking them how much caffeine they consume and for what reason.

DavidNoo

Gaagaagiins used to drink a pot of coffee a day. Now I take some shitty pills that sort of work but not really.

Gaagaagiins

DavidNoo used to drink a pot of coffee a day. Now I take some shitty pills that sort of work but not really.

I’m not your doctor nor aware of your medical history but just to put it out there, the “shitty pills that sort of work but not really” problem improved for me when I switched to a different medication and went up to the right dose. But you likely already know that.

Semi-related public service announcement, the manufacturer’s patent on Vyvanse is expiring next year.

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